The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-21


black, Moorish, Arab, or Abyssnian drivers In Asian
tee and other kingdoms many negro master owns
thousands OF negro slaves which be has captured in
and whose persos and lives he exercises unlimited
and the savage control The Wesleyan missionaries
that the human sacrifices Of these miserable
wreees surpass In the most exaggerated accounts
which have down Of the terrible crueles prac
tised upon the wicker idols of the ancient Druds When
noble dies myriads Of his slaves and wives buried
alive or slaughtered by his grave. The women march
with that air of stod indifference which is the character
istic of despair and precpate themselves living sacr
fees the pits prepared for their reception Upon fest
ya days myriads of srfs slain for the qualification of
the pleasure of the mobiles. Women and men move in
regular file the slaughter with knives fastened in their
cheeks and frown like statues of terror upon the
TONERS who appointed tear the weapons from their
faces and plunge them in their bodies All the ties of
blood and kindred violated female chastity almost
unknownj II is shame TO have single wife treat
woman well aud crime is the only certain to au-
ence and powers
Such of the prominent features OF that society
which aboliohis is vile enough and profane enough to
tell ia preferable to American slavery. Under the ad
mnstraon of Mr. Buchanan shall have some important
questions to settle with the government Of Great Britain
government which, after having carried fire and sword
and orphanage every land and every under
taking once more to dictate for the policy of this CONT
nent
Britain has just emerged from tremendous contest in
which she embarked for tho avowed purpose OF sustaining
the miserable wreck of Ottoman power against the civ
zaton AZ Moscow and ST. Peersburgh Upon the heights
of Inkermann and before the awful Redan she wrote in
The bod of her Saxon and Celtic heroes apology for
all the crimes which Turkey had committed in the last
four hundred years. Is she the proper judge OF questions
growing ont q, The Gradual dsnegration OF republics
upon this continent, formed upon '' '''
which have failed accomplish the objects for which they
were designed Let her check the nscreauts from Con-
stan tnope who drag the African from his native home
the desert and sell him in the Golden Horn let her
for the rapes of Greece ard the orphan blood OF Sco
her cause the rose to bloom again IT once did iii the
Isle of Cyprus let her opeh the accursed haei in sight
of Stamboul and release the beduty raSished from the
Georgian mountains and the valleys of Circassa let her
fight for the flag that desecates the memory Of the
ancient Christian temple of ST. Sophia let her avenge the
deaths Of the noble men Who fell sword in hand fighting
for the rights of man. under the walls of old Byzantum
in the fifteenth century let her drive beyond the outer
walls hirehg bands that prbwl THROUGH the streets of
i the city where David dwe let Her deliver Egypt the an
cient land Of scientific light and glory from blight worse
than that Of the locusts PHARAOH monster whose moral
breath is strong enough to se the pestence and whose
esophagus would more cordially welcome the hot airs of
Erebu than genial breeze from Paradise and when she
will have made all these preparations shall be ready
listen her counses and follow her advice if it shall be
good in regard to the affairs of North and South America
Il GEO. P. BUELL..
WASHINGTON, February 20, 1857.
II p. S--We owe apology to every scholar for failing
ID follow in many instances, the word-renowned Pro-
nouncng Gazetteer of j. b. Eippincot published In 1855
for occasional departure from the standard
work may be stated follows first it is ordinarily due
to the authorities which quote to adopt their orthogra-
ply secondly the geography of Africa is only beginning
to be understood and the terms of compromise
yet settled between the classic elegance of antiquity and
the stupid barbarsm of modern times The whole CONT
nen has been subjected to infinite mutations and Pheni
cia Athens Rome Arabia, Spain, Portugal and Britain
enjoy about equal chances of drawing prizes in the general
lottery of Ethiopian literature. g. p.
In this connexion cannot refrain from referring to
the eloquent speech delivered in the House of Represents
tive5 short time since by that bold and uncompromsng
champion of civil and religious liberty, Hon. Thomas
Bowie of Maryland General Bowie very justly considers
know nothiDgism and abotionism identical in their
character and unhallowed aims calculated alike to sap
the foundations of glorious Union and back
the barbarsm Of heather times; and lashes without
mercy and repudiaes with indignant scorn the miserable
hereses with which his talented but misguided colleague
Mr. Davis would stain the sacred soil of his beloved Mary
i land:
"Mr. Chairman, really thought that know nothngsm
had been killed in the recent presidential contest have
eulogstc obituaries to its memory and had wished for
signed But, sir mistaken. Monsieur Tonson
has again. had hoped that the spirit of
had that
place Of rest assigned to them which ancient writer's do
by the OF Linbo-a place, sir, which, we are told
neither Heaven He'll would have But, sir it is not So
The dead carcass of knoo aohngn has been
colleague, and made to stand upon this oor
OIL how changed in all its feaures Its bones are
ess its bloods cold and there be speculation
eyes which gared witha Sir spirits revisit
this EARTH They prtes and myths and sometimes
too hobgoblns damned Nay, sir, has oft been told
that they do appear spirits of light to call back
from the paths of vice. may be, sir that my colleague
the chosen trunk of such spirit. But tell him he
must be 50 clear in his high ocemus be to give such
proofs of Holy Writ that Inspirations mantle doth
round him. else the eshy spirits this earth will
resist him and his e and drive them back dark
] erns from which they sprung
Mr. Chairman, the voice of Mary has been heard in
this contest. No, sir self The VOTE and not
the voice Of Maryland has been heard Truth crushed to
earth will rise again and smothered ember are the
food of fresh conHagr atons Mary land my own dear ma
tive STATED Thou loyal to the constitution, and thus
loyal to the South But thou wilt be loyal the South
God sir in His infinite mercy, that the doctrines of my col
league the great master spirit Of in
not prevail among the great of people. He
wooes the blackrepublcan party wish ITO avoid these
nuptials And with the blessing Of God they shall
off, will meet him on the hustngs. will him any
than surrender my native Maryland the
| braces of free solism."
| Mas. GARDNER, auRDxaEss.-1he Boston Times
| says:
aThis woman, held for the murder of her husband in
Hngham still continues 10 manifest the perfect I'M
concern for her terrible situation We informed that
while her way Plymouth Jail, in the custody of the
sheriff. she stopped bakers and purchased quantity
of cake telling the driver to call at the post office Hing
ham for his pay.