Show GLEANINGS FROM EXCHANGES tue tun OBERLIN obio ohio says the cleveland plain dealer for tor for tor preaching politics and resistance to the fugitive slave law in obedience to what they claim as gods higher lav Lat lawand lagand tand land for inciting a mob and rescuing a fugitive from the lawful custody of lis lii master have involved themselves in a labyrinth of trouble from bich which there is little probability of their being soon extricated prof peck president of the oberlin institute and other leading spirits of that abolition school have been found guilty of resli resisting ting the law of the land and have gone to prison whence they will not come out on their own recognize arces ances nor continues the plain deahr will the lord let them out 12 which is not by any means an illogical conclusion for if we are not mistaken those oberlin perfectionists with all their pretentious know as little about the lord aa as the elephant doe does of f his great areat grand father tather hence to anticipate any immediate interposition ard miraculous rescue aa as was the case with paul and silas would be altogether out of the question in their igi grant zeal for the oppressed african of the south who 1 I ho has from birth association so and common interest become a part and portion of the republic protected by her laws and abstained by the products of other her boll these oberlin perfectionists have desperately defied the authority of a sovereign state and the constitution and laws of our government utterly losing sight of that loyalty and corruptible ii fidelity which should alwa ysa nd which has his generally so eminently characterized the conduct of the masses who compose the population of the various sections of our country but fir from om the following extracts of a letter w written ritten by the secretary of the oberlin college t mr air hamilton hillan englishman with hom whom we became acquainted while at oberlin some elph eiph eighteen teen years amo ago ago alo 0 then a iery cery very fine young man directed to the british and foreign antislavery anti slavery society and published in the british daily mail april 29 turn furn furnishes labes an index to public sentiment at oberlin and perhaps a key to the disrespect to the laws and arid hatred towards this government more recently demonstrated by the oberlin junto ois OBERLIN erlyn ERLIN COLLEGE ohio U sy S yeb reb 17 V 1859 1863 1 deau dean fransis Dr AnSis srm SIM YOU toa have probably seen in bome some of ahe abe american papers paper an account of the rescue of a save stave from lii his captors b t some come of the inhabitant inhabitants of oberlin assist d by other humane persons persona in the neighborhood prominent in this ihla humane transaction were three englishmen and scotchman three or four are students la to the lb couge conge cou ge the other a married mn man with a family theas these fur british subjects together with thirty three others engaged ed in the affairs are now arraigned by the federal government of the united state states under tinder a charge of vitiating the siale slate law and are awaiting their trial which takes ilace oace ird lif march 0 and now I 1 come to the object I 1 have in view in writing this letter and which ie Is to soll soli cli cit from irom the friends of bf the tle 6 siave ave in great britain some gome pecuniary to enable these cli of her to meet the expense necessary to delens defend themselves against this 0 though nearly twenty years I 1 have hare been secretary to this college I 1 am in every gense sense ol 01 the word an englich man in and such outrages as those I 1 have recorded and one more I 1 have yet to mention nj do not wean wein ml me from myde my devotion 0 to my native country 0 doubtless mr hamilton hill did not dream f being thus exposed by the publication of his letter through the american press if the institution ution of slavery as maintained in the southern states of the union has been the stumbling block over which Mr Hamilton hill has shattered bib bis faith in american institution not to say his brains thus engendering that persistent observance of hib his allegiance to great britain which has marked hilj him during a long residence upon american soil and twenty years service as secretary of an american college col coi legein J in every sense of the word an englishman 0 to return to his bis native country where in his own proper person he might pay his bis devotions to the lion and the unicorn or to mr air john bull if he r ht possibly be accredited to him as a favorable symptom of or returning sanity and for which inestimable privileges he be should be truly grateful and might appropriately adopt the devotional service of dow dower jr ye te monsters montt ers ert ot of the bubbling deep your tour Us maker kers praises praised spout up from the sands ye codlings coddings cod lings creep aud and wg wag your tails tales about for there his righteous a soul would not be excruciated crucia ted by the heartrending heart rending tales of fugitives who have fled from rom their legal masters and that too in nine cases out of ten through tigh the unwarrantable interference and persuasions of such hotheaded hot headed abolitionists as mr hill Is there any virtue in resisting the lai lal laug a of ofa country when done even by its