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THE COMPROMISE OF Mr.. CLAY.

The compromise resolutions Of Mr.: Clay are
generally repudiated by the Wing press. His
motives are commended, his courage, patriotism
and ability, are admired, but his plan hnds
scarcely any favor. The Wing papers of
Ohio are nearly all decided in their condemna-
ton Of it. The Ohio State Journal, of Columbus,
says:
"The resolutions of Mr. Clay are producing
profound impression on the public mind ihey
will be read with interest throughout the length
and breadth of this land There can be no mis-.
take about their reception in Ohio. With all
their regard for Mr. Clay with all their admira-
ton for his splendid career as a statesman, ana
his long and valuable services as wing, our
citizens do NOT endorse the sentiments OF MS reso-
lutons. They say this more in sorrow than in
anger;' but say it they must, though 1t sewers
ties long existing and dearly cherished"
Preceding these remarks, says the Cincinnati
Gazette:
ave find a call for a public meeting of the
Wings of Franklin county, and OF the State, to he
held at Columbus on Monday evening next for
the purpose ofobtaining interchange Of opinion,
and an expression of sentiment in reference to the
present and proposed action of Congress on the
subject of slavery and especially in reference to
the resolutions recen'}P '"trhhhnen nv Mr- cIay
on that subject in the Senate the United States
to utter the voice of the people of Ohio, at this
important crisis,
That is right. The people OF r. free STATES
have been repOsiag quietly, in the belief that
their representatives in Congress would carry
out their oft-expressed determination on this
question. Now, that they see some of them
giving way, and others entertaining insidi9us
plans of compromise they will grid themselves
again for the conflict. Craxen-hearted repre-
sentatives may waver, but the people who sent
them here have no fear of slaveholding and
disunion conventions We do not believe that
they will abandon the ground they have taken,
whatever the consequences may be-
1t can be no degradation to the South, to
preserve by act of Congress freedom in free
Territories 1t will be an infamy to the North,
should they suffer free to be converted into
slave Territory. 1t can be no degradation to
the South to apply the Jefferson Ordinance of
1887 to Free Soil; it will be perpetual degra-
dation to the North, should it suffer itself to be
driven by intimidation to an abandonment of the
Ordinance.
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Peace, Trade, Social connection between the
divided States.
Their Ability to resist Foreign Aggression.
The Amount and Cost and Results of the Mil
itary Establishments that would then become ne
cessary.
The augmentation of Executive Power at the
expense of Popular Sovereignty that would be
required in the new Governments
The Disposition of the Territories of the
United States.
The Extrsdition of Fugitives from Service or
Labor.
The Permanence of Slavery.
The Question Of the Navigation of the Missis-
sipp River.
And divers other important matters.
Il might not be amiss to extend their inquiries
a little farther and ask, how the question Of the
annexation Of the Canadas to the Northern Con-
federacy, and its relations to the free British
West Indies, would be affected and how, on the
other hand, an attempted annexation Of Cuba by
the Southern Confederaoy without any naval
power, would be viewed by Great Britain.
We repeat, it would crafty US exceedingly to
see all these important Questions fully and can
didly examined by Committee Of the ablest
Statesmen of the South, appointed by the Nash
vile Convention Their report, We have no
doubt, would do more to settle the agitation in
the South in regard to the Union, than indignant
Senatorial denBDaiatjons of the schemes of Disso-
luton, and patriotic Senatorial reflections Of Pc
ttions for Dissolution.
The very best thing that can be done to per-
petuate the Usion is, eoaliy and carefully 10 eaicn
late Us pdils
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BLUNDERS.

