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which any such powers were attempted to be
conferred
6. On the contrary, the Colonies were com
psetely under the control and authority OF the
English Law and the British Constitution, as
much SO az the Government Of Great Britain
itself: 80 that the Colonial Legislatures were,
equally with the King and Parliament of Great
Britain, inhibited frcm legalizing Slavery
"Above a century ago, Governor Pownall,
one of the most eminent constitutional Jurists
Of Colonial times, said of the common law !:
{ IN al the Colonies, the common law is received
as the foundation and main body of their lars
In the Declaration of Rights, made by the Con-
tinental Congress, at its first session, in ia
there was the following resolution: ResOLved,
That the respective Colonies are entitled to the
common law of England" &c., &c.-Welds
Power of Congress, p. IA.
Ia my next letter shall show, on the highest
Judicial authority, the decision of the Court of
Kings Bench that Slavery was never legalized
in England. Il could not be, for the reasons
already adduced, viz: that Slavery is incom-
patible with the British Constitution and the
common law of England. And it has now
been shown that the Colonies, equally with the
Mother country, were under the authority Of
that constitution, and under the control of that
law.
ny WhaI authority, Ineh, or Dy Nn2t rlght
did the colonists hold slaves! What power had
the Colonial Legislatures to legalize Slavery 2
No such authority was derived, or could, by
any possibility or by any Official document or
legal instrument, have been derived from the
Crown, the Parliament, or the Judiciary of the
mother country The Colonies neither claimed
nor exercised any powers of legislation in their
own right, as independent sovereignties while
they remained Colonies which was until the
fourth Of July, 1875. Ii is certain, therefore,
that there could have been no legalized Slavery
IA this country previous to that epoch, what
ever may have been the case since.
As Slavery never had been legal in England,
land under the Constitution and common law
Of England, could not become so,) hOD could At
eUer haze been legal an The Colonies If Slavery
was illegal IN England, because 1t was contra
~ to the common law, how could it be legal in
the Colonies, where the authority Of the same
common law was recognised And if the
English courts could discover and decide its
illegality why could not the Colonial Courts
do the same And why were they not bound
to do it, as well as the courts Of England
WILLIAM GooDELL.
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dGstGrdly midnight protOters, after firing the
train. sneak to their holes leaUing their lOretch
ed dunes TO become the VictimS of those acts tcich
then themselves haze stimulated. Is there no
law that can reach these cOwardly incendia-
ries. who. after throwing the frebrand skulk
away in darkness to enjoy the blazet And
are those who on the floor of both Houses of
Congress, openly declare their disaffection to
that Constitution they have sworn to support
and maintain, aOOrthy Of a seat an the sacred
halls of Legislation, s0hen any act should emf
nate from that source 2 These are questions that
must be answered sooner or later, and the sooner
the better"
Now, We do not believe that the citizens OF
Washington are to be moved by such stuff as
this We have not the slightest apprehension
for the safety of any of the members so bru-
tally assailed but let it be remembered that
the editor Of the organ" is the printer of
the House; in other words, one of its officers !;
and that, by courtesy, he is admitted to the
floor of the Senate. What right he's an Off
Ger of the House of Representatives to vilify
any of the members? Is not such conduct
gross breach of its privileges? If tolerated,
will it not lead to the most mischievous conse-
quences? Ought not the House, rising above
the animosities of partisan strife, to vindicate
its dignity, and protect its rights, by frowning
upon any of its officers who shall dare to as
sail the character, or invite indignity to the
person, of a Representative of the People,
however unpopular or obscure!
As to the Senate what regard for decency
or decorum can that man have, who, after
having been admitted by courtesy to the priv
lege Of the floor, prostitutes the public press
to the most intemperate assaults upon the
character of several of its members, and calls
for popular vengeance against them In &c
cepting the courtesies of the Senate Chamber,
the editor of the Union incurred special OBJ
legation to respect the privileges of its mem
bers.
Having violated this obligation, be deserves
to be excluded from the floor. We reoollect
that former editor of the same paper, for an
article far less offensive than those which have
lately appeared in its columns against Mr..
Sumner and those who sympathize with him,
was very summarily excluded-but, in that
case, the offence was committed against one
who was backed by strong Party
The Liberty of Speech and the Press is
sacred right, above all laws and constitutions.
The public acts and words of men are legiti-
mate subjects of animadversiOn or denuncia-
ton; but, when an editor deliberately misrep-
resentS public man, garbles his speeches for
the purpose of placing him in a false position,
does all he can to arouse the prejudice and
brute passions of violent men against him,
with an obvious purpose of making him the
subject of personal indgnity, he fagrantly
abuses his liberty, and whatever he may lie, in
the eye of the Law, he is just as guilty, under
moral aspect, as if he had uttered a libel, or
committed a breach of the peace.
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For the National Era.
JU NE,
BY WILLIAM ALBERT sUTLIFFF

