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Petition TO execute a CON
tract between James Hus-
kius and Jamts Hoon.
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A Ii WOOL DELAINES, one case just
II received, all colors, good quality and arc being
sold at n lees price than was ever before known In
Portage county. Gail aud get some of, them before
they are gone, at Nc. !; Phonix Block.
RowELL & wlTfER.
7 October 9th. 1854. .... \ sr1t
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Charlotte HOskiRs and
all other heirs and legal
Rcprcs e ntativcs of
I.,nns HneEins 1nns1
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whatsoever, which could even imply that the
Ier loci prohibiting Slavery was abrogated or
had become imperative
The polcysof the Nebraska Bill is directly
at variance with this A law existing on the
Statute Book for thirty-three years prohibits
Slavery in that Territory; but the Bill of Judge
Douglas, instead of letting it alone, as the Utah
and New Mexico Bills let alone the local laws
in force IN the Territories in 1850, proposes to
declare it imperative, null and void" and
for opposing this abominable proposition-a
kindred one to which the Congress of 1850
could not be persuaded to countenance-D Dem
ocrats are now threatened with the displeasure
of the Administration and accommodation
from the Democratic Party
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A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE

In the Senate, yesterday, Mr.. Douglas an
his Bill, as the result of consultation among
the friends of the measure. He moved to
amend the Bill by striking out from the l4th
section the words-"whch was superseded by
the principles of the legislation of 1850, COM
monty called the Compromise measures, and is
hereby declared imperative" and to insert,
(which, being inconsistent with the principle
of non-intervention by Congress with Slavery
in the States and Territories as recognised by
the legislation of 1850, commonly called the
Compromise measures, is hereby declared in
operative and void; it being the true intent
and meaning of this act, not to legislate Slavery
into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it
therefrom, but to leave the people thereof per-
fectly free to form and regulate their domestic
institutions in their own way, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States"
The distinction between the words as they
stand and these proposed to be substituted, is
without difference. The section now de-
clares the Missouri Compromise "inoperative
amended, it would declare it imperative and
void" The reason now assigned is that "the
Compromise was superseded by the principles
of the legislation of 1902 statement ad
mitted by the friends of the Bill to be untena-
BILE. The reason assigned in the amendment
is, that the Compromise is Inconsistent with
the principle of Non-Intervention by Congress
with Slavery in the States and Territories rec
ognsed by the legislation of 1880" This
averment is just as illogical and untrue as that
proposed to be stricken out illogical. because
the Missouri Compromise applied to one Terri
tory the legislation of 1850, to other Territories
Admitting that the principle of one is Non
Intervention, and that of the other Interven-
ton, there is no conflict or inconsistency be-
tween them, for they apply to different Terri
tories The Ordinance Of 1887 embodied the
principle of Intervention, the act of Congress
establishing Territorial Government for Mis-
souri,, the principle of Non Intervention: they
were not inconsistent, for each could stand, be
maintained, without subverting or impairing
the other; they could not come in conflict with
each other, and, as matter of fact they never
did: each was operative at the same time. AS
we have already said, tho non assertion of a
power or right in one case, does not imply its
non existence, or pledge against its exercise
in other cases. The averment is just as IN
true, historically as that proposed to be strick-
en- out: for it is not fact that the principle
Of Non-Intervention by Congress with Slavery
an The States and Territories was recognised by
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WHAT OF THE NIGHT 2"

