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to make common cause with Georgia 10
any question, which might arise as to
the validity of this treaty? He knew
how sensitive they were to any in,erfe-
renee with that species of property by
the national government, and that with
excited fears and iniamed passions, they
might BE- induced to assent to conclu-
sicns, which, in their more deliberate
moments, they would condemn and we
fear that this topic was introduced ia
gain supporters to this system of oppres.
sion against the red men, from all who
might deem one code oil morals applica-
BILE to questions between the whites, and
another to those between men of differ
ent complications. II is impossible that
this appeal should produce such an eff
feet. On the subject of slavery, il is
true, our views are diiferen, from those
Of our southern brethren. We have de.
| clared the emancipation or freedom OF
the negro, SO far as our state laws could
reach. They have adhered to an oppo-
site system They have no desire to
force their system upon US. We do NOT
imagine that the national government is
authorized to interfere with that subject
| in the several states, except in case of
| actual or impending rebellion. Other
opinions are indeed imputed to the citi-
zens of this quarter, whenever it is De-
| cessary TO rally the southern states un-
der one political banner; but the mass
| of the people of the north, while they
condemn slavery, and ardently desire its
extinction, still feel the difficulty under
which those states, possessing that spe-
cies of properly, labor; and know, that
it won no, be prudent or philan,hropic
to apply sudden remedy to an evil re-
curing years to cure. They wish to
participate, neither in the moral respon-
| sbility, nor Legislative care of this deli
cate business. They prefer that tho
evil should be left to the discretion of the
state legislatures. Stll, as citizens of
one country, feeling the seryie system
to be common weakness, they are qvii-
ling that the expense OF its extinction
should be common sacrifice; and while
it continues to exist, it cannot be doubted,
that Whenever the subject shall be corr
stitutionally before the national legisa-
ture,their votes and voices will be always
coDsonant with the principles of that de-
C ara!ion, which irst gave birth to the
republic.
This difference of opinion however,
ough, not, shd it is to be trusted, will
not opera'e to the injury OF tho Greeks
in question Of an entire,, different ma.
,ure. Strange, indeed, must be the in-
fstuaton, and invincible the prejudice,
which could bind men together in par
ty, whose hYetert is to perpetuate and
strengthen the system of slavery, and
whose object is the determination of an
Indian nation, under color of a treaty pro.
cured by deception and fraud, sanctioned
with premature haste, and which must
be executed by force 10 violation of the
plghted faith oil the national government.
Portrait of BoiiUar.--Given in let
ter from an American gentleman of in.
,elligeacs and judgment, in Lima, dat
ed 10Th March, 1925, and published in
the Boatsn Daily .4duertiser.
GENERAL BOLIVAR,
Or as he is always called the Liberia
tor, is 10, about ieer r, aud sIena~o in
his person, and, as the hero OF the
Equator" which the Americans call him,
might be supposed to be, rather dark in
bis complexion. His countenance al
ways of serious cast, yet notwi,hs,and.
ing the moustacho on his upper lip, not
ferocioos as many represent him-his
eyes dark halle, are expressing and Pc
netrating. In early lite he travelled
through Europe for his p!easure-he
reads English, but does not speak more
than few words. French he speaks
luently, though not cuirectly. Apollo
gizlng one day for my imperfect knowI-
edge Of French and Spanish, he said,
+" 0 no matter, neUer regret it-your
own tine idiom is the only one north
steaking-aHt that is li6erat-aN that is
noble is TO be found in that. 1t is the lam
yuage orAberty." He talks great deal
and with apparent frsnkness, and without
premedita,on file seems fond of So
cial life, and never balks a party by
going away prematurely. On two oc-
casons have been with him in large
psr,ies-one at ball and supper, where
he s,aid from eight in the evening until
five in the morniog, taking The whole
time, at supper gave tossts and made
speeches, and after supper danced
waltz with a handsome girl. AT break.
fas, on Washineton's birth day, the day
he selected for his visit to the frigate
United States, which lasted from eleven