Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-03-11

ed to post, driver with whip in his hand stand
ing near. Admission FIVE cents"
Observing the above notice in of daily
papers few days since. has induced to send you
the enclosed article, which beg you will publish in
your paper. Respectfully,
SouTHERNER.
In the study of retired parsonage, thirty years
or more since stern father sat, with little girl at
his knee. She looked into his face wistfully he
poured into her sterling recitals of the mseries
and cruelties of slayery-he excited himself as he
progressed in his emery details until his enthu-
siasm was aroused-and the heavy eye cleaned,
and the rigid features relaxed the little being
near him became and more affected by his
burning words.
Forgetting the sacred mandate of g that meek
and lowy jesus whose protested mnstering disci-
pie he avowed himself :: Judge not and thou shalt
not be iudged"-': Condemn not, and thou shalt not
be condemned;" unnfuenced by the example of
the Holy One, who, in an undoubted case of crime:
to teach the lesson of physician heal myself"
ly said 81 Let him that is without sin among you
cast the first stone :" he had "rolled under his
tongue a sweet morsel, this iniquty - stern and
narrow Judgment of the conduct of his fellow men,
Gin circumstances precuding the possibility of his
kno1ving their trammels their motives, or their
tons, from garbed statements of facts, cunning
ly devised falsites and daily, having perverted
his mind he gave draughts of this poison to the
| lips of his child.
She was no common child-one to grow in strength
and stature, imbued with the ordinary requirements
and womanly mplishments-of one who would
be contented with the daily routine of life-and let
the friends of this fanaicism pass off through the
medium of antl-slavery, prayer meetings, and other
like agtations in small way, reg ious other
wise, that keep the general run of Yankee village
gossip and life from sagnatiOn
She was endowed with faculties and capacities of
q kind to multtudes, and so she drank in the
poisoned decocton Of this insane root, administered
daily by fathers hand at the domestic altar, by
the fresde, in the study, until, like any other slim
ulent habitually mbibed, it created necessity for
larger and stronger draughts.
She learned, she read, she drank in knowlC dye
she opened her mind to enlightened views, be-
coming the age and country, in many ways-but
the daily draught of fanacal excitement her sooth-
ing exciting beverage from childhood, how could
she like any other inch: late, and feel her error
and boldly cast away the temptation and break
through the habit, by open conviction, earnest,
heartfelt prayer, for enlightening truth ?
Unfortunately there model reformers, no
temperance societies. to to the aid of unfortun
ate Keeling on the verge of precipices approached
unconscious Y through mentally and morally intoxi
eating draughts these poor besotted ones must &c
onward to their fall, mayhap carrying many in their
course without hand to stay, voice arrest
their downward course.
Dragging herself constantly by increased doses
of fanatical dogmas obtained in every possible way
she kept herself in state of mental hallucnation
and at length in phrenzed fit of fervid devotion
concentrated tissue of overweight falsehoods, anC
sent it forth to the world through the medium of
anti-slavery periodical-from whose pages it made
little noise but when printed and sent forth tt
the world in a volume-Uncle Tom-commenced or
paper, that work of desolating fury, his literary
mother would fain have think he would have suf
fered martyrdom ere he would have abetted it in hi
bodily presence
j. And. from this land of freedom yes, freedom
flor better are the bondmen, in name, who, FREE
frOn tn fOr tail into
peaceful burial, than the struggling hordes of null
titudinous slaves of circumstance, born the drea
If rest and darkest drudgery unsustained by hope il
= dews of moral pollution in the courtly countries
n Europe )-of republican institutons-of peaceful
is homes-has gone forth the aid from the hand an
s. head of a socalled Christian woman to prop tn
tottering thrones of Europe and weaken the advanc
ing waves of republicanism.
n WASHINGTON, March q
&c The caloric ship Ericsson leaves here for New Yor
st on Saturday voyage is contemplated TO Australi
% and England IN the course of six weeks.
e The Senate, to-day, passed the Civil and Diplomat
n Appropriation Bill. In the House, a resolution ap
pointing committee on National Armories was pass
~ ed.
= Municipal Elections.
e BUFFALO, March 2.-Eli Cook, dem, has been elect
S ed Mayor by 5000 ma ority.
e ROCHESTER, March 2-Mr Williams, DEM, ha
nt been elected Mayor by 1000 majority.
CHICAGO, ILL., March 1.-Chas. Gray, dem ha
e. been chosen Mayor by large majority.
to Troy, N. Z, March lst-The democrats have cleo
ed their Mayor, Foster Bosworth, by about 500 ma
IS Jory and IL out of the 16 Aldermen, besides Supe
" visors, &c.
BUTTER.--The New York Mirror says:-"Th
&c spectators are getting their due. On the grocer
ne bulletins about the city, we read Best Orane
"a County butter from Is. Cd to Cd Butter, at who'll
y sale, can be purchased in any quantity at from
ne to q cents few weeks ago it IS to 81 cen
10 per pound. The good times coming
tsement:
70 ITO be solo, one hundred and thrty-one suits
- law, the property of an eminent attorney ahout