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THE OREGON -ARGUS. v fVIMMIKO VStr SlTTItlMr MUSSIXU, BY VXLLIAII L. ADAMS. AIVKftTW!.N(J r.ATKfl. Od square (IS lines or lea) on iaaminh, flD " " iwo iunotiir.nl, 4,r u M Dime inn-niniM, 6,00 Ksrh ibw;B! inM.rt.on, I .to Hesmnsb; deductions t !luM who twtveniM ty die year. JOB PHINTIXC. Tim ranraiiiTes or t:is ARGUS is mrrr to inform III uub'ie that lie has jiatt received a largo rturk uf JOU 'l' Vli snd o-.ber utw priut ini; nuttrul, and will bo ia Hit e, o'y receipt of sdiliUout eiuifil lo all the ruirenirnut ef this i cilitv. l!ANIl;tr.T. rChTKIf, HI.ANKft, CAUIWf UKUXAKH. I'AMl'JiJ.UT.WOllK -A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Principles of Jell'ersonian Democracy, and advocating tho siJo of Truth in every issue. Vol. nr. OREGON CITY, OREGON, AUGUST 1, 1857. No. 10, end other t lade, dim lo erdrr. on short ecu . . tTF.ttXSTat Asueis it i.7 furnMtd at , 'i'tree Italian and t'ifly Vtnli v't annum, in 1 ' mieoiut, la tingle inburilirrt I'krn DulLrt I - rit a an ujieiin ideanet . y'kt tht muney it nut poid in a, I win, four Vulture mill lie rhrged if pud uilhut lit ; moiilhi, unit Fiee dollars at tht and of Iht yr. pf" ifVe Uollitre for tiM mmilktSii auUicrif liont rirnitd for a It period. JST Jfa fintr'dtneanlmiud Until all arrearages y . art paid, at tki i.oi af the puhlitlur. fJT Viol., who hu Ik-en m.ueJ a lo.i time, is on hand again, and very gri-.rfu!l rteux lietwlf fir -ist delirqueueioe in llu following preliy fragment, where we Irarn (hut tho Iim 'Deneni;ed In llio truly poetic exercise of ''kin lnjUibby"i ... For Ike Argot. I,. i. '. FrmcBU no ' J ' : "west baby min, 1'liono uf thine i!l i Han en.cn huvo I kiraj them! j .11 , Yet, alranje to any, TIioiijIi given eicb day, Tli kistva, It not mineed (hern .' ' They're like tli rill .. That from tli liiil Fours duwu iu ei'iucleM tresruro, And iu piiiiK lioui Ain llowera, To Till the heart w.ib pkamirt. They sprinj from out ' ' The heart's deep fount, The drop of luvs oVrltowiug) Thoy over piur An endlea Mure, That cmU not iu bellowing. And may Uiey start In tliy young heart Affection ' vlicenu dowers, To bo a liy 3 ' 1 j ' " Without alloy In miuy future boon. . . Irii llill, July, 18S7. Viola. fc i .,; ., i For tht Argot. t , i Slave Labor or Fret Labor. .: No. IV. ! rilO SLAVERY ARGUMENTS. " Mr. Stephens of Georgia, being pious I man, relies last, am! chiefly, upon tho rc. , vcaltd wilt uf God, as showing tho roprie 11 of alavebohling; being also n learned ' man, lis quote from " ilie original Greek" c to show Hint " servant" In tho Bible meant ("!vo"; nnd being also a logical ninn, . he undertake to show tlint llio high re gulation of Abraham nml Philemon in true bMicuTs.the oito under the old dispciiwlion, 'tho other uniltr l liu now, miihenlicotcs , llioir (asMimcil) bUvelinMiiig as su entire;. . Jy correct proceeding, mid fu'ly juslifit tho aUvohoUing rf the pntrinrclm now ex isting in lliy Soiitla-rii States uf llio Ameri can Union. ' ; Wo will present to our reader an nb. . strnctof this .Suripinriil nrgumcnt, occupy. , irg t lie fil'icrulli mid hixlcenili piifies of Mr. Stephens' Kj.ootli, ami then, (its farirson r unlearned penton restricted to narrow lit)) . its cnii,)jt.'i'.r wliut i lo be snid in reply to it. Wo regret tlntt wo Imvc nut .poce to put tho cclif) in.; ilevoutress of this por tion of the (peecli in fnil befnre our rrnil. r-r! all wo can ilo in fuiilifully to give its ' substance, wiih th! whole of l lie quotations from scripturn on which it if 'founded. ' I. God nmdo a ctmnant wiih Abrant, afterward called Abraham. That cov- , iiRiit is the corner-Nlonn of tho whole Chiiii.in systvm, nml Abraham wn.i the great first hcid of an urganized viiiblo - church hero balow. Ilu believed God, and ws tha father of the faithful, and was al ' so a slaveholder and a stave, dealer, lore is thrt proof, Gen. xvii, 13. God said to Abraham, " II a that is one y' My hoii v, and lie f. thai Ubouylit wii'i thy monry, must need 1 lo circumcised and my covenant shall bo , in your flesh for an everlasting covenant." ' . II. In Ex. xx, 10 and 17, being the 'fourth and tenth commnridincnls of. th t decalogue., slavery is expressly recognized, ,and in none of them is thero anything against it. Mr. Stephens does not quoto j these passages, pciliaps thinking that they - might weaken tho impression of