CONSEQUENCES OF RUNNING AWAY!

The New-York Express, edited by James Brooks, (formerly of Maine,) is one of the dirtiest, meanest and most villainous papers published in the nation. As a specimen of its villainous spirit, the following comments on the last letter published in the Liberator from the eloquent and gifted Douglass:—

"If this man Douglass had not run away from the South, the people there would tell him he would make a very good field hand, or 'he'd be worth a thousand dollars in here.' It is only in the free States, that this 'negro,' this 'nigger' Douglass, could create a stir among the abolitionists, as among any any people in the world. If Douglass had laid at home, in the position in which his Creator had placed him, he would have had the same privileges as any person that ever lived. But he was a king! The nobility of England—if the Lord Mayor of London divested himself of his robes of office, he was not equal to the white servant of his own miserable, poverty-stricken, ragged, starving country—sed de gustibus, &c. De gustibus non est disputandum. If Douglass will only travel among the 'peasantry' or the 'miner,' or the 'factory operative' among O'Connell's wretched tenants, whom the 'Time's' corresponds to, we think even the 'Express' itself will confess that the worst off slaves in this country are princes in comparison with them.

But there is, we imagine, something deeper in all this than the mere envy of the New-York Express of runaway negroes of America. 'Comparisons,' said Sage Dogberry, 'are odoriferous;' and this may be so; but it cannot be very pleasant for a representative to the Maryland refugee demonstrate rather the fact that his constituents have not so much a love for him as hate for the country and the institutions, which it is the special business of the fugitive to inspire them with. This glib-tongued scoundrel, (who is now in the U. S. Senate, to the shame and disgrace of Maryland, and a disgrace to the whole country,) is doing more to arouse the British people against this nation, than all the other causes combined. He is travelling through the length and breadth of Scotland, demagoguing through the cities and towns, vilifying his country, making himself a welcome guest with lords and ladies, and instilling his poison into their minds, that we have leagued with the United States for the perpetuation of slavery—that emissaries had been sent to Mexico for the purpose of creating divisions, and producing a revolution that will eventually result in the annexation of Mexico also—that efforts are now being made to purchase Cuba, and that persons have been sent to St. Domingo to array one party against another, to weaken their power, and that the South would never rest till that Republic is destroyed—

If the Tribune is pleased with the spectacle of the aristocracy of England embracing a runaway slave, he should be welcome to his own, & if we welcome the aristocracy of England to lend their aid abroad to the slavery of America ; for she forced the pest upon us, in spite of our will, and she herself sustains a state of society in which ten thousand times more suffering exists than that in which our slaves are in. Southern slavery is heaven compared with starving Ireland, or pale, haggard, wretched, sooty Birmingham. The 'liberty and equality' of the Southern master's slave is princely, compared with the degradation, powerlessness, and utter hopelessness of the Irish peasant, or the English workers in the mines and factories. Slavery is a terrible calamity, but it has no terrors of starvation, no frightful dread of the future, no unassuaged, unheeded, uncared-for death-bed—no parish prisons, no such awful scenes as Dickens describes, but hardly exaggerates. When England regards 'the rights of man,' she has a right to rebuke us, and not before."