The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-01-04

Columbia, has been postponed TO the middle OF
January. 1t may then perhaps be approached
with better feeling, tor the social enoyments
and festivities of the Christmas and New Year
holidays will hardly tail to exercise kindly in
huence upon the members. The factis that this
is no new innovation. 1t is only getting back to
where we were thirty ago. rhirty-two years
ago, on motion OF MIR. Randolph, OF Virginia,
committee was appointed 10 devise measures for
the suppression of ''the nhuman aud Illegal
traffic OF slaves in the District OF Columbia" and
a committee was appointed, consisting of Mr..
Randolph, of Virginia, Judge HopkiEson, of
Pennsylvania, Judge Gouldsborough, of Mary.
land, Mr. Migrant, OF South Carolina, and Mr.
Kerr, of Tennessee. The committee made vo-
luminous report several weeks afterwards, with
the testimony they had taken, but the subject
was not acted upon, owing to the Incidence which
Congress has always manifested on almost every
subject which comes before them.
Twelve years afterwards, Congress set about
preparing code OF laws for the District OF Co.
Iumba Judge Doddridge, Of Virginia, and
Judge Chambers, OF Maryland prepared the code
and reported it to Congress. This code OF laws
prohibited the slave traffic, and it was warmly
advocated by Mr.. Tyler, of Virginia, now known
as x-President Tyler. Congress did no t act on
the code, but only neglected it, in consequence
of that same customary negligence which leads
them to pass over and postpone all subjects not
considered of pressing necessity.
At length, after this unwse and wicked agita-
ton, we have got back upon the old platform,
upon which the South itself stood in 1916, and to
which the South itself steadfastly adhered in
1928.
AS an resting incident Of political history,
the New York Express copies the following from
the National lntelhgencer of March, 1916, which
paper copied it from the Journal of the House,
the day on which it was recorded:
House Of Representatives., Friday, March l,
1916. Mr. Randolph, OF Virginia, moved the fol.
lowing Resolution, the necessity of which, and
the remedy for providing remedy for practice
so heinous and abominable, lin making this Dis
trct Depot for the Slave trade of the neighbor-
ing States,) and medium for evading the laws
IN force, by collusive sales, he impressed by
variety OF remarks, and concluded by declaring
that il the business was declined by the House,
he would undertake it himself, and ferret out OF
their holes and corners the uildins aoho carried
1t on.
Alter some opposition, by Mr.. Wright, and
support, by Mr.. Gouldsborough, it being named
at the suggestion OF Mr.. Hopkinson so as to refer
the suject to select Committee, instead OF the
Committee on the District, the Resolution passed
follows:
ReSOlUed, That Committee be appointed to
inquire into the existence OF an inhuman and IL
legal traffic in Slaves, carried on in and through
the District OF Columbia, and report what mea-
sures are necessary for the putting a stop TO the
same.
The substance OF the above is taken from the
Newburyport Herali.
MRS. WRIGHT's LECTURES ON AsAroMY
AND PHYSIOLOGY. Our Eastern papers for the
last three months have brought US very respect
full notices OF Mrs. Wrights lectures TO ladies'
At Providence and other places in Rhode Island.
and, more recently, in New Bedford, she has had
large classes OF the most intelligent and respect
able women. Confined, as her teachings are, to
her own sex-ediors and reporters being exclu
ded-and disposed rather to avoid than to avail
herself OF the ordinary modes of announcement.
and means of obtaining newspaper noteriety. her
very great success as alecturer, gets less prompt
and extensive publication than her enterprise
deserves. Mrs. Wright has for a number of
years devoted herself to the study of ANATOMY
and Physiology in the use OF all the means which
she could command, with zeal and devotion.
that in person of her happy qualifications, both
for study and teaching, could not tail TO secure
very high success.
Her course OF lectures is more or less COM
plete as circumstances determine sometimes
comprised in half dozen discusses sometimes
extended to twice that number. They are illus.
trated, as tar as the subject permits, by models,
the papier mGche machine, by plans, drawings
and the natural skeleton. The lectures are pop
uiar in form, but sufficiently scientific in sub.
stance Tor elementary instruction; and as Judi
cious and well devised, in the topics embraced
and the mode OF presenting them, as the subject
admits of-much more SO, Indeed, than is gener-
ally thought practicable.
We speak Of Mrs. Wright's lectures, Tot only
from report of those who have attended her
classes, but from ample knowledge, also, of her
preparatory studies and careful examination of
the notes and general scheme of her course.
The improvement which must have been made
by further study, and increased skill acquired by
practice in speaking, since the time when we
were SO fully satisfied of her competency, is no
doubt very considerable. This would be safely
inferred from the jealous devotion of her sumo
rlor abilities, aud it is abundantly confirmed by
the constantly increasing popularity Of her
lectures.
We need say nothing OF the usefulness of such
instruction to her hearers. That is not a cues
tionable thing tor those who ere SO happily con-
stltuted as to make real advantage of knowledge
IN department capable of so much practical
good; Tor even ga little learning ls'' not ssa dan
gerous thing" to any one who has sense enough
to employ it properly. For the rest-we are
clear that concert is an instinct rather mepded
than aggravated by little sound information
and that instruction must be safe, as it is the nm.
ly remedy we have for follv and nresumut;o.