Signal of Liberty. - Ann Arbor District Library

«The inviolability of Individual rights* is the ouly security ol public Liberty."
Edited by the Executive Committee.
ANN ARBOR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1842.
Volume I. Number 3s.
A n o t h e r A m i s t a d Case.
her voyage with only 5 out of one hundred
SOUTHERN PREACIIEUS.—Mr. Douglas,
C h i l d r e n selling.
THE SIGNAL O F LIBERTY,
thirty six ne<rroes.»
negroes.'
MUKDEK AND MUTINY !— We have gath- nd
"d thirtv
Will be published every Wednesday morn
'•For Chinese parents to sell their chil- ormerly a slave at the South, at a meeting
The Detroit Advertiser Bays the cargo
inffin Ann Arbor, WaBhtenaw county, Mich- dren, is no uncommon thing. The price f the Plymouth county A. S. Society r e - red from different exchange) papers the
Tgan, by the Executive Committee, for the of a child in Singapore, varies according
llowing particulars of this extraordinary nd slaves were insured in New Orleans
Michigan State And-Slavery Society.
to its age. A very young child, as we are narked:—
y different Companies, to the amount of
ase,
being all that have yet reached us.
"But all this prejudice sinks into insigtold, says the missionaries, is worth more
tf. SULLIVAN, PRINTER.
!l20s000. But as there was no policy
The
Creole,
Capt.
Enson,
of
Richmond,
nificance
in
my
mind,
when
compared
than one eight or nine years old, as one
TERMS.—$2,00 per annum, in advance. very young is said soon to forget its nat- with the enormous iniquity of the system ailed from that port for New Orleans on nsuring against mutiny, the insurers will
27th of October, with a cargo of tobac* ot be holden.
#2 50 in six months. §3,00, if payment be ural parents, and will consider its owners vhich is its cause—the system that sold
delayed to the close of the year. A strict as its parents. Gang, one of the pupils in my four sisters and my brother in bondage, o, four hundred and thirty-five slaves.—
The captain is convalescing, and will
adherence to the above TERMS will be obser- the missis schools, was sold for fifteen and which calls on its priests to defend it it 8 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, robably recover, though it will be very
ved in every case.
dollars. She had been sold once before, even from the Bible! The slaveholding ie Sih ultimo, the Captain supposed him- lowly. The other wounded are doing
03"No paper will be discontinued until all as the missionaries were informed, for ministeis preach up the divine right of elf to be in the vicinity of Abaco, and well. On their liberation a vessel was
arrearages are paid.«£Q
£30, but the purchaser, when she found laveholders to property in their fellow ove the brig to.
mmediatcly put up for Jamaica, advertiADVERTISEMENTS thankfully received and hat Gang was bound to the missionaries men. The southern preachers say to the xtract of a letter from New Orleans to ing for emigrants, passage paid, and a
inserted at the usual prices in this vicinity. or five years, refused to take her. In all )oor slave, 'Oh! if you wish t« be happy in ie Charleston Courier:
umber of them have entered their names
ime, happy in eternity, you m,i6tbe obeAny friend of humanity desiring to aid the
"From the evidence of the acting cap*
cause of Liberty, is authorized to act as cases, the Chinese who buy children in dient to your masters; their interest ie ain, (who was mate at the time) the crew 0 go."
hi3 way, treat them as their own chil- yours. God made one portion of men to
Beyond this there is but little to state.
Agent.
nd passengers, it appears, that on the After the arrival of the Creole at Nassau
All REMITTANCES and all communications dren."
do the working, and another to do the
designed for publication or in any manner The above is from "The Day Spring," a hinking; how good God is! Now you ight of the 7th of November, while lying tie slaves acknowledged that a Baptist
expecting to make Abacco tho next ninister at Norfolk, named Bourne, had
relating to the "Signal of Liberty," will be >aper published by the American Board of lave no trouble or anxiety; but, ah! you
doming, about7 o'clock the Captain and dvised them with regard to their course
hereafter addressed ff^post paid^j^Q
can't
imagine
how
perplexing
it
is
to
your
foreign Mission?, and is cited for the ex«SIONAL OF LIBERTY; Ann Arbor, Mich.1
masters and mistresses to have so much ands havingturned into their berths, ex- nd given them directions how to proceed.
Our T r a v e l l i n g a n d L o c a l Agents, ross purpose of showing that the heathen hinking to do in your behall! You can- pt the watchon deck, a negro came into Mr. Goddard learned at Nassau that
Journe had formerly resided there, and ab
THROUGHOUT THE STATE, ARE ESPECIALLY are "without natural affection.*' Yet how not appreciate your blessings: you know ie cabin, andtold the captain that some of
He is an
BBQ.UE8TED TO NOTICE THE T E R M S ON much belter do these Chinese treat the lot how happy a thing it is for you that ie men were in the hold with the women, conded, leaving his family.
Englishman,
and
about
^
forty
years of
he
captain
requested
Merritt,who
was
at
WHICH THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED. AS IT
children that they buy, than do the Chris- you were born of that portion of the hu- ending tothe negroes,getting their food,&.
ge.
13 EXPECTED THEY WILL MAKE THEIR COLman family which has the working instead
LECTIONS AND REMITTANCES IN ACCORDANCE ians of South Carolina or Louisiana!— f the thinking to do! Oh! how grateful 0 gound see who it wus among the womos.
Concerning this Mr. Bourn, the Journal
THEREWITH, IN EVERY INSTANCE.
These latter are so much more degraded and obedient you ought to be to your mas- iierritt went down among the females, lit f Commerce says:
"We are authorized to say by a gentlehan the Chinese, that they rob the parents ers! How beautiful are the arrange- :ie lamp, and discovered a negro named
SIGNAL O F LIBERTY.
of their children without buying them at ments of Providence! Look at your hard, Vludisou who attempted to get on deck, nan well acquainted wilh Mr. Bourn
leritt caught him by the leg, and Giflbrd hat he was excluded several years ago,
all: or if they buy them, it is only the lorny bands—see how nicely they are tie maie, held him by the head and shoul- Vom all connection with the Baptist d e W e d n e s d a y , J a n u a r y 12, 1842.
adapted to the labor you have to perform!
>urchase of stolen properly from one thief
ers, his body being on deck, and his legs nomination, for the crimes of adultry and
Massachusetts.
o another. These Christians show thern- ook at our delicate fingers, so exactly n the hatchway, they intending to chas- Irunkennt-ss, as well as desertion from his
umily. He was from England and officiThe liberty vole last year was 1415; elves below the heathen by their manner fitted for our station, and see how mani- ise him.
est it is that God designed us to be the
While scufltng with him, a pistol was ated both at Hondurusand Nassau. From
this year 3800; an increase of ISO per »f treating the children: they use them hinkera and you the workers—oh! the
ischarged, and the male Gilford, was he latter place he fled in 1836 or 1637 to
•cent. One Senator and about twelve ike brutes, while the Chinese "bow down »visdom of God!' I used to attend a Metli"» trifck on the back of the head by the bull, escape the penalty of his crimes."
representatives of the Liberty party were o wood and stone," treat them as their odist church, in which my master was a iut it did not penetrate. Gifford and MerForty of the slaves on the Creole vrera
elected. The election of five Senators own children. What an honor to Chns- class leader; he would talk most sancti- itt, ran below into the cabin, woke up the owned by Thomas McCargo, of Richmond
moniously uboul the dear Redeemer, who
the balance belonged to Johnson and
and about 80 representatives was defeated ianity these children-sellers are! When a was sent 'to preach deliverance to the iaptain aud Mr. John Heweli. '1 he cupEpersun.
Mr. Howell was the agent of
um
took
his
bowie
knife
and
rushed
•by the perseverence of the Liberty men
hinese sells a child, it proves that he is a captives, and set at liberty them that are leek. Heweli found a musket and pre- McCargo,and was well known in this city.
bruised'—he
{could
pray
at
morning,
pray
>in supporting their own candidates. This heathen, and needs the Gospel: when a
entcd the negroes from coining to tho Three of the slaves were killed in the afalarmed the pro slavery parties quite as Christian of the South robs the parents of at noon, and pray at night; yet he could cabin;fired it at them; they threw a hand fray, and another died of his wounds after
lash up my poor cousin by his two thumbs,
•much as the election of a few liberty men. heir child, and the child of its liberty, and and inflict stripes and blows upon his bare spike at him, and look the musket frou his arrival at Nassau. Five more—foar
'The whig majority was reduced in from sells it, and pockets the money, or puts it back, till the blood streamed to the ground 11m; they were at the entrance of the cab females and a boy—refused to accept their
n all this time; Heweli picked up the freedom, and came to this port in the Cre>14,50© to less than 900.
nto the treasury'of the Missionary Board all the time quoting Scripture for his au landspike, drove them from the cabin doo ole. It is worthy of remark that a dog,bethority, and appealing to that passage 0
The spirit of strife which has so long —what does it prove?
longiog to the captain, fought furiously athe Holy Bible which says, 'He tha to the tbrward part of the vessel; 6ome 0 gainst the negroes,and bit several of them
prevailed in Massachusetts among abolithem in his reur stabbed him several time
knoweth
his
master's
will,
and
doeth
i
Temperance.
and he returned to the cabin and fell deac seriously, lie was finally killed.
tionists is fadt disappearing. The action
Mrs. Dr. Beecher is at the head of a not, shall be beaten with stripes!' Such The Captain fought, but was overpowere
The People's Advocate, New Hampwas the amount of this good Methodist's
tin the churches 13 cheering, and it is
Martha Washington Society in Cincinna- piety!"
thrown down,the knife taken from him shire/introduces the preceeding news with
•thought that two years hence slavery will
succeeded in getting away from thesn an >ite follow ing remarks:
ti. John Welsh, a reformed sailor, has
shave no foothold except among a few corrun up the rigging. Gifford was alread
erformed a tour through Long Islanc
PATRIOTISM.—At the sumptuous dinner up the same mast, and finding the captai
"0^7°*We a r e glad to be able to lay berupt churches in the cities. Some well
with great success.
fore
our readers such a piece of intelligiven
to
the
Prince
de
Joinville,
in/JVew
fainting from loss of blood, lashed him t
qualified to judge, say that the State will
At Ncwburgh, more than 1400 have York, Philip Hone,*formerly mayor of th the mast, and went up higher; the sailor gence as the following, and we must say
vote for Birney in 1844.
that we rejoice that those men have ee<*
recently signed ihe pledge.
city, gave the following toast in allusion took the rigging \>[ the foremost.
Hon. Geo. Bradburn, a prominent whig
cured their freedom, though by blood.—
Merritt
hid
in
the
cabin
among
the
wo
The
Washington
Temperance
Society
to the French Frigate, La Belle Poule
onember of the Legislature from Nanluckmen, until the mutineers drove them out They are fully justified by the old American doctrine, that "resistance to tyrants is
•et, was dropped from the Whig ticket this of New York city, embrace 1500 mem-commanded by the Prince:
he then went into a berth and pulled
' T H E P E T CHICKEN OF THE FKENCI mattress over him; they searched the cab obedience to God."
year, because he was so strong an aboli- bers, of whom about four fifths are reform
The Southern papers already begin to
NAVY.—She has proved the coffin of a in for him and eventually found him; h
tionist. In a letter in the Liberator, Mr. ed drunkards.
talk
loudly about war, in case Great Britmilitary
hero,
and
may
hereafter
be
th
begged them'to spare his life, and that
The Boston Washington Society nura
B. complains that it was unjust to prosain will not give up these slaves and discradle
of
a
naval
one.
