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E WORLD---OUR COUNTRYMEN ARE ALL MANKIND.
JUNE 16, 1848.
J. BROWN YERRINTON, Printer:
WilOLE NO. 649.
| National Repeal Association.
idresa of the Pennsylvania ch was read atthe meet- re on Wedneaday last:
ming
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Vitional Repeal Association of Ireland:
Camaittee of the Pennsylvania * eastern district, by di- ty, address you with a view
3 of fact and of argu
and the abolitionists, , } to your bedy by 4 ad read at your meet-
essary to presume any n the authors of those
mplete tyranny exerted \jing section of our na-
irtiality in a great portion States, arising from its Ge- whose political ambition or
| them to court the favor of
idily cause many who have not 1 to the subject, to be led into
p Corcoran, Corresponding Repeal Association of Louisi- iyeholders of the South ex-
a hospitality and liberality vn to them in the non-
It this assertion were true, we it it would not lead you to this country, while you op- Those who plunder oth- industry, can sometimes af- ity farther than those who os. You would think ill of jould visit your country, and, be- . sccived by the oppressors of Ire- their cause as against the op-
sation of superior liberality in the South ‘yrants is, however, in our opinion, jun- - iations called ‘Native Ameritan, , exist almost exclusively in
‘States. Itis a slaveholding State which Dennis Corcoran resides) recently to extend from five years
f residence requisite for the nat- wrs. The fact that the territory
, States is more extensive, and tof the free States, and yet, iwo-thirds of the Irish settle, from States, militates against Mr. Cor-
serts, that to subvert slavery
ts contemplate, would cause a suinary that the heart sickens at perceive by this assertion, sare gravely put forth by those selyes with the cause of tyr- that it is no new thing for you wagant predictions in relation to the x their rights to other oppressed things have never been unusu-
You will
rst yuntof an intelligent agent, who, tyront’s plea, excused his hellish 1 peaceful abolition of slavery,
¢ ives of Ireland advocated in Io refer to the condition of Antigua 1 for the eight years which have tlapsed nd complete emancipation took a sufficient reply to the ( ran
C. M. Brosnan, of Albany, State ‘,* With us, no question can be n its tendencies as that of sla- ss known to your association that and oppression exist, the most in the view of the oppressors and e question of the abolition of that ression. We presume, that this as- unger of agitating the question of
we no weight in your minds. ter alleges, in substance, that for nat- to array themselves with the abo- ‘in strict violation of their con- gations.” ‘This allegation is unfound- as nearly all the States of odr Union raiding to enslave human beings, which vn those States can repeal without the Constitution of the federal gov- national government posseases terri+
» District of Columbia, Florida, &c. sscan abolish slavery without any * Constitution, and the Constitution it-
by the action of the qualified ,soas to abolish entirely the nal government, through its now lends to the enslaving of ty State where slavery exists may wh limits, without any infringe- il Constitution, is, we believe, asks if it has *been contemplated te with a body of ultraists In tramp- the stealthful and ig- We reply, that cease from trampling on the napping them, as our people ithe aets of their police offi- and paid to seize and send fry such persons as may have es- Surely, Mr. Brosnan would ng to release an Irishman who jut he would term it kidnapping cipovyed its olfcers to capture ime here, and force him to re- ndera dominion from which Hence he evidently changes both d the rules of morality when ly Gy
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abetting the , chief arguments of some l apprchend that not been yet, in trath, so much is insepara- '&unon with these over zealous
| friends of human liberty,’
lies thata considerable bolition societies re- and the torch, as the ‘slavery, and that it is impossi+ Hon society without countenan- *. it requires a great stretch of char- have been sincere t believe that he can publication which wil] f that he can name a single n society who will admit that cable to him. If he > evident that his assertion that ody will acknowledge as his irgument of a large class, is of ‘y. We do not think that the ideny that he has heard e las the best, if not the fecting Irish Repeal many 88 heard st advocated in con-
this has
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tye, )3 that a resolution to the follow-
i a at one of their meetings, viz: ‘4! 10F @ Slave to run away with his
row 4. eure his own liberty; and if the
i} Sefore the escape ts effect-
mate ay lawfully take away any , wight meet on the way.’ A “ sanction such maneuvring is, our intelligence as well as our " Although the above passage is “ Marks, we do not think it a cor-
less of ‘tne rights and prop- }
e. lreet extract from the proceedings of any abolition | meeting whatever. It is true that a meeting in the | State of New-York adopted resolutions and an ad- idress proclaiming, in substance, the doctrine that In }extreme cases, such as when life and liberty are at
stake, the property of others may be made use of
by a person in imminent peril, so far, and so far on- ly, as is necessary to his safety. The cases of a horse and a boat were referred to, both probably ip lrefereuce to the crossing of rivers, it being only the temporary use of the property that was contempla- ted, as the means of escape from grievous tyrauny. We are not aware that any other abolition meeting or society has repeated this sentiment. We know that many abolitionists, and some of the abolition newspapers, have condemned it We do not deem lit our province here in our representative capacity to express any opinion in relation to its propriety or impropriety. We will, however, venture the expres- lsion of our belief that if an Irishman, or even a | white American, were a slave iu Barbary, and were to use precisely the same means of escape as those referred to, even in the perverted language attribu- ‘ted to abolitionists, the horse or boat, being the prop- erty of one of the upholders of the laws that enslaved him, then Mr Brosnan himself would be more likely to commend the act than to express his indignation lat its injustice. Such means of escape when resort- led to by white slaves, or by prisoners of war, have {yenerally passed uncensured by the inass of the community in every civilized nation, and though Mr. Brosnan would not use them himself, if he were a slave, it is not becoming in him to condemn them only when sanctioned by the opponents of American islavery. | He next goes into a portraiture of what he alleges |to be the comparatively happy condition of the islaves. He says ‘they are well clothed, and fed’ | He, doubtless, means that it is well for a slave of | African descent. We do not think they are as well clothed and fed as Mr. Brosnan, or that he would ithink it good food and clothing for him, if he en- |joyed only that of the majority of slaves. ‘The laws of |some of the States, made by slaveholders, show how 'much food and clothing that class deem sufficient. |'These laws require the owner to give his slaves a | peck of Indian corn a week for food, and two linen |shirts, two pair of pantaloons, and one coat for cloth- |ing per year, and prohibit the working of the siaves ‘more than from fourteen to sixteen hours in the 24. | A single suit of clothing, such as is worn by a large {portion of the free laborers of our country, costs | more than the whole ordinary expense of both feed- |ing and clothing a Slave for one year, as usually es- i timated by the slaveholders themselves. Mr. Brosnan adds that the slaves are not taxed. This is true, for the Jaws prohibit their having any i thing of their own to be taxed, or with which to pay taxes. In picturing their happy condition, he has left out some points which we will insert. They cannot choose their own place of residence, nor mode of employment, nor employer—the slave who returns a blow given even by a perfect stranger, is punishable with death—those who teach a slave to read and write, are subject to severe punishments, and in one State this penalty is death. The slaves | who are thus forbidden to read the law are subject to capital punishment for forty-two offences, which are not so punishable when committed by the tyrant }class who can read the laws. If the slave be walk- ‘ing away, and do not stop when commanded, the master is authorized by law to shoot and kill him. Of the many murders of slaves which have occurred in this country during the last fifty years, there has 'tiot been one instance in which the murderer has , beeti punished in the manner prescribed by the laws \for murderers in general. Whatever the violence, even to death itself, itiflicted by one of the privileged | class, though a stranger, upon any slave, man, wo- | man, or infant, neither the injured person nor any j other slave, nor even any free colored person, can | be a witness, in a court of justice against the of- \fender. Of course, it generally depends upon the jmere disposition of the whites, what outrages they } will inflict upon slaves, whether their own or those of other persons, and entire impunity usually fol- lows the wrong. The same gross injustice is sanc- |tioned by the professed Christian ministers and ‘churches of almost every persuasion. In nearly all sects the church discipline, which is uncontrolled by law, provides that while all whites may be witnesses \ against persens of color, colored persona, including /eveh those who have been ordained to preach the gospel, and thus pronounced worthy enough to ap- pear as witnesses for the Almighty, sha!l not be deemed competent to testify in church affairs against any white person whatever. In the slave States there {are men who make a business of going around the neighborhood to whip slaves for a regular stipend ; in the cities theré are functionaries whose business it is to whip slaves, sent to them for that purpose, without any inquiry into the justice of the proceed- ing, the nuinber of lashes being dictated by the mas- ter. Such ate the severities of these punishments,
| | | |
that a large portion of the slaves are marked for life |
by the lash. While the slaves are thus treated, the laws have humanety forbidden the use of the whip as a punishment, not only to soldiers in the public service, but also to convicted criminals, if of the white or privileged caste. The separation by sale, of the husband and wife, and of the mother and her infant, not only temporarily, but for life, is sanctioned | by law, and is constantly practised to a very great extent.
Of these wrongs, the people of the entire Union are guilty ; fur the people of every State, by their official agents, compel the slaves to remain within the limits of this oppressive system, and every State is pledged to suppress any insurrection of the slaves which inay be made for the abolition of these out- rages. Nota single State has ever made a proposi- tion so to alter the Constitution, that itself may cease to be a participant in these cruelties, although the power to change that Constitution is vested in
the State Legislatures, and the members sent to Congress by the respective States.
Mr. Brosnan asserts that the conduct of abolition- ists has retarded the emancipation of our southern slaves. From this we infer that he belongs to that class, numerous in this country, who hold that the best means of promoting all reforms, civil and reli- gious, except one, is to advocate and agitate them ; but that the most effective method of promoting the abolition of slavery, is to refrain altogether from its discussion. alone are composed of such extraordinary inaterials that, under a full conviction of the injustice and im- policy of slavery, they will! abolish it, if all the rest of the world oppose their wishes, or at least remain silent on the subject; but if the rest of mankind unite with them in opinion, and encourage them in the good which they are already disposed to per- form, then they will, from a spirit of pure perverse- yess, turn around and pursue the policy which they know to be both criminal and inexpedient. We believe, however, that such persons can produce no evidence of the truth of this heavy charge made against the efficacy of truth, as well as against the | reasonableness of slaveholders. He says that ‘the honest opponents of the system have retired in dis- gust, and that ‘the sober and reflecting are aban- |doning the field” We leave to your judgment, as | more impartial than that of Mr. Brosnan, to decide how exactly must be the honesty, and how profound aust be the sobriety and reflection of those who would abandon Christianity, Repeal, or any other | good cause, religious or political, merely because ,Suine unwise or even unjust men were found among its professed advocates. It abolitionists are deficient | in honesty, as well as in sobriety and reflection, the | greater is the necessity for Mr. Brosnan and others, |W they have a greater stock of these qualities, to | step forward, and by the organization of societies, |or by other active exertions, place the conduct of | the cause in better hands. We presume that such | Feasons for refraining from the support of a measure, are not Hew to you, and that you know how to ap-
preciate their value, and the disinterested wisdom of
They seem to assuine that slaveholders |
those who offer them. He says ‘that when the States in which slavery was tolerated were success- fally preparing for the liberation of the blacks, the headlong steps of the abolitionists alarmed and ex- asperated them to such a degree as to force the cur- rent back” We know of no single fact to sustain this assertion; we know of no State which was making the preparation that Mr. Brosnan asserts was making by a number of States ‘successively, and which has since retracted its steps. For the last seventy years, there was probably no period of j ten years in which there tvas less done in preparing | for emancipation, than in the ten years immediately preceding the formation of the present American An- u-Slavery Society in 1833. The only fact which we have heard cited, in pretended support of the charge thus made, is that directly after an insurrec- tion of slaves in Virginia, accompanied by the mas- sacre of a considerable number of whites, a motion was made in the legislature of that State, to appoint a committee to report on the subject of emancipa- tion. This motion, after full discussion, was reject- ed, and the ‘alarm’ having subsided, the matter went quietly to rest, before modern abolitionism had interfered so as to have any influence on the subject. From this fact it would appear that, in- stead of the * a/arm’ created by abolitionists causing ja remission of anti-slavery action in slaveholding | legislatures, it was the subsidence of ‘alarm’ that | caused the slackening of energy. / Mr. Brosnan further asserts that those who dis- } countenance abolition, are the real friends of Trish- }menand of Ireland. This allegation would seem ito carry with it a charge against Irishmen and their friends, that while they oppose oppression in [reland, | they refuse to oppose it in this country. If true, it ; would show the pressing urgency which existed | for the address of the sixty thousand Irishmen, as {well as the urgency for still further exertions by i reasonable [rishmen and friends of Ireland, with a | view to promote a more consistent action—an ac- j tion which will not alternately condemn and coun- !tenance oppression, according to the fact of who happens to be the oppressor, and who the oppress- ed. The argument of Mr. Brosnan, framed to show the existence of a general hostilityto [rishmen among abolitionists, is unfair, not to say disingenuous. He says, ‘In ten cases for one, where an Irishman is |taunted and insulted, the insult is dealt out by that | party most clamorons against the slave system.’ | ‘This passage alludes to one of our two great polit- ical parties. How unfair it is to charge upon aboli- tionists the acts of all the members of that party, or even those of a majority of it, must be evident when we infurm you that the candidate of that party for the Presidency, at the present moment, is the owner of about sixty slaves, and has declared himself, in a speech made in Congress, to be opposed to eman- cipation, both gradual and immediate! So far as we know, neither any abolition society, nor abolition newspaper, has been guilty of the taunts and insults alluded to. Mr. Brosnan argues hostility to Ireland from the sinal] nuuber of abolitionists who have join- ed Repeal associations. ‘This necessarily implies that American Repealers are hostile to slavery as it ex ists in Ireland, but are not actively hostile to it in the country of their residence. If he had stated the | whole truth, he might probably have added that he | knew nota single abolitionist who had joined the ‘ Native American Associations’ before alluded to, but that the members of those associations were generally and notoriously hostile to abolition. Gen- uine abolition acts on the principle of equal rights and equal justice to all men. Of course, it cannot be hostile to Irishmen, or disposed to insult or in- jure them—it cannot give them rights or prefer- ences above other people, whatever their birth-place or complexion, nor can it give others privileges and preferences above them. This, we believe, is the general feeling of the members of abolition socic- ties, many of whom are themselves [rishmen by birth.
Mr. Brosnan, in alluding to the Trish address on ithe subject of slavery, says—‘ All foreign inter- | ference is presumptuous and unwarrantable.’ This } does not come very consistently from one who com- plains, in the same letter, that more American abo- litionists have not joined associations for Irish Re- peal.
There is a numerous class here, who hold that foreign interference by exhortation, or by argument, at least, is justifiable on all questions involving Christianity and freedom, except that of the slavery of the colored race. Most of them honor Lafayette and other foreigners, for volunteering to aid by arms ithe inhabitants of this country.
1 Bishop Hughes of New-York, to whom we refer, {because his manifesto has probably reached you, | witnessed fur many years his neighbors and com- | municants interfering in various ways with the pol- | itics and religion of South America, Texas, Greece, Poland, Canada, Africa and Ireland, without any public disapproval or even private reprobation, so | far as we have ascertained. But directly after the publication of the Irish anti-slavery address, he ap- | peared under his own signature in the newspapers, } denouncing it as a most unjustifiable foreign inter- ference, and therefore deserving of severe indigna- tion and reprehension. We trust that your princi- | ples are more consistent, and that while you rejoice jin the sympathy of foreigners, and in their encour- }agement of what you believe to be right in your | country, you will recognize the soundess of a fun- | demental principle of our anti-slavery societies, |‘ that man has a right to sympathize with the dis- | tresses, or endeavor by persuasion to reform the conduct of lis fellow-man, wherever found on the face of the globe.” Our slaveholders themselves generally acknowledge this principle in reference to all questions but that of slavery. There are many of them eager to impart the Bible to the col- ored people of Asia and Africa, while they prohibit two and a half millions from reading it in this coan- try. They despatch missionaries and tracts to en- lighten the people of other countries, while they ob- ject to missionaries and tracts designed to enlighten themselves. ‘They are solicitous that the doctrine, do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you, should be taught to the heathen of all foreign lands, while they pass Jaws to prevent the acting upon this precept at home, by throwing lega! obsta- cles in the ~ of those who desire to emancipate their slaves. In regard to this question of foreign interference, it is proper to add that our government not long since, with the general approbation of all parties among us, interfered with the Pacha of Egypt to induce him to mitigate the treatment of } the Jews at Damascus. |
We have also noticed in the proceedings of your | association, the letter of Thomas Mooney, dated at | New-Orleans. The author seems to think that it | would inake some difference as to the moral ubliga- tion of the inhabitants of this country to abolish | slavery, _Whether it was originally introduced by | the forefathers of a part of our population then re- | siding here, or by those of another portion who then resided in Britain. We cannot see that the ques- ) un on whom was the chief guilt of its introduction, j has the least bearing on the question whether that | or any other immoral or unjust practice ought to be continued. The guilt of entailing slavery, as Mr. Mooney expresses it, on this country, doubtless in part belongs to each—Britain and America. The sovereign law-makers were fora time English, the importers and buyers at the same time American, Numbers of our southern States desired England to suppress the slave trade, others desired her to en- courage it. After the treaty of peace and inde- pendence, the importation of slaves from Africa was continued, under the sanction of the laws of some States, and the permission of the Constitution of the U. States, for twenty-five years. These facts, however, are deemed very immaterial. A discussion of the conduct of generations past away in different countries, Cannot very well settle either the respec- tive moral standing, or the moral obligations of the present generation in each country. Mr. Mooney, with an apparent view to inducea relaxation of your
| hostility to slavery, asserts that in the United States i*no human being snffers from persecution, from
want or fron. cold.’ If he had read the account of
the persecutions, wants, and horrible sufferings in ‘the city of New-Orleans, (where he dates his Jetter,) fendured by the slaves of Madame Lalurie, as_pub- 'lished in the New-Orleans papers, he could not have honestly asserted this. If he had read the recent pre- jsentment of the Grand Jury of New-Orleans in re- ,lation to the sufferings of the people of color con- | fined in the jails there, sometimes for years, without la charge against them of any crime, other than that |of a black skin; if he had perused the laws of the |legislature of Louisiana, and of the municipality of | New-Orleans, imposing grievances, disabilities and i penalties upon colored people, guilty of no moral of- |fence—if he had seen the gangs of colored men
tivity. We cannot believe that you would advise
a voluntary and active compliance with such Jaws— inasmuch as they were certainly intended to inflict the three evils which Mr. Mooney asserts have no existence in this country.
We have thought it right to address to you this letter, because an attempt is made, partly through an appeal to the selfishness of the human heart, to divert your sympathies from the oppressed slave, and to check the exertion of your influence in his behalf. Though we rely mainly on the efforts of our own population for success, yet we solicit the countenance of all the good and wise throughout the world, towards our most righteous cause, and we venture to hope that, in reference to Ireland, at least, we shal! not be disappointed.
Signed by direction and on behalf of the Execu-
| working in heavy chains on the streets of New- | Orleans, for no other offence than that of endeavor- ing to flee from oppression—if he had seen in New- Orleans, as others have done, female slaves fre- quently beeen by cruel masters till they were una- |ble to stand, and their backs clotted with gore—if he had seen, as others have in New-Orleans, the ‘slave, at the age of seventy years, obliged to re- turn five-ninths of the income of a severe toil to a! | master or mistress who, or whose prececessors had |many years before sold forever from his sight his wife, and all his children—if he hae seen the rack
applied, shortly before the date of his letter, to a
tive Committee of the Anti-Slavery Society of East- ern Pennsylvania.
DANIEL NEALL, Chairman. Haworth Werueraep, Secretary. Philadelphia, Sept. 20, 1842.
From the Dublin Freeman's Journal of May 2:
The O’Connellites and the Hibernian Anti-Sla- very Society.
