A New Movement

Tlie perpetual and increaBing loases eits' lained by tho slaveholders by the departure! of their property without leave, will soon drive them into attempts to adopt somei systern of measures by which these heavy drawbacks upon their profits may be preeented. Mr. Botts, M . C. from Virginia, ;as announced to his constituems, that ho; ntends, at the next session of Congress, to! )ring fornard a proposal for a general lawí by which this kind of property may be re- turned to ite proprietors, wtth more eertain-j ty and despatch than has heretofore been, practiced. So it Beems the South begin towant legislation on slavery. Let us hearl 'rom them. Mr. Botts gives his conBtituente to un- dorstand that the slaveholders may wish to )elition Congreas for thia very object next vinter, and how could the South complain f the North ahould refusc their petitions re j specting slavery? Would they acquiesce in! hc adoption of a rulo by Congrcss, that no I ra8olution, memorial, or other pnper upon, his subject, shall bo entertained in any way. whatever? If they would not acquieace, he id vises the slaveholJers to do to others as! hey would bo done by; or, at all events, not to veaken their own cause by taking a falso position now. Notwitïi8tanding all their blustering, the South will soon eee, that tho boot may be )laced on the other leg, and made to fit snvg! VVhat if the wholc North should gag thej vvhole South in tiie rory tbing ns they niiglit' do, how wouïd they remedy tlie ovil?