We
give
her
a
they
did,
he
would
take
them
to
Nassau
cribe him because he was an abolitionist, bers about 4000 members. 217 delegates hearty God speed; may she be alwnys they proposed going to Liberia; he tol claim the doings of the New Providence
while he was as good a whig as he ever have been sent out, and have visited 16( successful, whenever her cause 19 just them the voyage would be too long-, an authorities. Perhaps they will do it, but
British policy and British interests must
was. He avows himself ready to co-ope- towns in the New England States. These but otherwise, unsuccessful; but if eve that there was not water and provision change very much from what they have
she
is
opposed
to
an
American
ship,
maj
visits
have
resulted
in
the
formation
o
enough
in
the
vessel
to
carrry
them
tha
rate again with the whigs, when they
she be unsuccessful, right or wrong. An distance; his life was spared, and he wa been if they do it. England will undoubtshall do justice to abolition: but while similar societies, and 50,000 signatures t 1 also give you T H E UNITED STATES— placed in charge of the vessel. McCar edly laugh at our claim and refuse to pay
they continue their proscription of all men the pledge.
may she be always right, but always suc- go, a passenger,and nephew of one of th a farthing, even though it costs her a
More than 3000 have signed the pledgi cessful, right or wrong.'
who hold anti-slavery sentiments, he shall
owners, lay in his state-room until th twenty years war; and Mr. Everett, if ho
in
Hudson,
N.
Y.,
and
more
than
20
linext day, and one of the negroes belong urges the demand, may probably be told
The Liberator remarks:
walk no more with them. He is evidentas Lord Palmerston toldMrStevenson in re
quor
dealers
have
abandoned
their
busi
''The best excuse that could be offeree ing to his uncle prevented the others froa gard to the right of eearch,that "Her Majly too much of an abolitionist, to be in
injuring
him;
the
next
morning
the
captai
to shield the man who could give euch an
ness.
good repute as a whig. Mr. B. says:
was ordered below, and so was Giffori esty's Government HAVE DECIDED against
In Philadelphia, the Jefferson Temper impious toast, would be to say that be was the crew came down; they made the cap the claim," and as Lord Aberdeen said
"Now, you and I know well enough,
that the vilest pro slavery wretches among ance Society have held a series of meeting so fuddled with wine, at the time, as 10 be tain go into the forecastle, where they ha in relation to the same matter "It is for
us care very little how many such aboli- and a thousand have taken tho pledge oblivious to the claims of decency, the re already placed his wife, child and niec the American Government alone to detertionists, valuable as they may be, we have In Bucks county, nearly a thousand havi quirements of justice, and the retribu- and ordered his wounds to be dressed, th mine what may be due to a just regard for
tions of Heaven. And how far such an
hs National Dignity." If the South want
in the Legislature. They have no fears
excuse would go, we leave John Hawkin vessel on her way to Nassau.
signed.
In
Pittsburgh
and
vicinity,
mor
war here is a fine opportunity for them.
of dumb abolitionists. It is only to 'noisy
On arriving at Nassau, the America Obstinate John Bull will not budge one
and his army of redeemed Washingtonian
ones, that any special objections obtain, in than 10,000 have signed the pledge.
to decide. This is what is called patriot Consul being informed by the mate an inch for them, and they must pocket the afeither of the two great political parties.
T
h
e
P
r
i
n
c
e
d
e
J
o
i
n
v
i
l
l
c
.
ism! It elicited a burst of applause!— crew of what had taken place, went to ih front or fight, and the latter we tell them
This is especially true of Massachusetts
Mr.
Hone is certainly remarkable for hi Governor of the island, and acquainte plainly they dare not do. There is nut
This
young
gentleman
is
the
third
son
in general, and of this place in particular.
him with the fact: the Governor sent
It is a common remark here, and the re- of Louis Phillippe of France. In histrav morality and disinterestedness. Suppose file of soldiers on board. The third da courage enough in the South to face a
France
and
the
United
States
should
beHelderburgh war, and ii will not be long
mark is often quoted to show that Whigs els in this country, he has received th
after being in that port, the passenger,
are not opposed to abolition, that I am ob- most distinguished attention from our cit- come involved in a war; suppose thi crew, &,c, identified nineteen, who ap before they will seek to bring on a crisis
country should be the guilty aggressor
wtth England.
jected to only because of my saying so
and suppose further, that an engagemen peared to be the principals, the next da)
zens.
In
New
York,
they
gave
him
a
Still tho issues between the two counmuch about it, or saying it in such a way
and
they
were
taken
ashore
and
lodge
They would be quite satisfied, if I woulc splendid ball. The Bostonians also goi UJ should lake place between La Belle Poul in jail. The Attorney General of the Is tries are fearfully multiplying, and the
Bay nothing, or, saying something would a ball in Faneuil Hull in favor of the roy- and Old Ironsides. On which side woul land then read, from the quarter deck, th Oregon Territory and the North Eastern
Bay it in their way; as the slaveholders al stripling. The old Hall was decoratec he have victory incline? On that of th British Laws, and told the negroes tha Boundary questions, the Bermuda slave
would be equally well satisfied with your- in splendid style. Fifteen hundred per French ship, to be sure; for he prays tha they were free, and might go "any plac cases already in negociation, the McLeod
she may be successful, whenever he
Case, the detension and search of our vesself, if you would just be silent, or woulc
sons were present. The tickets were te cause is just! But stop! there is somi they pleased." During this time a larg sels on the African coast, and this case
talk abolition only in their way."
number of boats, (those aboard of then
mistake
here.
After
all,
he
is
for
giving
dollars each. The female dresses, c
superadded, leave us scarce a possibility
the victory to Old Ironsides, whether 'rig armed with clubs,) came along side of th
DEMOCRACY.—The following declara- course corresponded in richness with th or wrong'! How both parties could be brig. After the reading of the laws b of avoiding war as an ultimate resort.—
tion, of principles was put forth by a Dem importance of the occasion. The whol victorious under such circumstances,
the Attorney Genoral, those in the boa When it comes slavery will be abolished;
expressing
impatience at the time, a sig let us bear that in mind."
ocratic Convention in New Hampshire.— expense, directly and indirectly has bee would puzzle the sober moments of Mr
nal was given by this officer, by wavin
MISSION TO MENDI—The Emancipator
If these are Democratic principles, what estimated from thirty to fifty thousan Hone, or of nny other 'patriot,' to tell."
a pocket handkerchief,and the slaves wer says, in reference to the Mendi mission:
shall be thought of Democratic prac- dollars. Only four of the troop of fash
L I F E AT THE SOUTH.—The New Or pushed off the vessel into boats, a portio
"Surely, never has there been so favorably
ionable ladies present had the prodigiou leans Bee of November 19th says:
tice?
refusing to go; five would not go, and hi an opening for introducing the gospel into
'•We regret to record two more victim themselves. The Captain was taken
Resolved, That we recognize the fol- honor of dancing with a Prince—a genu
Africa. It comes under auspices wholly
of the insatiable Moloch of duelling. Yes shore by the American Consul, and
lowing as the platform of the Democratic ine son of a king! It will doubtless be
uncontaminated with slavery. The native
terday
encounters
took
place
betwee
wounds
dressed
by
a
physician.
Creed; Universal suffrage; the largest lib- consolation to them all their days.
discernment and integrity of the African,
four
gentlemen
of
this
city;
all
of
then
erty ; retrenchment and reform; the peoOn the arrival of the brig Creole at Na must reject, as soon as he understands a
highly respectable and honorable. In bot sau, as soon as the news was known a gospel, which those who send it forth r e ple's money under the control of the peoA TEST QUESTION.—If it was propose
ple's servants^ a sound currency; equa to make slaves of all the northern editor iaBtances the result was fatal. The weap mong the shipping, a captain commatidin gard as countenancing the practice of slarights to all; no exclusive privileges; no and office seekers, together with their pos or.s used were small swords.
a vessel from Maine, lying in the portco very. How can a body of men evangelize
The Alabama Legislature has passed
insiduous taxation; no national debt, fun- terily, and we should advocate a yieldin
lected up all his pistols,cutlasses and mu Africa, who are so regardless of Africa's
ded or unfunded; no United States Bank to the demand for the sake of the Union bill reducing the pay of its members fron kets, and the Consul purchased arms, too greatest crime and curse that they will not
no gag rules ;no pipe-laying or other chea we should be doing on a small scale wha fiive to four dollars a day.
his crew in a boat wilh these arms, for th even take the trouble to consider or say
ing at elections; and no concealment ol these gentleman editors are doing on
purpose of manning her and taking her in whether slavery is right or wrong; a socr-*
C£rPork
and
mutton
sell
readily
in
th
political principles.
to this port; the soldiers ordered him
ety made up in part of the buyers, sellers
large scale.
English markets at 6^1. to 7 1 2 d . ste keep oft; that if he attempted to get o and holders of slaves, sending slaveholders
They
hold,
however
that
one
man's
righ
Illinois State Bonds sold in New York
ling; equal to 13 and 14 cents per poun board they would fire on him; he was com as missionaries, and drawing their support
on the 22d ult. at 19 cents on the dollar.— to office is of more importance than a bun.
polled to return. The brig proceeeed 0 in part from the unpaid toil of the slave."
of
our money.
dred
men's
right
to
liberty.—Emancipator
Indiana, 20 cents.
In Georgia, any slave
as the subject of exclusive legislative proThe House agreed to the Senate reso- acknowledged and fulfilled.
a white person, for the first offence
Tin;
annual
interest
on
all
tho
bonds
of;
tection,
the
only
articles
through
which
lution, authorizing the Governor to cmSIGNAL. OF LIBERTY.
of suffer such punishment as the justice or"""'
the3 State is about $350,000._ But should! Northern men are to obtain two thirds of
ploy a Private Secretary, during the pres- an equitable settlement of affairs be made their "wares and wearables." This busi- tices shall think fit, not extending, to-life"'"
Wednesday* Jamiarv 12, 184&
ent session—ayes 40, noes 5.
with the Bank and Company, the amount ness of making the Federal Union a mere limb; and for the second offence
°f
will
be
much
reduced.
The
State
can,
if
"regulation
of
exchanges"
between
British
Mr
LOTHEOP
moved
a
joint
committee
to
LIBERTY T I C K E T .
T h e law of South Carolma> thesara
receive sealed proposals for doing the pub- it chooses, sell the 500,000 acres of land capitalists and Southern planters—of the cept that death is the punishment ofthe UiN
given us by the National Government to labor of Lancashire, Yorkshire and StaffordFor President,
lic printing. Carried.
JAMES G. BIRNEY, of Michigan.
cancel iis bonds.
shire operatives, and of Carolinian, Geor- offence.
IN SENATE, Jan. 6. Mr. Fuller called
The Scrip should be withdrawn from \ gian and Mississippian slaves, ie yetting • In Maryland, a justice may direct the of
For Vice President,
h
THOMAS MORRIS, of Ohio.
up the joint resolution offered by him on. circulation as fast as possible, and no morej to-be looked into, and is thought "not lobe fenders ears to be cropped, even though
b Oe
be a free black,
.
the thing it was cracked up to be."
Tuesday, instructing our Senators, and issued.
"IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS,
The Governor comes out strong against
In Kentucky, any negro, mulatto, or In*
DEC.
13.—Rev
ScptimiusTustaaofVa
requesting
our
Representatives
in
Con#
LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS, CHARITY."
