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The China War.


The latest advices from Europe leave no
doubt that war with China will be popular
IN both England and France. As the hands
OF these Governments are now free they will
strike strong blows. The war will be carried,
no doubt, up the Peho and to the capital it.
selt-Pekin; but with what success it is to be
SEEN 1t will be remembered that in the war
OF 1893 the Peiho forts. were firmly defended
by the Tartar forces, who are brave and skill
iul' and hayF since much improved in cngi-
neering and gunnery
The E!girstreaty has, no doubt, been an
nailed, asswsii as the treaty with France
By these treaties, sixteen million dollars were
to be paid to the British, and six millions to
the French Government. and free commercial
intercourse with the interior was to be allow
ed, new ports opened, and the Christian reli-
gion tolerated in the Chinese empire. For
these OBJECTS, and for very large additional
pecunary indemnity, the war is now to be
waged with fire AMI sword against the masses
Of the harmless Celestials, as we'll as their
treacherous and arrogant mandarins In the
bombardment of Canton, in the late war, sew
enty thousand Chines.-men, women and
children-were destroyed, and the act was
denounced in Parliament as wanton, cruel and
upjustifabIe. But the temper of the British
people now demands vengeance for humilia-
ting repulse.
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Another Manifesto.

Douglas has published another manifesto
defining his views or his Squatter Sovereignty
hobby, and purporting to be a rejoinder to
Judge Blacks second publications This last
emanation has not come to hand, but we have
discovered by an extract from it in one of our
latest exchanges, that he PERSISTS in his de-
termination not to accept Democratic nomi-
nation for the Presidency q if the party should
refuse to accept his Interpretation of the Gin
cinnati platform, and should 'interpolate into
is creed such new issues as the revival Of the
African slave trade, or Congressional slave
code for the territories"
Everybody will see that this is as palpable
bid for Abolition sympathy as was his CO.
operation with Seward and Ghldings in the
Kansas struggle. No one has ever yet pro-
posed to disturb the councils of the party at
Charleston with the African slave trade ques.
ton, and hew well knew it. The Congressional
slave CODE" is hobgoblin of his own inven.
ton, designed to render odious in the minds
of the ignorant and fanatical the doctrine that
it is the duty of the Government to protect the
Shareholder in the possession of his property
in the territories when unlawfulIy interfered
with.
When this man is constantly addressing his
appeals to the anti-slayery sentiment of the
North; using every effort to misrepresent and
bring into disrepute the position OF the South
ern Democracy as reflected by Southern Sen
ators in the debate Of February last; and il
shamelessly, day after day, thrusting his hate
fsl heresies into their very teeth, we can bu
feel how base is the humiliation implied in .
willingness on the part of those he thus won
! tonly insults to sarpert airs, under any cir
cumstances for the Presidency.
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Ouack Nostrums.

The majority of hair washes, mar dyes
bo;r to tonics hair oils, and the numberless pre-
ian ions IONS; which are now before the public I'M
p par sncb extrayagant, hyperbolcal and fan
u tnn.; a titles as we see paraded in show-wm-
t In''- oarJs and newspaper headings, as hair
u '.a,,a,a:ions are all humbugs of the first wa
p,rp their real merit, when they possess any
t ;e ,I,ot thew do no harm. Hogs lard, whale
n =; '' Iard oil sweet oil scented and colored,
, OIL n mn when in beautiful wrappers, and
h;to lint glass bottles, the costliest character
" tor ,onics and when thus costly, are baptized
With some tri-syllable term, and caught at by
verrlant Young and old of both sexes. Such is
not the Character of Professor Woods Hair
Pas This gentleman comes before
tho world without any high falutin' Xiloph-
, I or any other astounding and start
I IGO catch-penny term he simply advertises
a Hair ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS it expresses, pre-
as Restorative it acts. Buy
Prof Woods Hair Restorative, and as you
value YOUR scalp, aye, your very brains, apply
nothing else; for it may be that you will get
.orne worse substance than perfumed lard oil
IN vour Uranium. Remember Woods Res
Iorstive for the Hair is the best article extant.
See new advertisement in another column.
June 7 80 IT,
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imposes.
A Black Republican Congressman Ad-
vocating Negro Equality.


