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1'ioin the Cmuncipntor.
, , The -following paragraph in the Commercial of
Monday leads to the supposition that Mr. Ambas
sador Stevehsgn's determination ta make the get
ting of a remuneration for the property lost by
certain American slaveholders, in consequence "bf
th(?Lr merchaatfize beinir recked on the Ifcihnmns.
where the laws turned it all into MEN, has not
been unsuccessful ;.. awl although he could make
no headway ir the settlement of ' the North East
ern Boundary, it was not because he-had no infiu
once, or that the-British minister-was impractica
hie, but solely because he-did" not thjiilt it so irn
portant as the other; We fear he has pulled wool
over ilio eyes ot, Lord; Palmorston. Let the I'ar
Lament inquire
The Slaves Wrecked on the Bahama Islands.
A letter evidently from an authentic soiwce in
Washington, is published ii the Richmond- En
nuirer. in which it is stated that Mr. Stevenson
our minister in London, has succeeded in makin
aniarramj-ernent with the British Government, by
.which it is stipulated that the value of the slaves
shipwrecked some eight or ten years ago, upon
the Bahama Islands, shall bo paid for the claim
ants. ..The letter says, 'This,, if true, (and there
is no reason to doubt- & is not only important, as
regards the individual claimants, but equally so m
vt national point of view, as it establishes a great
and important principle. J. he ar
rangeraent is said to do ample justice to the clai
mants, as it secures to them the full value of their
property, with interest. The arrangement ?:
cures the claimants nearly 8500 a piece for their
slaves, iucluding men, women and childre.n mure
than was ever allowed on any former occasion by
the IJntish government.. -
There is another important remark of the Wash
ihgton letter writer, not copied by the Commer
cial, which shows the true bearing of thisconc.es-
sion by the British Government, and well illus
Uates the morbid eagerness with which we repul
licans seize upon every little circumstance that
even seems to favor our idol 1 institution.'
' This, if true,' says the writer, ' (and there is
no reason to doubt it) is not only important, as re
gards the individual claimants, but equally so in
a national point of view, as it establishes a great
and important principle. It will be seen, there'
fore, that our minister has been unjustly censur
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cu, oy some oi me souinern statesmen, lor a sup-
posed neglect, or inattention to. this matter. So
far from that,.he is entitled to great credit for the
ability and zeal with which he has conducted thi
delicate affair ; and when the correspondence shall
be published, 1 have no doubt he will receive the
thanks of the country particularly tliestavehold
jug .States.;
Letter from Mr..ltirney..
Putnam, Ohio, May 31st, 1839
Brother Leavitt, The meeting of the Ohio
A'nti-Slavery Society, which began on Wednes
day morning has just closed. I have been pres
ent during its progress, and take pleasure in sta
ting that, notwithstanding the gvoat diversity of
religious persuasions to which those composing it
belong, the most harmonious .--pint prevailed
throughout.
A great number of resolutions were passed on
me usual topics. J. he Black law oi the late ses
slon of the Ohio Legislature, which, judging from
the sentiments generally expressed, seems to have
I'isgusted the sober and considerate citizens every
where, did not escape the severest reprehension
The impression made on ine is, that it will be to
tally inoperative.
'The President of the Society, the Hon. Le.ices
ter King, being absent Jroin the State on a visit to
the East, the Rev. Charles G. Finney, of Oherlin
presided. this did not prevent him Irom speak
ing to several of the most important subjects un
der discussion, nad aiding m every way in the de
liberations of the convention. .
The- meetings were held in the Rev. Wm. Bu-
cner s meeting house, ana although thevo were
three each day, forenoon, afternoon and evening,
they were all well attended. Tho number of del
egates was- not- muclt below three hundred al
most every, section of the State-being-pretty fair
ly representedi Pledges- wecegiven lathe amount
of about $3700.
The hospitality of the good people of Putnam
wa3 well illustrated, in receiving and handsomely
entertaining so large a number of delegates, a
number amounting to about one-fourth of the
whole population of the village.
The whole meeting wont off well, and, I doubt
not, the delegates feel themselves refreshed and
strengthened for another y.eaii's struggle with the
' monster' of our country..
I expect to leave to-morrow, with a view of be
ing present at the Indiana State Society.
Yours truly, James G. Bihnev.
