The Weapons of the Slave.
At Wilkesbarre, in Pennsylvania, two slave-hunters under the Fugitive Slave Law did their best and worst to recapture a mulatto, named Rex. They placed handcuffs on him; but with these very handcuffs, the man—maddened by despair—beat down and marked his hunters. There is a moral in this, if America could understand it. Well will it be if emancipation be granted before slavery, with its very chains, shall knock down and mark the national slaveholders.
Gentle Reader!—If you have a remarkably strong constitution, you may read the following; but if not, we beg of you to pass it over:—
If a cigar makes a man ill, will a cheroot make a Man-illa?