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The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-16
THE ELECTION.

We publish below the returns Of the ele''
t;on SO far az have been received. The
n.mocrats have carried the city Of New VI
Leans by nearly three thousand votes, elect'ne
Oo1n oe'''''"--,-A--sly all the members z
the House of Representatives, Sheriff, Clerk
ok Courts, and Coroner. The Legislature
The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-16

SoS - - sS~sSS
s. Y. Lacroix.*
+. Oliver.
l. II. Boatner.*
G. G. McWhorter.*
II. NJ. Favrot.*
Lagroue and Lacoul
Onez A. Guidery.*
Jos. ID. Gardiner
Albert Dejean.*
G. II. Morrison.
J. VanHook.*
J. Ii. Stevens.
B. w. PIERCE.
DIR. T. Morris.
r. L. Bonner.
J. r. B. Jones.
Ham. Mccullough.
Three Democrats.
One Democrat.
A. J, RanaLdson, II
Fraklin Hardesty,*I
U. B. Phillips, q
p ". RQberaVoasf.s
4oe "
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The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-16

The NORTHWEST PAssAGE.-In the for
eign news brought by the Asia was an ac-
count Of the discovery Of the northwest pas
sage by Com'r. Mcclure, Of the British navy.
The National Intelligencer, Of the 25th ult.,
throws doubts upon the truth Of this account,
Is bllows:
We copied from the New York Evening
Pos, on Saturday, an article announcing the
interesting fact that "a passage BY the Arc
tic ocean around the northern continent Of
America has at last been discovered" by
Comt. Mcclure, Of the British navy, who had
thus accomplished what the enterprise Of two
hundred years had failed to do, and thus
solved The great " geographical problem"
This statement was made on the authority of
q brief announcement Of the British Admit
rally, and the Post adds some particulars Of
the course of Com'r. McClure's voyage, ex-
planatory, Of its triumphant result. Relying
on the general accuracy Of the Post, We took
the particulars for granted, without examine
ton; but, having our attention called TO them
by friend curious in such matters, they
certainly present the strangest tissue Of errors
sf4 sssf5a;diatianl 1aisa Z u I e 81
a6rSs sdccsA II = solving the problem"
He may have done %, but mot Il the circum-
stances related in the Post ase correct. The
The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-16
EOok, Stationery, and Fancy Store, ia'
te8 BATON ROUGE, Ia. ~

Z MCCORMICK { co, haze oa.a...lI!..!.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08

TIE PECULIAR INsTlTUTIoN.-In an OBJ
scure corner, and the obscurest type of the
NeW Orleans Delta, appears the following
article
First District Court Judge Larue.-
Tacquette f. 10. c. vs. w H. Lambeth and
Mrs. Harris,-This was a case in which
the plaintiff sought to recover her freedom.
She declares she was legally manum,tted in
lS4l', aud continued to enjoy her freedom
ill near the beginning of lS45, when she
was seized and put in jail by defendent,
Lambeth, and afterwards carried to his
plantation. where she has been CON-
PEELED to work, until March 1852, when
she was sent to this city. She sues to re-
cover her freedom, S3,00G damages, and
S25 per month since she has been detained
IN defendants service. On hearing the
case, Judge I.arae gave Judgment. in de.
creeiug the p%lalntIff to be free, but allowed
no damages or wages"
1t is difficult to characterize the mon.
stros'ty OF such a proceeding as this. Here
is a free American woman. seized as a slave
in 1915, and kept in bondage eight years
on a piania,ion.- Enalfed finally, by what
The above court aud bald statement does
not explain, 10 get a hearing in the Court
of Justice, the Judge at once %pronounces
that her pretended master has no right over
her, or in other words thai he has kIdnapp.
ed her and deprived her Of her liberty for
that period. or course Mr.. Lambeth is an
estlmable citizen, and the upright aud learn
ed Judge gives no damages to a WON, N for
being deprived illegally Of her liberty for
eight years.
The New Orleans press has not one word
on tue subject Of the trial-no comment-
no breath of Indignation Such is the Pc
cnliar institution. What has TIE cotton
press OF this city to say! Speak Messrs.
Of the Express, Journal Of L~ommtrce, aud
Courier and Enquirer, A, Ieas, assure US
once again IN this connection that Uncle
Toms Cabin is a mere tissue of the imagin.
ation.-N.. Y. Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08
Political Import of the Slavery
Question.