Jamaica..
Kingston-,. May 6, 1S39.
To Rev. Joshua Lcavitl,
Mv Dear. Sik, I am happy to state that every
thing is going on quie-lly and prosperously at pres--ent,
making plenty of sugar, coffee, pimento, &cl
Sec. &c, and riot a single vessel gone home in
ballast. They are all arriving full, and going
away filled. Business is very good at present, in
town and country. There are many chapels find
schools in the course of erection of all denomina
tions, in every part of the country. Things are
settling down as fast as possible.' I hope you
will get the Col. Reformer of this week.
In haste, yours, W B. Holduedge. ,
Twotnoo have been recently sentenced to be
hung in South Carolina, for .the crime of negro
stealing. The enormity of the offence consists in
stealing a slave from one man, and selling him to
another. It is not considered any offence there
to steal free men, if they are of a sable hue. This
is an admirablo illustration of justice in a land of
slavery. -Christian Witness. . '
Eastern Pennsylvania. At the last annual
meeting (noticed in our last) of the Eastern Pi
vision of tho Pennsvlvania Anti-Slaverv Societv.
a distinct organization for the Eastern District of
the State was completed, so that noy we have
two Societies for the State one for Eastern, the
other for Western Pennsylvania. The sepera
tions we doubt not will 'contribute to the efficien
cy of both, by rendering the machinery of our op
erations less complicated and cumbersome and by
a mutual provoking of each athor to good works.
The annual report of tho Executive Committee
of the Eastern Society exhibits a most encourag
ing progress of our principles in, thalnortion of the
Slate during the last six months. Th& subscrip
tion list of tho Pennsylvania Freeman, we rejoice to
learn, is rapidly increaseing, while new converts
are flocking to tho sboJiuan standard with a con
tinual flow, it,
THE VOICE OF FREEDOM.
MONTPEUEft, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1839.
Canveutiou at Katloud.
The Executive- Committee have given notice
through the Midtllbburyaiid Brandon papers, that
the proposed! Anti-Sla very Convention at Rutland
will be opened, by a public address on the evening
of Tuesday, 25th. Oa the next day, business
meeting at 9, and public exercises at half past 10,
:A. M. The prospect i3, that the meeting will be
one of thrilling mterestu The friends of the cause
in the neighboring towns should consider them
selves specially called upon to rally strong on the
occasion. The old Revolutionary Fathers who
marched to Saratoga in the Alarm of 1781, if they
yet linger among their children, should come to
gether and again pay homage to the principles of
1776. Let the middle-aged and the young men
and women be there to re-afhrm the maxims of
our Warrens, and Nobles and Walbridges of old
Origin of Colonization. ,
The first public movement of any importance
in reference to th& colonization scheme, was the
adoption of a resolution in the Virginia legislature,
requesting a correspondence between the Govern-or-of
Virginia and the President of the United
Slates. Gov. Monroe, in opening the correspon
dence, named, if we mistake not, both Spain
and Portugal as two governments with whom it
might be advisable to negociate on the subject;
but Mr. Madison foresaw that a proposition to col
onize a class of people who were alleged to be too
vicious to remain in a republican and christian
country, would bo treated with scorn by any for
eign power making any serious pretensions to a
standing among civilized nations. 'If you cannot
endure them yourselves, why cast them upon us ?'
would have been the prompt reply of any other
than a barbarous nation. This hint from Mr.
Madison was enough. The friends of the scheme
turned to Africa poor Africa, for an " asylum" for
tho free colored man of Virginia. The President
of the United States, as such, had no constitution
al authority to negociate for building up foreign
colonies or slates certainly none tor executing
such a project. But slavery in 1S16, as in 1839
was the governing interest in the policy of the
Federal Government. Virginia called for presi
dential interposition in behalf of her peculiar in
stition. She wanted to " open a drain for the ex
cess beyond , the means of profitable employment."
Within a few days after this application from Vir
ginia, a meeting, composed almost entirely of
Southern slaveholders, was called at Washington
and the American Colonization Society sprang in
to being.
Nothing is more apparent than the fact, that with
the originators of the scheme, the first object was
the removal of-the free people of color. The at
tempt to foist the scheme upon the community as
a missionary enterprise, is an invention oi recent
date, and constrasls strangely enough with the
bloody history of Liberia the grave-yard of the
colored man's hopes.
