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FAYETTE.VII.LE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1840.
PIANO FORTES.
"TOW openinsr, and for SALE, at the Female
j Seminar!.
One Extra, Grand Action Tiano Forte, elegant
Crotch Mahoonj, Gothic Architecture, with every
modern Improvement, manufactured by Wake and
Glenn, - " " - " " 17
One ditto, Rose Wood, 6 Octaves, by Wake and
Gknn, - g335
Oneditto, Mahog-ony, by Woke G!enn, S3 10
One ditto, by Geib and Walk r, - S3.f)
One ditto, Common Action, by Dubois, Bacon &
Chambers, - - "- " " S200
Thee Piano Fortes hnve been sclcctfd carefully,
bv the best maPter3 in New Yo.k, and will be held
at a liberal discount from the rer u!ar prices, and a
credit oa i'ood paper, to suit the times .
A L S O
Srveral TIAXO FO RTF.?, which have been in
cso in the Sominarv, a.c c!T;re 1 at gr. at bci-gains.
R.W. EAILEY.
Faycttcville, June 13, 1S10. 63-tf.
Favettcvillc
FE3IALE SE3IINARY.
AVIXG din lined Al t' cr supervision cf the
FEMALE SEMINAR. , it is but ju.t that
I should express to its former patron" and ftievl
my co'sndeiic, t!at in ttt" bands cf Mr. Spencer, it
wi'I be conducted with ability and fti;hrulnes, on
tlie jjen'Tal plan heretofore pursued. Mr. Spencer
as a teachcr, is laborious, accurate and nor('Y ri:;.
R. W. BAILEY. "
THE Si;bi riber will open the Seminrir3- rn the
Iot i ot October next, and hopes by jrivir
his ent re and exclusive atfcnlion to the business
a if!, d in each department by competent, efrioicrt
FEMALE TEACHERS to merit the patronne
heretofore bestowed. In rernrd to the plan he in
tends to pursue. h has onlv to say, at present, that
he is DETERMINED to five a course of ins!n:c
lionin each department as THOtlOTJH as p ossible.
The Academic year will be thesamc as before; com
rrioncin on the 1 5th October, and closing on the
lot'i Jul v, and divided into two sessions. Pupils
cliarsed frntn time of entrance to close of session,
End no deduction made for absence, except in ca.-es
ofsickniss.
TL'R.fTS in Advance.
Elementary Dc;)arl!uent, or Se
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First Class,
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Drawing and Pintin,
Music on lh Piano Fo;te ac
coinpatiif.! by the Voice,
Muic cm Guilar,
Use of Piano,
Intidental?,
August I, 1840.
S3 00 per session
16 01
10 (iO "
10 00 "
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NOTICE,
LAND FOR SALE.
THE Sn1iscril-er wishing to move to the West,
wiil otTsr at pub'ic g ;ie, on the 27lh of this
month, my plantation, wi;h all tho adjoinirg-tract
of land, belongire thcr to, on both sid' s of the
Turnpike and Chicken Roads, SEVEN MILES
West of Faycttcville, and runs across Beaver Creek
on the East s:de, with an excellent MILL SITE
tliereon. The above lands a r as vv U limbered as
any lands within the same distance of Faycttcville,
w:th pins and oak.
ALSO
AT ih same time and place, I will offer my etock
A Caul", Hogs and Sheep, toscther with Household
ami Kitchen Furniture, Farming Utensils, &c.
Hie lands will be sold to suit purchasers, in sepa
rate tracts if requested the terms will be. made
easy, and know n on the day of sale.
DUNCAN BTJIE.
Fayctteville, Aug. 8, 1340. 76-3t
H. ERAMBERT,
'Political.
FACTS FOR THE SOUTH.
Washington, July 15, 1840.
To the ttoiv an Republican Central Committee:
Gentlemen: I received your communica
tion several days ago. You state that the
subject of Abolitionism is beginning to excite
deep attention among the people of our part
of the Country, rind you desire me to send
you such information as I may possess, to
show the designs and progress of the Abo
litionists; also to explain therclation in icitich
General Harrison stands to lliat parly.
