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prohibits the abolitions of slavery, Paltry and I wish I were the scrubbing brush itself, I do declare, miserable subterfuge! The constitution of Ame-For then I might scrub all my life, and never know nor card. rica is found upon the declaration of independence
But now I am so weary, that I can't enjoy my bed; that declaration published to the world its glorious rinciples. That charter of your freedom contain ed these emphatic words :-
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Divine Providence, we mutually pledge each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honour."
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Rocollect that the declaration does not limit the equality of man, or the right to life and liberty, the white, to the brown, or to the copper coloured Paces; it includes all ragee, it excludes none. * In the district of Columbia there is no constitu- tional law to prevent the Congress from totally abolishing slevery within the district. Your capita! is there, the temple of American freedom is there; the hall of your republican representatives; the hall of your republican senators; the national palace of ADDRESS PAUZ FERNANG
your republican President, is thero; and slavery is there too, in its most revolting from. The slave *GENTLEMAN,We have read with the deepest trade is there, the most disgusting traffic in human affliction, not unmixed with some surprise and
beings is there. Human flesh is bought und sol much indignation, your detailed and anxious vin-like swing in the pig market, aye, in your capital dication of the most hideous crime that has ever
your Washington! Yes, let Americans be as proud as they please, this black spot is on their Even under the shade of the temple of their constitution, the man of colour crawls a slave and the tawny American stalks a tyrant.).
UNITED STATES' SLAVERY, REPLY OF THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION TO TUA
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stained humanity--the slavery of men of colour in the United States of America. We are lust in ut ter amazement at the perversion of mind and de- pravity of heart which your address evinces. How can the generous, the charitable, the humane the noble emotions of the Irish heart have become
extinct amongst you; How can your nature be so totally changed as that you should become the apologists and advocates of that execrable system which makes pan the property of his fellow man, destroys the foundation of all moral and speciu virtues, condemns to ignorance, immorality, and irreligion, millions of our fellow-creaturest renders the slave hopeless of relief, and perpetuates oppres- sion by law, and in the name of what you call a constitution?
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The cruelty of the slave principle reste not there, it goes much farther. The wretched slaves are totally prohibited even from petitioning Congress the poor and paltry privilege even of prayer is denied them; and you even you, friends Irishmen, are the advocates and vindicators of such a system What! would not you at least insist that their groans should be heard?
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go to step the very instapt I lay down my head. And as to lying there at morn-why, I'd defy the lark To wake before mistress rings; I wish that bell--hush--
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I hear her voice, upon the stairs, she's coming up this way; My goodness! if she comes in here whatever will she say? I'm sure I shan't get this room clean'd before the clock strikes
two,
And she expects it done by twelve-she's here! What shall
I do --Puscu.
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he will publish it or not. He cannot always spare time at that moment, and does not, at any rate, want to tell you that you are incapable of handling your subject should such be the fact. But send in your manuscript, and give him a reasonable time to consider it. 5. Never fall into the serious mistake of imagining that, because a man writes a sorry hand himself, he is partial to that sort of chirography. Remember that he is always writing, ant generally at hand to correct any errors in his proofs, while you will not b Write plainly, if possible; write decipherably, any how, or don't write at all. -Berkshire Chronice.
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FREE TRADE IN DISQUE. It is carried still farther. Even the freebor.. There are stupid blurtering people, and bright | Alian white Americans are not allowed to petition up nolundering people-people wlio kanck their bends Anniseed. any subject including the question of slavery; or, against posts in the broad daylight, and poople Camphor at least no such petition can be read aloud or who have the lack of passing them safely in the printed, and, although the Congress is entitled to dark. According to some of our contemporaries, abolish slavery in Columbia, the door for petition the present Ministry are extraordinary sumples of praying that abolition, is closed, without the power the latter class. They produce the most liberal of being opened.
measures under a distinct convinction that they are strictly conservative. It is not to say that they lo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame, but that they do good without knowing it, and de not blush at all, of as a signal illustration.
The new sugar duties are spoken
It was not in Irelaud you learned this cruelty, Your niothers were gentle, kind and humane. Their bosoms overflowed with the bony of human charity, Your sisters are probably many of them stilla. mongst us, and participate in all that is good and benevolent in sentiment and action. How, then, can you have become, so depraved ?
You tell us, with an air of triumph, that public How can opinion in your country is the great lawgiver. It your souls have become stained with a darkness it be so, how much does it enhance the guilt of blacker thon the negro's skin? You say you have your conduct, that you seek to turn public opinion no pecuniary interest in negro slavery. Would that against the slave and in favour of the slaveholder; your had for it might be some palliation of your that you laud the master as generous an 1 humanc, crime. But, alas! you have inflicted upon us the and disparage, as much as you can, the unhappy horror of beholding you the volunteer advocates of slave, instaed of influencing, as Irishman ought to despotism in its most frightful state-of slavery indo, the public mind in favour of the oppressed. its most loathsome and unrelenting forin.