.New Publication.
We are glad to see the following nw publica
tions, advertised for sale at the Anti-Slavery De
pository in Vergenncs : .
' Slavery as it is,' an invaluable collection of
testimonies showing the actual condition of the
slaves By Theodora D. W eld. In our judg
ment, no work has issued from the anti-slavery
press belter entitled to a place in every private and
public library, in every family in the land, than
this. We have already published a liberal extract
from the introductory chapter.
' Jay's View,' another excellent volume, pp. 217,
exhibiting the action of the Federal Government
in behalf of Slavery. It abounds with interesting
etails connected with our diplomatic history, at
once startling anu humiliating 10 uneauonseu
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Americans details rarely published, save in con
gressional documents, which are seen by few ol
the people and read by very few..
' Gerrit Smith's Letter to Clay,' a masterly
exposition of the fallacies of Mr. Clay's Speech.
This should be read by every freeman.
President Green's New Testament Argu-
ment .Against clavery. we have not seen
Ins.. i he name oi licriah urcen, however, is oi
itself, a guaranty of tho high value of the work.
The Rochester Freman' is the name of a
handsome anti-slavery paper just commenced in
le city of Rochester, N.. Y. Myron IIolLey,
Esq,, a writer of uncommon originality and pow
er, is editor and proprietor Marshall cc Welles..
printers. :.; . i
Another, The American Freeman is the ti
tle of another anti-slavery paper published at Jacli
son, Michigan. , Wm. jVI. Sullivan, publisher.
Both papers are of liberal dimensions and will
without doubt prove valuable co-workers in the
cause of the slave.
CCT'Mr. McCree, the colonization agent, while
at Brandon, informed his audienco that Thomas
Jefferson went out to Africa in the year 1801 in
reference to tho colonization scheme I We regret
that the lecturer did not give somo particulars of
this early exploring expedition, Mr. McCree
should have remembered thawhe was lecturing in
yankoe land, where we are always anxious to un
derstand all mysteries, We all know that there
was such a man as Thomas Jefferson that he was
President of the United States in 1801, but wc
know so little oXthe science of ubiquity, that we
can't pretend ta understand how a man could very
conveniently be exercising the office of Chief
American Magistrate, and at . the same time be
peregrinating, or planting colonization mustard
seeds on another continent.
Political OrganizationNorth Star
The editor of the North Star, in noticing the
late annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery
Society, professedly quotes a passage from the
annual Report, in which the Executive Committee
are made to recommend " a distinct organization
of the abolitionists as a political party," &cc. The
Star might have saved its quotion marks and ital
ics for some other occasion. The Executive Com
mittee of the National Society submitted only an
abstract of their Report at the late meeting. The
document contained no recommendation of a dis
tinct political organization of abolitionists, nor was
any allusion made to that subject, to our knowl
edge, by any of the speakers in the annual meet
ing. Like certain characters of old, the editor of
the Star seems to have been ' tormented before the
time.' .
The duty of voting against slaveholders and
llieir abettors was distinctly reiterated by the so
ciety at its late meeting, and we hope abolitionists,
everywhere, will not fail to appreciate the import
ance of faithfully, wielding their franchise power,
without stopping to take counsel of gainsaying
politicians, north or south.
7"The Vermont Chronicle, under the plea of
politics and prolixity, backs out from its expressed
intention of publishing John Quincy Adams' sec
ond Letter. Taking good care to suppress the
Ex-President's arguments on the duplicity of Co
onization, the editor inserts a few select paragrah
against immediate abolition. " Free discussion !"
We have received a neatly-printed pamphlet of
28 pages, containing the proceedings of the third
anti-slavery convention of American Women, hel
in Philadelphia, May 1st, 2d and 3d, 1839. The
only building of sufficient size for the meetin
" had but a barn roof, was without ceiling," &c.
The mayor, this year, called on the ladies before
the meeting, expressing his determination, if pos
sible, to prevent the recurrence of last year's outra
ges. The meetings were not molested, and the
proceedings, as presented in the pamphlet before
us, evince a high degree of order, taste and ta
ent. .
