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Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-12-12
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THE LovEsEcR.ET,

~ q IA Il T.
Edward is to.be in.New York next
week, said Mrs. Rayensworth, 'and
: ] trust, Ellen, that you will meet him
with that frankness he is entitled to
receive >.z 1.t.sI - h !. 49,:
: Ellen Hamilton, who stood behind
the chairsof her aunt, did not make
any answer. , III III: -:3 =
Edwards father, continued Mrs.
Ravensworth. was your fathers own
brother. A man of nohlerspirit new
er moved on the oil:of freedom; and
Ihcar that Edward is the worthy son
of4a worthy sire." 4 e, n 81
IF he were as pure and perfect as
an angel, amt, replied Ellen, it
would be all the same to me- 1have
never seen him, and cannot, therefore,
meet him rs one who has q right to
claim my hand =..=5 IT, I.
sYour father gave you away when
!. you were O child, Ellen, and Edward
comes now to claim you by virtue Of
this betrothal.' IF rs Is
= while / love the memory Of my
father, and honor him as 3 child
should honor o parent, said Ellen
with much seriousness, Il do not adj
NIT his right to give me away in mar
riage while + was yet a child. And,
moreover, / do not think the man who
would seek to consummate such q
marriage contract worthy of my mai
dens love. Only the heart that yields
q free consent Is worth having, and
+, the man who would take any other is
utterly unworthy any woman's regard.
By this rule Iindge Edward to be I'M
worthy, no matter what his father
may have been
Then you mean said Mrs. Ravens
worth, deliberately TO violate the sol.
emn contract made by yourfather with
the father Of Edwardp
:. Il cannot receive Edward as any
thing but q stranger, replied Ellen.
ST will not mend the error Of my
father for me- to commit . greater
one.
.How committing still greater
onei' enquired Mrs. Ravensworth.
Destroy the very foundation Of Q
true marriage--freedom of choice and
consent. There would be mo freedom
Of choice ON his part, and no privilege
Of consent on mine. Happiness could
not follow such union, and to enter
intoit would be doing 9 great wrong.
No, aunt, I cannot receive Edward in
any other way than as stranger for
such he is. IS,
There is clause in your father
will that you may have forgotten,
Ellen said her aunt.
THAT will make me pennyless, u
do not marry Edward Hamdent-l
have not forgotten it, aunt,
And You mean to brave the conse-
auence, said the aunt. .sf
In choice Of evils we always take
theleast,' Eiiens voice trembied.
Mrs. Ravensworth did not reply for
rome moments. While she sat silent,
sthe half closed door near which Ellen
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Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-12-12

The race Of mankind would perish
did they cease to aid each other. y
From the time the mother binds the
child's head Ito the moment that some
kind assistant wipes the death damp
from the brow Of the dying. we can.
not exist without mutual help. All,
therefore, who need aid have Q right
to ask it from their fellow-mortals; nc
one who holds the power Of granting
can refuse without guilt. 5.s5 IA. 3sI
Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-12-12
!. pottpal.:
For the Star Of the Kanawha Valley"
lines, In Reply to . tadJ-Eiiiisu Some
II Years Since VT II +.

Aitho' immeasured be the pace
in which ] thankthee fottke words
Tbst arm me for LIES weary race, /: +
Whose kindness with new courage gilds
Ne for the goal-l thank the not I f..
Less truly, nor shall soon forget
; Thy Kindness for Upon my heart II ~
ns seal is deeply set. ! =. &
The time may be v hen e'enthe name
Y Thatnow Is hear with no cc!at. IF J.
Will gather to itself fame; r ~. 7 ::
: Shah wake an eehotfrom afas. .,.,-
The time may be when hundred eyes ~
Shall look approval, hands applauh,
And Deauty's lips, and Beauty's sigis.
Give to me sweetest laud. = F..
There ID need still shall prize, O.
As deares far than wealth OF fame, -.
Or praise from Be3ntys=l lips or eyes,
TO find thy friendship still the same.
TO know that ia the gaze and sight, !. =
Ny conduct seen-to nothing blind
MY actions shall be judged aright -
shall approval fnd;r r." ! =
Thatdlike some struggle on, T. ~
And still like them, should fail to win
Ihave thy hearts approval WON ri
u 10 that struggle siilfno sin il v
Shall cast its shadow ogr my way; s+
II That ever through life's weary years.
in age, as even now, ( may Ia -. =.
Deserve thy warmest prayers. b..
Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-12-12