We were, unhappily prepared, to expect some fearful exhibition of this description. There has been a testimony borne against the risk, by birth or descent, in America, by a person fully informed as to the facts, and incapable of the slightest mis- representation-a noble of nature more than ofti- tled birth-8 man gifted with the highest order of talent and the most generous emotions of the heart, the great, the good Lord Morpeth, he who in the House of Commons, boldly asserted the superior social morality of the poorer classes of the Irish over any other people he, the best friend of any of the Saxon race that Ireland or the Irish ever knew-he, amidst congregated thousands at Exeter Hall in London, mournfully; but firmly, denounced the Irish in America as being amongst the worst enemies of the negro slaves and other men of colour,
You carry your exaggerations to a ludicrous pitch denoting your utter ignorance of the history of the human race. You say, that the negro is really inferior as a race; that slavery has stamp ed its debasing influence upon the African; that between him and the white, almost a century vould be required to elevate the character of the one and to destroy the antipathies of the other." You add (we use your words). The very odour of the aegro is almost jusufferable to the white, and, however much humanity may lament it, we make no rash declaration when we say the two races cannot oxist together one equal terms under our government and our institutions.”
We quote this paragraph at full length, because it is replete with your mischievous errors and guilty mode of thinking,
slavegrown sugar is based upon the principle of It seems that this measure for the exclusion of
free trade. "If the experiment succeed with foreign sugar," says une journal," it will be an additional argument for trying it with foreign corn," Another journal announces, as an inevit able corullary, that the Government will avail themselves of the earliest possible opportunity of throwing open the ports to Cuba and the Brazils. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's express pro- hibition of slave-grown sugar, on religious and moral groun ts, is to be employed hereafter by the same Chancellor of the Exchequer as a valid pre cedent for its admission on commercial grounds How the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to ma.. nage this corollary does not appear; bat all the free trade journals agree that the measure is es sentially an advance in their own direction.
Now, the only freedom. we can discover in it is the freedom it takes with the West Indian, interest If the partial sacrifices of that. interest, to be fol In the first place, as to the odour of the negroes,lowed up, no doubt, by its final innihilation, be we are quite aware that they have not as yet come symptomatic of free trade, then this is clearly a But we implore of your fastidiousness to recollect, how Government are to reconcile their future libe that multitudes of the children of white men have rality with their present restrictions; how, hav
It is therefore, our solemu afl sacred duty to to use much of the otto of roses, or eau de Coloure, free trade movement. But it remains to be seen warn you, in words already used, and much misun- derstood by you, to come out of her, not thereby meaning to ask you to come out of America; out of the counsels of the iniquitous and out of the women for their mothers, and that ouring unequivocally declared that sugar producer!
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congregation of the wicked, who consider man a chattel and a property, and liberty an inconveni ence, Yes, we tell you to come out of shell as semblages; but we did not, invite you to return to Ireland. The volunteer defenders of sla- very, surrounded by one thousand crimes would find neither sympathy nor support amongst native
uncontaminated Irishmen.
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Your advocacy of slavery is founded upon a gross You take for granted that man can be the property of his fellow man; you speak in terms of indignation of those who would deprive white men of their property, and thereby render them less capable of supporting their families in affluence, You forgot the other side of the picture. You have neither sorrow for sympathy for the suffer. ings of those who are iniquitously compelled to la- bour for the affluence of others; those who work without wages, who tail without recompense, who
British travellers complain, in loud and bitter terms of the overpowering stench of stile tobarce Spittle, as the prevailing odour amongst the native check that magal sensibility on both sides. On the free Americans. It would be, perhaps, better to part of whites as well as of blacks, But. It is indeed, deplorable that you should use a ludicrous assertion of that description as one of the induce negroes would certainly smell at least as sweet ments to prevent the abolition of slavery. The when free, as they now do being slaves.
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by the harbour of slaves shall not under any cir cumstances he ad nitted into this country, they are to turn round and demoralise the Custom ligious scruples as well as the sugar islands. House officers by consenting to abandon their re-
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1.80 EXPORT OF THS FROM CANTON TO UNITED KING- DOM FROM 1ST JULY TO 11TH' December, 1811,
8,424.525 lbs. 16,937,140
Green, Black,
Total 19,764,671 lbs.including the
cargo of the "Pamporo:"
Twist,
COTTON REPORT.
