Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-09-18

test against negro slavery, by abolishing
lit within the limits of their several
states; and that a majority also of the
members of this union are s.free states;"
that there is no power in the general
government over this subject-and that,
If there was, there are peculiar difficult
ties that would attend its execution, not
to be settled by mere appropriations of
money, as contemplated in England with
respect to her West India colonies. To
estimate these difficulties, Mr.. O'Connell
should have imagined the existence of
three millions of black slaves n, Great
Britain and Ireland--and then have told
us what he would do with them.
We repeat what we have ohentimes
said, that it is ''unblushing impudence in
EngIishmen to abuse us because of our
slaves; for it was England herself that
blackened our land with the descend
ants Of the African race; whose prede-
cessors were bought, or stolen, in the way
of a lawful trade, and sent hither against
the remonstrances of our colonial legis-
l'tluICo q liullulCu Cdlo dSOs
The following paragraph was contain
ed in the original draft of the declara-
ton of independence of July 4, I776,
and shews the feeling which prevailed
at that time-though for reasons which
might be easily suggested, perhaps, the
paragraph was not Incorporated into the
''great paper"
He has waged cruel war against hui
man nature itself, violating its most sa-
cred rights of life and liberty in the per-
sons of distant people, who never Of
Tended him, captivating and carrying
them into slavery in another hemisphere,
or to incur miserable death in their
transportation thither This piratical
warfare, the opprohrium of infdel pow
ers, is the warfare of the Christian King
of Great Britain. Determined to keep
open a market where MEN should be
bought and sold, he has prostituted his
negative for suppressing every legisla-
tive attempt to prohibit or to restrain
this execrable commerce.: and that this
assemblage of horrors might want no
fact of distinguished dye, he is now ex-
citing those very people to rise in arms
among us, and to purchase that liberty
of which he has deprived them, by muir
dering the people upon whom he also
obtruded them; thus paying off former
crimes committed against the liberties
of one people, with crimes which he ur-
ges them to commit against the lives of
another"
The Girard Estate.-The sPennsyIva-
mia Register of the 25th ult. has very
interesting account of certain proceed
ings with respect to the opening of an
avenue on the Delaware front of the ci-
ty of Philadelphia, according to the will
of the late Stephen Girard-which, if
accomplished, will, indeed, be magni-
ficent Improvement.
We have also a statement showing
the cost of the real estate of Mr.. Girard,
as purchased by him between the years
1855 and 1882, the aggregate of which
lis Sl,74l 1874 46, and the personal pro-
perty which has passed thro' the hands
of the executors, up to this date, amounts
to $4.577,33O O2-together S6,3l9,l64
4S. The present value of the real estate
is not estimated-but it must greatly ex-
coed the amount of cost as above given.
The rent bill of the city property be-
longing to the Girard legacy, is stated
in the U. S. Gazette to be about seventy
thousand dollars per annum; and of the
second quarter for the present year,
there is due only one hundred and thirty
nine dollars and ninety-seuen cents, and
this by .fDe tenants; seventy-fve ofwhich
will be Immediately paid.
Niles Register.
ANEcDoTE OF LORD CLIvE.--When Give
was a young man, friend called on him one
day, and found him sitting with books and a
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