To the perfection Of trne friendship,
il is necessary that there. should Be
one particular individual selected rom
the rest ofmankind who may Be con-
sidered as another sell, to whom we
can unbosomi our serious thoughts,
before whom we IRE not ashamed to
lay open our wealknessan foibles;.0f
in the expressive phrase, to think
aloud. ass 81
Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-12-12

WAsHrEGToN MONUMENT. One hun
dred dollars was contributed at the
election in Buffalo for the Washing
ton Monument. Subsequently, some
pefson stale the box and money:
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
THE OLD HUMBUG.

! From the year 1913 to the present time, the
| South has been crying "dissolution secession
! &c. Whenever our Southern brethren are fearful
! that the North viii lie successful IN any euari
which has for its end the curtamcnt of slavery
then we hear the old humbug -"dssoiuton OF
the Union'-and this scare crow has been the
means more than once Of inducing the North to
relax her efforts in the cause of down tTodden hu-
mSnity. Bot thank Cod it con frightcn us no
ion9er-no longer viii it cause US to yield one men
OF the vantage ground we have gained and winch
%e intend to hold--no longer will the buster
ing of southern fl|ibusterors turn us aside from
the path of right, but they will give us new ener-
ges and new strength, to do and dare in the battle
Of freedom.
For some time past the South have been com
paraivcly silent because they knew bv the passage
of the Nebraska bill they had unlawluliy appro-
priotcd 10 themselves that which did not belong
to tlom and they were in hopes that the Nor.h, as
usual would conccde to their unjust demands, and
they would Gc permitted to quietly plant slavery
on territory dedicated 70 freedom for thrty-four
years. But they find they are mistaken, They find
that the North is fully aroused, and will not bend
the knee and falling to quiet the angry waves
they have at last sent forth the old bugle tome
Hence VIC hear the Governor Of Georgia recon-
mending to the Legislature Of that State "to pro-
vide for calling State Convention in case Con
gress refuses to admit Kansas into the Union on
account Of her being slave State, in which case
lie advises dissolution of the Union, but hopes
the patriotism Of the North, will avert such q
calamity"
Lot it conceive say, lei it come. THE patriot
ism OF the North" will not avert such calamity,
if By doing it she must ignore every principle OF
right and justice. The time bas gone by when
the South can break solemn compact and then
turn round and ask us of the North to sanction Il
and Is doHe The Rulcon has been passed, and
'siniS swim, live or die" the friends Of freedom
are determined that slavery shall no longer pol
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
a FIRE.EATER IN KANsAs.

A correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat Wis.
tied Kansas and fell in with one Of AtcLison's Ere.
eaters who had slave, which he describes as fol.
lows: -
This gentleman Ind slave the 1eetelest rnite
toi Niger you ever saw--about four wears old
and 50 uncommonly small OF his age that il re-
quircd microscope of considerabln power TO see
even hls'corpoFAtiun' | was nfraid to move about
the house lestI should stamp him to the other
SIDE Of Jord0n; and never used my handkerchief
Incautiousiy lest should put him in my pocket by
mistake, and be arrested us a 'niggcr-thief' Yet
hls owner talked about our property and about
guaranteed by the constitution aud about dig
solve the anon, ana other tiresomc Calhoun cant
as II he aud his little speck Of nccrodom were Of
Infinitely more consequence than the perpetuity OF
our glorious far rstrcrciing empire, tie existence
OF our grand incompatible Democracy, and safety
Of the lives of our brave brethren from Maine To-
Texas. | was getting angry by degrees, and would
soon have becn beautifully 'riied' if his wife had
not made an observation which sounded so comic
lin view Of the little darkey Lliputian. that /
was compelled to laugh outright, and invent a fun.
ny anccdote 20 apologize for my rudeness Sbo
SAID Iwould leave, and so would lie, if Kansas
should be free state Indeed said l. 'whyY'
Oh ! she rojoined, i wouldn't bemean NV parents
by living in State where white people have to do
their own house-woTk.' Now, the little darkey'
could hardly lift pin and would have staggered
beneath IL nieatherand rs she had told me previous
y that lie was the only slave they had ever owned
enjoyed the ariStocratic observation with so much
zest, that reliShcd every Calhoun threat the old
man uttered eli the evening after" ia
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
Mr. GARRISON rs. ArCHIsoN & co.

The Liberator of the 10th ult, contained q very
able, truthful, candid and dguled letter from Mr.
Garrison to the Boston Auti-Slavery Lecture Com
mittce, declining their invitation to give one Of
their Winter Course of Lectures in the fremont
Temple. The Committee had carried their hber
ty far to invite several Of the rankest pro-sla
very Cheitans in the land to come as Lecturers
and say their say of slaveho!ding, including even
Gov. Wise Of Va and Senator Atchison Of Mis-
souri,. Those worthless very consistently declined
the honor. But other notorious justiGers of man
stealing have consented to ceme Without any
disrespect to the Lecture Committee, or harsh re-
proach Of their judgment in providing such enter
tainment for the BostOnians Mr.. Garrison dc
clines being at all connected with it, lie regards
slayeh0ldiGg presistCnt man-stealing, and ca p
ital crime worse than murder in the first degree.
lie is right. lie considers it an insult to the NOR
al sense of mankind, to argue the innocence of
slaveholding. lie is right. lie thinks large
class of the Bostonians are quite pro-slayery
enough, without employing sayehodng lawyers
to eXpend their eloquencc in special pleading
against common humanity. lie is right. lie
knows that price has been set on his own head
10y those slaveholding literati, and that lynch law
against all outspoken Abolitionists is the Common
law OF the whole South. And this we all know.
Yes, downright ruliianism is what awaits all un-
compromising Abolitionists in that broad portion
Of "our glorious Union" If Non Resistants have
not the chivalry of the Bowie knife, tar kettle and
feather bag, rejoice that one of them has the
moral chivalry to protest against mixing hlmsel!
and his cause up in literary banquet with those
knights Of cruelty an1 outrage. 1T is high time
for honest and humane people to treat the foulest
and blackest of crimes with at least as much NOR
al repugnance as they do petty larceny and let the
brazen faced iustifers Of such crimes know that
they are not regarded as honorable mon. This can
be done without hating or wronging them, even
in one hair of their heads. But it cannot he done
by according to them the highest tokens of respect,
paying them literally for insulting humanity and
them to the courtesies Of genteol
public. "What concord hath Christ with Belial 2"
A B.-Practical Christian.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY.

The New York Times in speaking of the opera.
tons of this railway remarks:
We happened by the merest accident a short
time ago, to drop IN upon the depot of the Subter-'
ranean Road, not having any suspicion of the uses
to which it was put. and seeing n "lot of likely
young negroes sitting there, who looked as though
they had but recently come from plantation, we
inquired who and what they were, and found that
they had just arrived by the Underground Ro6si.;
and we're only stopping few hours for refresh.
ment They were fine, hearty set of men, very
black, and seemingly extremely well pleased With
their prospects. We questioned them ns tovhe
manner in which they had found their way, and
how they came to know there was such an institu-
ton as that which had enabled them to escape
from bondage; but they were not disposed to be
communicative. Some of them were from Virgin
ia, some from Maryland and one from North Car.
olina. One of the men, very intclligent-lookine
mulattO, said .har he had just been sold for ST..
300, and not liking his new master, he thought he
would try to take Gaze Of himself One of the wo-
men was very sad at the thought of the little child
she had left behind, and had planned scheme for
going back to "fotch him" .....''i = ~ 4
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
SALEM COLUMBIAN COUNTY ONO SATURDAY, DECEMBER