It is right to speak plainly the chances are
that the Missouri Compromise will be repeal
cd Twelve men in the Senate, clear-sighted,
firm, courageous, united acting with method,
could either defeat the project of repeal in that
body or damage it SO much as to secure it's de-
feat in the House. They could propose amend
mcnts calculated to brisg out the true nature
of the scheme, its bearings, the motives which
originated it, and the consequences to which it
may lead, and then, by yea and nay vote,
compel its supporters to reveal their real views
and purposes to the country. They could turn
the tables upon the schemers, and, as they have
re-opened the issues of 1850, compel them to
record their votes upon propositions to repeal
the abominable Fugitive Law, and to abolish
Slavery in the District of Columbia They
could delay the measure long enough to allow
the People time to pass judgment upon it. and
instruct their Representatives in relation to it,
But, twelve such men in the Senate are not to
be found
The Democratic Senators from the free
States, generally, under the influence of the
Administration, or committed to the support of
Presidential asprants whose interests are in
volved in the measure, and, moreover, habitu-
ated to submission to the Slave Interest. are
either conniving at or actually supporting the
Bill The Wing members from the North,
generally, although unfricndly to it, are with
out wisdom in counsel unity in action, or firm
ness in purpose. There are few noble excep-
tions, on both sides of the Chamber, and these,
with the two Free Soil or Independent Demo-
cratic Senators, constitute the only worh.>z
force against the scheme.
Some Democratic Senators who voted in
lS4S, '49, 80, to exclude Slavery from the
Territory acquired from Mexico, now go for a
Bill which proposes to open all our Territories
to Slavery-and they represent, too. constitu-
encies signalized two years ago by devotion to
the Wilmot Proviso. One Senator, Instructed
by the Legislature of his State to oppose the
Bill, declines to do so, and, We have heard, in
tends to vote for it; moved we suppose, by pro.
found respect for the principle of popular self
government!
AS to the South, let no one expect miracles.
Whatever may be individual inclination, the
necessities of the slaveholding caste will over
rule it. The individual members of an Oligar-
chy, or an Aristocracy, or a CAste, are them
selves bound by the will of the whole, and their
will is the result of the aggregate ambitions
and necessities of all. The Shareholder is him.
self the slave of the Slave Power.
MIR. Badger, it is said, is opposed to the Bill,
and Mesrs. Houston and Bell, it is rumored, arc
willing to see it defeated but they all voted
the false averment in the / 4th section, although
they did not believe it, thus encouraging the
Caucus arrangement by which motions to
amend, whatever their character, emanating
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The EXECUTIVE POWER.

Under the Administration of MIR. Fillmore
the Executive Power was freely exercised in
enforcing conformity to certain legislation,
deemed obnoxious by a large portion of the
People. Independent men w,rs dismissed from
Office, for no offence but that Of frank ex-
preston Of their sentiments. Newspapers.
sound in the principles of the Wing faith were
prescribed for declaring their disapprobatiou
of acts which the Administration chose 10 re-
gard with special favor and they were de-
prived Of the privilege of printing the laws Of
the United States, which was transferred To
other papers, sometimes of no political Faith,
and of no repute, whose simple recommended
ton was, obsequiousness to Authority.
But Executive inter ference takes wider
range than this 1t is employed to prevent or
to dictate the passage of certain laws and is
brought to bear both upon the press and upon
the Legislative body. 1t is notorious that
the men from the North, who rendered them
selves peculiarly odious to their constituents by
aiding to carry through the legislation of 1885,
were for the most part rewarded by the Ad-
ministratiOn for their services. The reward
was er post faeto but at rhat period was the
hope of it awakened in the heart of the yield
ing member
AS to the Press what loyal slaves has time
ly dispensation of patronage secured at GER
tain important points in the free States? You
will find in the columns of " the organ" from
day to day, in the shape Of quotations, pre-
tending to represent Northern sentiment, the
tribute they pay.
Let us mention one fact, as a specimen of a
class. The leading paper of the Old Line
Democracy in Wisconsin, orthodox, long -estab-
lished, always recognised as thorough party
organ, recently took occasion to condemn the
scheme for the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise. What is the result! IL is deprived
of the privilege it has enjoyed of printing the
laws Of Congress, which are now appearing
by authority in two obscure prints of very
limited circulation, the only merit of which
is, that they go for the project of Repeal
We shall doubtless soon have occasion to
record other facts of the same sort. An Adj
ministration would be discredited in the judg-
ment of its interruptions supporters, should
any measure to which it is committed, fail in
Congress with an Administration majority.
Executive Intervention with the business of
Legislation of an important character, is the
rule; Non-Intervention, the exception.
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ANOTHER POINT.