The following report of a speech made by our cali act tha ‘Mec titnans tcitsn. oatil kal friend, Mr. Steele, before he went to the north with was forced to confess that his sans was different | *"e Liberator, was, by an apcisemt, 2 geod a Mer from the real one, and that he had committed arson | printing-office, any = recaveres suet scat eS opie : ’ ig It was made in seconding a resolution of thanks to in St. Louis, although, as a was afterwards clearly | Judge James, of Boston, and by it Mr. Steele has established, he was entirely innocent—if he had brought to issue for the world’s decision a most im- seen the colored yu ppoageye long since, deliberately | portant point in difference between the O’Connell- beaten and trampled to death by his uvaster in the | ites and the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society —we populous city of Louisville, whose shrieks were | say, ‘and the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society,’ be- beard and his torments known for more than an hour cause with Mr. Steele we believe that Mr. James | by the surrounding population, without any inter- | Hanghton may be considered as giving expression | ference to relieve the victim, and this for no other | to the sentiments of that body :—
{offence than having passed the night at a neigh- | :
|bor’s, where he had leave to pass the evening—if| Mr. Steele rose and said—I do not think, ye men jhe had seen the murderer then deliberately mount | of [reland, my countrymen, that I can select any more j his horse and depart without arrest—if he knew that | appropriate occasion than the present one, when I ithe public authorities offered no reward, and that he | rise to second the resolution proposed by O'Connell, is to this day unpunished—if he knew that within! for giving expression to my opinions on a most im- some three years past, there have been two cases of | portant subject connected with American slavery. deliberately burning a slave to death at the stake, | I have had a letter, two days ago, from that amia- without trial, in the presence of many spectators, | pte gentleman, my excellent friend Mr. James and that the authors of these outrages, though wet! | Hauchton, of this city, to which I take this opportu- known, were never prosecuted—if he knew that| pity of replying. His letter is not a public one, but in New-Orleans, and many of our sea-port towns, | yet | feel certcin that I am not guilty of a viola- colored men arriving in vessels from the neighbor- | tion of private confidence if I answer it publicly, in- ing States, are instantly thrown into prison because | gsinuch as it bears relation to a subject of very great of their complexion—if he knew that in the dis- | public importance in practical ethics. (Hear, hear.) trict of Columbia, under the legislation of the | You all know that Maurice O'Connell and I hold whole nation, as well as in numbers of our individ- | ourselves in readiness to cross the Atlantic deep to val States, men are almost constantly thrown into| agitate the question of the restoration of Ireland’s }prison, because they have not about them proof of | domestic legislature, whenever the moral regenera- | their freedom, although there is no evidence of their | tor and father of his country shall deem the time to being siaves, and that these men, although not} be come when we should ‘transfer the exercise of slaves, are afterwards sold into slavery to pay the | our public functions to the United States of Ameri- expenses of the unfounded prosecution against them, | eq. (Cheers.) By this letter, my excellent friend, and of their unjust imprisonment—if he knew that Mr. Haughton, abjures me not to go to America, in one-half of the Union there is no freedoin of the | and says that we, “the O’Connellites, are contamina- | press on the subject of slavery,to compare with that | ted by accepting in our struggle American sympa- | which prevails | even in Ireland, on the subject of | thy and aid inthe shape of funds. With respect to | Repeal, or in England, on the subject of the Char- | jyself personally, my friend is pleased to say that I ter—if he knew that our Congress had suppressed }am a man of a free mind, but that if I go to the Uni- \the right of petition on this subject—if he knew that) ted States of America, holding my resolution of not | our post-masters had suppressed the right of trans- | there denouncing American slavery, I will be ‘not porting by mail, publications on this question—if he} jike the soaring eagle, but like a chained lark! knew that, shortly before the date of his ietter, a@| Now to this doctrine I most decisively but most re- minister of religion was obliged to fly secretly from) spectfully, nay, most reverentially—for I reverence Mobile, for having spoken to his congregation in | the practical virtues of James Haughto—fiom this mild disapproval of slavery—if he knew that another | doctrine, I say, [ dissent most decisively. (Cheers.) minister, near the same tune, was tarred and feath-| {he man does not exist upon earth, who holds sla- ered in South Carolina, and obliged to leave the} very of every kind in deeper abhorrence than I do; State, for having spoken in private exhortation and I venture to call the O’Conuellites and their au- against this practice —if he knew that an estimable | gust leader transcendantly the paramount anti-sla- citizen was recently arrested and imprisoned in very society of the world. (Vehement applause.) Maryland, for attending a public Convention of| But the O’Connellites and their leader are practi- slaveholders, with a view to report its proceedings— | ¢a} men, and take the world as it unfortunately is in if he knew that ina large portion of our country, | their dealings with it and its concerns; but my ami- while there is freedom to preach Catholicism, Epis- | able friend, James Haughton, in the enthusiasm of |copacy, Methodism, Presbyterianism, and Judaism, | his nature, forgets that the world in which he lives is \there is no freedom to preach Christianity, if an es- | on!y in process of regeneration, but not yet regener- sential part of Christianity be the doctrine of doing | ated—it is only ina state of transition; but he wants as we would be done by—if he knew that the col- to deal with it, not as it actually is, but as it ought ored population generally, whether free or slaves, | to be according to his own benignant conceptions. are not permitted to hold meetings of worship, ex- | (Hear.) There is, and always has been, such per- cept under particular circumstences, with some of | fect unison between Maurice O'Connell and me, and the tyrannizing class present, to see that they do | between John and me, that whenever I[ give expres- {not preach that kind of Christianity to which we have | sion to my own opinions upon any great leading | referred; if he had read the statement of senator John- | point of ethics, I may be almost considered as giv-
|son, of N. Orleans, made to Congress respecting the | jimmmense destruction of life among the slaves,, by | jthe excessive toil and hardships of the sugar planta-! |tions of Louisiana; if he had considered what hu- |man nature is in England and Ireland, and would be jthe inevitable tyranny and oppression preceiont \there, and the misery and persecution suffered if ev-
ery man of one class had the power to control and
punish at his caprice any man of another class | 'whom he could buy, without his own consent, with | |no efficacious laws to restrain the injustice and per- | versity to which a portion of the human race is | iprone; if he knew the laws in relation to the educa- | | tion of slaves, their food, clothing, and punishment | jto which we have before referred; if he knew that | {in most cases they are denied a jury trial, and, in- | | deed, any trial at all; if he knew that the murderer | jof a slave is never punished like other murderers ;} lif he knew that inthe non-slavebolding States, halls | lare burned because slavery is discussed in them, | lcolored nen robbed, beaten and killed, because of | ltheir complexion, or because they walk the streets
jin temperance processions, such asthe whites freely | ‘form, or because they work where they ern find em- | |ployment; ifhe knew that the free colored people, | | partly by the laws, and partly by foree, sustained by | public opinion, are excluded from a large portion of | | business and employment open to the rest of the | | community, as well as from academies, colleges, and | iscientifie and literary lectures; if he knew that re-| | cently in New-Orleans an agent of a Bible Society | | was arrested for distributing Bibles to slaves, that he | | was taken before the mayor and reprimanded, and | caused to abstain for the future; if Mr. Mooney | knew these, or a small portion of these facts, he | could not have asserted with candor, that there was | |*no individual who suffered from persecution, or | | want, or cold,’ in the United States: | You are doubtless aware of the erroneous impres- | | sions which foreizners who pass through Britain and
| Ireland, and view only the surface of society, form
/as to the real condition of the mass of the people, | /and hence you may readily conclude that Mr. Moo- | | ney has derived his opinions from association with | ithe oppressors, and with the oppressed.
| We have been gratified to observe that at your
}meeting, the Lord Mayor of Dublin exposed the | | sophistry of some portions of the letters to which | we have adverted. We see, however, that he ap-
pears to have derived from those letters the impres-
sion that abolitionists in this country advocate re-
sistance to the laws. We are not aware that any
abolition society, or any abolitionists, recommend
forcible resistance to lawful authority.
That kind of assistance which refuses voluntary action In support of an unrighteous law, they do ad- vocate. They know of scarcely an individual in the world, who does not advocate it in certain cases, after the example of Daniel, as recorded in the scriptures. We believe that Danie] O'Connell was first elected to parliament in opposition to an exist- ing law, and that many of your members have ad- vocated a refusal, a voluntary refusal to pay tithes. With our views, we cannot recommend to any one to be active in compelling a fugitive to return to slavery, whatever law may command it.
It is proper that you should understand that some of the laws which abolitionists do not voluntarily obey, forbid them to give food, clothing or shelter to the hungry, naked, or houseless fugitive, unless
| world’s institutions.
it be with the express view of returning him to cap-
ing expression to their opinions also. (Hear, hear, from the member for Kilkenny.) Now, therefore, I say, for Maurice and myself, that when we shall be in the United States of America, agitating for the sympathy of the American people for our country, tyrannized over by ‘aliens in blood, in language, and religion,’ and while so agitating receiving fully to the same extent as the very. Americans them- selves the protection of the American laws and in- stitutions, such as they, are (for, alas! slavery is a part of them;) and while receiving the private and public hospitality of the people of that country, my friend Maurice O'Connell and I would have no right whatever to interfere; either by speaking, or writing, or acting, with those laws and institutions of Amer- ica under which we ourselves will be protected. (Hear, and cheers.) Let us recollect, Mr. Chairman, that we are not living in an Utopia, but in a world of affliction, in which as long as we have history or tradition, slavery has been disastrously one of the (Hear, hear.) Do I say this to reconcile mankind to the continuation of slavery in the world? God forbid; to quote from Sterne’s ‘Captive, ‘ Disguise thyself as thou wilt; still, slave- ry, thou art a bitter draught ; and although thousands in all anges have been made to drink of thee, thou art not the less bitter on that account.’ And now, my countrymen, in order to bring to a decisive issue before the world, for its judgment, the point in dif- ference between the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Socie- ty and the O'Connellites—-(I am sure that my friend Hanghton gives expression to the opinions of the body)—I most respectfully request of him to give to me, on their part, a public answer to this public question, which I venture to hope will put the es- sence of the subject before the world with lucid clearness. (Hear.) Let me suppose that, after the first partition of Poland, a confederation of nations had been formed for the purpose of re-establishing the integrity of that country and confirming its inde- pendence ; let me furthermore make the supposition that England was disposed to become a member of that confederation; I now request of my excellent friend, through whom I received the splendid compli- ment of the present of a book from the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society, to answer this question:— Would Poland have been justified (supposing what have said to have occurred) in rejecting the aid and alliance of England for the re-establishment of her integrity and independence, because England was at that time, as America is now, a slaveholding and slave-breeding country? (Hear, hear.) Yes— England—moral, not merely geographical England, for, morally speaking, Jamaica and the other West India Islands where negro slaves were held and were bred, were as much a part of England as London or Liverpool. ;
The Liberator—Under the laws of England.
Mr. Steele—Yes, Sir; that is precisely what I mean by the words, ‘moral, and not merely geo- graphical England.’ This is my question—my prac- tical question. The O’Connellite agitators are no mere theorists, but practical men of the world. By my soul, we are obliged to be practical. We are obliged to take mankind as it is—as our instrument for trying to make it better than it is; but if instead of working for this purpose with mankind as it is, we work with reveries and day-dreams of what man- kind ought to be, we work not with a potent instru- meut, but with the phantom of an instrament—with the half-starved ghost of a steam-engine. (Mr. Steele sat down amidst long-continued cheering.)
Er. Haughton’s Reply to Mr. Steele. 35 Eceles-street, 5th May, 1843;
Dear Sia—I find, by the Freeman’s Journal of the 2d instant, that you hate asked me an important question, to which you request a piiblic answer, I have pleasure in acceding to your request, and I beg you will accept my sincere thanks for the more than kind manner in which you have taken notice of my humble efforts to do a little good to my fellow- men. I am happy to have the opportunity whicli your question affords me, of keeping alive in the minds of my countrymen, a deep and solemn atten- tion to the important questions involved in slavery, or the making an article of merchandise of our brethren. Agitation on the subject must be useful, I wish I could reply to your question by merely stating my own convictions relative to the point at issue between us. But the terms in which you have put it will not allow me to give it so simple an an- swer. In the report of your speech, there are two inaccurate statements, which I would wish, in the first place, to correct. never adjured you not to go to America, nor said that the O’Connellites were contaminated by accepting aid and sympathy from the American dey Ba My words were these: ‘ You have a free heart beating in your bosom, and a free spirit which rises indignantly against slavery. You still purpose visiting America. Take my advice; and never enter one of her slave States—once there, you are the chained eagle, the caged lark—you must grovel on the earth, and not go aloft towards heaven, In, a word you will no longer be a free man.’ You will now see that I spoke distinctly of the slave States, and of men-stealers. From these I would re- ject aid and sympathy. I believe such aid and such sympathy will do us harm instead of good. I be- lieve they are only offered from the bad and wicked }motive of gaining the support of Irishmen for their infernal system. I would. therefore, reject them un- hesitatingly. There would be to mistaking such a proceeding on our part. The world would look on with admiration at such ati instance of devotion to high principle. Slavery in America would receive ita death blow, and Ircland would be the glorious victor. From the frec States of the Union, or from liberty-loving men and women in them, I would welcome every expression of sympathy, and grate- fully receive every subscription they would forward us in aid of our glorious, our peaceful struggle to
/ recover our national independence. Having troubled you with these few words in explanation,
will now proceed to answer your question relative to the Poles, as short as [ cah. If England, and other na- tions of Europe, who hold slaves, came practically to assist the Poles in the manner you have alluded to, it would have beer a great and a noble act of that people to liavé rejected that interference; and j if they did so on the ground of high and holy prin- (ciple, it would add a strength to their arm greatet than mercenary armies could ever give. The glo- ‘rious moral effect would paralyze their oppressor, |and make him know and feel in_his heart that such |a@ people were uriconquerable. You may, my friend, jteem this a visionary sentiment, and say that I al- low niy mind to live in a distant Utopia—a heaven upon earth—that men are not to be so governed— that we find man a wicked animal, and that we must ceal with him accordingly. Such has been the pub- lic sentiment from time immemorial; and what have been the results? The world’s history tells the sad tale. Crime, and misery, and destitution are the re- sults; and these have flowed from the erroneous principle, that man should have no faith in moral power—that his brother could only be governed and made virtuous by force. Christianity was intended, i believe, tc cortect this false sentiment; it should have done it long since—it will yet do it, I hope and trust. I expect you wil! corisider this reply to your question candid and explicit. In the case you have supposed, I think the Poles should have re- jected the proffered assistance from the government of any,country whose institutions support slavery; but, from the liberty-loving people who abhorred the foul system, 1 think they should joyfully accept of aid and syinpathy. I need hardly add, that the only assistance which jt would appear to me right to give or accept, wi''tld be of a peaceful nature. I con- sider al! armed force and violence in opposition to Christianity, and tlierefore wrong. If this expres- sion of my opinions shall have any effect in makin you and Mr. O’Connell avoid the slave States, an
| tell to mankind your reason for so doing, I think I | shall have done some good for the cause of suffering humanity.
The Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society have never come to vote on the subject at iSsue between you and me. The Committee liave not met this week, so that you must consider me alone accountable for the sentiments in this letter. Excuse its length, and believe me to be respectfully your friend,
‘ JAMES HAUGHTON.
To Thomas Steele, Esq.
From the Herald of Freedom. O’Connell and Slavery.
Let the Boston Pilot arid the other pro-slavery friends of repeal in this country, read the following |glarious speech of the great Irish Repealer, on
American slavery—and on slaveholding aid and |sympathy from this quarter, put forth in behalf of |down-tredden Ireland. It has been denied that | O’Connell was party to the great Irish Address serit lover here a yearago. See if the deniers will say |he is no party to this speech. He is said in the pa- | pers to have counselled his son, about to visit this ,country in behalf of Repeal, to abstain, while here, from intermeddling with slavery, and to maintain entire silence with regard toit. [ trust the reported |counsel was never given by O'Connell, and that it will prove a forgery, like his letter about Charles |Dickens. This speech does not look like such {cotinsel. If O’Connell, in a moment of weakness, lever gave such counsel to his son, I trust he will distinctly confess and retract it. If he never di ‘give it, [ trust he will disown it before the world. | Although I should not call on the young O’Connell, were he to come here, to attack slavery in his repeal addresses—yet I would have him, not np as the soa of his great father, and an Irishman, but as a | member of the human family, that knows no geo- 'praphical distinctions, not to keep silence on the subject of our slaveholding. Silence in a son of O'Connell would be taken for consent. He should hazard the very Repeal itself, rather than be silent on such atheme. For which is most impor- tant to mankind, the restoration of a Parliament to Ireland, or the libetation of two millions and a half of slaves? It is more important to Ireland herself, that American slavery be abolished, by our move- ment, and that she join in it, than that the union with Britain should be repealed. The union would lay lightly oh Ireland, were her people all active ab- olitionists. Of what aveil would repeal have been to her people, but for her teetotal reform? Whisk was a greater curse to her, than any union wi Britain ; and teetotalism a vastly greater blessing than political repeal. The severance of the union of Ireland with King Whiskey, or King Al!cohol, was a far more important movement to her, than the repeal of her union with England’s King or people.
The anti-slavery movement is of kindred impor- tance to her with teetotalism. Let Ireland, now she is sober, enlist in it, and she will have political lib- erty, or something more, without the trouble of even petitioning for it. England could not oppress i Je millions of sober itionists, any more than ber Board of Admiralty could restrain the Atlantic ocean. The Irish people would be incapable of oppression, and England would cower down before the majesty of their moral character. Let all Ire- land be such abolitionists as James Haughton and Richard Webb, and the | ipainey little band of their associates, and England would quail before their almighty character. ‘They would abolitionize Eng- land, and abolish the throne of England itself, if they chose to, and instead of asking the restoration
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of frish Protestants, they would more likely deliver‘
England from the curse of hers, and
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both islands from the millstone burden of their mil-'
i nies. If I should meet the young O’Con- wel, rie august father, 1 would tell them this— and they will both read what 1 am here sayitg. | wish, instead of the son coming here to agitate re- peal, the father himself would come over, to agitate anti-slavery, and let his lion’s roar be heard here in a New-England Convention. Oh the mistake of stooping to politics! The error of these great’ sminds, im embarking in political attempts to better. homan condition, rather than in the simple, peace- ful agitations of moral truth! All such minds have not made the mistake.
The address referred to in the speech of O’Con- nell, was one sent to the Repeal Association by the Awi-Slavery Society of Eastern Pennsylvania. It was made in consequence of the paltry attempts of Irish repealers in this country to propitiate the slave- holders by calumniating the abolitionists. The speech covers O'Connell with glory, and let it cover al] pro-slavery repealers, and other pro-slavery with shame.
For the Liberator.
American and Foreign Baptist Missionary So- ciety.
Agreeably to appointment, this Society met in Tremont Chapel, Boston, Mass. May 3ist, 1843, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
Brother C. P. Grosvenor took the chair, and called the Society to order, and after singing, reading the Scriptures, and-prayer, opportunity was given for enrollmg names of members of the Society. Sixty- one names were reported.
Brother E. R. Warren, as chairman of the com- mittee, reported a draft of a Constitution, which, after a full examination and discussion, was adopted, as follows:
CONSTITUTION.