'»n irredeemable currency, ond recomgress to use their exertions to prevent the., mends (h« immediate forfeiture of the char was chosen chaplain to the Senate and an, bond or free, lifting h i . or her hand 1
ANNUAL. MEETING.
adoption of any rule which will abridge tors of all 13nriks that do not pay specie on John N. Maffit, of Mississippi, was chosen opposition to any person not being am
f£/°The Anniversary of the State Anti- the right of petiiion.
demand. The Directors and Stock-hol- for the House. So that the "institution" mulatto or Indian, shall suffer for such
fence, proved by ihe oath of the party b l
iSJavery Society will be held at MARSHALL,
The resolution was adopted—yeas 12; ders should be personally liable for the will receive no detriment from the minis- fore a justice ofthe peace, shall receive thir
debts of the bank. We like these lasi ters of religion. An attempt was made to
on WEDNESDAY the SECOND day of February nays 4.
<y lashes on his or her bare back well laid"
suggestions. The people of this State
next. A general attendance is earnestly reOn motion ofMr GREENLY, the resolu- ha've'beenctrrsed with"a wretched depre-| e x c I u d e f r o i n l h e H o u s c ( h e man-V reporfquested, as business of much importance
It will be seen by the proceeding
will come before the Society. We presume tion was reconsidered, and Mr. KING.*LEV oiated currency Ji>ng enough. The message ers for the public press, nnd commission
is well written, and gives a clear and f.iur stenographers to do the whole report- ions, that no colored female, ever, if fajl
the hospitality of the friends of Liberty in moved to amend the same so as to instruc; distinct view of the affairs of the State.
ing. But this was too aristocratic—it allowed by In vv to defend herself against ihe
Marshall, will be extended to all who mayour Senators, and request our Representaoutrageous acts of any white man whatever
tives also to use exertions to prevent the
would not go.
come.
A case was recently reported in a New
are authorised to say that James passage of any law creating any banking
D E C . 14.—Mr. LOWELL, of Maine, inOur readers are well aware that Congress
Orleans paper, in which o gentleman! m»
G. Birney, will be present at the Annual corporation or power.
is a very talkative body, and generally slow troduced a bill to reward the valyr ofthe
chivalrous enough to haul ,, p a a c o l o r e d
Meeting, if the pressure of his private affairs
The amendment was adopted by a par'y in :t8 operations. Consequently they will Maine militia in tho Aris'.ooke war. Th<>y female before the police, to niwwcr for stridoes not prevent.
not expect much important action upon the wanted a liiiie short of a million of Uncle king him!
vote.
fl^The Anniversary of the State TemThe resolution, as amended, was on Currency, and kindred matters during the Sam's money. Of course it must be paid.
T h e law of Louisiana says: "Free peo.
perance Society takes place at Marshall on
motion of Mr. GIDLEY, laid on trfe table. first month of the session. But abolition People cannot afford to be patriotic for pie of color ought never to insult or strike
Tuesday. February 1.
stares them in the face on every petition
nothing!
white people,nor presume to conceive tho 0 .
Tlie G o v e r n o r ' s Message.
day, and must be met. The following desare indebted to Hon. J. R. GmPetitions respecting ihe removal ofthe selves equal to the whites; but on the contra*
It was impossible for us to publish this cription of our prospects at Washington h
1
DING9 for valuableCongressional documents.
lengthy document,without excluding near- from the correspondence of the Naw York seat of government, and tne fesponsibifity ry, they ought to yield to them on evert}
of the iSoith to support shivery, were r e - occasion, and never speak or answer them
fjr^*Read the stirring Lines on the last ly all other matter. We shall endeavor to American, dated D^c 15
but with respect, under penalty of i
page by J. G. WHITTJER.
p
condense the substance of it in n small
'•The n.*pe;U of the Anti-Slavery move ferred to the judiciary committee. Wise
onment,
according
to
tha
nature
of-the
of*
ment
is
must
formidable;
and
the
Southtried
to
hinder
the
reference
of
those
rela1
(L?»The lines of "C. G. T . " wo have space.
erners in spite of themselves, manifest ting to Hay'i, but Mr. Adams insisted that fence.'
Gov.
BARRY
thinks
that
it
is
very
imconcluded not to publish.
In South Carohnin, any slave, travelling
unusual alarm at it, but in an unusual
portant that the entire population should be way. They see that ihis "attempt to dam they said nothing about slavery. "They without a written puss, may be punished
State Legislature.
educated—and to do this, there must be up ihe waters of the Nile with bulrushes," refer to the black republic of Hay'.i; (here's v. iih twenty lashes by any person. In other
IN SENATE, Jan. 3.—The Senate was schools, and laws respecting them, and has only aggravated and extended the NO SLAVERY THERE S"
llS, with One of States, similar punishments may be inflicted,
organized by appointing Mr. Kingsley these laws must be known to the people. movement, given it depth, energy and a his sarcastic smiles, and a stinging empha- by a justice of the peace.
President, pro tern, and Mr. Kellogg, sec- He recommends that the whole system be hold on the sympathies of Northern free- sis, in one or two of the petitions from
A slave, coming on to a plantation, withretary. The Senate went inio a joint revised,and hereafter altered as little as men, that it vvuuld have been slow toac- Massachusetts, the resolves pawed by the out leave, or without being sent on business,,
quire
may be punished by the o>vaer of the plan«
convention, after which the Lieut. Gover- possible.
might have trickled unheard and un- Legislature of that Slate were embodied. tation with ten lashes.
nor appeared and took his seat.
In 1840, seven branches of (he Univer- noticed through its lo>vand unobstructed But these came within the gsg rule, and
Any person who shall see more than sevThe House was called to order by the
jsitywere in operation, and 247 students channel, has, by damming up, accumula- could not be received. "What!" said he, en men slaves, without some white person
ted
a
deluge,
whose
rapid
risings
are
now
appointment of Mr Bingham, Speaker,pro
listructed, and $10,188 37 was expended fust submerging the valleys and the hills, "the Legislature of Massachusetts refused with them, assembled or travelling in any
tern; and E. J. Roberts of Detroit, Clerk.
for salaries and teacher?. Mr. B . thinks and setting buck upon the recesses ofthe a hearing!" These petitions came from high road, may inflict a whipping on each
The joint convention rules of the last sesthis too much. The University buildings North, to break loose inevitably, soon or every part of the Union, almost.
of them, not exceeding twentj lashes asion were adopted.
thus far, have cost $49,764 4 1 ; and tho iate, ami the sooner the better, becauso
DEC. 27.— There was a discussion in piece.
Mr LAMB gave notice of a bill to repeal
the lighter, upon all below, with a force
In Missouri and South Carolina, for
cabinet and Library have cost $9,777 42. that may oversweep the continent, that the House on the Tariff. In the Senate,
the Suspension Act.
Provision should be made iti some way will ^li'jke the Southern mountains to Mr. BENTON introduced a bill to postpone keeping or carrying a gun, or powder, or
In joint Convention, the votes for Govto elect members to Congress under the their bate arid shatter the pillars of their the operations of the Bankrupt Bill from shot, or a club, or other weapons whatsoernor were canvassed, and the result was
ever, offensive or defensive, a slave incurs
February to July, 1842.
apportionment soon to be made, cither by pride.
as follows:
for each offence, 39 lashes by order of ajusThe Anti Shivery cause,by this thought
general ticket or by districts. The last
DEC. 28.—The Bill introduced yestertice of the peace: and in;,Ncrth Carolina
. For Mr. Barry,
20,795
less obstruction, has already become the
method is recommended.
C;IUPC office discussion,freedom of speech, day by Mr. BENTON, was laid upon the ta- and Tennessee, twenty lashes by the near«
Fuller,
15,496.
The Land Distribution act is not approv NOUTHEUW rights and Northern HONOR.— ble for further action.
est constable, without a conviction by a jus"
Fitch,
1,214.
ed by the Governor. Distributing a rev- You may see ibid by noticing the remarktice.
Lieut. Governor, Richardson, 20,753.
The
following
notes
are
given
on
the
QUenue, and supplying its place by addition* able fact that these pciilions are signed
In N. Corolina, for travelling in the night
"
Bostwick,
15,536
iboriry of 6'troud's Sketches of (he Slave
al taxation, is poor policy. Besides, tho not by oU{ xvomen, children, and negroes, Laws.
without a paes, foity lashes: beiflo-found in
as was said in times past, but by "legal
[We shall publish the full table herafter.]
L a w s of Slavery*
another person's negro quarters, or kitchen,
Western States, manufacturing less than "oters," every one of them being so headThe Governor and Lieut. Governor apIn Virginia, by an act passed in 1673, for forty lashes: and every negro in whose corn,
d
and
certified;
and
these
"leyal
vot°rf,"
t he Eastern Scale?, and consuming more
peared and were qualified, when the Govforeign articles, will bear a greater share oo, in hundreds, in places where ilie r i - the better encouragement of soldiers, it was pany such vagrant slave shall be found, inernor delivered an Inaugural address, setiuiloiis 'abolition' ticket does not poll its declared, that whit Indian prisoners should curs twenty lashes.
of the burden.
ling forth the excellence of our institutions,
3ns. The number of several thousands be taken in a war in Mjiiich the colony was
A detailed account of our several pieces f ihese formidable petitioners have been then engaged, should be free purchase to the T U B STATE JOURNAL.—In the Journal
which "secure, in harmonious union, uniof
Internal Improvement, being no less filed yesterday, and to-day, before the soldiers taking them.
of the 4th inst. there is an article from the
versal freedom and equality of rights, and
usioniMieci gaze of the Southerner?, who
In 1633, it was declared that all servants Emancipator of November 1S39. headed
the undisputed supremacy of wise and be«- han fifteen in all, is given—showing their ;now as well as you do that this class of
neficent laws." There are those who jngth; estimated cost; amount expended; men in such numbers, must have influ- brought into Virginia by sea or by land, not "SIXTEEN REASONS AGAINST A THIRD POthink some of these positions not a little mount appropriated, and balance unex- jnceon a contested election, enough tode- being Christians' whether negroes, Moors, LITICAL PARTY;" written by Lewi3 Tapended. They foot up as follows:
crniine the course of the Whig and Loco Mulattoes, or Indians, (except Turks and pan. It appears to us that there mu3t be
erroneous.
Foco Representatives who present their Moors in amity with Great Britain,) and a famine in the land of argument against
590
miles
of
the
railroad
begun,
«33
In SENATE, Jan. 4 . The fc Mowing offipetitions. Massachusetts, Vermont, New Indians which should thereafter be sold by a "third political party;" or our neighbors
cers were elected: Secretary, S. Yorke rules of canals, and the improvement of York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, neighboring Indians, or any other trafficking
of the Journal would not have gone back
ive
rivers.
Estimated
cost
of
the
whole
Atlee, of Detroit. Engrossing Clerk, J.E.
lave-poured them in to-day, and the style with us, as slaves, should bo slaves to all into '39, and lugged in the "SIXTEEN," stale
£10.489,275,
though
their
real
cost.would
n which not only avowed abolitionists. tents and purposes.
Platt, of Washtenaw. Sergeant"=at-arras,
and worn out "RSASo^Ts,"of that day against
robably
not
be
Iet>«
than
15,000,000.
A>ut
moderate
Whigs,
and
even
Loco
F
o
Benjamin Sherman, of St. Joseph.
The Supremo Court of New Jersey decicoes
like
Floyd
aud
Brewster,
presented
our organization. However we suppose
uount appropriated, $2,842,113; of which
ded in 1797, "That Indians might be held
In the HOUSE, the following were electthe old adage that "drowning men will
iave been expended $2,329,268, leaving hese papers-, showed that it was no as slaves."
ed permanent officers: Speaker, K. S.
oke.
an unexpended balance of $512,846.