The Boston Atlas and Bee publishes the
following letter from H. L. Dawes, Black
Republican Congressman from Massachusetts.
The disabilities imposed upon free colored
persons by the constitutions of many of the
so-called free States have very properly found
place in the deliberations of the convention
Indeed the position which the free colored cit
i1en Shall hereafter occupy at the North has
seemed to me to be question deserving more
attention from all than it has hitherto receiv-
ed. 1t lies, in my opinion, directly across
the path of the emancipationIst and must be
encountered and correctly settled before any
permanent or healthy progress can be made
The growing disposition in the new States
that are forming in the Great West with such
rapidity and on such a magnificent scale 10
disfranchise, disable, and drive out the free
negroes from their border should be firmly
met and counteracted by those who make it
the cornerstone of their political creed that
SAIL MEN are created equal"
That State whose constitution imposes up
on any class Of men who have committed no
crime the disability that they shall never
have the right Of suffrage never hold
any real estate"-"shall never make any con-
never maintain any suit''--or come, reside
or be within the State;'' that such State is
called free State passes my comprehension
1t is all false-pretence and a>fraud. There
is no real difference between the spirit which
would incorporate such provisions into the Or
ganic laws of State and that which ina-
mously declares that the negro has no rights
| which the white man is bound to respect 1t
is high time, therefore, for those who believe
that men have inaiienaJle rights to meet and
kgrapple this monstrous heresy. 1t well en-
gagged the attention of so intelligent conyen-
zion of colored- citizans- assembled ii, New
4 England, the only portion OF the Union where
THE rights of man without distinction of color
or race, or class or condition, are secured to
him by the constitutional guarantees 1t
must sooner or later, and better soon than
late, arrest the serious attention Of the states
man who hopes for the perpetuity of the
principles upon which the frame work Of our
Government was founded.
Respectfully, yours,
H. L. DAWES
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Black Republicanisnl.

The following is an extract from the letter
of Gerrit Smith, dated 9th of August last,
to the chairman Of the Jerry Rescuers:
1T is, perhaps too late tobring slavery to an
emf by peacG abe meanS-too late to vote it
down. For many years l have feared, and
published my fears, that it must go out in blood
My speech in Congress on the Nebraska bill
was strongly marked with such fears. Those
fears have grown into belief So debauched
are white people by slavery, that there is not
virtue enough left in them to put it down. If
do not misrepresent the words and the looks
of the most intelligent and noble of the black
men who fall in my way, they have come to
despair of the accomplishment of this work by
the white people. The feeling among the
blacks that they must deliver themselves, aims
strength with fearful rapidly. y
mo wonder, then, is it that in this state of
facts which have sketched, intelligent black
men IN the States and Canada should see no
hope Tor their race in the practice and policy
OF white men. No wonder they are brought
to the conclusion that no resource is left to
them but in God and instruction. For in
surrections, then, we may look any year, any
month, any day. A terrible remedy for ter
ribe wrong. But come it must unless anti
clpated 6y repentance and theputting away of
the terrible wrong.
1T will be said that these instructions will
be failures; that they will be put down. Yes;
but will not slavery nevertheless be put down
BY them ! For what portions are there of the
South that will cling to slavery after two or
three instructions shall have filled the whole
South with horror ?''
In connection with the above, read the let
ter Of the same Gerritt Smith to John Brown,
enclosing $500 for promotion of his kansas
work" at Harper,s Ferry, and we see the prac-
tice as well as the preaching.
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The Effect of the Cause