his florid ' description of the chapter in which they; occur, j. The recognition of slavery assert ed is merely tho uso of the words "met)' servants" and " maid servunls." III. In Lev. xxv, we have tho civil law on this subject, as given by God to Moses, for the government of hii chosen people jn their municipal affair 3. " 41. Both thy bondmen and thy bond mn'tris which thou shall have shall he of the heathen I hat are round about you ; of them ye shall buy bondmen and bondmaids. " 43. Moreover, of tho children of the atranger that do sojourn among you, of ti?m ye shall buy, and of their' families that are with you which they begat in your land; and they shall be your possession. ; 40. Jnd yo shall take them as an in- ieT!u'c for your children after you, to fnnerit the.Ti for possession; they shall "la your bondnjen forever; but over your 'brethren, tho chiluYcn of rael, yeshull not rule one over another with i7or. JV. Job, Isaac, Jacob, and all the p.l- 'lirchs tinder the Jewish dispensation, were rilavenulders. 3 V. lias any change been mado since tho Jewish dispensation? Is anything to be , und in ihe New Testament against slave ty. Nothing, not a word. 6!nvery was 'ilroond Christ and the apostles, where the were preaching, but not a word dij jthey Miter against it. Moreover, Jesus healed the slave of the centurion. Ma'l. Sill, 7 lo 13. " And Jeiioseaiih unto him, t will come an-1 heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thott shoulclest come under my roof ; but peak ttlie :ord only and my servant shall be healed. For 1 am a man under authority having soldiers under me; and I say to Jhis mn, Go, and hp goeth ; and to an other, Come, and ho cometh ; and to my , $la.te, Dei tlii, and he doelh it. v "When Jesus heard it he marvelled, ind ' .aid lo them thai followed : Verily, I aay Mr. biepbena s owa u . - yo,,l hve.ot found grtfcitbj.f reading d n.."j to bis antagonist. no, not in Uriel. And Jemis said unto llm crmurion, Go ihv way, and os thou hast Ulievnl, so be it dono unto thee. And his srrvnnt or sluve was healed in tho self same liour. llio word rendered doro "servsnl" in our trnnlaiion means tlave. It means jiikt such a servant ns all our slaves at the South are. I have the original Greek. Was Christ a " dough face" I Did he quail beforo the slave power 1 If Ilo did not rebuke tho slave.'iohling centurion, but praised him for his faith, who ahull now rc buko other for exercising similar author!. ty, or say that their faith may not bo as strong a ihat ef the centurion t VI. lo no place iu the New Testament if slavery held up as sinful. Several of tho apostles alluded lo it, but none cf them, not one of them, mentions or condemns it as a relation sinful In itself, or violative of the laws of Goo', or even Christian duty. They enjoin the relative duties of both master and slave. Paul sent a runaway slave, Onesimus, back to Philemon, Lis master. Ilo frequently alludes to slavery in bis letters to the churches, but in no case speaks of it as sinful. To what he says in one of these epistles, 1st Timothy, Gih chapter, I nk special attention. " 1 Let as many servants douloi, slaves in tho original, which I have before tnc, os aro under tho yoke ihat is, Ihoso who aro the most abject of slaves count thrir own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine bo not blas phemed. "2. And they that havo believing mas. lors, uncording lo modern doctrine there ran lie no such thing as n olnvcholding hidiever; so did n il think Paul, let litem in -t re phe r nrghct and not ctira fur tin in hi-caiiM! they ire Im thrvn ; but rath er do them service, beca'iso they are faith ful und beloved, partakers of tho benefit. Thrro lhin tench and exhort. 3. If any man teach othenche, and consent not ti wholesome wonht, tren Ihe tcanh of our Lord Ji ms Christ, and to the doctrine which it Hccordint; to godliness 4. He is prouil f"l tdf conceited knojo 'tug nathiny, lul dnliny about qiirstiims and strifes ef words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railinj;s, evil surini.siiii;s. " 5. Perverse disputing of men of corrvpl minrls, anil destitute nf tho truth, supposing ihat gain is godliness : fromsuch tcitlidrait! thyself." Hero we havo Mr. Stephens's case; the w-holeof h's defence of tdavcry from the r.iblo; and in view of it, that llm qucs lion may bj definitively settled, end all further nutation of it