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The authors object is TO point out to the young
girl the dangers to which she is most exposed,
and give her aspirations the right direction; to
prove that neither wealth, nor position, nor
beauty, nor intellectual power, nor even love,
can satisfy the longings of an immortal nature,
that only faith in the Crucifed One, an entire
resting of the heart upon him, can give repose
to the unquiet spirit, satisfaction to the ever
asking heart.
The writer has shown full appreciation OF
the great object of living, and of the true way
TO beartify, ennoble, and perfect human charae-
ter 1t Is written in most attractive style; the
grouping is fine, the characters are drawn with
spirit and originality; it abounds in fine
thoughts, just and elevated sentiments, and
deep moral truths; and is altogether a very
charming book.
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of Maryland are deeply embittered in feeling
against "Abolitionism." Brooks was fined
but three hundred dollars by the District Judge,
for a crime which, if perpetrated upon a
Southern Senator by friend of Mr.. Sumner,
would have sent the culprit to prison, perhaps
to the penitentiary; and Brooks's speech in
vindication of the act was frequently applaud
ed by the galleries, in spite of efforts to pre-
vent it. These facts show that Mr.. Burlln'
game would incur more risk from mobs tor KILL
ing Brooks in duel in this vicinity, than
Brooks would incur in Canada for killing Bur-
lngame.
AS to distance, objections on that score are
frivolous. 1t is usual for duellsts from the
South to come to the vicinity of Washington,
to settle their disputes. We remember the
case of johnson and Jones, from the eastern
part of North Carolina, who fought at Bladens-
burg in l847. One of them, we are not GER
tain which, was killed on the spot. They could
not have reached the place of meeting in less
than two days. Mr.. Brooks can reach Niagara
in sixteen to twenty-four hours, by any one OF
tnIec VI iour Ioutcs, anu NJ Ono "Ouiu oo sAAe
wiser for it.
We conclude with an extract from the state
ment of Mr.. Campbell. He says:
1t is proper to say, that the suggestion OF
the Clifton House, on the Canada side Of
Niagara Falls, as the place, was presented
by me to Mr.. Burlingsme. At first ne disap-
proved of it; and added, with some feeling,
that if Mr.. Brooks was anxious to meet him to
negotiate &C., he would, if necessary, 60
even to South Carolina. l insisted on the
time and place had named {; saying to Mr.
Buringame, that if was to be his adviser, he
must be governed by my counsel, and that
could be responsible for my decision. Mr.
Burlingame then acquiesced, stating, that if q
communication was presented to me, objecting
to the time or place, in his absence, l should
change either, or both, at my discretion.
deem knowledge of the facts on this point
alike due to Mr.. Burlingame and myself in
view of the unexpected publicity which Col
Brooks has given to the matter through the
presSn
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ANALYSIS OF THE VOTE ON THE BROOKS
EXPULSION CASE.

1t will be interesting to the public to see an
analysis of the votes given in the above case,
affecting so materially the freedom of debate.
On the resolution for the expulsion of Brooks,
there were III votes in the affirmative, and
50 in the negative. Of the former, only two
were from the South, viz: Mr.. Hoffman of Ma
ryland, Know Nothing, and Mr.. Cullen of Del
aware. The Republicans, in body, all from
the free States, voted affrmatively, together
with Broom, Haven, Whitney, and Dunn, Fill
more Know Nothings; and Hickman, Packer,
Peck, Vail, Wells, and Williams, Buchanan
Democrats.
The minority of IS was composed of the
entire Southern delegation present, excepting
Messrs. Hoffman and Cullen, together with the
following Northern Democrats" who are the
peculiar friends of Mr.. Buchanan, and the sup
porters of Slavery, viz: Allen, Harris, and
Marshall, of Illinois; Cadwalader, Jones, and
Florence, of Pennsylvania Denver, of Califor-
mia English and Miller, of Indiana; Hall, of
Iowa; Kelly and Wheeler, of New York-12.
Also, Harrison, of Ohio, Fillmore Know Moth
ing.
Cobbs resolution, denying all jurisdiction
of the House in the case, received &C votes,
all Southern, except Florence and Jones, OF
Pennsylvania; Denver, of California; Harris,
of Illinois; Hall, of Iowa Wheeler, of New
York. Garlic and Millson, of Virginia
Cingman, Puryear, and Reade, of North Caro-
lima; Cullen, of Delaware; Davis, Harris,
Hoffman, and Ricaud, of Maryland; Cox, A.
K. Marshall, 81. Marshall, and Underwood, Of
Kentucky; Etheridge, Sage, Zollicofer, OF
Tennessee; Smith of Alabama, Evans of Tex
as, voted in the negative.
English's substitute for Cobb's resolution
received thirty-fve votes-eithteen Southern
and seventeen Northern. 1t declares disappro
baton of the assault upon Mr.. Sumner by
Brooks, and at the same time disapproves Of
the use Of language in debate personally often
sive to any member, or to any State of the
Union. 1t of course claims jurisdiction in the
case. Yet Denver of California, Hall of Iowa.
Ready of Tennessee, and Trippe of Georgia
who voted for Cobbs resolution, declaring that
the House has no jurisdiction in the case, voted
for this substituted
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IS 81 81 ia 126 la l2O