Senator Chase, Of OHIO, usually under
stands what he is about, and never makes
confusion in his statement of what he means
Ills political positions are always clear, com
prehenslve, aud impregnable. Some earn
est men are constantly confoundIng the po.
lii,cal aud moral aspect of the slavery ques
ton. He never does So. We commeud t,
our readers the following very bret sketch
of a speech that he delivered at Defiance.
in the northwest par. of Ohio, not long
since -
ale gave a history Of the condition o.
slavery at the time of the formation of oul
government; of the expection of our ia
theirs Of its speedy termination the cause.
which have prevented this expectation frna
being realized, aud The growth Of the slave
power. He showed how this power, in for.
mer years, hid mostly uni ed at general e
l%eclions with the Democratic party holding
in comm III with II, the doctrine of State
rights, and believing, as it did, while the
general government was, as in its outset
an,i-sIavery, that the only security for sIav
cry was in State rights; but now he declar
ed that we must look Tor a change of poii
cy O the part of shareholders tina, the
eovernRSsx ~ the Umted States was now
under pro.slavery influences and slave
holders, seing it could be welded for The
support Of their peculiar institution. woulC
abandon their State righ,s theory-wouId
90 for increasing he power Of the national
governmen,-would identity themselves with
The property interests of the rich men oI
the north-and that the Democracy must
either practically abandon the old J%efferso'
man doctrine OF State rights and protection
OF Inc rights Of man.. Instead of property
interests, or the union OF political action
between it and s~laveimlders must cease
lie declsted that the slave power was now
The ruling power Of the country, standing
in the way Of all substantial progress; and
that it is opposed to all reform n the army
aud navy to reirenchment in the expendl'
lures Of the national government; to the
passage of an efficient homestead law to
tie annexation Of territory from which Ia
make Tree Siales, aud TO all Efforts tending
to promote freedom in this and all other
lands.
He then declared his creed of national
politics TO be summed up in there words :
'DenationaIlze Siavery-Decenlrallze Pow.
en- B, denaiouallzlng slavery. he meant
the practical application Of that clause OF
the Constitution, wherever Congress has
exclusive jurisdiction, which provides that
NO person shall be deprived Of liberty with.
out due process of law This, Of course,
would abolish slavery and the slave trade
in the District of Columbia, do away with
the carrying Of slaves upon the hish seas
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08

FREEDOM IN VIRGINIA-G P. 4. James
is now British consul at R.chmonnd, Va
Some years ago. he had an article in the
Dublin University Mngazine, in which he
spoke against American slavery. The Rich
mond Examiner proposes to punish him
for having been thus guilty of free speech,
1t concludes an article on The subject thus a..
We have not written this arilcle from
anv dislike of Mr.. James. But the pcople
Of the slave States should make it a princi-
pile, that where a man has made himself
prominent in denouncing slavery aud desir.
ing its overthrow withou, regard to the
rights Of property and the Constitution then
should e1eommuaicate him, place him in
psrPctuat coventry, and thus teach men Of
all Nations that our rights cannot be a%ssail-
ed with %impunity."
No man can hope TO survive being "sent
to coventry" by the s~lave-holding aris,ocra.
cy of Richmond Let them proceed, and
the story Of their awful annihilation Of Mr..
James will be told throughout the civilized
.werld. Ii will 60 round the earth BY ,eIe.
Or az h, filling all nations and tribes Of men
with a'nazemeut aud fear. Ii can hardly
fail TO 'teach all nalions," as the Examiner
says and, hererfter no man wit dare ~
say the ~"peculiar institution" is not divine
- Communicable.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08