Members of Congress do not always speak by
the book. We have sometimes wondered at the
GOODNESS with which they make the most un-
founded statements
Mr.. Inge of Alabama few days since, while
specializing on the advantages to the South Of q
dissolution of the Union, fell into several gross
mistakes A few we shall advert to, as mere spe-
cimens:
"Our exports" he says care now about double
those of the North"
The following table from official returns will
show the value of exports from the free States
and slave States in the year ending June 3Oth,
1915
DOM Produce Form Produce Total
Free States $50 ,727,7l6 Sl03s7,725 76,il5,44t
! Slave States 76l56,4NA l,744,5 n @2SJS9e
In.-ala.iezs t4 the .ntalsgslRe 81 ~ynorts the
two sections are nearly equal As it regards the
exports of domestic produce, more than two-ffths
is from the free States, less than three-fths from
the saveholdng What becomes of Mr.. Inge's
statement, that the South exports double the
amount exported by the NOrth2
Again: Of the exports credited to the South
forty millions worth is set down TO the account
of Louisiana but at least one-half Of this comes
from the free States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Wisconsin, and Iowa. large portion of the pro-
duce of which is sent to New Orleans for export
alton so that the value of exports of domestic
produce of the free States is really twenty millions
greater than that of similar exports from the
slaveholding States.
l;~bto ,oJ rEs
GThe Federal Government raises annually
from imports more than thirty millions of dollars,
which 90 into the National Treasury and indi-
rectly an immense sum is levied upon the South,
for the benefit of Northern manufacturers. This
revenue is expended chiefly in the North and
while the South pays tribute to this Government,
she is scarcely permitted to share in the largess"
In the first place, a. the North numbers
about twelve millions of consumers while the
South numbers scarcely more than nine millions;
and as two-thirds of the white people, who are by
far the heaviest ccrsumers r,siao in tho North. il
is obvious that the North pays, relatively, the
larger portion of the burdens imposed in the
shape of customs And in the second place, it is
sheer folly to assert that this revenue is expended
chiefly in the North; for of the whole thirty
millions, three millions are expended in support
of the various Departments of the Government in
Washington, and of the Diplomatic Intercourse
of the country nearly twenty millions in the sup
port of the military and naval establishments;
and three millions for miscellaneous objects, in
which the States are equally interested while
the rest goes to the payment Of the interest on
the public debt, the most of which has been con-
tracted in the attempt to please the people of
Florida, by e1pelling the Indians, and in the
prosecution of a war with Mexico, brought about
by Southern Influences
These are mere specimens of the reckless
statements which are so common in the Halls of
Congress, that they have ceased to excite the sur
prise Of the experienced members of that body.
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For the National Fra.
SABBATH MORNING.
BY MISS PHOEBE CAREY.

Another Sabbath DER the earth
Comes softly down from Eden's bowers
And in my spirit can feel
The hsllowed influence Of its hours.
And now this earnest prayer goes up,
That on my lips should ever be
o, God that might give, to-day,
My heart, and life, and soul, to thee
l, that by prayerful love was brought
Almost the fold of life within,
And from Saviour's pleading arms
Went backward to a world Of sin
Went back-to feel deeper shame,
A threatened reckoning, yet more dread,
For all the slighted prayers and tears
Poured out upon my guilty head.
Yet, Lord, thy cup Of vengeance stay
Hold yet the uplifted hand divine,
Till, by repentance at the cross,
My stubborn will is bent TO thine.
Grant that thy trembling steps may be
>. set 6suly on tie Rock Of Right
Before thy striving Spirit takes
It's upward, everlasting flight.
fain would hold the angel fast,
Nor still without his blessing 90,
Since the sweet mercy offered now
May be the latest sent below.
And should this earthly Sabbath be
The last my dying soul may keep,
o, shall another dawn for me,
When the summons breaks my sleep
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THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON d. C, FEBRUARY d. 1850.

majority of the people, and invalid by minority,
must be regarded by General Cass as coming
within the category of measures defined by him 70
be of doubtful or questionable validity And
therefore, on his own principle, he was bound re-
spectfully to receive and consider the petition
But the remark of Mr.. Hale, in relation to the
Senate generally, applies with special fore. TO
General Cass: "the usage is to receive everything
from the South, and reject everything from the
North. without asking the nature of it."
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so far a6eus the pahry principles Of party. He DE-
MANDED, in the language Of the Wing rssolu-
tons OF is4s that the territory be free and that
civil and military Governments be kided for
them. That the principles Of the Ordinance be
at once adopted and the slave trade, -.Sta,s
and in the District, be at once abolished Such
tsad Mr.. Woods) are the sentiments of the peo-
of Ohio and they were emphatically his own,
and he wished to act upon them indispensable
principles"
The resolutions adopted were in accordance
with these sentiments, and in direct opposition to
both to the policy of the President and that of
Henry Clay.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

