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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08
So netting about Mr.. Webster.

Mr.. Webster looked well. He was
full dressed. No man knows better than
he to pay proper respect to the assembly
he appears before. He compared adj
vantageously in this respect with the
appearance of his young opponent, who,
both yesterday and to-day, presented
himself in an undreSs froack-coat. If
the Judges take the trouble to put on
their gowns, see not why those who
appear in their presence, should not ex
hiblt a corresponding care in their dress.
Mr.. Webster had put on his most be-
coming dress. lie Wore a blue coat,
buff vest with brass buttons. This was
the old Fox colors in England over fifty
years since. The followers of Charles
James Fox Wore them to distinguish
themselves from the Pittites.
Mr.. Webster has given this dress an
almost equal reputation in this country.
He wore It, have understood, on the
ever memorable day ofthereply to Hayne
He also wore it when, in 1888, he re-
pulsed in the Senate, the premedltated
attack Of Calhoun and again, Gin angry
parle," he slnote Ingersoll and his coad-
tutor Dickinson.
1t will have a historical importance
like the dress that Caesar wore on his as
saSsination by the Senatorial conSpirators, Of
which Antony says, as reported by WILL
liam Shakespeare.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

THIRTEEN YEARS WORK FOR A BIBLE
In the 1879, the wages of laboring man
were less than four cents day, while the
price of bible at tho same period was $50.
4 common laborer in those days must toll
on industrlously for thirteen long years, if
he would possess a copy of the word of God!
Now the earnings of halfa day will pay the
cost of beautiful printed copy OF the ia
cred oraces! What contrast! VIVA: an
Illustration of The power Of the press!
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

ErrEcTs OF Nor ADvERTISING.-Th
Pittsburg Day Book, tells Of a firm in
that city, who, after settling up their &C
counts for the past year, found that their
loss amounted to over ten thousand dol
lars and they were forced to close. Their
business was conducted on the strictest
principles Of economy, but the secret of
their ruin is soon told-they never ad-
vertlscd i'll the newspapers!
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

SENATOR LEwIs's SENTIMENTS "A letter
from Montgomery says the Mobile Regis
.erd. TO friend ofours in this city, speak
ing of the Senatorial election says:
"You need have no fear of Lewiss sup
port of the administration, He outpolked
Polk in his polkery. His only objection to
the territory indemnity Is, that Polk has not
asked enough"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

THE CANAL.-The Hagerstown News
is out in favor of Gov. Pratt as President
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The
News says;-''Wih him at its head, this
company would command whatever
funds 1t desired, capitalists would not
fear to venture; the canal would be
speedily completed, large business
would soon be done through it, and 1t
would in short time yield revenue to
the State and somewhat relieve us of tax
aton."
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

UNPARALLELED. On Christmas day
there was no ice in the North river at
Poughkeepsie, a fact which has no pre-
cedent in the memory of the coolest in
habitant." But few years since, heavy
laden teams We're driven across on the
ice about Christmas time, at that point Of
the river.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

G'EARD CoLLEcE.-The imposing and
interes TIM. ceremonies of the opening and
dedication of Girard College, took place in
that institution on Saturday last-an event
long looked for and anxiously desired.
Notwithstanding the unpleasanlness of the
day, the large hall was densely crowded,
and many hundreds We're unable to obtain
standing room. Various official persous
were present; and of course the President
elect--the Hon Joel Jones' and the mat
ron, who occupied seats on the right of
the President Of the board. An eloquent
address was delivered by Joseph r. Chand-
Ter, Esq, and through himthe executive duty
of the Institution committed to the hands
of those who had been selected to receive
and perform it. The Hon. Joel Jones re-
piled in an appropriate manner indicating
i'll his remarks high sense of the respon-
sibilty TO which he has been called; and
thus the interesting occasion was closed.
Bait. Sun.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

NOMINATIONS CoNFIRMED.--The Senate
has confirmed the nomination of the
Hon. j. w. Davis, late Speaker of the
House, as Commissioner to China, to take
the place vacated by the death of the
Hon. Alex. H. Everett also that of Col.
Rowan to Naples, to take the place of
Col. Polk also of DR.. Niles to Sardinia.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

