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Tue Pius.-Tue llov. Thomu K. Boechcr lectured on this siilajeot in
Vl'll.l.laI'n.!hurgh. some morning early, sold the speaker. tuiu your stand by
Lil! ol-‘I Brick ctiurcli, on tho oornor of lvuseii and lleekmnu-streets. Go
' more on. on very corner were exieinporuuoous news-stands and clumornus
’ no) u‘ visit me rrrryoiuiise Ind ferry-bootu; in the cabin was‘: long line or
newspapers, Ind s man behind each. In the surly stsges or Rullroad car the
. Thread one's wtiy down the business street.
' pr. , one were scenes moi were u ‘or to lxou-.
rorli Alone. in so-ion, laniirdulpliia, llialuntore, cinuiiuiu. Liverpool, And
London the Slime rucis em a. Aside irorii tries WM ilie weekly press.
ch upon the newspuptr taken. A mlioul Dtmlwrnt
out but Little nee emoctuuc paper. ri ri e mun
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pa [null or Anti-sluvery views. on urltlod -
intro 1 liberal uewoi:-per. This plan ornriers oelccurl only those ueumpopgrs
wliitu were in uecordarira with ma views, Wu! llhr. lulidlng u iliipvs riuo
Whirl] vvns already under water. . - .
CuBllTth!lTY.;Tha Rev. Dr. man. who our just returned from u iiineietu
yearn’ uiisuiuu in cums, lectured on the above topic In the motto: Church,
Lexington AVenIle,l.m. tlis in inst. his ideas were: tnit cnristlnnliy was
He bclizved
= by cny inner niellrod tuun Ihll or tiieolood or Jesus ; rml iris hellhenl never
‘ having hard or Christ, how can they secure any mercy from the Oniuipolenl
. power. His lecture was so nrguoienl lbr minioul, for-utd the Doctor-who
ll to rivsiuem our knowledge except those curistiuus who have olltzlncd ii
ilrettly. Kn crgued lost it was is great mistake for people to think that
ylglnu wen happy without the word of‘ God; my were irilsei-ilile ind
> wreituia, “ going down full) the dsrli pit.” ' I
1 1 ’ i rue mole of on rive Points-Hot Corn cud Pease. ,
A terrible war has been raging for the lastwcck or two, and still
V continues to rage, between two sets of philanthropists, in reference
, fro the Five Points-one set denouncing the other as unposters and
(hunting hypocrites, who want to make money, instead of reclaiming
the poor orphan children. The war has extended beyond the classic
precincts of the Five Points-it has not only hllcd the city papers
I wilh discussions on the subject, some taking one sideand some the
‘ other, but papers in the most distant parts of the: State, and even
beyond the State, as for as Massachusetts east, and "lrgii-iio south.
' A considerable timovago 5 Mission was started at the Five Points
by Rev. Mr. Peasc, who used to preach to the outcasts there, and
in his effort: he was assisted by the ladies of the Homo Mission,
' particularly in educating and reclaiming the rniarraolo childrcn.
For some cause or other a breach has taken place between the la-
' die. and Mr. Praise, and both have their backers. Mr. Pcase has
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‘ otiainal llluguie, and that irclain had endeavored to pravcnt her
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Orlando D. M‘(.‘lziln,who, Ill one of hot letters, describes Saul l Hot
. got up a separate organization, which he calls “.a Home of Indus-
try." The ladies have atlitfc.-rciit one. 'l‘llt-re is antagonism and
war between them. . ‘
Among the leaders of the combatants. in one of tllc lines of battle
(the House of Industry side), we sud ltev. Mi. -Peale, Rev Henry
- Word Beecher, and Solon Robinson, of the Tribune, and author of
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ot nos," which stories constitute one oftho anus btlli.
Heading the o ‘t line-the Ladies Home Missioii-we elvc
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Peace oi the patron of the book, and on selling it it tlio House of
lodust ". He ea 5 “Mr. Pcaso has purchased a farm." Ple calls
on the press and the public “ not to confound Chnsllan ladies with
. the rumors of pollution tales, or allsorlato rroblo women, who we
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be the friends of the outc:ist."- In another letter, addressed to the
' ' riblmc, in consequence of‘ “ sceing among its special notices an
i announcement that the original of solori ltolrinrorri celebrated tale
of " Wild Maggie will be exhibited at Rev. H. Ward Beecher’:
. church to-marrow muiri ," Mr. Orlando ll‘Cla.in says. u tmt ii
outraaed by her exhibition," as she is not the real Wild lllaggc of
the I-‘lve Points, rior at all like her. Solon Robinson replies in the
. '[‘ri'biuie, quoting several letters, among thtln one from his friend
Rev. hlr. Penn, and an aflidavit to prove that this is the veritable,
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going with Solon, calling him “ old bearded Robinson, a man 1
n wives, and would make
calculated to make olo,ooo o I V p :d f “
Robinson describes his antagonist 3 statement: as on rnce o an
insane mziliunity." ' I . ’ ’
“'=="“"';:= ".“I"“:r"'"‘e1"":':5.:i.%'m::3;;
scribes the “ at ‘om ’ e ones us-'-- , .'