BY WILLIAM ALBERT SUTLIFFE.
The livelOng day, this sum mer weather.
Chased by the zephyr fleet,
The light and the shadow go together
Over the browning wheat
And after the staring daytime closes,
PassOnless, white and high,
The noon peeps into the elvish roses
Out Of her native sky.
Under the hill where the sun shines DINNER,
Shrunk from the eager beam,
The brook goes on, with itful gIimmer,
And music for dream.
Over the groves and mostened meadows
The steady gray hawks wing,
And down below, in the shifting shadows,
The merry small birds sing
Ny tired foot from the bread sun going,
Presssth the curling moss,
And my eye doth see, mid the green leaves showing
The fair clouds fit across
Give me bed with brook-fall nigh me,
Pattering lew and sweet;
And glimpse of the Dryads glancing by me,
With white unbuskined feet
Give me brown-leaved volume olden,
Quaint with its antique dream,
Leading the full-fowered fancies golden,
Back in a swelling stream.
And vision of ancient groves and meadows,
Where Hyacinthus mods;
And fairly CLEAN through the mythic shadows
White temples of the gods
Then shall the sky, with its deep blue glory,
Telling of Heavenly cline
Mstily blend with the gentle story,
Drapered in the rhyme
So shall a ray of sunshine brighten
Life's ever tiresome sleeps
And purer starlight come to Tighten
My dim way DER the deeps.
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WASHINGTON, ID. G..
THURSDAY, JUNE Is, 1854.
q q = q q q
RENEWALS AND NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS WHO
RESPONDS?

The same has come when we must call upon
Subscribers whose terms are about expiring, to
renew; and, while doing so, to send new
names with their OWN. The first half Of the
present volume Of the Era Will close with the
last Of this month. We have Just sent out
special request to our voluntary agents, to
JOIN in a determined and vigorous effort to en-
large orr list. The time is suspicious. People
are aroused on the subject of Slavery, and
need information. Only the first great tri-
umph Of the Slave Power has been wen. Fur
Their and more dangerous aggressions are medi-
tatei. The Anti-Slavery sentiment Of the
country needs organization. To promote the
great cause of Union for the sake Of Freedom,
the most active efforts ought now to be made,
to increase the circulation OF newspapers OPP
posed to Slavery.
The Era needs special movement in Its
favor. Some Of its best agents during the last
twelve months have diverted their labOrs to the
establishment Of local Anti-Slavery papers
We do not complain of this but could they
not now spare few weeks to the Era, which
has no local support and must depend alone
upon the general interest felt in the vigorous
maintenance Of such paper at the seat of
Government In brief terms, let US say that,
should they succeed in adding to our Weekly
list six thousand subscribers it would not re-
pay the loss We have sustained in undertaking
TO carry on a Daily Era, although it would
enable US to relieve ourselves from the embar-
rassments in which that has involved uz.
Let every agent use his best exertions for
the paper. Let every subscriber whose time is
about to expire, renew promptly, and send US
at least ole new name We reprint our
Terms, aud shall keep them standing, as a
guide to the efforts of our friends:
TERMS or THE NATIONAL ERA.
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Three copies do, > Five copies, do, 5
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Voluntary agents are entitled to retain so
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cents on each new semi-yearly, subscriber, ex-
cept IN the case of clubs. twenty-five cents is
the commission on the rcnelcaL of an old sub
scriber.
A club Of three subscribers lone of whom
may be an old one) at s., will entitle the per-
son making it mp to a copy CT the Era three
months; club of five two Of whom may be
old ones at IS, 70 a copy ior six months; club
Of ten dvo of whom may be old ones) at SIS,
10 q copy for ono year.
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Large amounts may be RENTED in drafts or
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Washington, d. e., 1854
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ANOTHER CHAPTER OF LEONARD WRAY
NEXT WEEE-Meantime read the beautiful
story of Martha Russell, on our first page, and
another letter from the favorite Bell Smith
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10 We have received already two or three
warm responses to our somi-annual circular.
They are the drops before the shower. We
don't care how big enc.
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IHE FREE CITIZEN. = In publishing the
Prospectus Of this paper, an error occurred in
regard to the terms. IL should read: 10 copies
will be sent for SIS. Tho Prospectus will be
found corrected in this paper.
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CONGRESSIONAL sKETcHEs-aERRrr sMrrH.

We publish in another place some Congress
sional Sketches, from one Of our Pro-Slayery
exchanges. Gerrit Smith is Landed to Heaven
Chase Seward, Sumner, and Giddings, cried
down to the other place. The former. we
doubt not, will endure their praise as calmly
as the latter their abuse For their comfort.
we may say, "Wo unto you, when all men
shall speak we'll of you and for his, lie
shall make even his enemies to be at peace
with him.
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~ CALL Foa A CONVENTION IN OHIO.

We publish, in another column, q call for a
Convention Of the People Of Ohio on tho 9th
July, now in circulation in that State Read it.
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A THRILLING SPEcTAcLE-A little child,
only three years old, got upon the roof of a
three-story house in Fourth avenue, New York,
on Wednesday evening, and approached the
caves, and, swinging his hat in his hand, looked
down with the utmost cOmpcsure On al excited
and trembling crowd. Some gentlemen, with
great presence of mind, got up on the roof,
quietly. and coaxed tie adventurer to the scut-
tie when they seized bim and bore him away
to his mother, half frantic with fear, in the
room below. It was a moment of terror to all
but the little fellow himself.
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IL Let Mil Men, seeking good opening
for business, read Mr.. Campbells advertise
ment, and address him by mail.
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70 The renown acquired by the man who
first nominated Franklin Pierce has induced a
tremendous competition in the business of ma
king Presidential nominations But in this
business the fast men are seldom the wise men.
We would advise all to be patient for while.
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The memorial at the Merchants Reading
Room, Boston, for the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Law, has received several thousand sig
natures, and their number is constantly on the
increase Throughout the State similar me-
MORALS are In preparation and they will pour
IN upon Congress from all parts of New Eng
land.
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The Cholera.

{ Probably We could not benefit onr readers more
than by laying before them the following article,
which We copy from the National Intellieencer of
October Is, 1853, on the prevention and treat
ment of Cholera. This disease, more or less
aggravated, and TO greater OF less extent, now
exists in all the cities aud principal towns of this
country, and in proportion as the public mind is
enlightened the subject, is the disease stripped
OF its horrors and fatality The article is publish
ed ''By Authority in the Intelligencer, and was
communicated officially to our Government from
the government of England, with a request to pub
iish and circulate it. The conclusions arrived at
are based, we suppose. upon long experience and
actual experiment, and as general thing areto be
relied upon in the treatment of Cholera.
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Professor nIorse.s
Inrigornting Eiixir on OordinI.

invigOrnting Elixir Cordial.
The oynr,wrought brain aud debiaied body
best solaee aid potent in this uriyalled
tonic Upon the stomach, which always weakened by
an excess OF iDetectualabor taxing ply
ssaipoMers. ii acts like clar iparting TO that regu
lator and boianec.weel OF corporal machine The
strength 10 perform its functions, aud The power
crete In due quantity the solvent juices necessary per-
feet digestion There is species disea4e,
from neuralgia and tic doloreux the ehtest gatherings
Of the nervous system, which may be promptly sub
dued by this peerless invigorant. For all nonal
plants results Of dissipation, proceeding
from involuntary it is, iii the fullest the
word. invaluable. Ladies, who suffer severely nom
this description OF ailments, will do weto bear this fact
in mind.
The Cordial put up, highly concentrated, in pint boil
ties Price three dollars bottle. five dollars,
six for twelve dollars O. II. RING, Proprietor,
193 Broadway, New York.
Sold by Druggists throughout United States, Canadu,
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Agents.-wnkkLrso- KILLS d CALDWELL.
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preeaution againat the chole


By order Of The General Board of Health in Eng
aand-7'o the Coptains of Merchant IShtps. Stea-
4ne-e and Golfers.
FIRST INSTRUCTION.
Gu5r2 against Looseness of tAe 6otueEs & PlrpfnF
Before person is attacked by the cholera, he
II alnoat sure to have, for day two, OF for sew
eTal days, or only for few hours, some looseness
OF the bowels or Pnrging, there is often no pain,
but this must not put him off his guard as 10 the
importance of this warning. Tie captain or mate
ought, therefore, without alarming the men, 10 in.
qnire Of the crew daily whether any one of them
have looseness OF pnrging, as this might by chance
become worse. IT man is purging let him 60 to
bed, he kept quite warm, and if he is cold apply
bottles of hot water, bags filled with hot salt OF
bran TO the stomach and feel. Give him immedi-
ately-
Eight drops of laudanum IN wine-g lass of hot
and weak brandy and water; give the man this
every two hours, as long as he is pureed: the
same dose should be given night and morning Tor
one or two days after the purging has stopped.
SECOND INSTRUCTION.
What is 10 be done If Man Is Seized or Taken
Nth the Cholera.
This comes on with cold, giddinesS, sickness,
vomiting, and purging charlottesville dirty wat
e., or rice and water. Let the man get into bed;
cover hm we'll with blankets; apply bottles of hot
water, or bags filled with hot salt, sand, or bran
TO the stomach, spine, and feet; be sure he is not
exposed 10 draught or cold, The object being 10
get him into a sweat. Put large poultice of
mustard and vinegar ov,r the stomach, and keen
il on 10 or 20 minutes. Give the man is drops of
landanpm. with aleaspoonfll of brandy, Tor y his.
Ky or other spirit, in the absence of brandy) i'm
little hot water; little ginger or cloves may be
added. This medicine may be given every hour
for honrs but nor i0nger-it must then be let off
When the man begins to sweat, give him some
hot tea, with teaspoonful of brandy in it. and
keep him warm in bed.
THIRD INSTRUCTION.
When the ship is in pon medical advice should
be got soon as possible in any case of seizure as
the delay Of one hour may cause death.
FOURTH INSTRUCTION..
On Food
All kinds of fruit, salads, cucumbers, celery.
and pickles had better be avoided; also. oysters
Holsters crabs muscles, or other shellfsb.
The most wholesome articles of food are we'll
baked bread, good biscuits, rice, oatmeal, meas.
and good potatoes. solid food is better than fuid'
and therefore at this TINT il would be good thing
TO give the crew leef and mutton instead of soup.
FIFTH INSTRUCTION..
On tie danger Of Spirits. earn BrsRdy, Wine,
Beer, Sc.
Il IS avery common riotlon among sailors and
Dther people that brandy, " hiskys rum, wine and
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SUICIDE Bor.-The Louisville Journal re-
ates the facts concerning the suicide of lad of
thirteen years. named Henry Meuiman, ten miles
from that city.
"'rhis is one of the most mysterious well as
one o; themost extraordinary cases Of suicide ev-
er committed in this county. Henry was leVout
-hIlstian He had lost little sister who belonged
10 the church. This sister had given him pray
er book her death bed and desired him to use it,
He had become so Interested in the book, and Oh
the subject of meeting with dear sister, that it
was subject of daily conversation and prayer
with him. He appeared DESTROYS to be with her.
His mother had told him that lie would meet his
sister la heaven after death. He prayed nightly
and daily 10 her, and his fit Of religious in
sanity. he, upon his knees, cut lis throat from ear
10 ear, seyerng both jugular veins. This was
truly sorry sight to look upon-a heart-lroken
mother, afflicted father and distressed relatives
this was scene TO dissolve heart OF stone. Ev-
cry one present was in tears; every man became
it were child. The verdict of the jury was
that the child came TO his death from the influence
of the above facts. causing religious insanity"
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GoSsIP.-An action at law was lately tried in
one of the London Courts, in which Douglas Jer-
rod, the novelist, was defendant, and which has
given rise to little gossip JeTrold, 1t appears is
father-ili-law 10 Henry Mayhem. author OF "Lon.
don Labor and London Poor" and in consequence
of having introduced Mayhem 10 tailor, was
summoned to pay for certain garments obtained by
Mayhem from the "Knight of the Goose.''
Mayhem isyery extravaganza and at the tine he
contracted the debt he was engaged onthe Morn
ing Chronicle. furnishing articles on "Lonton
Labor and London Poor," for which he received
from 80 to 30 dollars per week. This was not
sufficient for his purpose, and in 1852 he found
himself in Queens Bench Prison, for not paying
his crenitors This did not hurt his feelings seri-
ously, and he consoled himself with tie reflection
that nobler aud better men than he had been there.
Jerrod has paid several hundred pounds for him
since, and vows he pay no more. In this case,
his defence was, that having paid large sums of
money for Mayhem before the debt in question was
contracted, he was not likely 10 assume The re-
sponsbity of this, and that lie did not pledge his
word, Gas the plaintiff swore,) 10 pay il Mayhem
did not. Here the issue turned upon q question
OF persona, veracty, and the jury took the novel
Sts word in preference to Inc lnr In the course
of the trial, Jerrod was sharply cross questioned
and gave some pnngent answers. He was asked
his age, and stated 1t at fifty. Mayhem is but eight
years his Junier, and is generally believed 10 be
any thing bat chicken of Son-in-law, He is
portly, bald-leaded man, aud evidently takes
the world easy. A person looking at the two,
trary) 10 take Jerrold for the n-in- law instead
OF MAYHEM, and such it was the determination of
the Tailor This makes the second case. III which
| noted literary character has been in Westpin-
ster Cont, ina suit OF money, during the past
three months.
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Males IS, Females q, eolorcd i.

utat %
II will be by reference above report
city continues to enjoy her usual share OF good health No
epidemic has yet made its appearance The few
and The most OF them were traeeable to nis
cretion in eating drinking, &c. We opinion
IL proper attention cleanliness is eiti
generally and exercised with regard diet,
need be entertained health
city. A. s. TODD, Secretary
GIPhysicians in writing their certificates will please
be particular in stating the age, the the
disease OF their deceased palIcntsi III doing they win
iyI A {
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HEALTH RESTORED.
Cure of Nervous Debility, Lungs, Sc.-Ontoard
march Of HaMpton,s Yegetalle l,inlettre.

Cure OF Nervous Uebihfy, lungs, t5c.--Onicdrd
fnurch Of Hdlnpton's Vegetable 1incttlre
BALIIMoRE, March 81, 1861.
Messrs Mortimer & Mowbray-L enteinen, wish tn
IoI you the benefit have deTiVeu nom the use OF
DR. Hampt toms Vegetable TinctnTc.
my earliest IeeolIections scarcely EMO.
days health. For number OF years was under
treatment OF the most skul physicians OF this city. My
disease by thenlliver complaint and
esia, with affection oil the Ind lungs. de-
rived very little, If any, benefit from their treatment
also tried various remedies, all highly died.
good effect Ny health continued 10 fail sepem
Der last when mind became seriously aGected my
memory ailedi great weakneSs ainting fits, could
not eat without grent pain, until life became
entirely useless 10 my family Just about time
fIisnd procured bottle OF this vaua bic TING
II had powerful effect upon me- in the res
torstion of heath and after takrg TIL bottles
to my joy say ealt is PERFECTLY restored
appetite good and now enjoy better health than ever
have any previous time during my whole ife all OF
which smelly ascribe of this most won
derIul medicine.
Yours. truly, aiARY A RIGGS,
2T9S. Paca street
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