Reasonable Abolition is the cause-incen-
diary instruction the effect The Rochester
platform has already Matched its leeions OF
vices Steadily and rapidly are they matur-
ing for the destruction Of nations veal The
practical contamination of Sewardism through
the Executive office has been foreshadowed in
terrific deeds Of blood. What could any "a
triotic citizen hope from such an adminiistra-
ton as that ism Gf triumphant) would inau-
gurate? Could moments repose be enjoy
ed during its existence? No, no! Security
there would be none. On the contrary. the
country would be in constant state of dis
tracing intestine commotiOn. The public
journals would likely regularly chronicle new
and daring attempted aggressions upon the
rights of the slaveholding states.
1t is for the non-slaveholding States to de-
termine the future Of the Union. If New
York and New Jersey in their approaching
elections endorse Sewardism in view of the
recent diabolical acts of its inspiration. we
are free to confess that we shall regard A divt.
sion as almost inevitable. The chances will
be as ninety nine to one that it will oceur-
Indeed, nothing short Of miracle can nre-
vent it. 10 suppose that any Southern man
who has Southern heart in his bosom womb
consent to turn over to the keeping Of Black
Republicanism the armories, arsenals. forts
and navy yards within the embraces of the
slaveholding States, after such demonstrativo
evidence as the Harpers Ferry emeute flr.
nlshes OF the use that would be made of them
Is 70 suppose the grossest of absurdities.
If the non-slayeholding States desire cor.
tlnuatlon OF the Union, they must suddenly
stop in their wild and unprincipIed crusade
against the institution of negro slavery Thev
have yet time to pause and to reflect matprc,
ly before their definitve fiat is set forth ~
That they may retrace the inconsiderate stsns
which they have so traitorously taken and
rally, as in other days. to the support Of the
Constitution, must be the PRAYER of every
we'll born American heart Wy
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The San Juan DISPUTE.


All the English leading papers, the London
Times, Post News, Herald, &c, and also the
radical Papers-take very strong positions up
en- the San Juan dispute, while their tone is
bitter IN the extreme. They look upon Gen.
Harney's conduct as a fHbustering move for
the Presidency and denounce him accor-
dinghy.
Even the Manchester and Birmingham pa
pers hold very strong language upon the al
legged rights of Great Britain in the premises.
All the papers in England claim the island
as exclusively British, with As much conf
dence and pertinaci.y as our American jour
nails claim it American.
We trust, however, that the good sense OF
both nations will find some peaccable means
OF settling 50 petty a dispute, without dis
turbance to the amicable relations now exist
ing between the two Governments
The news from Washington is 10 the effect
that negotiations were proceeding very ami
cably between the two Governments upon
the subject Of the difficulty.
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Speech Of Gov. Wise on the Harper
Ferry Affair,