From the foregoing table it will be seen that,
under the first census, the free States had an
electoral majority of 8, under the second CEN
SUI Is, under the third census q, under the
fourth census 33, under the fifth census AZ, I'M.
der the sixth census Al, under the seventh GEN.
sus Sc.
These figures would seem to show an irregu-
lar or declining rate of increase on the part of
the North but it is rather apparent than real.
1t arises from the greater populations repre-
scented by each electoral vote in the later periods.
The following table table shows the rapid ad-
vance of the Northern majority upon the total
Southern vote. 1t will be seen that that MAORI
ty was in 1890, under one-eighth of the South
ern electoral vote, while, under the apportion-
ment of 1850, it has risen to very nearly one
half! Does this look like preserving the bal.
ance of power? We submit it to the dream
ers of balance of power" to cipher ont, by
the Rule of Three, how long it will be before
.hn MArtharn majority equals the Southern
vote; or, in other words, how long before the
North has twice the political strength of the
SOuth
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TUESDAY IN CONGRESS.

- The Senate was engaged upon River and Har-
Dor bills.
In the House, the amendment of Mr.. Sher.
man to the Army bill was adopted-yeas 81,
NAYS Sc. And the bill was then ordered to be
engrcssed-yeas 80, nays SO.
Mr. Dunn moved to reconsider the House
bin No. IS, to annul the acts of the Kansas
Legislature, with view to offer substitute
aud called for the previous question. Mr.
Cobb moved to lay the motion to reconsider
on the table, which motion was rejected-yeas
90, nays 81. The House then agreed to re-
consider. But the Era went to press before
further action took place.
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THE TRUE POLICY.

The most vigorous action which the Anti
Nebraska party has yet displayed in the House,
in relation to Kansas, was the adoption, in
Committee of the Whole, on Thursday last, Of
Mr.. Barbour's amendment to the Army bill. 1t
is in the following words:
"Bnt Congress, hereby disappearing of the
code of alleged laws, officially communicated
to them by the President, and which are rep
resented to have been enacted by body claim
ing to be the Territorial Legislature of Kansas
and also disappearing of the manner in which
said alleged laws shall have been affirmed by
the Senate and House of Representatives, as
having been enacted by legal Legislature,
chosen in conformity with the organic law by
the people of Kansas, no part of the military
force of the United States shall be employed
in aid of their enforcement; nor shall any citi-
zen of Kansas be required, under their proyi-
sions, to act as part of the posse comstate.s
of any officer acting as marshal or sheriff in
said Territory"
On motion of Mr.. Wakeman, of New York,
the amendment was amended, by adding the
following words:
"Said laws, and every part and parcel there.
of, being declared null and void"
Mr.. Barbour's amendment, as amended, was
then adopted by vote of Y to 81, the largest
majority yet cast by the opposition.
But it will be seen that the attendance was
thin; and it may be that the vote in Commit.
tee of the Whole will not be ratified by the
House. We sincerely trust that it may be
as the country will then see whether Cass,
Douglas, and Toombs, are really in earnest in
proposing to repeal the pretended lowe of Kan
sas, and whether they really desire peace and
fairness. In truth, measure like this is the
only one which can reach the source of the evil
under present circumstances, with the Senate
ders of Kansas. When they find that the
Representatives of the People will not vote the
public money to carry out the infamous scheme
of making Kansas slave State, by usurpa-
ton, fraud, and force, they will quickly be COM
PEELED to acquiesce in the popular demands :;
just as the tyrannical Charles and Georges of
England, in days of yore, succumbed to our
Anglo Saxon ancestors. withhold the sup
plies" is the true remedy, and the time-hon-
ored check-mate to tyrants. 1t is the palla-
dunn Of the English people; the very strong
hold of Freedom in the British Isles.
This is the fourth great victory of the ses-
sion. First, was the election of Speaker Banks,
after struggle of two months; next, came the
appointment of the Investigating Committee,
which was achieved with less difficulty; then.
the admission of Kansas, with her Free State
Constitution, with no great effort and now,
the true remedy for tyranny has gone through
its preliminary stage of adoption in Committee
of the Whole, by a majority of fifteen votes
Let the Representatives of the People stand
firm, and they will command victory
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THE BALANCE OF POWER.