Ohio. The Philanthropist comes to us this
week richly freighted with the proceedings of the
Ohio Anti-Slavery Society at its fourth anniver
sary, at Putnam, on the 29th ult. Seaily 300
delegates attended. Pro!, jmnney, of Oherlin
presided. Mr. Birney was among the4 speakers
bays the Philanthropist " Our friends seenie
to have a single eye. Questions foreign to abo
litionism did not divide their counsels or disturb
their thoughts." The pledges and donations a
mounted to nearly $1000, a larger sum than was
obtained last year.
Presidential movements. Meetings have re
cently been held at Rochester and Utica, N. Y
at which resolutions were adopted in favor of
Gen. Win field Scott.
The friends of Gen. Harrison, in Pennsylva
ma, have hail a state convention at liarnsburgh
and nominated a Harrison Electoral Ticket, with
Joseph Ritner at its head.
Florida. Accounts from Tallaliasse state that
the greatest excitement exists in the Territory, the
people having determined to take the war into
I he if own hands. Hundreds of volunteers were
offering their services to Gov. Call, who was ex
fiected to take the field in person, The Territo
rial Government had offered a reward of 200 for
every Indian taken or killed.
The newly-framed constitution for Florida has
been rejected by the people. So says the Boston
Atlas. We have scon no explanation of this un
expected result.
Mr. Wright, of the Mass. Abolitionist, says Mr.
Adams' Letter is somewhat like the prophet's figs,
it is not all alike ; the good is very good, and the
bad is bad enough.
A quarterly meeting of the New Haven and
Weyhridge Anti-Slavery Society was held on the
11th mot. After an able address from Elder J
Murphy of Cornwall, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted : ;.
Resolved, That we will not knowingly vote for
any canuiuate lor any onice higher than town of
fice, without he will endorse cheerfully the prin
11. P svt t m. a
ciples of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Resolved, That we think it necessary for this
and all auxiliary societies to have a corresponding
committee to interrogate candidates for law-enacting
offices on the subject of Anti-Slavery. .
Elon Everts, Sec'ry.
DC?"Our subscribers jn Caledonia County, who
have not already paid their subscriptions for the
Voice of Freedom, will be called on in the course
of next week and thq week after, by an Agent
from this office. Let every man have his change
ready, as well qs be prepared to assist In procur
ing additional subscribers for the Voice,
Up to the 2d of May there had been, this season,
91 arrivals of schooners at Chicago, and 102 departures,
Lynchers Punished. A good Example. In
Yazoo, Miss., some time ago, a Mr. Harris, for
some real or supposed offence, was severely lynch
ed by H. W. Dunn, C. W. Bain, and others. He
prosecuted these two individuals for the outrage,
and the case was tried at the late session of the
Circuit Court of Yazoo county. The jury return
ed a verdict fat the plaintiff of $20,000. Louis.
Jour,
For the Voice of Free Join .
Mb. Editor, The following letter is supposed
to be written by Hamet, the Emperor of Morocco,
to the Hon. Henry Clay, and may gratify some
of his friends. Will you let it appear in the Voice
of Freedom?
My Dear Cousin : By a vessel, which has just
arrived at Salle from New York, I have received
your thrilling speech, delivered at Washington
City, Feb. 7th, 1839, against those fanatics, who
are laboring to destroy the good old institution of
slavery, and I wonder not, that brother Calhoun
was delighted with your speech. All was excel
lent ; but nothing could be more to my taste, than
the following pertinent remarks: " That is prop
erty, which the law declares to be property Two
hundred years of legislation' hare sanctified negro
slaves us property." Such sentiments I admire,
and always act upon them ; but I have sometimes
doubted whether they were correct. For even
Moors have a conscience. But now I find that
even Republican & Christian senators avow them
And as you are a great statesman, and must be
supposed to understand the 'sentiments of your
countrymen, I shall leel quite at ease in acting
upon them.