Gov. Wise, on his return from Harper's
Ferry, whittier he had been called by the ABB
clifton movement at that point, delivered an
address before the citizens of Richmond, de-
failing the facts attending the affair. 1t is
thus sketched by the Despatch newspaper of
that city.
He then gave hurried outline of the re-
bellion, and after stating that it had been
brought about by only fourteen white ruffians
and five negroes, who in the night time had
taken possession Of the arsenal, extinguished
the lights, cut the telegraph wires, and made
prisoners of the two or three hundred artisans
in the works, said that it was burning
shame that such should have been the case
that the works had been left exposed to cap
ture because no guard were stationed there
and regretted that the arsenal had not been
re-taken by Virginia soldiers instead of L. S.
Marines.
The Governor then gave description of
Ossawattomie Brown, the Border Rufiian;
his plans for instruction; the implication Of
leading men of the North in the rebellion; the
capture of Col Washington and private citi
zens in Frederick, ard the honesty, GOODNESS
and courage of the leader. He said that no
question dIOSCI anu ILA@I AAS
carried Brown to Charlestown to be tried,
but that had the question come up, he should
have asserted the right to have Brown tried
on Virginia soil and by Virginia Court, and
would have maintained it until he was over
powered. The Governor concluded by say
ing that he had stationed a guard of citizens
at the Ferry, to prevent in future another at
tempt upon the arsenal-that he had armed
the yeomany of Berkely and Frederick with
Shapes rifles, belonging to the invaders
that he intended to establish more convenient
depots for the arming of the people for self
protection-and that he intended to urge the
people of the State to form volunteer compa-
MES, fill up their regiments, and fit themselves
for soldiers, and be prepared to repel all inva-
| ders, come from where they may. His re-
| marks were listened to with great interest
and the deafening cheers, that burst forth
spontaneously from the mass of citizens in at
tendance, showed that they approved all he
had done, and fully appreciated the prompt
ness with which he had gone to Harper's Fer
| nv to check the rebellion.
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authority Of the civil government be iust;sed
in hanging a man Why may it resort to
bodily pains to coercs men to act properly d?
All this is in opposition to Gods original
purpose.
When God instituted the law of universal
love, the state of primeval innocence and nm.
rey prevailed Had we such state nov
that is to say--were all men pure and holy
were all men disincllned to wrong and VIC.
lence--were they all pure and holy as was
Christ, or as pure and holy as Adam and
Eve in their first estate,-had there baar No
fall,--then, not only would slavery not have
arisen, but all civil penalties and all human
authority would come to an end. Indeed ola.
very would never have been instituted had
the original parent of the African been "a pure
and holy as Christ Had Canaan been No holy
as Christ, which he might have been, had his
progenitor Adam, conducted himself with
honesty, and not prostituted his opportunities
to purposes Of thieving and then resortipe n
lying to cover his guilt had Canaan l saw.
been as holy as Christ, which he might have
been had he even yielded implicit obedience 10
the mediatorial dispensation instituted for his
recovery from the ruin Of the fall, the African
race now would be exempt from the law OF
slavery The guilt Of Canaan the guilt -
blackguardism involved his race in conseouen-
ccs from which they can no more escape. than
can the descendants Of Adam escape from the
consequences Of his guilt as a rogue and liar.
! The descendants Of Canaan are in virtue Of
the divine disposition Of their characters super
induced by the immodesty Of Canaan, disquai-
flied for equality Of social and physical advan
tages with their brethren, the descendants of
another and a better man. Hence they un-
fold and develop most advantaseously, when
they, the most willingly act out their career
in the great drama of probationary life-when
they cheerlully and obediendy serve the let
ter and the higher authority--the authority
Of their white masters and elder brethren
Now, therefore, slavery is not proper, because
it is concerned to the original design Of God,
the design of universal fraternity, but proper
because of the will of God that arose and
went into operation after the primeyal state
had terminated and after the detection from
virtue and propriety upon the part OF the
most degenerate Of the sons of Noah, their
peculiar ancestor and his youngest son. 1t is
the guilt Of Canaan that caused the fall OF the
slave, or the institution OF slavery, just as it
was the guilt Of Adam, that caused the fall OF
the entire race-a fall that is inconsistent with
the free or voluntary prevalence of the law of
universal fraternity. And hence the neces-
sity of the Mediatorial System.
w. S. GRAYSON.
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Slave Trade Mass Meeting at Mount
Pleasant.

Thursday, at the appointed hour, the citi.
liens present at the barbecue were called to
order by Mr.. Richard I. Morrison, who had
consented to act as President The Vice
Presidents of the occasion were Messrs VIM.
Lucas, j. Raven Matthews, w. w. Mcleod,
Ii. E. Vincent, DR.. Ed. Allston an P Z. Por-
cher The Secretaries were Messrs Jos. L.
Inglesby, Lockwood A. McCants and Robt.
Muirhead. Mr.. Morrison stated the object of
the meeting, and introduced COL E. B. Bryan,
who spoke with energy and knowledge of
his subject for some time. Mr. L. w. Spratt
was then called, and addressed the assembly
in reflective and earnest speech of one hour
and ten minutes. The meeting then adjourn
ed to partake of superintendent and sumptu-
Gus barbecue and dinner. After the crowd
was fully stated with the sarory viands, many
toasts were offered and applauded. A num-
Der OF letters were then read from distinguish.
ed gentlemen, when the assembly dispersed.
Charleston Mercuru
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Resolutions Of the New Hampshire
Democracy.

