Frederick Douglass' Paper, 1858-04-30, vol. 11 iss. 20 no. 540

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ROCHESTER, N. Y.,   APRIL 30, 1858.
WHOLE NO. 540
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LBCOMPTOV     <-.>N>..'.T,  I'JON
selves,   and   your   own hands   shall   destroy
It is a fearful thing to witness the nnmin-
gled and absorbing scllishness s ) uncon-eionslv
d   |li     1 i     t      i I I '
ill'of an oppress-
rights and   blessings   so loti<r   withheld from
for their neighbors,   they   are   compelled to
on or tlui-oetual abi>-
r otheis, only  for the
House of Bepre
and propped up
Vet that iniquity, and its perpetual security
md iacreuse, made  up the   great  thing  that
mdered  the    propped   Const.union,   apart
from
, i:.-...
uiiyby
tlie Conditulioii was just I he quality
Without which none would   have   dreameu (.i
enforcing  it.    That atrocious ui't.icle and ele-
pisiened lor ever upon the   nLAdKS,   made up
the prize, for the sake of which the supporter
Mtorbed propei
issibility of presenting ihat rpc-i
,u to the very beings whom it. «
to doom such bondage, is not If
?cd, such a proposition would In
:-v id republican
matin;; Ihe possibility oi dcncine.
e Abolition  agiiatorsof
;- would have culled "(I'm th'
heavens to lie astonished, and the earth to hi
afraid with horrible amazement, is the do-
liberate establishment of slavery, in the mosl
heaven-defying und infamous terms. The
■dhtiif property in Iitih.ii beings is distinctly
illirmed in ihe .destitution proposed to be
■idorccd, as before and higher than ally eon.sti
utioual sanction.    The right of   property in
nan; and it is declared that 'the right of any
oiner of a slave to such slave and its increase
s the same and as inviolable, us the right o
my owner ol'any property whatsoever/ Had
he  terms of this  proposition   been   purposed
node oi aliirmmg [.he perpetual and dvidd.d
i;t! object of the Com
id of'all
FEllENCE.
The New York  idst   Met!
enp;-,i two hours in telling a
the   shiveholding   Methodist
d'lphd Conference had treat
hey wMuhl'ttTcns" oxl
ition   for their   South
igniy,   (the sever,
al despot
:: penile atrainst theil
ily aiitl siiil'iihiesH of the  sjsten
iriociple; not the perpetual hered
sment of a  race  of outcast and
1 existence and perpetuity of sliv
e being denied an  opp'.rt.uniiy   t
t (led and man in the establish'
.-cry itself, but the fraud and v
ist God and man iu the establish
'cry itself, but the fraud jigaim
ereigat.yiu having the system ehc
oiuled   for the people,  instead  of
ime, and the  insurmountable <
and
eiples
own liberty, ready
of the United Stat-   --
to forbid mid i '-troy   the element  of
representative freedom, and to
State under a   government, w
bind   down a
e rejected
usurpation fi
omplieated and aecutnulated m
ind   op
and inverately convolved,
I      ■,. !  i, :■
on   was   undertaken,   and
rage   perpc-
re.dsfed    and
enforcing   it;
1/   the  com-
t on the State, without   cousulta-
people.   In proposing and competition of such a Bystem, the  thing
Hall   this   indignation,   wrath,
without   their  own   consent,
.^alor sovereignty.   If popular
.t to enslave, if the people chooi .
ttestioned or controverted!    Nay,
v of popular h-ovcr-
of the rights of man, rightfully tc
d in the people's bill of rights,an
■ < destitution, if the people please
:reaturc to be enslaved, the poor
ihattels of this popular sovereignty,
led in the damning   clause  of the
no will to be consulted, no choice
n the matter. The Constitution is
iubmitted to them, for their vote,
:y are the persons most of all con-
deiplui
. Quigley last n
■     ■ ■ ■ ■'■
dd Iphi
Ucv. J. I).  Long,
ibout the brothers in
Conference, who hap-
Thi- hi-Dught. out Mr. Long, who is at the
inference, with his book, '!',
ry,'and who declared that Ihe I'lidideiplv
Conference refused io consider the charge,
gainst him, becauso there was nothing in hit
>ok but the truth.
' facts, which are few for a volume of 40C
iges. Mr. Long estimates that there an
000 slaves now owned by members of th,
ethodist    l-lpiseopal   ('iitirch   North,   mor(
f-nnuiv, Md., and :\ lucid preacher of tin
lodist Epis-opal Church—was sentence,
-a yearsdnifiMs iinn,.T,i last year for h&v-
that Dorchester county
)»«" "
odists of the
■ty, and the Meth-
mientthey miirbt desire.    Mr. Long
e-nebordVijI:
Mr. Long
ieinent whit
Herald (Dorchester County, Md.) of Oct.