Whereas, on the fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- three, a Convention of Baptist ministers and mem- bers was held in the Tremont Chapel, Boston, in the State of Massachusetis, of the United States of North America, who adopted and signed the follow- ing pledge, viz:—* We whose names are undersign-
solemnly pledge ourselves to God and one another, to anite in the support of a Baptist Mission- ary Society, with a Constitution yet to be adopted, that shall be distinctly and thoroughly separated from all cennexion with the known avails of slavery, in the support of any of its benevolent purposes; and this Society shall be called ‘ The American and Foreign Baptist Missionary Society 7 and we hereby separate ourselves now and forever from all connex- jon with religious societies that are supported in common with slaveholders ? (by religious societies being understood those which involve church fellow- ship.) Therefore, under a deep sense of our respon- sibilities to God, and our obligation to give the gos- pel in its purity toa perishing world; and looking towards heaven for grace to strengthen us in the prosecution of this great work, and for success in an enterprise so important to the destinies of our fallen race; we as a Society adopt the following articles, which, with this preanbie as part thereof, shall be the Constitution of this Society.
1. The object of this Society zhall be to carry out the commission of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, ‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature’—and to employ, in or- der to effect this, all necessary measures and agen- cies, at home and abroad.
2. This Society shall be composed of members | of regular Baptist churches, of good standing, who | are not slavehokders, but who believe that involun- tary slavery, under all circumstanoes, is sin, and treat it accordingly; and who pay one dollar annu- ally to the Society, or twenty dollars at one time for life, or appear as delegates from a church er aux- iliary society.
3. Any church or auxiliary society may be rep- resented at any meeting of this Society by one del- egate possessing the qualifications required for mem- | bership by article second, fur every ten dollars an- | nually contributed by such church or auxiliary to the treasury of this Society.
4. This Society shall meet annually at such time and place as the Society itself shall designate.
5. The Society being called to order at its annu- al meeting, the first business after singing and prayer shall be the enrollment of members and the elec- tion of officers and an Executive Board.
6. The Society shall elect, by ballot, a Vice- President, a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and two Auditors.
7. The Society shall elect, by ballot, eleven Di- rectors, who, with the President, Vice-President, the Corresponding and the Recording Secretaries, shal! constitute the Executive Board of the Society—with full power to use all measures necessary to secure the object of the Society, and who shall present a written report of their proceedings at each annual meeting.
8. The Treasurer and Auditors ehall not be cifosen from among ministers of the gospel, aor shall they be ex-officie members of the Executive Board.
9. Tke Treasurer shall give bond and security in sufficient sum for the proper care of the funds | and specialities entrusted to him.
10. At the meetings of the Executive Board for ordinary business, five members shall constitute a quorum, provided due notice be given of the same; but it shall require a majority of the whole Board to be present for the selection of a missionary sta- tion, or the appointment of missionaries, or for any thing involving new and important responsibilities.
11. The Executive Board shall have power to fill all vacancies occasioned by death or other- wise.
12. Any amendment of this Constitution may be made at the annual meeting of the Society, provided such amendment do not adect the principles of the original plan as set forth inthe preamble, and the proposition be made known at least one day pre- vious to its adoption.
After the vote was taken on the Constitution, sol- emn prayer wax offered to Almighty God for his blessing to rest upon the Society, and that all the members thereof may be deeply imbued with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Society then adjourned, to meet at 3 o’clock, P. M. at 42 Harvard-street.
Arrernoon Session. Prayer by brother Piper. Elected by ballot the following as offieers of the
—, E. Warren, of Maine, President.
C. P. Grosvenor, of Massachusetts, Vice-President.
William Henry Brisbane, of Boston, Mass. Cor- —- Secretary.
>. W. Denison, of Boston, Recording Secretary.
John N. Barbour, of Boston, Z'reasurer.
Madison Hawes and Anson J. Stone, Juditors.
J. N. Barbour, M. Hawes, J. Bullough, A. Ken- yon, Hiram Parker, N. Branch, H. Battey, A. M. Pi- per, John A. Buttrick, Samuel Adlam, W. Morse, Directors.
Adopted the following preamble and resolution, offered by brother Brisbane :
Whereas the Provisional Missionary Committee of the Baptist Anti-Slavery Convention have some thought of supporting a missien in Hayti in the dis- bursemeat of the funds they have on hand, and as we think it very desirable that such a mission should be established, therefore,
Resolved, Tha: the Executive Board be instructed to appoint a Committee to meet the Provisional Committee, for the purpose of consulting upon the best plan for establishiug a mission in inutual co- operation—and that the Executive Board be further instructed to take measures, as soon as they con- ceive it can be judiciously done, to establish a per- manent mission to the said republic.
Brother Adlam offered the following, which was adopted :—
Resolved, That the Executive Board be instruct- to correspond with the Baptists in Ragland, ex- laining to them our principles, and the causes that ave le to a separation froin the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, and requesting their sympathy and co-operation, so far as our Society shall com- mend itself to their approbation. The following was also moved and adopted : Resolved, That the Executive Board be instructed to address the churches of our denomination in the United States, in explanation of our principles and the reasons of our organization, with aa appeal to all who sympathize for the heathen at home and abroad, to give us their countenance, their prayers, and thei es yoy Apes the annual meeting of the Society to be held at Albany, N.Y. on the third Wednesday in May, 1844. The Secretaries were instructed to publish the proceedings of this meeting. Adjourned, after prayer. C. W. DENISON, Rec. Sec.
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From the Boston Christian World. Anniversary Week ia Boston--Slavery.
mendous is the power of evil to continue, to strength-
injustice, a legalized sin, has power froin these very facts in its very history and being, to harden heart, to shut out from the soul the power of right, and to make the access to the heart and to the life of u great truth concerning such enormity, an al- most hopeless thing. Do not alone look te the re- gion in which slavery is so deeply cherished, and valued as the only means of fortune or of fame, when we come together to devise means for its abolition. Let us in this as in all other cases of social evil, so- cial sin,—let us look to ourselves. What are we this day, this moment, doing here for the slave,— what are we deing for his great deliverance? Are we not saying ‘am I my brother's keeper?” Are we not felding our arms in sleep, when the sound of the whip, of the clanking chain, and the man-seller’s hammer, is echoing in our very ears? Are we not gravely questioning whether this socicty or that, this man or that woman, are taking the wisest means for removing slavery from the land? Are we not ridiculing earnest, and hearty, and noble eloquence, because it comes from unpolished tongues ?—from men and from women who, like the rough and fear- less and glorious men and women of the land, who left their ploughs, and their distaffs, to make the na- tion free from foreign despotism, by the stern instru- ments of war, or for nursing the wounded and dying, are laboring to make the bondman of our own land, and of our own time, free? Or is not our taste so deeply hurt by the want of refinement which we fancy belongs to anti-slavery eloquence, that we shrink from it with disgust? Get us look at the willing toleration of slavery by ourselves sometimes, when we seek for the causes of its continuance amongst us; especially, let those do so who would leave it to the tender mercies of those who live by it, and with it, and in it.
Various topics were discussed at the anti-slavery Convention. One was, the supposed power of the clergy in retarding emancipation. This power, if it exist atall, we think is someshat exaggerated.— And in the degree in which it does exist, it seems to us to be rather negative than positive. The clergy, it is said, as an order, are silent in regard to the suf- ferings of the slave, or rarely if ever bring the sub- ject of slavery distinctly before the peop!e. The same is alleged of the order in regard to temperance, the anti-Christian custom of war, and to other re- forming movements. What do these charges really imply? Is it unwillingness to discuss these topics of absorbing interest, and which are now so deeply moving many minds? If so, why this unwilling- ness? Has it not its true source, wherever it exists, in the society around them? Would they not speak to unwilling or close-stopped ears? Could they reach such hearts? But it was answered, your questions are worthless. They imply a worse state of the order than we have charged. What! a min- ister of God, and of Christ.—filled with reverence of the justice, the uncompromising justice of the Father, and the all-absorbing love of the Son,—do you say that one having a commission from on high to de- clare eternal truths, at no matter what cost, or un- der what, and all depths of discouragement, opposi- tions, and stern conflicts,—do you say that such a minister should ever for a moment get the tone of his teachings from mere occasions, or mere men ?-- What if his people are unwilling to bear the truth,— to be told every Sabbath day that the slave is a son | of God,—one for whom Christ died,—a brother, an | oppressed, suffering, bought and sold man ?—what if his people will not bear that this slavery Js blighting and shaming the nation, his own country ?—that to discuss it will lead to disunion, and to diminish na- tional or individual wealth ?—are these reasons why the order should not speak of these things, till they reach the heart, and reach to the life? Why then is the sleep of death theirs? and why do they in- sult the cause, and its friends, when they do speak | of it? By some of the speakers, the power of the clergy was considered so great, that until it was destroyed, abolition was impossible. By these, this power was shown in every detail and example, and argued with all the strength which could be brought to it. Butis this position a true one? Is it in the power of any order existing under such a form, and with such a bond as unites the clergy—is it in the power of such a body seriously to interfere with the progress and influence of any truth? We do not believe in any such power in any such body. A people may be indifferent te, or oppose reform, and insy find strength in their opposition, and motive for their indifference, from any and all kindred infla- ences around them; and this we have spoken to be- fore. But ina country like this, anl at a moment when the universal mind is alive to every and each ‘exciting subject,’ any direct agency of any body is utterly powerless, which would interfere with, or for a moment seriously think of stopping its progress.— The agency, if any, is negative, and resolves wholly into indifference, or contempt, in regard to what is in agitation around. We do not believe that any such power exists, as was asserted in regard to this subject; and do believe, that the discussion of it is a disturbing agency in the progress of true reform. Ani tance is attached to an alleged opposition which does not belong te it, and which he who pos- sesses the treasure of a great truth should never for a moment acknowledge.
There is another matter, which impressed itself very deeply on the minds of these who attended the meetings of the Convention, and some of whom have made no public profession of their anti-slavery faith. This was the absorbing devotion and interest mani- fested for the slave. He was regarded as a man, as a degraded, insulted, most sinfully injured man.— And this is all true. But the slave-owner,—Is he not, asked these persons,—is he not aman, too? Is he not enslaved by error, by gross injustice, by sin? Is not the very fact of bis asserted ownership in the minds, the souls and bodies of men, a form and a fact of slavery, more dreadful and more hopeless than that which fetters the limbs and soul of his brother? He has a terrible responsibility in his deep slavery to this sin. He is enslaved by the basest selfishness; he lives on the blood, and the tears, of his own children. Shou!d there not be sym- pathy for a being soenslaved? Should we not pray for his deliverance? Should we not labor so to change the rock-bound heart within him, as that it shall be made flesh? Have we no tears, no prayers, for such a willing slavery as this? The slave isa man, but so is his so-called owner. Should we not recognize both as such, if we would break the chains in which both are bound? So spake those who took deep interest in the meetings, but could not sympa- thize with existing organizations for abolition. Said one, and a thoughtful, earnest, and true man is he: ‘I would devote myself to this work ; ardently do I desire to do so; but how can I work with those with whom on this great point I so imperfectly sympa- thize ?
We state something of that we have heard. How can we speak of the Convention itself? What num- bers! what deep interest! what strength of purpose, and what outpouring of soul! Look atthe Wednes- day evening meeting in the ald ‘Cradle of Liberty.’ Crowded full Listen to the simple story of Geo. Latimer, who when he was announced as jav- ing been a slave, made men start, in whose mind the slave is only a dark black man, a stupid, utterly degraded being. He stood there with a skin of as pure white as any man before hin showed, and with a form as erect, and with s countenance illuminated with the same spirit as beamed from all around. In a simple manner he spake of his slavery, read the advertisement for his absconding wife,—told of his ape mother, with twelve living children, dwelling alone in her blindness, and her extreme old age, without a child near her to comfort her by a word, or to bless her with a cup of cold water. These children, his brothers and his sisters, have been torn from her, and sold under the hammer, into different States. What more unmixed misery than this !— What so sad in human history! How heart-break- ing the story! We have men among us who laugh at these things. But there were tears shed at Fan- euil Hall that evening, which never fell for the slave before. There were new hearts, great and good hearts too, touched by his wrong, and his wo, that evening, which will beat for his deliverance till death. W.N
iF The foregoing remarks evince a manly and philanthropic spirit, worthy of special commenda. tiun. The writer is unknown to us, but we hope to sce further contributions from his pen on this subject
From the Pennsylvania Freeman. General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, New School.
(CONTINUATION OF THE DEBATE oN sLaveERy J The Rev. Mr. West said he would vote for the resolution, for the reasons he would now assign. He would do so, first, because that ia his opinion the coe sage Seer sd og mgt + Aina _ -
sue, to please a parties concerned nt which was set forth in the resolution before the
from | House. This matter had been left to the lower ju-
dicatories of the Presbyterian Church, and it was hoped that every Presbytery would have done its own duty; andthe Assembly did not expect to be
oaded, from time to time, with this question. That fad been the full understanding of the General As- sembly. If any other resolution than the present should be passed, it would dissatisfy either the South or the North. Brethren here were placed between two fires; and he had locked at the matter as weil as he was able, but he confessed that he had been unable to see how they would ever arrive at an ami- cable conclusion,or ever separate in harmony, as they had done last year, unless the resolutions now pend- ing were passed, or the whole subject be indefinite- ly postponed. He reiterated that he would sustain the resolution because he was acquainted, to a very great extent indeed, with the motives which led to the introduction of this exciting question here. He did not mean to charge any member present with be- ing prompted by any other than good motives in his course on this floor. (Here the reporter was inter- rupted, but the gentleman was understood as saying that a certain class of persons where le lived were
oading the church to action on this subject, reck- ios of its interests, and were for using the As- sembly in this question merely for party purposes. This he meant to resist.] There was not a man in America, or in the three kingdoms, but what knew him to be an anti-slavery man. He had ever been against West India slavery and all sorts of slavery ; and it was well known what he had suffered on ac- count of that cause. And when he found that he was to be made a cat’s-paw of in this General As- sembly, he repelled the effort in the manner it de- served. Mr. W. weut on to remark that many things set forth in the memorials presented to this body, were untrue, and calculated to deceive it; therefore, for that reason, independent of others, he should vote in favor of the resolution.
After making some general observations on the subject of abolition, od lauding the nobie and un- tiring efforts of the late Mr. Wilberforce and his co- adjutors in the cause of emancipation, Mr. W. took occasion to aver, in connexion with the question of slavery, that neither the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, nor any of the ecclesiastical bodies of the three kingdoms, had ever discussed, or even thought of such a thing as introducing into, or connecting that question with, matters of church government. And, in pursuing the course they had done in that re- spect, he thought they had done what was right, and set an example worthy to be followed.
He coneluded, by again declaring that he should vote for the resolution, because he conceived that its adoption would secure the peace, harmony and uni- ty of the Presbyterian Church, and enable the Gen- eral Assembly to close its labors, as was the case last year, in the most amicable and happy manuer.
The Rev. Dr. Hill rose, and obtained leave to make an explanation—
He said that he wished to disabuse himself of something which it was said he had said yesterday, and which he found had wounded the feelings of some of his brethren. To set their minds at ease he would now explain. He (Dr. H.) had said some- thing, in his hasty remarks, about lynching, which had made an unfavorable impression, and he appre- hended, had been misunderstood. Either he had not expressed himself as clearly as he ought to have done, or else he had been misunderstood. He allu- ded to different individuals who had been in Virgin- ia, and there remaining a night or two, who endea- vored to incite the slaves to insubordination. ‘There was one or two taken up where he (Dr. H.) lived. He thought but one, and punishment was inflicted upon him. He was called a Methodist preacher. Some young men cpprehended him, and instead of taking him to a magistrate, as they ought to have done, they took him out of the town a mile or two, on the road, and gave him thirty-nine lashes. Now, he (Dr. H.) stated that he deserved what he got, but that he disapproved of lynching. ‘I'he impression was, that he was opposed to the practice of lynch- ing generally. The fact, however, was that he was opposed to it in toto. He wished it to be understood that he did’ not approve the practice of lynching in any respect.
The oe. Dr. Lindsley obtained the floor, and spoke at some length. He confessed that he labor- ed under considerable difficulty, in his mind, in re- ference to the subject of slavery, and the best man- ner in which to dispose of it. After adverting to several passages in the scriptures, in allusion to ‘master and slave,’ he said that he could not believe that this agitating and perplexing question could be
operly and finally set at rest until it should have
n ascertained how far the Assembly were called upon, in their ecclesiastical capacity, to interfere with the question of slavery, as it affected their southern brethren’s admission, and standing in the Presbyterian Church. He had felt that it was ex- pedient for the General Assembly of 1840, to have acted on the subject. He still entertained that opinion, and feared for the result, if the question should be pressed to a decision. He trembled lest it might lead to a division in the Church. In con- clusion, he alluded to the amicable, cordial, and harmonious manner in which the last General As- sembly had separated after closing their labors, and he expressed his sincere and earnest hope that the present one might do the same.
The Rev. W. Cook, from Illinois, addressed the House at great length, in a scriptural argument, to show that slavery is asin of the deepest dye, and could not be upheld or sanctioned by the Church.
The Rev. Dr. Ely, from Missouri, followed at much length, and began by saying,that from what had fallen from his brother who had just taken his seat, he should suppose that he had seen but little of the effects of slavery. He (Dr. E.} had lived eight years in Missouri, and had seen something of the work- ings and effects of slavery. He then went into the scriptural argument on the subject; objected to Mr. Cook’s doctrine, that the apostle’s directions to servants had reference to ‘hired servants ;’ assert- ed that doulos, in the original, meant slave; Paul styled himself a slave of Jesus Christ ; argued that the apostles could not have given directions to mas- ters and servants without implying approbation of the relation. He next proceeded to give his expe- rience in reference to slavery. Before he went to the West he determined never to own a slave ;! but when he got to Missouri, a circumstance oc-| curred which changed his purpose. A man was about to be sold in the neighborhood, under circum- stances that made a strong appeal to his syinpathies; he was urged to become jis purchaser, and aca matter of duty and benevolence he bought him. He gave $700 for him. His name was Ambrose; he was a big, strapping regro. ‘The Doctor stated that he opened an account with Ambrose, telling him that he would give him credit for all the work he did, and would charge him with all his expenses, and when he had performed services to the amount vf $700, he should be free. Ambrose worked very well for a while, but soon got Jazy, He has always called himself Ambrose Ely ; he has a horse to him- self, and other privileges, and prefers to be Am- brose Ely to any thing else. He manifests no de- sire to be free. ,
The Rev. Doctor also mentioned another case, in which several female slaves were about to be sold, under very moving circumstances, where he felt it to be his duty to purchase them. Several! of these women in the process of time were married; and their husbands were in the habit of coming from where they lived once a week to spend the Sab- bath with them. In further process of time, by these women he had children ‘ born in his house,’ as Abra- ham had. In choosing to marry, these women had not consulted him, else, perhaps, he would have dis- approved of it; norin the matter of their having children was his advice asked ; he would have pre- vented it if he could. The Doctor stated that he had owned, altogether, 9 or 10 slaves, He affirm- ed that white labor was much the cheapest, and that so far from the slaves being the oppressed a afflicted people they were generally represented to be, they were the reverse o that. He knew an in- stance of a negro man being asked if he was free, replying, ‘ No, thank God, I ama slave. He had had in his family, and that of his son-in-law, at one time, four stout negro men, six feet high, as slaves, and who were offered free papers by their friends of Illinois, if they wished to run away. But they promptly rejected the offer, saying, * Oh, no, they were better off where they were.’ The Doctor con- eluded by deprecating the passage of a set of yene- ral and sweeping resolutions by the Assembly—no matter what were the circumstances of the case— against every man that held slaves.
The Rev. Dr. Beecher thought that in view of all the circumstances, it was not desirable that the question should be carried by a bare majority ; such a decision would have no weight, and would not be for edification. He could ene oehing to be done, but for ‘man to bear his individual testimony ; this he had done as a duty to his conscience before God. He alluded to the ground he had taken in his speech on a previous day ; he condemred Amer- ican slavery as a system; it was anti-christian, on its own showing; it claimed for itself no benevo- lence, and syelioed no other end than the interests of the master. While he contended that the system was anti-christian, he admitted that there might be individual cases of slaveholding which were not sin- ful. When Dr. Beecher concluded, some impatience was manifested for the taking of the question.