In (South Carolina,any slave, emancipa- catch at straws." is as true now as ever,
BINGHAM, of Livingston: Clerk, E. J.RobHoward, of Michigan representing in
ted
otherwise than according to the act of arid that any thing like argument againsj
The Central and Southern Rail
iiis single person an unequalled constituerts, of Wayne: Engrossing Clerk, A. M.
1800,
may be seized by any person, and tho glorious cause we have espoused, is
are
the
only
works
that
ore
available.—
sney
of
250,000,
had
his
desk
piled
with
Arzeno, of Monroe: Doorkeeper, T . C
hese petitions of'legal voters;1 and on the converted to his or her use, and kept as hia out of the question.
Set
earnings
of
both
for
the
year
ending
Smith, of St. Clair.
Southern ground of 'obedience to instruc- or her property.
We give our friends ofthe Journal credThe House refused to order any news- Nov. 30th $27,950, being little more than ious,1 these must be expected 10 have a
In Virginia if any emancipated slave shall it for doing the best they can, and hope
one
per
cent
on
their
cost,
and
probably
papers—directed members at the close of
practical effect on him, and their largely!
y! remain in tlie state more than twelve months
i in
i the
h next ConCj
- j a f te r his or ber eight to freedom shall have they will keep at work, for every attempt
the session to hand back the Revised Stat- less than their dilapidation. Total amount ncreasedd representation
they make to bring'ti
gress.
sxpended
on
all
the
public
works
for
the
g thiru political party'
utes—directed the Librarian to keep an
occurred, such slave may bo apprehended by
Messrs. Cost Johnson and Wise took
year
ending
Nov.
30th,
$419,139.
The
int0
account of stationary furnished the memmakes us new friends, and
ippeals to-day from the decision of the the overseers of the poor, ancf sold for the j idds disrepute,
at least,one subscriber !o our list.
bers, and passed a resolution requesting present prosecution of these works, e x - Speaker on two classes of these petitions, benefit ofthe Literary Fund!
In Mississippi, every negro or mulatto
the city clergy to open the sessions with cept where a small amount will render which will be debated to-morrow or soon
EFFECTS OF THE CORN LAWS.—The best
ifter. Mr. Underwood also gave notice found in the state, not having ability to show bread is 60 per cent, dearer in tha British
prayer, providing no money to pay them them productive, must be abandoned.
The wholo indebtedness of the State that he should take that occasion to ' a d - himself entitled to freedom, may be sold by than in the French metropolis.
should be taken out of the Treasury.
dress the House and the country on that order of court.
Flour is 66 per cent, dearer ia London
IN SENATE, J a n . 5. Mr. BELL moved a at this time, is $6,260,000. The annu- subject.
in Paris.
The law of South Carolina declares that than
al
interest
on
this
sum
at
6
per
cent
is
Wheat is 54 per cent, dearer In London
As to M r . Cost Johnson's contrivance of
joint resolution, authorizing the Governor
every
negro,
Indian,
Mulatto
and
Me3tizo
is
thnn in Paris.
to employ a private Secretary, which was $375,617. There is due to the State on smuggling'tlie twenty-first rulo upon the a slave unless the contrary be made to apThe best wheat is 94 per cent, dearer ia
by postponing the debate on the
the
Five
million
Loan,
from
the
Morris
passed. A resolution inviting the clergy
pear. This rule prevails in nearly overy London than at Alirabeau.
rules
last
Friday,
much
as
he
prides
him
Flour was 78 per cent, dearer [on the 14th
ofthe city to officiate as chaplains was Canal Company, $852,625, from the U self on such a pretty piece otjincsse, it is state.
ult.] in London than in New York.
laid on the table. A resolution was passed S. Bank, $1,306,312; on bonds issued for only laughed at by those who understand
In South Carolina, any person teaching a
The duty on foreign wheat imported into
directing the Commissioner to let no more the Penitentiary, $20,000. Total amount the machinery o f t h e rules. Though you slave any manner of writing whatever, for- England, is now 24s. 8d. the quarter This
due, $2,198, 937. This sum with pro- supposed, and most people supposed, the feits 100 pounds cunency, and any assem- is equal to a charge of 47 per cent, on the
contracts on the Central Rail Road.
prime cost at Pari?, 56 per cent, on the prime
original question of the rules was 'nailed
In the ilouse, sundry petitions were portionate interest deducted, will leave a to the table unless taken from it by a vote bly of slaves, free negroes, mulattoee, and cost at Leghorn, 5B prr cent, on the prime
Mestizoes, whether white persons are pres- cost at Naples, and New Fork, 59 per cent,
presented.
The standing Committees State Debt of about $4,000,000.
of two third?,whici) cannot be had,'yet the
ent or not, met together for the purpose of on the prime cost at Mirabeau, and 69 pe'
Some
collateral
security
has
been
given
rules
can
be
amended
at
a
n
y
time,
by
a
were announced by the Speaker.
mental instruction, shall be dispersed by cent, on the prime cost at Malta.
Mr. FESSENDEN moved a re-considera- by the Morris Canal Company for the pay day's no.ice. and they will bo so amended
dircc ly. T h e petitions for a repeal of the the magistrates, and they may inflict such
CHAPLAINS TO CONGUESS.—A joint restion ofthe vote of yesterday, directing the ment of their debt to this State, butwheth twenty-first rule a r e already referred to a punishmeut, not exceeding twenty lashes
olution
passed Congress on the 13th, for
stationary to be placed in the Library.— er it is of much value, is unknown. The special committee of nine, of which Mr. on such free negroes & c , as they may judge the appointment of two Chaplains ofdifferUnited
States
Bank
has
given
no
secuMr. CHARY slated, thot last year the
Adams will be the chairman, with a m a - necessary for deterring them from the like ent denominations who should interchange
stationary charge for each member of th rity. It is said that that institution is rot- jority friendly to the m e a s u r e ; and they unlawful assemblage in future.
weekly. The two Houses then proceeded
Senate amounted to $30 a head. He tho' ten, and that our bonds, which were given will promptly report a resolution for its reThe city council of Savannah, in 1318, to the election, which resulted in the choice
for the five millions when the loan was peal, which will pass by a handsome m a - passed an ordinance, by which any person ,' of the Rev; Mr. 'Fusion, of ihe Presbytethis was too much. The resolution
jority.
rian Church, for the Senate, and (heRev.
yesterday was reversed; so that the sta- made, have been pledged by the Bank in
T h e Tariff question will turn out to have who shall be seen teaching a colored person, John N. Maffit, Meihndist, for the House.
tionary is not to be locked up in the library foreign countries. It is recommended t some q u e e r sympathies vviih the Abolitioi slave or free, to read or write, or causes
The Salem Advertiser has been informMr. FESSENDEN moved an enquiry int appoint one or more persons to get up question, and will flourish in ibis c o n n e c - such persons to be so taught, is subjected
the propriety of repealing the Two Thir these bonds, and make a settlement witl tion. It. will be a little 1 unfortunate for to a fine of $B0 for such offence: and every ed that the Postmaster, at Topsfield, ha3
an
the Company and the Bank. The faith o '•the peculiar institutions, 'if at the same colored person who shall keep a school to been removed, on the ground that he iswho
Liw. Carried.
time limt they exact these grievous sacrili teach reading and writing shall be subject abolitionist. Here's nuts for some
Mr LAMB brought in a bill to repeal th the Slate should be preserved inviolate ccs from our self-respect and liberty, ihe to a fine of S'SO, or be imprisoned ten days, were deceived into the€upporl of"Tipp0"
AH legal and moral obligations must be products of elave labor a r e thrust forward
canoe and Tyler too."
{Suspension Act.
and whij red 39 lashes!
Moral C o n d i t i o n o£ Slaves.
"ECONOMY IS WEALTH."
THE VETO POWER.—The Clay papers arA Tub t o the whale.
M o r a l a n d P o l i t i c a l Action.
HE subscribers will pay two cents per
The following is from the S. W. Chriss gue that the will of one man should not con- "Honest Jake" is no fool of a tactician.
Exery net, voluntarily performed by a
pound in Goods or Paper for any quantian Advocate, June 4, and was written by trol the will of the nation. The following If we have not mistaken the source of the moral agent, is amoral action, whether it
tity of good clean SWINGLE T O W ,
Bishop ANDREWS, Of course it is not an calculation in the Madisonian shows that Advertiser's Washington correspondence, e voting or lecturing agaiust rum and delivered at the Aon Arbor Paper Mil).
••abolition story,"
J . J O N E S 4- SONS.
one>»tliird of both Houses of Congress can he has already begun to electioneer most lavery. Those who make a distinction
Ann Arbor, Jan. 12, 1842.
S8<.tf
«'Oh what a work is this! thousands and enact any law they please, whether the Pres- adroitly for abolition votes to assist in re- etween moral and political action, doubtturning him to Congress next fall. We ess understand by moral action that kind
tens of thousands of immortal souls living ident approve it or not:
NTI-SLAVERY ALMANACS FOR
cut the following from a late number of f action which influences the mind by
in this lantl of vision, who know little more
184£—ju6t received and for sale at this
''It appears by the Constitution that a the Advertiser.
neans of arguments and motives addressof God or heaven than their sable brethren
office. Price 6 cents single ;75 cts. per
bill
may
become
tho
s'upreme
law
of
the
d
lo
the
understanding
and
conscience,
in ihe interior of Africa, for whose soul no land, after having passed each House by 'Correspondence of the Detroit Advertiser.'
dozen.
nd in this sense there is no difiereneo
roan careth, while with ihe avails of their barely a majority of the "quorum for doing
House of Representatives,)
etween moral and political action. Vo
CASH FOR WHEAT.
Sweat and toil the Southern Church has the business," provided it is "approved" by
Washington, Dec. 8,1841 \
ngand legislating upon the subject of rum
DENISON will pay cash for Wheat
been contributing her thousands to send the the President, and it will also become a
The petition question is disposed of for nd slavery are called political action,
on delivery nt his store.
Bible and missionaries to perishing pagans law by having been passed by a mnjority ihe present by the resolution of W. C.
June 28, 1841.
9-tf
beyond the seas. 1 have no quarrel with of two thirds of this "quorum," in spite of Johnson, adopting (he rules of the 26th ?hi!e lecturing, passing resolutions, and
rinting books and news papers, are called
what has been done for foreign work, we the President's objections!
ROCHESTER CITY STORE;
Congress until the new Parliamentary noral action. Now, with us, nothing i*
are still in arrears to foreign pagans; but
Thus a law may be passed by barely Code, reported at the last session,can be nore plain than that this distinction exists Four Siory Brick Store, Ann Arbor, (Lou>,
when the balance sheet is struck, how
one-fourih
the members of each House, acted upon.
nly in imagination. A few illustrations
er Village.)
fearfully will Southern Christians be in in the oneof
The celebrated "21st Rule," so fruitful ill show this. Suppose we meet in a
case, and barely one third in
THIS
DAY
RECEIVED,
In this case, the other.