" That is property, which the law declares to be
property." So I think, and so my fathers have
long thought. And we have, like you, made our
laws to suit our faith. These laws have now
been sanctioned for more than two hundred year
and are venerable for age. And they will doubt
less be continued, while the Prophet shall allow
me the power to maintain my royal dignity. For
they are to me very convenient, and without them,
even my Queen and royal daughters might have
to brush my slippers, and do other menial servi
ces. :
As you have such correct views bf the way in
which any thing can be converted into property, I
presume you have studied the luws of my king
dom, and the great benefit I derive from the faith
ful execution of them; and if you only put down
the fanatics, you may soon be able to follow in my
footsteps. At least your claims for support from
slaveholders must be equal to those of your com
petitor; and your elevation to the Presidency may
prepare the way for the same tenure of property,
which has long been established among the Bar
bary Powers. " - - .-
" That is property, which the law declares to be
property." This rule answers all purposes. If
foreign vessels are cast away on our roast,, vessel
and cargo are the lawful -property of those who
can seize them. So also are the passengers, the
crew anu the oincers. And should your son, or
daughter,' be of the number, ancient legislation and
long established law would change them into chat
tels, and convert them into property, to be sold or
used at the pleasure of the holder. If prisoners
are taken in war, men, women and children, are
all converted into property, and sold like other
merchandize. And if Jew or Christian come into
our dominions law and custom will justify, us in
confiscating their goods, and enslaving their per
sons, indeed, when we wish lor any man s prop
erty, or services, we can easily find, or make, a
law, that will justify our conduct. And should
you be raised to the Presidency, and carry
out your principles, as a man, yon may immortaK
ize your own name, and teach a lesson to the
world, that will not soon be forgotten. Only think
how easy it will be for you to convert white men,
as well as black men, into property, to declare that
every laborer, his wife and children, are properly ;
and that all foreigners, who land on you r shores,
shall be reduced to slavery, and sold as property.
Nay, more, carry out your principles, and make a
law, that all the fanatics shall be deemed and held
as property, that your political opponents shall be
educed to slavery, and held as property, nnd that
every man, who dares to dispute your principles
shall be deemed as goods, chattels, and in all re
spects treated as suih. What a golden rule ! ! It
works both ways, on white as well as black, in re
publican America as well as in the States of Bar-
bary. And wherever itcan be maintained, it will
teach all, who were made to labour for their supe
riors to take their proper place ; and to pay that
jonor and respect to their masters and superiors,
which becomes the dignity of their station. .
1 believe, Brother Clay, that you must have the
honor of first broaching the orthodox sentiment,
that two hundred years of legislation has sancti
fied negro slaves as property. And I suppose, by
parity of reasoning, two hundred years of legis
lation will sanctify Christian slaves as property.
Good : very good. You will not then be offend
ed, should the high destinies of America be placed
in your hands, if my loyal subj ects should peca-
sionally seize on some of your people, who maybe
cast on our shores, and sanctify thorn as property.
he practice has long been sanctioned by my
predecessors, and if they have not sanctified it, they
have gained something from it. And gain, you
know, is godliness with sqine good MosIem as
well ns Christians. ,
It is pleasing to find, thnt sentiments nnd prac
tices, which have long prevailed among the Bar-
bary Powers, are sanctioned by honorable Sena
tors in America. And we cannot but hope, that
in your country the abstract notions that art men
are born equal a?id have certain inalienable righls
will soon be exploded ; and that the good old In
stitutions of Morocco will he established under
your auspices in every part of your-Republic. -
Health and fraternity !
Hamet, Morocco.
After reading such a friendly letter from one
great man to another great man, who can doubt of
the wisdom of electing Henry Clay President of
these United States; that he may have a fair op
portunity to carry out his principles, and raise these
States to a rank as enviable, as that held by the,
polished and enlightened States of Barbary ?
Letter from J. Ilolcomb.
Brandon, May 27, 1S3 9.
Brother Knai'p : I notice with pleasure iu
your paper of the 25th inst. a sketch from the
Herald of Freedom touching Lieutenant Govern
or Camp'n A. S. address. Now sir, I am not of
the class termed 'legal,' neither do I profess to.
understand looking back to find what people tho't
or meant, when they signed a solemn compact, or
agreement ' or constitution. I supposed a few
years ago that the Constitution of the United Slates
sanctioned slavery, and that it would be unconsti-.
tutional to do it away. Why ? Because people
of influence told me so.
That the Constitution of the United States
sanctions the kidnapping of a citizen of this re
public or of any nation with which we are at
peace, is very much doubted In' me. I know there
is talk of persons -who are held to service of
their being returned to their masters on being
proved as actually belonging to the claimant, or
of owing him service, &e. But how comes ibis
service due ? What has the fugitive done that
he should forfeit the service of a whole life?