stopped, he issues to us this Gnal commaii'': ''Let no man, then, say that African slavery as it exist in ihe Snith, incorpo rated in, and snnct'oned by tho Conslitu t ion of lliti United Slides, is in violation of either ihe laws of nations, the laws of na ture, or ihe laws of God.1' Fortunately for us, this is only the rrur&of tho whip. Mr. Stephens cannot yet apply it to our backs. Ilo cannot yet order us u hundred lnshcsif wo decline, as wo certainly shall, lo accept his authority aa final, nliko in regard to the "corner slono of tho whoU Christian system, ' "tlie origiual Greek," the explanatory English, and the precepla and the spirit of Christ. Upon each of these topics we hould regard M r. Stephens as a " Mind guide," if we hud not reason rather to suppose him a deliberately treacherous one.' Wo will now proceed to examine his sovernl positions. 1. How stands the Old, or Jewish dis pensation in regard to slavery ? Mr. Stephens asserts tho covcuant made with Abraham lo be " the corner-stone of tho whole Christian system." We hold rather with l'aul (Ephesians ii, 20,) " Je sus Christ himself being the chief corner stone" ; but since Mr. Stephens has chos en to rest his argument for Christian slave- holding on God's (assumed) express al lowance to tho Hebrews to hold slaves, and (o tho continuance, of that permission under the Christian dispensation, wo shall knock his whole foundation from under his feet by proving that tho Mosaic direction re?pecting slaves was not an allowance, but an absolute prohibition either to sieze, or to hold, or to sell them. But how are wo to prove this I Have not Mr. Stephens's quotations from Scrip- lure and explanations of their meaning mado the thing perfectly plain? Is it of any usfl to look at tho other side in so clear A case Ss this J It is always needful lo look at the other side. It is for want of doing to tuai the hundreds of sects which crowd the pages of Theological Dictionariea con fidently appeal to the same Riln'e to prove themselves in the ri;:ht and all others in ihe wrong ; and to prove ihs soundness of doctrines and practices aa diametrically opposite as those of Catholic and Protes tant, Calvinist and Universalis?, Shaker and Mnrmnn. Lt either of these tnsko liis own selection of texts from tho Bible, and put his own interpolation upon them, and; he will prove his case ; but he will prove it overwhelmingly and triumphantly If he be further allowed the uso of such or nvmtnli at aro contained in the laws of J . .e . L:l.::.- on pain of heavy fine and long imprison incut or of such ns Mr. Stephens has just imposed upon Kansas tho branding punishment as felony nny denial by sptcch, veriling or publication, of tho right ofl slavchol Jing In Kansas. Such met hod as these authorize suspicion of the party that finds It necessary to employ them. We will therefore inquire further beforo tak ing fur granted, either that Mr. Stephens haquoted tits whole of what the Scripture tenches rejecting slavery, or has given a right interpretation to what ho has quoted. We hnvo now lying beforo us two publi cations, ono an octavo pamphlet of 75 pa ges, written many years ago by Theodore D. Weld, and entitled "Tho Bible against Slavery," the oilier a duodecimo volume of 272 pa;;cs, published within tho presont year by Rev. George D. Checver, and en titled "God against Slavery." Both these givo a full statement and explanation of tho Scriplurol laws respecting send, tuje, which they declare, and prove, abso lutely fo forbid such slavery as exists at the South, and such as Mr. Stephens defends. Doth quote the original Hebrew, and even seem acquainted with tho two words of " original Greek," which Mr. Stephens ostentatiously presents ns at once tho cer-j tificato of profound learning on his own part, and ns a powerful charm to reduce his opponents to silence. Doth these gentle men mako it clear, alike from Hebrew, and Greek, and a miuuto comparison of the va rious laws and customs bearing upon the subject, that the Hebrews wero utterly and absolutely foibidden, on pnin of death, even to claim, or to hold, a human being as n siavc. This point they claim thor oughly to have proved, in both tho publica tions above mentioned. It appears, then, that there is something 'o be said on llio other side, and that wo are not compelled lo acquiesce in Mr. Ste phons's decision, either by tho necessity of admitting a monopoly of learning and pi ety on his part, or by ihe absence of any alternative. But a real difficulty remains. "Who shall decide when doctors disagree?