Since writing the foregoing, 20,000,000 freemen, by the decision of their representatives at Washington, have hung another negro’s shackle on their pole of Liberty (?).  Kansas is enslaved—­freedom is dishonoured.  As a proof how easily those who are brought up under the institution of Slavery blind themselves to the most simple facts, Mr. Badger, the senator for North Carolina, after eulogizing the treatment of slaves, and enlarging upon the affection between them and their masters, stated that, if Nebraska was not declared a Slave State[CA] it would preclude him, should he wish to settle there, from taking with him his “old mammy,”—­the negro woman who had nursed him in infancy.  Mr. Wade, from Ohio, replied, “that the senator was labouring under a mistake; there was nothing to prevent his taking his beloved mammy with him, though Nebraska remained free, except it were that he could not sell her when he got there.”

Let the Christian learn charity from the despised Mussulman.  Read the following proclamation:—­

  “From the Servant of God, the Mushir Ahmed Basha Bey, Prince of the
  Tunisian dominions.

  “To our ally, Sir Thomas Reade, Consul-General of the British
  Government at Tunis.

  “The servitude imposed on a part of the human kind whom God has
  created is a very cruel thing, and our heart shrinks from it.

“It never ceased to be the object of our attention for years past, which we employed in adopting such proper means as could bring us to its extirpation, as is well known to you.  Now, therefore, we have thought proper to publish that we have abolished men’s slavery in all our dominions, inasmuch as we regard all slaves who are on our territory as free, and do not recognise the legality of their being kept as a property.  We have sent the necessary orders to all the governors of our Tunisian kingdom, and inform you thereof, in order that you may know that all slaves that shall touch our territory, by sea or by land, shall become free.

  “May you live under the protection of God!

  “Written in Moharrem, 1262.” (23rd of January, 1846.)

What a bitter satire upon the vaunted “Land of Liberty” have her sons enacted since the Mahometan Prince penned the above!  Not only has the slave territory been nearly doubled in the present century; but by a recent decision of the Supreme Court, every law which has been passed by Congress restricting slavery, is pronounced contrary to the constitution, and therefore invalid.  Congress is declared powerless to prohibit slavery from any portion of the Federal Territory, or to authorize the inhabitants to do so; the African race, whether slave or free, are declared not to be citizens, and consequently to be incompetent to sue in the United States’ Courts, and the slave-owner is pronounced authorized to carry his rights into every corner of the Union, despite the decrees of Congress or the will of the inhabitants.