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imself with wonderful strength, while he still

pleaded his cause. sum
MAJOR Hewitt felt my position, sir he had
compassion on me, and wrote that note. Give
need to 1t, SIR! The time may come. when.
on your own death-bed or by the sick bed of one
you love, and fear to lose, and pray for, It NAV
console and bless you to remember the mercy
you may now show to me; the Good Being has
SAD, Blessed are the merciful, for they shall
OBTAIN mercy Give me the permit, sir let
me go and comfort my poor dying Fannie, sir
Oh y ! DO beseech you'll"
Will you have done worrying me? Major
levitt is an old dotard The mercy you self
khy crave for yourself would be cruelty to all the
other negroes Once more, and for the last
time, tell you, and l stcear it, by all the de.
mons, l will not give you the permit"
/" Then, by the justice of Heaven, will 90
without it
"WHAT!"
~ will go without it If cannot pass the
bridge, will wade the marsh and swim the
RIVER! Aye, IT it were marsh of blood, and q
river of IRE !" exclaimed Valentine, losing all
selfcontrol, and breaking into fury.
Why, you audacious william! You shall not
stir from this housed"
Neither man on earth nor demon from HI
shall stop me broke forth the man, in voice
Of thunder, striding off,
In an instant, Mr.. Waring had intercepted
him, holding up light cane, and exclaiming-
Stand back, you villain !"
Valentine came on with the evident inten-
ton OF attempting to pass. Mr.. Waring met
him with sudden, sharp blow with his cane
across the face. And, as Valentine, giddy, and
blinded for an instant with the blood that
streamed from the cut, staggered backwards
Mr.. Waring, by another heavy stroke with the
Ina ad nd Of tha falI ~
and proceeded to follow up his victory with sew
eral other severe blows.
But Valentine was struggling to his feet, and
at last sprang up-reeled, righted himself
cleared the blood from his eyes, glared around ;
and just as Mr.. Waring had broken his cane
with final stroke over his shoulder, Val
entine saw and seized heavy oaken stool,
and, aiming one fatal blow with all his force,
struck his master in the face The heavy leg
Of the oaken stool, aimed with all the strength
of madness, crushed the eye-entered the BRAIN
and Oswald Waring fell, never to rise again
But Valentine was maddened phrensied and
showered blows upon the dying man, like one un-
conscious of his acts, until the agonized screams
of women brought him slightly to his Senses
when he found himself seized between Mrs.
Waring, who was, amid her frantic shrieks
trying to pull him away, and Phadra, who was
crying, distractedly, "Ohl Valentine, he was
your brother! Your only brother And you've
murdered him!"
He glared from one to the other in the
amazed, bewildered manner of one half waken
ed from horrible dream looked at the mutt
lated form before him looked at the strange
weapon in his hand-the foot-stool, with its legs
clotted with blood and hair; and then, with
violent start, and an awful change of aspect
as if for the first time, the reality, the horror
and the magnitude of his crime had burst upon
his consciousness, he stood an instant, and,
casting the weapon from him, broke from the
hands of the women, cleared the porch at
bound, rushed across the yard, leaped the fence,
crossed the road, and plunged into the shadows
OF the cypress swamp beyond.
That night, as Fannie lay on the wretched
bed of her poor room, in darkness and solitude,
and in the semi-delirium of fever, suddenly an
apparition, like some CHASTITY phantom of her
husband, cleaned out from the surrounding
shadows, stopped over, raised her in its ghosty
arms, chartered, raved wildly, incomprehensi
bly,, and-was lost-whether really from the
room, or only from her failing consciousness,
is not certain-and, indeed, how much of this
scene was an actual occurrence, and how much
of it was the mere phantasmagoria of frenzy,
the sufferer never knewl
by The following spirit-stirring call has
been issued by the Hon. David Wilmot.
TO THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM IN PENNsYL-
vANIA.
In ful6llment of the duties imposed upon the
undersigned, as member of the National Ex-
ecutive Committee for the State of Pennsylva-
MIA, (appointed by the Republican Convention
held at Pittsburgh, on the 22d ultimo,) and in
compliance with the wishes of numerous friends
throughout the State, notice is hereby given,
that a Republican State COnpention aViH be held
in the City Of Philadelphia on Monday the
1914 dag Of June nert, al ten o'clock A. NJ, for
the formation of an Electoral Ticket, and the
nomination of State officers, to be supported
at the ensuing Presidential and State elections;
and, generally, for the transaction of all such
business as shall come before said Convention.
The undersigned would recommend that said
Convention be composed of delegates, twice in
number to that Of the members of the Senate
and House of Representatives and that the
friends of Freedom in the several counties of
the Commonwealth meet ct the county seat,
or other convenient place in their respective
counties, on Saturday, the 3lst day of May
next, unless some other day will better accom-
modate, and elect delegates to represent them
in said State Conventions and also, at the same
time and place, elect three delegates from the
several Congressional districts, to represent this
State in the National Nominating Convention,
to be held on the 18th day of June next, in the
city of Philadelphia,
The undersigned feels that he would not prop
erly discharge the duties of his appointment,
if he failed earnestly to urge upon the freemen
of this Commonwealth, without regard to for
mer party Divisions, to unite in the patriotic
effort now making to rescue the Government
of the Union from the domination of an Arts
tocracy founded upon property in slaves. The
shareholders, constituting less than one in fifty
Of the free population of the country, control
all the functions of the General Government,
and pervert all its powers to one end-the ag-
grandizement and perpetuation of their power
They rule as With rod OF iron--tramplhg I'M
der foot the teachings of our fathers, and the
benign principles upon which the Government
was established. They contemn the rights of
human nature, thereby exposing man to every
outrage. There is no safety for humanity but
in the acknowledgment of its rights, Through
all its organs, in the prese, and on the floor of
the National Legislature, Slavery asssils those
fundamental truths declared to be self-evident
in the Declaration of independence. 1t impi-
ously denies the supremacy of Gods law; &C.
knowledging no rule of right among men, save
its own cruel and tyrannical enactments 1t
has involved our country in foreign war for the
extension of its territory, and the aggrandize-
ment of its power. In the reckless pursuit of
the same ambitious design, it recently invaded
the most solemn National Compact; and to-day
threatens war of determination against the
peaceful settlers of Kansas, unless they submit
to the usurpations of lawless and armed inva-
ders of their Territory; and to laws, the enor-
nifty of which, have no parallel in the code of