In compliance with your request, I will
most willingly furnish you with such fads as
I have, and only regret that I have not more
leisure just now to devote to tho subject.
You may rest assured that it is one of the
most important subjects tluat can now occupy
the attention of the Southern people it is
one that concerns every individual among
us.
Many cf you will be astonished when I
tell you that tho schemes of the Abolitionists
aim directly at the overthrow of the political,
social, and religious Institutions of the Coun
try. I will make this appear from their own
dpclaralions, and official records.
The Abolitionists are in fact an Anti
Union party; and unless arrested in their
rapid onward march, they will break up this
TT f . . -.
union in a very tew years. nelher sla
very in itself is right or wrong, is a question
with which at this time we have nothing to
do; such as it is, it exists among us without
any agency of ours. It is deeply interwoven
in ail our relations, social and political; and
it is a pait and parcel of tho Constitution of
all the Southern States, and is recouized
and sanctioned by the Constitution of the
Uuited States; it cannot be abolished without
destroying the Union, and bringing upon the
country civil, servile wars, and scenes of
bloodshed and desolation, too shocking to be
described. Notwithstanding these inevitable
consequences must result from their schemes
should they prove successful, the Abolition
ists are pressing forward, and boldly proclaim
their designs to be the immediate abolition of
Slavery throughout the United States, and to
place the slaves on an equal footing in all
respects with the white; not only to give
them equal political power, but to mix up the
two races by intermarriage and amalgama
tion. At the first view of the subject, some
of you may suppose that the People of the
South have nothing seriously to apprehend
from these fanatics, inasmuch as thev live in
other States many of them remote from us;
and that they dare not come among us to
perpetrate their designs. You vill, however,
soon see otherwise, and discover that there is
"method in their madness." Their plan is,
to control the elections at the North obtain
a majority in Congress, and get possession
of the Government. When they succeed in
this, they have already proclaimed what their
next step will be. They acknowledge no
constitutional or legal restraints, and openly
declare that the ownership of the slaves is not
in the South, but in the North or, in other
word:?, they insist that our slaves belong to
them.
The following extract from one of their
leading papers, the "Herald of Freedom," will
show their audacity and designs on this
point:
"We have nothing to say to the South.
The real holder of the slave is not there. He
is in the North the free North, the anti
slavery North! The South have not the pow
er to hold the slave. It is the character of
the nation that binds and holds him down in
bondage. If nothing but the puny force of
the South lay upon him, he would heave it off
from his breast with swift and blooay insur
rection. It is not the driver's whip that rules
the hundred sturdy and sullen slaves of the
cotton field, and humbles them to his single
control. It is not the master, at whose beck
that whip is wielded, for that is feeble, enerva
ted and impotent. It is net the indolent
and vicious population of the South who claim
to own these people, that has strength and
power to keep them in their chains. But it
is the whole country, to It is the republic, at
whose behest the enchained millions of the
land lie fettered. And the efficient force of
that republic is north of slavery's. Dixon line,
"the
Con-
TAIL.OR,
1 cspecifully informs his frieno. and the public
s Piljernllv t!i:t he ha rp-enrnmencrd the Tai-
Win Business in the house next door to John
Htiske & Son, on Green Street 6 doors above the
Market House, where he will thankfully receive all
W'lcrs in his line for cash only, finding tho credit
'jstcm a bad one. All orders from the country for
work must in all cases have the cash enclosed, other
wise they will not be attended to. He bows leave
to assure those who may favor him with their orders,
'nat no pains shall be spared on his part to give
general satisfaction.
HE HAS ON HAND
n assortment of Shirts, Bosoms, Collars, Stocks,
suspenders, and Drawers, ot the best quality.
WANTED.
Three or four Journeymen Tailors, none need
annlv l . . t 1 1 .1 r . 1 1 . 1. : .
1 1 j " 11 - w Hivi workmen, iiju 01 steady uauna.
ALSO, Two Boys wanted to the above trade.
B. Extra cutting done at the shortest notice,
tayettcville, April 1S10. Cl-3m.
Slavery is, then, a northern institution, and
not a southern."