Nothing could be more idle than the attempt
to preserve an even balance of power between
the North and the South "a contest waged
against the laws of political and social econo-
my, which are as much the laws of nature as
those which regulate the planetary system or
the circulation of the blood. 1t is contending
with God and nature, to attempt to keep up an
equality of political power between the free
States and those which tolerate Slavery. Each
social system has its law of progress, its ratio
of increase and it is useless by anything short
of the interposition of the hand of despotic
power to cramp the buoyant energies of the
one, or to invigorate the decadent tendencies
of the other.
If we examine the history of the country
from the formation of the Government to the
present time, we shall find a regular increase
of Northern or free State superiority over the
South or slave States. This can be convenient
ly illustrated by table, showing the number
of Presidential Electors which the several
States in each section Of the Union have been
entitled to, under each Census:
Number of Electors Of Each State.
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THE HERBERT CASE.

Herbert, the Democratic Member of Congress
from California, who has been on trial in the
Criminal Court of this District for the homicide
of Thomas Heating, an Irish waiter at Wizards
Hotel, was acquitted on Friday last. The jury
made short work of it. They were out but an
hour and a quarter. The case being thus dis.
posed of by q jury of our fellow-citizens, it may
perhaps be regarded as presumptuous to ques-
ton the propriety of the verdict, unless we had
all the testimony before us. But, without any
harsh comments upon the motives of men, we
cannot but believe, judging from the prominent
facts in the case, that much less than justice
has been melted out, and that the social position,
and, still more, the political connections of the
accused have gone very far to screen him from
the rigid hand of the law. Herbert is friend
of the Administration, he is a native of Ala
bama, and this combined in his favor the aid
and countenance, not merely of the Administra-
ton, but of nearly the whole Southern delega-
ton in Congress. This fact is demonstrated by
the vote of the House of Representatives against
inquiry into the affair. That vote was composed
of the entire Administration party, North and
South, with perhaps one or two exceptions, TO-
gether with the Southern Know Nothing vote.
The Republicans to q man, including those who
still adhere to the American" party, voted for
inquiry. Then the fact that leading and distin.
guished Senators and Representatives were
seen in the Court during the trial. extending their
sympathy and countenance to the prisoner, goes
to show what sort of influences were brought to
bear in the case.
Although we are not among those who regard
the deed as involving the guilt of murder in the
first degree, we are very far from belieying it
Q justifable or excusAble homicide.
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"GUILFoRD, DEARBORN Co., ND.