(> If there ever was ‘a cage of unclean birds,’ it is the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, whether of the old or the new school. Both of these bodies have again refused to raise even a note of re- monstrance against slavery, and thus proved them- selves to be ‘ of their father the devil.’
From the New-York Observer. The Abolition Debaie.
The history of the slavery discussion in the As- sembly is worthy of being distinctly recorded, and we make the record with the more precision, as the preparatory measures were peculiar, and the conse- quences important. Great efforts were made by the abulitionists to secure a representation in favor of ‘decided action’ on the subject of slavery, of inen who would not ‘ flinch,’ and who would ‘act’ in fall view of the solemn assurance that the church would be split if their determination was carried into ef- fect. The New-York Evangelist and the Watch- man of the Valley, in the true spirit of ultra-aboli- tionism, had been laboring to secure a representa- } tion in favor of ‘action,’ and the Assembly had not been in session three days before it was evident that their fondest hopes were about to be realized, and that a body of men, chiefly from western New-York, Ohio, and Illinois, were on the ground, prepared at all hazards to carry their measures through. We have not a shadow of doubt that many of the aboli- tionists were steadfastly bent upon securing such action as would drive off the South. They see ro special reason to desire the connection of the south- ern churches ; some of the Synods and Presbyteries have already declared that slaveholders shall not preach in their pulpits, or come to the Lord’s table in their churches, and of course they do not desire to have such men in the same ecclesiastical connec- tion with themselves. In truth, the dissolution of the union between the southern and the northern churches, was as much an object of desire to them as is the dissolution of the union of the States to those abolitionists who are not afraid to avow their belief that ‘abolition will go up just as fast as the Constitution of the United States goes down.’
i> A pill for northern religious dough-faces. The Board of Missions. South.
The Christian Index, the Baptist paper of Geor- gia, accompanies a very brief notice of the late meeting of the Board at Albany, with a copy of the resolution which was passed at that meeting, to re- issue their circular of 1840, on the subject of neu- trality, and subjoins the following remarks:
Inquiries from the
‘No notice is taken of the passage of these res- olutions in the Baptist Advocate or Baptist Record. The silence of the editors of these papers in refer- ence to them, strikes us as somewhat strange. The Reflector says, in reference to their passage, ‘ it will afford relief and gratification to many anxious minds.’ There is something of mystery about this matter that we cannot comprehend. If the original pub- lication of the circular failed to establish the neu- trality of the Board, we do not see how its republi- cation is to duit. In our youth, we heard a Jady re- mark, ‘Whenever actions are veiled in mystery, there is something wrong about them.’ ‘Thirty years observation, subsequently made, have only served to confirm our belief in the truth of this re- mark. The editors of the Advocate and Record have published other and less important resolutions passed at the anniversaries, We wish the Reflector would reflect this way some of the light emitted at Albany, and let us know what caused such a sud- den and wonderful revolution in the views, feelings and purposes of his abolition brethren, as appears from his paper to have recently beeneffected. There is evidently something behind the curtain, in bliss- ful ignorance of which Baptists at the South are to | be kept, so long as their contributions are needed. We (the editor) can respect and love as a brother an anti-slavery man who will adhere to truth, and act openly and honorably in his opposition to slavery ; but we have no faith in your sly, Janus-faced, double-tongued light-haters, whether slavery or anti- slavery men, who carry daggers under their cloaks, and while watching an opportunity to plunge them into your vitals, lavish on you, profusely, expres- sions of kindness; and we fear there are many such who are wont to accost us very affectionately, ‘ Brother—brother—dear brother.” There are such at the North, who ‘brother’ Southern men for their funds ; and there are some such, we fear, at the South, who brother Northern men for fame. May the Lord have mercy on such, and give them bold- ness enough to make them what they are not— honest men—*‘ the noblest work of God.’
New-England Anti-Slavery Convention. The editor of the Herkimer (N. Y.) Journa!, O. A. Bowe, who happened to be in Boston during the anniversary week, gives in his poper of the 7th inst. an account of the Anti-Slavery Convention, from which we take the following extract :
On Tuesday morning, the Convention assembled
at the Miller Tabernacle in Howard-street. The attendance was very numerous, embracing many of the most prominent and talented abolitionists of the Eastern tates. ‘The speeches of Mr. Phillips were among the ablest I have ever heard, and alone re- paid me for my journey hither. _ On Tuesday and Wednesday, the evening meet- ings of the Convention were held in the famous old Cradle of Liberty, Faneuil Hali—and deeply Interesting meetings they were. On the Jatter even- ing, pursuant to a resolution previously adopted by the Convention, a Committee reported a spirit- stirring .4ddress to the Slaves of the South and also an address to John Tyler, accidental President of the United States, requesting him to emancipate his slaves! Mr. Tyler is expected here to attend the Bunker Hill celebration on the 17th inst. and this circumstance led to the idea of addressing him. This address is a stinger, aud was drawn up by Mr. Phillips ;* that to the slaves was drawn and read by Mr. Garrison. Both are published in the Libera- tor uf to-day.
_ Never have I witnessed a nobler and more cheer- ing spectacle than was presented in Faneuil Hall on Wednesday evening, when these addresses were read. The broad galleries were filled to overflow- ing with ladies, and the ample area velow was densely crowded by the other sex—forming a vast sea of faces, at least five thousand in all; and on the lofty platform stood forth Wa. Liovp Garri- SON, one of the earliest pioneers of the present anti- slavery enterprise, who read in clear and glowing tones the address to the American slaves which he had written. It was received by the great host in attendance, in a manner worthy of the place and the document itself, and in a spirit becoming freemen. (It adds not a little interest to-this circumstance, to remember that only nine or ten years ago this same individual was dragged by a ruthless mob through the streets of this seif-same city. His only offence consisted in speaking boldly in behalf of human freedom.)
Four of the Hutchinson family of minstrels from
New-Hampshire—perhaps the most exquisite na- tive vocalists inthe Union—attended the sessions of the Convention, and added greatly to the delightful interest of the ae by their thrilling mountain strains. The family, I am told, consists of thirteen children, all singers, and all abolitionists ! _ The celebrated fugitive, George Latimer, was introduced to the immense multitude at Faneuil Hall, and created a deep sensation. He is a fine looking young man, apparently 22 or 23 years of age, aad his complexion 1s but a single shade darker than that of the whitest of ua. Messrs, Douglass and Remond (both colored) who took an active and able part in the discussion of the Convention, abun- dantly vindicated their claim to a very high order of talent and character.
* This Address was presented by Mr. Phillips, but written by the Editor of the Liberator, as was also the Address to the Slaves of the United States —Ep. Lis
| 1 am interested in the success und usefulness of the
COMMUNICATIONS.
Sophistry Exposed. W. L. Garrison :
Dear Sir—I cut the following communication, in answer to ‘ Delta,’ on Slaveay and Missions, from a late number of the Christian Reflector. The article of Delta is written in so plausible a manner, that some I find in this quarter are constrained to agree with him io his positions. You published the article t under the head of *‘ Refuge of Oppression,’ in a late oumber of the Liberator, from the Reflector. By pub- lishing the following communications you must sat-, isfy, 1 think, every inquiring mind of the fallacy { of the reasoning of * Delta.’
From the Christian Reflector. Union with Slaveholders.
Mr. Epiror—I respectfully ask the attention of * Delta,’ the author of an article in the Reflector on ; ‘Slavery and Missions,’ to review one part of his argument, which, however plausibie it may appear upon a hasty perusal, appears to me to be entirely fallacious. In discussing the point, whether or not he is chargeable with a participation in the slave- holder’s crime, because he is engaged with him in the performance of a mutual duty, he has the follow- ing remarks:
‘Suppose that my rum-making neighbor attends meeting and helps supfort an evangelical ministry ; am I guilty of any moral delinquency, simply because 1 attend the same meeting, and contribute to the sup- port of the same holy ministry! Suppose that aman, addicted to the habit of profane swearing, is, notwith- standing this sin, disposed to interest himself in the success of the Sabbath school; am I guilty, direcily or indirectly, of his sin uf profanity, simply because
same schoul ?’
Now, while I admire the spirit of bro. Delta’s ar- ticle, 1 sincerely believe that the argument con- tained in his suppositious, does not touch the sub-
ect.
, Let me suppose that his ‘rum-making neighbor, and the other individual, ‘ addicted to profane swear- ing,’ are Delta’s brethren in the church ; is he guilty of the sin of rum-making, or of the sin of prolasity. either directly or indirectly, because he sits down at the table of the Lord with the rum-maker and the profane swearer ?
Suppose that nine-tenths of the members of the church were rum-makers and profane swearers, would Delta consider that he was either directly or indirectly sanctioning those practices, by holding them in churci-fellowship, or in engaging with them in sending the gospel to the heathen? What idea would the converted heathen form of that religion whose propagators were rum-makers and protane swearers ? And would not Delta’s practice give oc- casion to the enemies to blaspheme ?
Boston, May 3, 1843. GAMMA.
A Question for Delta.
Does Delta mean to say that a man ‘is under ob- ligation to send the gospel to the ‘heathen,’ even though his only means of doing it be by the robbery of the poor ?
This question is sufficient to expose the fallacy of Delta’s argument for uniting with slaveholders to send missionaries to the heathen. BETA.
First Congregational Church in Leicester. Leicester, Mass. May 15, 1843. Me. Epiror: I feel itto be a duty I owe to truth and humanity to give, in my humble way, a short account of my la- ;
bors with my minister and the First Congregational | Church in this town, of which I was a member, on | the subject of slavery.
I began with my minister. [ called on him a num- ber of times, but found him almost always gone, or going. Sol had no other way but to open a commu- nication with him by writing. I wrote two letters, before I received one from him, He continued to put me off, saying there was no need of any church ac-
tion on the subject. 1 pressed the subject, but could
not get any satisfaction. About this time, I neard that there was a church meeting appointed to consult | what was to be done for religicn,—religion being, as | was said, ata very low ebb. I went to the meeting,
and there introduced the subject of slavery, and my | minister put me down three times, saying that the
meeting was appointed for religious improvement. I. asked them if 1 had done my duty towards the church, | with regard to this matter; and if I lad, I demanded
of them to perform their duty to me as an aggrieved member, But they would not hear me, and | return- ed home. A short time after, my minister calied at my door, and handed my wife a line for me, stating
that he had given out an appointment for a church meeting for business, and if | had any communication to make to the church, he wished me to send it in| writing. At that meeting, 1 again brought up the, subject. ‘The minister proposed that there should be a committee chosen to consult upon it, and report at | the next meeting. Then adjourned. Met according to adjournment, and certain resolves were seported | by the committee. I requested some resolves, which I had »repared, to be read. One brother said we ought, as a church, to pass as strong resolves as I had brought forward, but he said if we cannot, we will The sub- ject was discussed by a number of the brethren, but
pass the ones the committee have reported,
all went against me Agreed to meet again. Owing to the inclemency of the weather, L did not attend.
The meeting was agin adjourned to the first Monday
in January, for the benefit of Foreign Missions. I there introduced the subject again. Their resolves |
were read. [ requested mine to be read. And then arose a learned brother, and said that our southern | brethren were born and brought up amidst slavery, | and they had not so much light upon it as we have. | He said the resolves of the committee were very | strong—we acknowledge in them that slavery is a sin of the greatest magnitude. He went on to state, that } he did not know but they might go still further, and | commit still greater sins, and still be Christians. 1} asked him if he would tell what constituted a Chris- | tian. He said it was repentance of all sins. T asked him if he would admit slavelolders, and those who | dealt in the bodies and souls of our brethren, to our | and our desk.
communion table Oh, yes, was his}
reply. And then it was moved that their resolves be passed. I then offered mine, by way of amendment. | One brother went with me—all the rest voted against | me. Their resolves were passed, and then J request- ed a peaceable dismission from the church, and they would not grant it. But f have withdrawn myself! from them, and have no more connexion with them | as a church.
American slavery is in deadly hostility to the gos- | pel of Christ, It must therefore be | There will be no fellowship with it, or any part of | it. Tt will be entered on the catalogue of crimes, and have assigned to it the rank given in the Bible to all oppreksion and injustice, and will be handed over to! Such is my beliet, and such the position | I mean firmly to maintain. I shall have no fellow- ship with southern slavery. Before all the world, I denounce it and scorn it. It is opposed to all good, It is opposed to the progress and triumph of Christi- anity, and that is sufficient. 1 would say to all my brethren in the gospel, retire from that most fonl, J beseech you to
ubondoned.—
damnation.
wicked, disgraceful institution. have vo more any part or lot in that matter. Come out from it, and be separate, and touch not the un- clean thing. You can dissolve your connexion with slavery, if you will For Christ's sake, for the sake of man and his best interests, fur the sake of all that is pure, virtuous, and excellent, for the sake of all that is desirable on earth or in heaven, for yourselves and for all whom you shall ever influence, BREAK THAT CHAIN. RUFUS ROCKWOOD. 17? The National Anti Slavery Standard will
please copy.
A Friendly Remonstrance.
Dear Frienps Garkison AND OTHERS:
I feel called upon tospeak my mind plainly, though affectionately to you, as I have felt my spirit stirred within me, by reading in the Liberator, and other pa-
1 ti i adve any glorie | times, I admit, advanced many &
pers, such mottoes as the follow; : ing i!
of Millerism '"—« te
Miseries of M then go on to state events wh misrepresent things in such
Merism,’ Pp. ich Dever ia : wrong impression to the shies manner hy, Advent believers have nae hier tig columns, that they have been hee, = notice to rectify your Mistakes "Ey, 100 Joined in hand in this work, ay * © on 4} But as the friends of the slave, w might Tae such a course by our opponents _ NOt ap tu state facts which the <a bury, of Portland. ~ H
¥ Can prove, like rete.
e what the b di Was on the » ' at the mob did there. But yon Mt ang A YOU edito, : others, and hand ont to oe cals NOTE oy. \ prove, . WARE Yo I have attended MANY anti-slayer ) 8 ve
. Ovens: never, to my knowledge, haye the ti Mi
man been better regarded, both } ple, than at the Taunton and § There the colored brother or
hand, and in the
Bh of y Precep, alem Camp,
i | sister way taken,
fervent Prayer of fyir, th cog
to the Lord, imploring such he! ¥
whole family of man, to ant ; which seemed to be accom - sent down from heaven.
PEded |, "10 fee
the Hateg
of our reformers will fail Christ requires, to meet him in peace: §, ¢ ’ lardest io they feel rich, and increased 1 oh tn ww FO Bods, basi, nothing. But if any man haye NOL the en ty he is none of his. Men may adopt a - they may be deceived, and greatly Pits, great and last day. I knew q on ae meeting, who had been a Professor P. more than thirty years, and Was called formers, of the ultra cast, ee,
Ory, jy
By the power
which convinces of sin, righteousness. ay) _ to come, he was weighed jn the beleoce, wanting. He begged for merey of God. 5 #: relief, until he was so far subdued ag . Ps to tell his situation to those around ei feel wily what his friends and acquaintance wea tt He was willing to request prayers bia, : sanctification—but not as a sinner, ff on the conflict, until power from on high ee Ue Dit
ing to come in God's own way
> 8nd now the » tains have become ,
48 plains, and the rou smooth. And now let them say what las = P ‘bey Walpole, or any where else, the riches aad peace, which this man feels h, | ‘
Christ's sake, has made him rejoie
HAS reee ved € More ‘bay ite , He feels the could rejoice to have Christ COME, aNd taketh
dom.
gift of worlds on worlds could do
Then the power of the esi forever. In that kingdom, pains, and me " slaveholder’s scourge, will be telt no more a will be joyful ! ae
Now, friend Rogers, and all Other friends, y} try to have all your work done for) our fellow-men and the glory of God: ell and spare not to apply truth with the sir, who, wien he was reviled, revi!
af Cy ed Dot aguip may that power which makes aman new to rejoice with all the ransomed of the coming and kingdom, which is the prayer of your low-labvrer, to break every yoke of oppresie
WARREN ALLE
Walpole, May 29th, 1843.
The Christian Reflector, Wittiam Lioyp Garnisos:
Dear Sin—In the last Liberator, You speak of course pursued by the present editor of the Chr Reflector,’ in regard to old organizalion,—the 14 slavery movement in the Baptist denomination, Your remarks are just, and I rejoice thet you spoken in so plain a manner.
T have been pained exceedingly, in view of course adopted by Mr. Graves, since he becem editor of the paper. Wheu the Keflector was established, I did something in regard to its oi tion, with the hope that it would never fill 1 complish the great and noble end of its establsiea But, alas! how changed, how different its neh what it was while under the contro! of Mr.Grosvet It was then a terror to the slavebolder and hits gist. tist church was exposed in its true light by Bm through the coluwns of the Reflector ; conse the paper and its gifted editor were condemned them ans disorganizers, disturbers of their pence te
But how is it now, since Mr. Graves becuse editor? He has so conformed to the pro-slavery of the churches, that the paper is now popular ™ them, and patronized by them with avidity. Jatt
The pro-slavery pusition of the nortiend
place, the paper is circulated quite extensive'y h dividuals decidedly opposed to the anti-siawy ment. The minister of the Baptist clurch tskes a interest in its circulation, and recommends te #9 very highly. He is decidedly in favor of te te tor, as at present conducted. But what hes 0 slavery, think you, of this revert nd divine? He that it was immateria’ ©
recently, in my presence, the ro
him, whether the Baptist churches at
; ; 2 of n action or not, in condemnation ot woe Sand itis FS
gavel
. , he ‘it is well enough, if they do, said he, ; . oa ® ly the enough, if they do not’! This ix precise!y , i ° oa sa great ieee guage fhe made use of, and yet he ts 2 gr
the * Christian Reflector’! Tam not the only one who is which has taken place, since the paper p the hands of the present editor. Complaint made in every quarter, and from sou als that have heretofore taken a deep
pained at the ches
asced we
res and | interest 18
establishment. Mr. Graves fails very mue
cation of the sentiments he
L ny h in not making 28 i
advances. He us pe ac 'P f i H ' ngs ev @
bur, not applying them to existiog MMe" : hier accomplish much tow ards the objet and do it in eu
d be eff
1 spokes o 1) a manner 9 may condemna sin,
6
to touch the sinner. If we weu
should make am pp
rove 10
preaching, we they will yr
sentiments; otherwise, ve should have that noble spirit sh dress 0 ‘i . address ' Nathan, in bis short but pity ae"
, he said, ¢ Thou art the man
nich §
David, MELITY a isidibesile
the Church:
AntieSlavery ¥S- Mr Epiror:
‘The position taken FE. Convention, ia opt maintained that the ¢! be destroyed, before anti-slavery cad to be the only ground that can be es: The Church}
ore tha and yee
ty Phillis, at Me? by Wendell Phillips ; ' several spoanet 1 pr esisood mus
triomphs "PF
positian to wurch ond
} tgines by
n ine S
and common sense. in favor of chattel slaver and both organizations may survi¥ It is only necessary onsisten
y, any ™ e; - atignare
h for function® :
may perish. ae both Church and State, to act , nd toabide by the le ible which
pitt ® ter and §? professions, a constitutione, and the B > ¢ und servitude would 6 platform w n ag
they acknor b ,
i jonger eo as a guide, The anti-slavery wherea tilt could be mu : rf ,
zation susceptable y be an anti-stns ! We do nol ¢ ‘
ag not @ ainst eve? ¢ abuses ®
land, an arena, and every organi wise, it would right ti-slavery platform. fulness or wrongfulness
or the woman questions red vse we are not
nates’ @ *
ments, moral refurm, becat purpose, and they are, ics, All we require !8, with us should be op and we welcome wa may be of other
conse quently ’
to unite expatriation, . matter what his vie dent 3s mistaken et? the that the - ‘all before aa"
obstaci™.