The Aboitionists may carp and decam
against tins movement But the fact that this
Territory comes in precisely as did Utah and
New Mexico-with full power over the subject
ct Slavery in the hands Of it's own freernen-
upon the very ground of non intervention upon
which General Cass stood in lS4s and which
formed the corner stono Of the Compromise of
lS50-is. as We think, answer enough to their
clanorsn
no writes one Of the advocates of the Nebras
ka Bill. His representation is false Pass the
Bill, and the Territory does not come in "pre.
cisely as Utah and New Mexico" The policy
pursued in 1850, in relation to them, is sban.
doned in the measure before the Senate. This
lie point which the People ought clearly to
understand. Members, in their support Of
thus measure, are continually excusing them
selves by the legislation Of 1880, when in fact
the policy Of that legislation condemns them.
brief statement of undeniable facts will
convict them of this. 1t was prevailing opin-
ion ut the North, in 1913, that the laws in
force in the Territories acquired from Mexico
prior to their separation from that Power, reg
ulating the relations of their various classes OF
inhabitants, continued IN operation after thai
event. This opinion was in accordance with
the writings of the most emincnt jjurists, and
with the general course of judicial decisions
1t was held by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay
Thomas II. Benton, and not denied by the mos
authoritative jurists in the South; and it was
the view constantly presented by the support
ers Of General Cass, to reconcile the People to
the doctrines Of his Nicholson Letter. Now
mark, repeated efforts were made in both
branches of Congress, pending the bills for or
ganiEipg Territorial Governments, in 1850, fol
New Mexico and Utah, to.repeal those laws
or to declare them imperative so far as they
related to Slavery; but they oil failed. The
majority that carried through the bills could
lot be induced TO assent TO any form of word'
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TIE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON D. G, FEBRUARY 49, 1854

suit but the Caucus viii legislate upon the sub
iect out of doors and the Senate must then
ratify its edicts.
The bill is destined probably to pass the Sen
ate Let it not pass without q full exposition
of it's enormities. There are Senators enough
to effect this, if nothing more-and this they
owe to the People. Next to the prevention Of
crime, is its punishment--bu this can be So
cured only by the clear exposure of the crime
and the conviction of the criminal.
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mocracy, to honesty and fair dealing. So long
as they control the country, there will be no
principle in American politics, no manhood in
American statesmanship. If this Nebraska
movement should have the effect of shivering
them to atoms, and thus leaving the opponents
OF Slavery, free and unembarrassed, to rescue
the Federal Government from the domination
of the Slave Power, dark as the transaction
now appears, its record would form the bright
est chapter in our history.
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BEWARE OF COUNTERFEIT AND BOGUS NoTEs.-
Our friends cannot be too careful in selecting money
to send For their guidance, would state that
notes purpering to De issued in this city George
town considered good, will be received by us
except the following Bank Of Washington. Bank
of Metropolis Patriotic Bank, and Exchange Bank
Of seden, Withers Co, of this city; Bank Of Com
nlerce, Farmers and Mechanics Bank and Corpora
ton of Georgetown, Georgetown, d. c.
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pIsREGARDpoF HISTORICAL TRUTHS.

The effrontery with which the advocates Of
the repeal Of the Compromise of 1920 reiterate
statements fatty contradicted by History is
unparalleled. The Richmond (Ya) Enquirer
speaks of the legislation of 1850 as a Compro-
nEse, and says
Let the patriotic men of the free States
pause and ponder upon this truth. 1t is one
that cannot be set aside, and one that all gen.
uine lovers of the Constitution should bear in
their memories and in their hearts The
remedy for peace in 1850 was most reluctantly
accepted by many in the South. 1t originated
in the North and was finally carried b, North.
ern votes. Let not the North be terrified into
dishonoring itself by attempting to destroy the
principle upvn which we then marched through
disaster to concord and union"
The legislation Of 1850 was in no sense
Compromise The Omnibus Bill, as it was
styled, was framed as a Compromise, and in
tended to be passed as such but we Yll know
! THAT it EAokc dawn in the Senate. Ike meSs-
| ures which constituted the Compromise were
subsequently taken up separately, at different
times, underwent many notifications; some of
them, indeed, were entirely substituted. No
body claimed that they constituted Compro-
mise The Washington Union, then edited by
Thomas Richie, father of the principal editor
of the Enquirer, contained at one time an ed-
torial in which the term Compromise as APP
piled to the acts of 1850, was secuted. They
constituted an Adjustment not a Compromise,
said the venerable editor.
Nor did the scheme Of adjustment originate
in the North, or with Northern members.
Henry Clay was emphatically its originator.
Prominent men at the North were dragged
into the support of it.
Nor was {" it finally carried by Northern
votes" The Utah Bill, acithout the Proviso,
was carried by Southern votes, and limited
number of Northern votes. The TeTGs Bound
arg Bill and the Ntw DIerico BIZ, without the
Proviso, were carried by Southern manage
ment and Southern votes, aided by Northern.
The California Bill was carried by Northern
votes, with limited number of Southern. The
Slave Trade Bill was carried by the North
against the South and the Fugitive Slave Bill,
by the South against the North.
These are facts, which can be established~by
the record.
But, what is the use The scheme for re-
pealing the Missouri Compromise rests upon
no argument, but upon reasons which no logic
can reach.
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For the National Era.
B u Z Ms.
BY John G.. WHITTIER.

BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
0, memory, fragrant with the BLOOM
OF heather bells and roses.
o, Poet of the heart to whom
Its budding love uncloses.
Still paint upon lifes noon, the gold
And purple of the dawning;
And let my manhood's SUI behold
The dew of boyhood's morning
I call to mind the summer day,
The early harvest moving,
The sky with sun and cloud at play,
And flowers with breezes blowing;
When, wild with joy, pressed his lays,
A new found treasure, to me,
And heard along the harvest ways
Their music chanting through me.
The glory Of those golden hours
Seemed brighter for that singing.
From summer birds and meadow flowers
A sweeter Welcome bringing.
New light on home seen Nature beamed,
New glory over Woman;
And daily life and duty seemed
No longer poor and common.
/ woke to find the simple truth
OF fact and feeling better
Than all the dreams that held my youth
A still repining debtor.
That Nature gives her handmade, Art,
The themes Of sweet discoursing
The tender idyls Of the heart
Ia every tongue rehearsing.
Why dream of lands Of gold and pearl,
OF knight and loving lady,
When farmer boy and barefoot girl
Were wandering there already.
saw through all familiar things
The romance underlying
The joys and griefs that plume the wings
OF Fancy skyward flying.
saw the same blithe day return,
The same sweet fall of even,
That rose on wooded Craigie burn,
And sank on crystal Devon.
I matched with Scotland's heathery hills
The sweet-brier and the clover,
With Ayr and Doom, my native rills,
Their wood hymns chanting over.
Der rank and pomp, as he had seen,
/ saw the Man uprising
No longer common or unelean
The child of Gods baptizing
My crring pride behold the worth
Of life among the lowly,
The Bible at his COtters hearth
Had made my own more holy.
And if at times an evil strain,
To lawless love appealing,
Broke in upon the sweet refrain
OF pure and healthful feeling,
1t died upon the eye and ear,
No inward answer gaining;
No heart had to sec or hear
The discord and the staining.
Let those who never erred, forget
His worth, in vain bewailings,
Jncancelicd by his faiiings!
Lament who will the ribald line
Which tells his lapse from duty,
How kissed the maddcning lips of wine
Or wanton ones of beauty;
But think, while falls that shade between
The erring one and Heaven;
That he who loved like Magdaleno,
Like her may be forgiven.
Not his the song whose thunderous chime
Eternal echoes render
The mournful Tuscan's haunted rhyme,
And Miltons starry splendor!
But who his human heart has laid
To Natures bosom nearer?
Who sweetened toll like him, or paid
To love q tribute dearcr?
Through all his tuneful art, how strong
The human feeling gushes
The very moonlight of his song
Iswarm with smiles and bushes!
Give lettered pomp to teeth Of Time
So Bonnie Doom " but tarry;
Blot out the Epic's stately rhyme,
But spare his Highland Mary
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The brief extracts we present from our cor
respondenee are mere indications of the state
oil feeling among the People of the North and
West The language is severe, sometimes un-
sparing, showing the anger excited By this
monstrous attempt to violate good faith The
excitement pervades all classes-Democrats
Wings, Conservatives, Free-Soilers. Men who
have hitherto been advocates of Compromise,
now exclaim, If such Bill be passed by Con-
gress, away with all compromises henceforth
We hold no parley with system that demands
such sacrifices -
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M USTANG Liniment, almost equal to the X. b
WI at Smiths Drug and Variety store, Mill Point
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DEFY COMPETITION!
CLOTHING GOODS.

