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TIBERAIITY.
CAMBRIDGE. W., Feb. 10, 1855.


do not know why your course, on the mys
terious Know Nothing party, should affect the
circulation of your paper unfavoraby Were
a member of that party, it seems to me that I
should like the Era all the better for its out
spoken independence. An editor who dares to
write as he honestly thinks, against his own in
terests, is the editor for me.
The Era advocates one doctrine to which |
can never assent. / am protectionist, and so
are many of your readers. But think none the
less of the Era because it advocates free trade.
| am glad to read good paper on that side of
the question. Ny own view is, that our tariff
laws should be so arranged as to give efficient
protection to all home interests against all for
eign competition. The only argument have
ever seen against this policy is, that the foreign
poor will suffer by it. That may be; but it is
our duty to provide for our own poor; and if
other Governments do not the same thing, it is
not our fault. Protection creates business, and
business brings pay; free trade tends to destroy
all business, except agriculture and commerce.
Now, let there be few years of plenty, and
where would there be market for our surplus
produce2 Under a judicious tariff, the home
trade of Massachusetts, for the surplus products
OF other parts of the country, would be worth
more than the foreign market Of the whole
world. A home market is what we want, and
what we cannot have without protection. Sup
pose that, under tariff for protection, it costs
ten dollars to support my family a week, aud
that during that same week can earn fifteen
or twenty dollarsS and suppose that, under a
freetrade tariff, it costs FIVE dollars week to
live, and in that week have nothing to do, and
can earn nothing-which is the best condition
for me? And, what is my condition, is the con-
dition of all who live by their labor. Such are
very briefly my views on the tariff question, but
| am glad to read in the Era and in the New
York Independent what may be said in oppo-
sition to them.
So, of the Know Nothings. IL they knop any
thing, and are honest men, they will be willing,
nay, DESTROYS, to read what an honest man and
enlightened patriot can write against them.
The very few slaveholding oligarchs of these
United States are now having everything in
their own way. If the Know Nothings are to
fall in with, and uphold this policy, their sue
cess will hasten the downfall Of the Union. If
the Know Nothings are, as they profess to be,
true patriots, they can never be offended be-
cause they are closely watched and criticised.
Go on, then, my dear sir, unflinchingly, in the
course you have hitherto pursued, and your
real friends will stand by you.
l am yours, truly, CALVIN GRANGER.
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The POPULATION OF misunderstanding
to the official census just published, the popula
+;op M for tba We I'D G frIloxrx

In 1905 the population was 5,395,456. 1t
gradually increased until lS47 and between
that period and 1851 the diminution amounted
to nearly 100000.
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BRIGHTER DAYS IN PROSPECT.

"lN'hkSrhh, OHlo, JuH 4, 1000.
The Era yet lives, and trust will live, to be
the tyrant's scourge, and beacon to guide free
men to glorious victory. Things, nowadays,
60 zigzag, and especially politics. The reason
is, two antagonistical principles are at work, to
guide them, and they are nearer on equality
perhaps, in this Government, than any other
Justice and injustice, freedom and oppression /!
The one holds up its head, and looks you right
in the face, and acts openly, honestly, and
above-board; the other keeps dark, and acts Sc
cretly, dishonesty, craftily. Less than twelve
months since, and the tide of public opinion had
fairly set in your direction, or in favor of Lib
erty, especially in the North; and what DIR.
Bailey and Horace Greeley said was received
as almost law and gospel. Now you are in
some danger of suffering decapitation. And
why? Just because you are opposed to a Sc
cret political organization. Justice and liberty
require no such means for their support, in a
republican Government, unless we are ripe for
revolution, and there is no necessity for this
Be encouraged. You have seen dark DAYS be.
fore, and you have seen bright ones; and
though clouds may now hang over your path
way, the sun will again shine There is no
doubt the AntiSlavery feeling is deeper and
and wider this day, in the North, than it has
been for years past. JAMES DUNLAP.
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DO NOT BE 50 WISE.

PorTsTowN, Pa, January "a, 1855.
/ am sorry indeed that you have taken the
position you have in regard to the Know Moth
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in the same Light you do now. But believing
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WHAT THE ABOLITIONISTs ARE MAD ABOUT
A friend recently from Washington has related
to us little incident that transpired short
time ago in the Senate Chamber, and which
made some amusement among the members.
Mr.. Gillette, our Senator, sits near to Toombs,
of Georgia, and they frequently pass good
humored joke. A few mornings ago, just before
the Senate was called to order, while several of
the members were standing near, Toombs said
to Gillette They say, Gillette, that you alb,
olitionists are mad with the, Almighty .ter ma
king the m;ggers black" @Your informant is
slightly Mistaken" replied Gillette; Eve are
only mad with you Shareholders for making them
White." The allusion to the. bleaching Process
that is going on among the coored population
of the South was at once understood by all, and
Toombs Joined with much good humor sn the
general laugh.-Ha'tford Courant, Jan. 81.
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AN INQUIRY.
AN INQUIRY.
SANDY CREEK, OswEGo Co., N. Y,


bANDY CKEEK, USWEGO Co.: n. l.,
January 81, 1856.
SrR: Willyour correspondent Freedom, who
writes from Cleveland, Ohio, under date Of JAN
uary 10th, be SO good as to furnish the neces-
sary information, for those wishing to take the
preliminary steps to becoming stockholders in
the enterprise treated of in his letter. He has
touched chord that vibrates in this section,
and viii rest short of nothing but actual conf
municotion. Address !" w. NJ, Sandy Creek,
Oswego county, N. Y"
| write the above by request of many friends
OF freedom and reform, who are anxious to as
sist in rolling the ball started in Ohio.
w. MARTIN.
Better stick to the old, plain, straightforward
uars-Ed Era
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OUTSIDERS TEMPORARILY HELPED

! canddly believe that one-third part of the
Gardner vote came outside the Order. The
opportunity thus afforded-this escape from the
corrupt old organizations, and the emancipated
fin'iiug themselves anh,srt-has done and will
do more to disrupt, and keep disrupted, these
Union-savers and time-servers, than had we
adopted the Republican movement of the
Western States. Your editorials on the Know
Nothingism of the day are commended by all
who have steadfast Anti-Slavery principles,
and who, as such, are willing to cherish them
through evil as well as through good report
N, B. Fl.
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INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE.