A leading Abolitionist, in the "Philanthro
pist" of March 31, 1810, in urging political
action, says:
"Such a movement-on our part would send
fifty or one hundred tnen into the following
Congress, such as Alvan Stewart, Thomas
Morris, Joshua Leavitt, James G. Birney,
John G. Whittier, Henry B. Stanton, T. D.
Weld, Judge Jay, Myron Holly, Ellis Gray
Loring, and a host of other able men who
might then say as Brougham did of the Peer
age, "we did not seek the honor, the honor
sought ih!" And such will be the fact, as
soon as Abolitionists can be brought to act
together politically.
"YYe are asked, do we really intend to
procure a vote of Congress to abolish slavery
regardless ot me onstiiuiioni
"We answer, that will not be necessary;
for whenever we can succeed in pouring into
Congress a ma jority of the Tight sort ot men,
such as would not be afraid to meet tho ques
tion there, and to do their duty whenever the
subject came up, the Southern States would
anticipate that movement and abolish slavery
themselves, like some of the British Islands,
when they saw that slavery, must die, cut it off
two years before its time:
"The "Northern man with Southern prin
ciples," a majority in the South itself, would
rejoice to see that day: they ore much more
ready for the immediate and unconditional
abolition of slavery than some "dough faces"
at the North. The child is now living who
will hear the South declare in favor of the
abolition of slavery, and of a protective
tariff. -
"In our turn may we ask, who says
Constitution (of the U. S.) prohibits
gress from abolishing slavery?" our
does not say so!
"It was expected or intended, that
gress should, in that way, ABOLISH SLA-
VLlii, and they are not prohibited in the
Constitution from abolishing it in any other
proper way: nay, if the individual States do
not do it, the time will come when Congress
must do it; the very existence of the Nation
the tree States, and even of the Southern
States themselves will depend upon it.
'liy the "Constitution" it would appear
that more than one half, if not all the slaves
are already free it is very doubtful whether
there is a Constitutional slave in the U. S.
Certainly all who are of white paternity (in
the most remote degree) are free! if the "words
of that instrument mean any thini?.
"Let not abolitionists join in the disgrace
ful acknowledgement that our Constitution
not only sanctions and perpetuates slavery,
but forbids its abolition! an opinion which
s a libel on the tramers of that instrument,
and discreditable to us as a free people."
r rom the Constitution of the "American,
anl Foreign Anti-Slavery Society ," article
3: Resolved, "That slave-holding, and
lave-trading are heinous sins in the sight of
God, and violations of the rights of man, and
ought to be immediately abandoned."
Resolution ' adopted by the ew Jersey
nti-Slaverv society held in the Session
Court Room at Trenton, 1st January, 1S40:
" ucsolved, That ail persons present who
are in favor of the immediate emancipation of
slaves, be invited to enroll their names, and
take part in the proceedings of this meeting."
Resolution, adopted at the sixth annual
meeting of the Yermout Anti-Slavery Society,
held in Jan. IS 10:
"Resolved, That if the abolition of slavery
a the District of Columbia be, as has been
represented, "tne entering wedge" tor tne
subversion of the whole edifice, then every
friend of liberty ought to give it a blow that it
may be driven home as soon as possible."
"Resolved, That the question ot slavery
and emancipation is paramount in importance
to all the questions that divide and occupy
the contending political parties of the day."
At an abolition meeting held in A.enia,
(Ohio,) in tho Court House, the following
Resolution was offered, and adopted:
"Resolved, That the Government of the L.
States is the most tyrannical and despotic
Government in the world."
Resolutions adopted by the Barnstable Abo
lition Society, January 1st, 1840.-
1 . "Resolved, 1 hat, by tne terms ot our
union, we agree to unite with all persons who
hold to the sinfulness of slavery and the duty
of immediate emancipation, and therefore, in
the capacity of an Anti-Slavery Society, we
sotv no distinction of party, scet, clime or
color, but will give the right hand of Anti-
Slavery fellowship to every human being who
will come upon thi.3 platform, to labor in the
cause of suffering humanity.
