Frederick Douglass' Paper, 1859-08-05, vol. 12 iss. 34 no. 606

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VOL. XII.---NO. 34.
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ROCHESTER, X. Y., AUGUST 5, 1859.
WHOLE NO. 60(1.
.... (••■ •"■-ife tbe elllirts also, and took ill the blame from the
iaeees.d.,h..:ii.:..!...v..ilie.„i;-e,.ee,iei,a.el!,
i    and that no injury was done or intended.
Hficdrii.
stands at the head id" tbis article, promising
furllicr notice and defense in a future nuuibe
It will be seen by the following, that Char
ion   has   been treated with   the Standan
ihSlavery Standard   of No
27th,   1S5K, a tissue ot charges   of   the mo
tilled 'a caution,' respecting a eolored man,
native Ariican, aUded John Ball. This nan
l- bis British captors of tl
Peacock, in lftlli, who tool: Hie Spanish si
ver, into which he was thrust, when that, ki
■r* Leone, his
In t.
Hoi
■c baffled every efibr
after   the   publication  of   i
to tin: Kilitorsof iho .liiti-b
these charges,     A minute   ;
i the part of his friends to scree
v nf the   whole subject   the c
to "work," 'eolleeiing money in" Vliiladsiphia
ly hi? Hfipea! (or.the emancipation of his wife,
of  Providence,   West  Indies,   and her   four
were vol 'false pretence?,' but facts fully confirmed. During his residence in this city since
October last,  lie ban applied   to the friends of
humanity   for aid   ami employment, to assist
■ th
thei
child, brought to New   York by
'     'leeo liberated
ent what  he. feared, her recapture.    This he
uthority,  from two of   the
 :■■■
i  had t
had steadfastly  <
iety, who  had b
l.ii/i.- '-.-■■ e!,..;-.:    ■ . / : : ■
■Tbey s
■
ber. This he freely acknowledges;, as prompted by hia agony, and which
he does not defend ng right. He says, ' 1 am
sorry, but 1 was provoked ;' he might have
said, tortured at the   thought of   her   being
j add that
to   sympathy and  respect.     His
:-
boy, audi never
> beimr deprived of
bis  toil, after tbe
faithfully  fulfilled.    He
requested • by bis Philadelphia friends to de-
measures   would be endorsed by the  noble-
Society, if they were ivftadred with the nar-
...:..-   .... .   : .-
n of Which  be demanded   tin
i Anti-slavery lady,   of Engl
With,),
Lin     Mio-
"
inpostor as to hia family being slaves,
he sole tenor oi' this paper, dated the 1
October, was to confirm   hit identity, wi
'
ah   friends.
ntWest in -ei:
-postulatkm of the   E;
e expostulated with
i:,.k uniei
him   with  this
lib!, I
■    .■'■■
i to the date of
New
which he wis
as  a reference to vindica
ich he then produced  fro
repent that   they were not then   received ; \
i.s   four  ami    live days    previous,    s.aid  • t.
,ruth was because I    placed]
:nii:ed  for the   removal of   .
mist crush bis cir.ui.-i to suppm-l himself,  us
io liberate hia beloved   and suffering   famil
That these particulars  are   reluctantly givi
-Robert  C. Beatty, Cashier  of the
During the   temporary   resid.
y in this city,  tbro' the  past
:.-     ..-       ■;.  . ■ ....;:■■ -._" ,;'   ',:
.ppral
atained, and of   equal r
A very large  audience
ay, both forenoon and af
lent Tei
he colon
r the city several months,  hohliri
id preacher, who haa been stoppin}
'"ig forth, at
Church, the
First Baptist Church Bud T rem out Temple.
Of his history, we learn that ho has passed 22
years of his -be i-: slavery, under '
ure, well-formed, and i
Kchooling iii his   life.
this, he has acquired a surpriaing   mastery of
language, with   a   i'acundily truly   wonderful
and enforces his remarks, with entertaining am
,.■■'■.
iiis numerous quotations and references,   ahov
liliarity with   the scripture
choir then sung :
Thep
32:50-
,1 die
n thy brother die
i-	
whither thou
thy    people
thered nnt
children   of Israel, after forty years   toil and
and ; nothing   but
ject of their long and toilsome journey.    They
i their wishes, how   great i
at tbis
■
Ihe Lord Unit bu : iiouhi <:o up into the Mem
l.i.-i,.-:   :;,.■■■   :;
proof that he was iiis servant. The speakt
said he could not believe thut the view .