always follow him IL he insults man, who
shows fsbt, he is suro 20 draw bis weapon and
.hoot or stab first. If he receives a stroke from
onc's fist, as he frequently deserves lio butchers
the offender, and tho lawyers make the jury be-
licve that the deed is ono Of selElo' 'cnce. lie IL
nearly always in shooting or stahbing scrape
and thouglr everybody knows he is IN the wrcng,
some how or other he Invariably manages get
out Of them. lie is socicty's enemy and society
is lis enemy.
In the South, murderers and mansloycrg are to
be found in every village, town and neighborhoo1,
going at large aud ever ready to add another to
the list Of their victims. In the Northhc i, said,
to the credit of Northern courts and Northern
iurics these characters meet with less lenity.-
there murdcrers arc sent to the scaoldo at least,
to the reniteuiarv, The high position and M
merous friends Of P.o essor Webster coullnot snyc
him from the penalty due to his crime; but Matt
Ward in Kentucky, Sho committed crime equally
hcnions, and more ?owardly, is turned loose from
the clutches Of the law, as an innocent man For
a much less offence than Wards Dr. Graham, in
New York, was justly sent to the pcnitentinry.
At the South, If it can 5e proved that q man
slayer is IN he hGlH of caTyjRg 're0poaS, it il 30
much in his favor, as it is regarded as precludinE
the presumption Of malice prcpcnsc."
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
a CANDID OPINION.

Most newspaper readers have heard Of Colonel
Walker sort of Yankee banditti Chief, who has
made hilbustering his trade, in other words hos
been pushing his fortune by means Of robbery and
murder on an extended scale. Some time Last
year he made himself notorious 5y fool-hardy ex.
pedltion, the aim Of which was to gain q soyer-
eighty for himself by Wrestling Lower California
from the Mexicans. The expedition was unsuc-
cessiul, number Of his followers were shot and
hung, and their leader Walker, narrowly escaped
the same fate. If any have lost sight of his ca.
reer since the; reiud the news Just received by
the Star of the West will Of necessity again fix
their attention upon it. Baffed in his designs on
Lower California, lie turned his STEPS elsewhere.
and We now hear OF an Gtrocicus deed perpetrated
by him in his capacity Of Commauder-in- Chief OF
the forces, and 3e 52cto ruler of the Republic Of
Nicaragua We have not any detailed narrative
of the events which resulted in the overthrow of
the previous legitimate Government, md the in.
stalling Of Walker and his gPng Of des pefA aes in
their place. But, however it might have bcesi
brought about, it appears the revolution is au fait
dccompH and that Colonel (now General) Walkers
Government has been formally recognized ay; the
United States, their Ambassador being John H.
Wheeler, another gentleman who recently acquired
an unenyable notoriety in connection with the
Passmole Williamson case at Philadelphia Wal
ker we believe WAS a lawyer and an editor in New
York, before he took to filibustering-T T5ronfon
GioL;,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
From the Free Presbyterian
TWO SLAVEH0LDERS-ON AN INFIDEI
AND THE OTHER A PROGRESSED
CHRISTIAN,

Twenty years or more since Mr.. John Allen,
late of Ripley, Brown county, Ohio, settled in the
town of Dover, Ky, on the Ohio river. Although
from Pennsy ylvania, he purchased a slave woman,
who, afterwards, while he owned her, became the
mother Of two male children. From an lntidel, he
became professor of religion in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, lie at length became dssats-
fed with slaveholding, and determined to leave
Dover and settle at Ripley. Instead of setting his
slave woman and her children free, MS he should
have done, he sold them to brother Methodist.
q. Sullivan, commonly known as Buck Sullivan,
who, as Mrs. Allen says, was very warm profess
sor Of religion, and much opposed to slavery. The
two boys were to be free ut rs years OF age; the
freedom Of the mother was not secured After
the woman was sold to Sullivan, Mrs. Allen says
she became the mother Of six children, and these,
of course were slaves for lire. One Of these, a
girl Of fifteen years old more, Sulliyal sold
more than year since. The two boys were to be
free within three years or less. One of them had
married q slave wife, belonging to the late Antho-
no Fose, an lnidel who had few months since
sold her and her children 10 slave driver, and
thus he was robbed Of his wife and children, and
consequently, was in great distress.
A few weeks since, Sullivan sold both the boys
that to be free, and all the remainder of the
children of the woman bought Of Mr.. Allan, ex-
cept the youngest one; and he also sold a grand
child, with its mother, whom Mrs. Allen says he
sold from her husband. All, it is said, seven in
number, tied and sent to Maysyille, and some
days since they passed Ripley, in irons, going
down the river to market. Whether Sullivan sold
the two boys for the remainder OF their time, or
for life, is of no consequence as it respects their
freedom They will doubtless be placed beyond
redemption
SullyanEitis believed, is now member of the
Methodist Church South and has preaching
in that Church, and teaching his hearers that sla-
very is right. Sullivan lives on the banks Of the
Ohio river, in full view Of the town Of Ripley
n,,H l,Eal alt, aH ,rit
Of the some town-a region where public opinion
throws the strongest restraint upon slavery; and
yet here are two neighbors, one an avowed lnfdel
and the other a professed Christian and the
father of professed Christian minister, and
each of them has torn wife, with her offspring,
from tbs bosom Of her husband; but the Christian
has outdone the Infdel in crime. lie betrayed
the confidence his brother had placed in him, and
sold the boys that had been committed % his care
for freedom. This exhibits the true spirit Of the
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15

