Selections: An Incident

An incident occurredjit the grove, during the celebration of the fourlh, wliich showed i how deeply hberly ia loved and cherished by our citizens. After the announcement of the voluntoer toast by J. G. Sargent, the toast master called upon a gentleman, formerly of this village, now a resident of Tennessee, for a sentiment. - He gave: - 'Slavery: An institution coeval with our form of Government. It v:ll continue to exist long after its slanderersare laid low in the (lust .' We never wiínessed so complete a revulsión of feeling as the announcement of this toast occasioned. To hear slavery toasted on Independence day, at the foot of the Po wow, where the very winds prale of Uberty, was too much. The hum of merry voicea inslanlly ceased; a shudder at the impious desecration ran through the assembled handre.ls - a deep, low hiss, which even New England hospitatity could not suppress, struggled up from the inmost bosoms of the free men and women assembled, nnd subsided into g'oomy silence for a time. All feit that something was needeil to vindícate the day and the place from any participation in the unhallovved sentiment; and it soon came. Mr. William Carruthers took the stand, and gave: - 'The Df.claration of Iísdependknce - which declarea that all men are ereated equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, such as Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness. May these principies spread the worJd over, nnd may the enemies nnd elancierers of that document find a gravo of infnmy as dark apd as deep as that of Aaron Burr and a Benedict Arnold.' Al t.'ie announcement of this toast, a huzza - a shout for the declaration - broke from :he hearts of the assemb!y,which awakened an ?cho for liberty in all the surrounding woods, Fhe place was vindicated. Slavery finds no est in Amesbury and Salisbury. Anoiher excellent toast was given by C. E Bláke, oue of the Newmarket Band, and again he weikin rang wilh huzzas for Hbei'ty. In jehalf of liberty nnd the rights of man, we :hank 1he gentleman for bringing the damning yranny which curses the South, nnd i is en_tire incompatibility with the foundation principies of our government, thus vividly before our citizéns. No cloquence could havo spoken for liberty like the mention of slavery, as an instiintion of our country, on Independence day. If it liad not been suitably rebukcd, the bones of our patriot ancestors would have rattled in their coffins. We hope the gentleman will learn wisdom from the incident, and when hc permits himselfto be cal led nutster and owner by men, will think of New England, and the sliout for 'the dcdaration? which startled old echo at the foot of his native Powow. üy C. E. Blake, member of the band. The Sr-AVKHot.PKR - witli n heart as cold s an iceberg- ns hjrdas a stonc. and darker thon Egyptiat dnrkness. May the pnre Wnshingtonian principies melt avay tlie ice, brenk up the sioncs, nnd liplu up.the dark soul, fit only fur the abode ot tbe infernal spirits of the neiher worltl.