The first African Church, Baptist at
Richmond, Virginia, is the largest body
of COMMITMENTS in conneXion with a
single congregation, in the Union, being
two thousand four hundred and seventy.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

MEXICAN CALCULATIONS The Ra2Onddor
a Mexican print, estimates our loss during
the campaign which embraced tie different
affairs at Contreras, San Ceramic, Churu>
busco, Moimo del Rey, Chapultepec and
the Garitas with the casualties in the cap
ital: at 2699, killed, wounded and missing
A printer, whose industry was not the
most prominent virtue he possessed
turned physician. He was asked the rea-
son. "In PRINTING!" answered he, call
the faults are exposed to the eye, but in
physic they are buried with the patient"
The largest cheese ever made in Amer
Jca was manufactured lately at the dairy
Ole. Toilet, Esq, out of courtesy to the
cheese of Licking county, Ohio. The
milk of 100 cows for four days constitut-
ed the staple, and it weighed 1000 lbs.
STILL ALIvE.-The man who cut the
first tree in the wilds ofOhio is still alive
at the advanced age of Sc. His name is
Cushwell, and he resides in Oneida coun
ty, n Y.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

The BosroN Posi- says the following
lines are great. OF course they are from
the inimitable pen Of Randall, and
of course will bear repetition:
'Tl,o stced called lightning (says the Fates,)
Is owned in the United States.
IT was Franklin's hand that caught the horse
II was harnessed by Professor Morse"
Simple justice requires that the strain
should be finished, for catching and har-
Messing horse is only part ofthe work.
So here goes;
With Kendal's rein the stecd went shly,
Till tanned and broke by II. o. Reilly.
North american.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08

ELEVATION OF LAND IN THE AzoREs.-
A correspondent gives us the following
curious piece of geological information
from the Azores.-N american.
There has lately been discovered evil
dence of considerable elevation having
taken place at the East end of the island
Of st. Michaels. The old sea
beach marked by unmstakeable
sea boulders is visible about three hun
dred yards within the present line of coast
and at the height of from three to four
hundred feet above the sea level. The
line runs round to the East end of
the island from near Achada to near Fay
al de Terra.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-01-08
LETTER FROM MIR. CLAY.-Ex-

LETTER FROM MR.. CLAY.-Ex-
tract from letter of the Hon. Henry
Clay, Of the 9th instant, to his friend IN
Virginia, which he presumes to publish,
unauthorized though it be by the distin-
tguishcd author:-1ler Ga=.
81 have this moment perused an able
pamphlet from the pen of Mr.. Gallatin,
in which, without any concert between
us, find that he takes similar positions
10 those which had previously occupied
He fortifies them by a striking array of
facts and powerful arguments.
81 am not surprised at the imputation
ofunworthy motives to me for the deliv-
cry of the speech. That has been so
long my fortune, that should have been
surprised if it had not been made. Will
they charge Mr.. Gallatin, in the publ
cation of his pamphlet, with being actu-
ated by the desire to attain the Presiden-
cy! There is as much ground in the one
case as the other"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
What do YOU AbOliIiOniStS Want ?