WILLIAM W wooDwoRrH, 0dgninistrd'o Of William,
WoodOrt dsesassi is petoniDg Congress to extend
his Patent for Planning Mac inc Tor another long term.
All those Opposed to THE monopoly and the injustice Of the
REPEATED EXTENSIONS IF that Patent, are re-
Sussted for tbsir circumstances against the to
Their respective Senators and Representatives in Congress-
without any dsaiy. Feb. l4-3t
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THE NATIONAL ERA.
WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 81, 1850

~ DEBATES IN CoNeREss.-We have no room
this week for notices of the speeches of Messrs
Fitch, Root, and Mann, in reply to the numerous
speeches in support of the claims Of Slavery. We
shall attend 10 them in our next
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II The CRIsrs -May we not ask our friends
to re Few their exertion for the extension Of the
circulation Of the Era in this important crisis
Never before was it so vital to have the Public
correctly and fully informed of the movements in
Congress Or the four political papers issued in
this place. the Era is the only one which presents
and advocates the views and claims Of the nom
shareholders of the country on this great question
of Slavery.
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~ No. l55 OF the ERA.-Those subscribers
who do not file their Era, and have copies of No
l55 on hand, will confer fovor by remailing
them to this Office
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be reasonable men enough in Congress from both
sections, to take proper care Of those who should
attempt to regulate its deliberations by the Bowie
Kpifa
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pioneering for Mr.. Brown, for the Speakership
we said that the support of that candidate by the
Free Soil members did not meet with his concur
renee. Aletter from MIR. Durkee, in the WiseOn-
sin Freeman, reminds us that we were partially
oeratic Fre.-Soilers should vote for him. That
he electiOnsered for him, however, is gross
falsehood
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THE HAMILTON COUNTY CONFERENCE.-THE
Hamilton county controversy, which has driven
that most enlightened, sober-minded State of the
West to the verge of anarchy, was terminated on
the LIST instant, by the adoption by the Legisla-
ture of proviso to the apportionment law, as
follows:
"Prouded, That nothing therein contained
shall be so construed as to impair any right, priv
leges, or franchises, supposed to be acquired I'M
der said provisions above repealed"
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TIE DEMOCRATS have called q Convention of
the counties of Portage, Summit, and Medns,
Ohio, on the 22d of this month, to consult on
measures proper to be taken in view Of the
State Democratic Convention at Columbus
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THE BosToN CHRoNoTYPE has ceased to exist.
Its talent, wit, and courage, made it a favorite
with large circle of readers. We hope its wor-
thy and Independent editor may find a still wider
sphere for the exercise of talents that have been
devoted to what he believed the best interests of
his race
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JUDGE WOOD ON THE STUMP.

The Cleveland Piaiadedler says that Judge
Wood on Friday night before the election, made
a speech at Bedford. The following is an extract
from the Planldealer's account Of the speech. Our
cause is upward and onward The Wings will
now nominate an out-and-out Neutrality-suspicious.
as their candidate Mark our prediction. But
read the extract-Toledo Republic
ole was questioned directly by
leading e-Soiler, if he was in favor Of the
tending Of slavery, and if he believed the Proviso
Constitutional, &c. He answered by saying that
he had Reper d0a5ted Tie Constitutional power OF Con-
eress 10 abolish or prohibit SLAVERY The TERRORIST
As urist, he had devoted much Of his life in ex.
aiming constitutional law and the construction
Of statutes, and this had been his long-settled
opinion in reference to that matter. The uniform
action of the Government aud the concurrent
legislation Of Congress strengthened this opin-
ion' But, said he, { would NOS stop at any paper
prohibitions of slavery in the new Territories
If necessary, would shoulder my n~shet and go
all The wav there to defend with ponder and hall the
invasion Of that free land from the OdiOns curse Of
slap1y'
at is said this declaration, pronounced with
such indignant emphasis, sent thrill Of electric
excitement through the audience and satisfied
the most ouerulous that JUDGE WOOD was
not the man that his political opponents had rep
resented him to be. Ia fact, he said, in 30 many
words, before he got through, that he had not
single principle he wished to conceal from the
people, and hoped no man would vote for him
who had any doubts about his political senti-
ments'p
We commend this TO the managers who are
trying to nail together the planks of the broken
down Baltimore platform.
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VOL. Nv.