Jmy D, 1906
To the Editor Of the National Era:
"SR: Having been long in the Anti.Slavery
cause, Of course | have had to contend with
many objections-perhaps none worse to man.
age than the apparent appreciation given to Sa-
very by Washington and other iIlustrious men.
But an idea struck me of late, which I do not
recoiiect to have ever seen, which would GER
talnly upset ell their approval of Slavery, the
foundation of which is, that every man must
serve God and his country in his own day and
generation.
Thus Washington and his associates estsb
hshed The platform that every man was emit
tied to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happi-
ness. 1t was unnecessary that they should sin
gle out Slavery-it would die, of course.
The Congress that passed the act to make
pike over ,he Allegsny mountains did not pass
an act to prevent the people from packing their
produce, groceries, dry goods, &C., across on
mules.
perhaps 1t would help the cause, if some of
your able correspondents would give us letter
on our duties to our own generation.
"Another idea suggests itself to nv mind, by
reading the lsst Era: Is the three hundred
thousand dollars for the wagon road, commen-
cling in Missouri, intended TO be means Of
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REPUBLICANIsM SECTIONAL"

We very often hear from the oracles of De
mocracy" sentiments like the following, which
was the resolve of meeting of that party in
Franklin county, Massachusetts:
"ResolDed, That a party that cannot unite in
its councils representatives from all the States
of the Union, to consult as to the public well
fare, should not be trusted with the confidence
of the people or the administration of their
Government"
Senator Douglas very often INDUCES in the
taunt, thrown at the Republicans, that they dare
not avow their principles in one half the States
of the Union. Surrounded as he is in the Sem
ate Chamber by large majority of friends to
Slavery, he seems to forget, not only that
there is North, but that there is Constitution,
which guarantees the most entire freedom of
speech and of the press. He forgets that the
Constitution of Virginia, and those of all the
older slave States, at least, re echo the same
maxims of Freedom; and delighted with the
momentary advantage which the disgraceful fact
gives him and his friends, he glories in that
spirit of intolerance and of autocratic despot-
ism which his Southern friends practice towards
all who now maintain the principles of Free
dom-the creed of Washington and Jefferson |!
He rejoices and makes it boast that his friends
and partisans in the slave States have tram.
pied under foot the most sacred guarantees of
the Federal and of their State Constitutions.
because their tyranny and usurpation prevents
the diffusion of Republican principles! Such
is modern Democracy" Shades of Jefferson
and Adams, of Franklin and Henryi What
think ye of this modern Democrat" Was it
this system of despotism which ye gave your
lives to establish? But Mr.. Douglas is not alone,
Mr.. Buchanan, by deeds, has attested his ap-
prevail of this process--of crushing out freedom
Of speech and of the press, as will be seen by
the follwing extract from the proceedings of tia
Senate:
Wednesday, June 3, l836.-On motion of
Mr.. Calhoun, the bill to prevent the circulation
of incendiary publications ('touchiag the sub,
ject Of Slavery in the mail, was taken an on
its third reading.
"The bill vss lost on its passage, by the fol.
lowing vote:
"YEAs-M essrs. Black, Brown, BUCHAN.
AN, Calhoun, Cuthbert, Grundy, King of Ala.
bama, King of Georgia, Mangum, Moore, Mich.
olasy Porter, Preston, Rives, Robinson, Tan
madge, Walker, Wright, white-ls,
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SHANNON REMOVED his SUCCESSOR AP.
POINTED.

The President has at length yielded to the
demands of public justice, by the removal of
Shannon, as Governor of Kansas. This fact
proves, indisputably, that the President and his
friends are alarmed at the effects upon the
Presidential election likely to result from con-
tinuance of the system of outrage and injus.
tice towards the people of Kansas. The sue.
cessor of Shannon is John W. Geary, of Penn.
sylvania. We know nothing of the appointee.
1t is evident that selection is again made from
Pennsylvania, in order to appease the upri.
sing Indignation of the Democracy of that State,
whose vote is all-impertant to Mr. Buchanan.
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THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1856.
THE ERA FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

The Era for the campaign, from the first o.
august TO the first Of December, period of four
months, embracing the most interesting part Of
the canvass, and the returns of the vote in No
vember, will be furnished to subscribers, singly
or in clubs, at fifty cents a copy. Will our
friends see that the offer be made public in
their several neighborhoods, and send us as
many names as possible? 1t is just as impor
tant TO circulate papers as it is documents.
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RADICAL DEMOCRATS OF NEW YORK.