E.P WHIPrLE ON SLAvERY.-But perhaps
the chief Satanic element in our national life
comes from the South. There, in the I" full tide"
Of unsuccessful experiment. - is a feudal svs
TEN, modified by modern humanity, but modified
also by modern theft. The ieudal baron did not
sell his serfs. Now, this peculiar institution
has one vital evil which alone would ruin any
country outside Of Adams pa radise-it makes
labor disreputable. But it is bad 10 every res.
pect, corruptlng the life of both master and
slave; and 1t viii! end, If allowed to work out
It's own Illumination, in a storm Of fire and blood,
or IN mental and moral ~sterility and death. Look
ing at it not sentimentally or shrewdishly, much
less with any mean feeling of local exuItaiion,
but simply with the eye of reason, what is it but
q rude and shallow system of government, which
mas been tried over and over again, and ex
piorea over and over again, the mere cast off
nonsense OF extinct civilization, bearing Oh the
.tont the sign OF being a more stupid blunder
IMAM 1t 10 a cline ? Now, we can symoa,h,ze
WIN u person VINO has had the govt transmit.
ted to him, the only legecy Of a loving father.
but that a man should 90 Deliberately IN wo,L
bottle IN hand, TO establish the govt IN his own
system, is absurdity which touches The Onixo,,c
IN dlabolism.. Yet this, or something like ,h,s
has been gIavely proposed, and some of onr
southern brethren have required us to AID in the
ludicrously iniqullous work. No, we should saw
to these gentlemen, if you have a taste for ,he
ingenultles of mischief, plant, if you will, on
your own territory. smallpox and iyphus fever
plant Plague, cholera and pestiIence, but refrain
ii not froGi common honesty. at least { on com
mon Intelligence, from planting a moral disease
infinitely more destructive, and which makes the
world snake with laughter or ex4cratiuns. &C
cordlng as men consider the madness OF ,ts foil.
OF the brszen imprudeuce Of its guilt. - Lecture
oa Literature and Life.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08

DANIEL W~EBsTER.--It Is IN vain for the ad.
visers of Webster to think of reversing the in
vi,able verdict of history. he world never
f~orsives a traitor to ilb"r'y-and it is well. Mr..
Choata may pu' g%arlands OF The orc on hrs bro"
and exhaust the resources OF personal adul'era-
t,on, but there he stands after all by the side Of
Arnold and Gcorgey.-all talented, accomplish
ed, bu, tatien!
The London Examiner, one of the ab|est and
most liberal journals n Great Britain, edited by
John Foster, author If the Statesman and
Commonwealth OF England concludes a long
and eloquent article on the Fugitive Slave Law,
as follows:
at is painful to contemplate a man like DIN
iel Webster SO disgracetng himself IN defence
of such a law as TO place It's obligations above
the most sacred ties OF religion and morality II
Is painful to know that Daniel Webster Is only
enabled to take this course by the support of a
large body OF B ,stnn'ans, who are to hun as
breath pr his nustrtie.''
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08
A Genuine Exaggeration"

