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Poftrik IDY WISH. An angel visitant .ast night Breathed in mV Willing eat, In tones of sweetest melody, Tidings I loved to hear. But first lie asked, “if forth and fa£ci Or perfect loveliness, In its rare beauty scii!;* til re- like - That I wou'd fain possess. Would palace-halls of luxury) And opulence untold; Would Fame’s proud lutirel wreath dctitchl r l h’ aspiring of thy soui?’’ No! I crave not that loveliness Tlie sculptor loves to traCej O’ - r which tlie artist loving b n?# With wrapt, poetic g.*ze. I ask not wealth, a life of care; Of pomp and pageantrv; Too oft beiioatli tier trappings gay Writhes splendid misery. I ask not beauty, nor my brow I nine’s gariund to udorn; Each blushing flower within that wreath Oft liides a piercing tiiorn. vr. Then spoke again my spirit friend, And dm ling, too • my hand: “I have another holier gilt, ’Tis thine 11 thou coiiimuud ” Then give mo faithful, constant friends, Whose firm and lasting love, laVn in life’s darkest, gloomiest hour, A solace sweet will prove. “Receive tliou, tii 11, tnisgift from Heaven.” Said he, and bending low, A wreath, I’d not exchange for worlds. Entwined about my brow. This is tii- wreath of deathless lotc, Which pertume o’er thy way Thr-’ life shall shed, then brightly hloom Above thy mould’] ing clay.

A SPEECH Dc’ivrrd at the Cooper Institute., I’eh. 27. BY ADKAUAJI I-I.NI t>I.N, of aiKnois. COKCLLMED. •Si-mo of you like to flaunt in our faces the warning against sectional parties given by W osliingtoti in hi.s Farewell Address. 1-oss than eight, years before Washington gave that warning, he had, as President of the United States, approved and signed an act of Congress, enforcing lie prohibition ot : Slavery in the North-Western Territories, which ifct embodied the policy o! the Gov-remc-nt upon that subject, up to, and at the very moment he penned that warning: and alii" t one year a ter he penned it. he wrote L Fayette that he considered th t. pn.hiuition a v. ise measure, - xpressitig in the saine connection his hope that we should sometime have a confederacy of tree States. Bearing this in mind, and seeing that see tionabsm has since arisen on this same subject, is that warning a weapon in your hands against us, or in our h..m!s against von! Could Washington hinisel- sp.ik, would he cast the blame el that sections :.-m upon us who sustain his p licy.or u. n ~,u who reP'ldi .te it! We respect tl, i uariii.ig Washington, and we commend a r , y, u . getherwith hise ample point in» to the right application of it. But you say you are consei 1 a ice, eminently conservative, while we are revo uhun ny.d - strut live or something of th > sart. Wu.it is conservatism! Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried! We s’iek to, contend lor, the identical old policy on the point in contr iversy which was adopted bv our lathers who framed the Government under which we live: i bile yon with one accord reject, and scout, and spi' upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new. True, you disagree among yourselves tis to what that substitute shall be. You have considerable Variety ot new propositions and plans, hut vim are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers. S me of you are for reviving 'he foreign slave-trade; some for a Congressional Slave-Code for the Territories; some for Congress forbiding the Territories to prohibit Slavery in the Territories through the Judiciary; some for the "gnr-reat pur-rinciple” that “iI one man would enslave another, no third man should object," fantastically called “Popular Sovereignty;" but never a man among you inTavi.r of Federal prohibition of Slavery in Federal Territories, according to our fathers who framed the Government tinder which tve live. Not one of your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the century within which our Government originated. Consider, then whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. Again, you say we have made the Slavery question more prominent than it formerly was. We deny it. We admit that it is