Canaan which Moses obtained trom Mom
Nebe, v.-iis simply    geographic ;   but that tl
1 :.;"-.   ■
symbols of the future.    The death   of Jlosi
was a   harbinger of the   death of the   who
creation ; the    bodily ascension    of Kiija.li
remarks.       " ""        '       "^
In the   afternoon   the speaker   discourse
from the first verse of the 6th chanter id' .M
'
.;'■■•   '. -.    '■■.   :  ,.
:     .   ■-.       :■-.! .-
.veil, at length upon ihe prnha
eia-Trim
■:.-;'.:.-.   ..:.. .. -. ■■:   . ;■:
;t seems that one object of Mr.  Mar
Mibveivive of  t.ne freedom and   rights   .
negro and his descendants.
' It is especially true of the African, accord-
ITowd, that he has no rights but Ruch af
those who hold the government and the pnw-
' For more than a century before tbe adop-
were regarded by the  civilized   world  as be
that, they had no rights which the white man
was bound to respect. Tbey were bought
and sold as ordinary articles of merchandize.—
And this opinion   and   prnclict
f the white race, and was directly info nies here   '     "
: of Great Bri
;___t Britain.
v rights. :
neither tho   i
; who   refuse to   recogi
e laws of this State, ia^ri
ve, may be caught or captured by w
1 by oreer of the hoard of count j
y be sold into slavery   for life for nt
are very apt to look
iting the   rock.    In
ii, aite/ about   37   ■
Wiiiterhottom, the   fatherof  the   i
i the ne.-v
Weaioe.nem- South Shields, July 8, in
2ar of his age. Dr. Winter-bottom
obably the oldest   Anti-Slavery   at
aov'cuien!  for  lis- e:
a race from bondage from early lif
,'ii.i aeaiuei, in eanlieai   as-
ition.—Tribwie.
Kentucky to Ohio
>!' hia own accord from
itjfy in open court, and
come pnb:ie properly,   and no objection   can
Anderson Jennings appeared in the United
States Court, at ('lev, huid &< a Christian gentleman (him Ke.iK.ueky. Some of his Keutueky
.o his reputable
standing in an orthodox church in that State.
Tbe Mnysville p,,.s endorses this testimony
man.    His.
Christian character as mc
ence of slavery in Kentu
testified that he had b<
Ohio   in pursuit  of fugit
John ti. Bacon, the al
slave hoy John, purely i
pectation of filthy lucre.
.     :..'■:■'
e Hindis;:
t that his special   ela
I a  lie,  into   his
.re, seme   doubt
mplion   of disin
terested bene vol
G. Bacon, who swore that by contract he was
.John, ii' lie obtained   him, and that the   pro-
thiii eniilliet of sworn testimony, the probabilities of the case being with Bacon and against
kindness' is somewhat
istened to   the cross-examination    of
i
f the slave  boy John.    In
s tie   i
that on thii
er to qu
lath   he did i
himself to reading of the
'-.    ■        '.-I       .     ■■-
,   some t!
i the business of hun
iients of character de
limself,  professional 1;
Qg down and  sendint
rork purely out of neighborly kindness ; he
ires a lad of fourteen years' age to lie for
im as a decoy ; and finally, devotes to this
irvice the hours of the Christian Sabbath.