qi Our correspon pd
sumsec destroyed, red to be table
the ground was as hood must first be triumph.” They were decla
i un way of the cause, but not ineurme
Board of Society, Middle Stet zp Coane recent Ne and most © pave eve! he importer ti-slavery ‘ might acer’ New-Eng!a New-Yo \ stion at the j by acclan Massachus to take th fully aecep ‘tating confi use, 10 ma ve communl sends we sha , support of nd by promy ngs, that the influences 60 well q for this imp 5 Moneok, | nd of powe! yes an anti: Sonmecticul 5 years a slave readiness ' cause of fre n, have gait eastern abo pal expericn| for the se x RemoxD, rnest devot n, not our © ured the he became 1 whom Cro’ gwith the »@ e ever comn ose uncomp: rgislature of t body is to to regard, a rations ming! nis, as to ma as impressiv Ferns, th terizes all | ery friend of t opponent e, under the A, CoLLins t his quick! to execute, a a corps wii ry, in a dou
Ging six month
ich the spiri sense of duty ity, for the i e send you tl p hospitality. our hearts. 1 Massachuset in a distant ed, by our accomplish all in our pe ding in you or of battle, funds, your ort. Ours tl , for their cx General Age State Societ int from seve h places as | enient points the work, as nents in an to second th her with the mer and autus oble underta In b I x. Liovy G Boston, June
Grand / tHE Axouiti 4 ayn Penns:
consequenc Anti-Slaver: of the Mana 5 Society, to | Operation wi Ifinto comn y brothers Ferris, may, ible throu, nly depend, ance from pla on of our a fable hiaea te you ready ously met a "E advertise ry Newspaper ‘ng, in ever, t whole regio § who aceot dreds of tho t they should
*ti-slavery ii on their int Biant plan
Without onder 4 exist, 1 was Was the in Vast ben
to its call,
“ccommodate d, the frien
them int whieh ¢
Was
ADti-slaver
» have the rj
ghts d, both by th 2 hand Salem 4
CF OF sister Was tah ’ proyer of faith, press
uch help as is need to make them Pra, OM panied te j
y Conventi,
him in eace ; vill be the handes’? , n their *itVation ag aa ised in 800ds, havin n have not the spirit ec My adopt a theory b nd greatly disappoinics Hew 4 man ay Salem « professor of Chris nd was called ong of " | By the POWEr of the g ‘gli eousness, and sjedes 1 in the balances, and f | merey of God, but fou F subdued ag 10 feel w; se around, independeny) Maintance would Bay of t prayers 88 ONE that no, +a sinner, from on high
nw
He struggle Made hig, ' 4Y; and now the m Hains, and the rough
hem say what 1 : blse, the
bey wil riches, and joy feels he has received him rejolee morg than could do. Ne feels thas ist Come, and take the & of the Oppressor w;i| 1, pains, and Br0an8, and Ii be telt no more, {),
id all other friends, wil} ork dove for the welfi glory of God? Cry uth with the spirit of C iled, reviled not Ogain akes aman new, prepare naomed of the Lord, at ich is the prayer of you y yoke of Oppression, WARREN ALLE) 43. ; TS ian Reflector, SON:
Liberator, you speak off sent editor of the ‘ Christ Id organization,—the al
Baptist denomination, @ d I rejoice that you ner. jceedingly, in view of iraves, since he became eu the Keflector was ing in regard to its circ it would never fail to ble end of its establishm
how different its tone fi he contro! of Mr.Grosve » slavebolder and his ap sition of the northern B in its true light by he Reflector ; conseque ditor were condemned turbers of their peace, & ince Mr. Graves beca ned to the pro-slavery sim
paper is now popular wl them with avidity. In ted quite extensively b ime ed to the anti-slavery
e Baptist church takes and recommends the | ledly in favor of the Re ed. But what is the
s reverend divine? He that it was immaterial @ churches at the North @ ation of American slavd do,’ said he, *and its @
This is precisely the J yet he isa great frient
vho is pained at the chal nee the paper passed editor. Complaint is ° | from sources and indi ov ken a deep interest |
Bod uch in not making 6 * he advances. He hae many glorious prineg ; existing things, they fall the object spokes off. lo it ineuch a manner 15% eo would be effectual 9% ake an application of will prove inefice 1 whieh character ‘ity address to David,
: MELIT » im. zi
-s, the Church
hey e spiri
Vendell Phillips, a th » jon to several speakers ust lb ond pristhood must slavery cap trivmp), *? can be sustained by Church is et . the y, any momen “ netionat ty with
y survive, essary for fu act consistent y the letter and spirit
h they ackno¥
le whic is
vould ao longer © Jatform was wot © d be run against pire usceptable of si Th anti-sim, instee
f Church or estion, oF eearsiet are not associs 2out nsequentlys eng at every persoe” iy = d toslavery ome him on the pt
y be on other ig mistaken ie ayins ‘that the ehure nd, before ants slared to be © insurmountable,
oLB NUMBER, 649.
“gosTON:
ws aca! DY enteainnantiaih SRNING, JUNE 16, 1843.
jp LIBERAT OR
privaY
Address - Vonusers of the Massachusetts Aati- od of « 2 é a sett the Abolitionists of the Western
t land A. 8. Convention, the a ie gathering of abolitionists ewer withense 4, was deeply impressed
ge ba aoe of your sections of the country to sai and with the great benefits 2 es that cause from the co-opera- . : sd ad with Ohio, Indiana, Pennsytva-
New os A resolution, expressive of high pi New et of such co-operation, was pection 3 , ie and the Board of Managers ; vd Anti-Slavery Society were ap- essary measures lo secure it
jusiusti¢
she the net : » service, and rely with the most ce upon your love of our com- our efforts effectual in your re-
the exercise of hospitality to
nake ea. OY
ot nd to your aid, by contributions funilies while they are among nd vigorous ¢ forts to secure large | reatest possible number of minds the gospel of freedom which
ed to proclaim. We have se-
_ wit our fellow-laborers, re union of zeal and discre-
, , with patience and
ery rer, has done so much | Feepenick Douerass, till withia| ose keen intellect, sound judge- jebate, and broad comprehension feedom and the trae means for its pro- | him the admiration and esteem | nists, and which, added to his | slavery, so eminently qualify ervice of Cuaeres
eloquence,
the cause *
whose inspiring the vindication of the rights!
wa country alone bears witness, but | ndship and respect of all with | sinted in Eagland and Ireland,
ded audiences in those countrieslis- |
|
attention |
e profound interest and { sat home ; GeorGeE Braveurn, |
ising advocacy of the cause in|
f Massachusetts, much of its poeguenn | scribed—whom to know is cor-
|, and whese sparkling wit and lively ppily with his irresistible ar-
im one of the most attractive as
of the advocates of the slave;
the fervor of whose soul so strongly
sail his public efforts, commending him
jof the slave, and pointing him out as} nent of every cold and selfish enemy. | yder the direction of our General Agent, | +A. CoLbLins, already so well known to many of |
sickness to see, his skill to plan, his en-}
erecute, and his noble disinterestedness, com- | . whose labors through your region ad
s double series of Conventions for the! gis montis, cannot fail to awaken every heart} rit of freedom and humanity yet lives, 1
ind responsibility to God and to |
the immediate abolition of slavery. j
you these dear friends, commending them y of your homes, and to the confidence
Unwilling as we are to lose them!
ho Mosachusetts, and unable as we are to sustain |
stant field of lubor, we dave felt con-| y our perception of the great work they | si, south and west of New-England, ower to place them with you there,
to sustain them in their new field of! \e, a8 it may prove, by your sympathy, |
‘funds, your prayers, your faithful friendship and
Ours they have—yours they deserve to r cause’s sake, and also for their own. i! Agent is instreeted to communicate with
e Societies, and in connection with them to from seventy-five to a hundred Conventions, Wi esas will prove the strongest and most t ts of attraction, Already has he be- vork, as you will perceive by his list of ap- another column. Fail not, we entreat {the effort, so that we may all rejoice ve slave hereafter in conteniplating the wiumn of 1843, as the turning point of rl King. ln behalf of the Board, FRANCIS JACKSON, President. Gannisos, See.
June 13, 1843.
t wr
‘rand Anti-Slavery Movement! \sourtiosists of New-York, Onto, Ispia- PENNSYLVANIA: “quence of the resolves of the New-Eng- “avery Convention, and the subsequent ac- Monagers of the Massachusetta Anti-Sla- ‘to whom the service of carrying them nwasassigned, I am instructed to put vmanication with you, that the services ers Monroe, Douglass, Remond, Bradburn
nay, With my own, be made as effectual
ghout vour States.
On you must we fer our arrival, for the means of con- |
¢ to place—for the extensive notifi- ‘appoiotments—and for the obtaining of | fur Our mee lings.
May we not hope to
each place on our arrival, having
Net and tiken counsel for our furtherance, ised the time and place of meeting in trto which you can gain access, and}
ry Way that you can devise, aroused | that the devoted friends of the |
Mpany me may be able to impress |
g10n, so
sunds of hearts with the
necessity, ' make the cause of freedom their own,
‘ve their country and their posterity Tam able, from the personal knowledge |
fearin a tour through the western and &
form an estimate of the great amount nfeene ‘Nuence which might be brought to
habitants by the vigorous execution of ‘of the New-England Convention. Ut Previous
effort or communication,
; er many disadvantages which do not 1 was able to ascertain by experience, how
Aterest felt for our cause, and to caleu- ey Senefits Which would result from answer- * , Then, when a place of sufficient size
Sate the great gathering could not be ob- ‘eds felled the forest-trees, and hastily “0 pillars to sustain a roof of branches, ch 3000 ne ‘ WY persons we re sheltered from the os Falng ; and th % + oWait -: - a ag Our return. With such a corps of “Orers as wij
~ vere the rustic temple yet stands
il this year accompany me, a few st rear such temporary structures along es Hever orcasion shall require. The time Fiky men will shortly be with you. With Were) te Willing hearte, a place of meeting te, abled at any of the points where it rs on *dvisable to appoint THE GRAND DOUBLE
~,,, NE HUNDRED CONVENTIONS, agg Sodium of which we may lay the truth es ‘ree to five hundred thousand of our fel- ; '@ coming six months. Let us
* Curing
ready We ¥ West to the encounter, and slavery Beath the - iat
© Whe
J ’ a tant tread. Pennsylvania, with *23¢ strong.ha- ye ong-hearted children, asks but to hear = not n ‘ . a as ®- Ohio! Indiana! New-York! are
Teady } : ° 7) When Massachusetts, Maine, New-
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Con raise the battle-cry for the righ stand by them in the moral confi noble feeling, and extinguishesey contemplating this stupen: gation of our principles in the friends overlook the opp selves for mutual counsel, inf
calls up every
nd concert o action. Letus urge upon you the importance of sub- scribing at once for the National Anti-Slavery Stand- ard, the organ of the American Society ,—the piuneer sheet, the Liberator,—and the Herald of Freedom,— that you may have a general knowledge of the anti- slavery movement, and an acquaintance wit’ the an- ti-slavery mind of the Atlantic border, and that through your communications with these papers, the Eastern friends may be made acquainted with you; that thus, through mutual co-operation and friendship, both East and West may become strong in each other for the cause, and the well devised system of nation- aland State affiliation of our Societies may be sus- tained, tu complete the great work so well begun.
The following times aud places have been deter- mined upon for the first of the series of Conventions, to commence, invariably, at 10 o’clock, A. M.:—
FIRST SERIES. Randolph, Vt. Monday and Tuesday, July 10th & 11th. Middlebury, “ ‘Thursday and Friday, 13th and 14th. N. Ferrisburgh, Monday and Tuesday, 17th aod 18th. Keeseville, N. ¥, Thursday and Friday, 20th and 21st.
SECOND SERIES.
Springfield, Mass. Mond. and Tues. July 10th & Ith, Albany, N.Y. Thursday and Friday, 13th and 4th. Little Falls, ** Monday and Tuesday, 17th and 18th. Utica, “ Thursday and Friday, 20th and 21st.
Commending this grand enterprise to Divine Prov- idence, and to the snpport of all true hearts, in confi- dence that we can, God helping us, doa mighty work for the abolition of slavery,
1 am, your brother in the cause, JOUN A. COLLINS. 7 Editors friendly to the anti-s!avery enterprise, throughout the country, are respectfully requested to notice, in their columns, this contemplated series of Conventions.
One Hundred Conventions!
We have not time—and if we had, we have not
rb ! While tor the promal-|
. ageous reformer, and a man who ‘has done the State,’
ee
TH
— E LIBERATOR. ”
ei
SS
; 95
oWhe Cause of Temperance.
prance Meeting in the Village of Tattertown
on Fact. Boston: 1843."
his is the twenty-first number of the popular se-
of Temperance tales, from the pen of J... M. Sar- a caustic and vigorous writer, a robust and cour-
nay, the world, no small service, by bis powerful ef- forts to redeem mankind from the debasing use of in- toxicating drinks. Of his §r*t number, entitled + My Mother's Gold Ring,’ one hundred and twenty thou- sand copies have been given to the public ; and a large sale has been obtained for all the others.
In the prefatory remarks of the present number, addressed to John Tappan, Esq. President of the Mas- sachusetts Temperance Union, (to whom the Tempe- rance enterprise is also immensely indebted,) Mr. Sargent refers to the ‘ Washingtonian movement’ in terms of distrust, and, to some extent, of condemna- tion—nvt on account of the positive good it has done, but of the manner in which it has been conducted, and the boastful and ungrateful spirit which has too fre- quently been manifested by those who have been plucked as brands from the burning. To quote his own words:
‘ Were it not to mark the spirit of the age and of the movement, I should scarcely allude to the gross
labors of their predecessors. Nothing has been done, | till these drunkards took the matter in hand! This) arrogance has, doubtless, the merit of sincerity, since those who, for years, have been drinking oblivion in their sleepy hollows of drunkenness, can poorly esti- mate the waking labors of such men as Dexter, and Dane, and Wardsworth, and Worcester, and a host of great and good men, who, for nearly one third of a century, have toiled in this holy war, Nevertheless, there is something exceedingly unseemly and absurd in the assertion. Nothing has been done by those, who have entered the moral wilderness, struggied with the red man, cleared the forest, removed the rocks, drained the land, dugand delved, ploughed and plamted; nothing has been done, ull the drowsy drunkard, after thirty years of earnest importunity, and scalding tears, and fervent prayers, has been per- suaded to get upon his legs at last, and, for his own use and behoof, reap the bending harvest, with a sickle furnished by the hand ot charity.’
There is, certainly, justice in these animadversions, though the vulgar egotism which they are designed to rebuke, is perhaps quite as deserving of pity as of
censure. Much, very much must be pardoned to the
room—to expatiate, in our present number, on the Grand Western Anti-Siavery Movement, the outlines | of which are given in the preceding Addresses of the | Managers of the Massachusetts A. 8, Pociety and the
General Agent. Its conception is a bold one, and will create a thrill of admiration and delight in thoa- sands of bosoms, and its execution, we have no doubt, will prove highly disastrous to the slave syetem, and of immense service to the cause of universal liberty.
The Great Celebration.
To-morrow is the famous 17th of June, which is to be still more signalized in history by an extraordinary commemoration of the completion of the Bunker! Hill Monument. Already the ‘ note of preparation’ is | tremendous, and such a multitude will probably be} gathered together, from all parts of this mighty re-
public, as has never been witnessed on any preceding occasion. To every reflecting mind, to every genuine
friend of liberty, to every sincere christian, how in-|
congruous, how shocking, how impious does such a celebration appear,in view of the damning fact, that three millions of the American people are at this hour
clanking their chains in slavery! Can any join in it,
without being justly obnoxious to the charge of being | gard for self than for principle, and will in due time political hypocrites and religious liars? Think of the | effect its own punishment. The true reformer hae no
soil of Bunker Hill being desecrated by the footsteps Thiok of.
of southern slaveholders and overseers !
the welcome to be given to those incorrigible oppress-
Think of the President of the United States taking the lead in this ostensible tribute to liberty, and yet himself a slaveholder! * Shall Ll not visit for these things? saith the Lord. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?’
As an iJlustration of the pacific and christian char-
ors, on this great occasion !
acter of the people, there is to be the greatest miliia- ry display ever seen in the United States. From six- | ty to one hundred military companies have signified | their intention to join in the celebration. The moral effect of such an exhibition must prove extensively in- jurious.
The maxim is a true one, though trite, that ¢ birds | of a feather flock together.’ Accordingly, we find in| the order of the procession, that * the reverend clergy’ are duly assigned a place among those who ‘ receive honor one of another,’ Honorables, Esquires, Gener- als, Odd Fellows, &c. &c. The black-coated frater- nity are never forgotten on such occasions, and, with few exceptions, they never fail to * sanctify’ by their presence, all the foolery that is perpetrated. If they were the ministers of Jesus Christ, no such distinetion would be accorded to them.
Tuost Avpnresses!—Let our anti-slavery friends improve the opportunity to scatter profusely, among the great multitude this week, the Addresses to the Slaves and to President Tyler, as\ing him to give lib- erty to his slaves. They are for sule cheap at 25, Cornhill, in a neat pamphlet form. * Make hay while
the sun shines.’
Tur Avpress to O'Conneny. The admirable Ad- dress of the Executive Committee of the Eastern Penn- sylvania A. S. Society, on our first page, is the one that elicited high encomiums from Daniel O'Connell, before the Loyal Repeal Association in Dublin, and caused him to deliver that mighty and sublime speech in condemnation of American slavery, and all who re- fuse to take an active partin the anti-slavery enter- prise, which we laid before our readers last week.
Sxecoxp Avvent. While we regret that our esti- mable friend Allen, of Walpole, is laboring under the delusion, that the existence of the world is to termi- nate this year, we thank him for his friendly letter. We have no doubt that cases of suicide have in some instances been unjustly attributed to the * Miller mania,’ but the denial of any such cases has been tov sweeping in the Signs of the ‘Times. Where names and places have been given inthe public journals, we have copied the articles as items of intelligence, not as arguments against the Miller theory; and if any error be made, we shall always be happy to cor- rect it, as soon as we perceive it.
ignvrance of those whu have emerged from the gut- ters and kennels of drunkenness, and by a mighty ef- fort burst the chains that bound them in thraldom to the demon spirits of strong drink. The transition which has been effected in their character, appetite, hopes and prospects, is so wonderful, that it is not surprising that they feel in many instances unduly elated, and imagine that they are the only genuine reformers and true champions in the field. The joy of the community, at witnessing their extraordinary resurrection from the grave of intemperance, has been so great, and its praise so lavish, as unavoidably to excite their vanity,’ and to feed their self-esteem, us a class, Absorbed in the contemplation of their own achievements, and intent on surveying the pit from which they have been taken, they have concluded that, until they made theie appearance, nothing had been said or done to put down intemperance, or to reach their own miserable case. Their mistake on this point, though great, is not unpardonable. It is of comparatively little importance, by whom the work of reformation has been most signally advanced: the great thing is, to see that the work is done. Vain- glorying in such a cause indicates a higher re-
jealousy lest he shall not receive quantum suff. of hu- man applause. His only concern is, lest the praise shall not be given to God, in whose presence no flesh
shall glory, without sin.