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more prominent, but we deny that we made it so. It was not we, but you, who discarded the oiy policy of the fathers. We resisted, ahd still resist, your innovation; ufld thence comes the greater prominence of tlie question. Would you have that question reduced to its former proportions! Go buck to that old policy. Whm has been will be again, under tlie same conditions. E ynU would have the peace of the old times, re-adopt the precepts and policy of tin old tim s. Y u charge that we stir up insurrections among your slaves. We deny it; and what isyour proof! Harper’s Ferry! J lui Brown! John Brown was no Republican; and y u have failed to implicate i single Republican in his H irper’s Ferry enterprise. Ii any member of our party is guilty in that matter, you know it; or yoii.do not know it. Ii you do know it, you are inexcusable to not designate the man and prove tin- lact. D you do not know it, you ure iin xcusubie to assert it, and especially to persist in the assertion after v<>tl have tried and faile ! to make the proof. You need not be told tliat persisting in a charge which one does not know to be true, is simply niaHchJiis slander. Some ol you admit that iio Republican designedly aided or encouraged the Harpeiks Ferry affair; but still insist tii it oUr d ie trines and declarations necessari y !o«d to such results. Wo do not believe it. We know we hold to no doctrines-, and make ho de larations, which were not held to and made by our fathers who framed the Govern-ment-under which we live. You never dealt fairly bv us in relation to this affair. When it occurred, some important State elections were near at hand, and you were in evident glee with the beliet that, by charging the blame upon us,you could get up. advantage ol us in those elections. The elections came, and your expectations were not quite fulfilled. Every Republican man knew that, as to hitnsell at least, your charge was a slander, uiul he was not much inclined by it to cast his vote in your favor. Republican doctrines and declarations are accompanied with a continual protest against any interference whatever with your slaves, ir with you about your slaves. Surely, this does not encourage them to revolt. True, we do, in common with our fathers who framed the Government under which we live, declare our belief th it Slavery is wrong; but the slaves do not he.,r ws declare ev-'n this. For anyth ng we say of do. the slaves would scarcely know there is a -xßopiiblic.ui party. I believe they v-iuld not. in fact generally know it but lory ur mi.-re, resenta--1i" 11 sol us, in their hearing In, your political Contests among yours- lvcs, each iai tii n charges the otln r u it li sympathy with 11. ck R •publicauisni: and then, to give point, to the cli irge, ih fines Black R publicni.i m to simply ho itisurrect ion, blood and thunder among | t .e si. VPS. Slave insurrection- eil i. more Common I now than they wm - b -- or - - the Republican | party was organized. W,. ,i induced the | S iiittia in cion iu-niye. thn, i-v en’y-*"ght \ ears lag . 11 wliic .. I le.on ’.ln -- limes s many Ii V . I rtf !( :’as at Ii tj-i r'- P’ - n>. 7 You | can sttti’ce.y stretch y -ur v-y el .Stic aiu:\ |to the c ncilisii.n that S uih;.mpi. - n was go up by Black Republicanism I , ifie pi . state ol tilings in ih Unit* u S ..I* s, Ido think a general, or even * very cx-om-iv slave iiistirr-ction, is p issijie. The nci..--(lensable concert of, ctinii ..intot beat! med. l’lie sh.ves have m* means *c rapid communication; nor can incendiary free men, black or while, supply it. Trie . ftplosivu materi als are everywhere io parcels; but there neither are, nor can be supplied, the indispensable conin c ing tr.,iusi Much is said by the Southern people ah mt the afl'ection of slaves for their masters and mist.refsi’s; and a part of it, at least, is true. A plot for an Uprising could scarcely lx? devised and communicated to twenty imhviduI als before some one of them, to save the life ufii favorite master or mistress would divulge it. This is the rule;-und the slave revolution ill 11 ay t i was not an exception to it,hut a case