Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-03-05

drinking haunts, cursipg, hallooing, and whoop
ing, enough, ono would think, to startis thu
quiet dead from their graves, me thinks the,
would have hid their heads in very shame 10
repeating at least " The Sabbath La'e"
But what will not politician doi poor
miserable drunkard was sent to New Castle
few days ago, for whipping and abusing hi
wife. So outrageous was he, that he Broke tn
windows of the magistrates Office, and had Il
be tied By the officer, to be taken to prison
and yet, shame, oh shamet this man at tina
moment, had recommendation from politi
clans, now holding respectable ofhces under I'M
/ United States government, as a suitable peTso'
10 be appointed g Mail Agent" can give th'
names, if required. He had, doubtless, done
their dirty work, and must needs be reward
ed, Quid pro quo. CATO
COMPENSATED EMANclrArIoS. --EThu Burrit
| the talented editor of the Citizen n he World
set out on tour through seGeral of the Statci
of the un for the purpose of presenting the
subject of compensated Emancipation to the PEG.
pie, for consideration. Ills first lecture was al
New Canaan, in Connecticut, December 10th.
After passing through Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and
New York, he returned home again on the first
Of February In each of the above States his
,r,;oo, .i,., tai g. "a h;s oro,.
We" W." avn 50
nehtS listehed 10 win that deep attention winch
shows the Importance of tho subject.
In his own account of his tour, Mr.. Burritt
snys:--
"ln the course Of six weeks We presented the
scheme of Ema patton in the principal towns
Of the Western States. And we are happy TO
say, that everywhere IL was received with a favor
aaa sympathy truly encouraging. PERSONS Oh
az parties expressed their appreciation Oh Tue
plan. Democrats, kepublcans, wings anu
hmeiicahs aliNe cohcnrred with us princlpies'
We "y no means say that al VINO listeheu " us
"eVelopehenls were Teauy to give their auheslon
70 'he doctrines II involves; out those VINO aiu
ms represented an puiticai parnes anu pat
iorms. AT the conclusion OF every lecture, sev-
eral persons would come forward and express
lnelr apPrnnatioh OF ihc views presented. some
times s'aSehoiiers from the south Woulu 40 TINS,
saying that IL was me hrst time they hau ever
hedid any bona F"e, practical plan presented Tor
tAe extinction Of slavery. We had earnestly de-
s'red an opportunity ot bringing forward the sub.
Jeot III save state. This, through tho KIND
cooperation Of a lew friends OF freedom, we
We're favored with In wilmington, on the ifth Of
December. We went thlther with no little soli-
cituue anu doubt III reference TO cur reception,
not realizing how much freedom Of opinion on
the question OF slavery existed IN that State.
Eut we were most cordially received and no
audience we have ever addressed on the subject,
gave 1t II more sympathetic hearing. At b ,
conclusion Of the lecture, several gentlemen a
rose, Que after tho other, aud expressed their
hearty concurrence with the views aud arguments
presented a Yirginian made soma very inter-
estng remarks, relating to the sentiments of
great number Of the people of that State in re.
gard to slavery We had an interview with nil
the editors, aud found them ready and willing to
publish a full exposition of COMPENSATED Eman-
cipatiou Tue editor of the Democratic paper
came out the next morning with a leader on the
subject; giving, with great cearness and fullness
all the principal points Of the proposition. Thus
| it was brought before n minority of the newspu
per reading population of the State through the
Journals Of Wilmington.
"In st. L ,uis, We obtained a bearing from
| doubtless a hundred th0u.nnd persons scattered
over the State, through the Journals of tbat
| rreat and craving city. of c6nrse va. did mot
| expect to sneak TO n public meeting there ON the
subject of Emancipation; but we called upon all
/ the editors of the daily prints and meyer had 81
more courteous reception than from them, We
found them accessible to all the arguments we
could offer in favor of Kidding that great State
of Slavery. They seemed disposed to eoncede
| TO the various considerations we presented their
| iutrusic1 WEIGHT and imnortnnce We nressed
earnestly this position, that if ii were made
certain TODAY that slavery would cease to exist
in Missouri fgs vears hence, all the lane
Of tho State would double in value this We
ry year, and probably auudrupIe before the da,
OF Emancipation arrived; so that, at least, fou
times tho valuation of the slaves would be addet
J to tie wealth of the State, even before slav,
was manumttcd that there would he u rush oil
men aud capital from all the Eastern States tt
buy up and deveops the lands and iron noun
tains of Missouri, and that thousands Of acre
would be sold by the foot for new town and vii
lage sites, which are now worth but four or fyt
dollars per acre
I'VE presented a copy of our pamphlet to eacl
of these editors, aud the next day they all can't
out with articles OF considerable length, giyint
the principal points of the proposition. Thus
the majority OF the newspaper renders in the
p'ate hhu TUG suvJeo' Drought peiore tile"l' an
4essii'ute was tuen u, ses''oi' az 'eHeIsou' au'
every msmoer must nave seen one OF the o.
LOUIS Joutha.s' anu htNe uo'iceu lne PToPos'
'ion We oeilc'o .aa' 'uere are huhureu tiou
sahu persons III Missouri qune prepared 10
) EnanelPation' anu were tne oIer OF hahona
, compensation male III good ialth, we are conn
nent Missouri "ouid accept IL In TWO years: Al
, II Is, we are persuaded that movement viii b
set on foot before this year comes to a close fc
/ freeing the State f. m the incubus of slavery.
, 1.-The largest aud ence we addressed on thi
subject was in Ind anapolis The Governor Q
i Indiana WIS present, aad other Influential men
r representing all professions. We had very in
/ teresting meeting also in Iowa city. The Legls
! lat ire Of the State was then assembled, andthe
, adjouraea special session appointed for tn
/ evening, in order to give an opportunity to a
the members who wished to be present at gu
lecture About dfty of them attended, togethe
with other influential men from different part
of Iowa. One gentleman from the Miss ouri Dor
der remarked at the conclusion, that he woul
he willing to pay thirty dollars year the res
of his life, If slavery could be peaceably abolish
ed in the way proposed, An editor from m
same town said he would nuhlish onr pamnble