The ratio of increase of the whole slave pop
ulatiOn, from 1910 to 1850, is stated at 28.97.
But this, be it recollectsd, is the average ratio
OF course, the ratio is far greater in Virginia,
where the climate is mild, the labor light, and
the treatment comparatively kind, than on the
cotton, rice, and sugar plantations Of the South.
1t well-ascertained fact, that slaves employed
in the cultivation of sugar do not increase. On
the contrary, after the abolition of the African
slave trade, there was a constant decrease in
the number of slaves in the British sugar
islands and now, in the State Of Louisiana,
there is no increase of slaves except by import
alton. Hence, if the average ratio is 1881, it
is very moderate estimate that the natural
ratio in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland,
and Delaware, must be at least 80 per cent.
Now, what are the facts?
In the last ten years, the ratio of increase
in
Virginia, is 5.2l per cent.
Maryland, 0.07 per cent
Delaware, decrease, 1909 per cent.
North Carolina, increase, l7.3S per cent
Do we ask what has become of the slaves
thus disappearing from these States? The
answer is found in the ratio of increase in the
importing States. Thus, in the last ten years,
slaves have increased in
Georgia, 1885 per cent.
Missouri, 1910 per cent.
Florida, 52.S5 per cent.
Mississippi, 1914 per cent
Arkansas, 1926 per cent.
In various other States the increase is far
above the average ratio. Hence we see that
there is a prodigious transfer of slaves; or, in
other words, a vast internal slave trade. The
slaves of Virginia Maryland, and South Carroll
ma, supposing them to increase in the ratio of
80 per cent. since 1910, would,
In 1850, have amounted to 1,020,033
Whereas, they number only ISL, 444
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Exported
I6S,589

Should these slaves average $500 head,
we have a receipt by these three Statea, of
sS4,294, 500, or S8,429,450 yearly for their
staple article of export Tribune
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that is going on among the colored population
of the South was at once understood by all, and
Toombs Joined with much good humor IN the
general laugh.-Ha,tford Courant, Jan. 81.
IMMIGRATION FOR JANUARY.-The number of
immigrants who arrived at New York, during
the week ending on Wednesday, was but ,764,
making total for January of 1852. The ar
rivals for the same periods in 1854 we're 4, 1872
for the week, and 1854 for the month. The
falling off for the month has been nearly one
hundred per cent. in 1855, as compared with
1854, and the immigration for January, 1854,
was very small in comparison with the ensuing
months of the year; and when, remarks the
New York Courier, it is remembered that late
advioes from Europe state that there are but
few storage passengers offering, it will be per-
ceived that there is good ground to anticipate
that-unless something should happen which is
not expected-the immigration for 1885 will be
much lower in number than for many years
past.
STATISTICS OF THE M. L. CHURCH-The
Christian Adoocdte and Journal contains the
returns for the past year from the several Method
ist Episcopal Annual Conferences in the United
States, which exhibit the following totals: Num-
Der OF members 679,282, and probationers
104, 076, being an increase of 30,732 members
during the year. The number of travelling
preachers in the several conferences is 5,4S3,
of which 4, 8l4 are effective the remainder being
either superannuated or supernumerary. There
were forty-two deaths among the travelling
preachers during the year. The number of To-
cal preachers reported is 6,l49. The total
amount of missionary contributions reported
from the conferences is S229,O49.
ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE-The late DIR. Kitto,
when boy, was removed from a workhouse, to
become an apprentice to a shoemaker. His
master coarse tyrant. The poor boy APP
pealcd to the magistrates. His written state
ment was marked by striking propriety of
sentiment and diction. The indentures were
cancelled, and he returned to the workhouse-
to him welcome refuge. He was not idle there
In 1923, his talents and capabilities being better
understood, he was enabled, by the kindness of
two gentlemen of the neighborhood, to publish
a small volume of essays and letters, and was
placed in position less unfavorable to self
improvement.
A Coon WATCHNAN.-On Monday forenoon,
a small dog named "Watch," belonging to a
man in Hanover street, came into the Chief of
Policies Office and walked gravely up to the
clerk, with the following note in his mouth
I" Mr.. Chief Of Police Please grant me- a
new license, and oblige former licensed Dog.
"WATcB
"P. 8. / do my own errands."
The clerk, DIR. II. G. Barrows, made out
new license which Mr.. Watch received with a
bark of delight and then, with wag of his tail
as an adieu, trotted off, holding the paper firm
ly in his nOuth-M1I
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Woe to. a nation that has to be enlightened by
such perjury, and to be sawsd by sach princi-
pies. Yours, respectfully, DR.. JUNG.
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NEW CONCERN
WILLIAMS Il HOOPER,,
DEALERS IN
Books, Stationery and Fancy Goods.

FINtlE sbscrbers have tn day formed partner
l. ship for the purpose OF conducting, in all its
branches, the Book, Stationery and Fancy business in
The lurge granite building, doors above the Ncrve
House and opposite the Warwick. They will keep
stanty hard large supply of Music Pianos Accor
dans and many other musical Instruments, To which
they earnestly invite tho attention OF eir tiends and
the public. Il. A. miLLihMe'
H. =. HOOPER.
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