The FreelSoil Democracy of New York held
Convention at Syracuse, on Thursday last,
and formally dissolved their connection with
the supporters of Pierce and Buchanan. They
nominated Fremont and Dayton, of course, and
adopted decided resolutions, and an address to
the Public. There is nothing left of the spirit
of genuine Democracy in the Buchanan and
Pierce party, after this stampede and we think
that the shadow will be found to have sensibly
diminished in November next.
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The above table must confound all specula-
tons or hopes of ever raising the South up to
an equality with the North in political power.
But there are additional facts to be brought
into view, which place the matter still further
beyond the range of possibility. In the first
place, there is no territory where Slavery has
any foothold, except Kansas. Utah is said to
have a few slaves, and Constitution has re-
Gently been formed ION the squatter sovereign
ty prinriple which is so much deprecated in
Kansas) which tolerates Slavery. But that
cold and inaccessible region has no natural
adaptation to Slavery, and it can never flourish
there. The prodigate horde of Mormons, who
for the time hold possession of it, have doubt
lese admitted Slavery into their Constitution,
for the purpose of propitiating the ruling class
in the country, with the hope of being admitted
into the Union as State. But Mormonism.
to say nothing of Slavery, will be sufficient to
keep them in their Territorial condition for
many years to come. New Mexico is too ster.
lie and inaccessible for either Slavery or Free
dom to flourish, and will either remain in its
Territorial condition, or be admitted as a free
State. Kansas is therefore the only Territory
where Slavery can thrive, and in fact it has
only nominal existence there. Its chances
of admission as slave State are exceedingly
remote, as nothing but the election of Buchan.
an can secure that result.
On the side of the North, the case is quite
different Already Minnesota is fully ripe for
assuming the duties and responsibilities of a
free State, and will probably be admitted into
the Union at the next session of Congress.
Oregon, also, is preparing to become State;
and although the Administration may be weak
and wicked enough, we have little fear that il
can force Slavery upon that high northern
Territory. In fact, the Ordinance of 1887 has
been extended over it, and has effectuallv &c.
cured its settlement by freemen. Washington.
which lies north of Oregon, is still more secure
from the blghting influence of Slavery, and
will, within two or three years. be admitted
into the Union as State. Nebraska, lying
contiguous to the free and vigorous State of
Iowa, is also out of danger of being cursed BY
Slavery, and will have the requisite population
for admission into the Union as State, in two.
or, at most, three years. Here, then, are four
free Territories which, within three years, will
infallibly become States of the Union; while
beyond the proper limits of States to be formed
out of Nebraska and Minnesota Territories,
there is room for half dozen more, to say
nothing of those to be made by subdivisions of
Oregon and Washington.
1t is therefore the merest imbecility to talk
longer of preserving the balance of power be-
tween the North and South. That balance
never existed, and the approximation to it has
every year grown more and more remote, from
the foundation ofthe Government to the present
time.
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VOL. x.

"NAYs - Messrs. BENTON, Clay, CritteD.
den, Davis, Ewing of Illinois, Ewing of Ob;o
Goldsborough, Hendricks, Hubbard, Kent
Knight, Mexican, Leigh, Morris, Naudain
Niles, Prentiss, Ruggles, Shepley, Southland
Swift, Upton, TomGnson, Wall, Webster-25"
1t will be seen that Mr.. Buchanan was trpa,
to Slavery and its despotic demands than sav
eral leading Southern Senators, among them
Clay, Benton, Crittenden, Leigh of Virginia
gipia, Goldsborough and Kent of MARYLAND
Every one understands what is meant BY Sin
cendiry publications" They include eyerv
speech or writing which questions the moralv
or lawfulness of Slavery. All such publication,
could, at the discretion of South CaroGD,
postmaster, be burned or destroyed, witbou,
consulting the party to whom they were al
dressed. The Kansas laws on this subiso,
copied, we believe, in this, as in other case,
from those of Missouri, punish with 6ne and
imprisonment the circulation of any writio,
which questions the validity of Slavery in III.
Territory.
Does it not come with an i'll grace from
party which upholds such principles, to talk q,
Sectionalism? The oligarchy mob and exns
men from the South for protesting Republic,
principles, and then cry shame to party which
cannot be tolerated south of Mason and Dixon,
line! Cool, decidedly! Virginia drives from
her borders her citizens who dared to attend
the Philadelphia Convention, and her dough.
faced minions at the North raise their hands IN
horror at the idea of supporting the nominee.
of Sectional Convention"