The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-24
Correspondence. of tbe Gta.
FROM CANADA.

| FROM CANADA.
LORA, May !, 1855.
have received your specimen copy of YOU
proposed supplement to the National Era, anC
| have much pleasure in enclosing a one dollar
bill, of the Commercial Bank of Canada West
(Kingston,) as my subscription for six copies
| according TO your advertisement
feel particularly thankful for your faithful
exposure of the Know Nothing imposition, be
cause whatever else of good or evil there may
be in that party, it fundamentally involves two
principles, than which l know Of none other
more hostile to the natural virtue and happi-
ness of mankind, or more directly at variance
with Gods revealed truth, viz: lst, Secret So
cieties bound together by secret oaths; and,
I'd, Deliberately and designedly letting sin
alone; and a thousandfold worse, when it so
lets alone such an aggravated system of COM
plicated turpitude as the slave system of your
country.
lst Every person is Gods steward, endowed
with certain talents, as apportioned by Infinite
Wisdom and Goodness and is bound, by all
his obligations to God, freely and openly to
give, as he has freely received. No person can
bury his talent, without outraging the Wisdom
and the Benevolence which gave it.
I'd. The demons cried, Of old, "Let us alone"
and no cry of the heart is more cmphatically
descriptive of a satanic spirit, than that which
requires to be left undisturbed in its SINS All
the sacred agencies which God has appointed
for the salvation of mankind, demand, in tones
of mingled tenderness and terror, aggression
ceaseless, uncompromising aggression-impar-
tial. holy, benevolent, and bold.
/ should feel much gratfed would you indi-
cate to me who is that heroic young Abolition
list, and where he now may be, whose case. at
Greensboro, Georgia, on 18th March, is stated
in the 18th and l4th pages of your Facts, above
the cognomen of Morton.
Such a man is an honor to human nature !;
and, as long such men are found in your
country, Satan's empire, fearfnlly pervading
and powerful as 1T at present is, will not yet be
complete, and hope will remain for its peaceful
and effectual abolition.
1t would please me to have this letter pub
lished by you, i you please. c. STUART.
FROM CONNECTICUT
CLERKS DESK, HOUSE OF REFS,
Hartford, Conn, May ii, 1855.
1t has been my pleasure to read your paper
for several weeks, while on visit to a friend
in Massachusetts, and to respect, though could
not agree, with your opposition to the Ameri-
position, | wish to address you few words on
the political position of affairs in this State
not as politician and office holder but as a
private citizen.
Our Legislature, as you know, is strongly
American. Our Governor was elected in Joint
convention by the House and Senate, by about
! 10 majority. | forward Won by mail his lnau-
gural Message, and desire TO call your special
attention to his remarks on the third proposed
amendment to the Constitution, (granting the
right of suffrage to colored persons,) and on
the Kansas and Nebraska outrage, and to re-
quest that you will bear in mind, while reading
them, that he comes from the western section
of the State, in direct and frequent connection
with New York city, and the most cottOnish,
Union-saving section of all.
Of our Members of Congress, few words /:
Mr.. Woodruff, of the second district, elected in
place of Colin NJ. lngersoll, by about 1000 ma
jorty, expressed himself, in a letter published
previous to the election. as prepared TO go to
the utmost verge Of the Constitution in oppo-
sition TO Slavery. Mr. Woodruff was in the
House of Representatives last year, from New
Haven, and his course there sustans the asser-
ton of his letter. Mr. Clark, of the first Hart
ford) district, in published letter adopted Mr.
Woodrur's position as his own. He repre-
SCENTS Senator Touceys own city and district
Mr.. Dean, of the third (Windham and New
London) district, has been for years momber
| of the old Liberty party, and was triumphantly
elected by over 1000 majority, on account 81
his icei!Ea0rn sentiments on tbs subject 81
!Slorery. (By way of parenthesis, Lieutenant
Governor Field is of the same old Liberty
Guard.) OF Mr.. Welch, of the fourth fairfield
and Litchfed) district, know less, but am as
| sured. from authority whose lifelong devotion
to Liberty would satisfy even yourself that he
too is " all right"
| ! can at least say, for one, that ] shall dis
connect myself with the order of things in
| this State, so soon as | find it opposed TO tho
liberty of speech and the liberty of action OF
the subject. Ny antecedents are Whigish. In
| 1850, before | took active part in politics
Union-saving; since then, converted to the pre-
vailing Northern sentiment by the gradual &C
| ton of time and investigation, and especially
by the outrages connected with the Kansas anC
Nebraska transactions. And allow me to add
that the like sentiments are too prevalent t.
allow the voice of Connecticut to be stihed by
any =" Matchmaking" pressure.
Rely upon hearing from Connecticut in tho
same exceptional" manner, as certain polti
clans deem it, on the subject of Slavery, which
has characterized the popular and Legislative
action of other New England and Northern
States. L. L. III.