Pennsylvania

The following was the Liberty vote in this State, according to the Spirit of Liberty. Only seven counties had tickets in the field.This table is taken from the official returns. The vote in these counties, in 1840, was less than 100, and in 1840 did not amount to more than one third of our vote this year. Next year, says the Spirit of Liberty, we hope to multiply by 10. The number of Anti-Slavery men in the State is large, but the greater portion ofthem have not yet united with ihe Liberty party.{Lƒ On the first page will be found an eloquent and interesting essay on Slavery by Cassius M.Clay of Keiïtucky, a slaveholder. lts general sentiments will be approved. But his proposition to buy up the slaves of masters will meet with little favor. We are not aware that slaves, wnen emancipated, have been purchasee by any government, save in case of the British West India slaves. Some twelve millions more living under the same government,have been set free without compensation to the masters. Mr. Clay relies principally on individual voluntary emancipations for the extinction of Slavery. His anticipations in this respect are not supported by the experience of the past. Emancipatton has taken place in perhaps fifty States and Nations, and in every case, so far as we know, it has been done by law. We trust Mr. Clay will see his error in this respect and will vet say, with General Washington, "There is but one proper and effectual mode by which the abolition of slavery can be effected, and that is by legislative authority, and this, sofar as my sujfrage will go, shall not be wanting."Under the head of 'Meddling with the South.' the Philadelphia Courier quotes John Quincy Adams as saying - 'With regard to the abolition of siavery in the District of Columbia, I regard it as a violation of republican principies to enact laws at the petition of one people which areto opérate upon another people against their consent,'- and triumphantly asks, 'What will the mad-cap abolitionists say to this?' What mad-caps of any party may say, we cannot teil - but thinking men of all parties will be likely to say, 'If it is wrong for one people to enact laws to opérate upon another people against their consent,then ought the slavelaws to be instantly abrogated, for the slaves, upon whom they opérate most oppressively, have nevergiven their consent to them.' This conclusión follows, necessarily, from Mr. Adams proposition. The Courier is rather unfortunate in quoting Mr. Adanis as opposed to 'meddling with the South,' as it terms thecussion of slavery by northernmen for there is no greater anti-slavery agitator in the land than the venerable Ex-President. He warsagaiiïst it almost without intermission, and denouhces it with the