occurring under peculiar circumstances. The gunpowder ph tof British history, though not culineicted with si ves, was more in point. In limit Ctise, only about twenty were admitted to the secret; and yet one of them, in his anxiety to Save a iriendj betrayed the plot to that Hend. aiid, by consequence, averted the calamity. Occasional poisonings from the kitchen, and open or stealthy assassinations in the fi -ld, und local revolts extending to a score or so, will continue to occur as the natural results of Sla-\e:-y; hut Do genera (insurrection of staves* as I think, ca n happen for a long time. Whoever much fears, or much hopes, lor such an event, will be alike disappointed. In the language of Mr Jefferson, uttered many years ago, “It is still ;n our power tb direct the proee- « of en;ancipution, and de-

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porta lion, peseeahly-, and in such slow degrees, as that the evil will vfrear off ihs-’Ti=u-bly* and thei: p! ices be pan passu, he fill ’d Up by free white laborers. If. on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, liurnan nature must, shudder at the prospect held tip" Mr Jefferson did not mean to s iy. n.-r do I, that the power of emancipation is : n t !-- ’ F deral Government. He -peaks of Virgi'n"Ha; and, ms to-the power of enian-o ;1>• ■* * : 1 speak *>• the SiaveJiolding Stall's unit J : n !'ro vri’s effort was peculiar. It was | n - *t a -lave ihsurrection. It was an attunin' ; by white men to get up a revolt among slaves;; they re'used to parriripate. In act. it was so I absurd that the Slaves, with all their igno-! I ranee, saw plainly enough it could not succeed. That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds With tlie taany attempts, related in history, at the assassination or kings and emperors. An enthusiast broods over the oppression ot a people till he fancies liimsel. commissioned by heaven To liberate them. He ventures the attempt; which ends in little else than in his own execution. Orsini’s attempt on L <uis Napoleon,anti John Brow it’s attempt ot. t arper’s Fery were, iri their philosophy, pr - cisely the same. The eagerness to cast blame on o'd England in tin one case, an I on Ne v-England in the oth r does not disprove ihe s oneness of the two things. | And haw much would it avail you. i; you j could, by the use of John Bro w n, Helper's ! hook, and ihe like, break :ip the Republican ! ofgiiiiiiatioh? Human action can he modi, | lied to Some c - tent, but human nature can- | not be chmged There is a judgment and a feeling against Slavery in this i>iti,,n which cast at least a million and a half of votes \ou cannot destroy that judgment and feeling—that sentiment—by breaking lup the political organization which ru 11 i around it. \ou can scarcely scatter and disI perse an army w hich lias been formed into ordor ir. the face of your heaviest fire, but i j you could, how much would you g;in b\ | forcing the sentiment which created ii, out ot j the peace ul channel of the bail-.u b-. - S, into ! some other channel ? What would that othjer channel probably be? Would the numi her of John Browns be lessened or enlarged ! by t he operut ion ! j But you xx - ill break up the Union, rather 1 than submit to a denial ot you- Gonstitu--1 t ional rights. | That hs a sorn-’wh it reckless sound; h:i> jit would be pailiat d. lit 11 ,t fully j.istifi d. i were we proposing, by the nr re ‘orce o’ miniber«,-to depr v- - y 11 oi's .mer a|,> plain ■y written down in the ( n.-tiui*i,, n Blue ari* proposing n.i su ii thi g. \\ 0t; you m:*k -- 'iiese 71 clarations, y u b -ve a specific and well - mderst > »,! Pn i in an . ssumed Con-timtioi al i_>!,r ~ \ •: 1 - to take slaves into the Federal Terri ,r;. and t hold them there as property J] ,* •. | such fight is" specifi ’ally written in tii • C n ; stilu ti - -11. Tlie just nine lit is lil. r 11 i v siienr I about any such right. We, on the ca itrary. jd ny that such 3 right has any i-X’-stence i:: ' he < 'unst itu'ioti. 1 v n by imp ication. \II pur - - se. t hen, ;»1 iin ! Vat . bi-t :it | v '• (iesti’ iy tin- G iverhm i.r -i. | l pi be allowed tu construe an-, . *- •>. ; Gohstilution -IS y: it please, on ali p ...ms in dis te betwi t u you and us. Y u wifi rujor r 1:1 aUI v> !