Brr ears to their own slaves!
of angry altercations, and expense to the reat convention, and p.s? resolutions
Pieces Beaver S* Broad Clothe
at least, charity should begin ot home: and
country
;^o
direct
a
vi
ilationof
the
constitujainst rum and slavery, and say that no
from
18stoS7,00
Of the House, a majority of 242
it seems to me that we should never forget s Thus:
" Cadet Broad Cloths from 12 to 16s.
an is fit to make laws who will not log 20 M
123; and a majority of 123, 62—and tion; so boyish and paltry in its conception
that the first and greatest cluimaiits on the •two thirds" of 123 is 82. Of the Senate, —so tyrannical and insulting in its prac- late against them; this is good, moral 30 Satinett &Sheeps Grey " 4 •« 12s.
charity of the Southern Churches are the i quorum is 27; and a majority is 14; and tice, will, I think, be abolished. It is a clion, because it 15 intended to influence 40 " Fr. Eng. & Ger. Moreno " 44J. 12*.
slaves of our plantations There comes 'two thirds" of the "quorum," is 18.
disgrace to the country and to the age.— len's minds, but wherein is it less moral 40 " Saxony & Muslin DeLanes l8d. 5s.
" Fr. Eng. & Amer. Calico 8 to 3Id.
up a voice from the cabins of our rice fields
the same persons deposite their votes in 200
So a bill after it is vetoed, may become What man worthy to be a freeman is afraid
10 " Ladies Camblets d'ble widths 5 to 7s.
and cotton farms to which we mu3t listen. a law
to
iniroduce
to
the
consideration
of
the
leg
e ballot box, withholding said vo es from
by the votes of 18 Senators, and 82
Silks nnd Lace Good?, Ribbons, Silk
or meet an awful reckoning at the bar of [lepresen'.atives—one third of each of the islalure of u free and fearless people, pe;i- ;rtain candidates because they will not
shawls, Silk Mantillas.Dress Shawls,Glovea
God. Chrislian slaveholders must be HLouses."
tions relating to the subject of .SLAI-EKY !— egislate agaiust rum and slavery, and and Hosiers; with a full assortment of all
brought to feel that iheir negroes are more
Away with such cowardice! Let the pe- iviog them to certain other candidates kinds of Dry Goods, all of which the public
than mere property—that they are fellowtitions be received and reported upon. If ecause they will legislate against rum are respectfully invited to call and examine,
For the Signal of Liberty.
heirs of immortality, and that we must care
In pursuance of a call of twenty legal Congress has no power over the subject, nd slavery ? At the last Presidential elec and they will then be convinced that kthey
for their souls as well as their bodies.— voters of the town of Pittsfield, a meeting or any purl of it, let the petitioners ba so onthere were seven thonsand antislavery can buy Dry Goods as cheap at tho RochesUntil Christian masters have their hearts
held at tho Woodiird schoolhouse, on informed why it should or should not be otes cast. Now, suppose these seven tor City Store, as they can iu ony Eastern
deeply imbued with this principle and rec- Saturday, the first day of January, A. D. exercised. But the denial of the right is ousand men had assembled in seventy City.or Village.
ALSO,
ognize it fully in their conduct, we shall 1842, for Ihe purpose of organizing an in- an affront, and serves no other purpose fFereut conventions, at different points
READY MADE COATS,
than to irritate and inflame the resentment • tho country, and passed resolutions that
not be well pleasing to God!"
dependent Liberty Party of said town.
(T^made in tho latest e t y l e . . ^
VVhat a dreadful picture! Thousands
A. PARDEE, Agent.
F. M. Lansing was appointed chairman, of a large and respectable class ofourfel Vm.H. Harrison and John Tyler were
low
citizens,
who
justly
regard
such
conct fit to rule over this nation in conse
and tens of thousands of immortal souls who and Horace Carpenter, Secretery.
Ann Arbor, Nov. 28, 1841.
.
duct
as
an
infringement
of
their
constituuence of their proslavery principle?, it THRESHING MACHINES, HORSE
know but little more of God than the dis- The object of the meeting was briefly
tional
right?.
In
this
connection
I
will
'ould have been good moral action;but
tant heathen, who never saw a Bible or slated, and their chairman addressed the
POWER, MILLS, &c.
add that Mr. Adams, and Mr. Slade are
are unable to see why it was any less
heard the name of Christ pronounced!— Throne of Grace.
HE undersigned are manufacturing and
both
in
their
seats
and
in
fine
health."
noral, when they gave the came votes
What then are we to think of Southern
will keep constantly on hand nt their
After which, brief and pertinent r e Christianity? for these slaves belong to marks were made by several persons on
shop two and a half miles west of Ann
How important it was that Mr. Howard hrough the ballot box. Would it have
professed Christian masters, not to infidels. the importance of such an organization, should let the readers of the Advertiser een saying that slavery is wrong to have Arhor, near the Rail Road, HORSE POWBut again, it is said, for these "souls no when the meeting unanimously resolved know that Messrs. Adams and Slade, the assed such resolutions in conventions?— ERS and THRESHING MACHINES—
The horse power is a new invention by
man careth." Christian slaveholders, and to proceed to organize.
abolition leadejs in Con«res?,vvere in their t was no less saying so when they gave S. VV. FOSTER, and is decidedly superior to
yet not care for the souls of their slaves!— Voted, That ihere be a standing com- seats and in fine health! The Signal of ie same votes at tke election.
any thing of the kind ever before offered to
We repeat, what is Southern Christianity? mittee of three oppointed in said town Liberty should endeavor to engage the serthe Public. The price of a Four Horse
LUTHER
LEE.
Still worse, while they do not care for their vhose duty it should be to correspond with vices of our whig Representative, as an
Power, with a good Threshing Machine ia
souls,''with the avails of their sweat and the county committee and transact all oth- abolition correspondent from Washington.
120 dollars, at the shop; without
.Elections*
toil the Southern Church has been contri- er business that tho interest of the party
le Machine, ninety dollars. These Horse
Detroit Free Press.
The following table will he found con- Wers
can be ustd with two, three or four
buting her thousands to send the Bible and requires and their duty enjoins.
cnientas a reference. It has been com orse3 to good advantage. Three men with
"
A
p
a
t
h
y
.
"
missionaries to perishing heathen beyond
Samuel D. M'Dowell, Moses F. Collins,
The Journal of Commerce of Saturday iled wilh great care and is believed to wo horses, can thresh one hundred bushels
the seas." Understand, the "Southern and Horace Carpenter, were appointed
f wheat per day (if it yields middling well,)
contains
this consoling paragraph for the e accurate:
Church" has done this, not Southern infi- said committee.
Stale Election. Pres't Elec. nd it will not be hard work for the horses,
poor
abolitionists:
dels. These slaves, as ignorant as the
Voted, That there bo a committee of
Hampshire, March 10
Nov. 2 'he Horse Power and Thresher can both be
"ABOLITION.—The abolition vote in 12
distant heathen, for whose souls no man one in each school district, whose duty it
onnecticut,
April 6
« 2 ut in a common waggon box, nnd drawn
cares, belong lo church members, for the shall be to correspond with the standing of the 17Wards was 90 fur Arthur Tappan Ihode Island,
" 15
" 18 ny distance by two horses. The Two
and
97
for
Horace
Dresser.
The
AssemHorse Poicer will be sold at the shop, with
•'SOUTHERN CHURCII" has taken the avails committee, and preside at all meetings
Virginia,
" 23
bly
ticket
averages
about
85
in
the
same
he Thresher for one hundred dollars; withof their sweat and toil "to send the Bible held in their respective districts for the
*Louisiana,
July 6
" 3 >ut the Thresher, for seventy-five dollars.
Wards.
We
remember
the
lime
when
to the heathen beyond the seas."
purpose oi'lecturing or discussing the prin- the abolitionists polled over 200 votes in Alabama,
/ugus't 3•« 9
They also manufacture STRAW CUTN. E. Christian Advocate.
ciples of the Liberty Purly. Josiah New- this city. There appears to be consider- Kentucky,
" 3
'• 2 TERS, recently invented by S. W. FOSTER,
ell, jr., Joseph Collins, John Mosely, Isaac able 'apathy' among them."
ndiana,
" 3
*« 2 vhich are decidedly preferable to any othera
Indiana.
Elliott, Alvah Pralts, Philo A. Prichard,
*Illinois,
" 3
" 2 for cutting straw or corn stalks, by horse or
MORE'-APATHY."—The
advertising
colThe State Liberty Convention met at Daniel Underwood, Horace Kellogg, F.
" 3
" 9 vater power. They also work by hand.—
umns ofthe same paper, on Monday, had Vlissouri,
Spiceland, Nov. 22. It appears from a M. Lansing, Jarvis Leonard, and James an advertisement of which the following Tennessee,
"
G
« 19 Price, fifteen dollars.
—ALSOin August,
" 19
report to the convention, that in Wayne H. Mills were chosen said committee.
are tlie material facts,.only a little nbridg- \\ Carolina,
CAST-IRON MILLS for grinding prov^Vermont,
Voted,
That
there
be
n.
committe
of
three
Sept.
1
"
10
county the candidates nominated by the
at the rate of six to eight bushels per
to draft resolutions expressive of the views TO CAPITALISTS, MANUFACTU- * Maine,
" 14
" 2 ender,
hour, with two horses or by water.
Liberty party received from 209 to 442 of the meeting.
jreorgia,
Oct.
5
"
2
RERS AND OTHERS.
—ALSO—
votes each. In New Garden township,
Resolved, That as moral suasion alone, W OFFER for sale the half or the whole Maryland,
<( 7
" 9
T MACHINES of superior conthe Liberty vote, was from 135 to 157,is insufficient to accomplish our object in M. ofthe slock ofthe HIGH SnoAL MAN- South Carolina,
" 12 by legislature. struction. Invented by S. W. FOSTER.—
'•13
Nov. 6 Price, sixty dollars.
while the votes for the Whig and Demo- establishing liberty and equal righ!s,where UFACTURING COMPANY. The Company- ^Pennsylvania,
*Ohio,"
S. W. FOSTER, b Co.
«12
" 6
cratic parties ranged from 15 to 43. This people are bound by civil laws,lherefore,a was incorporated by the Legislature ol
Scio, June 23, 1841.
10-ly
resort to political action is oar only rem- North Carolina, for the purpose of man- *New York, Nov. 2 3 and 4 Nov. 2 3 &, 4
is a specimen of what can be accomplish- edy.
*New Jersey, Nov. 3 and 4
3 and 4
MORTGAGE SALE.
facturing
Iron
and
Nails.
The
property
ed by "moral suasion."
2
Resolved, That slavery is a foul blot is situated in Lincoln county, N. Carolina Mississippi,
"
EFAULT having been made in the
2
o
payment of a cerCain sum of money,,
"
The following resolution was proposed upon our national institutions, and to con- and consists of between sixteen and sev- Michigau,
2
secured by indenture of mortgage,
"
2
by Arnold Buffum, and was carried after tinue the system is inevitable ruin to our enteen thousand acres of land, twenty Arkansas,
2
republicanism, jeopardizing the interests slaves—all m
9 executed by Barney Davanny to Jacob L.
9
an animated debate.
and six wagons anc *Massachusetts "
Larzelere and George B. Daniels, dated,
of our nominally freo nation, an insult to teams.