MethlnEs | hear one Of our modern Conser-
p%atireS, who is holding his breath for fear Of
excitement, and locking with cold indlifer-
ence on the struggle which is going on In this
country between freedom and s~lavery-me-
thinks | hear him whispering in my car,
What do you aholitionisIs want, that you
are so furiously agilating the community,
thereby destroying the peace Of society, di-
viding churches, unsettllng pastors, and turn
ing the world upside downl What would
you have us do %
What DO we want7 ! will tell you. We
want you to aid us in raising to the condition
Of men, millions Of your equal brethren, who
are now regarded as marketable commodities.
We want you 10 aid in the erection OF a plat
form Of rights and privileges, on which the
whole human family can stand free and un-
nolested. We want you 10 leave the human
mind in the free exercise Of oil those powers
and faculties which God has given il, to in
crease its enjoyment and usefulness in this
world, and prepare 1t for never-ending felicity
in that which is to come. The slave lies
bleeding at your feet-crushed to the earth
by this " freest nation under heaven" We
ask you to work for his liberation. We want
you 10 aid in abolishing that system Of worse
than RindoO rosie, which prevails so extern
sively in our midst, and compels one portion
Of our citizens 10 toll on through an unending
series of degradation and Indebtedness, with
scarcely a prospect Of escape from that stern
despotism which grinds him 10 the dust
What DO we wantl do you ask, Mr.. Conser-
~vativel We want what Diogenes wanted OF
Alexander. We want you to get out of our
sunshine. We wan; you no longer to keep
our brother yonder in tho midnight darkness
in which he and his ancestors have been en-
velopsd for centuries, through the svarlce and
cruelty Of the white man. We want YOU Mt
Longer 10 throw your sympathies and yoHrin
gluence into tho scale OF slavery, and stnv,
by all the means in your power to arrest I'll,
progress Of the car OF emancipation as it roll
onward to its heavenly goal. We want yo'
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
II is So.

We remarked some months ago, that the
following sentiment of Senator Underwood,
was a good text for any one TO hang a dis
cussion upon:
"Communities that have no slaves sur
pass those which have, in almost everything
which renders life comfortable"
Kentucky, in point Of civilization, and all
those comforts which contribute to the hap
piness of life, is far in advance of the South.
ern States. But it is painful to see how de-
pendent she is upon the Free, for almost eve
rything.
Where does she obtain the educators finer
youth! Go into her common schools, and
the teachers, male and female, are mostly
from the North. Go into the academies scat
tered through the State, and the desks are &C.
cupied, chiefly, by New England men and
women. Shall it be said that there is a dearth
of talent in Kentuckyl This will not be pre-
tended. We have mind enough in the Stale;
heads and hearts as capable as may be found
any where; but owing to the want Of early
training-owing to the fatal neglect which
slavery alone occasions-we cannot furnish
instructors for our " children.
Again.
Where does Kentucky obtain the chief
part Of her manufactures, whether relating 10
the household or to the heldi They nearly
all bear the mark Of free State. We have
material at command 10 make everything that
we want. We have water power to put any
amount Of machinery in motion. But with
our mountains filled with iron and coal, and
with streams traversing every part of the
State, and our woods studded with the best
of timber, we do, comparatively little towards
working them up by our own labor and our
own capital. Enter the paTlor of the slave.
holder. The chairs and sofas around YOU,
and most OF the garniture Of the room are the
result Of free labor. Go from thence to the
G d-chamber. The richly carved wash.stand,
the bed, and the bureau, are frequently Of
northern make. Descend into the kitchen.
The stove and the cooking utensils have as
often upon them the name Of Cincinnati, al
any of our own cities. Leave the house fol
the workshop and the field. The nipple,
ments of industry are the products Of free la,
bor. Our own iron and timber, as far as they
are disturbed, are dug out Of, or cut from, ouI
hills and mountains, and frequently taken Il
Pennsylvania, or Ohio, and there worked VI
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19

