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FREE SPEECH IN KENTUCKY.

The correspondence referred to in the an
nexed article from the Cincinnati Gazette,
which gave rise to the discussion at Scafiold
Cave, has reached US too late for insertion this
week. 1t is perfectly respectful and courteous
on the part of the mob committee and of Mr..
Clay. The letter of the latter gentleman does
equal honor to his head and heart. 1t is at
once wise, courteous, brave, and magnanimous
No true American can read it without thrill
of generous sympathy with the gallant Ken
tuckian.
The committee in their letter politely inform
him, after reciting the false charges that had
been made against him, that he and Mr.. Fee
could not be permitted to speak in Rockcastle
county. To this he replies at length, denying
the charges of melting instruction and resist
ance to law, stating his true position. He CON
cludes, by informing them that Mr.. Fee and
himself would speak on next Saturday at Scat
fold Cave, in Rockcastle county. awe invite
you" says he, to share with us in the free
dom of opinion and of speech and may God
defend the right"
Such was the heroic response of the Ken
lucky Hampden to the mob of shareholders.
1t was not without its effect. He and Mr.. Fee
attended at the appointed time and place, and
addressed the people, without encountering
the least opposition All honor to Cassius M.
Clay G.
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tenets OF another. We want no cooperation be-
tween the Republican Party and Know Moth
ing organization, any more than between the
Republican and Administration Parties An
attempt at any policy like this will inevitably
prove failure. For one, we should go against
1t, and all its arrangements, to the death. Con-
tradictories cannot be harmonized, and ought
not to be. The thing needed is, not co-opera-
ton 6etsceen Parties, but an open, sincere,
determined union of the individual freemen of
the country, in grand Republican Movement,
without respect of PARTIES movement which
shall ignore all issues, but those rendered to us
by the Slave Power, and all Parties, but the
Slavery Parties, whatever their names, to the
utter overthrow of which, all its energies should
be directed.
Now, if the Anti-Slavery men Of Massachu-
sets, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode ISL
and, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and
Illinois, desire to participate in such a move
ment, to contribute their share to giving it full
success if they would not cut themselves off
from the great army of Freedom, stubbornly
maintaining doubtful position, which, like
that of Austria, while appearing to favor the
cause of the Allies, really plays into the hands
of Despotism, let them abandon their uncer-
tain policy, and repubtieanizs, themselves.
Alien Prescription, Religious Bigotry, Secrecy,
and Extra-J JUDICIAL Oaths, have had their day.
Now, make way for Party, open as day, clear
as sunlight, without fear, without reproach,
pledged to restore and maintain the rights Of
man, Vittom distinction Of birth, race, or creed
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GOVERNOR REEDER.

The semi-oficial Erening Star states that
Governor Reeder was removed because it has
become evident that he is no longer able to be
of use to the people of Kansas, since he cannot
agree with the Legislature in their highland
ed proceedings. In other words, he will not
become the tool of Atchison & Co. in their pro-
slavery schemes. The removal of Reeder Just
now is also intended to operate on the elections
in North Carolina, Tennessee, and other South
ern States. We presume that Dawson, his sue
cessor, has been selected with special reference
to his "soundness on the Slavery question"
He voted for the Nebraska Bill. G.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE CORRESPONDENTS
The State, as Regards the Cause of Liberty