We have a genuine exaggeration in
be, undt II 'ts salggsFanan." We have
read Of such thugs in abolition papers, and
such books as Uncle Toms Cabin, and have
always been informed by those persons who
claim to exhibit in their individual persons
the greatest possible conservating power Of
the Union " THAI such things are d" exag.
gerations." Now the specimen referred to
was taken off the heel of one of the ebony
lmmages of our Maker by the person who
handed it to us. 1t was in the STATE of Ar.
kansas that the said image was known
to drag a.nut this exaggeration," fastened
to his bare ankle to prevent hun from resent
ing good treatment, and at the same time
demonstrating by an experimental trip to
Canada his inability to take care of himself,
and his ingrautude 10 his best friends. OF
course he did not van to go oh no! the
. e%xaggeralion was merely riveted ON his
bleeding limbs in order that it might gently
remind him that he could not 90 If he
would.
This exaggeration consists Of a bar of
iron two inches wide, about two inches
thick, and three feet in length. weighing
about ehven pounds, bent So as to Clasp
around The ankle aud made fast bv large
iron rive 8. We should have C led this
specimen of American Democracy d mana.
Gle, but we submit to the etymology of the
tunes, and Call it an exaggeratIon."
1t was handed to US by one of our towns.
doubted, with the assurance that he actual.
" saw 1t worn by a slave in Arkansas, who
had commute no crime, aud whose only
sin was a desire to be free. We invite any
one who has any curiosity to know the ex-
act nature of an Abolition exaggeratlon, to
call aud see this undouh,ed specimen at our
office, where it will be cxpnsed free Of
charge. We should like exceedingly to have
sone of our llunker friends who think ex.
agger ations exist only in books aud newspa.
pers, call and try it o." Perhaps if some
Of our humane gentlemen would just call
aud take of their boots and stocks-roll
np the bottoms of their cassimeres, get a
blacksmith to rlvet their attention and the
iron at The same time, and let some stage.
driver hustle him round the public square a
few minutes, their perceptions might be a
tile quickened.
We submitted onr ankle to its rugged
embrace the other day, and took a ,urn OF
two round the Chronicle Office" drag.
glng the cumbrous appendage after US, and
trying to imagine how we should feel thus
equipped, robbed of our freedom and every
gift OF manllood-the dog-lhe beast Of
burtlfen of some southern task-master. TIE
heart grew sick at the thought, and the hor
rid iron seemd to clasp the ankle like a ser
pent as we tore it off in haste Western
ReSerUe Chronicle.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08

TEMPERANCE AND FREE DEMOCRACY IN
MIcHIGAN.-The Detroit Advocate, speak
ing Of the influence of groggeries in past
elections in that State, in connection with
the recent triumphs Of the friends Of the
liquor law, says -
The tastes and habits of the Free Democ.
racy, and the principles Of our party do
not allow us to compete with our ancient ri!
walls III efforts to secure this corner. grocery
vo,e; and while The old system of license
existed, the whole rum vo,e was sure to
be Cast against Free Soil candidates.; and
a large portion of it was pretty sure for the
old Democracy. The new law sweeps this
power from existence; and its loss will be
Ielt by the dominant party when a general
election shall again occur-particularlD
this city. In this WY The vote Of My
week was a gain t" the FreesDeinocfacy. .
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08
ELOQUENT DEscRipTtoN.- The 70 lowing

ELOQUENT DEscRIpTIoN.- The 70 lowing
extract from an address OF Meagher. recently lie
livered in New York, is truly eloquent in its des-
c%ription o. the present state OF Europe. How
impossible, remarks a contemporary, for a soug
not stirred, and even tried in fire, TO conceive
and utter such things as these:
Austria-the whole German family--tongua
tied the Rhine stagnant in her bed Poland
still The N,obe of nations. and her estate and
children cut up and p%arcelled out among the
robbers Hungary, with The knife at he, proud
aud beauteons neck; Italy, locked within her
sculptnred sepu'cher, and a profaue soldiery
keeping watch upon it; France, %grlnalng in a
masquerade, the glare Of which blinds men to
crimes Of which it is the reckless and s~enseless
carnival Ireland, her people decaylng and dis
appearing faster than the ruins. even, which a
ruthless civilization has lett standing on the soil
where-where can the eye that scans the histo.
ry Of this day turn with joy -wilhout greet, with
ont vengence, without despair, unless it be to
this great common wealth, The power, the pro
gress, the immensely of which ale mapped ou'
in those mighty waters of the West, from which
| came but yesterday
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08

the CANvAss.-Or paper, this week, must
necessarily be politically a dry one, having, ow-
ingto the early hour we 60 to press, little OPP
portunIty 10 get in returns and not, of course,
having any thing to say to the Freenren which
would reach them only "lhe day after the fair"
Suffice it to say, the contest in this section is
unusually animated; and our State ticket, at
least, bids fair tor a good support in Washington
county. Az to our own course, we can only say,
" what we have written we have written" and
our paper must speak for itself. Our first aim
has been to be true 10 the great cause of Free
dom. which we long ago pledged ourselves to
support. and our next to do every thing we could
do for the cause OF Temperance. consistent with
what we deemed it the frs. duty of our paper to
look to and sustain.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08