-' How are we, the unlearned, to distinguish which of these two positions, diametrically opposed to one another, is the true one I Fortunately, IVovidenlially rather, the Mosaic law itself gives to each of ns who can read English the means of absolutely leciding this question. Tlio fifteenth and sixteenth verses of the twenty-third chap ter of Deuteronomy, which Mr. Stephens had not lime to quoto in his speech, nor space to insert in his pamphlet, settle this mailer conclusively. They fully corrobo rate tho statement (which Mrv Weld and Doctor Checver support by many other conclusive pi oof,) ihat the Hebrew ser vants were voluntary servants, made so by their own contract; that tho buying of ser vants was buying their services of them selves ; and are absolutely and absurdly inconsistent with the assumption that they were bought, independently of their own consent, of other parlies, and held thence forward as tho absoluto property of the buyer. This passage, consisting first of on un qualified prohibition to tho class of mas ters, and next of an unqualified permission and right guarantied to tho class of ser vants is os follows : "15. Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : " 10. Be shall dwell with thee, even among you, in thai place which he shall choose in one of thy gales, wnr.i;n it i.iketh him best: iO shall not oppress him." The enactment of this law incontrovert ibly shows that slavery, the buying, seiz ing, holding, and selling men as properly, had no legal existence among ihat poople; The introduction of such a law into the code of a slaveholding people would effect ually and immediately put an end to slavery. This statute remained in force, an inte gral and essential part of the Hebrew code, throughout the national existence of that people. Therefore we are sure that what we call slavery never existed among them at all, unless by disobedience to that law. The penalty for stealing an ox, among tho Hebrews, was a reiteration of two fold or five-fold, according to circumstances, to tlie owner of the ox, because tlie ox was properly. The penalty for stealing a man, was death, but nothing is said about res toration, obviously because the man was not, end oulJ not be, the property of an other. Whenever a man is btolen, he is stolen from himsdf, and the very act of takin" ofi from him the grasp of the kid napper restores him lo himself; so that nothing needs to be said about restoration, But thelawe"es iuntierinanuiis,inxiiig!prengurinj me present painarcnsci ir. . .r l T .1 1 at the very root, oi siery. in tu twenty first chapter of Exodos, tho ch.sp - in immediately fallowing the fecategw, we read, v. 16ib, And h tbst steale'h man, and selletb hira, or , A a. W, be shall child, differed nothing from a sorely be put to death.". . doulos, though ho bo lord of all ; bat is Not o!y he tlir; sod illij twUr tefor uJ(vragrt t0til tb tipj man, but tho baro holding and claiming him as n pieco of property, was visited at once, and for llio first ofll-nse, with the heaviest penally of tho Jewish law, Tho facls expressed and necessarily im plied in (he above passage, and in I ho one from Deuteronomy previously quoted, ore absolutely incompatible with the idea of a tolerated and legalized slavery among the Hebrews. A man stolen may havo been a servant or not a servant ; but even if ha were a servant, thero is no direction lo ro store him to any previous mastor. Out if a servant runs away, thero is on express and positive direction not to restore him to his master; thus recognizing iho servant's right to decidu for himself whether tho master properly performed his part of the contract ; and thus rendering it certain (if wo admit the Mosaic code to be consistent with itsulf ) that the transaction called br tho translators of tho English lliblo ihe " buying" of servants, mi havo been the buying of their services from themselves. No other theory will explain the provision, unparalleled and absurd in a slaveholding state, that the servant who, finding himself unjustly treated by his master, left him and took refugo with his next neighbor, was not lo bo restored, but, on the contrary, was at liberty to mako n new contract with some other master,' or to maintain himself indepcndenlly, without molestation. Tho Hebrews, then, did not hold slaves. The Hebrew laws provided for tho protec tion of tho poor and tho weak. One would expect, as a matter of course, to find law of a very difiercnt character made by a nation which systematically oppresses the poor and the weak. Dutin this mailer wo aro not driven to specula'ion by tho absenco of facts. Tho past history and present condition of tho American people show us precisely how tyranny is secured nnd fortified by legal provisions in the caso of a nation that docs hold slaves, and is determined lo keep them. Wo request special attention lo tho lighi thrown on the character and conduct of Mr. Stephens by the following facts t 1. Ho identifies himself, in theory and practice, with tho slave power. He sup. ports that power, not only in its enforce ment of tho infamous "Fugitive Slavo Law" in the (so-called) Frco Slates, but in the absolute prohibition, by law, of free dom of speech and of tlio press in Kansas, for tho special advantage of slaveholders. 2. Pretending to givo n true account of tho regulation of servitude by the Hebrew code, for the purposo of showing a divine sanction for slavery, he has fraudulently suppressed two vital and characterislio pas sage which are irreconcilably at variance with his theory, and has wrested the pas sages actuully quoled from their true meaning by a commentary which is also irreconcilably at variance with tho sup pressed passages. 3. Using the mask of piety to gain credit for the character, and aid toward the firmer establishment of slavery, ho repre sents its opposcrs as opposing tho will and law of God, and himself and his Colleagues as co-operating with tho will and law of God, knowing nil the time ihat the testimo ny of Scripture, which he has suppressed is contradictory and fatal alike to his repre sentations of the Ilobrew code, and of the support assumed to bo given by that code to the atrocities of American slavery. In view of these facts, is it too much to say that Mr. Stephens's claim of tho Di vine approval of American slavery under such circumstances, and on such grounds, shows hypocrisy added to oppression, and impudence to profligacy I Out Mr. Stephens assumes a Divine sanction of slavery through Abraham, prior to the giving of the Mosaic lawi This is mere assumption. Tie has not yet proved that the "servants" of Abraham wero not such by voluntary contract. But even if he could prove it, the practice of Abraham would no more justify slavery now than concubinage now. His reliance upon the "original Greok," in thp New Testament history, equally brings him into the dilemma of proving too much, and thus of proving nothing. For if doulos, as he says, necessarily means slave, in distinction from servant, this fact draws after it the following consequences ! It shows Jo-Je (by the opening of his epistle), and Peter (by tho opening of his second epistle), to havo been the slaves of Jesus Christ ; in which case he might have sold them to the highest bidder; or kept them at hard labor, beating them with many stripes when there was any failure in their' appointed tasks; or set ibem to j propagating other slaves, to be sold in the market when they grew old enongh, thus giu;a. j jt TWjBCei lo fIehood and absurdity . ...,. lUlempn, fif p,u, ,r, . . - -- 1), "Now I say that the heir, as long as appointed of llio lather." iho minor n in tho condition of servant, being subjeot to tho direction, nut only of a father but a tutor i but ho It nor In tho condition of a slavo, exposed to sale in the market, bTutol beating and mutilation, privation of suita bio food and clothing, and entire denial of instruction In letters, art, and sciences. The case of Oneslmut is not only mis stated, but impudently reversed and falsi fied by Mr. Stephens ; sinco Paul detiret Philemon to receive him "not now as a doulos, but above a doulos, a brother be loved." Put the crowning nnd most gigantic spe cimen of Mr. Stephens's audacity is found on the lOih pago, where, commencing the justification of slavery by the claim of imi tation of the Hebrew system, he slides im perceptibly into the claim of boneficcntly bringing heathens into a Christian land, then quietly taket it forgrantod that they aro equally to remain sluves after being converted, rcgenernled, and admitted to full Christiun communion, and finally set tles upon tho