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ALLEN &, POLAND, Publishers. Published under the sanction of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society. . CIIAUNCEY L. KNAPP, Editor.
VOLUME I. lHOiTPELIEK, VEKMOKT,' AUGUST 10, 1839, NUiYfllEUR 39.
Circnlar.
To Baptist Conventions, Minhters, Churches, and
Congregations in the United Stales of Ameri
ca, Friends of the Poor Slave, and Advocates
of Immediate Emancipation.
Dearly Beloved in the Lord :
We the undersigned, address you as Baptized
Believers, in the name of the Great Head of the
Church, and of his suffering poor. In the opin
ion of a meeting of Baptist Abolitionists, held this
day in the city of New York, and whose repre
sentatives we are, the period has arrived when
some judicious measures should be taken to call a
National Baptist Convention, to prepare the way
for organizing an American Baptist Anti-Slavery
Society.
The providence of God seems to have caused a
necessity for such an organization. And while we
do not aim to array ourselves against any well
"managed societies already in existence, we think
it obvious that, as Baptists, we can now accom
plish more by laboring on our own platform, than
in any other way.
We therefore whose names are annexed, cordi
ally address to you this Circular. You will ob
lige us by sending your names as soon as conve
nient, should you approve the object contemplated
to either of the following brethren : Editors Advo
cate & B.iptist, Portland, Me. ; Editor Baptist
Register, Concord, N. H.; Editor Telegraph,
Brandon, Vt.; Editor Christian Keflector, Worces
ter, Mass.; Rev. Elon Galusha, Perry, Genesee
County, Western N. Y.; Rev. Nathaniel Colver,
Greenwich, Washington County, N. Y.; Rev. R.
Tumbull, Hartfdffl, Conn.; Rev. L. Fletcher,
Spread Eagle, Chester Co. Pa.; Rev. Samuel
Aaron, Burlington, N. J.; Editor Philanthropist,
Cincinnati, Ohio ; all of whom, and any others
who may receive them will please transmit the
names they obtain to Rev. Duncan Dunbar, or
to either member of the Central Corresponding
Committee, located for the purpose in the city of
N. York. The Committee will then be assem
bled, when the names which have been received
will be appended to the Call, the time and place of
holding the Convention fixed, and both the Call
and Ad'.li'e? ho circulated throughout the land.
Finally, brethren, let us exhort one another to
increased diligence and more fervent prayer in this
holy cause. Let us be up and doing ; "and so
much the more as we see the day approaching. '
We remain, affectionately,
Your brethren in a precious Redeemer,
Cvnus P. GitosvENOR, Chairman ;
Charles W. Denison, Secretary,
of a meeting of Baptist Abolitionists, held this day
in the city' of New York, (May 11th, 1839,) and
signed in the name and by the authority of said
meeting.t ' , ,
First Meeting of the Central Corresponding Com
mittee. At a meeting of the Central Corresponding Com
mittee of Baptist Abolitionists, held on the 13th of
May, 1339, Kcv. Duncan Dunbar was chosen
chairman, and Rev. C. W. Denison, Secretary.
It was on motion,
Resolved, That the individuals mentioned in the
draft of n Circular adopted at the General Meet
ing held last week, be earnestly requested to pro
cure a? many names as possible to be affixed to
the call, and to forward them immediately 'o the
Chairman of this Committee.
Resolved, That the editors of Baptist papers
nnd all others friendly to the cause of the oppress
ed, be desired to publish as much of our proceed
ings as they shall deem likely to bs useful to the
cause.
Adjourned to one fortnight from this day, at
11 o'clock, A. M. Signed,
Duncan Dunbar, Chairman.
C. W. Denison, Secretary.
The Committee are: Rev. Duncan Dunbar, Chairman,
Rev. Charles VV. Denison, Secretary, Rev. Messrs. Ze
lotea Grenell, and John T. Raymond, and Br. J. C. Mc
Cormick, t The circular was prepared and presented to the Meet
ing by a Committee of which Rev. D. Dunbar was chair
man, and was unanimously adopted by the Meeting.
From he Emancipator.
OHIO.
The fruits of the "Servile Law" are being ap
parent. The Painsville Republican of July 4th
says : .
"We cannot assert any thing of our own knowl'
edge, but we have heard, and we believe the sto
ry, that within a lew weeks, sixty-lour runaway
slaves from Virginia, have passed through Ashta
bula county for Canada. Such now is the Gov
ernment of Canada, that the white people are mov
ing out, and the black people are moving into it.
We hope such will never be the case here. It is
a fact not generally known here, that a colored
man residing in this village, travels over different
and distant parts of the State, delivering lectures
and receiving contributions."
The aforesaid "colored man" is somewhat
known in this section of the country, and believed
to be a swindler. The Ohio City Transcript, of
the same date, says !
"The last Cleveland Observer (a religious anti-
slavery journal) contains a letter purporting to
com from a fugitive slave, announcing the arrival
of himself and fifteen others jn Upper Canada.
We suppose that these nre the -fugitives to whom
the Wheeling Times had reference, a week or two
since, stating that a letter had been received
from Ashtabula.giving the information that fifteen
slaves were then secreted at that place, waiting an
opportunity to be conveyed to Canada. We doubt
ed the truth of the report at the time, but it now
appears that such was the fact. The Observer in
commenting upon this letter, makes use of the fol
lowing expressions i
" 'The friends of the slave will rejoice to read
the following letter, The fugitive law in Ohio,
in practice is a nullity. It cannot be generally
executed. Abolition lines run through every part
of the Slate, and there are those who will feed the
hungry, clothe the naked, and house the houseless
black man though he be, on his passage from ser
vitude to the land of liberty.' " j
The Kentucky "Commonwealth," of June 25
publishes the Ohio Service Bill, accompanied
with the following remark:
"This law has had the happiest effect upon the,
public mind in this State, in allaying those angry
feelinffs which threatened to disturb the peace of
two neighboring commonwealths. Ohio has man
ifested her willingness to do right, and Kentucky
asked no more than was necessary for her own
security."
Glad Kentucky is satisfied. