The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-02-23

particularly in northwestern Ohio, will see that
it receives liberal support.
LITERARY NOTICES
DovEcoTE; OR, The HEART OF THE HOMESTEAD.
By tho author of Cap Sheaf Boston: John T.
Jewett 4 Co. Sold by Taylor Maury, Washing
ton. vol Pp 800.
A pleasant picture of home-lfe in the coun-
try-of Life among woods and hills and streams
and fields where the sweet influences of Ma
ture are free to play around the heart like
summer wind.
The story of Milly, the "poor waif OF the
world" which is like silver thread running
through the book, is simple and touching The
author has drawn from full heart, rich IN
sweet home affections and dear old memo
ries-a heart that has communed with Nature
in all her varied forms, sought out her green
shady hooks, and fingered in her quiet haunts,
till it has become familiar with every Inca
ment of her lovely face. 1t is book to dream
over. AS the author says in his preface, the
reader will find the quiet dreams at the hearth,
the glowing visions in the woods and on the
hills, the sweet memories that swarm in the
old garnet and barns, and the pleasant medi-
tations that flow out of the heart by the brook
and the river"
We; too have "sweet memories of an old
homestead in the country, girdled by green
hills and smiling fields, where the sun shone
brighter than anywhere else; and we thank
the author of "Dovecote for the pleasant
glimpse he has given us, as through mirror,
of the bright days of our own childhood and
childhood's home. G.
MRS BEN darcy OR, THE VEAL AND Woe OF So
cIAL LIFE. By A. Maria Collins Cincinnati ::
Moore, Anderson Wilstach, & Keys. Sold by
Gray BaIantyne, Washington. l vol. PIP. 367.
This is work of great power-the best
temperance tale we have ever read. The pic
lures of social life are skilfuly drawn, and with
truth and vividness that stirs the soul. Who
can read f" Mrs. Ben Darby" and ever again
put the maddening wine-cup to his lips?
There is, as the author has intimated, an
other slavery beside that of the negro race-a
slavery that is felt in high places, and carries
in its train madness and ruin. The slavery of
the negro is the slavery of the body-the sla-
very of the inebriate is the slavery of body and
soul!
The volume is deserving of high commenda-
ton, and we hope it may be extensively read.
G.
AN ATTIC PHILOSOPHER IN PARIS; or, Peep at
the World from Carrot. Being the Journal of q
Happy Man. From the French of Emile Souvestrc.
So many unhappy people have written jour-
mails, and they are usually filled with such NOR
bid, egotistical unhealthy stuff, that few people
of good taste will read them. But this book is
what it purports to be; and there is religious
sentiment pervading it, which is by no means
common in popular books, and especially in
French literature.
Farnham has it for sale.
L1NNY LOCKWOOD. Novel. By Catharine Grove,
author Of "Susan IOpley," Lilly Dawson, y
Night Side of Nature" &c. New York; Apple
ton Co.
We cannot speak critically of this book, for
we have not read it. But, turning over its
pages we have seen enough to venture the as
sertion that it is clever, spirited sketch of
English life and manners, and will serve as
we'll as another to amuse an idle hour.
For sale by Farnham.
EXTRACTS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENCE.
A subscriber sends us the proceedings of q
meeting at Poughkeepsie, Duchess county, N.
Y, in Mr.. Deans district, held February 9th,
for the purpose of denouncing the attempt now
on foot to repeal the Missouri Compromise.
Hon. Abraham Baker, aided by several Vice
Presidents, presided. Speeches were made by
w. Wilkinson, c. Bartlett, James Emmett, and
w. H. Van Wagner. Among the resolutions
adopted were the following
"ReSolued, That there arc limits to political
generosity and forbearance, beyond which con-
cessions ceasing to be laudable and patriotic,
become degrading and ignominious.
"Resolved, That whether we have regard to
constitutions, laws, com acts, compromises, or
to the teachings and examples of Washington,
Jefferson, and other sages and patriots Of the
Revolution, we are constrained to feel and to
avow that the bill of Senator Douglas, repeal
ing the Missouri Compromise, and opening the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska to the ad-
mis- sion of Slavery, is uncalled for, anti-repub-
lican in its principles and tendencies, a gross
breach of plighted faith, a fountain of political
Generalization and of national dscord-a BILL
in fine, fraught with the greatest evils, both
present and prospective, to our own country"
Our correspondent adds, that Mr.. Dean,
being on visit to his constituents, lately found
the feeling against the bill much stronger than
he had supposed.
A subscriber from Wilmot's district, Penn
sylvania, writes, that great excitement prevails
there, and call for public meeting at Tow
anda, Bradford county, headed by David Will
mot, has been issued.
Oxford, Michigan, Feb o." The Nebraska
Territorial bill has awakened profound inter-
est We shall protest against it by petitions
and sustain the Independent Democrats in the
position they have taken. Would to God We
had voice in Congress Of the same sort ~
Meetings to protest against the bill are an
nounced all over the free States.
A subscriber at Whitewater, Wisconsin,
writes aThese are perilous times for Freedom.
The Nebraska bill out Herod's Herod. North
ern dough has become 80 soft that it can hard
ly keep it's shape over night. We in this State
are living on soil free from Slavery, through
the operation of the Ordinance of 1887, and it
grieves us to see the dark cloud of Slavery
spreading towards territory entitled to the
same boon by the legislation of 1920"
CHARLESTON, S. c., Feb IA, 1854
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