The Washingtonian movement has been marvel- lous in all eyes ; and though its features have been somewhat coarse, and its action somewhat uncomely, and its tone of exultation somewhat egotistical,—and though many whom it temporarily reclaimed have returned to their evil ways,—yet that it has accom- plished a vast amount of permanent good, and rescued multitudes from a horrible state, who will persevere in the path of sobriety to the end, every intelligent and candid mind must readily concede. ft has, how- ever, been a work of sympathy, rather than of prin- ciple,—a benevolent epidemic, rather than the growth of enlightened moral regeneration,—and ‘s therefore
liable to experience a revulsion as sudden as its rise |
Its novelty has excited curiosity, interest, speculation, and wonder; and these have accelerated its speed, and procured for it celebrity. But this novelty is fast wearing away, and with it much of the enthusiasm which bas signalized the movement. Hence, we in- cline to think with Mr. Sargent, that ‘ there has never been greater occasion, than at this very moment, for grave reflection, steadiness of p»rpose, and learned, and worthy men, who have for many years time, to this admirable enterprise.” The great dan- ger is, that they who have borne the heat and bur- den of the day will be inclined to seek permanent repose under the temporary respite which has been given to their arduous labors, and to conclude that the
Mr. Sargent complains, and not unreasonably, of the manner in which Washingtonian meetings are too
often conducted. He observes, on this point—
‘The coarseness and gross vulgarity, exhibited in some of these meetings, are scarcely conceivable. The greater the drunkard, the more accomplished the orator, and the more competent, in his own opin- ion, as the manager of the whole machinery of the temperance cause. The Secretary of the American Temperance Union sent me, recently, a printed ac-
firmness of conduct, on the part of those wise, and,
devoted their resources of ‘money, and thought, and |
work no longer needs cither their watchfulness or aid |
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ingratitude of those—and it is of common occur- | rence—who express the most perfect contempt for the |
which the chief performer, afier several recitations
dian war-dance and war-whoop, and concluded with sundry imitations of ducks and drakes, hens and bull- frogs. All this isin print, and matter of easy refer- ence. . . If the decency and the dignity of temperance be of any worth, itis time to rebnke this senseless introduction of stage-players and buffoons. If the public interest in this glorious enterprise has so far abated, that itis necessary to keep up that interest by such extraordinary aids, it is deeply to be deplored.’
This serious criticism is timely, and we trust will produce a salutary effect. To the temperance cause belong both ‘decency and dignity,’ and these should at all times be regarded by its advocates; not the ‘decency and dignity’ of exclusiveness, or aristocratic or priestly management, or conservative pride or af-
*Sewr-Inripecity amone Rerormers’’ An ex- traordinary article, with this title, from the Putney Perfectionist, is placed on our last page. The remarks that we intended should accompany it are excluded for lack of room. We have only space to say, that, whether we regard its logic or its temper, it is pre- cisely in the strain of modern priesteraft and conser- vatism, and in the tone and style of the New-England Puritan, Boston Recorder, Vermont Chronicle, &c.
iF Among the articles we have been compelled to
omit, this week, for want of room, are—the Report of
the Concord Female A.S Society—an account of the treatment of ©. L. Remond at Leicesi:er—and the
list of contributions at the N. E. Convention.
IF The important movement of a portion of our Baptist brethren, in regard to separating their mis- sionary operations from all connexion with slavery, (for particulars, see the preceding page,) is one of the ‘signs of the times,’ in regard to the overthrow of slavery, which are full of promise. We observe that these proceedings are published in the Christian Re- flector, without any editorial approval or notice, and on the last page! * Call you this backing your friends ?”
IF To-morrow evening, those charming vocalists, the Hutchinson Family, will give a Concert in the Tabernacle in Moward-street. Need we say more ?
| fectation, but of good sense, good taste, and self- respect. It cannot be denied that coarse buffoonery land vicious narrative have been substituted, in many j instances, for sound argument and cogent appenl. | Some of the reformed inebriates have related their ex- perience in a manner by no means creditable either to their humility or their conversion. A morbid sppe- tite has been created by them for tales abounding in drollery, indecency, folly, and crime; and they have often scemed to be anxious to excel each other in pro- truding their abominable acts and criminal misdeeds, (committed in a state of intoxication,) for the gratifica- tion of a curious multitude, whose demand has some- times even gone beyond the supply. Confession of sin is highly commendable, when made in true humi!- ity of spirit; but there are occasions when such a confession becomes no cross, but is rather a passpor; to fevor and popularity. Every thing depends on the manner and temper in which it is made, and the object to be promoted by it.
Great allowance, it is true, is to be made for those who have for years debased their intellects, and de- praved their souls, by a wild career of drunkenness. Charity and compassion should spread a mantle over their faults and failings, as far as this can be done with- out detriment to the public good, or to private moral- ity. Their sight is only partially restored, and they ‘see men as trees, walking.” They have crippled
heir judgment, and are unable nicely to discriminate
count of a late temperance meeting in New-York, at}
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between the bounds of propriety and bad taste. They have injured their moral perceptions, and therefore are liable to confound things which have no special relationship to each other. ‘They have impaired what educational advantages they may have enjoyed before their terrible fall, in many cases they have had none uf those advantages at any period of their life ; and it is not to be expected that they should excel in oratory, or use language with grammatical accuracy, or poeti- cal beauty, or rhetorical propriety. Still, they may say and do things which are really gross, unseemly, out- rageous, and these are proper subjects for animadver- sion. Such eases, we are happy to believe, are only Many of the reformed. inebrixtes are really powerful and successful lecturers, beyond all rivalry or comparison on the part of those who have graduated at colleges or theological seminaries. Let no jealousy of such be entertained by any who claim to be learned or wise, but let them be encouraged and sustained as among the worthy intruments whom God employs to bring iniquity to an end.
There are some passages in Mr. Sargent's introduc- tory letter to Mr. Tappan, which indicate a fettered state of mind, and perhaps a disposition on his part to keep the management of the Temperance cause in the hands of a small conservative clique, w the ex- clusion of ‘the common people.’ Ife makes several complaints or charges, among whici is the following : ‘The proposal to divorce the cause of religion from that of temperance has been repeatedly and distinctly urged by speakers and writers, within the last two years.’ Of this proposel, we know nothing, and have seen nothing. The charge is a vague one, and made without any proof. Such proof may exist, but it cer- tainly ought to be adduced, if it can be, in support of the charge. *The cause of religion’ is a form of speech quite abstract and indefinite: it may mean something very good, or something very injurious to the rights and liberties of mankind. Popularly speak- ing, in every country on the face of the globe, (not excepting these United States,) ‘ the cause of religion’ is a very different affuir from the cause of Christianity —the Jatter being the embodiment of the will of God, and the former being the creature of public sentiment. Without intending to quibble, we want Mr. Sargent
exceptions.
tu be more specific in his charge, more definite in his received almost a unanimous vote, and consented to
language. ten, in what manner, for what purpose, or by whom, has the proposal been made ‘to divorce the cause of religion (supposing Christianity is meant by that term) from that of temperance’? Until these particulars are furnished, we must be allowed to doubt, not the veracity of Mr. Sargent, but the sound judgment of the distinguished author of the Temperance tales, on this one point. We are more disposed to be skepti- cal here, because the complexion of some of lis other charges leads us to infer that by the term ‘religion,’ in the passage we have quoted, he has special refer- ence to rcligious forms and ceremonies, and outward observances. For instance—he gravely complains that ‘temperance meetings have been held in the open fields, on Sabbath,afternoons, (!)—attempted tobe jus tified, on the ground that there are numbers who will never go to the house of God, (2) and who had better be thus occupied than left to idleness ; forgetting, however, that such conduct provides the infidel and the Sabbath-breaker with the very apology he covets.’ From the lips of a priest, this would be professional cant; from the lips of Mr. Sargent, it is veneration spell-bound and blind; from the lips of any man, es- pecially one professing to be a Christian, itis a re- proach to Christianity, and puts a j}weapon into the hands of‘ the infidel and the Sabbath-breaker’ to beat down the truth, The charge is two-fold: 1. Tem- perance meetings have been held on Sabbath afler- noons! 2. On such occasions, the open fields have been resorted to!! This is a pitiable case of religious superstition and sectarian zeal for God. Without stop- ping to discuss the question, as to the perpetuity of the weekly Sabbath, especially of the holiness of the first day of the week,—and conceding for the present, on this poiut, all that is claimed by those who sabbatize, —we ask, on what authority Mr. Sargent pronounces meetings held in the cause of temperance, on any part of the Sabbath, to be at war with the spirit of the christian religion? Is the supposition a delusion, af- ter all, that a man is of miore value than asheep? For ‘what man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall intoa pit on the Sabbath-day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?" Did Je- sus err when he affirmed, ‘It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath-days’? And is it not to do well to at- tempt to extricate from the awful pit of intemperance, our perisling fellow-creatures who have fallen into it? Will a teetotaller deny this? Is one of the great champions of the temperance cause dispoged to con- cede, that it is improper to advocate it on the first day of the week? Is such a view of it calculated to make a salutary impression on the minds of sober infidels, with regard to the benign character of Christianity, or to increase their repugnance to it?
But we are told that temperance meetings on Sun- day are ‘ attempted to be justified’! Asif they need- ed any such justification! As if the necessity that exists thus to * attempt’ to justify them be not indica- tive of arotten and pharisaical state of society! O, this is not precisely the objection that is raised—ia themselves they are merciful and philanthropic, but to hold them on that sacred day, ‘ in the open fields’ ! Ay, that is the horrible crime! True, it is urged, in extenuation,—and not denied even by Mr. Sargent,— ‘that there are numbers, who will never go to the house of God,’ but he does not believe that these * had better be thus occupied than left to idleness’! In his estimation, this going on Sunday afternoon into the highways and hedges to save the halt, the lame, and the blind, is an alarming desecration of holy time, —and provides ‘the infidel and the Sabbath-breaker But what is this apology ? thathe may do a wrong act, because another does well on the Sabbath-day ?
with the very apology he covets"!
Is this reason or rev- elation? We are surprised that Mr, Sargent should allow his understanding to be thus stultified in so plain a case.
The popular teachings respecting the Sabbath are practically of a very immoral tendency. Here is a specimen, on which our eye happens to rest at this moment, It is the first verse of a hymn fur children.
The week is past—the Sabbath's come—
I've lain aside my cap and drum ;
For mother says, | must not play,
Or think @ sinful thought to-pay.’ But, To-monnow, I may resume my cap and drum, and wield the sword, and think what I please, be- cause it will be Monday! [Query—What is it to ‘think a thought’?] So to divorce anti-slavery, peace, temperance, &c. from the religion of the Sab- bath, is to make that religion abominable,even though
it be found in *the house of God,’ falsely so called, |
and superstitiously su regarded. Mr. Sargent says— ‘4 am ever ready to labor with infidels in this holy
cause, shoulder to shoulder ; but I cannot carry m complaisance so fur, as to prefer any and all places for
temperance demonstrations, rather than the house of
God, or to abate any of those ase mere | or conclu- ding religious services, to which we have been accus- tomed.’
Wonderful stretch of liberality, and a rare exhibi- tion of christian charity! By false usage, the term ‘infidel’ has become the most ludicrous as well as the most indefinite word in the English vocabulary. It seems, aceording to the view of Mr. Sargent, that they are infidels, whodeo not agree with him as to certain religious forms, and who think that an open field is as good a place in which to hold temperance meetings as a sectarian chapel! He cannot carry even his * complaisance’ so far as to unite with such teetotallers as do not see any necessity for relying on a priest to perform either the introd y or lu ding religious services at their temperance gather- ings! But if they will yield to his sacred whims or this point, why then he will be ever ready to labor with them in the cause, shoulder to shoulder! So much for human weakness,
On what occasion, in what place, how of. |
Dreadful Outrage in a Court of Justice.—A fatal and disgraceful reneounter took place in a Court-room during the session of the Court at Canton, Missirsippi, on the 20th ult., between Mr. Jeremiah Ellington and T. C. Tupper, Esq. Mr. Tapper was addressing the ju- ry upon the trial of a criminal case, in which Elling- ton way prosecutor, and was com menting legitimately and properly upon the evidence, when Ellington came up behind him, and siruck him twice or thrice over the head with a huge stick. Mr. T. thereupon seized a sword cane that lay near him, with which he stabbed his antagonist under his Jeftarm. Mr E died a few minutes afterwards Great confusion prevailed in the Court-room, and his Honor, Judge Rollins, adjourned the Court for a short time. All who witnessed the seene, concur in the opinion that Mr. Tupper's con- duct was perfectly justifiable, if indeed it was not praiseworthy, and the fate of Ellington well deserved. —Mail Horrible state of moraltty !
A Reverend Scoundre!.—Horace Fleming, a Metho- dist preacher in Branch county, in this Stale, was lately arrested on a charge of Polygamy, and on the examination plead guilty and was committed, bat af- terwards made his escape from the officer who had him in charge. He is described as being about 33 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches in height, with dark hair and dull gray eyes, and a thick poretes under lip. He isa Millerite, and last fall left his wife and family at Utica, N. Y., and came west to proclaim the speedy coming of Christ. He passed himself off ag a single man, and consummated his deception by heartlessly marrying a respectable yofug woman of Sherwood, Branch county, while his wife in Utica was mourning his absence. He formerly belonged to the Ohio Con- ference, and travelled for several years on the Pen- field, Rochester and Cleveland circuits.— Detroit Daily Advertiser.
Whig Convention at Worcester.—A large Conven- tion of Whig delegates from all sections of the Com- monwealth, was held at Worcester, on Wednesday, for the purpose of nominating canfidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, at the next election. After the regular organization of the meeting, prayers were offered by Rev. Alonzo Hill, of Worcester. At the first balloting for the candidate for Governor, the whole number of votes was 748, of which Hon. John Davis, late Governor, had 707. It was thereupon voted that be be the candidate. In the afternoon, the committee appointed to wait on him, reported that, on account of family reasons, he declined being consider- ed acandidute. At the next balloting, Hon. George N. Briggs of Berkshire, had 682 votes, and was de- elared the candidate. In the ballot for a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Hon. John Reed, of Yar- mouth, late member of Congress from Barnstable Co.,
stand.
Fire at Tullahasse.—On the 2th of May, a fire broke out at Tallahasse, Florida, which destroved every business house in the place, ineluding the Post Office. The contents of the latter were saved, but in great confusion, A letter states that the fire was first discovered in the back buildings of the Washington | Hall, situated near the capitol, and the fire extended on both sides of Main-street to the Court House. Eve- ry store in the city was destroyed, Of three printing offices one was saved—that of the Star. It is supposed that there were at least two hundred and fifty build- ings, with most of their eontents, destroyed. It was impossible to save many of the goods in the stores, the fire made such rapid progress, and those that were saved were mostly in u damaged state. Several build- ings were blown up, and two or three negroes lost their lives. ‘Fhe loss is estimated at $300,000. There | had been no rain for six weeks, in consequence of which the buildings had become so dry that they burned like tinder,
New-Hampshire Legislature.—This body met at Concord, and was organized by the election of Demo- | cratic officers, on Wednesday last. In the Senate, | the Hon. Titus Brown was chosen President; H. E. | Baldwin, Esq. Clerk, and Moody Currier, Esq. assist- jant Clerk, without opposition, In the House, the | Hon, Samuel Swazey was chosen Speaker by 52 ma- | jority, and Albert G. Allen and Lewis Sinith, Exqrs. | Clerks. The Patriot states that the Democratic ma- jority in the House is as large as 35 on any test vote.
Cuba —Capt. Draper, of the schooner Franklin | Greene, arrived at Savannah on the 4th inst. informs | | the editorsof the Republican that he had heard nothing | of the insurrection which was reported to have recent- | | ly broke out in the island, by a passenger arrived at | | New-Orleans in the ship Alabama, although he left }on the 27th ult three days after the departure of that vessel.
Letters have also been received by the Neptune, at
Bristol, R. 1. eleven days from Matanzas, dated seve- j ral days after the Alabama left Cuba, which repre- sent every thing as tranquil. A passenger by the Neptune, who had not heard of any insurrection, states that he should have certainly known of it, if any such occurrence had taken place.
Attempt to Murder.—Celeston, a slave of Mr. Bark- ley, was yesterday brought before Recorder Baldwin on the eharge of assaulting and wounding Henry Nichols with intent to kill. Tt appeured that Nichols recognized the slave as a runaway, at the New Basin, on Sunday evening, and that when he attempted to arrest him, Celeston drew a razor and made a cut at his throat, which wounded him in the shoulder. He will be tried under the Black Code, and will doubtless be made to forfeit his life for the offence.—N. O. Courier.
The Atlus says :—Among the persons to be present at the celebration of the 17th of June, is Gen. Gide- on Foster, a resident of Danvers, now 95 years old. He commanded the Danvers minute men who fought in the battle of Lexington, and bas survived all those who served under him. He is in the enjoyment of excellent health, and bids fair to live many years lon- ger.
Shot Dead.—A young man named Byron Padget, of Louisville, Ky,, was recently shot near Middletown. le and some others (all somewhat intoxicated) were engaged in shooting ata mark. A quarrel ensued be- tween him and a yousg man named Padget Hall, for- merly of Va., who levelled his rifle at Padget, and shot him dead on the spot.
Singular Death caused bya Dead Hog.—The Cin- cinnati Sun says that some time last week, a man was found on Deer Creek bridge dead, in a singular posi- tion. It appears that the fellow had been stealing hogs through the night, and made off with them safe- ly, and was on the fourth voyage, but getting weary had stopped to rest. The feet of the animal were tied with a cord and slung over his head, and as he leaned upon the railing, as is supposed, the hog slipped over the side, choking the man to death.
Suicide.—James L. McBaughan, a resident of Smith county, Mississippi, committed suicide by hanging himself on the 15th inst., in one of his negro’s cabins. Disappointments in the issue of a chancery suit in- volving a considerable amount of money, it is sup- posed, induced him to commit the fatal deed. He kas left a wife and several children.—Vicksburg Whig, May 30.
4 Murderer Convricted.—E. M. Miller was tried and convicted last week at Grand Rapids, Kent county, for the murder of an Indian woman, after he had viv- lated her person. The jury were out eight hours, and returned a verdict of guiliy of murder in the first de- gree, and a recommend to executive clemency. This is the first conviction for a capital offence ever had in this State. On motion of counsel, the sentence was suspended until the next November term.—Detroit D. Adv., June 7.
The cotton factory, grist-mill, saw-mill and store, owned by Mr. Elisha Jencks, in Cheshire, near South Adams, in the viilage called the Harbor, were entire- ly destroyed by fire on Saturday night, June 3d. Loss from $25,000 to $30,000. Insured for only $5000.
Slaves Escaped.—Lust week, a company of twenty runaway slaves passed through Cleaveland, on their way to Canada. Fifteen of them belonged to one | plantation in Virginia. Their master arrived three days after, and offered a reward of $1200 for their apprehension, but was unsuccessful in his efforts.
The Old Servznt Gone.—Gen. Washington's color- ed servant, Carey, was buried on Sunday last, from Greenleaf's Point, near Washington, D.C. and fal- lowed to the grave by a large number of blacks. He was about 114 years of age, and was for many years hostler to Gen. Washington, whom he served at the passage of the Delaware, and at the battle of Brandy- wine and Trenton.
A Kiss and the Consequences.—Sheriff Ware of Gloucester Co. New-Jersey, gave Mr. Win. Bateman a severe horse-whipping, at Black woodtown, on Sun- day, the ist, at the door of the Presbyterian Church. The provocation, we understand, was kissing, or at- tempting to kiss the sheriff's wife. Mr, Bateman was flogged ull his clothes hung in tatters, and bis whole person was covered with blood,
We understand that Dr. Sylvanus Brown, of Salis- bury, committed about the 25th of March, for disturb- ing public worship in Rockport, was discharged on Thursday evening, on a pardon from the Governor and Council.