Inc state, as Regards the Cause of Liberty
RAYMOND, N. H., July, %, 1850
To the Editor Of tie National Era:
New Hampshire did its part in achieving Or
National independence. 1t furnished solder
and officers to lead them on to victory. Ge
Stark In the war of the Revolution, Henry Deg,
born, an officer in that war, and General in Il.
second war with England, were of New Ham
shire, and natives of the State. So were mas
others who served with distinction. None wer,
more true to the interests of Freedom, and none
more heroic and brave, than those of this Stat
No officer nor soldier proved traitorOus to on
country's cause, and very few, if any, were COW
ards.
In carrying out what Jefferson said wnnId }.
the legitimate results OF the Declaration Of H.
dependence, the overthrow of Slavery, which
that patriot said was written on the scroll Of
destiny, New Hampshire has been sadly def
cient. 1t has abounded in men who have been
alarmed at threats of the dissolution Of the
Union, and who for a time encouraged mobs to
put down abolitionists. 1t has furnished men
who have used all their efforts to destroy the
right of petition, and to stihe free discussion.
1t has had men in office who have used all their
power to extend the domain of Slavery, and 10
Hldhc III q HdIlOlal lnSlltuJiOn. none from any
free State have got down on their knees more
humbly, and worshipped the system that leads
to man-selling, man-whipping, and mande.
grading, than some from this, the Granite State.
But this is not to be so much longer, as l.
trusted. Freedom lives. 1t is already maxim.
potent demands that the oppressed be set free
In Congress, several of Freedoms undauntei
who were natives of this State, hays
already been found-as, for example, Hale, o..
New Hampshire, in the Senate; Chase, of Ohio;
and Wilson, of Massachusetts. There have also
been some in the other branch of Congress.
Gov. Grimes, of Iowa, elected as an opponent
to the Nebraska outrage, was a native Of New
Hampshire. At the State election here, in 1871.
nearly one fifth of the votes were cast by the
Liberty party. In the next Congress, we shall
have an entire delegation, in both Houses, that
will stand up for humanity and the right. AMI
it will be relief to not have one there that will
apologize for Slavery, and be recreant to the
interests of Freedom, that Southerners, who at
heart know that Slavery is wrong, will not re-
gard as the meanest of sneaks.
JOSEPH FULLOYTOS.
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THE WHEELER SLAVE CASE.

Passmore Williamson has been committed
to Jail, without bail or mainprize," by the de-
cision of Judge Jeferies Kane, of the United
States District Court of Pennsylvania.
| In arriving at this decision, his Honor went
out of his way to intimate that Slavery is the
general basis of all American society, in virtue
of the Constitution and that the States cannot
by legislative enactment decree otherwise. He
| says:
81 know no statute of Pennsylvania which
affects to divest the rights of property Of citi-
| zen of North Carolina, acquired and asserted
under the laws of that State, because he has
found it needful or convenient to pass through
the territory of Pennsylvania.
! Il am not aware that any such statute, if
such one were shown, could be recognised as
valid in court of the United States"
If this decision should be confirmed by the
Supreme Court of the United States, and &C.
guessed in by the States, it etfectually rees-
| tablisbes Slavery in all the States of the Union
For, if a Southern stakeholder may hold his
slaves in the free States an hour, why not a
year, or for life ? Pretexts will never be want
ing to protract the temporary stay of the visiter
from the South with his " family" on pretence
of transient business, or sickness, or pleasure !;
and by such insidious arts, with supple tool
of tyranny, like Kane, to back them, the slave
holders will effectually establish the institution
over the whole Union
Kane is evidently true to his masters. He
renders no eye-service, but goes out of his way,
and gives what the lawyers call an obiter die
tim, to the effect that the free States cannot,
even by direct legislation, prevent slaveholding
In their borders. Can Federal insolence go
farther? Can the corrupt tools of Slavery sink
to deeper depths of infamy, or rise to sublimer
heights of impudence2 If the people of Penn
sylvania have particle Of selfrespect, or love
of Freedom, they will make the office of this
Federal minion an uncomfortable berth. Every
newspaper in the State, and in the free States
should denounce the treason and usurpation,
and hold up.tbe traitor to public Indignation.
But there is one consolation in this affair.
The champions of Slavery are "heaping up
wrath against the day Of wrath" They must
not hope to escape retribution. They will be
overwhelmed, in the midst of their rejoicings,
by the indignant voice of public opinion. G.
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VOL. TX,