|lr i ijis a' - ii .> state , is y'nur language to us. perhaps you will s.,y the Supreme 1 -otirt has decided tii ? disputed Const itufionai question in your favor. Not, quite so. Hut, waiving the lawyers’ distinctioti between dictum and decision-, tlie Court have decided the question for you in u sort of a way. Tlie Court have substantially said, it is your Constitutional right to take slaves mto the Federal Territories, and to hold them there as property. 'V hell I say the decision was made in » sort ot away, I meat that it was made in a divided Court 1)v a bare inaj iritv of the Judges, and they not quite agreeing with one another iii the leusofis I'o'r making it; that it is so made as that its avowed support - rs disagree with ohe another about its meaning; : und that it was mainly based upon a mistaken j statement of fact—the statement in the opinion that.“the right of property in a slave is distinctly und expressly affirmed in the Constitution.” An inspection of the Constitu iou will show that the right ot properly in a slave is not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it Bear in mind the Judges do not pledge their judicial opinion that such right is impliedly affirmed in the Constitution; but they pledge their veracity that it is distinctly and expressly affirmed ly that ia, in words meaning just that, without the aid of any inference, and susceptible of no other meaning, If they had only pledged their j.diciul opinion that such right is affirmed io tho iu-

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strument by implication, it would >»o opefi to others to show that neither the word •‘slave" nor ‘’slavery” is to be found in the Cutistitution. hor the Word -“property” even, in any Connection with language alluding to the things slave, or Slavery, and that wberecver in tliat inst.ument th* slave is a Untied to, he is trlled.-t •* person;” and w herever bbtnastrr’s 1 gal right in relation in hint i- ■ ml. tl t i, it is so, k - n of as “service ~r I ,her due." as a “debt’ pay ,ble in service nr !■ h*r Also. it. would he o.ien to show, bv c.otem io*x r .neons history, tha tliis mode of allmlittg to slaves tn - l Slavery.'ontea.l if c)‘.ik : ii; o them, w'-tis gmployed on purpose t > ■• x • 111< 1 from th • C > l-stit I'i >:t t'ie id-a tliit there could be property in m n. To show all this is e.-sv and certain. Wh m this obvi jjs *ni3 ik jjft i * J 1 l:>es shall he brought to their notice i- it n it reas -liable to expect that they Will withdraw the mistaken statement, and reconsider t!.» conclu-’ion based upon ii! And then it is to be reim'mbeired that “our fathers, wh > ‘r.i ned tlie G iveriiui tii tin ier ,vhit’ll we live”—the m-n who m - b> th - CoiistilutioH—decidi.’d this same cm-s-itu ti - nil quest,on in our lavor, Ing ago—d.-ci ded it. wit. .out u division among th-imeives' a lien making tlie decision: without d visioi among titems*-Ives about th-- tnc ning o* i? after it was made, end eo far :S city eviiienc is left witiiotit basing it itnv mistake! stnfettv.-n! of facts, Under ali these circumstances, do von re illy tee] yourselves just fit d to break up thi.Government, unless s.m it u curt decision as y . - ui’s is shall hr. at once submitted to m .. conclusive and final rule of political action! But you will n if abide the election of . Republican President. In that Buppos -- d event, you say. you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it w ill 1 e upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds s pistol to my ear. and mutters through his teeth: ••stand and deliver, or I shall kill y e. then you will he a murderer!” To be sure, what the ro l her demanded o' me—my money—was my own; and I had clear right to keep it; but it was on more m* own tii,-in n.y vote is my own; and tbe threat ot death to me, to exturt my uionev, and tie tlire.it of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely he dietivguirhe-1 ii jirittcip 1, *. A few words now to Republicans. D i„ exceedingly desir .b'e tis it all ii'ir’s o’ thigreat Con'eder :oy sh.