^Delaware,
('
10
10
Resolved, That we recommend the as humanity, and a burlesque for the subjects
July the 21st, A. D. 18S7, and recorded in
I refer for my character to W. F . Ham
the register's office in the county of Washsembling of a National Convention o of monarchial freedom, to accuse us of by
Those States marked" with a star tenaw, .Michigan, on the 23th day of AuDelegates; either at Pittsburg or Cleve- pocrisy in professing to be what we are not ilton and Arthur Bronson, of New York
and Thomas Fleming and Dr. W. Biand- choose members of Congress on the same gust, in the year of our Lord one thousand
land, the first 2nd, day in Gth mo. nexi, as a democratic government.
day that State officers are chosen.
eight hundred and thirty-seven, in liber five
ing, of Philadelpeia.
for the purpose of adopting a Declaration
Resolved, That the time has arrived
The electors meet at the capilols of the of mortgages at page two hundred and
Any person wishing to purchase, o
of Sentiments, in relation to the questions in the political history of our country in
eighty-Uiree, whereon is due at the date of
of national policy, which now divide the which the patriot, philanthropist, and any further information, may address mi respective States in which they are chosen this notice two hundred and eight dollars
on the 2d day of December, and giveir
at Lincointon, N. Carolina.
sentiments of the American people.
Christian should carry the principles of libtheir ballots for President and Vice Presi and forty four cents, which said mortgage
ROB. H . BURTON.
has been duly assigned to the subscriber.
Five delegates were appointed to attend erty and equal rights to the ballot box, and
dent.—Boston
Democrat.
Well may abolitionists complain of "ap
Notice 13 therefore hereby given that on
such convention, should it be approved by that we recognize in the independent lib- athy," when the Journal of Commerc
Thursday the third day of February next, at
erty party the elements of those principles, opens its columns, in New York, to adver
by the Liberty party in other States.
THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE one o'clock, p. M., at the Court House in tho
and that there is honesty, activity, and
village of Ann Arbor, in the county of Wash"SIGNAL OF L I B E R T Y . " ^
A marble statue of Washington has perseverence enough in the citizens of the tise the sale of "TWENTY SLAVES."—
will be sold at public auction the
It is a question of some moment to th
is well known to all the eubscri tenaw,
recently been brought from Italy, in a town of Pittpfield to (approximate,) nay country, and in which abolitionists are n
premises in 6aid mortgage described, bebers
of
the
"Signal,"
that
for
nearly
nin
ing all that certain piece or parcel of land
vessel called the Sea,and landed at Wash- cause those principles to predominate.
more personally cenccrned than ibe res
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
months, this paper has been regularly an situate in the county or Washtenaw, State
ington city. The same vessel has gone, meeting be signed by the Chairman anc of-heir fellow citizen?, whether '.his "apa
promptly issued. During that time, i of Michigan and bounded and described as
or is about to go, to New Orleans with a Secretary and request it to be published ii thy" can be overcome, or whether slave
follows: it being the west half ofthe southdebt of no inconsiderable amount has beei west
ry is to have its course.
quarter ot" section number seven, in
cargo of human beings in irons, who were the Signal of Liberty.
incurred in the mechanical department, township number one south of range numThe
meeting
then
adjourned
to
meet
a
Life
a
t
t
h
e
S
o
u
t
h
.
as well endowed by their Creator with
which must be met, and MET IMMEDIATELY. ber four east, containing eighty one and thir«
The following is the record of outrage Reader! the small pittance which will cancel ty one hundredth acres of land.
RIGHTS as General Washington, and ac- the school house near Charles Woodard'.s
the 15th inst., at one o'clock, P . M.
perpetrated in the city of Raleigh, and it
FRANCIS M'CONIN, Assignee
cording to the doctrine of'76 they were
Pittsfield, January 1st 1842.
immediate vicinity, within si few days.— your subscription for the present year, will
L. H. HEIVETT, Attorney.
born equal" wilh him, but unfortunately
F. M. LANSING.
Dated Nov. 1st 1841.
A stage robbed—a trunk cut from the car aid us very much. And we do earnestly hope
HORACE CARPENXER, Secretary.
they were black, and a very different
riage of Samuel Simpson, Esq.t—a wagnn that this APPEAL for HELP!!! will meet
TAILORING BUSINESS! ~
with the same prompt -response, that has
fate on that account has befallen them.
BRITISH DEMAND OV THE CHINESE.— er knocked down, almo-t assassinated
M.
NOBLE, would respectfully inThe New York American says that accor- Mr. Hughs, whilst passing through enpi- characterised this pnblication since its com• form the citizens of Aon Arbor and
T H E ELECTIONS.—In twelve States ding to a private letter from Macao, datec tol Square, with saddle-bags on his arm mencement. Who will be' the first to re- its vicinity,
that he has recently opened |a
there has been a falling off in the whig the 22d Aug. and which is deemed in the was felled to the earth by a blow on th spond? (E/^Deposit the amount of your shop in the Lower Town, immediately over
vote, in every State. Less whig votes in city of very good authority, the following head from a bludgeon, which almost de subscription with your Postmaster, and he the late mercantile 6tand of Lund fy Gibson,
prived him of life; and the last was an at
and opposite the shoe store of J. Beckley,
these States compared with the election are the conditions which Sir Henry Pottin tempt to fire the city. This is truly a dar will remit it to us free of expense.
&. Co., where he is prepared at all times to
ger,
under
his
instructions
from
his
govern
of last year, nearly 200,000. In five of
e who cannot make it convenient do work in his line, with promptness, and iu
ment, is to demand from the Chinese as the catalogue, bad enough for larger cities.
these States, the Democratic vote is larger basis of a treaty of peace between tho two A rencontre took place last week be to forward the money to pay for their paper, a neat nnd durable manner.
Particular attention will be paid to cutting
twern a young man, named McKissick before the first of February, can send the
than it was Ia3t year. In the twelve states powers:
garments. Produce will be taken at the
and
Pitt
Coleman,
Esq
,
in
Hernando,
Mis
amount
by
their
delegates
attending
the
tho falling off of Democratic votes, com1. The opening of all the Chinese ports
usual prices, for work done at his shop.—
sissippi, in which the latter was mortal! State Convention, which meets at Marshal Those who have cash to pay for services of
pared with last year, amounted to about situated on the eastern coast to all Europe- wounded and lias since died. Upon
on Wednesday, the second day of February this kind, are particular invited to call.
an na'.ions without exception, who will be
50,000.
Ann Arbor, October 6, 1841.
tf
permitted to trade freely, subject to a mod hearing hefore a magistrate, McKissic next,\vhere we shall be happy to meet them.
The following was written apparently erate duty on the entry and departure o was discharged upon the ground of sell*
N.BAH
those
indebted
for
the
Michigan
CLOTH DRESSING!
defenee.—Louisville Journal.
by a Quaker, in reference to his brethren their vessels.
Freeman, (and there are many,) are earnestHE subscribers respectfully announce to.
2.
The
abolition
of
the
monopoly
hither
The Ohio State penitentiary has pai ly requested to cancel their indebtedness
the citizens of Ann Arbor and vicinity
of that denomination, but it will apply very
to enjoined by the Hong merchants.
lhat they are prepared to dress a few hun
into the Treasury ihe present year $26, without further delay.
well to some leading on-the-fence-gen3. The appointment of an English a m - 700 besides defraying all expenses. Th
dred pieces of cloih in the best style, and
tlemen of other denominations among us: bassador to reside at the Court of Pekin.
on the shortest notice, Having &ood ma
number of convicts sent to it this year i
ORK AND WHEAT wanted by F . chinery,
experienced workmen, and lon<j
4. Indemnity to the English merchant? 121, being a decrease of 30 per cent from
"We are wearied and disgusted with the
DF.SISON, for which goods or money
practice in the business(they have the utmost
continual sophistical cant, this unnecessa- for the loss sustained by the destruction of previous years.
will be paid at fair rates.
Ann Arbor, Dec. 21, 1841.26-tf confidence that they shall give complete Bat
ry caution about working in our ownopium and the abolition of the trade.
isHiction to their customers. Send on your
strength and lime, for the promotion of the
"NO REPUDIATION."
Capt. T. W. Thompson, the well known
SEED AND HIDES— cloth without delay.
abolition of slavery. Men are naturally
TATE SCRIP will be taken at par fo -*- Cash will be paid at all times for TIMJ. BECKLEY, b Co.
cautious enough about doing good. Won- master-spirit of the Texas Navy, has been
Goods at the etoro of the subscriber, OTHY SEED, HIDES t?nd WHEAT, when deAnn Arbor, Dec. 1S4K
34tf
stabbed
at
Tobasco,
and
killed.
An
officer
der who3e time and strength those people
for a few days.
livered at my etore in Ann Arbor, (Upper
LANKS
of
every
description
neatlj
vork in, who do just nothing at all but find who was with Thompson,Jat the time, killed
3. JONES, St SOJYS. Town.)
F. DENISON.
executed
at
this
office.
fault with those who do work."
the assassin.
DiC.29,1841.
S6-tf
Ann Avbor, Jan 12, 1841
T
A
B
aa follows:
Maga- embroidery were given by him; the first col- ccommodated
Americau Ladies'
From the Emancipator.
Two copies of the Saturday Courier, one
ored plates of fashion were given by him;
z
i
n
e
.
Tyler-ising.
ear, and Godey's Lady's Book, one yesr;
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK, FOR 184a. the first music was given by him. These are ent
for
5,00
things to which he <vou!d not refer, if some
About live or six years ago, a Baptist
our Countrymen in Chains.
The most splendid and valuable Monthly of those who have essayed to follow in his Five copies of the Lady's Book 1 yr.10,00
minister of the north, a man of the highest Periodical
[BY JOHN O. WHITTIER.]
ever published. The only magntegrity and scrupulousness of conscience azine devoted to Ladies and conducted by footsteps, not content with imitating all his Five copies of the Saturday Courier, l yrv
Our fellow countrymen in chains!
nd Ludy's Book, 1 year.
10,00
pent a few days in Richmond, Virginia, members of their own sex. Composed en-, designs, even to the form of his book, the Jleveci copies of the Lady's Book 1 yr 20,00
SlaveB—in a land of light and law!—
size of his type, and the color of his cover,
here he was hospitably enteitained at the tirely of original articles, by the most emi- had not foolishly put forward claims to orig
Thirteen copies of the Lady's Book, 1 yr,
Slaves—crouching on the very plains
ouse of a Baptist lady, Among the ser- nent writers of the age; and embellished inality, and attempted to found a right to an nd Walter Scott's Novels, complete, or bit
Where rolled the storm of Freedoms war! ants who wuited, our friend'd attention with a larger number and a greater variety exclusive
merit on doing that which they miscellaneous works, whichever, iasy be
A groan from Eutaw's haunted wood—
30,00
as particularly drawn to one young man, of costly, "elegant and attractive pictorial il- have borrowed from his example. But what referred.
he has done heretofore in the way of embelIn all cases where money is remitted for
A wail where Camden's martyrs fell—
fvery genteel address and pleasant a p - lustrations, than any similar publication.
EDITED BY
lishments to his Book, though it far exceed- 'Clubbing," the most liberal allowances will
earanee, whose complexion was so very Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, Morton M'Michael,
By every shrine of patriot blood,
ed any effort of those who strovo to copy be made. The money, in all cases,, to be.
ight
as
to
make
it
difficult
to
believe
he
From Moul'.rio's wall and Jasper's well.
Mrs. L, H. Sigourney,L. A. Godey.
bis movements, cannot compare with what positively received before a number is sent.