against criticism in his introduction. thu,
will bend his bow and shoot at" the cr;..
who may dare to doubt his claims, and TIA, /,
will "plume again, and shoot an arrow mo.
we can but think, as the old Hermit of his 4,
says to Francis-we presume his perso,;s
self
You would but starve the world
lfi was made to live Oh poetry
That "the spider" starting a from the ,.r,
forth from his web" while his Thoughts "
soaring aloft into the "space" left for II.
did not "catch them all" it may be eve, !,
poet too may regret when, with a more 60,
view of such waste of talents, he set, T.
self-if he should do SOTO the serious t,.l
estimating the responsibility which his a.,
carries with it. We hold it to be a wro...
our country to throw out crude, commor,5.
thoughts, strung together in lines. and rl...
fully intersprinkled with oftrepeated ep;5.
and talk about fame" and "poet's crow.
"magic power" and "beauty," and q l.,
Emusic" and "song," &C., and cali it Pog-.
1t is the facility with which such works NAV
written, and printed, and then Landed in adj |
tisements, as if new Milton or Cowper 81.
speare or Byron, had appeared, that depr,i.
our literature, and lowers the aim Of yo,
genius, in its efforts to leave better im,..
on the public taste. 1t would be strany. +.
deed, if, in the compass of hundred page. ..
more, passage here and there mipbt ~,
found of higher character. Still. as nj
it is weak imitation of the recent volu,,,
Alexander Smith, and some late English W,
ters, without the redeeming features tha, mo.
rescue their productions from oblivion r.,
would 1t be to take Gerald Massey for his p.
el, If he would breathe the true spirit Of a boz,
genius, or the more polished and chase,
diction OF the classic Matthew Arnold. and + -.
ter trim the midnight lamp, aud often turn Il,
stile Of the selfcritic, to blot ont redupd,,,.
and to finish before he utters the product,
teeming in the mind of the would-be noe, ".
have said nothing of the sentiments conys-.,
in this Life Poem," which, tried by the o,..,
ueiiiahu Vi our Creator, would be subiectel =,
even severer responsibility. 1t is sad to ,a
His name and attributes so often emplcr.l
and, we fear, too thou.htlessly, as if mere. "a
give force to language, and such ideas, So q,
variance with the spirit of the Scripture. upl..
the title of Poetry. That Life Poem cor,l
be written, and no better views of life be take,
argues a deeper want than the want of I'm.
genius only. The volume we doubt not wi
have Its readers, and admirers, too; but v,
venture to say, that should the author live le.
years more, he viii not pride himself on such Al
effort of his muse. We would rather commao,
him to that Book and its poetry, where he vi
find the rich mine from whence our create,
poets have drawn their richest imagery. an
the choicest language that clothes their noble,
thoughts. Z
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CINCINNATI.