$300   REWABD.-
B*n away
eighbor
1 bless  this   vast.
ot a handful of men.   The only salvation   dr : and     :. -   a  sovereign
Why will the Ailueinsiiaiiou keep the
,'orkoi'   disintegration and   dissoltt-
- After  (he   foregoing article   wa;
yesterday, the .House passed   tin
the   Utah   expedition.    We art
ion of the fnre-
'he hill did not 0*33 the
ofDemt
bin
[Brother Corsikii passed through our city
i doe season, with bis 'rather pleasant coun-
■muiee,' 'carrying -himself, with a confident
D. Tbav
us1:' need give himself no un
vise to 1,
it his  loss  with Christian (?)
allot!.-!
1. F. IJ'S. Paper.]	
il favor or a few I
lis passage   is   dn
e lldek Kepudica
; Washington Union of the 1
;o shed, prepare to shed then
■ fit!,
eh.r this
Utah and of Kansas. On
und those of the   Ad-
■
; before   I   toi
' first communicatedtoil,e'peeph
this   point,   shout 4j P. M.,on
the  night,   and reuched   there
icement come upon the'people like
rider from a clear sky. as they had
ipaired of its   defeat.    A   crowd
pidkly spread
•d excited men
pen cheer went
Five hncdred e
e by the pro-slavery por-
t^micut Tall aecels
S elricT.6 on/tT
rivilegn of preaching to
successfully opposed by tl
their party, aud defiantly [i
i, that  expectation
sixths of the Demiting   hostility  by
here are no qualms of c
i wanton and eternal fac;
>utthe right of the  po]
large in their popular £
'slavery to the v
have been received with
anger, as a work of thf
icism, with shout
the drivelliners. oi
either case to   c <k g, j;^.,'^'^^^!-.,^^.:'"
The Rev. Levi D. Traverse is a local pr,
er belonging to the Philadelphia <'oi,r,>
of the Methodist hlpiscopal Church,
Reuben E.   Phillips  is   a brother   in good
The   church   edifice   in   Cambridge   w
held for the Methodist Episcopal Chur
n 1784,   required  mem
■ odd with a wen
ins drop that Falls from
if half a dozen Southern
the (_' uninercia. House, and, as  the stage I
lies that Leenmpton was dead !    The 'baby's'
aing to Lawrence.   The drivers cheered, then
ie passengers exchanged shouts ami congeal-
When I reached   Wyandotte, at dark,  the
"alley fired a gun as Ihe boat nearcd the labelled down the hill to the river.     Asshe ap-
1 ;;,      ...i:      ..
hnselftoput through in ninety days! Ne>
tllowed a lorehliedt procession, hi wide
d..elite: hambeaux were swungand brunriisl
d by every Free .-dale mule over sis years.
01
1,1, ,
,,»,
■
,«.s.
n the
Ore, 1
em ■
,,,,?,
fst
iEi.1
Mis
on
, and along
»,,!
a
..,1,1,1
I   inn
am who
■..■■■■
■as repealed as relat
exceedingly Pro-Sb
the   main body  of  slav
"iave withdraw   '
ished the Met
wo Conferent
much of
I addreSB of  j
'    '.   '.
It arc despondent
ie Northern Democrats, who
iod to the defem
; peopi
i of the people again?
ailtorriess ami  loathing which   rests als
i:.lis  of I'oiigiess,     In  the  present stal
.■
nsvoiLthey will probably b
onied will, a irreetinc such a-was e'en.
o the cow-boys and Tories  of the   lis
pill::'
..,,    ■      ■    ■;.
M
.-....'
o bieak down h
'■!■ e".'
,   I'...    ■■:
,   i-    ,,ar, and
areel
hfully.    It Is
1 y   -    ■
dishonors God, ;u^} murders
r the
...
if these (the  ]
the following n
i which tbey are fightin,
K aes
of that
hy    twelve  to
ment any other than i
Tt
which 'this  course   of   likely be the   firs
iVaCongressCrC'
It is idle for   the   squada of  twenty   odd    daJ
e House.    It is impossible!! to cal-
r persisted
Esq,, of this city, by
eMmHeStrmethfiet did.
eessary for  the   defence   of the   Southern
I  or DO  foe;  hul    before  we