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8
Month
December
Year
1841
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Public Domain
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Gknera1 Washingto.n wrote to Robert Morris. "Tiiere is only one proper and -effect ual modo by whicli t (the abolition of Iívery)c6n be accomplished, ond that ia by Ifcgislatwo autliority j and thi?, so far as my tuffragecan go eball not bo wanting." To John Mercer lie wrotc : 'I never raeon, unlcss somo particular circuinstances sliould compel we to it, to possess onolher slave by purchase: it being itnun my first wishee to tcesome plan adopted, by which slavery in this country can be obolishtíd by iaw." By his wil! liedirected all his skves to bo freed at the death of his wife, as t could not well bo done ihiring her life limo nllhough earnestly wished, on account of the inlermixture of marriage with the slaves which eime to hiin as the dower of his wife. Those who were young were io be bound until they ïhood be25 ycars of age, taught s.ome usefuloccupalion, and taught lp read and write. Provisión was also made for the aged and in. finn, and the cxecutors were express.'y forbidden to remove any of his slaves out of the State on any protence whalever. Tho correspondent 01 iho N. ti. Patriot, edi:oil by ISx. Governir Hill saye that the norn'mations of Evcett, Wilson, and Eastman wero confirrned bccause lliey produccd evidence in the shape of certificates and letters frora vurious peoplo in New Uampshire andclsewhere, in it which was declared that they were not abolitionists, and that they, Evereti, Wilson, and Enatmaa, were sorry they had ever w ritten letters saymg they were aboliiiontsts or woro friendly to abolition. You see that Giv. Ritnor is rcjected. This was for the taint of abolilionism, altboujh ostensibly on account of the nominees' "wcak eyes." Bishop Cugiies, of N. Y. oily,at the recent election, pubhcly recommended to the Calholic8to suppnrt a 6et of candidates who ] would advocate what they conceived to be j their ïighta in referenee to the distribution of the comnion Bclinol fund of tbc State, and ] they followed iiia advicr, and eupported 6ome of iho Democratie candiuates who : ■vorcd their views, and filled ouf. the ticket from their own nütnber. What evil has been done? Whose rights have been ted! Yet teally all the city papers, clerical i and lnicul, abonnd with eecfralions of the ! Bishop, and the most solemii warnings to bewire of the schemes of Popery, Such a höö nnd cry is perfcr-ily rid culous. fe5"A!l duiiea that were high enough to ! Roet the price of cotton have been removed by Entfland, F ranee, Austria, and Prusiii Hiid through those countrics our entton (inds a inarket, without an increase of duly, iaBelgium, Holland, Bavaria, S;ixony, j lerland.and other places. Hoiv long will { 't before a foreign market vvül be secured for the Wheat and other products of the free States, while nearly evt?ry foreign minister 1 is from the South? Wh it is the government now doing lo aceociplisb this object? Nolhiog. OÚIn 18S4, the amountof duties paid in 18 ports of the U. S. States wns SL8,3S25Ö36, of which twelve fourteenths were paid in the porta of the fïee States. We can see om this fuct n-iio pbya the revenuc that ie o Überally distribuled m carrying on j da Wars, buying bloodhounds and payinj Premiutna to slayeholders for mansteaÜDg in I A sbBpe of Dietribation acts.