Notwithstanding the dull times which pre-
vail at present, and the numerous houses "to
let the Price Current of that city has high
hopes of her future prosperity and greatness.
Cincinnati is a splendid monument to Free
Soil and Freedom. Should she not be ALWAYS
true to the noble principle which is the source
of her prosperity G.
For the last two years, local circumstances
have been strongly against Cincinnati. Last
year, the crops failed throughout the country,
with but little exception, and our State laws
are directly opposed to our commercial pros
perity; many of them are foolish, as regards
our commerce, and several of them positively
mlschievous. Still, our city has stood up under
all, and has weathered the storm manfuily-far
better than her most ardent friends Anticipated
Look where we may, and we see demonstrated
the enterprise and the skill of our mechanics.
The planters of Mississippi, Louisiana, Ala
bama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas, culti
vate their plantations with Cincinnati ploughs:
haul their cotton to market in Cincinnati wap
ons, attached to mules or horses caparisoned in
Cincinnati harness; they grind their sugar and
their corn with Cincinnati mills, and spin their
cotton with Cincinnati machines. The citizens
IN all the leading cities and towns in the Mis-
slssippi valley, from the Gulf of Mexico to the
Northern lakes, arise each morning from a Gin.
cinnati bedstead, take their linen washed upon
a Cincinnati dashboard, from Cincinnati
wardrobe, perform their additions with Cincin-
natl soap, and their toilet before Cincinnati
mirror; they sit down upon Cincinnati chair,
to their breakfast laid out upon Cincinnati
table; they look out of windows, the sash. shut.
tiers, and blinds, of which were made at Cincin.
natl they open their Cincinnati DOORS hanging
upon hinges bearing upon them the Green,
wood stamp; they get into Cincinnati bugpies
or carriages, and drive their horses in Cincinnati
harness, with Cincinnati whip; they return
from their business or their pleasure, and re-
gale themselves with Cincinnati Sparkling or
'Stll Catawba.' They write with Cincinnati
ink, upon Cincinnati paper their children learn
to read in Cincinnati books; and, from East to
West, we have now applications for our steam
engines to extinguish fires.
"But there is no use in pursuing this train Of
thought any further; all those acquainted with
US know that the statements are correct, and
might be carried on in this way to an almost
indefinite length. With business thus ex.
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Curran, in "thoughts that breathe, and words
that burn" ain one case, sedition speaks aloud
aud walks abroad. The demagogue goes forth,
the public eye is upon him, he frets his busy
hour on the stage; but soon, either WEAKNESS,
or bride, or punishment, or disappointment,
bears him down or drives him off-and he APP
pears no more. In the other case, how does
the work Of sedition go forward? Night after
night, the muifled rebel steals forth in the dark
and casts another and another brand upon the
pile TO which, when the fatal hour of maturity
shall arrive, he viii apply the torch. Guard,
then, the Liberty of the Press-that great SEN
tinel Of the State, that grand debater of public
importance. Guard it, because, when it sinks,
there sinks with it, i'll one common grave, the
liberty and security of the Government"
ETA.
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written another politico-reIigious letter on the
dangers of Popery, and the Importance of the
Know Nothing movement to the salvation of
the country. Putting that and that together,
we cannot help suspecting that there is more
i" Buncombe in his letter to Mr.. Sumner, than
appears on its face. G.
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ga SUBJECT RESUMED"

A few words to the Tribune on the subject of
Free Trade.
We did not commence the discussion of that
subject, but merely referred to it incidentally,
in the discussion of another topic. q
The Tribune, retiring from the consideration
of that topic, because, it has since informed
us, it did not receive the number of the Era
containing our last article upon it,) challenged
us to print an editorial from its columns on
the question of Protection, promising, in re-
turn, to reprint our answer. We accepted the
proposition-inserted that editorial-following
it with full reply, which subsequently, ac-
cording to the arrangement, appeared in the
Tribune. That journal then proceeded to re-
join, in a series of labored articles. AS the
original proposition of the Tribune had been
accepted by US, and both parties had been
heard, we did not feel it incumbent to protract
the discussion; not because convinced that
We were in error, for in that case we would have
confessed it; not because we thought our posi-
tons unsound, or hard to be maintained; not
because we doubted the earnestness and sim
cerity of our contemporary; not because we en-.
tertained the slightest apprehension of the
effects of the discussions on the minds of our
readers; not because we had not fully and hon
estly examined the whole Question of Protec-
ton in its moral as well as economical aspects,
and reached fixed conclusions on the subject
but because we verify believed that at this time
we use our energies and our columns to better
purposes, than in the formal and protracted
discussion of question, not now pressing, and
which will be settled by the inevitable progress
of ideas. With what propriety the Tribune, in
view of all this, can say that the Era has
"backed out from discussion commenced by
ITSELF" we cannot understand.
In dismissing the subject for the present, we
must admit that there is part of it to which,
even in our summer retreat, we may be tempted
to revert-that which concerns the relations of
the question to the cause of Freedom. In the
creed of the Tribune, Protection and Freedom
60 together, as cause and effect, and so do
Free Trade and Slavery. This bold assump-
ton we shall have occasion, we are sure, to
examine.
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CASSIUS N. CLAY.