Truth WELL UTTERED = The f%,llow,ng par.
sgraph from the O,sego IN " Democrat is au
application OF the saying, "r,uth in II nut
shell" and we recommend it to the attention OF
all those Hunker presses, who seek 10 cover Up
the delorlnaties OF their own parties, by finding
deforrni,ies equally as gross in olhers:-
THE poorest apology that can be urged for
the commission of an error Is the fact that some
body else has committed a greater one and we
are yet to learn that because one man has com
mited a murder another would be justified in
the commission of a robbery. And yet i, would
be just as sensible to use apologies of this kind
tor The commission of lesser crime. as it il for
the pro-slavery press of this country to attempt
to vlndicate the institution OF slavery in the
United States with the fllmsy argument that
evils of a grosser nature exist in Europe. If
:. more wretchedne.s" and more misery does ex-
lst " in one of the proudest capitals Of Europe"
than Sin our favored land among the bond" it
does not mitigate the evil OF slavery in the
slightest particular on this side OF the Atlantic.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08

in vessels sailing under the protection OF
nur national laws, aud would protect our
Territories from the curse Of slavery By
decen,ralizing power, he meant restricting
the action Of Congress carefully within the
grants Of the Constitution /; r%etrenching the
expenditures of the government, aud reduce
ing the revenue to its absolute wants grant
ing the public lands, free of cost, to actual
seitlers-lhus purifying the halls and lob.
bies of Congress from hungry Spectators,
aud preserving its members from many
temptations to corruption-and e%lecting all
national officers by the people, S 20 far as it
can be done consistently with an efficient
administration Of Government. By thus
denationaIizing slavery aud decentralizing
power, Mr.. Chase believes the National
Government would be freed from the do
minion of a slaveholding oligarchy. Slav.
cry would be circumscribed within its pres.
ent limits, and emancipation necessarily
soon take place in the northern sIavebrecd.
ing States, and eventually in all the States
and the National Government would be fit.
ted for its great work OF elevating the la.
boring masses. spreading far aud near its
democratic institutions, and would ever be
active on the side Of freedom at home and
abroad, cheering the hearts of the democra-
cy in all lands, and holding tyrauts every.
where in check" Communicable.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08

lhipt rlii tome, have oheh proven W thee'
Ancient Greece and Rome had bondmen and
slaves, but moi so many as the United States'-
we're cruel to them, and terrible has been the
retrlbution. The despolic Turk has possession
Of the land of Leon ,das and OF Socrates and
Rone has long been the ark OF the lnquisliipn !;
the monuments of their glory have crumbled
into dust-tenples, pillars and all, have fallen
into ruins.
Our system of slavery is more cruel and OPP
presive than that of any nation that has prece-
ded us How car we expect to avert reiribu-
tive justlce-the righteous vengeance OF effend-
ed Heaven? The fate of this patton viii soon
be sealed, unless the people now free, shall soon
rise IN the majesty of their strength, and pro
CLAIM, that slavery shall be no longer. With
out a struggle to ext,rpate the rapidly increasing
cancer upon the body ,olitic, Mr.. Jeferson's
prophecy may ere long, be fulfilled. Almost
every mail brings the sad tale of the murder OF
some slave, or the master or some member OF
his family. More than a thousand slaves annu-
ally escape, according to the census, from their
prlsOn-house. In about twenty years our slave
population will be seven millions, more than
double the number Of our white population that
achieved our national Independence. And yet
our Northern freemen generally, seem to view
the approaching danger with >toIc indifference
it is a great way of--and no concern of ours.
This indifference may prove to be a fatal mis-
take. Dread conhagrallons may be averted by
timely precaution. If ever a nation was called
upon to arouse from sluniber, now IS our time.
The evil is spreading almost with the rapldlly OF
The prairie tres. We arc all, more or less, res
DOnslble for IL for we ore one nation, and each
electol either sanctions or condemns the sys-
ten by his vote. The North have The power
without violence, to abolish slavery by a calm
resort to public opinion ind The ballot box. Ia
this point we would call the public attention.