The following resolutions were adopted at
a late State convention of the New Hampshire
Democracy. When it is known that the Or
ganization in that State is completely under
the control of the leaders of the Sqratter Sow
ereignty faction, who are bent upon casting
the vote of the State at Charleston for their
chief, the tone which pervades these resolu-
tons will occasion no surprise. New Hamp-
shire is completely under Black Republican
rule and while the abolitionized Democrats
of that State will use their power in the Con-
yention to nominate candidate who is odious
to the whole people Of every reliable Domo-
cratic State her electoral vote will be cast for
free-soiler when the day OF final trial comes:
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That we re-affirm our stead(ast
adherence to the Cincinnati platiorm-to the
great principle of Popular Sovereignty, subject
only to the limits of the Constitution and to
the wise and salutary rule of non-intervention
by Congress in the local and domestii otiairs
! Of the States and Territories.
RESOLVED, That all attempts by agitation to
create and continue sectional strlteS and ami
mosities on the subject of slavery, whether by
the doctrine of ''irrepressible conflict" avowed
by Republican leaders at the North, or by the
odious proposition to reopen the slave trade,
announced by the co-workers for agitation at
the South, deserve the condemnation OF all
friends of the Union and OF all who, knowing
no North, or South, or East or West, desired
to cultivate that fraternal spirit by which
alone its blessings can be perpetuated.
Resolved, That the Administration OF james
Buchanan in its maintenance Of our nationa
honor abroad and its efforts to promote the
general interests of our country IN its sup
preston of filbusterism and its determination
to enforce the laws against the slave trade
has entitled itself to the approval and supper
OF the democracy of New Hampshire.
But there is an item to be placed on tn
credit side of this account. 1t is the rejection
of the following amendment to the foregoing
series
Resolued, That the Constitution Of this Re
public is neither a pro-slavery nor an anti
slavery instrument, and recognizes SLAYER.
only as local institution existing in certatl
States under the laws thereof" and we re
pudiate the un-democratic and dangerous doc
trine that slavery exists in the Territories be
yond the power of the people to modify, limit
| or eyclude the same
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The African In his Native State.

It was but the other day that we read in
the New York Tribune, the loudest of all the
freedom shrieking," anti-slave trade organs,
detailed description of the system of slavery
which is prevalent in Africa. If the state
ments of the abolition writer be true, no sane
mind will hesitate to believe that it is bless
ing to the negroes to be transferred from the
condition there described to the happy state
of seryitude to which he is elevated in the
Southern States of the Union.
A letter dated September 4th, to the Liver
pool Times, also contains intelligence OF the
condition of the African IN his native state,
which is quite instructive. 1t is the usual
ship letter on the arrival of the packet from
the West Coast of Africa, and the following
are the principal incidents to which it refers
as news:
"BoNNY.-The Regents Illollah, People
and Manila, have paid the one hundred pun
cheons of oil, amount of the fine imposed upon
them a short time since by the representatives
of the British Government, for having struck
with shot some of the English ships lying III
the river, during the recent civil warfare
Her Majesty's steamer Antelope brought III
authority from Fernando Pc, on the 81 o
August, to sell the oil when it realized very
high prices.
During the steamers stay in Bonny river
| four men belonging to neighboring tribe wer
captured by the Bonny chiefs. Their bodie
were eaten by the natives, and their head
publicly exhibited in front of the clubhouse
in that town. This will, it is expected, caus
another outbreak.
| "CAMERooNs, A disturbance has takel
place in Cameroons, owing to Bonny Bell, sol
of the late King Bell, having, in complianc
with detestable ancient custom, capture,
Some unoffending Bushmen, and sacrifices
them to his fathers remains with various rite
and ceremonies, both absurd and disgusting
| The British Consul at Fernando Pc, havin
| obtained the assistance of a Spanish man-Oi
war, compelled the natives to sign nev
treaty, agreeing to abolish these inhuman prac
| tees.
1t seems to US, that sentimentalists VIII
read the above, will be rather hard put to
to find reasons to satisfy people generally tina
the system of domestic slavery in this eoun
try is not infinitely preferable to the horribl
disposition thus made of the poor wretches i
their native country. For our part we hav
no patience with men who affect to see in an
portion OF Africa, any hope for the brutalse
native or any chance for the ameioration ,
his position, save by translation to a civilize
country, where his labors will be regarded .
IN some measure recompence for the vexa
ton and anxiety and expense his managemer
| imposes.
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NEVADA. - This anticipated Territory,
which has just been eiecting for itselfa Gov
ernor and Legislature without saying to Con-
gre<s "by your leave" is mainly composed of
the western or south western halfof Utah its
population being mainly located in or about
Carson Valley. We presume Congress will
conse t toits organization,t though perhaps with
some modification of its seIfdefined bounda-
RES. It is likely to increase rapidly in popu-
lation, because of its recently discovered mines
of silver and gold.