rain or sisters, the roaming of lmunands. are portrayal my acnrier I;‘l
t:.l.hle1ux,omlIfi'7lg nothing. The one culirnnatina pcene in u llll‘
case liich even Hoprtb ilcgcbd not paint in Inna ‘; 3:11: it:hI"r;;
audly delineate y our courageous u
most elaborate detail and ish.“ , g .d
But many oftlle clergy and a large portion ofthe prefix gkeglwlz
Wit ‘f at Cam." I‘ iftcen rellvious nev-'3P“P9f9i 3'“, 9
Temperance advocate, “The Carsdn League," notice pt in favorable
1 ll aid Beecher,
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contends that -- tio'5'.3r'i'.‘$r".?;lili E3 fi’f;fl.‘$.i orb. truthfulnesl and
Wwtfilfitwerenotada crleotvps oftheFivePoilits." A art-
“"" 399"“ are: compares Sdlon with Solomon. "Let it be
allelphla. ‘“‘Voeorn’eItlyWi it that tlii book xi d its way into
every famly," wntlnuca thest7llrirIia1l!ClIro1laE:.Il:‘: airtl -- To cir-
rg l;::gu‘;‘exclniltz:, “‘l‘lext to the Evarigelistn, no better book
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think ofthe “Mysteries :’fr>:‘.‘r“‘-'3" “ ‘Tm "‘““ ‘h’ “"31"
Lrtui now uriril authorltirl on thcothcr ‘.1 TheAll7any
El-clung Journal ny it wu deceived by a few ofuthee first numb!!!
that appcared in the Tnbluie, but new “ desires to make atonement.
It is,’ continuns the Al ny paper, “ a disgusting reiteration of
McDowel's Journal. Its author, masking his real purposo under
the guise of philanthr0PYr has obtained circulation, and is in ' g
money by the sale of a vicious and obscene book.”
Sentinel says z---‘‘ The unchaste scenes which lllrs. Beecher Stowe,
with true abolition morality, indulged ulewd ‘imagination in sketch-
‘ g, and which subjected her book to the charge of indocencv, are
wholly outstripped by this new caterer to what he is pleased to call
“ the growing taste for works of this kind !" The I’iochesterAm2I-
icon says:-l‘ This Hot Corn book is beastly-a stream ofpollutlorl
is poured into every family, and an Obscene volume placed in the
hands oi the young of both sexes to col-rup destroy.” The
New Haven Register-“ Every sensible arent will kindle a fire
with the first copy he finds." The New Ygrk Eimngcliat says-“A
book so thoroughly iinrnoral- ' e,”
“ Hot Com," like “ Uncle Tom's Cabin," has been dramatized for
the National and Ball-num‘s, and the present excitement will give a
cculiar zest to that exhibition of human degradation and depravity.
Vs also perceive that an opposition book has been got up with the
following title:-“.The Old B ' ' ’ '
at the Five Points. By
Stringer Townsend.”
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-1 word that could offend the ear of delicacy itself. ow, when, or
where the war is to en , or on which side victory ' ec re, we
will not undertake positively to predict; but from our natural gal-
lantry we incline to the side of the ladies. ,
- TEE NEBRASKA QUESTION.
-ml: orloliul. nru. no no ulzlvunltzvr.
’ The Nebraska bill in its original form was objected to by South-
ern men, because,though it left the people of Nebraska, as soon as
they becamoa State, free to admit or exclude slavery, it did not
give express permission to slave-holders of adjoining States to set-
tle init and hold slaves, while yet 21 Territory. On this ground
Senator Dixon, of Kentucky, gave the bill some opposition, because
it did not go far enough for Southern interests. But the Louisville
Times, mistaking the motive of his opposition, and thinking the
bill was very well as it stood, charged him with “joining hands
with Mr. Suniner,of Massachusetts, olle of the most pestilent aboli-
tion agitators in the whole Union." Mr. Dixon rcplies, and shows
that the bill in its original form, though permitting slavery, would
have the effect of for ever excluding it from Nebraska. He says 2
The first section of the bill, alter defining the houndarlei of the
Territory, declares “that the same shall be created intoutemporary
government, by the name of the Territory of Nebraska ; a.nd,w en
sdmitted an a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion 0
the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery,
as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.