to clo,he Yourself in the panoply Of truth, and
engage with uniiring zeal, and unshrlnkinH
foftitude, in the cause Of oppressed humanity,
and let neither friendship nor 0ps, nor selfish
fear, nor calculating eGpedieney drive you
from the contest, until no slave shall be found
on the broad ~footslool Of the Almighty.
We ask you to array yourselves on the s'de
Of universal liberty, and thus ald In SAVING
this nation from that vortex OF ruin into wn'eh
in consequence Of her multiplied expressions,
she is madly plugging. Our land Is h'so
with professions offreedora, repUbheanifn'' de-
nocracy and equal rights. They are heard
on every breeze, are in the mouth oil all Inc
robbers Of Gods poor, from Maine TO Geor-
gia. But il is a democracy OF money. It's
a republiranisn which. wastes all its energies
and eXhausls all It's sympathies on a question
OF dollars and cents. The inherent, vital ptin-
ciples Of humanity, enter but little into the
composition of tue republicanism Of the pre-
sent day. Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun,
md most Of the other great statesmen can
spend all the energies OF their mighty minds
to portray the evils OF the benefits OF a SUBJ
Treasury or a National Bank. Blu, on The
question whether two aud q half millions Of
Immortal beings shall be reduced TO the level
Of bru,ee, by a sysIem which may surely be
regarded as the fruitful parent OF all abom,-
nations, they are either found the open and
unblushing advocates Of this system, or OF a
most SICILY and temporising erpediency, which
would wink out Of sight, great and paramount
principles of truth and justice, TO advance
the interests Of a party. To all This the church
responds amsn : and the people love 10 have
it So"
In view Of this alarming fact, this dreadful
state of things, We call upon yoI who are so
anxious to keep in the quiet"-who have
such a holy horror Of all excitement, 10 Join
hands with us in our warfare against oppres-
sion-to stay this sweeping tide OF corruption
as it rolls over the land-to libera,c the slave
from his chains, and save our nation from the
destruction which hovers over her. This 10
" what we want Of IOu. We demand 1t in
the name Of the outraged millions now groan-
ing in the great Southern prison house. Shall
we have it, VIII you net speak and set In
their behalf as God shall give you strength
Jay, speak-whiie there is nms,
For oil u freCman's claim
Ere thought becomes a crime,
And Freedom but a name!
While yet the Tongue and Pen
And Press are unforbid,
And we dare feel and act as meD--
Spcak-as our fathers did :"
" n. H. W.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
The Mexican War.

1t is evident that this great Mexican war
has fixed out" There is no more glory
to be won or claimed in it. A new victory,
equal to Buena Vista, Sacramento, or Cerro
Gordo, might be obtained every week with.
out creating the least excitement here or in
Mexico. The miserable, helpless inferlority
Of the Mexicans has long been SO complete.
ly established that the recommencement OF
the work of slaughtering them would cause
about as much satisfaction in this county as
the announcement that the army of the Uni
ted States was massacreing a legion Of mon.
keys. The Mexicans have found their true
policy at last-which is TO lie PROSTATE and
unresisting, though still unyielding, like a
mud-:urtle with head and paws under cover
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
From he Chronotrps.


The D,AnoLlsa AT WAsniNuroN.-The
Washington correspondent OF the Boston
Wing has the following additional fact
How many such facts will it take 10 wake
up the men in this country,-if there are
~ have learned something more Of the his
tory of some of those poor slaves who start
ed from this city, IN the keeping Of Slater.
the slavedealer, for the Southern market last
week. There were among the number, three
sisters, who were members OF the African
Methodist Church. They are beautifully
formed, handsome, and nearly as white az
their master. Their brother is the coachman
of Secretary Walker, and when he learned
the horrid fact that Slater had purchased
them and was designing to take them South,
he made efforts to purchase them hlmself.-
He had laid aside from his hard earnings,
money nearly sufficient to purchase his wi
liberty, and this, with what benevolent per-
sons gave him, he offered for his sisters, and
offered also TO secure the balance, but his ef-
| forts were vain. The inhuman monster, On
account of their rare beauty, set II heavy price
upon them, and demanded cash down. A
young Southern libertine, before they started
offered $1,000 for one Of them, but Slater de-
| manded more. He was aware that mon OF
this character would pay almost any price for
them, and hence his spurning the offers and
pledges of the brother"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
From the Cortland True american.
Sons of Temperance and COlOr2d Men.