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Deliveries. bales.... 934
Bombay Bengal,
Deliveries.
Stock.
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Stuck,
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14,713,
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Total 44,123
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In the meanwhile, the operation of these reso lutions, so far as slavery concerned, does not ap pear quite so satisfactory. Instead of diminishing Madras, considerably increase it, by creating new markets the production of stare-grown sugar, they will for its consumption: Under this new measure we shall draw large supplies from Java, Manila, Siam, China; and the whole of the sugar thus cx- ported from these places will be immediately re- placed by imports from Rio and the Havana. The process is obvious and unavoidable; and the sugar must have the effect of giving it an unex- very means we have taken to discourage slave pected and extraordinary stimulus." "Would it nol have been wiser, in the first instance, to have bol-
-PRICES OF BULLION. Sycee Silver, Erge, 3 per cent, promin Spanish Dollars, Fordwand par Republican ditto, 4 to 5 per coat, discount.
Carolus, 6 to 7 per cent for selected.
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-THE WHITE SLAVE: Oh! weary goes the scrubbing brush upon the dingy floor, And surely weary ars the hands that scrab for evermare It's scrub, scrub, scrub, from Monday morn, right on to Scrab, scrub, as soon as "daylight breaks-scrub, scrub, by I'm sick to death of cleaning with, is everlasting rout- I'm sure my life's no good to ms 'cept on my Sunday out. And make a dreadful fuss about the women miners too- And bring in bille to Parliament, and talk a lost of stuff-
and thus have escaped the fully of a scheme cal Money being in demand for the purchase of Ten on Amencan account, exchangs on Lendva has advanced to They'd batter lot them all alone-Paure they're well enough.pocrisy into the bargaht, which everybody thinks
eplated to defent its own eins, and a piece of hy4, 54, at which rate it is firm in Canton. If they bege extra work to do, don't they get extra pay? But here, my mistress thinks there is no extra to the day.
it fair game to hunt down 7 Sho rings me up at five o'clock, and often three or four, And keeps me scrabbing till I drop asleep upon the floor. The factory engines and their din can't be as bad, I'm clear, As mistress screaming, soulding voice for over iu my ear. Those aines must be a Paradise down underneath the ground, With nothing jaghe world but coals, or dirty stones all There's not a bit of scrubbing there, no chests nor tables
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spend their lives in procuring for others the splen- | Ah! folkinny talk of factory-girls, and that they have to do,dly admitted all sorts of sugar without distinction, Bills on London at 6 months sight, 4s. 5d. to 4. Gl
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11TH DECEMBER, 1844.
Navy Bills, 4s. 20. to 48. 3d per Mexican dollars. 11.M. Flenipotentiary on the BengalGovt., Treasury
220 Rupées per 100 Mexican "dollars." Court of Directors accepted on ditto, 60 days, hap" been offered at 226 Rs. per 100. Dificult of Sale. Unaccepted $30.
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dour and wealth in which they do not participate. You totally forgot the sufferings of the wretched black men who are deprived of their ail without any compensation or redress. If you yourselves. all of you, or any of you-were, without crime or offi ace committed by you handed over into per petual slavery; if you were compelled to work from suurise to set without wages, supplied only with such coarse food and vainent as would keep you in working order; if when your 'owner' fall into debt, were sold to pay his debts, and your own; if it were made a crime to teach you to read nod to write; if you were liable to be separated in
For dirt can't be datinguished in the dingy candlelight, this distribution of assets, from your wives and oh dear-ho what there might to d, I wish I could be there!
And sebody wered think of cleaning, even if it were. your children; if, above all, you were to all ingolf gentemen would look at home who talk of factory work, Canvas-Eng, and the hands of a brutal master, and you conscend They'd so their household servants slaved worse thangthat to admit that there are some brutal masters in Aine-
bea-then Tak rica; if, among all these circumstances, some
They'd bocer mend their own concerns, and bightem servant's Cochineal friendly spirit of a more generous order were disi. Tisu lay down los for other men ahour their own affairs,
Copper, sheathing ros so give liberty to you ntad your Smiles, with And while they talk of needlework, and mantuauiskers 100, what ineffable disgust would not you rough te sporn aling the natus eyes to look at what these women do, those who should traduce the generous tits who Bidding young Ines calculate the cost of each new dress,, would, relieve you, as you new, presbio-Irishnen- « wish when sucht down at home, in nicely furnished roomt. By weary beads, and worn-out gres, and so ob-l cordess shane upou you!—have tradueid und vilifed the | Tied count de case of cleanliness in work, instead of
e abolitionists of North America. But you come forth with a
And renders that where they Bunge, so pleasantly at ease, sm! You say that the covenpinion in AalerEN
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