comfortable ground that the negro (by which,' it must bo remembered, he means tho entire progeny cf a century of intermixturs of the puro whlto Virgin- inn blood with Ihe constantly varying shades, blnnching with every generation, of tho mulatto Virginian blood) is, and will remain, exactly in his right place as a slave. Hero is the passage Speaking of the Hobrcws, ho says: " It is to bo noted that their bondmen and bondmaids were to bo of tho hoathen round about them. Over their brethren they wero net to ru'o with risr. Our Soulhern svstem is in strict conformity with this inninclion. Oarnbu-.n were taken from tho heathen tribes tho barbarians of Afiica. In our household llu-y aro brought within the palo of the covenant, under Christian teaching and influence ; and moro of thorn are partak. ert of tho benefits of ihe Gospel than ever were rendered so, by missionary enterprise. Tho wisdom of man is foolishness the ways of Providenco are mysterious. Nor does llio negro feel nny senso of degrada tion in his condition, ilo is not degraded. lie occupies and fills the same grade or rank in society and the State, that ho does in the scale of being. It is his natural placet and all things fit when nature's great first law of order is conformed to." Pious, devout soul 1 How beautiful ic his appreciation of tho "bonefits of the Gospel" ! how active his co-operation with "naluro's firsl great law of order"! nnd how touching his resignation to the "mys terious ways of Providenco" when they put money in his pocket 1 It would be a casting of pearls before swino to speak to Mr. Stephens of that great characteristic foaturo of Christianity which represents tho groat, the strong, and the wise to be gifted with those advan tages expressly that they may help tho lit tle, tho weak, and tho ignorant, lie nei ther understands nor cares for such con siderations ; and the lowost of his slaves is nearer the kingdom of heaven than ho. But wo hope better things from the people of Oregon. We hopo thoy will reject the sandy foundation, the bowing walls, and J tho iinlcmpored moriar, which Mr. Ste phens proposes for their political and social structure. We trust they will havo tho worldly wisdom to exclude from their sys tem, in I hia its forming stage, such an ap ple of discord ns slavery it certain to prove ; such a worm at tho root of all solid prosperity, such a discouragement to in dustry, such a olog upon enterprise, such a shackle on freedom of speech and of the press, such a domestic enemy, necessitating constant fear, suspicion, and precaution, and such an active corrupter of morals nnd manners, ns slavery is now proving itself in all tho slave States. But if they would resist this insidious foa on tho ground of principle if they would excludo every vestige of that contemptible vioe, oppress ion nf the poor and needy, aa scrupulously at the Hebrews did the accursed spoil of Achan, from their tents and if they would at once lay so firm a foundation for their future prosperity, and set so noblo an ex ample to their elder sister Slates, as to bring their Constitution, laws, and customs, from tho first, Into hearty, vital, active con formity with the great Christian idea of love to God, manifesting itself by lore to men, nnd shown most assiduously to thoie who most need it, the full measure of our wishes would be gratified. Jcstcs. Population of California. A careful estimato, based on tho latest returns of tho local assessors, makes tho population of California 507,007 of whom 332,830 aro Americans, .05,000 Indians, 38,067 Chi nese, 15,000 French, 15,000 Mexicans, 10,000 Germans, 10,000 Irish, 2,000 Eng lish, and 15,000 other foreigners, besides 4,000 colored persons. CO" Tbo iron bore now pursues hit way, without stop or important deviation, UDoa a direct line, from Bangor, Maine, to Jefferson City, Missouri, a distance of a little ovr tersni.MO hundred muss, in throe day. The Rekeltloa'i ta Ohio, The truth that a false position can sev er be long maintained without tho tscrl fice ef common honesty or common tentr, hit Urn continually il'uitrated In the re cent political history of this eoi'ntry. It hut just received another very striking confirmation in Ihe Slate of Ohio. At tome limo during the past tummor, a slave escaped from Kentucky, and took ref uge in the town of Mechsnicaburg, Ohio, To that place ho was pursued, ly yirtuo of tho odious law