Some of the citizens of Rockcaste county,
Kentucky, have notified Captain G. M. Clay
and Rev. John G. Fee, "and all other Adolf
ton speakers and preachers" that they must
desist from speaking or preaching in that coun-
ty, under the penalty of being dealt with as
justice and the law requires
Captain Clay published long letter in the
Cincinnati Gazette, in which he announced that
he and Mr.. Fee acould speak at Scaffold Cave,
Rockcastle, on Saturday. He announced his
determination to stand by Mr.. Fee during his
speech, and that any one who interrupted him
should ride over his dead body. Well, Mr..
Clay and MIR. Fee met at the appointed place,
and the result is thus given by the Cincinnati
Gazette:
"The citizens of Rockcastle county. at a
meeting held ON the 18th of July, resolved, as
our readers are already aware, that Cassius M.
Clay, John 6. Fee, and other Abolition speak
ers, must desist from speaking in that county.
y. M. Clay's answer, to the committee who were
appointed to give him notice of that resolution,
was, that he and Mr.. Fee should both speak at
Scaffold Cave, in that county, on Saturday last
They kept that appointment, and were heard.
There was some difficulty about getting the
church, as there was an appointment for a SER
mon by the Baptist clergyman in the morning.
1t was, however, surrendered to Mr.. Clay at the
close of the service, and at IL O'Clock, John G.
Fee commenced speaking. He concluded his
remarks without interruption, and was follow
ed by Mr.. Clay. Both speakers were listened to
attentively, and no violence was offered or talk
ed of.
"The object Of these threats, it seems now
difficult to conceive. The people of Rockcas-
tie county certainly knew Mr.. Clay too well to
suppose they could intimidate him. The only
conclusion we can come to is, that they meant
at the time the threats were made to keep them,
but have yielded to the superior physical and
moral courage of Mr.. Clay.
"But Mr.. Clay is achieving greater results
than mere triumphs over physical force. He
is efecting slowly, but surely, change in pop.
ular opinion in Kentucky. There is an intense
excitement on the question throughout all that
part of the State. Excitement begets debate
and debate ELECTS thought; and all help on The
cause of truth. Free speech triumphed on Sat.
urday; may it ever triumph in Kentucky. and
in all the world besides" CAV
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The steamer Orizaba brings CITY of Mexico
dates to the 10th. The capital was on;et. San.
ia Annals father-in-law is reported to have
been appointed Minister to the United States,
wee General Almonte. Santa Annals family
would leave on the 26th, in the war steamer
iturblde. Santa Anna is said to be willing to
make some concessions to the insurgents.
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TENNESSEE POLITICs-THE WHITE BASIS

We find in the Wing or Know Nothing pa.
pers of Tennessee the following charge against
Governor Andrew johnson, who is stamping
the State as a candidate for reelection. We
are glad to believe that it is substantially true,
since it evinces a disposition to recognise the
rights of the people, in distinction from
those of the shareholders: G.
"Gov. johnson, in his reioiffier, charged
that his competitor had Graded or dodged the
free basis resolution he had the honor to intro
duce in the Senate of the extra session of the
Legislature, on the 9Th of October, 1912. 1t
involved a GREAT PRINCIPLE, he said. and one
which concerned the rights and interests of the
masses. 1t was obvious why his competitor
lodged an issue here, which he gladly met in
Fayette county. In that county there were
$4,000 slaves-in this, Campbell county, there
were 1901 The resolution he had offered, of
which he was proud as the friend of the people
and the poor man, and which had been voted
down by the lordly shareholders of Middle and
West Tennessee, was in these words
I" Resolced, by the General Assembly of the
State of Tennessee, That the basis to be OBJ
served in laying off the State into Congressional
districts, shall be the Uoting population. ,c;th-
out any regard to the hree:f5ihs of the negro
population
"Gov. johnson contended that the honest
working man Of Campbell county was borne
down by the aristocratic shareholders of Middle
or West Tennessee, and his fair daughters and
virtuous wife, under the law advocated bv his
competitor, were weighed in the balances
against the negro wenches of the proud slave
holderl"
CONGRESSIONAL NoMIEATIoNs-D Detroit. June
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