>ore any African blood in his veins. Our
CONTRIBUTORS TO EACH NUMBER.
he now means to do. His arrangements for No letters will be taken from the Post Office
By storied hill and hallowed grot,
riend was so much interested in his a p - Miss. C. M. Sedgvvick, N . P . Willis,
this department of his work have been pro- unless the postage on them is paid. Unless;
By mosay wood and marshy glen,
earance, and so well pleased with his be- Miss E. Leslie,
Mrs.C. Lee Henez, jected on the most liberal scale of expendi- positive orders ure given at the lime of6UIK
Whence rang of old the rifle shot,
avior, that he sought an opportunity of Mrs. E. C. Embury, T. S. Arthur,
ture, involving an extent of outlay such as scribing, the work will be continued after
Mrs. E. F . Ellet.
onversing with htm in regard to the vvel" Theodore S. Fay,
And hurrying shout of Marion's men!—
has ne\er before been dreamed of in any pe- he first year, and if not paid durinc the
his
numerous
patrori9
Iu
announcing
to
are of his soul. During the interview,
riodical, European or American. As an evi- ear, the price will be increased to 4dollars.
The groan of breaking hearts is there—
and
the
public
at
large,
his
arrangements
dence of his intentions, he now states that
Address
L A. GODEY,
ome conversation took place, and which
The falling lash—the fetter's clank!
for
the
year
1842,
the
proprietor
of
Godey's
ach number or' the Lady's Book for the ensu101 Chesnut street, Philadelphia.
as been brought lo remetnbrauce by the
Slaves—SLAVES are breathing in that air
Lidy's Book, lakes occasion to acknowl- lg year, will contain at least three splendid
vents of the last six months.
edge the unparalleled and triumphant success ngravings; embracing in the series every THE FOLLOWING WORK,
Which old De Kalb and Sumpter drank!
Mi aster—Are you free, my friend?
of his Magazine, which has now reached ossible variety of subjects. Hislorial,LandUAS BEEN COMPILED FROM THE
What, ho!—our countrymen in chains!—
Servant—No, master, I belong to the the extraordinary number of forty thousand cape, Picturesque, Portraiture, Imaginative
LONDON
PICTORIAL BIBLE;
monthly; being a larger edition than has ev- nd Emblematical, and executed in every posThe whip on woman's shrinking flesh!
ady who keeps the house.
er
been
printed
of
any
other
work
of
any
WHICH
SELLS
IN
THIS COUNTRY 1"OK ($18
ible
variety
of
the
art;
mezzotint,
lino
and
Our soil yet reddening with the ctains,
JIT. Then you are a slave!
description in America. This succss he is nezzotiat, stipple, medalion, and that most
TO. S£5 PER copy.
Caught from her scourging, warm and
aware has been attained by the vast superi- ha6te and expressive manner, the line and Every man, woman and child in the VniS. Yes,Master, I am a slave.
orly which the Lady's Book has always ot combined, which has given snch worlcf
fresh]
ted Stales, who possess a Bible, will
M. Were you born in this house?
maintained over the contemporary magazines vide celebrity to the vvorka of modern artists,
What! mothers from their children riven!
surely furnish themselves wilh the
£. NO, master, I wa9 bought. My which have attempted to rival its merits, a
Splendidly colored plates of tho fashions:
folloioing beautiful series of
What! God's own image bought and sold}
tiistressi bought me of my old master, superiority which he is still determined to nil also bcgivon every month, containing
Scripture Illustrations.
American's to market driven,
preserve by keeping it, in all its departments t least four female figures, and embodying
Governor Tyler at Williamsburgh.
PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THR
literary, intellectual and moral, as well as n every instance the latest costumes, receiv
And bartered as the brute for gold!
BIBLE,
M- Were you born on Governor T y - pictorial, emblematic, artistic, and mechani- d directly from a correspondent at Paris.
AND VIEW OF THE
Speak!—shall their agony of prayer
er's plantation.
cal. That this is no idle boast, he appeals
H O L Y
L A N D .
In order to give the greatest attractiveness
to the experience of the past twelve years,
Come thrilling to our hearts in vain?
S. Yes, master, I was born there.
JYew, cheap and valuable publication.^
6 the subjects of his embellishments, the
in
all
which
time,
he
has
made
no
promise
To us—whose fathers scorned U> bear
M.—What is your name?
to the public which he has not strictly per- roprietor has given orders to various Ame Four hundiedpag'S, 8 vo. fine paper,handThe paltry menace of a chain;—
£.—My name is John, sir: my Mother formed, nor undertaken anything which his ican Painters, of established reputation,who somely bound. Price only TWO D0L>
LARS,
Tb.e subscriber respectfully in-,,
To us whose boast is loud and long
called me JOHN TYLER, becauso she said means did not enable him to accomplish to re now engaged in preparing expressly fo vites the attention of Clergymen, Teachers,
he Lady's Book,numerous original pictures
(he
utmost.
Entering,
as
he
is
about
to
do,
Of holy liberty and l i g h t Governor Tyler was my father. You
the 24th Volume of the Lady's Boole, in National and Historical events, some o of Sabbnth Schools, Heads of Families,and.
Say* shall these writhing slaves of Wrong know such things happen sometimes on on
with increased energy and accumulated re- vhich are nearly completed, and soon wil Booksellers thronghout \he United iStates,toplantations.
Plead vainly for their plundered Right?
sources ;with an ample knowledge of the bu> >e in the hands of the engraver. "Among th the above New, Cheap and splendidly lllustraied work. Published and for sale at No..
M.—Governor Tyler your father; and siness in which he is engaged, acquired by painters thus engaged ho may enumerate)
What! shall we send, with lavish breath,
long years of unremilted application: wilh a J G Chapman. Painter of the National Pic 122, Nassau street, New York city. ha.
did
he
sell
you?
Our sympathies across the wave,
features are better defined by the title:—
list unparalleled in the annals ure of the Baptism of Pocahonlas.
S.—Yes>,master; planters do it,you know subscription
J P Frankenstein,
Two hundred Pictorial Illustrations of the
of literature; with numerous facilities not P F Rothermel,
Where manhood on the field of deathhe same as others.
possessed by any other publisher; with well- 3 S Osgood,q/"I?os£.I Williams, &c.
SCRIPTURES, CONSISTING OF
Strikes for|bis freedom, or a grave?
M. Were there any other children of digested and wide^extended arguments; and
He has also established a correspondenc
Shall prayers go up—and hymns be sung
VIEWS IN T H E HOLY LANDp
your mother that were thought to be your above all, with a steadfast purpose of main- n London, through which he will receiv
For Greece, the Moslem fetters spurning master's children?
taining the lofty elevation his work has early proof impressions of the rim-st print Together with many of the most remarkable
reached,
the proprietor has not hesitated to executed in that metropolis, and will thus b objects mentioned in the old and new testaAnd millions hail with pen and tongue
S.— Yea, air, several.
incur expenses, which under other circurn constantly supplied with an immense var-iet ments, representing sacred historical events,
Our light on all her alters burning?
Af.—And what became of them?
copied from celebrated pictures, principally
stances might prove startling, but by means
S.—I reckon they are all sold before of which he will be enabled to make the La- from which to make suitable selections a by the old masters, the landscape scenes,
well as a series of pictorial illustrations
Shall Belgium feel, and gallant France
now.
dy's Book, the richest, the rarest, the most Shakespeare; two of which, Anna Poge an taken from original sketches made on the
By Vendome's pile and Schoenbrun's wall
Now, we would not express the slight- attractive, and the most valuable periodical Master Slender by Leslie, and Katliarin spot, with full and interesting letterpress
And Poland, gasping on her lance,
est belief that the man who is now the act- intrinsical and extrinsically, ever offeied to ind Pctruchio, by Cattermole, and are nov descriptions, devoted to an examination of
ing President of the United States ever the American publiclearly ready. Among tho subjects at pres the objects mentioned in the sacred text.
The impulse of our cheering call?
On examination this will be found a very
ent
in preparation for the Lady's Book, ma
had
children
by
his
slaves,
or
ever
sold
And shall the slave beneath our eye,
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.—It has ever be mentioned Morning Devotion and Eve pleasant and profitable book, especially, for
his own children; although, from what been
Clank o'er our fields his hateful chain?
the aim of the proprietor to impart to ning Devotion,—two superb pictures of do the perusal of YOUNS PEOPLE, abounding ia
is known of his pecuniary circumstances, the Lady's Book a high literary and moral
And toss his fettered arm on high,
rnestic piety; the Effects of Industry and th the most valuable inforrrmlion, collected with
and from the general practice among the tone, and for this purpose he hap, without Effects
of Idleness,—admirable illustration great care, from the best and latest sources*
And groan for freedom's gift, in vain?
slaveholders in lower Virginia, it is alto- regard to cost, procured the aid of the most of great moral truths; The'Old Soldier an It may, very properly, be designated a comgether probable he has supported his fam- eminent writers and, for several years past, his Family, a beautiful transcript of patriuti mon place book fur every thing valuable reOb say, shall Prussia's banner be
has committed its editorial supervision to
several of Sir David Wilkie's mos lating to oriental manners, customs, kc.and
ity by selling the increase of his slave Mrs. J. Hale, Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney,and feelings;
A refuge for the stricken slave:—
valued compositions. Departing for the Fa comprises within itself a complete library of
But
we
have
the
fullest
confidence,
slock.
Miss
E.
Leslie,
ladies
of
whom
not
only
And shall the Russian serf go free
the certainty, that such a conversation as their own sex, but the whole country, have and Returning from market,—charming spe religious and useful knowledge. A volume
By Baikal's lake and Neva's wave;—
we have described did take place iu Rich reason to be proud. In this respect, the cirnens of rural lifejThe Village Amanuensis like the present, is far superior to the comAnd shall the wintry-bosomed Dana
mond, and that the genteel, slender-built, Ludy's Book enjoys a decided advantage Fortune Telling; The Secret Discovered mon Annuals—it will never be oat of date.
It is beautifully printed in new long primer
Relax the iron hand of pride,
iight-complexioned, young slave did tell over ull other publications, as it ia the only The Maiden's Chamber, Tho Elopement o type—handsomely bound in Muslin, gilt and
Bianca
Capella,
2cc«
fcc;
and
Edwin
Land
Rev. Mr.
, a Baptist minister, that he work devoted to ladies, ladies derive an ad
And bid his bondmen cast the chain
seer's last and greatest production. Youth lettered; and is dfe:dedly,t!ie best and cheabelieved himself*to be the son of Gov. vantage which must be obvious to every ful Innocence, of which the only copy inth pest publication (for the price,) ever issued
From fettered soul and limb, aside?
Tyler. Whether the slave told the truth parent, husband, brother, and friend.as well country ia that which belongs to the propr from tho American Press.
to every lady who properly appreciates
or not, Governor Tyler knows: we do as
Shall every flap of England's flag
Clergymen, Superintendants and Teach,
the dignity and importance of her sex.— etor. Determined to gratify every possibl
not, and therefore tell the story, as U was To add to its superiority in this particular variety of taste, the proprietor has also mad era of sabbath [schools, agents of religious
Proclaim that all around is free,
told to us, for what it is worth.
the proprietor has secured in addition to the arrangements for a series of the most eu newspapers and penodicals,postmastersand
From "farthest Ind" to each blue crag
In
the
year
1837,
or
the
beginning
of
ladies
already mentioned, the invaluable ser- perb Mezzotints ever executed in thiscoun booksellers, throughout the country, are reThat beetles o'er the Western Sea?
1838, a colored man passed through vices of Miss C. M. Sedgewick, author of try, several of which are already engraved spectfully requested to act as our agents.
And shall we ecoii'at Europe's kings,
No letter will be taken from the office
will be given to his subscribers, as soo
Poughkeepsie, on his way to Canada, who Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, and
as a sufficient number of impressions can b unless post paid.
When Freedom's fire is dim with us,
&c.