-ll he at peace, ar c -1. harmony, one with another. Ls u-. R-qm lie,ins do ottr jmrt to h ive it so. Even firnu ; h much nruv. ked, Itu- do nothin : t rough i.issioi or i! I-icfri per. Even t!i ugh the S utherri peopi,’ will not so much us li.-Uen io us. ict ii-* ("giii v considi r their dem.it d-, a nil vie 1! t In* 111 i in cur deliberate vie a • 011- (Jury. « e pos.-ihly can J ulgi.ig ! \ ,< i they soy ,11 1 do. md by the su'oj- ct an,' U'jHirt’ o ib i,- t’-jijtr.iver.-y with u<, |.-,f ud- - 1 * I’m ill e 1 we C.. 11. v, hit mi I i *■■ them Will they be s i i.-fi *d i ihe Tt rrito'ri - . s . uuc.mdilioii 11 !y s u’r.’iidared to them?' W, know they Will not. In all t e-ir ;r. s i.i complaints again-.! 1:s. :hc Ti-rritori-■» ai. sc rcely in.-tui .tied, invasions and lu.-e;.--recti *tis ,**’.■ tlie rage now. Wifi it s.*Ms!v : tieru 1 , in the iitn.-e. we h .ve 11 ilhmg to wiih invasi ms uitu 1 tisnrrcc! ions ! We kiri .v it ill II »t, \Y s know bee use v*. - .- know we n ver bad any thi 1. to do w ith invasion.*, and iusu rections; -* ts-1 yet t!ii- total afi-taiu mg docs not (,-x tii)* 1 us ir in 1 tie cit .r-n; ami ii’f/m the deiiunciatiou. Tue question r curs, what will y tiictn! fciimpry this: We must not only let them -alone, but wet ust, somehow,o nvluce Ui.it we do let the tu alone. Tu s, we know by cxperieac*, is 11.1 easy t.*sk. W* - li.iVe oecn so trying to convince t e.yjlrom Hit* very beginning of our organ izai ton, but with no success. In all our pl.iilorms and speeches, v. e have Coitstam *y prot-.-.-.ied outpurpose to let them abut-'; but t 11 -> has had no tendency to convince litem. A oka 1111 vailing to convince t etn is he met tit *1 they have never dtl.retail a nun ol us in any alien! [lt to U ISI Ill’ll t lie m. These natural und ttppur ntly ..dequatc tncalis ail laliiitg, what tii colt nice Hum! This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrung, and j mi Hu m in calling it * ight, tt fid'this uthsi be done thoroughly—done in acts as well as in words. Silence will tint be tolerated— wo must place ourselves avowetiiy with i’tiii I) nights’ new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in p dities, it* presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest end return their fugitive slaves \Vith griotly p ensure We mtist pull down our Free-fcjtutc constitutions. Tlie whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint op'opposUiun to Slavery, before they will cease t* belb ve that .all their troubles proceed iroiu us.

I am quite aware they do not state their case precisely in this way. Most o r them would probably say to us, “Let us alone, do nothing to us, und say what you please about Slavery.” But we do iet them alone—have never disturbed them-L-so that, after all, it is what we say, which dissatisfies them. They will continue to accuse us of doing, until we ceas’o Saving. I am also aware-tlr*y have not, rb yet,ih terms, demandeti the overthrow of our FreeState (’oust ii ut i*>ns«, Yet these Constitu-tion.-(Jociare the wrong of Slavery, with more solemn emphasis, titan do all other savings against i ; an 1 when' all thp«<* other - yings shall h .ve b**en silenced, the ovef 1 brow o -these Constitutions will be deman- ! Je.-l, .ami n-eitiug be iett io resist the demand. I It. is coUiiu-g to tlie contrary, that they do 'ot d- iii in i the wh**le ot this just now. De* l in in To f vlt *t ih*-y do, and lor the reason : I-**. ‘ di'k they c * *l voluntarily stop nowhere • -ii * rt ol this (iiiu'iiisa’iur. Holding sethpy I‘l’, ih is moral!y right, and socially j - !* v imp, ih y cannot cease to demand a fult ; national ret: -gni - ion <>. it, as a legal right ,u*l a social blessing 1 A r van we jus:ifiibly with.iid this, on any gr* unJ s i’.e our (amvict :on that Slavery is wi’-jt g. I. fa ■> i-i’v is right, all words, act?, ’ s ami Cons’itut uu-* against it, are themse.v,- - .vrettg. and should be silenced, and svipi aw ay. I it is right we cannoUjustiy object to its nation tlity—its universal.ty—if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension—l *» eti argement. Ali they c-k. we couM readily gr .u*, if r? thought Slavery rigirt ; all w-e a«k, th**y. could os read* i'y grait', if toey it Wrong. The!? iiinkiiig u r:»!