4. '-Resolved, That while this Society is
unwilling to trample upon the consciences
of its members by declaring it to be the im
perative duty of every abolitionist, in whom
the State vests the right, to vote at the polls,
vet it is free to declare that the Anti-Slavery
' - - f i . j ...:.u .1
cause is moissoiUDiy connected wmi uiu
politics of the country, that political action
has always been contemplated for the over
throw of slavery; and that the success of
our cause depends upon the fidelity with wnicn
the Anti-Slavery electors bestow their suf
frages, independent of party lines and bad
ges."
From the Emancipator of the 12th Feb. 1S40.
"As to the quarrel about women's rights,
the ultra peace question, &c, it would not
amount to much, so long as we are all right
upon the main question of IMMLDIAlb
ABOLITION. But this gradual ignis
fatuus, that, "leads to bewilder, and dazzles
to blind." Those who depend on "moral
suasion" to abolish slavery, need neer say
any thing about the gradualism of David
Paul Brown, or of the old Pennsylvania Abo
lition Society. I am in favor of cutting the
mn knot nf slavery bv a bold stroke of
.. J
political action."
. r- .i i it.:
Among tho proceedings oi me jiuouuuu
Convention held in N. York, in May last,
will be found the following Resolution:
"VV. L.. Garrison from the business com
mittee, reported a Resolution, declaring that
as Abolitionists we are bound to carry out
our principles no matter at what expense to
our sect, or party, to the Constitution or to
the Union." -
THE ABOLITIONISTS AGAINST the
CHURCH AND AGAINST RELIGION.
The Abolitionists are also waging war a-
gainst the various sects of Christians, with, a
determination to force them into their ranks
or to break down their churches.
The following extracts will show their ac
tion against the Church, and against Religion.
Preamble and Resolutions adopted at the
annual meeting of tho "American Anti-Slavery
Society," held in New York on tho 15th
rxF iVf nv last :
(ilVhprpas. IriA Americnri Church, with the
exception of some of its smaller branches,
has given its undisguised sanction and sup-
VOL- 2 XO. 25. Whole Number 78.
port to the system of American Slavery in the
following amoug other ways, viz:
"1. By profound silence on the sin . of
slaveholding.
breeding,
slave
ministers
"2. By tolerating .slave
trading, and slave holding in its
and members.
"3. By receiving the avails of the traffic in
"slaves and the souls of men" into the trea
suries of its different benevolent institutions;
and
"4. By its indiffereuce and opposition to
the anti-slavery enterprise: Therefore,
"Resolved, That that Church ought not to
be regarded and treated as the Church of
Christ, but as the foe of freedom, humanity
and pure religion, so long as it occupies its
present position.
"Resolved, That we cannot recognize or
sustain any oue as a true Christian minister,
who is a slaveholder, a defender of slavery,
or who refuses to testify against it."
The Anti-Slavery Society of Eastern Penn
sylvania, held in Philadelphia on the Sth May,
1840, adopted a Resolution, declaring:
"That it is the duty of Abolitionists to re
ceive no man as a true Christian .Minister,
who is a slave holder, who upholds or de
fends slavery, or who refuses to bear his testi
mony against it."
The New England Abolition Convention
held May 26, 1S40, adopted the following
Resolutions:
"Resolved, That slaveholding is, in all
cases sinful; and that no man who claims the
right of property in his fellow-man, or who re
fuses to proclaim the truth of (Jod agaiust
slaveholding, should be recoguized as a true
Christian minister."
i'Resolved, That the professed Christian
church and ministry at the North, by the
course which they have taken upon the sub
ject of slavery, have made themselves the
mam pillars ot that hatelul system ot oppres
sion; and wc believe no abolitionist can con
sistently support those ministers, or chinches,
who continue to give the right hand of chris
tian fellowship to those who hold God's image
as articles of merchandize: or neglect to raise
their voices in condemnation of this atrocious
crime; or use their influence to obstruct the
free action of their members in their efforts
to advance our righteous cause."
Resolutions adopted by the Worcester Abo
lition Society, April SCth, 1S40.
Resolved, That the guilt of Slaveholding
in this age and country far surpasses the guilt
of slaveholding in any other age and couu-
try. ;
Whereas, those who claim to be abolition
ists, and yet sustain au anti-abolition church
or clergy, do not act up to their professions,
and are sustaining slavery in the most effec
tual way possible; therefore:
Resolved, that we will give no countenance
whatever to such a church or clergy, and we
earnestly entreat all others to pursue the same
consistent course.
At the last annual meeting of the Yermont
Anti-Slavery Society, the following Resolu
tion was adopted:
"Resolved, lhat those ministers who, with
all the light they now enjoy in regard to the
sinfulness of the slaveholder, and the surier-
ng of the slave, oppose the cause of emanci-
pation, or remain silent on the sunject, are
unworthy ot support or ot conhaence as reli
gious guides and teachers."
An Editor of the North, commenting on
this Resolution, says :
"The fact is, this vote, and all similar
vote3 are designed as a rod held m terror
over the heads of the clergy to compel them
to espouse the cause of the Abolitionists."
The foregoing extracts are quite mild, com
pared to others that I could lay before you
the fact is, these designing fanatics actually
deny that there is any true religion in the
South; they say it is all hypocrisy.
The followiug Extract is from the Philan
thropist of thelOth March, 1840. The writer
is discussing the suoject ot revivals oj relig
ion in the South, he says :
2. "Religious excitement at the South
oudit not to be published as evidence of the
progress of Religious Revivals; because there
is nothing that hinders tne progress oi nrisi s
kiuo-dom at the South so much as the prevail
ing religion. At present it performs the of
fice of a shield to slavery. It goes the whole
in defence of the "peculiar institution," one
of vhose 'peculiarities'' is to exclude the am-
K:isadors of heaven from three millions of
souls, to whom they are commanded to pro
claim the duty, and terms oi reconciliation
Whenever therefore we hear of the revival ot
enrh a religion, it ought indeed to excite a
Heen groan from all, who "remember those in
bonds as bound with them." The revivals
that occur at the South, should be regarded,
with but little abatement, as evidence of tho
rowing strength of slavery, and the increas
ing nower of the kingdom ot darkness
"4. Another reason is, that the word revi
val is understood to mean something that is
k work of the holu snirit. Now it must be
luv y . . . . -
obvious that to attribute any thing to the spirit,
,hich is not attended by tne iruus ot me spir
u ; to sav ihe least of it gratuitous. But
when it is attended by all the bitter and per-;.-ious
fruits of slavery, it becomes slander
ous in the extreme to attribute any such thing
to the holy spirit. The Bible says, Hhejruit
of the spirit is in all goodness and righteous
ness and truth." But the revivals that are
said to exist in Charleston, and elsewhere in
.k slavfi resion are not attended by such
..:. Therefore thev are not the work of
thn SDiritt and to ascribe them to the spirit is
to speak evil bt the oiy vmoEi, i. e. oiaxpnv
my
Extract from the Letter o f a leadinsr Jfb
olitionist, published in the .-.Philanthropist
.May 26th, IS 10. .
"And all liars shall hare their portion in the
lake which . burnetii with fire and brim
stone, Prov. 21 8. . -"Of
all liars that I have ever met with or
heard" of, there are none to compare with pro
slavery christian professors; and the reason
is perfectly obvious. A pro-slavery christian
being a contradiction in terms, all professors
who are pro slavery, must of necessity be hyp
ocrites, having no argument founded in truth
whereby to sustain iheir cause, are compelled
to depeird solely on lying for even a shadow
of plausibility for the inimical position which
they occupy; and inasmuch, as even with ly
ing they cannot maintaiu their cause their
only hope centres in so slandering the advo
cates of the Cause of universal freedom, ncd
universal righteousness, as to destroy their in
fluence." From f lie .Morning Sfar, Feb. 4.
HATRED of ROBBERY for OFFERING.
"God declares his hatred against robbery
for offering, and prohibits the price of things
abominable, and the wages of iniquity, from
his treasury. On this principle, the execu
tive Board of our Foreign Mission Society
voted at their meeting in October last, That
no contribution from a slaveholder, or traffick
er in the bodies and souls of men, shall be
rerieved into the treasury of the Society.
THE CHURCHES of THE NON
SL AYE-HOLDING STATES SUB
MITTING TO THE ABOLITION
ISTS.
I have thus exposed to you the movements
of the Abolitionists against the religious com
munities of the country; and you may now be
desirous of knowing what effect they have
had on the churches themselves. I regret to
inform you, that many of the churches at the
North, through fear, or policy, are yielding
to the lash of the fanatics, and falling into
their ranks. The great body of the Presby
terians of Ohio have joined them, and are noic
zealously engaged in this crusade against the
civil and religious rights of the South.
The Congregational churches of Vermont
have enlisted themselves under Garrison, and
have taken church action on the subject. The
Convention of the Congregational churches of
New Hampshire have recently bowed their
necks to the yoke, and by a resolution have
recommended to all the churches in their con
nection to join Abolition Societies.
In short, the fanatics have already made
rapid inroads on the ranks of ail the Religious
sects at theNorth (less on the Methodist than
on any other,) and unless checked, will soon
control or divide all the churches in the non-slave-holding
States, and rally them under the
Abolition banner. Tlhe ehect ot all this is
not only to destroy all religion in those
churches, but, already they are arraying the
Nothern against the Southern Churches, and
already in many places they will not permit a
Southern Preacher ot the Uospel to enter their
pulpits.
PROGRESS of ABOLITIONISTS, AND
THE MEANS THEY EMPLOY TO
EXTEND THEIR NUMBER AND
INCREASE THEIR POWER.
There are but few persons in the South
who kuow the extent of the Abolition party,
or who suspect its rapid increase in numbers
and political power. The most of the Whig
papers at the South have not only failed to
keep theirreaders properly advised on this sub
ject, but for political reasons, studiously seek
to keep them ignorant on the true state ot the
question ; perhaps they are ignorant of it
themselves.. IN or, have the .Democratic pa
pers, .with very, lew exceptions, discharged
their duty in this matter. All this renders it
the more necessary that I should now attempt
to give you some idea of the extent, progress,
and power of this party.
The Abolitionists are spread throughout ail
the non-slave-holding States. Every where,
we find them well organized m social socie
ties, and these Societies are all subject to the
great head Society located in the city of New
York : from the head Society, tne oroers
and decrees go out for operation agaiust
Church and State.
Their financial system is based on volun
tary contributions. The Auxiliary Societies
collect money not only for local purposes, but
for the head Society.
The sums collected are expended in two
ways: first to pay agents to travel about lec
turing on Abolition, and forming new Socie
ties: secondly, in priuting, and circulating at
low prices, and gratuitously, great numbers of
tracts, pamphlets, and Dooks, in an oi wnicn
are contained the basest slanders on the Peo
ple of the Southern States, and the most false
representations as to the condition of the ne
groes. These infamous publications make
the Southern people out as little better than
devils incarnate; and to inflame the minds
and feelings of the ignorant, many of them
contain pictures of the most scandalous de
scription. I have before me a list of Abolition
nnhlications. amounting already to more than
one hundred and fifty in number, some of them
volumes of considerable size.
Almost all the local Societies, and especial
ly the head Society, have constantly employed
a ereat number of "Lecturers," that is,
Agents going about getting public meetings,
lecturing on Abolition, abusing the South
ern people, and organizing new Societies on
on the principles of immediate emancipation
nnH amaleation. In Ohio alone six of these
Lecturers are constantly in field, and all New
vrk and New Ensland are overrun with
them.
Another Dlan of operation is to establish
uoijuou newspapers wherever they can find
support- . There are already several dozen of
newspapers in the non-slave-holding States
devoted to Abolition; and every now and then
we hear of new ones being established. Be
side the Abolition papers, almost alt the Whig
papers m New York, and New England, out
of Boston, are co-operating with the Aboli
tionists. -
The Lecturers, besides the duties I have
mentioned, have also in charge to operate po
litically. ' r
In the month of July, 1 838, three of the
Corresponding Secretaries of the New York
"American Anti-Slavery Society," issued a
Circular of Instruction to Agents in the coun
try, in which they say:
"We hope, therefore, you will without de
lay, confer with Abolitionists in your i eg ion
on the subject, by correspondence, by holding
meetings, and in such other ways a may hZ
deemed expedient, and take prompt and effi
cient measures to secure the election tf.,,ck
candidates for the National and Stale Lcris
latures as the friends of the slave can certain
ly support ! By order of the executive Com
mittee" signed by James G. Birn. TZ
Wright, and Henry B. Stanton.,
According to these instructions from dm
"Executive Committee," the abolition lecturers
took the field. The following is an extract
of a letter from one of them, Mr Stanton,
giving an account of his operations. . He
says :
. "From Lockport I returned to Utica. By
request, I delivered an address in the Bleeker
street Church, the evening of the 10th inst.,
on the political duties of the 40,CuO voters in
this State, N. Y. with reference to the fall
elections." .
The annual report of the American Anti
Slavery Society, N. Y. for 1838, contains
the following language :
"Abolitionism must have much to do with
politics. Abolitionists have
resolved from the first to act upon slavery po
litically." About the same time the "Executive Com
mittee" appointed Mr T. M. Blackesly to go
forth, and rally the abolitionists on these prin
ciples. He writes a letter from Aurora, N.
X ork, dated Oct. 8, 1838, in which he gives
an account of his progress. He says:
tcl he hrst object to which I am bending
all my energies, is the holding of county
meetings before the coming election, with a
view especially of preparing and exciting
abolitionists to carry their principles to the
polls, and wield all thoir political, as well as
moral and religious power for the redemp
tion," &c. "Can you not create a tremen
dous re-action at this time! &c. Let me
know immediately, and write letters all over
die country have notices given out in all the
churches," &c.
The following extracts are from a speech
of W. L. Garrison, delivered before the "an
nual meeting" m Boston on the 22nd Janu
ary 1840 the meeting was held in the State
House, by a special leave of the Legislature,
and many of the members were present, and
taking part. The sentiments and feelings
here expressed are worthy of notice, as com
ing from the main leader of the party:
'un the name otTdeeding humanity in the
name ot my unhappy countrymen I desire
to thank the Legislature for the grant of the
hall this evening. 1 am sure that whatever
the South may say, the slave will bless them
for the deed.
'The fact diat we are here v ilhout opposi
tion, is an evidence of the astonishing pro
gress of our cause. Notwithstanding it is
continually asserted by its opponents that it is
dying away," we see in every religious body
and in every political party, how much their
movements are modified and directed by
growing reverence for our cause. Tew
years ago, there was not in this whole broad
land, an anti-sjavery society. ISot one.
Now for a proof of our progress. How many
are there at present? Two thousand ! And
new motives of action have been imparted to
as many millions of minds by their operations.
rhen, scarce ten individuals were awake to
the true conJition of our country. Now, I
dare affirm, that two hundred thousand souls
are banded together in those societies, for the
overthrow of slavery.
"Yhat is our plan? JNothing but to speak
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but tho
truth, on the subject of slavery. Nothing but
to show that slaveholders are the enemies of
the human race.
"Our object is, to abolish slavery immedi
ately, entirely, and unconditionally ! !
"We feel that just in proportion to our
moral power, do we generate political influ
ence. Let us thank God, and take courage.
Ere long, we shall see Massachusetts, as one
man, refuse to fill any office or pulpit, unless
with such men as will use both for the aboli
lition of slavery. We shall see New-England
in like manner, refusing to send any man to
Congress, or to a State Legislature, who does
not declare that slavery should be immediate
ly abolished. When the day comes and it
will come speedily there will no longer be
resistance on the part of. the South. In pro
portion to our activity, and our consequent
increase in numbers and in influence, we
shall go on successfully, and bring the
country into a quiet and happy state. There
need be no fears of a dissolution of the Union.
The South canndtlive without the Union: and
the South is not prepared to die. (Cheers.)
The following extract is from the Philan
thropist of March 24th, 1840, published in
Cincinnati, Ohio:
"Why is it that politicians cannot under
stand? The youngest of, them remember the
time, when the sound of Abolition was not