prevail In our Navy, few doubt but 1t IL hard to
induce Congress to take any measures for their
correction. What we need is a Committee Of
Investigation, composed Of intelligent independ.
ent, fearless men, with ample powers to examine
officers and sailors and disinterested witnesses 90
as TO ascertain clearly and fully the nature on the
Code under which American sailors live, the wav
in which IL is administered, the kind Of food
and accommodations provided for them, and of
treatment to which they are subjected Every
other branch of the public service is liable 10
great abuses, but is Open to investigation. The
Navy 80 far seems to have bid defiance to official
inquiry and reformation.
1t is assumed that its very existence depends
upon the possession Of absolute power by the off.
Gers, unrestrained by law, unquestionable by anv
other tribunal. 1t Is time that this illusion were
dispelled. Americans do not cease to be men or
lose their rights as citizens, by becoming sailors
The shield Of a Government careful for their
rights and interests, should be stretched over
them, wherever they are and their officers
should be made to feel that there is a power
higher than theirs which will avenge Injustice
and punish the barbarous exercise of authority as
promptly and severely as they are apt to pun.
ish insubordination.
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TIE CENSUS BILL.

By our Congressional record it will he seen
that the Census Bin ID encountering a strong
sectional opposition in the House of Representa-
tives. 1t is contended by slaveholding members
that the Constitution authorizes Congress to pro-
vide for taking merely an enumeration of the in
habitants and that the BILL so far as it proposes
to obtain the statistics of the productive resources
Of the country and its social condition, is uncon-
stitutional. Mr. Miller the Southern member
from Ohio, led off in this opposition, and he was
followed by Mr.. Stephens, Wing member from
Georgia, who seems to have become a sudden con-
vert to the doctrine of Strict Construction, and,
like all new converts, to be possessed of zeal not
according to knowledge
OF course, all this talk about the Constitution
is a sham. The real motive of the opposition to
the bill is the unwilingness of certain savehold-
ing members to permit an authentic collection of
facts in regard to the resources and progress of
their respective States. They want no more
comparisons between the results of Free Labor
and Slave Labor, and their language to the GEN.
sustakers is, ''Ye be spies; to see the nakedness
of the land are ye come"
The bill will be passed, despite this foolish OPP
position A pretty specimen of craftsmanship, to
he sure-this attempt to keep the Government in
profound ignorance of the character and condition
of the population and the resources of the coun-
try for which it has to legislate.
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CONGRESSIONAL SPEECHES.

Many speeches, made in Congress- are worth
culation, as well as for effect upon the bodies to
which they are addressed There is great and
natural curiosity to know what particular ind-
viduals have said, which induces many to read
speeches who would not otherwise investigate at
all the subjects discussed.
But it is impossible for Senators and Repre-
sentatives to supply all who would like to receive
speeches. The expense would be too great, were
there not other insuperable difficulties in the way.
1t is not generally known, probably, that Mem
bers Of Congress purchase all the speeches they
distribute, whether their own or others and the
amounts paid in this way are large. But were
there no obstacle of this nature in the way of
universal supply, the impossblity of knowing
the names Of those who wish speeches, would be
an insurmountable obstacle.
1t would be quite easy, however, for any active
friend of the cause of Freedom to secure a large
distribution in his neighborhood, at very triang
outlay. For example, the speeches Of Messrs.
Seward and Hale are published at one dollar per
hundred that of Mr.. Chase is published in two
editions one, compressed into sixteen pages by
emitting some portions, at one dollar, and the
other, complete in thirty-two pages, at one dollar
and half. The speeches of Messrs Giddings,
Campbell, Root, Cleveland, and others, in SPACE
pamphlets at fifty cents per hundred 1t costs
twenty five cents per hundred to get them ready
for mailing Now, let any active friend of the
cause of liberty raise the small sum necessary,
and forward it, together with list of names
in his vicinity to the Senator or Represent
alive whose speech he desires to have dis
tributed, and the speeches will, doubtless, in
every case, be forwarded to persons on the list
We commend this plan of putting documents Of
the right sort into the hands of readers every
where to the consideration Of every friend of
Freedom. In hardly any other way at this time
can so much good be done at SO trifiing an ex-
pense
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THE NICARAGUA DIFFICULTY ADJUSTED.