citizens themselves we say there Is not when a lav or statutory provision become obnoxious to a free people there is always left them a legal source of appeal in the ballot box or by mem meir onal orial but bat what hat bat shall we say m when uben hen ben foreigner foreigners who ho after forg enjoying enjoy in the fostering care of such a country as ours and stubbornly refusing ing to become naturalized citizens are found systematically maliciously and against the tho peace and prosperity of the government trampling upon the constitution and forcibly resisting r united states officers in the execution of the laas laws thou though h they boast of their hostile attitude to american ant glory in still being leing britons 1 the acquisition cf such subjects would lot cot be sou sought ht after by any good government the fruits of all this fanatical abolitionism at the north are beginning to ripen in an open and avowed determination at the south to tode lode de fend tend and perpetuate at all hazards the integrity of the peculiar institution il who shall blame them except those who are united in principle with that politico beligio faction the very hot bed of bich which is at oberlin ohio ahio the same pint spirit which prompted the oberlin rescuers to resist a law as aldas old oid as the government passed by the first cor coi grebb gress signed by washington and approved by J etterson efre etre antho tb a ground that it coi cot flicks with ith gods godlis higher law P 11 brought massachusetts to the vergeon verge of civil war in her enthusiasm for the well being of the african and has more recently led the black republicans to so amend the state constitution atit ution of massachusetts as to compel every foreigner to reside there seven years before be b can vote yote while a runaway negro slave can vote in one yearl year the south however intend not to be baffled and forced to succumb to the intolerance of northera nort hera berj abolitionism while on the one haud baud the abolitionists are aiding and abetting by every possible means the extradition of bilyea slaves from the south the southerner is actively enlisted in in devising remedies for making good his losses A distinguished southerner writes write before I 1 state what that thai remedy Is permit me to tell you something about the the great rd river att thid rait rott ti Is compo comp obed eed of dritt drift wood lying and combined to gether gether intrery Int ine Tery form and position this ascends tho the tb river against it is strong current ss and marit maintain aina ains its char acter thi through ough a hund hundred red years its ies apparent appi appt enu movement reo XEo rement but real progress up the river is explained in this thi way the decay at its lower end Is about equal to the supply of fresh material mater miter lal ial at rie rib the lie upper epper end now I 1 will tell yu you that the south sooth flading finding the annual loss of slaves lave from ironi the state states adjoining the northern states stale to be eo so great treat as a to inordinately increase the price 0 of I 1 laver layer have determined to supply that 1088 loei by tall tail ma atrial either under the sanction of congress or in open dt defiance fiance flance of existing law laws they have haye not olry only de e ter herminea minea mined on tills but they have bave to import at least leat ten africans for every esery slave flave run off troia froia the cm states yaster faster than the rotting at the north end of the slave line will n ill lii theriel the new tiesh be pr lucyd it at the south sooth end EXTREMIS eathl mig mis MALIS manis EXTREMA remedia tbt worst evils ils its rt quire the remedies the doctrine of open defiance to existing laws relative to the slave question is not of so southern origin it may be traced to the inordinate and unasked sympathy of pseudo phil abolitionists ano by their unlawful aggressions both logical and physical having induced the present alarming condition of the relations existing between the north and the south periling pe riling be very safety of the union and the permanency of american civil and religious t liberty at a I 1 late a te democratic meeting in lowndes county mississippi the following follo resolutions were passed passee pas lec sec resold that in the eventoff the election of a black republican to the presidency in 1860 by a section sectional sl mai ma i bority the honor and safety safely of or the southern states will wilt require tham to dite olve the political bands hands which xinia them to ane states of the north RESOLVED such an election by a section sectional alma aima ma 1 bority and upon principles ind policy hostile to the th political icil equa equality fity and security of the southern staten 1 would be an act EO so and at as to justlin a resort to the most efficient measures for protection I 1 resolved that should such tuch an election be the true course of the south would be not oot to permit the inauguration of the candidate thus choen chokn president over them leaving him to be president of the states ana ani adf sni the section by whom be was elected elec tedy and nd holding that the tb fanaticism the aggression and the unfaithfulness to the th of thee tin mi northern northen states had mi thi tbt union and made a longer lonzer continuance