A man named Robinson was arrested afew days since in Payson precinct, Illinois, on a charge of pass- ing counterreit money. In searching him, they found upon his person letters from siz wives, all living,
Accident.—The Boston Bulletin says, that a young man, named Hathaway, had his arm blown off in — on Wednesday morning, while on military
uty.
James Cheston, President of the Farmers’ and Plan- ters’ Bank, Baltimore, died suddenly on Wednesda morning at his residence. His disease, it is supposed, was an affection of the heart ;
Quick and Cheap.—The cars now accomplish the distance between Boston and Portland in about five hours. Fare, omty one dollar.
TREASURER’S REPORT
Of donations received into the treasury of the Massa-
chusctts A. S. Society from May tst to June 1st. From Wrentham Female A. 8, Society, to re-
deem pledge in part, 2 West Wrentham—A. 8. Society, Nelson Fisher, 75 Dorchester—Richard Clapp, w. con. collections, 5 00 Danvers, New Mills, E. B. Worthen, avails of
labor on Fast Day, 1% A Friend in Reading, 1 00
S PHILBRICK, Treasurer. Brookline, June 3d, 1843
DIED,—In this city, Sth inst. Mrs, Rhoda Gray, 94, a woman of color, of the strictest integrity, a true Christran, and respected by all who knew her.
May 30th, Yorick ‘Tattle, aged 53.
== THE MASSACHUSETTS ANTI -SLAVERY FAIR.
The undersigned give rotice that the tenth Massa- chusetts Anti-Slavery Fair will be held in Boston during the Christmas and New Year's season ; and they ask the aid of all who value human freedom, knowing that the appeal must find a response in every good, Christian heart: for it is not @ sectarian scheme—it is not a political party whieh they have in view, but a great national under- taking for humanity. Not forcibly, but peacefully not in the spirit of hatred, but, as it has been begun in the spirit of love, would they have this generation accomphish its great work on earth—the extinction of slavery. Jt is a work which cannot safely be delayed an hour; and they hope by this effort to do much to- wards awakening a!l hearts to the emergency.
The funds raised will be devoted, as heretofore, to the diffusion of anti-slavery truth, and to sustaining and cheering onward such devoted persons as have given their lives, tothe glad yet severe service of arousing an unwilling nation to a sense of its moral responsibilities,
M. W. Chapman, Lavinia Hilton, Ann T. G. Phillips, Hannah Tufts, Mary G. Chapman, Catherine Sargent, Susan Cabot, M. A. OW. yo al Eliza Lee Follen, Caroline Weston, Olivia Bowditch, nna R. Philbrick, Sarah S. Russell, Mary Young, Sarah B. Shaw, Harriet Jackson, Helen E. Garrison, Mary F. Rogers, Louisa Loring, Louisa M. Sewall, “Anne Warren Weston, Caroline F. Williams,
Thankfel Southwick, Abby Southwick,
Henrietta Sargent, Mary Willey,
Maria White, Marian Fuller. Support of Age and Lecturers.
Ata meeting of the Be of Managers of the Mas- sachusetts Anti-Slavery ety, held at 25 Cornhill, on Tuesday, 13th June, 1843, the following preamble and resolution were unanimously adopted, and ordered to be published in the Liberator :
Whereas, this Board feel it to be impossible for us to guarantee to lecturers in this Commonwealth, the payment of their salaries,—it seeming best to us to de- vote the funds contributed for the general purposes of the anti-slavery enterprise to the enlightening of those States where the cause has mever been so fully pre- sented; and as many lecturers huve complained that they have not been able to collect enough to discharge even their travelling expenses ; and as we think that, in the present condition of our enterprise, while so many portions of the field are open and waiting for * os, and ready, to a great extent, to support the lectar- ers sent to them, it is hardly worth while to spend time in towns which have not interest enough in our cause even to maintain those who devote their lives to its advocacy ; therefore,
Resolved, That this Board recommend to its agents to make it the condition of their delivering addresses in any town, that a sum sufficient for their renumera- tion and expenses shall be raised for them at the time ; and to deviate from this rule only in pressing cases.
A true copy. Attest.
HENRY W. WILLIAMS, Rec. Sec.
TO THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM IN BRISTOL COUNTY. Dear Frienps:
There are yet three millions of Slaves in this pro- fessedly free republic! What shall their friends in Bristol County do to hasten the day of their enfran- chisement? We invite you, one and al!, to meet with us in convention, on Tuesday, June 20th, at 10 o'clock, A. M. in New-Bedford, that we may take counsel to- gether, adopt measures, and encourage one another in the performance of our whole duty towards our breth- ren in bonds.
Distinguished speakers will be present, and the flutchinson singers have accepted an invitation to aid us on this occasion. Let us have a large and enthu- — gathering. The meetings will continue two
ays.
By order of the New-Bedford Anti-Slavery Society,
GEORGE M. BUNKER, Pres. Wa. C. Corrsx, Sec.
MEETINGS AT NANTUCKET.
Anti-Slavery Meetings will be held at Nantucket, immediately after the Convention in New-Bedford, to commence on the morning of the 23d, at 9 o'clock, for which the necessary arrangements have been made. Speakers a3 well as hearers are invited to attend, and make spirited meetings. Stephen Foster, of New- Hampshire, has engaged to be present.
Nantucket, June 6, 1843.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ESSEX COUN- TY A. 8. SOCIETY.
The annual meeting of the Essex County A. 8S. Society will be holden in East Bradford, commencin on Friday, June 30th, at 10 o’clock, A. M. and wil probably continue two or three days.
Let the sympathy felt by the abolitionists of Essex County, for the pining bondmen of our land, be man- ifested on that occasion by the numerical attendance, the free, harmonious discussion and adoption of such measures as shall directly tend to their emancipation.
MARY P. KENNEY, Rec. Sec.
Salem, May 29, 1843.
CONVENTIONS FOR UNIVERSAL INQUIRY AND REFOM, WILL BE HELD At Randolph, commencing on ——- the 30th inst. and continuing through Saturday and weg: At Brandon on Tuesday, the fourth of July, and
tr Joun A. Corus and Nataasiet H. Waitine of Massachusetis are expected to be in attendance.— They are powerful advocates in the great work of re- form. These meetings will be such as have not been held in Vermont. No ordinary obstacle should be al- lowed by any one to be inthe way of attendance.— The time has come for more thorough agitation. Mind should act more, however, and be acted upon less.— Confidence in man is increasing. Let it continue to increase. Mankind are less afraid of each other. Let the fear decrease. It will be so as knowledge iw dif- fused, Let knowledge diffuse then. Let the people ather themselves together and banish fear. Let mind be assewbled, and emancipate itself from sin and suf- fering. Let the baser part of man now be brought into subjection to the higher and nobler.
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SEVENTEENTH OF JUNE! HUTCHINSON FAMILY
ILL give a GRAND CONCERT on the even- ing of the famous Seventeenth of June, at spacious Tabernacle in Howard-street, on which oc- casion they have been authorised to announce that the President of the United States and his Suite will be present. py M Tickets 50 cents, at the principal Music Stores and Hotels, and at No. 25 Cornhill. To commence at 8 o'clock. See programme for
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For the Liberator. *AROUSE THEE, SOUL!’
There isa voice within my soul, From Pleasure’s luring sofiness calling— ‘ Arouse thee ! shrink not from the strife, Though fearful, dark, appalling :— Hot, fiercely there the war goes on— Wilt thou be still till victory 's wou? Ur, baaer yet, in childish play Pass all the best of life away ? * List to the strain that every breeze O’er hill, and vale, and stream, is bearing ; Stott hearts and brave, earth's chosen ones, A weuty panoply are wearitig: And in the conflict for the right, Arrayed ‘gainst Falaehood’s fearful might, List to their thrilling battle-ery— *Win truth and liberty, or die !’
‘ Hear thou the furious clash of arms— The fiendish shriek of maddened hate!
Nay, sit not down to mourn that man Hath made Love's realm so desolate—
Hearts, that should ever look above
To our Great Sire in trusting love,
And, as true brethren, strive to throw -
Love's blessedness on all below.
Sit not in dust—‘ Arouse thee, sou! !’ Earth is not thine eternal dwelling ; Fear not, for strength will Hea ven give,
Each shadowy, passing fear dispelling. God has all strength—nor wil! there fall One heart that answers to His call ;
‘Tis only he who turns again To earth, that feels earth's galling chain.
Why dwell below? The body there
Must live till bid to turn to dust; The soul, confined to earth, will dio—
Such is its nature that it must. Its earliest home was boundless space — That e’er should be its dwelling-place ; Rise, and though feeble be thy wing, Soon on proud heights thy song thou'lt sing.
And when the echo of thy strain On the free breeze comes gently swelling,
High, grasping thoughts will blend therewith, From angel hearts thy spirit telling
That time is given thee to improve,
That earth is needing all thy love—
Not to a chosen few confined,
But consecrate to all mankind.
Arouse thee! elevate thy powers !
Let high, free thoughts pervade thy spirit !— Toil to bring joy and peace to those
Who chains, and grief, and shame inherit! Thyself forget—seeck truth and love— And in the search thy soul will prove This truth—seek first the things of heaven,
And all else will to nea given. Bath, Maine. ae i. W. HI.
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For the Liberator. WOULD'ST THOU BE HAPPY?
Would’st thou be happy when sunlight streams Joyfully over thy heart's young dreams ?
Lighting thy path with a gladsome ray,
Beaming with promise of perfect day ?
Ere yet a sorrow its shade hath cnet
Over the page of the golden past ;
Ere yet a tone from the realms of death
Blend with the chime of thy song's sweet breath ?
Trust not too fondly to earth's bright flowers ; Hope not too much from its fresh-wreathed bowers; List not too long to the breeze that brings Pleasure’s soft note on its gentle wings.
Deck thy young spirit with that rich love, Streaming so free from its fount above :
Make it a lamp to thy cloudless heart,
Joy shall be with thee, wherever thou art.
Would'st thou be happy when tempests sweep Over life's ocean, #6 dark, so deep ?
Whoti thy rich chaplet hath faded away,
Leaving thee nought save its dull decay ?
When the fond hearts thou hast trusted, grow cold, Hope's budding promise hath ceased to unfold? When the bright stars that have led thee, expire, And vainly thou seckest their lost beacon fire?
Mourn not too long over pleasures dead ;
Grief will not bring to thee joys that have fled: Let the deep sutges sweep over the past,
Still in the future thy hope may be cist.
Press ever on with that love which throws Gladness and sunshine wherever it flows:
Live for the good which thy hand may bear— On in thy duty, forgetting thy care.
Would’st thou be happy when life's last ray Throws its dim glory across thy way ?
When on thy brow the cold dew i shed, Shading its light with the hue of the dead? When thine eye turneth its last fond gaze Back on the friends of thine earlier days? When thy heart's beating is hushed and iow, And chilled is the tide of thy life's warm flow ?
Then, ere the sunshine of hope is past, Ere on thy vision a cloud is cast,
Open thy spirit to that sweet ray,
Sent us to gladden earth's changeful day. Love be the banner that o'er thee streams, Love be the armor that round thee gleams, Love be the watchword that lures thee on, Love the sweet token of victories won.
Then shall thy rest in thy last hours be
Calm as the breast of a summer's smooth sea ;
Memory whisper its low sweet chime,
Soft as some note from Elysian clime ; Hope spread its pinions for that bright shore, Where the wild conflicts of life are o'er;
Peace to thy soul in rich dews be given,
Love bear thee on to thy God, and to Heaven: Waltham. L. B. T.
i? A large edition of the excellent work of Henry
C. Wright, entitled ‘A Kiss for a Blow,’ has been
published in Engiand, for the whole of which a rapid
sale has been found, and another is speedily to be given to the British public. Every family ought to be supplied with a copy of it. The following lines, suggested by a perusal of this little volume, were
Written by the wile of George N. Watson, an Inde-
pendant minister in Ireland,
‘A KISS FOR A BLOW.’
Suggested by reading an excellent little book, bearing
this title.
What makes little children quite happy and good,
And banishes tempers both naughty and rude ?
It is the sweet maxim, we very well know,
Of giving each other * A Kiss fur a Blow.’
Should a quarrel arise, whate'er be the cause, What is better by far than a whole code of laws? It is the sweet practice, we very well know,
Of always returning ‘ A Kies for a Blow.’
In each stago of life, cen from infancy’s years
To manhood’s last siep in the valley of tears,
There's nought which can yield us such pleasure below,
As ever returning * A Kiss for a Blow.’
Though men should condemn us, and call us but fools, Yet sti must we love them, and pray for their souls ; Through the journey of life let us patiently go,
Still ever returning * A Kiss for a Blow.’
Should any assail us in deed or in word,
Oh, then let us act like our meek, patient Lord,
Who, e’en in the depths of the bitterest woe,
Returned in his anguish ‘ A Kiss for a Blow.’ Limerick, Jan. 27, 1843. A. A. W.
For the Liberator. A Voluntary Political Government. Dear Sin: A
Having, by your liberal permission, suid so mach publicly on the above subject, it will be required that I should bring my observations to some practical point, and probably to a conclusion.
Supposing any light to have been thrown on the subject, and a conviction to have been produced that the present forceful order of things is inconsistent with the principles we know and acknowledge to be true, the question will naturally arise, ‘What are we to do?’ As the religious teacher would answer when such a question is put on the deefiest ground, sof re- ply, ‘Do nothing.’ Whenever events tura out unhap- pily, we have to adopt this course. It is the best medicine, whether the mind or the body, the Chureh or the State, be sick. Sometimes there may be sume obnoxious result of human activity in the way, which human activity may remove ; but, generally, human passivity is the preferable principle. In this case, at all events, there can be no, hesitation in presenting the medicine of passivity. ‘Leave it alone,’ is our best treatment. Like all our enemies, State oppres- sion will die of itself, if we meddle not with it. If there be a voter in the land, who knows not how to take care of himself and family, Lam sure the State will not help him in that respect; so that he gains nothing by contact with it. So far as he does know how to exercise such moral provision, let him do it with all diligence, and in that act acquire more abil- ity. Let every one expend his energies within doors, and, by moral means, perfect domestic and family or- der. No argument is required to show that, if this were done in every house, no State legislation, and scarcely any township legislation, would remain to be done. But the remark will be made, that every house and every person is not thus morally regulated ; so that it is absolutely necessary to introduce the in- fluence of force. Does, then, this introduction of force pleasantly and effectually settle the matter? In- deed not; it is just seconding the immoral beginning, and muliiplying it exceedingly. Now,I submit that this is the true way of looking atthe matter. The bad subjéets of the State are amongst our neighbors ; they are very few, one in five hundred, perhaps, orig- inally, whom our injudicious treatment augments four- fold ; whereas, if we met them at once on moral grounds, we should manage ata much smaller cost, with a very much better result. Why should we make this public and congregative noise about such an event as a robbery or a quarrel? If a person should fall into the river, we all run to help him out, and neta man of us but would be glad to lose the whole day in his restoration. We should do so singly with joy, and never think of calling a town meeting to de- bate the subject. Why not, then, when a neighbor has fallen, by bad education, or unhappy organization, into the flood of immorality, should we not willingly and spontaneously make the same sacrifices to help himy out? By so much as the soul is more precious than the body, We should fly to sub:nit stiil greater offerings.
This is the very pith and heart of the subject. If the evil elements in society Were thus encountered at their source, there would be no occupation left for the constable, the jailor, and the executioner. Much cheaper, ton, such a system would be. Men appear to think they are gainers, by making these public offi- cers to do the business which, privately and properly, belongs to themselves. Individually, some of the wealthiest persons may be money gainers by this ar- But, morally and sentimentally, they are great losers, And, taking the whole of society into consideration, the fact becomes very clear, that it is a losing plan. For, besides the cost of managing the original wayward members of society, there is added to it the vast expenditure for the extraneous machine- ry of judges, prisons, chaplains, and the host of en- slaving instruments. And all this, because there are a few bad boys in the town, or a few bad menin the State. If not on this account, why at allis the ma- chinery of State government kept in existence? The god, it is confessed, require nu sich coercive contro}, They, in fact however, erect this machinery; they sustain it; and what they have now to see is, its un- fitness for its purpose ; what they have now to say to each other is,‘ Why, friends and neighbors, should
rangement.
we prolong this incongruous state of things, which we have made? We made it, and we can unmake it. Let us try if we cannot work out something bet-
ter suited to the present condition of mankind?’ When the North American republic was founded, it was an established axiom in the world, the governors and governed were two distinct races amungst nen, one of which was born to submit to the other, just as is now held to be the case as to blacks and whites.— But a successful experiment for above sixty years has demonstrated a different principle, and we have ad- vanced a good way into the truth, that governor and This is proved as far as the Now we have to prove the We have to show,
governed may be one. whole mass is concerne]. same fact in every individual. that one hat can at one moment cover both these characters. Instances nota few can be found amongst our private acquaintance of persons, who withdraw as much as possible from interference in political affairs of any kind. These are, generally, the highest moral beings which society contains: which is, in fact, the reason why they shrink from intermeddling with af fairs of State, necessarily as they are of an immoral tendency. We must do our best to let this sort of mind be multiplied, until it spread all over the land ; and the government of furce be left to die off at leisure, superseded by the government of love and sound sense
Were a true parent unfortunately to have a child of decidedly vicious organization, would he, for the pur- pose of being rid of such a trouble, thrust him forth into the street, to be derided and hooted by other boys—or would he wish to foist bim upon his neigh- bors? Would he not, rather, both in love for his boy
and his country, endeavor to the utmost to reform his |
character and elevate his sentiments? Very much like this is the picture uf society. The criminals are our malorganized brethren, And let it be continually remembered, that it is on account of these, on account of a comparatively few unfortunate near relitions, that we commit such a series of unprincipled, costly, and destructive actiohs. On what poor pretences may a vast superstructure of actuality be erected! Wouldit not be a preferable plan for every town to set its own crimivals to work in the fields, or the shop, before they have grown into desperate characters, instead of
We must begin with confidence in the inherent good- ness in humanity ; and so beginning, we shal! be sus- tained. Love, love only, cap rule men efficiently now. Commanding talents, like commanding force, must be laid at the feet of the benign nature in man. We live fur this, or we five for nothing. At last, we want to come round to this point; and I suppose that all the struggles of the day, multiform as they appear io be, have for their common centre the empire oflove on earth, The debateeble points refer only to the best and shortest way of ensuring the triumph of goodness.
The direct and immediate object in these letters has been of a very humble, and you may say very limited kind. JT have merely sought to show what an obsta- cle to true progress the State now is, and how easily it could be set aside or avoided. Easy as itis, how- ever, it will be needful for some per: ons to experience some inconvenience, or worse, in order to clear the ground of the incumbrance.
As Mr. Alcott’s declining to contribute his poll as- sessment, and consequent imprisonment, originated these letters, I may not inaptly close by reference to further personal matters, related as they are through- out to the common weal,
The assessor of this town (Concord) has recently applied for an inventory of the contents of my pocket and other effects, in order that | may be taxed to pay soldiery, jailors, and other slaves, in whom I have no faith. Ihave, of course, declined any voluntary par- ticipation in the system, and having replied in the spirit of these letters, and referred to them, IT await the consequences.