Last Monday week the President transmitted
to the Senate the Treaty concluded between Sir
Henry Ba}wer and our Government, for the set
Element of the difficulties in Central America
The Treaty secures, it is said, the construction
of ship canal between the two oceans, Great
Britain guarantying protection jointly with the
United States.
1t requires all nations who wish to enjoy the
advantages Of the Canal to pay equal tolls, and
unite in the guaranty Of protection. 1t estab-
fishes the independence of Central America, and
stipulates that Great Britain shall not colonize,
fortify, exercise jurisdiction over, any part Of
Central America, or on the Mosquito coast.
Such are said to be its principal features.
There now remains no cause Of controversy be-
tween this country and England while their mu-
tual relations are such as should bind them in
the bonds Of perpetual peace.
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THE NATIONAL ERA.
WASHINGTON, MAY Q, 1850.
THE FRIEND or YOUTH.--No. I.

The May number Of the Friend of Youth NO. y
was mailed to subscribers last Monday 1t COM
mences the last half Of the year with fine sub
scription list. Back numbers, so as to complete
the volume, may still be had We perceive that
the editor has secured delightful correspondent
in Europe, who furnishes great many items in
teresting to young folk.
The following is the table of contents:
misunderstanding for q Colby L. S.
Arthur Lizzy Greys First COmpOsitiOn-by
Frances ID. Gage; Lines to a Schoolmate-a
poem; May Day Jealousy; Kites; The Mystic
rious Rapping Invisible Lady; Letter from a
Traveller in Paris; To the Wren, pOem--by
Mrs, Anne Blanchard "reminiscences of Child
hood-by Clara Clifford; My Mother.
SELEcTEp.-Fireside Story about Honesty
Geological Cabinet; The Neglected OPportu-
nifty
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Mr.. CHASE'S SPEECH, SECOND EDITION.

The first edition of Mr.. Chase's Speech on the
Blanchard, was Immediately exhausted. A Sec
oud edition has since been printed at the Office OF
the Congressional Globe, to supply additional or
ders. In the first, the speech was somewhat
abridged, and printed in very small type to bring
it within the compass of sixteen pages. In the
second, the speech is given in full the typograph-
ical errors being corrected, as it appeared in the
National lntelligencer Union, and Era, and forms
a well-printed pamphlet of twenty-four pages. 1t
is sold at the Congressional Globe Office at dol
lar and half per hundred copies; and the Free
Democracy, especially of the West and of Ohio,
should see that it be placed in the hands of the
greatest possible number of voters
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Tux NAsuvrLLE CoSvESrIcs, If it meet, will
probably be Democratic affair. The Wings
everywhere in the South seem disposed to back
out Of IL. Among Ill the extracts from papers
quoted by the National Laeltgsneer, as against 1t,
not one says the Richmond tva) Eramiasy, is taken
from Democratic paper The same Democratic
journal remarks
alt is The Democratic press and party that ortgi-
naiy suggested the plar and RON supports fhe IDEA 81
a SoMhsrn Coapeafioa"
So we have always said. The Wings were
rather green to be caught In such trap
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TERRIBLE DISASTER.

The steamer Belle of the West, with some 400
passengers, among them two companies Of adven-
tuners to California, and thirty families of emf
grants to the West, took fire Monday night week,
when about mile below Warsaw, on the Ohio.
She was Immediately run ashore, but the progress
of the fire was so rapid as soon to envelope her in
flames From the register II was ascertained that
sixty had persisted; how many more it was i'm
possible to tell