One of our distinguished College-professors, lately on a tour in Europe, had his attention called, while passing along the street of a German city, to the pictorial representation of a WHITE MAN SCOURGING A SUPPLICATING COLORED FEMALE, with this allusion underwritten:—­“A SPECIMEN OF EQUALITY—­FROM REPUBLICAN AMERICA.”

Truly might our countryman have exclaimed in the language, if not with the generous emotions of the Trojan hero, when he beheld the noble deeds of his countrymen pencilled in a strange land—­

—­“Quis jam locus—­
Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?”
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Instead of being thus seated on a “heaven-kissing hill,” and seen of all in its pure radiance; instead of enjoying its delightful airs, and imparting to them the healthful savor of justice, truth, mercy, magnanimity, see what a picture we present;—­our cannibal burnings of human beings—­our Lynch courts—­our lawless scourgings and capital executions, not only of slaves, but of freemen—­our demoniac mobs raging through the streets of our cities and large towns at midday as well as at midnight, shedding innocent blood, devastating property, and applying the incendiaries’ torch to edifices erected and dedicated to FREE DISCUSSION—­the known friends of order, of law, of liberty, of the Constitution—­citizens, distinguished for their worth at home, and reflecting honor on their country abroad, shut out from more than half our territory, or visiting it at the hazard of their lives, or of the most degrading and painful personal inflictions—­freedom of speech and of the press overthrown and hooted at—­the right of petition struck down in Congress, where, above all places, it ought to have been maintained to the last—­the people mocked at, and attempted to be gagged by their own servants—­the time the office-honored veteran, who fearlessly contended for the right, publicly menaced for words spoken in his place as a representative of the people, with an indictment by a slaveholding grand jury—­in fine, the great principles of government asserted by our fathers in the Declaration of Independence, and embodied in our Constitution, with which they won for us the sympathy, the admiration of the world—­all forgotten, dishonoured, despised, trodden under foot!  And this for slavery!!

Horrible catalogue!—­yet by no means a complete one—­for so young a nation, boasting itself, too, to be the freest on earth!  It is the ripe fruit of that chef d’oeuvre of political skill and patriotic achievement—­the MISSOURI COMPROMISE.

Another such compromise—­or any compromise now with slavery—­and the nation is undone.

APPENDIX F.

The following is believed to be a correct exhibit of the legislative resolutions against the annexation of Texas—­of the times at which they were passed, and of the votes by which they were passed:—­

1.  VERMONT.