The 21st section provides It that all questions pertaining to slavery
in the Territories an in the new States to be formed therefrom are
to be left to the decision of the people residing the-rein, through their
uppropriate rrproilcnlativeu." , '
r It will ll8 recollected that the whole of the territory clnbrncell
within the provisions ofthe bill lies north of‘ 30’ 30' north latitude,
and that slavery in it is for ever prohibited by the eighth section of
the not commonly known as the Missouri cuinproliiise act, whic
celares “ that in all that territory ceded by France to the United
States, underthc name of Louisiana, which "es no h o 36"30'
north latitude, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in
the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly
convicted, shall be for evcr prohibited."
wi at once be perceived that so long as this act rcnininn in
forcc,slavery must be cxcludcd from the roposed Territories. The
bill, as reported by the committee, repea sit to tho L-xtcnt only of
alluwingthrnpr-o lo living within the limits of such States as may
be formed out 0 said Territories to have or not to have slavery, as
their constitution may prescribe it the time of their admission, an
also of extending to the people living within the limits of said Tor-
rles before organized into Sta es he ' ‘e riv‘ owe.
provisions in the bill above allutlcil to, it will appear manifcst that,
unless the eighth nection of the Missouri colnproniise net is ri-pralcil,
no ciiizen living within a slavcholdlu State can emigrate to said
rritorica,ond carry along with him .is slavcs, until after the peo-
ple living within the same shall have mot together. and, through
their appropriate reprcseiitzlives, decided whet er slavery shall ex-
ist or not. Under this state of this case, no one could doubt that
the decision would be against the slaveholiler; for as tho laws up
to this point would exclude all slavcholders from the Territories,
whilst it would admit obolitionists, freo soilers, furcigners, and all
othrrs opposed to slaiery,thc right to decide the question would be
confined alone to the opponents of slavery and to those opposed to
its coming into the Territories.
That this would rcntlrr the provisions of tllt! bill, as reported by
thc,coInmittce, wholly inoperative, i-o far as they were iiltendcd to
henclit the people living within the limits of the slnvchollling stairs,
here can be no shadow of doubt, and amount to the leaving of the
whole question, so far as any practical result is to be attained, pre-
ciscly as it now exists under tho provisions of the Missouri pom-
promise act. It promises the substance, but !t‘Blll'CB only tlic shud-
ow, to the dpeople ofthe South. It “ keeps the word of promise to
the car on break: it to the hope," whilst all that is real and valua-
ble is lcn to be up ropnaltd by the people living ulthiri the limits
sl very tists.
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llr. Dixon thought that both the slavrry and aliti-slavery citizens
ofthe Unioil ought to have r on start for the prizz of the new Ter-
ritory, and therefore he dreyv up an alriemlineiit, of which he says:
I Th amendment repeals so much of the Missouri compromise not
as “ for ever prohibits slavery north of thirty-six degrees thirty min-
utell north l.1titudc,”by declaring “ that it shall not be so construe
as to apply to the Territory contemplated by this act, or to any other
Territory of the United States; but that the citizens of the several
States or 'l'erritorirJ shall he at lihert to take and hold their slaves
within any of the Territories of the nitcd States, or of the State:
to be formed therefrom. as if thc said act entitled as aforcsaill and
lipproved as aforesaid had never been paused." This amend-
ment does nothing more nor less than repeal the lllissouri compro-
mise nct, so far us slavery is concerned, and leaves the whole quea-
tiou as to the right of the citizensl of the alaveholdirig States to
carry their slaves into said Territory, just no it would have been If
the restriction cont.-iilied in the Missouri compromise act had never
been created by Congress, or, in other wordll, it declarrc Congrosp
ional non-interlerrnce with the subject ofnluvery, both in the States
and Territories of the United States, and secures to the citizens of
the sluveholding States on equal rlght with the citizens of the non.
slavcholding States to move Into said Territory, and when there to
be secure in their persons and property, whether their property con.
THE CITIZEN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, -1854.
This amendment was substantiallyahlopicd the committee, and
reported to the Senate by tho chtdnmn, Mr. Douglass, and in that
form the bill is now before Congress.
rui: lvzw YORK mznocnicv on -rill: nll.l..
The following resolutions were adopted at a recent meeting of
the Democratic Republican General Committee, representing the
National Democracy ofNew York:
Resolved, That the territories ofthe United States, purchased by
common blood and treasure of the whole people, are the com-
mon propertyof the people of the several States of the confcdrrricy,
and all are entitled to their full, free and equal enjoyment.
Resalml, That the constitution has not conferred upon Cortgrrss
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organization of territorial governments is 3 gm
usurpation,
omio people of the several States.
Resolved, That, understandiri that the bill for the government
of Nebraska and Kansas, introduced by Senator Douglas: in the
Senate of the United States, preserves and sanctions these princ'-
ples of the democracy, we respectfully request our representatives
in Congress to give it their earnest and cordial support.
