The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-07-07
SUMMARY.

SUMMARY.
The Maine Law has triumphed in Mich.
gan. The vote in favor Of the prohibition of
licenses for the sale of liquors, is about two to
one, or nearly $4,000 majority. This is the
most decided vote yet given in favor of the law,
and Michigan is the first Western State to
adopt it.
Rev. David Sharp, distinguished Baptist
minister in Boston, died on Thursday evening
last at the residence of his friend, Robert
Brown, Esq, at Stoneley, near Baltimore The
deceased was about seventy years Of age, and
had been pastor of the Charles street Baptist
Church in Boston for over forty years
Henry Ward Beseher, brother of Mrs Stowe,
has written note, correcting an erroneous
statement going the round Of the papers, that
Mrs. Stowe had determined to give the pro-
ceeds of Uncle Toms Cabin to the education of
colored people. He says:
This was no statement of mine. Will you
publish the paragraph as it appeared in the
Independent of June 2?
"a word upon the pecuniary offerings to
Mrs. Stowe, in England. IL is well known to
many that Mrs. Stowe has, from the first, de-
sired to turn whatever influence this work
might give her. to the elevation of the African
race. The plan which has been most in her
thoughts has been seminary in which per-
sons of African descent may be thoroughly
educated, not merely in literary and scientific
courses, but in practical arts by which they
might secure and maintain proper place in
society. To the founding of such an institution
she had determined to contribute much of her
income; and the hope of securing greater in
terest for it was one among the chief reasons
tor her tour. The generous contributions in
money, made to her in Great Britain, are not
understood by either party, but certainly not
by Mrs. Stowe to be for her own private and
personal use, but to be employed for the Edu-
cation and Elevation of the Free Colored People
of the North
"That Mrs. Stowe has given much, and will
give more, of her income to the aid of those for
whom she has written, is true; but she has not
set apart her whole income to them. She re-
tains the right of employing her means as her
judgment may dictate and it will subject her
to unfriendly criticism to let the impression go
abroad that she has alienated her literary
earnings from personal uses, and consecrsted
them to specific charity. H. w. B."
Law in Floridd.-In the report of decisions
in the Duval Circuit Court, Hon. VIM A. For
ward on the bench, which we find in the Flor
ida Nears of June IL, it was held "that the fact
of a persons being negro, is in this State,
and even in a criminal case, prima faeie evil
dence of slavery" This is reversing the usual
presumption of law in criminal cases, that
man is held to be innocent until the contrary
is proved. A black skin is prima faeie evidence
that man is a slave. It is thus that the law
of Slavery degrades man into a chattel.
" The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. y
Req. VIM. L. MeCalla, who was born and
brought up in slave State has written a
warm eulogistic apology for his beloved and
esteemed friend, Uncle Tom," in reply to an
attack in the Presbytsrian, which paper de-
clines to publish the apology We make
room for the closing paragraphs of this sea-
thing letter:
g. But she Mrs. Stowe has scandalized
American institutions. Yes she has scandal
lied the burlesque chivalry of America, which
glories in crushing the innocent and helpless,
instead of redressing their wrongs. She has
scandalized the grand Compromise, which
turns the free Northern white man into q
whipper-in for Southern driver.
But Uncle Tom 10 most destructive weapon
against light and liberty and religion. Not sc
fast. If it were so, the Pope would flood Italy
with translation, and feast the writer in the
Vatican. Why has he honored the book with
his prohibition Because it is the most pow.
erful plea of the age for that liberty which he
bleeds and for that Bible which he burns"
Georgia. - The Wing Convention of this
State met at Milledgeville on the 22d ult, and
nominated Hon. Charles ]. Jenkins for Cover
nor. The resolutions adhere to the report and
resolutions of the Georgia Convention of 1850
which it considers jeoparded by any political
party which recognises "Abolitionists and
Free.Soilers as worthy of public honors and
emoluments" Mr.. Jenkins was the nominee
for Vice President on the Webster ticket, in
1850. Mr. Toombs addressed the Convention.
4 Contrast-On the 18th of January, liza,
at Hanover, Va, Patrick Henry thus wrote:
"Would any one believe that am master
of slaves of my own purchase! | am drawn
along by the general inconvenience OF living
here without them. will not, cannot Justify
it. However culpable my conduct, | will so
far pay my devoir TO virtue as to. own the rec
titude Of her precepts, and lament my want OF
conformity to them.
~ believe time will come when an oppOr-
tunity will be offered to abolish this lament
able evil. 1t is debt we owe to
the purity Of our religion, to show that it is al
variance with that law that warrants slavery
Now look at this, and Judge if the worlds
people are not sometimes better than the pro
fessed disciples of Christ
"Rcv Robert Jones, of Chambers county
Alabama, preacher Of the Methodist denomi
nation, lately tied negro man of his up to q
tree, and whipped him to death! After this
finding that neither God nor man would up
hold him in his summary mode of sending q
fellow creature to Heaven, he ignominiously
fled" Theaccount of this barbarity is giver
in the Alabama Herald.
DR.. Madden, of Louisiana en- route for the
East with his family, passed through Cincin
natl on Friday week, and, while there, gave
freedom to three Of his slaves who were in
company, one boy and two girls. He also gave
them liberal supply Of money to supply thor
wants until his return from the East, when he
proposes to have their free papers regularly
| made out
Vermont-The Democratic State Conven-
ton, which met at Montpelier on the 23d Of
June, nominated John S. Robinson, Of Benning.
ton, for Governor; Jefferson P. Kidder, of West
Randolph, for Lieut.. Governor J. A. Page, Of
Montpelier, for Treasurer. The resolutions
sustain the doctrines Of President Pierce's In
augural-
Edmund Burke and General Pierce's New
Hampshire organ, The Patriot are awakening