In the mean time, it is needful to inform you that the season seems to have arrived for laying down the pen, and taking up the hoe. Many of your readers are aware, that my sojourn in this country has had reference, throughout, to a connexion with the land as the outward basis of all holy and wholesome exis- tence ; and in unity with Mr. Bronson Alcott, and other friends, many persons have looked forward to the commencement of a state of things, some steps in advance of the present, though possibly not compre- Sucha commencement appears now to be practicable. An estate of nearly one hundred acres is devoted to this
hending all that is ideally living in the mind.
purpose, if not totally free from all relation to prop- erty, yet approaching as nearly as circumstances will permit. I[t is remotely, though not distantly situated ; and as no house is owned, but one is merely lent for a short time, you will perceive that, for a party whose capital is exhausted in obtaining the freedom of re- storing, subduing, and using a piece of God's earth, there is plenty of work to be done, besides this of writing, which we so long have enjoyed together. The press is undoubtedly a mighty engine for the enlightenment and reformation of men, but yet it is only an instrument; and I think every one feels that there is something to be done greater and mightier than printing or lecturing, in order to man's elevation. ‘he press and platform do but furnish faint echoes of a reality, which must move mankind in a deeper manner than to a change of opinion, or to a scientific knowledge. The heart of man must be touched, and this cannot be by appeals to his head. No intellectual effort can go deep enough now, nor at auy time, in fact, to secure the real wants and pur- poses of humanity. Whether or not that which 1 de- sign todo is that real deed which I have faith it is, time, zeal and perseverance must help to show. In
the mean time, you will oblige me by forwarding your papers and other favors to this place, instead of Concord, as heretofore. And believe me, dear sir, in action as in speech, still one with you in the great enterprise of man’s redemption and conservation to all good. C. L.
Harvard, Mass. June 3, 1843.
MISCELLANY.
From the Putney Perfectionist.
Semi-Infidelity among Reformers.
Our readers have seen some specimens of the reckless ferocity with which O. S. Murray, the edi- tor of the Verinont Telegraph, attacks the founda- tions of the Bible. We regard his paper as the mouth-piece and index of a spirit which has infused itself extensively into the ranks of modern ultraism. This spirit works under the disguise of reform, and with professions of respect for some portions of scripture. ‘Thus covered, infidelity is more captiva- ting and dangerous than when it stands forth in hon- est nakedness. Accordingly it infects not merely open despisers of religion, but some who were not long since sober and devout. Having given some attention to this particular disease, we propose to present our views of its nature, and its rise and pro- gress among modern reformers.
1. The nature of the disease. Infidelity ingeneral, is a state of mind, in which the moral affection, called by phrenologists veneralion, is overborne and neu- tralized by some stronger affection. As ‘the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,’ so casting off the fear of the Lord is the beginning of skeptical folly. Reverence for God is the protecting rampart of the Bible. Whoever fears his Maker will handle carefully the book which professes to be his word, and search diligently, before he rejects it. This reverent cautiousness is al] that the Bible, orits Au- thor demands from those who have not yet ascertain- ed, by rational investigation, its truth. The Bible asks no favors of mere marvellousness, Infidels will be condemned in the day of account, not for refusing to swallow all the absurd marvels which priesteraft offered them, nor even for hesitating to believe all the contents of the Bible: but because they had not humility and reverence enough to suspend judgment until they had giventhe message of God a fair trial ; because they ‘spoke evil of things which they un- cerstood not; because they would not take the troubie to discriminate between a true revelation, and the impostures of fanatics, but condemned the
innocent with the guilty, in lynch-law reckless- |
ness.
Probably in most cases of infidelity, veneration is overborne by self-esteem in combination with causal- ity and combativeness. Men are too proud and con- fident in the sufficiency of their reason, to give the Bible a reverent examination. But in the particular
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form of the disease of which we are treating, there is reason to believe that benevolence, in many cases, is the usurping affection which prostrates veneration. The enthusiasm of reform which has burst forth within a few years, has made many exceedingly fierce for doing good. Their zeal has been too fer- vent to wait on the slow movements, by which God and the Bible are working out redemption for man. They have devised more summary processes ; and then, by little and little; casting off conservative rev- erence, they have learned at last, to trample on the Bible boldly, whenever they conceive that it crosses the path of their favorite enterprises for human im- provement.
Persons who have been beguiled into this course, may flatter themselves that a sentiment so lovely
passing them through State trials and State prisons? | and virtuous as benevolence, cannot lead to any
would be some lithe amendment of our present system any amount of good which they can do without the
if it is yet premature to expect every separate family
to ensure the moral conduct of its own members, it}
great mischief; that the fervor of their philanthropy will excuse them for stifling veneration, and thrust- ing aside the word of God. But we are sure that
to let each group of families take upon iiself its own! Bijyje, will be accounted in the day of judgment, as
responsibilities. having, by the absence of State no other resource than its own moral influence against any immoral influence there might be, we should, 1 believe, have, in respect to all the grosser crimes, a power of two hundred or three hundred to one individual, All the crimes which the present rough unparental state of society can take cognizance of, do not amount to so much as that. Then, at the same time, these refined offences, the quiet frauds and deceptions which a brute law cannot touch, would be more directly reached than they are now, because such a moral preventive court of justice, barely recog- nized at present, would exist in full force and vigor.
Thought, kindly, loveful thought, Iam sure, will soun engender an improved state of things. As to any hope for human advancement, based on the present order of brute force, it is quite absurd. It has been tried in every conceivable shape, and has failed, and it must fail. The representative system altogether is worn out. Cunning as well as force is insufficient now tohelp humanity one step forward. It is the
interference,
third principle alone in which rational hope abides. —
If each township in Massachusetts | but dust in the balance, against the mischief effected
by discrediting God’s main instrument of redemption. We are sure that nothing can excuse ignorance or forgetfulness of the truth, that the fear of the Lord is a higher duty than philanthropy ; that the rights of God are immeasurably superior to ‘human rights.’ Incontinent, misdirected benevolence is not less, per- haps more--destructive in its ultimate effects, than any lust of human nature. And it must be consid- ered, that the evil of any usurpation is incurable in proportion to the apparent virtue, and consequent popularity of the usurper.
Let political and religions Jacobins rail at the abuses of subordination, with which this priest and king-ridden world abounds, as they may; they can never erase the inscription which the finger of God has written on the scroll of nature, as well as reve- lation; assigning the throne of all human affections to veneration. The organ of that sentiment is liter- ally ‘the crown of the head’—the top-stone of the cerebral temple—the center, around which all the other moral affections cluster as constituents. Ac- cordingly, reverence for pre is the beauty of childhood ; and the fear of the Lord is the glory ot! manhood. The dethronement of veneration, there- fore, can never be a trival disorder, even though be-
nevolence heads the insurrection.
2. The rise and Pn ater of semi-infideltt modern reformers. renologists say, (we think, reason,) that the atmosphere of the republican prin- ciples and leveling tendencies of this country is un-
favorable to the due development of veneration. A}
ple whose political and social institutions con- stantly teach them that independence is their chief glory, and that subordination is disgrace, will na- turally bave but a stinted growth of reverence to- wards man; and it would be strange if the deficien- cy did not extend, in sorffe degree, to the kindred and almost identical sentiment of reverence toward God. Mere democrats certainly can have but little sympathy with the principles of that kingdom de- scribed and predicted by the Bible, in which one man (viz. Jesus Christ) is appointed, not by the peo- ple, but by God, the absolute mouarch of all; and claims as his first tribute from all his subjects, un- conditional loyalty and subordination.
The divisions of Protestant Christendom have gen- erated another influence, tending especially to weak- en reverence for the Bible. As sect after sect has arisen, conflicting commentaries have been multi- plied, until men have accustomed themselves to re- gard the Bible, not as an authoritative judge of con- troversy, butasa pliable witness that may be brought by a skillful lawyer to favor any side of any question. Such a witness cannot be held in much respect.
Such were the predisposing influences in opera- tion, when the enthusiasm of reform, which has characterized the last fifteen years, commenced its career. Inthe temperance cause, benevolence first essayed the usurping process, by which veneration has since been subverted. In hurrying on the tri- umphs of total abstinence, it was found necessary to remove certain obstructions placed inthe way by the Bible. These obstructions might have been re- moved without injury to the Bible, if the leaders in the cause had chosen to defend total abstinence as an expedient, not of intrinsic and permanent obliga- tion, but adapted to the exigency of the times, and adopted on the principle which justifies fasting, and which Paul sanctioned when he said, ‘If meat make my brother to offend, I will not eat meat while the world standeth.’ But to press the Bible into the ser- vice of total abstinence, by denying that the writers of the Old and New Testaments, with Jesus Christ at their hedd, conntenanced the drinking of wine; or by asserting that Bible wines were not intoxicating, is a violence which no man, under the influence of due respect for the Bible, would undertake. language of such an attempt is, ‘The Bible is too sacred to be contradicted; but we will evade its force by dexterous commentary.’ Yet this attempt was made; and that too, by such menas Stuart, Beecher, and Hewitt. The ‘mighty men’ of the popular churcnes planted the noxious germ, which, in such cases a3 that of Murray,has at last ‘gone to seed,’
Next came anti-slavery. The nature of this en- terprise, harmonizing and co-operating with the lib- erty-spirit of our political institutions, inevitably in- creased the almospheric predisposition to merge ven- eration in benevolence. It was soon found in this as in the temperance cause, that the Bible stood in the way of the extreme ultraisins suggested by en- thusiastic zeal. The doctrine that slaveholding is necessarily sinful; and that inimediate aboulition is, in all cases, a matter of religious obligation, could not be maintained without forcing a new construc- tion on many things in the writings of Moses and Paul. ‘Theodore D. Weld had learned in the tem- perance service the importance of wresting the Bible out of the hands of the adversaries of reform. With lawyer-like shrewdness, in his ‘ Bible Argument’ against slavery, he cross-questioned the opposing witness, ti!l he apparently made that witness his own, As it was the favorite position of temperance men, that Bible-wines were not intoxicating, so Weld boldly averred and plausibly proved that Bible- slavery was not slavery. The argument was as good in one case as in the other;—and no better. Thus the Bible was the second time placed on the rack of reform, and benevolence prevailed over venera- tion.
*Woman’s Rights’ was the next topic of agita- tion. In both the previous cases, the language of the Bible adverse to the views of the reformers, had been so far dubious, as to admit of favorable con- struction ; and veneration had not yet been so pros- trated, as to permit a direct attack. The collision was oblique ; and the Bible, though dishonored, was not mutilated. But now the time had come for open hostilities. Many influences conspired to bring on this issue. A new baptism of the spirit of irrev- erence had come upon the reformers, by the acces- sion to their ranks of those perfectionists, who had learned from T’. R. Gates to blaspheme Paul. The Quaker, Unitarian, Universalist and Transcendental elements in the Spiritual compound engaged in the reforming enterprises, had begun to prevail against the more conservative influences of Orthodoxy: and the ‘Evangelicals’ were preparing to withdraw.— Above all, it was manifest, that the theory of ‘ Wo- man’s Rights,” which affirmed the entire equality of the sexes, and repudiated all subordination of woman to man, was in point blank antagonism to the testi- mony of Paul. There was no possibility of compro- mise or evasion. In this crisis, the Misses Grimke, who led the van of the *Woman’s Rights’ reform, declared independence of the authority of Paul.— Thus a third public injury was inflicted on the Bible by the spirit of reform. And it is worthy of notice that as Theodore D, Weld was accessory to the first, and the principal actor in the second; so he made himself accessory to the third, by publicly connect- ing himself—and that, too, in avowed allegiance to the theory of the equality of the sexes-—with Ange- lina Grimke.
Finally, non-resistance became the prominent sub- ject of benevolent enthusiasm. And once more the Bible stood in the way. The wars of Moses, and much of the morality of the Old Testament, seemed hideously repugnant to the ultra peace-principies.— Some were prudent and patient enough to forbear
railing, and seek a reconciliation of the morality of |
the Old Testament with that of the New. But others had chafed against the Bible inthe previous reforms, till they were irritated, and veneration gave place to combativeness. When the angel of the Lord with a drawn sword had confronted Balaam three times, and his ass had crushed his foot against the wall, the prophet’s anger was kindled. Moses was the object of hostility in this reform, as Paul had been in its predecessor. Thus the bulwarks of the Old and New Testaments were assailed.
The last of the series of Radical Conventions which were held in Boston in 1841-2, gave utterance to the growing spirit of infidelity. ‘The attempt was made to place the Bible in the same category with the Sabbath, church and ministry ; and althonghfthe movement was apparently a failure, many were em- boldened in their irreverence. Since then, a consid- erable class—of which Murray is the representative —have gradually receded from their allegiance to the Bible, until they now lack little or nothing of the ordinary characteristics of downright infidelity, except the honesty to hoist the standard and assume the name.
We believe tnis is a true account of the disorder now prevailing among ultraists ; and we present it with uncererronious and perhaps offensive plainness, not because we are opposed tv the objects of the several reforms concerned—for all our predilections are in their favor—nor because we bear any malice against such men as T. D. Weld—for we have long been accustomed to regard him with respect, and even affection, though we have never seen his face but because we reverence God more than all ultra. isms and ultraists put together, and are determined at all hazards, so far as in us lies, to expose the machinations of the devil against the Bible.
From the Boston Atlas.
Tue Appress or Hon. Jonn Quincy Apams on Monday, before the members of the Massachusetts Historical Society, on the occasion of the Second Centennial Celebration of the Confederation of the New-England Colonies, was one of his happiest ef. forts. It occupied a little less than two hours in its delivery, and was listened to with profound atten- tion and intense gratification, by a numerous and in- telligent audience. fle gave an interesting sketch of the history of this Confederation, its object, pur- pose, origin and end, together with much that rela- ted to the early history of the Pilgrim Fathers,
_ He spoke at some length of the wrongs and inju- ries which the Indians had received at the hands of the whites, but he made honorable exception in this of our New-England fathers, who in no case were the aggressors, but obtained possession by fair pur- chase. But if there is on earth such a thing as retri- bution upon a community for its transgressions, a fearful retribution awaited us, for the wrongs that — now were being enacted against the Indian
ribes.
Mr. Adams has not, fora long time, s i better health, or in fuller first. Fs of all sparen ties of mind and body, than he did yesterday. Long may his fellow-citizens have him among them ad teach them by the wisdom of his counsels, and to
TB ™_m s . on Society.—The _politi- very enterprise, held its e Tremont Chnpe! at 10 day, Dr. Caleb Swan, of the Society, in the chair.— @ uninteresting, and the atten- rkably small, but twenty-three persons being present at IL o'clock, The treasurer’s report was read by the recording secretary, J. W. Alden. From this document we learn that the total receipts of the society during the year that has just closed were $11,928, 35; its expenditures, $11,990 84,— More than half the receipts and expenditures were on account of the Emancipator newspaper. This paper, we are told, has 4,200 subscribers, and last year its expenses exceeded its income to the amount of 22.345. The total expenditures of the society, since its formation, have exceeded its receipts $9,148 55, and it has now a debt to that amoust.— Boston Post.
A Beautiful Present.—Dr. Hitchcock, surgeon den- tist in this city, (says the Mercantile Journal,) has re- certly manufactured several beautiful articles, which are intended as presents to lis Imperial Majesty, ‘the Emperor of all the Russias.’ :
As specimens of rare and beautiful workmanship they cannot probably be excelled. They consist of a pure set of mineral teeth, wiih spiral springs of pure gold—-perfect in all respects, and three duguerreoty pe miniature likenesses, viz: of tie Emperor aforesaid, the Empress, and their son, the Grand Duke Alex- ander. ‘The latter are ‘copies,’ so to speak, in’ min- iature, from three magnificent paintings which adorn the studio of Dr. H.
All these several items are enclosed in a rich ebony box, inlaid with ivory, and surmounted by a beautiful silver plate, whereon is inscribed the Ewperor's ad- dress, &e.
Gone over the Falls.—On Friday, a man went over the cataract on the Canadian side of the Niagara. He was driving a pair of horses, afd had backed into the river to get aload of sand somewhere nearly opposite Navy Island, when the current bore off the wagon and horses bevond the control of the driver, towards the rapids. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says,
la person who witnessed their perilous situation,
made off in a canoe to intercept them, but getting alarmed for his own safety, had to change bis course
and return again. | self from the wagon, and swam in safety to the
° . . ' The! shore, while his mate and the driver were seen to)
| pitch from one sheet to the other, until they both plunged into the abyss below.
Com. Moore Officially Denounced.-—New Orleans papers of 19th ult. bring Pres. Houston's proclama- tion denouncing Com. M. and suspending him from all command in the Texan navy! His present opera- tions against Mexico are declared to be unauthorized. The proclamation further requests ‘all the govern- ments in treaty or on terms of amity with this govern- ment, and all naval officers on the high seas, or in ports foreign to this country, to seize the said Post Captain, E. W. Moore, the ship Austin and brig Wharton, with their crews, and bring them, or any of them, into the port of Galveston, that the vessels may be secured to the Republic, and the culprit or
legal tribunal.’
New and Splendid Steamer Massachusetts.
the expectations of her proprietors.
plished. wing, without jar or noise.—N. ¥. Com. Ade.
Heavy Loss.—A few days since, a gentleman on
$100 notes. All efforts to recover it were fruitless.
Health of Yucatan —The Government
at the age of one hundred and serenteen! Until
up to bis last moments.
says:
} our town on last sale day.
full penalty of the iaw was paid,’
within a few rods from the place of starting.
She is said to be a living skeleton.
at the last term of Wake Superior Court, were execu- ted in this city on Friday Jast. Although the day was
to witness the scene —Raleigh Register
We learn from the Pawtucket Chronicle that a wo-
of persons, and rode on a rail. The woman, after es- commit suicide by throwing herself into a ditch, but was taken from the water before she had accomplished her purpase,
is expected shortly to arrive at Paris. [tis contident- ly stated that the greater part of his fertuiie ts placed in the Frenelh funds. An apartment bas been taken ceive him.
The agitation of the Repeaters in Ireland is beeom- ing very alurming to the British government. was held on Sunday. tis stated that abeut 70,000 or 380,000 men were present. near to prevent any pessible breach of the peare—none, however, occurred. Mr. O'Connell addiessed the im- mense assemblage at some length.
The presents which have been sent to Queen Vic- toria from the Emperor of China, consist of gold bed- steads, and a great quantity of siik, of a sort which has never yet been seen in Europe. There were likewise two ear-drops, worth a thousand pounds each; and a shawl, werked in needle work, with every kind of beast on it known to the Chinese; besides 14 large cases, each weighing 14 cwt. and a small box of jew- ellery.
There was a serious fire in Liverpool on the after- noon of the 4th, in one of the ten warchouses of the late Duke of Bridgewater, near the King’s docks, which extended to the three adjoining warehouses, all of which were seriously injured. ‘The damage was estimated to be equal to £20,000. Thete was another fire of an alarming description in Liverpool, on the afternoon of the 19th, in Jackson's Lane, Union-street, which was still raging when the Iitest paper received went to press,
The Gazette de France contains the details of a frightful accident to 50 workmen employed on the for- lifications of Mount Vealerien, who had been buried by the falling in of a large bank of earth. None of the sufferers hid been take out alive.
The opening of the rail-road from Paris to Rouen was celebrated with great parade on the 3d of May.— The length of this railway is about ninety miles. It has four bridges over the Seine, of thirty arches in all, and nearly four miles in tunnelling.
Axueirrs. The French have achieved another vic- tory in Algiers. Afier much marching and counter marching, and the loss of upwards of thirty men, they have succeeded in taking the city of Tenoz.
The Indian mail of the Ist of April, brings a con- firmation of the brilliant success of Sir Chas Napier in Scinde, in the capital of which, treasures and jew- els to an umount considerably exceeding one million, had been discovered,
A magnificent comet was seen throughout India from the beginning cf Mareh, and engaged the atten- tion of all the astronomers, one of whom actually de- clared it had become a satellite of the earth—a propo- sition which set thousands a laughing.
Mr. Brunel, whose life was endangered by the drop- ping of a piece of evin into the wind-pipe, afier several attempts to remove it by Sir Benjamin Brodie, was finally relieved on the 13th of May.
Sir Robert Peel was born in 1788, Lord Jolin Rossel] 1792, Lord Stanley 1800, the Duke of Wellington 1769, and