which converts tho frro Stsies of the North into the accomplioes of syttcm which they abhor and (here ho would hare been arrested, had Lo not (ibssciied so much of tho spirit end cour age of a freeman at entll'd biro to turn upon hit pursuers, and scare them from hit track. They ran away at the sight and sound of hit pistol, and, when thoy return ed with reinfurcomcnta, they found that some of ihe citizens f Mechanictborg had helped the fugitiva lo a place of safety beyond our Republican borders. Thereupon, the pursuers who had been defeated of their disgraceful object, set to work lo ferret out, and bring to " punish ment, " the fret while man who hod dared to sympathize with a bold fellow fighting and fleeing for hit liborty. Armed at latt with a quivor of suspicions sufficiently large and full, they procured writs from the United States District Court for the ar rest of four porsons in Champaign county, charged with the crime of "harboring a fu gitiva from labor." These wiits were put in'o the hands of a deputy marshal, who, with his pome, departed lo serve them. They were served, and the parties named wero arrested. Tho friends of the latter however, instantly applied to the courts ef the county for writs of habeas corpus, which were of courso Immediately grant edj and, with theso writs, the sheriff of tho county overtook tlio deputy marshal and hit prisoners iu tho adjoining county of Clarke. Tho deputy marshal at first re fused, with a show of rc.iion, to obey the summons of the sheriff, on the ground :hat his functions could not bo exercised out of his own shrievalty hut in a moment went ontodcclaro that nobody should interrupt his progress. This question, bing raited by him, was promptly aecept'd by another sherilT tho sheriff of Clnrko who took tho writ from the hands of his collenguoof Cham paign, And, with ono assistant only, put himself in tho way of the deputy, and com manded him to stop. There wis no ground for evasion hero. Tho sheriff of Clarke was clearly in hit right, aud that the dep uty marshal knew this to bo so is proved by his first reply to tho sheriff of Cham paign. But, so far wis ho from nny In tention of obeying iho law of the land, that ho and his men mado an onset upon the sheriff, and, after inflicting great vio lence upsn him, loft him, to pursue thctr way. Jiy this time, however, tlio country was thoroughly aroused to tho nature of these unheard-of proceedings, and a third sheriff of a third county Grceno final ly succeeded in bringing up this maraud ing deputy who had so insanely undertaken to rido a raid through the heart of tho Wostern lloservo. Tho marshnl and his men wore thrown in prison, from which it appears by tho latest advices that two of them havo been liberated on bail. Upon this plain nnd straight forward narrative of tho events which have just taken placo in Ohio, it is not possible that two constructions can be placed. Tha depuiy marshal of tho United States has not brought ihe " United Slates authori ties" into collision with the authorities of tho St a to of Ohio. If any such collision shall result from his intemperate and out rageous proceedings, the responsibility of that collision will rest on the United Ststea authorities, who ahull be foolish enough to render themselves accountable for tho acta of a blundoring and brutal subordinate. We do not choose to believe that nny ro- spectublo officer ef the American Govern ment will put himself into so unenviable and ridiculous a position. By the exer tion of a very little moderation and a very little intelligence on the pait of ihe su- peiior functionaries of tho Union and of the Slate of Ohio, this mutter can be easily arranged the c.Teuding deputy dealt with, according to his deserts and tho parties implicated in the heinous charge of help., ing a man to his freedom, either exoner. aled from tho imputation, or aflUoted with such penalties as attach, in tho Uaited. States, to such offoncet. JV. Y. Timet, KT The emigration from Germany this year promises to bo larger than ever. From all parts of Germany oven the parti tbut have cover had the Western fe ver on before from Pomeraoia, Western Prussia, and Brandenburg, parties are ma king up to leave for America. Most of the new-comers are mechanics and farmers, men used to working, and used to the rewards and comforts which industry 4v erjwhere if ctirei ta a potter V letsj extent