Ruolimi, That the State of lllissouri, having presented to Call-
gress a constitution “republic in form,“ was entitled to admission
into the sisterhood of States ; and Congress had no right to im one
uptm her admission '
as never received, or serv
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fus ing, were the protot es of tho anti-slavery agitators of 1848,
under the lead of Martin 'an '
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conditions whatever.
Rualml, That the democratic party sustains and will continue
to sustain the laws commonly but erroneously called the comprom-
'sc measures of 1850, not because t ey were measures of comprom-
isc, but because they are based upon, recognize grid carry out the
obligations oftho constitution and the principles of the dvmocrntic
government of the Territories.
ernlimi, That, considering the violation by the present adminis-
tration of the pledges under whic ' e int veer-its close
affiliation with tho anti-slavery agitators of 1843-its wicked and
reckless attacks upon the rights of the Staten-its bald usurpation
in using its great central power in controlling the local elections or
the sovereign States of New York, ll.-isiiachusetts, and Mississippi;
and the unscrupulous abuse of its patronage in remova s from and
appointments to odioe-we warn our representatives in Con so
against any re ‘since upon the good faith of the administration in
supporting our principles contained in the bill for the government
of Nebraska and Kansas Its friendship is inconsistent with its
past conduct, and will be found to be more dangerous than its open
hostility.
Rcsol ed, That in thus reitcratingthe principles of the democracy
of the city of New Yor , ell known and frequently expressed, we
disclaim any intention or desire to propitiate the favor of that clan
of Southern politicians who have joined the present administration
i ' ain attempts to break down the democracy of the North, If
they arc sustained by the Southern people our political course shall
not be affected; we, at lt-ast, shall stand by the constitution in all
its integrity, and by those principles of strict construction by which
alone it can be preserved. '
The rcsolutionu wrro vwcriveil with great applause.
Youxo Max‘: Dmiocusriu NA-rlozui. Cculr-This Club, which
is of the same “hard shell" politics as the foregoin Committee,
adopted a similar series of resolutions on Saturday evening, deny-
ing the znthoi-it of Congress to prohibit or establish slavery in any
ortlro Territories, and fully endorsillgtlic bill or seriitor Douglass.
At the meetln g Hon. 1-‘. P. stanton, of Tennessee, delivered a long
speech, in which lie assails tlle acllniuistration. .
THE Sovr Sltlzu. Gzxrslul. Colirallrrnn.-Tlie Soft Shell Demo-
cratic General Committco has endorsed the bill, and declared the
com roinise measures or 1850 to ho a final settlement of the ques-
tion of slavery. John Van Buren voted in the minority.
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.‘ll:N's Dcnocnulc Union (Sorr) Ci.l.lo.-This Club,
whose politics are also soft shell, has endorsed the bill, declaring it
to be “the first practical application of the measures known as the
compromise measures of ll-I50." '
Till: Sun: Li:olsl.ii'n7ni:.-On the 4th instant the Nehraslu
in the Senate of the Now York Legislature,
when there was a long deli.-its without, a vote being taken. n
Monday, however, the qucstion was again taken up, and resolu-
tions against the Nebraska bill were adopted by the casting vote of
the President, l.ieuteu:int Governor Church,a well known emo-
cratic free soil leader. Tho vote stood 13 to 13. In the Assemblv
Mr. Harris offered ajoint resolution against the Nellrnska hill. Laid
Rlioon lsosiln Luulutircnn.-Both branches of the Lewislature
have urlanimously adopted resolutions against the Nebiailra bill.
This in the morn remarkable as the Rhoda Island Legislature it
Dt-mocralic.
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luroii-i-irlos or Evnormn Cu-rt.r.-Ennlanzl imports cattle
from Continental Euro ,-pzrticularly from llolland and Belgium.
orrespondcnt ofthe St, uis Evening News says 1 ‘
“Thus it IS. Englan imports doe cattle from the continent of
Europe. arid the United States import one cattle from England.
Yet there is no great inconsistency in this. English stock gnaw-
rrs get cattle froln abroad to cross with their fine breeds. lmowiu
that in this way ulons the euperiorit of stock may pres: .
llut 11‘! import all the time from Eng and and trolls with the infe-
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we obtain also atiupply of the bent continental -we r W
longer hc dependent upon En land for improved crosses. The but
milllero in the world are foun in France-and on iuIP0f“‘W“ 710
anders or Limousin, we think would 56 ll" 5?“ WWI?” ‘Pull’
lotion in fine stock.“
“'0 are irlfomtcd that the suggestions advanced about are oboul
nistsinalavuorin ll;ll.)lili. H
to be carried into practical effect on an extensive scale in hliuouri.
as
offensive to the democracy"-md a violation of the rights
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