Page, of Virginia. were among the Southern men
who argued that its prayer ought to be granted.i
This was the reception given TO antislavcry peti
tons by the fathers Of The Revolution, by the
very statesmen who framed the Constitution.
For nine successive years preceding lSl5. this
elementary light struck down in Congress,
substantially in this form
Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, rcso-
lutions and propositions relating in Gny way, or
to any extent whatever, to the subject Of Slavery,
shall without being printed or referred be laid on
The table, and no further action whatever shall be
had thereon
Nor is the unabridged right of petition yet re-
stored in either House of Congress-. 1t is hnnii.
atng TO say, yet such is the inct that 70 man did
more to dishonor n free constituency, and over
throw n right fundamental in NIL free governments
than Franklin Pierce, now President Of the United
States. Painfully suggestive is the contrast be-
tween his conduct, while in Congress. in the re-
ccption Of anti-snvery petitions, and that efJamcs
Madison; the contrast between Mr.. Perce's de-
mocydcy and that of the Virginia Presidents.
But there is room FOR only sample Of this class
Of facts in our political history. Our present linn
its will not allow details Of the executive interfe-
renee for main tanning Spanish domination and ne
gro slavery in Cuba, when the South American
States We're about to make it q free republic. Nor
Of the executive attempts to re-kidnap the Amis-
tead Alr.cans. and force them back into slavery
or to death. Nor of the murder of Elijah Parish
Loveioy. at Alton Illinois for maintaining freedom
Of speech and Of The press. Nor Of the sending
MesSrs Burr. Work, and Thompson, for twelve
years to tie Missouri State Prison, while it was
admitted they had violated no law of that State
Nor Of the overthrow Of the trial by jury and writ
of habe0s corpus in the recent Fugitive Slave
Bill.
The truth is, there is scarcely any feature Of
constitutional right which has rot been assailed
by the slave power, Nor can this result be avoid
ed. Free principles, Just laws, Christian liberty
all stand in the way Of this despotism The two
cannot unite. Slavery does and 'rU undermine
free Institutions, till at length nothing is left
but the name of republic; or Democracy and cor
sttutional freedom mast abolish slavery.-T}ue
ALaeitcdR.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-15
From the Pittsburgh journal.
DR.. PLUMER AND SLAVERY.

MR. RIDDLE: "A friend has called my attention
10 a letter addressed by the Rev. William s. Plum
er, d. d., to the chairman of committee of cor
respondence in Richmond, Va, republshed IN the
Pittsburgh Daily Dispatch of the 3st ult., and to
which is appended pungent commentary by Sou
venir,' the correspondent Of that paper.
The letter contains much that is revolving to
every one endowed by his Creator with n moral
sense; but do not choose to quarrel with any
mans opinions, and should no more think of dis
putting with DR.. Plumer on the subject of slavery,
than should of breaking a lance with Brigham
Young on lis peculiar views of domestic rea-
tions
But Dr. plumer has introduced into his letter
tho names of great and good men, in such con,
nectien es would lead hasty or careless reader
land the Porld is full of such) to infer that they
accorded with him in opinion. We have (says
DR.. P.) the authority of Montesquieu, Burke, and
Coleridge, three eminent masters Of the science Of
human nature, that, of all men, shareholders are
.he most jealous OF their libertiof' ''