‘t ant! ,„ )r thinking it wrong, is tue precise tact oi* upon which depends j he vi hole controversy. Thinking it right, :-= they do, they are r. it to blame for dcsir'ii fit tsl'l recognition, as being right; but, (linking m wrong, as we do, cun we yield to ' m! Can ve cast our Votes with their view, un i ugnin-t our own! In %’ew ot our moral, social, and political responsibilities, _• 111 we d* 1 his! Nv roi-.g as we th ink Slavery i-, we can yet (kord to let ii alone where it is, because that much i.-i due to tlie necessity arising from its ictu’i! pres *nce in the nitimi; but can wd; *'■ k’ : "tv v •te,-* will prevent jt, allow it to ♦j-ivad into ! lie--National I'erritories, and to overrun us here in these Free States! i. our s n o o! duly forbids this, then let as stand by our duty, learlessdy and' effec-t----’;i i’y. Let us be divei'fcd by none of those so.jihisticiil cojrt:f .nces wherewith wo Ttre so i.du *tri. - usiy p::ed ami b,*l.%h. red—conti fvlanecs such gr ; ;ng tor some i> * ; **J i• ■ ground act \ ecu the 'the wrong, v in t - Vu» -car* 1* .or a in 1:1 wh t should' ■ ■ ;;.-ti.,ei s. ■i* ing iii tu n.*r a tie-; Jtn it: ,uc .as a policy o "dui.T car - ”on a questi - ..n üb-atif - - h:,h HI true ui - ei: do car u. li us l’lo r _ peals scech-na true UniuUMueu tu v v J t*. Disutiios*is!r.) r> vi r®iitg tbe divitietuic. . r * cailoie. Hot Hie fitiiit- rs, but tbe rig hie* "as ia re l . ic.-TU.T—-iich as invocations ol W shingj ii, ini,***.*: ing inch to unsay v ha. Washing-, ; 01 -aid, it .ut un l*> .vital Washington did. 1 Neither io* .us be slandered from our duty ■>y t uicuMitiiiiis ag.tnst usi nor fright* died o’.an ii by men r.-’s of destruction t« tie G v, r. i.d », n»r of dungeons to ou?* e'” l ' • L .* •i* i,ve . iii it that right makes iii'gic; uiiu *u :it «t iaith, iet us, to the end, | -ire to do i.ur du y, ns we understand it. (Frau ilie Indianspolt* Jonrnit. rim. lucj- ! L o 'Vo.i, -Hie u: t.o? deleg ;tCf from the | * - is'.nct to the Charleston Convention, | 1 -s *'* r, ■ eo 1 letter in re-ponse to a question I ■••ld' ' coed I.* ii in by a Mr. Woods, in which • • ' d . il. * , v-ry pi (inly what he tJiinks of i He.- instruction oi lit • Democratic State Conj venll***l i.*r 1) ugbis, and what ho means tc» |J * about it. Here it is: C.,:0 judge City, Feb. i t, iB6O. Bar Sir: — lti ivpJy to your.i ot the 14th, I .v. u i aty th ,t there is n j cause to be st * loss 1.1 kn jw m'wlnit attitude l I stand, and -viidh i exp. *< r vote for Mr. Douglas. I ’. ‘‘ii id soy 10 you th.ll l do not expect to vote :■>!' Mr 1> Htglas I y virtu: ol any obligation I it - i iroiu ibe instructions ol’ the Ftute Convi structed by the delegates from-this District io tin* Ut.ite Coiiventioti, and that was to gd lot*' C.((.••/•. stnn Convention unpledged to ary man •■<*!• any,pl-tcc, i.nd 1 cannot now sav who j ! wiii support, I*u’ I will he governed by I wlial i deem l > b ' the interest ut the party alter i ar. ive there. Tii.ird, I held at the i State G.*m ,* ntj >n that they had no right trj ■ instruct me, particularly ii those instructions jc me in conflict with the wishes of the I i) moctiicy ol nrv I>istrict, and that I should ] disregard them, t duck l expect to do. Yuur4 | truly.” "Lase I>£ViLiK. “Dr. J. fcj. Woods.” Ii is not to be denied tli:(t Mr. Deveiin i - ? sufficiently rails, und explicit, and it will no{ he questiotied that be is etitirelv sincere. -Mr. Duuolas can't count on the Stales tliat luive instructed lor him. Of it Com.ußct.\L Steam Mabire.—Tho New York . t raid foots up the tuanuge and and co.-t (*f our t’ojtiiuercut! t-L'am marine as I'olhiw“'M e aggregate tuntiage of our eommerciulste.ini marine is 153,366 tuns, ul which 1)4,1 1 1 is owned in New YoiS. The total cost ol the vessel*? lii New York hands alone is <51G.231.038 13 The total cost 01 tlie sen-going vessels o' the Unii-’i is, as near as can he estimated, fc£k,vDo,oC3.

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