&c.;
a
writer,
whoso
efforts
in
raising
called his name Charles- Tyler, and who
the intellectual standard of her sex, and taken to supply his immense edition. Be
And round our country's alter clings
seemed to have a good deal of knowledge vindicating
To Publishers of Papers throughout the
tho true rights of woman,not less sides tha services of H . S. SAX>D, of Ne<
The damning shade of slavery's curse?
of things at Washington. He told the than her richly-gifted intellect and varied York, who has now in hand a number < United Slates.—Newspapers or Magazines,
friend who gave him food and clothing for information, have gained her a reputation as plates, the proprietor has secured tho serv copying the above entire without any alterGo—let us ask of Constantino
his journey, that his master had been in wide as it will bo enduring. He has also ce3 of Mr. HUMPHREY'S of London: vvh ation or abridgement (including this notice,)
To loose his grasp on Poland's throatCongress, and that he was his body ser- made arrangements, by which, besides reg- is universally conceded to stand in the fore and giving it YZ inside insertions, shall remost rank of English Engravers, and whos ceive a copy of the work, (subject to their
And beg the lord of Mahmound's lino
vant. Some months afterwards another ular contributions from
splendid efforts in mezzotint have command order,) by sending directions to the PubTo spare the struggling Suliote.
man passed by the same route, who called Mrs F C Embury,
Mrs H B Stowe,
£9-12\v
ed the admiration of tho most distinguish^ lisher.
Will not the scorching answer come
himself Gideon, and said his matter was a A/rs F S O3good,
Mrs. S. Smith,
amateurs and critics. This eminent artist i
U ^ T h e above work may be had at the
Mr. Leigh, of Virginia, who had been in Mrs M H Parsons,
Mrs. J. Thayer,
now engaged in preparing expressly for th Book store of Dea. Chas. Mosely, one door
From turbaned Turk, and fiery Russ—
Mrs. C- L.lHentz Lady's Book, a number of mezzotint pic west of the Lafayette House, Ann Arbor.
Congress. Gideon said his wife had been Mr3 A M F Annan,
"Go loose your fettered Blaves at home,
Mrs. E. C. Sedman tures, which tho proprietor pledges himse
sold away by his master, and, as he un- Jtfra E Fa Ellet,
A liberal discount made to wholesale purThen turn and ask the like of us!"
Mrs. M- Duncan,
wi.l be of an unsurpassed excellence; and c chasers.
derstood, was sent to New Orleans. He Mrs. Dupuy.
the most interesting and attractive snbjects
Mrs M St Loud,
Persons in the country, wishing to act
also said he knew Charles Tyler, and iWrs V. E . Howard,
Just God! and shall we calmly rest,
Mrs C H W Esling To guard against ull possibility of difficult as agents, may obtain all the necessary in->
•Miss E, Allen
The Christian's scorn ;the heathen's mirth that he had belonged to Gov. Tyler, and Mrs S E Parley,
Miss M, B. SHOW hereafter, he has likewise ordered fior formation, by addressing their letters to tin
that Gov. Tyler thought so much of him Miss E. Leslie,
England, a complete mezzotint establish subscriber, No. 122, Nassau street, N. Y. .
Kate Franklin,
Content to live the lingering jest
that he would rather have lost every one
He will be enabled to furnish articles ment, and immediately on its arrival, M
ROBERT SEARS, Publisher.
And by*word of a mocking earth?
of his other slaves, than that Charles from
William E. Tucker, of this city, will com
Shall our own glorious land retain
mence operations, in that department of arl
should leave him. Charles Tyler r e - Maria Edgworth,
Mrs. S. C. Hall,
B l a n k s ! Blanks«.: B l a n k s ! ! !
In order to procure these various embel
That curse which Europe scorns to bear mained in Canada, gaining the good will of Mary R. Milford,
Mrs Holland,
i
T
U S T PRINTED, on fine paper and
lishments in season, the proprietor has mad
Afary Howitt,
Shall our own brethren drag the chain
all, until Lord Durham, then Governor Mrs C BWilson,3
Q§? in a superior style, a large assort
permanent
arrangements
with
the
followin
and
other
English
lady-writers
of
distincWhich not even Russia's menials wear? General, returned to England, when he
eminent engravers, all of whom are no ment of blank summons, subpoenas, Execu*
took Charles wilh him, as his waiter, or in tion, eotne of whom have already published engaged in executing steel plates for th tions, &c.—For sale at this office.
Up, then, in Freedom's manly part,
some other confidential capacity; and it is in the Lady's Book the only original conAnn Arbor, Nov. 17, 1841.
supposed he is still in England, perhaps in tributions they have ever made to Ameri- Lady's Book.
From gray-beard eld to fiery youth,
can literature. Nor has he omitted to proWood! Wood! Wood!
Philadelphia.
New York.
the service of the Durham family. Per- cure the assistance of eminent writers o
And on the nation's naked heart
W E Tucker,
A
L
Dick,
ANTED
IMMEDIATELY, a few
haps
Gov.
Tyler
might
do
well
to
instruct
Scatter the living coals of Truth.
both sex. Aware of the universal and wel N Gimberede,
J B N eagle,
cords of good hickory wood in ex*
his worlhy ambassador extraordinury und deserved populaiity of N. P* WILLIS, Esq.
Up—while ye slumber, deeper yet
J B Forrest,
W H Jackmun,
change for the "SIGNAL OF LIBERTY."
minister plenipotentiary, EDWARD EVER- and confident that tho productions of hi
W H Ellis,
J G Dunnel,
The shadow of our fame is growing—
Ann Arbor, Dec. 22,1841.
ETT, to make a peremptory demand tor graceful and elegant pen will be highly acA Jones,
E Humphreys.
Up—while ye pause, our sun may set
the surrender of his property, thus wrong- ceptable to the readers of the Lady's Book,
TRANSMISSION BY MAIL.—One advantage
In blood around our alters flowing!
AGENTS FOR THE SIGNAL.
fully withheld by the humbug of British the proprietor has entered into an arrange- the subscribers of this work will have, will
ment,
by
which
he
will
be
able
to
give
in
A. McFarrand, Detroit.
law.
be
its
early
reception.
It
will
be
received
Oh rouse ye—ere the storm comes forth—
each number of his work an exclusive^arlicle
H. H. Griffin, Ypsilanti.
We will finish off, by giving an extract from the gentleman; and he has also retain- at the remotest cities of the Union, by the
Samuel Dutton, Pitlsfield.
The gathered wrath of God and man—
of a letter written by the above mention- all of the contributors whose writings have first day of the month of publication.
Thomas McGee, Concord.
CLUBBING.—Lady's Book, 1 year, and
Like that which wasted Egypts earth,
ed Gideon Lee, to his friend, Mr. Samuel heretofore given such ample satisfaction in- People's Library, 1 year,
J. S. Fitch, Marshall.
$5,00
When hail and fire above it ran.
E. Child, Eaton.
Thompson, of Poughkeepsie, dated Feb. eluding
Epes Sargent,
Lady's Book and Young People's Book, 5,00
VV. W. Crane, Laton Rapids.
Hear ye no warnings in the air?
22, 1839. It should be remarked that, six W. G. Simms, Esq. Geo. P . Morris,
Do
Amateur's Musical Library,
R. H. Ring, Rives.
Feel ; e no earthquake underneath?
months before the writing of this letter, Professor lngraham, Jos. R. Chandler,
(containing
200
pages
of
new
and
beauR. B. Rexford, Napoleon. •
Professor Dimitry, Robert Morris,
Gideon could not read or write.
tiful music.)
5,00
Up—up—why will ye slumber where
Finy Earle, M. D.
L. H. Jones, Grass Lake.
Professor Frost,
Do
Scott's
Novels
and
People's
"Sir,
the
petition
is
written
in
my
heart,
The Sleeper only wakes in death?
Rev. Sam'l. Bebcns, Plymouth.
Professor Walter, N. C. Brooks, A. M. Library, 1 year.
10,00
and I can go to the jud»e of quick und Park Benjamin, Esq. E. Halden,
Joseph H. Pebbles, Salem.
Do
Scott's
miscellaneous
works
Up now for Freedom!—not in strife
dead, and on my knees present it; and ere R.
A.
r> S.
ci »
»_.,
;„
A M'Makin,
1WPIM«I,;
Nathan Power, Fannington.
Mackenzie,
and
People's
Library,
1
year.
10,00
long it will receive reference—to an earth- T. S. Author, Esq. L. P . Tasistro,
Joseph Morrison, Pontiac.
Like that your sterner fathers saw;
Do
All
Scot'ts
Works,
comRufus Dawes,
James Noyes, Pavilion.
ly committee? no, no—but to Wilberforce H. W. Herbert,
The awful waste of human life—
plete in 10 vols. and People's Library, 15,00
E. G. Squier,
N. M. Thomas, Schoolcraft,
Jos.
C.
Neal,
and
others,
glorified
spirits
on
high.
Will
Do
Thier's
History
of
the
Fr.
The glory and the guilt of war:
Hon.R. T . Conrad, J. M'Lellan, Jr.
W. Smith, Spring Arbor.
you,
one
and
all,
sign
a
petition
with
me
Revolution.
10,00
But break the chain—the yoke remove
U. Adams, Rochester.
to the throne of grace, for the deliverance Dr. J. K . Mitchell, Jas. Aldnch.
Do
Pictorial
Library,
1
year,
and
With such aid, it is not too much to say,
And smite to earth oppression's rod,
R. L. Hall, Tecumseh.
10,00
from cruel oppression of my poor futher that the Literary Department of the Lady's People's Library, 1 year.
L. Noble, Pinckney.
With thoBe mild arms of Truth and Love,
Do
and Young People's Book, 10,00
and mother, sisters and brothers, for they Book will surpass any thing that has ever
Dr. V. Meeker, Lsslie.
Lord Bacon'-* works; Tlners History
Made mighty through the living God!
are very near my heart. Give my love been or can be attempted.
Clark Parsons, Manchester.
of
tho
French
Revolution,
and
Waverto every abolitionist you see, and tell them ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT.—It is a source
Elias Vedder, Jackson.
20,00
Prone let the shrine of Moloch sink,
ley's
Novels,
in
5
vola.
their cause is God'g cause, and the cause of no little pride to the Proprietor of the
M. Aldin, Adrian.
Do Thiers Revolution and Scotts
And leave no traces where it stood
Josiuh Sabine, Sharon.
of humanity—in restoring to man his free- Lady's Book, that he first introduced into Works,
25,00
complete
in
10
vols.
Nor longer let its idol drink
M. Lang, Nonhfield, Wash. Co.
dom given him by a power older than the this country the plan of furnishing, along
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.—The price of
I. Pennington, Macon, Len. Co.
His daily cup of human blood!
laws which enslaved him, older than the with a monthly periodical of elegant litera- this publication is three dollars per annum—
Janus Bnllard, Grand Rapids.
country which gave him birth, older than ture, embellishments of an attractive and two copies, one year, in advance,/7i;e dollars.
But rear another alter there,
costly charncler. The first 6teel engravings
R. B. Bement, Litchfield, Hillsdale Go.
Those
of
our
friends
"wanting
to
subscribe
the
primeval
days
of
time,
and
which
shall
To truth and love and mercy given,
accompanying such a work were given by to the best Two Dollar Weekly Family
Henry Brownson, Franklin, Oakland CoAnd Freedom's gift, and Freedom's prayer endure when this world is on fire, and time him; the first mezzotint engraving was given Newspaper, published in this city, can be S. B. Thayer, Climax, Kal* Co.
shall be no more—by God himself."
by him; the first patterns of lace-work and
Shall call an answer down from Heaven!
POETRY
W