Now we confess to great exercises of mind
ir many years as to the genuineneaa of that
j-pe oc piety which steals babea into slavery
s soon as born, which denies to parents the
ight to train up and to love their own chil-
ren, which rends families asunder, and which
■ith deadly weapons  hunts down the   fleeing
■ -...:,    ■
iety towards God,
:    ,■-:.,
Oberlin   Er
ion I with  such h
ever have   fellows
ngelist.
to ihe  effect   that  sixteen
livered an  affec
.-  ■ ■ ■  ■ ■
■anardlo tin
ian ought  to be yoked  to
-, than Walker, lien
limself V—Cleve. Le
■
eonelu-ioii
1 for a while, and then anno'
iaoner   ia found guilty—three of   the
-We tind tbe follow-
of news in the Balti-
has  been convicted
'inly.    At
- delibera-
:■  bfutgi
.
nfusion was never seen befor
use.    Some threatened to ban" the prison-
;■:     M'. ■
isi.Iirijr jii.tiee had not nmi.-eti l.im.-ell' to be
-ii-ii.   and proclaimed  that   be   had mado a
i-er l-i.is, tiiu'  cxe.ie.iieiii ^baiL-ri,  ao,i llavid
■s followed by an excited few to the juil'
Mi/ .Dear Si,
\ w
I. Because, ir!
adult human bei
the order of Nature
.■v-v
r of ilia
< :tl       it   l   wiong
uf   of Whites' ai
.in inev-tabie   r,-:-a,*it of'AiViean""' "'"'
■     .-■ ■     .       :     :
who pursue Agricul
respet.
puniy -
. of loi
i-eiy   u-i,r'a
.ely, fo',-1,
the Divine Kcouomy, this would s*
forbidding its subjects eve   :.    i   :
V. Slavery is  palpably   ut wai
fundamental   basis   of our   (Jove,
inalienable Rights of B
- to the progress of B.-put
and joy oo the side of
..:■;, tyrants ■:..-. an   a ! liti
- ' :,-     .
■d.nally divided, jeah
boiished, we should u
ach f.thei-, nor ilissolviiu- the Union.
VII. Slavery powerfully   aids   to   keep In
7 unprincipled party,
.  of fightin;
,. th,.
:   :   1   .
ghts;' thatht
;medy for the breach of
sercise   no   election foi
ility   clothe  him with such   a power, for the
t by any   possi
;annot elect to   go out of
e has no Hiili! which a white man~is bound
Spmrr
of the   Democratic
.,,..
—'['ho
lior-
den
'^'b«
we belonged to the den.
disfigured with the fou
oi'e, !■--
It was u party of prin
ordinal doctrine   of   ,
'"■'': z
Ihe motley tbimrwbi
!',^--
■'.;;:;-e
o the old and sterling ore;ani^at
lltiileij
: poliiieal   ( ■■■
■■:     :■ ■ ■   '   ;' ■■.■■ i- .   -V-". :    :-;id a    uidf "    ■;'
distinctive term   Republican   was  applied, in-
they were eieeled, though they will   probably
.'■  ■ :       -■■: -
'-;:-.:-
■I^h.5 H aoti^mSSld^™ Printed l0nS
Oregon, which was  admitted   at the  last
in   the 14th volume  of   Grattan'a B-, p. 132,
members, requiring 11l.l to elect, it the major
ity  principle  be  maintained.     Most  of tho
Poindexter et al.    Mr. Poinde.xter, hein" lhe
eight Anti-Lecompton Democrats will doubt-
.he use of them to his widow during   her life,
■ ■-iii
South, who are likely to be
■-.■.■■.'.'. ;:-!., --            ■:.-,-
chosen, openly proclaim a liberal purpose, and
jublic sale at auction.    The   Court, upcnfull
desire to unite with the main  body  from the
leeided that the clause of emancipation at the
election of tbe slaves v.\i; an u.itc'r nullity and
Tub Southrrk Aid Society.—We  under
stand that the object  of the   Southern   Aid
hoeiety is to send   ministers   to   preach   the
ern States.    The ohject   is,   undoubtedly,   a
he   South   than
The   learned Court  say (and there are but
to class any State  ofthe  Union, nor   would
ersl   subjects, I  am  more accustomed to   re-
d them to the South ;
n the Philadelphia
editor   of  the No
Dr. Bailey .—Col. Forney,
the district—when Adams   and
practically prohibited
■y""in
policy yvbieU he a
u honorably n
uiujuriiy    of  tho House,
ucuted.     Inipaciial likinry
wledgu   his   :ln: