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F1EEBOM. E. A. ALLEN, Publisher. Published under the sanction of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society. C. L. KNAPP, Editor. VOLUME I. laTPELBfi!!, VERJi:?iT, OCTOKEK 12, 1S39. A UMBER 41. THE YOICE OF To the Proprietors of the Meeting House in Hol lis street ; My Fhiends: The doings of your body, at its adjourned annual meeting, held on the evening ol the 9th instant, according to your instructions, transmitted to me by your clerk, and are now be fore me. From the document communicated by him, it ap pears that, at your previous meeting, on the evening of the 2d of the month, a vote had been offered by Mr. Windsor Fay, which at the adjourned meet ing, was withdrawn in favour of a Preamble and Vote, introduced by Mr. Daniel Weld, nearly to ihe same effect, to wit, that, in the opinion of the meeting, my usefulness, as the minister of Mollis Street Society, had become so much impaired, that the connection between the society and myself ought to be dissolved. The Vote, it further ap pears, was lost, the ballot standing ayes 56, nays 6S, and two blank ballot?. On receiving this communication, the first ques tion that I asked myself was, whether any reply was demanded or expected from me. 1 he vote offered was lost: and by no rules of proceeding, in either civil or ecclesiastical bodies, can the voice of a minority, however large or respectable, be re garded as the voice of the body. And, in the pres ent case, since neither the voice of the whole body of the proprietors was heard, rspeaking by a "ma jority of their number, nor vet the voice of the still larger body, the worshipping assembly, which in cases of this kind cannot be heard at all, however deep may be their interest in the ministrations of the church, or however strong their attachment to its ministers, but only th voice of a minority of the pews represented, how ever hrm and strong that voice might be ; 1 might not have felt myself called upon to make perhaps not even justified in making any reply whatever to the com nunication of your clerk. But, observing that this expression of the opinion of a large majority was communicated to nie by the instruction of the majority, and considering the general rule, that a written communication requires a written answer, I have concluded that it is your wish that I should make, to the docu ment before me, a reply, that may be acted upon at the adjourned meeting, this evening. This, then, I will proceed to do, as briefly as I can, and as distinctly. The Preamble and Vote, then, with a vague ness that may well serve as a model for a writer who studies rather to conceal, than to discover his real meaning, and which will not, I think, greatly enlighten the future Reader of those Records, of which they now constitute a part, as to the spe cific and real ground of toinplaint, in this case, are as follows : ' ' Whereas, it is very apparent that, from vari ous causes, principally growing out of a wide dif ference of opinion in regard to the expediency of discussing certain exciting topics, the feelings of n large number of the society worshipping in Hollis street towards their Pastor, the Rev John Pierpoint, have become estranged ; and Where as it is all important that, to profit by religious teaching, there should be the utmost harmony and union existing, as well as perfect confidence of the people towards their Teacher Therefore Voted, That, however much we may regret, as we certainly do, the existence of any cause, we nevertheless are constrained to say, that in the o pinion of this meeting, the usefulness of the Rev. John Pierpoint as our religious Teicher, is so much impaired, that the connection, between him and this Society, ought to be dissolved.' That, my friends, is the document to which I feel myself called upon to reply. Some of us probably not all know what it means. But it lias gone upon the Records of Hollis Street Soci ety, and must go down to the children of our chil dren. Will they know 1 I will do what in me lies to help them ; so that, by means of this con temporary paper, while they feel after, they may haply find its meaning. And I will endeavor to makeup for the obscurity of that document, by the plainness of this. The communication before me, then, gives us to understand one thing and not to understand an other. We understand from it that there are some subjects, which it calls 'exciting topics,' which, in the opinion of a large number of this so ciety, must not be discussed in the pulpit ; but we do not understand from it what those subjects are. Here, then, is the developement of a principle, and the concealment of a fact. Against the former I protest. The latter I will try to make manifest. I protest, then, distinctly and aloud, against the principle upon which this document is based ; namely, that there are some suojecrs wnicn may ' be interdicted to the pulpit, on the ground that they are 'exciting topics ;' for, if this principle is sound, the whole system of Cristian preaching is unsound, and it cannot stand up, an hour, against the pressure of the principle here disclosed that ' exciting topics' may, by the people, be interdict ed to the pulpit. For, what topic, on earth, is so exciting as the religion of Jesus Christ ever has been, when preached either by Jesus Christ him self, or by any one, ever since his day, who has preached it in anything approaching his spir it ? As I understand it, the province of a ' Religions Teacher' the province, especially of a minister ot that gospel which was given for the redemp tion of all men from all sin, of course compre hends all men ami all sins : that it covers the whole ground of religion and morals: that, within this province lie all human interests, indi vidual or social, for time or for eternity that it embraces all relations of man to man, whether as a constituent part of the church or of the state, with all his duties in either, and all his obliga tions to both. I consider that the preacher him self, in regard to all social and civil rights and obligations, stands on the same ground as other men ; and that he is 83 answerable as any other man to his country, his age, and the world, if he does not employ for their good, whatever power Uod has given him to bless them : and there fore, that no topic, in the wide compass of moral science, or relicriou? or social dutv Should be, or without inevitable injury both to themselves and him can be interdicted by a people to their 're ligious teacher. A Pulpit that is profitable either to preacher or hearer, must be free : and, for myself, if I cannot stand in a free pulpit, I will stand in none? If my people do not already know this, it is no fault ol mine. 1 he service of Uod is perlect freedom and there can be no true service ol God where H is not. If I could consent tat any topic taken out of the cognizance of my should be pulpit, it should be some one that is not ' exciting. Where there is no excitement, there is there can be no progress, among a people ; nay, there can be no spiritual life ; for with the soul, as with the body, life itself is a state of excitement. While man lives, either the baser or the better feelings of his nature will be excited, for they must. May nb topic be discussed in a pulpit, that will excite the better feelings? And may the baser never bo reproved, admonished, or re buked lest they should be excited ? Shall the animal be allowed to run away with the man, because, forsooth, he frets and chafes when he feels the bit ? It is the very function of the gospel to hold in the excited feelings of our lower natures, though they may be, as they probably will be, even moie excited, for '.he time, by the restraint to uring unuer me uouy, anu Keep it in subjection :' and if this is not done the go?pel is preached in vain. If, on any subject, pertaining to the well-being of his people, the minister of Christ finds their feelings already excired, and wanting a direction, . .1 I ' J ...... i I. . . T a T it is eminently ms uuiy io give mem a riga di rection. 11 they have already taken a wrong di rection, it is his duty to show them 'a more excel lent way,' and to put forth his best efforts to set them right. The minister is the moral engineer to his church, which it is his office to direct on the highway to salvation which God has thrown open in the Gospel. To say that, in his ministrations, lie is to abstain from all exciting tonics, and to handle only those upon which the feelings of his p-jopla are cold and dead, is to say that the engi neer upon a rail-road is to give all diligence to the conducting of his engine while the fire is out, and the water cold, and it is standing still ; but when its fires are all in a glow, and its steam is up, and its wheels are thundering along the iron track, lhathe must not meddle with it then, because of its ' present excitement. May men be excited all the week without corn plaint in their stores and in the streets, in their business and their pleasures, every where else, and upon every thing else and yet must they expect to come to church to be lulled to ideep, by the mu sic of a pleasant voice, upon the most exciting top ic under heaven the way to heaven and the prep aration for it ? No, my friends, so well do I understand the du ty of my office, in this behalf, and so deeply do I feel its responsibility, both to God and to you, that so long as I hold it, and wherever 1 hold it, no top ic, in my view involving your welfare or my free dom my freedom. the first and last condition of my real ' uscfullness to you shall be interdicted to me, upon the ground that it is, or that, by so calling i:, it can be made an ' exciting topic' lhus, then, 1 protest against the principle ad vanced in the document that I am considering. I protest against it. I do not admit it ; and to it I will not ' give place by subjection, no not for an hour, it is lor you to say, anu i wisn you to say this night, whether you can bear to have me tread this principle under my leet while lam ad dressing you. If you can not bear this, Ged may show me people that can. 1 hive done with this principle. And now, in regard to its application to "certain exciting top ics" which, yet as they stand upon the face of the document under notice, are exceedingly uncertain, allow me to say, that, while ' by the grace oi God I am what I am,' shall not the consideration that 'by this craft we have our wealth,' take from the cognizance of any pulpit that I occupy that most, exciting topic of the present day the Giant Sin that 1 see spreading us desolations around me, coming into my own noci,-, anu seizing us victims under my own eyes, and dooming me to witness and deplore their ruin while they yet breathe, and to consign to a hopeless grave their mangled bodies when they are dead. For, that this is the exciting topic, by way of eminence, in the regard to the expediency of dis cussing which, thero is such ' a wide difference of opinion between a large number of the society "worshipping in Hoilis Street,' on the one side, and their pastor on the other, they know, lull well who, for two successive years, have brought before your annual meetings these complaints relative to' exciting topics,' and, by these complaints, have striven, to restrain the freedom and over-awe the independence ofllollis Street pulpit. There may be protestations to the contrary of this. De cency requires that there should be. There may be, I know that there are, some few other and an cient griefs, caused by the independence of the same pulpit in years that have gone by have gone by themselves, but have left their griefs, still fresh, and promising to be immortal. At tempts may, even, be made to show that the dis cussion of other 'exciting topics' than this has been the head and front of my offending,' at least to conceal from the eyes of the Christian commu nity, whalthe main-spring of these periodical move ments is. The very document under considera tion appears to me to be such an attempt, on the part of those who framed it. But, the passing events of the dayv'the proceedings ol the last year, the pursuits & interests of those with whom these proceedings originated, throw too much light up on the living and the present, to leave this a doubt ful matter. From rue, and from many of the pro prietors ofllollis Street Meeting-house, who know much less on this subject than I have been made to know and to feel, no language and no silence can ' dissemble or cloak' the real spirit that is at the bottom of these waters of strife; the spirit that is breaking up the peace, and threatening the integrity of this christian church. I know that Temperance, tho' the chief, is not the only exciting topic which has been the otgnsjon of estranged feeling. This I have a I read yJfch it ted. I take no pleasure in again alluding to any other; and would only say that, in the only two discourses in which I am aware of having given offence, I have laid the cause of offence before the world, by the hand of the press ; and I await will composure, the iudinnenl that may be nassed up on those discourses, by God and jrood men. 1 owe it, however, to the parties aggrieved, in thest cases to say that the grievance consisted not in doctrine advanced upon any particular 'exciting tonic' but in the fact that I touched it at all, after I had been told that I must not. In stirring and sifting times, like these, when the minds of men are acting upon some of the most momentous subjects that ever broke up the lethar gy of a servile and sensual nge ; when the ele ments of society, its passions and conflicting inter ests are so violently shaken together; there will always be minor sources of uneasiness, which tend to disquiet the feelings of fellow-worshippers, and to estrange them from each other, or from the leader of their religious services. I am aware that there are, as there ever have been some such among us, some small streams of troubled water finding their way through the pasture wher this flock is feeding. But these attract attention, in the present case, chiefly from their having he come tributary to the strong current that, at its an nual overflow, has drifted into this church the document that I am now laying open to the sun and air from bavin? allowed themselves to be sucked into the vortex of the great interest that is adverse to the Temperance cause. It is for the proprietors to say whether this church shall he drawn into me same vortex, aim canieu uuwn by it. The pastor will see to it that he is not. If, now, I may be pardoned in so doing, I would re.-j 'i fully suggest that, for the grievencies cuin municated to me by my people, both last year and this, there are two remedies. Both are in their hands. First, if the individuals aggrieved are still a minority of the society, they may find re lief by severally withdrawing themselves Irom their pews ; and secondly, if they arc a majority, they may seek it by displacing me from my pulpit. Another course has been suggested to me, namely, that I should ask you to dismiss me from my oflice. As an inducement to do so, an offer has been made me, by individuals of your number, of a years salary. This offer was made, I doubi not, in a spirit of pecuniary liberality, of which, while I have been connected with you, I have nev er been left without proofs. But however gener ously this may have been offered by them, it could not be accepted by me in any other character than as a bribe, to seduce me from the path of dutv to my myself and to my profession. My bread is as impor tant to me, as any other man s can be to him. liu t, m the present posture of our affairs, I can neither be begged off, nor bought off. I cannot purchase my bread bv listening to any overtures made with a view of inducing me to desert, or to ask to be dis charged from, the post at which I am now station ed, as a soldier of the cross, merely because that has become a post of danger and conflict. And, besides, I have meat to eat which they who sup pose that peace may be bought with money, know not of. It is for the Proprietors of the Hollis Street Church, as a body, to say whether I shall, any longer, hold the place to which, as a body, they long ago called me. Because it chose to do so, the society as a corporate act, asked me to come. When it shall choose, to-night ij it choose it will ask me to go. However small my ' usefulness,' as the religious teacher of the proprietors, may have been to them, I cannot but think that the discipline, through which I have oassed as thfV minister, has been very uesful to me, and at their bidding, I can part from them, and heartily wish them peace: though, 1 trust that they already know that, in a christian church, as in the human soul, there must be puri ty before there can be peace. I humbly trust, my friends, that lie whom, as a minster cf His Son, I have served among you for more than twenty years, will still keep me as he now sees prepared for the result of any ac tion upon the premises, which you may feel your selves prepared to take. Very respectfully, lour friend and servant, JNO. PIERPOINT. Tatal Jtencontre. We sec by the papers that in Richmond, Ken tucky a Mr. Stone was killed in a street rencontre witn a :ur. iuuzzy, principal oi an acauemy in that place. By a letter from a young lady lately from this place, now at Richmond, Ky., to her parents, writ ten a few hours after the fatal meeting, we learn that Mr. Stone, a widower, sent to the Academy a son whom Mr. Muzzy had occasion to correct rather severely. Soon after the chastisement had been inflicted, Mr. Stone called on Mr. Muzzy, at the Academy, and asked an explanation of the transaction, which was given by Mr. M., after which Mr. S. retired, satisfied with the explana tion, as Mr. Muzzy supposed. In a short time, however, Mr. Stone sent Mr. M. a note, to call at his store. Mr. M. immediately complied with the request, and was invited into the room, when Mr. S. closed the door, drew a dirk, took from his shelf a cowhide, telling Mr. M. if he moved a fin ger he would kill him instantly. Stone inflicted some fifteen or twenty blows with a cowhide, and then opened the door, kicked M. out of the store, and bade him go about his business. Mrs. M., on hearing of the cowhiding, declared that riotli i n r but the blood of Stone could wash out the disgrace. The patrons of the school took their children out of the Academy, declaring that if Mr. M. had not nerve enough to resent such treatment, he was not the man to educate their children. A brother of Mrs. M., who resided at Some distance from Richmond, wrote home to another brother, affirming that if Mr. M. did not chastise Stone, he, the brother, would bo at Richmond im mediately and doit himself. Muzzy immediately armed himself, as did his friends, and gave out that on meeting with Stone one or the other must fall. Stone and his friends armed and Richmond was all excitement. Several attempts were made by Muzzy to meet Stone before the fatal rencon tre. We shall have the particulars of trtis meet ing, which resulted in Mr. S.'s death, in some Kentucky paper, and must give them to our read ers hereafter. Mr. Muzzy was the oldest son of ... hi i r . 1 . r 1 Dr. Muzzy, late of Hanover, in this State, and was but lately 'married to a young lady m iven tucky, of high notions of what is called honor. We presume as Mr. M. has shown that he can "teach the young ideas how to shoot," he will again be liberally patronized by his former friends at Richmond. Concord, N. H. Courier. From the Liberator. Itcv. John Pierpoint. It is hardly necessary to invite the attention oi our readers to the noble, manly, dignified and christian letter of Mr. Pierpoint, which will be found on the first page of this paper. Its words arc, indeed, 'fitly spoken,' and 'like tipples of gold in pictures ,of silver.' By the following article from the Mercantile Journal ofTuesilay.it will be seen that he has been dismissed from his So ciety for his Christian firmness and independ ence. The Deed Consummated.. The die is cast. The Rev. John Pierpoint has been dismissed from his society. At a meeting of the Proprie tors of Pews last evening, the vote in favor of his dismission stood sixty-three to sixty. We under stand that several pews were bought up by deal ers in rum during the last fortnight, in order to bring about this. .result, which while it will en tail lasting disgrace on the erand rnoovers in this business, reflects honor on this independent min ister of the gospel who would not abandon his principles in favor of morality and Temperance, for the sake of pleasing and conciliating men, who seem willing that the Demon intemperance. with a host of attendant evils, should reign over the land, provided they may be permitted to pur sue unmolested and unrebuked, their unrighteous 1I 11T ,. .1 I calling, w e Know unit an auemmpi nas uecn made to mislead the public on this subject, and to place the dismission of Mr. Pierpoint on 'other grounds than that ol rum Lut however desira ble it may be to some individuals, it will be im possible to conceal Me truth in relation to this event. Mr. Pierpoint is dismissed by a majority of the Pew-holders in Hollis street Church for his opposition to Intemperance! Nor will this hostility to Ministers oi f the Gos pel, who dare to perforin their duty in the pulpit, and rebuke vice in a manner becoming a preach er of God's holy word, stop here. It is already given out that the v:ork of proscription must go on and others must feel and suffer for their hos tility to the horrible vice of Iiileniperan :e for the fires of the Distillery must burn, even on the Sabbath and the rum-seller must he allowed to mete out the poisonous liquor to the wretched inebriate without rebuke! Will the citizens of Boston sanction proceed ings like these, which cast a deep slain on the aracter of her inhabitants? But Mr. Pierpoint has many friends in his con gregation warm and devoted friends, who will never forsake him and others of the same reli gious persuasion will " doubtless gladly gather around iiiui, who are not afraid lo hear Temper ance and 'other exciting topics' discussed in the pulpit and thus encourage hirn in the bold, and manly, and Christian stand which lie has taken in this matter. Indeed, good men of all denom inations, will bid him 'God speed.' If he is no longer allowed to hold forth from the pulpit of Hollis street Church, where for many years he has taught lessons of morality and religion, thank Providence, there are other places in" this city, not under the control of the enemies of Tem perance, in which his voice may still be herd. KiDNArnr-.'f;. As we were returning from church last Sabbath, we met in Chatham-Street, Mr. Lewis Tuppari, leading a brave looking color ed hid, who had been stolen from his parents at V, orcester, Mass., and had been sold in irginia to slavery. He had just been recovered, although his anxious parents had not then received the joy ful tidings. The Worcester papers speak out upon this high-handed piece of outrageous illany with just indignation, i he wretched perpertrators of this act'are now in pti or. The name of the prin cipal abductor is Shearer. It is supposed that several other colored boys have been stolen by Shearer, and sold into slavery. Shall scenes like these be enacted in our midst, and our nation still slumber over the crime of oppression ? Shall not these peculiar calls ofDivine Providence be heard with reverence ? What means this casting of the Amidstad upon our coast? What mean all these strange occurrences ? "Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" N. Y. Evangelist. Extract of a letter from an intelligent American gentleman in London, dated August 30, and re ceived by the British Queen. " In a recent interview with O'Conr.ell he ex pressed a great interest in the movements of the abolitionists ; he looks upon Texas with many torcbodinge. lie has thrown himself before the public here in opposition to the recognition of Tex as, as a btate in correspondence with the Crown ol Lmgland, unless slavery be abolished, and pro vision be made in that region for a peaeelul and quiet asylum for the free colored man. You will see his letter to Joseph Sturge on this subject. lie told us that lie would soon address his Irish brethren in America, on the subject of slavery; and also the Catholic Bishops. We encouraged hmi to hasten the fulfilment of these devismgs in this mutter. You may expect that the testimony against your great national sin, from this side of the water, will wax louder and stronger, lho time has passed in which tho slaveholder can buy and sell his brother in quietude." TIavtpt. WppaTiril IM Twivnnv Tn iirinlinfT llip ...,. ........... ... ... .... interesting letter of Messrs. Keep and Dawes, from London, in the Emancipator of Aug. 1, we were guilty of a typographical error, which made our brethren say that Mr. Webster was treated with rfs-rnspect in London. They wrote that he was treated with due respect ; which every body knows lTr. Webster UK.' WItJ KILL, iiV'UI liiici v s been treated with great respect by the people t?-I-j -ltU.irrt, wo am vvpll-informed. that the question is constantly asked in connexion with his name, " Why does he not taki1 the right ground on the question of slavery ?" a question much more easily asked than satisfactorily answered, on either side of the Atlantic By the way, it is something of an illustration ol the present facilities of communication between the two countries, to notice that the letter of Messrs Keep and Dawes was written in London, July C, and published in the Emancipator of Aug. 1, and the above mentioned typographical error noticed by one of the writers at London, Aug. 20, whose letter reached New York, Sept. 20.Eman. Litest from Africa. Capt. M'Ncil, of the schr. Euphrates, from Monrovia, (Liberia,) arrived at Philade Iphia on Saturday, in 31 days passage, and has furnished a file of papers from Liberia, to Aug. 16. The Euphrates is sent here by theU. S. Consul, a prize to the U. S. Government, having been cap tured on the Coast of Africa, by the British brig Harlequin, as a slaver, and surrendered to Gov. Buckman, U. S. Consul at Liberia. Cant. M'Neil, lute mate of schr. Fabius, and the crew formerly belonging to the wrecked shin Emperor. of New York, were put on board by the U. S. Consul, to bring her home, together with two Na tives (crewmen) whom the captain brourht to as sist in working the vessel, his crew being all in a weakly state. The schoner is a sharp built Chesapeake craft, of about 70 tons, bails from Baltimore, and no doubt is entertained of their intentions. She was fitted out at Havana. and had been on and crusing off the Coast of Af rica for nine months, and at length strong sns pisious circumstances led to her capture. The case will be now tried by our government. She is and was under American colors, with an Amer ican captain, and the crew, nine in number, were Spaniards. The captain of her took parsge in the schooner Fabius, that saild for Providence a day before the Euph rates. The war between the Colonists and the natives at Little Bassa is ended, by the entire rout of the latter without a loss of a single man by the form er. A palaver was held wiih the hostile natives on the beach.'which ended in a settlement of all difficulties; the natives acceding to tho terms prescribed by Gov. Bachanan. Four of the slaves were given up and the rest are to follow. The head men Prince and Bar gay, have pledgd themselves to aid and abet the slave trade no more, directly or indirectly; and it is believed that fear will keep them fuithful to their pledge. The Governor took posssession of all the goods of value found in the slaves fac tory, & ordered the buildings to be burned down. On the 20th of August the British Schooner Dolphin arrived at Monrovia, having in charge two schooners which she had just captured. One is the Murced; the name of the other we have not learned. This vessel recently overhaul ed the Traveller, but she escaped. The Dolphin did not communicate with the land. Soutiicisx Abolitiomsts. It has been frequent ly asserted, and we believe with good evidence of its truth, that there is not a slave state in the Union, in which there are not more or less white persons of talents and ability, who are from principle op posed to slavery, and wish its immediate and en tire extinction. Those persons ought to speak out, immediately and fearlessly. There is no danger ( a southern man's being Lynched. It is the poor Yankee for whose head large rewards are offered. It is the northern man, who partakes of the sacrament one day in a Presbyterian church, and the next day is publicly whipped on his bare back, by a company of Lynchers composed of the very deacons, elders and ministers with whom the day before he had partaken of the Lord's Supper! No denomination has so great access to the slaves, and has done so much for their moral and spiritual good as the Methodists, and yet no de nomination, at least in the letter of their creed, or Discipline, speaks so pointedly against slavery as the Methodists ; formerly it was much more so. Yet for many years, the Methodist preachers, as a general thing, have been welcome4 by the slaveholders to their plantations. But it will not dolor a northern man hardly to quote the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence. If he happen to do this, he is branded with the epithets, far.atic, hair'brained, &c We believe a simultaneous and fearless debut of southern anti-slavery men, would be the com mence. nent of a new era in the anti-slavery enter prize, and that every effort which can be, should be made, to induce thein to do so, without delay. Zion's Herald, Touch up the Publishing Agent. Be it known that on Tuesday, the 17th of September, at 3 o'clock, P. M. a gentleman called at the Anti-Slavery Office to purchase $5 worth of "AmericaVi Slavery as it is," for a worthy old gentleman in Scholtarie Co., who wanted them for distribution, when, lo ! there was not a copy on hand, and the bearer was told to call next morning, by which time a supply would come from the bindery. The Publishing Agent, by way of apology for the emp tiness of his shelves, told a story about his having sold, since the 7th of May, at'wholesole, 17,239 copies, of which more than 2,600 had been or dered within the last fortnight. Besides these, the retail sales at the desk and the gratuitous dis tributions have boen 4,9.37 ; making the whole number put in circulation, in four months and ten days, upwards of TWENTY-TWO THOTJS. AND. If any body thinks the work ought to be driven faster, we itdvise him to send in his orders with the ea.--h- rtnd spur up t he Publishing Agent. Tho amount of paper consumed in the manu facture is (530 reams, medium size for the good of trr de-. Emancipator. Maine. The -'Pole Star" State is determined to lead the host in the library system, and the circulation of tho anti-slavery publications. An order was received at the oflice on Friday, for !:'n brnries to' tho amount of $500, and the publican tions to nearly as much more. Br. Codding says, " we want you to send books as soon as possitile, our Library Agent has little to do for the want c-f books." The boxes were despatched on Monday, and we trust have reached their destination ere this. Emancipator,