Our old friend G. w. Samson, wrote a let.
ter to us some time age, in which he COM
planned of wha, we had said concerning Dan
lei Cady, who was sent here as a Especial
Deputy by DR.. Kennedy, Of New York,
Ia professed abolitionist) to eXpel s. K. Ward
from the Cortland Division, No. 2l3, Sons
Of Temperance. Many friends have written
us from various portions Of the State, TO know
whether indeed he were expelled from said
Division, on account OF his complexion
The facts have frequently been stated, but II
is NOW to lay before our readers one or two
extracts, from official documents, on the sub
lect. We publish them for the double pur-
pose of justifying our remarks, made hereto
fore, and giving needed information to those
who inquire of us.
The iirst is an extract from the report OF
Capt. Cady, foand on the 26th page Of the
'%lournal OF Proceedings Of the Grand Divis-
ion Sons OF Temperance, State Of New York."
The Captain says:
IL went and visited Cortland Division, in
the village Of Cortland. This Division was
Instituted by the Deputy in a wrong manner;
admitting for initiation men who were not
on the application, and denying those who
%'0sre." What we have put IN italics is un-'
quslifedly false. But hear the truthful rs.
D." further: cit appears the business of this
Division has hesn illegally conducted
throughout, the Deputy asserting he had the
prerogative 10 adinlt whom he pleased, black
or white, old or young, and had actually mi.
tiated a c0iored man. While the colored man
was a member many refused TO visit the Dr.
vision, not on account Of his character flor
none stand higher, being a minister of the
church, and an uncommonly talented MANI
but his color"
This, be it remembered, is Mr.. Cady's own
version Of the matter. The Deputy's having
actually initiated a colored man." is given
great prominence, and made among the grave
charges against the unfortunate Deputy who
actually initiated" him. All of this was
duly submitted in LOVE-save the mark
Purity and Fidelity, aud signed "Daniei Ca.
dy," addressed TO flames Kennedy, NJ. D,
Grand Worthy Patrisrch Sons Of Tempe,
rance State OF New York" Now, how was
this document received and disposed Of b,
DR.. Kennedy Hear him. Speaking Of ihi
same matter, page 81, he says:
ain consequence Of the improper condue
Of the Deputy of that District" mo. SIS, N
GLIDING Corlandl "some of the Division
became involved in difficulty, ofwhieh | wa
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19
From the North Star.
What of the Night?

: a crisis in the Anti-Slavery movement OF
this country, is evidently at hand. The mo.
raj and religious, no less than the political
ornaments, North and South, at home and
abroad, are studded with brilliant and most
significant indications, pointing directly TO a
settlement of this all-commanding subjectI-
Slavery is doomed to destruction and of
this shareholders are rapidly becoming aware.
Opposed OF encouraged, the grand movement
for its overthrow has, under God, attained a
point of progress when its devoted advocates
NAV press its claims in the full assurance that
success will soon crown their righteous en-
beavers. We have labored long and hard
The prospect has at times been gloomy, II
not hopeless. At present, we feel hopeful
In our humble judgment, there is no power
within reach of the Shareholder, with all their
arts, cunning and depravlty, which can up.
hold a system al once SO dark, foul and bloc
DIV as that of American slavery. The power
which they have derived from the unconsti-
%tutional and peTidious annexation OF Texas
10 the United States the vast territories
which they may acquire by our atrocious
war with distracted and enfeebled Mexico ;
the sacrilegious support which they receive
from a corrupt church and degenerate priest
hood the character and position they secure
by a slaveholding President, are all transient,
temporary and unavailing. They are pow
ertul, but must give way'to a m%ightier pow
or. Like huge trees in the bed Of a mighty
river, they only await the rising tide which,
without effort, shall bear them away to the
vortex Of destruction. The Spirit of Liberty
is sweeping in majesty over the whole Euro
pean continent, encountering and shat:ering
dynasties, overcoming and subverting mon
arches, causing thrones to crumble, courts tc
dissolve, and royalty and despo,ism to vanish
like shadows before the morning sun. This
spirit cannot be bound by geographical boun'
daries or national restrictions. 1t hath nel-
ther flesh nor bones there is no way to
chain it; swords and guns, armies and ram
parts, are as impotent to stay it as they would
be if directed against the Asiatc cholera
We cannot but be affected. These stupen'
dous overturnings throughout the world, pro
claim in the ear Of American Shareholders
with all the terrible energy Of an earthquake
the downfall Of slavery. They have hearc
the royal ~sound-witness their reluctance or
the floor Of Congress to pass resolutions con
graduating the French on the downfall o