coutin nance of our connection wilh with them with our interests our safety and our oui honor lunor had it not been for the pernicious operation operations i of ultra abolitionism whatever guise it may have assumed this crisis would never hav have arrived for it may ile he asserted without fear ol 01 contradiction that if left without provocation to enjoy her peculiar institution and all the rights assigned her by the the si south 0 lith would never have presumed to compel the north to engage in a system vhal was loathsome to them f the north and the south have for the past thi thirty ii years ears been teen striving for the balance of power the north to crush t mt ut the institution of slavery the south to protect that institution from lawless encroachment for therein was vested a great sectional and individual interest one which to them circumscribed all others reaching even to the security of their bomes bomea and their common sustenance the northern ultraists were aggressors the south sooth as a mass stood on the defensive p perhaps chaps a few far in the minority have had bad hopes of extending the area of the slave power over cover the continent canti nent but such views were ephemeral and visionary now at length the crisis has come when these two great factions having assumed grounds i reconcilable with each other are frenzied with zeal for the maintenance of what they regard as their respective lightel ri atal the argument now resolves itself into an alternative northern abolitionism must cease ita its assaults upon southern bouthern institutions or a dissolution of the union is inevitable and that tot too at no distant day for we do not anticipate on the part of the any con Ce cession ision islon whatever of those ri rights 0 ats claimed upon the guarantee of the constitution to fret thy mood or cloud thy brow is no part of our present purpose but buto buta 0 american if there is not a simultaneous cessation from strife between the two great sections which compose the republic the time is at band when civil war will not only desecrate but raze to the ground the tho holy temple of liberty reared by our fathers arld and when the follow in ing e revelation given eiven through L h the prophet joseph 8 mith smith is fulfilled who will therefore rise up and condemn the prophet joseph president brigham young or the latter day saints 5 4 Mv revelation elation and prophecy by the prophet seer ani revelator joseph sinith smith given december GYer verily lly liy thus saith gaith the lord ltd concern concerning ing int the war wars that will shortly come to pas pass beginning at the rebellion llon ilon of south carolina which will eventually terminate la in the death anil auli misery of many soult the days will come that war 1 11 11 be poured out upon all nations nation beginning at that place fon for or behoc tx ho d the southern states hall hhall be divided against the northern states and the southern state states will call on other nt iou lou even the nation ot or great britain as it itis la called and they thet hall shall al aaa abo call cail upon other nat nation lonsy in order to defend themselves against other batons na nat tons lonsy and thus war thill le be poured out upon all nation and it shall thill come crime to atter after miny dayse slaves glares hail hall rh up against their shall ball be and ined tried tor for war and it shall come clime to pa pablo patio alo alsop al aio op o that the remnants who are left of the land will marbal marhal and shall shail become exceeding accy ancy angy and shail shall TX vex the gentiles gentile with a sore tore vexation and thus thai with the UK sward award and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall hall mourn mown and with famine lumide and plague prague and i arth quakes and the thunder of hie Itt heaven aven and ane the fierce and vivid lightning also shall the inhabitants inhabitant of 0 the earth be made ta to feel the wrath and indignation and cha chastening hand band hand ot of an almighty exl gody gods until the consumption decreed creeds creedy bath mads made a full fall end of all nation that the cry of the saints and arad of the blood of the be saints hall ball cede to come up into the ears of the ard of sabba BAbba othy from the earth to be avenged of their tremlet enemies tn emles emlet wherefore tand stand land ye la in holy and be not moved until the day of the lord come tur fur behold it cometh quickly the lord amen amens the above revelation was published to the world many years since and lest it should have been overlooked by any of the people of the united states we here reprint it that all may know of the things shortly to come to pass pbs which were foretold by an holy prophet gince lince martyred marty red in cold blood while under the plighted protection of a sovereign state by which be has sealed his testimony should the publication of this revelation have even a tendency to postpone the evil day of dark dar darkness kness kneEs ness desolation and sorrow or induce any to pause and reflect upon the verge of the awful precipice we shall have gained all we expect and if by this or any other means the two great contending factions at the extremities of the union might momentarily be bf checked elin io their course of it will be moie more more than |