Does the Constitution say that because a child has
a colored mother who has been robbed of her
rights both natural and moral, it has been guilty
of crime ? No. Does that child in becoming a
man, violating nt no time, laws passed in accord
ance with the Constitution of the United States,
grow guilty as he advances in life? No. Where
then i3 the Constitntianal toleration of American
slavery ? I say it is no where to be found. It is
nothing but ' usage' and1" common fame' that an
cient, notable pair, the destroyers of-human hap
piness and subverters of Bible principles, which
have for centuries ' gone about like a roaring lion
seeking whom they might devour,' that have
taught this doctrine. I believe that should a
slave escape from the clutches of his pretended
master come into this State be taken on claim
of said master proof should be adduced to show
the fugitive to be a slave of said claimant accortk
ino- to the laws of the State from which he fled
judgment be rendered accordingly, and the case be
appealed until it reached the highest juuiciai trin
burial in the United States ; that individual must
l declared innocent according to the letter of the
Constitution of the United States.- Should the
plaintiff plead that the laws this Stale created
liiin ,lhe owner of defendant, I think the Judge
(unless he was a slaveholder) must say, the Con
stitution of the United States knows nothing of
robbery it recognizes no right in you to own the
service of your fellow being for life against his
consent ' depart from me ye worker of iniqui
ty,' I am aware that this sentiment is at variance
with the opinions of a large majority of Abolition
ists and of others also in the Northern State?. I
think I can readily account for it. People have
been in the habit of looking up to others as guides,
instead of examining principles and facts. Here
is the danger. The more people read and exam
ine for themselves, the better enabled will they bo
to form correct opinions. And I believe the time
is not far distant, when many, very many, will
look back and wonder that they had so often taken
usage and common fame, for matter of fact. But
1 will dwell no longer at tins time on that subject,
leaving it to those more versed in constitutions
laws and their true foundations.
I have noticed that some Editors are taking ad
vantage of the misunderstanding- of delegates at
our last anniversary, on one or two questions.
The principle on which ladies were considered
members of convention, seems to be as prominent
as any one, X am lully convinced that there was
in reality an entire misunderstanding of that ques
tion among those present. I believe some thought
that should the fair sex be admitted to vote in that
assembly, it would be understood as the voice of
the American Av S, Society, that they were
proper persons to vote in nil places and on all oc
casions. 1 did not so understand it, 1 did not
consider that question as at all tested, 'I receiv
ed it as a question of right according to the Consti
tution of the American A. S. Society and noth
ing more. . As to the abounding love of many
Editors and Ministers laymen and other pious
men who feel such great sympathy for the enslav
ed who hate slavery in the abstract and the doc
trine ol immediate emancipation in the concrete,
(especially while Mr. Garrison is iu the ranks) I
would ask what is that love good for? If I see a
neighbor who is in need of my aid in raising a
house orbarnTrrl profess it my duty to aid him
go until I get in sight of the frame and there be
hold a man. who 'is an excellent hand at raising,
but is a skeptic or infidel, or a close, communion
Baptist or a believer in infant sprinkling, or a Uni
versalis!, I at once became horror struck, and tell
the owner I feel great sympathy for him I know
it is my duty to aid him that he cannot raise his
building alone, but I cannot lift unless he will
turn off the object of my dislike. He replies,
" the man you dislike is a first rate hand fq raise,
and we dqn't know how to dispense wiih, his ser
vices anu you need not emorace his. seniimeius
or religion by helping me raise my house.; I want
you both, but cannot turn him off for the-purpose
of getting your aid, If you feel jtvour duty to
heln me I sbnu Id like it. but want him too. I
turn away in disgust at his commuifioii (wlple rais
ing his frame) with the othcr; ;
While conversing with some ministers anu oili
er men on this suDjecf mtiy vm imjun icuyc
immediate emancipation to he pqrrect. I would
ask them then to preach and hold forth that doc
trine publicly. !Ah ! If yqu, vill turn Olr. Gar
rison opt of your ranks, we yvill go yjth you.
But until then you must do your own work. Our
bowels of compassion yearn over the slave, but
Garrison is a dangerous man.' I must confess, sir,
that I have of late been led to doubt tho honesty
of some such professors. ,