We, offer for sale, by the Piece or Package q
complete assortment of
Broadcloths, all colors, Cassimeres,
OF every variety, Drap D'Etes,
Cashmere Cloths, Cashmeret,
Queens Cloth, Alpacas,
Fancy Linen and Cotton Coating,
Buff and Blay Linen and Lawns,
Bleached and Fancy Barnsley Drills,
English and French Cottonades,
White, Buff and Marseilles,
Padded and Dyed Ducks and Drills,
Satins, Grenadines, Velvets,
Paddings, Silecias, &C., &c.
Together with every variety of
AMERICAN CLOTHS, DOESKINS, FANCY
CASSIMERES, TWEEDS, &c.
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CALABRIA Liquorice, and Jujubee paste, at the
~ Mill Point Drug and Variety store.
L. M. S. SMITH.
CHLOR0F0RM Just received at the Mill Point
~ Drug Store.
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PANTALOONS.

SPLENDID VARIETY, CONSISTING OF
Broadcloth, Cashmere, Doeskin; great variety OF
Fancy Cashmere; White Linen Drill, Ducks
Gambroon, Satinett, Tweed, Kentucky Jean,
Farmers Drills, Alpaca, Queens Cloths, Drap d.
Etc, Cashmeret, E:minett, Cottonade, Benims,
ETC., etc.,
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We are constantly receiving additions to our
now extensive stock, and would respectfully in
vite an examination as we feel sure that, with
our facilities, we can offer Goods ut favorable
prices.
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7 ADIES!-Come and see our Broche and Long
IL Shaws, and a superior article of Muffiers.
FERRY g. SONS.
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VESTS.

Plush, Velvet plain and figured Grenadines
Black Brown and Green Farmers Satins Poplins
Valencia Black and figured Satins, Barethea
Plain and Watered Alpaca, Marseilles; White
buff and figured buff and Brown Linen.
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5000 LINEN COATS,
AT RETAIL OR BY THE CASE

Frocks, Halfsacks, Sacks, bound and corded
latest styes-manufactured from Blay Linen
Farmers Drills, Padded and Dyed Ducks, Basket
Drills, Lawns, etc.
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CRAVATS.

Black and figured Taffeta and Satin, figured
and plain; Verieatas and Matteona; Lawn, Silk
and Linen. Plain and figured Satin Scarfs to-
gether with great variety of Satin Tab Stocks
Bow do; Ericsson and Napoleon Ties; Hair
Stocks etc., etc.
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MEMORANDUM Books, and Diaries for 1881
INl The books are here and the year is coming
Come and get one before they are gone.
Mill Point, Dec. s. 1858. l.. M. >. SMITH.
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New Goods, at Reduced Prices.
G. DAVIS & co.

\ RE now receiving large and well selected
IA stock of goods, for the Fall and Winter trade
Consisting of Staple an( Fancy Dry Goods, Ready
Made Clothing, such as Fancy Dress and Sack
Coats, Overcoats, Pants, Vests, Shirts and Draw
ers, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, Drugs and
ions Shelf Hardware, Iron, Nails and Glass, Glass
ware and Crockery, Stoves and Stovepipe. All of
which will be sold cheap for Ready Pay. The
highest price paid for Lumber, Lath, Shingles,
Single Bolts and Square Timber. [67tf.
Muskegon, Ottawa Co., Mich, Oct A, 1852
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Grand Rapids Iron Works and Plov
Manufacture.

DALI & BABCOCK Manufacturers of Steam
I'D Engines, dill Castings, Flows, Cultivators,
Potash and Cauldron Kettles, Hollow ware, Box
Stoves and other castings of all descriptions. AL
so Hills Patent Governors
The above articles will be made to order on
short notice and most of them arc kept constant
ly on hand.
We have also several Lathes in operation and
with them one Screw Cutting Lathe of the most
approved pattern.
Any thing wanted in the line of Machinery or
Repairing can be had at our works on fair terms
and warranted to be as good as the best. A select
and full assortment of patterns on hand.
115 1yl DANIEL BALL,
CHAs. p. BABCoCK.
Grand Rapids, September, 1853.
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GLOVES.

Kid, Kid cut Silk, Lisle Thread, Cotton, Berlin
etc, etc.
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COATS.

CONSISTING IN PART OF
Superfine colored and black French cloth Frock
Dress and Sack Coats. Also Petoes Sacks. Half
sacks and Frocks, of Cloths Cassimeres, Tweeds
Sati netts &c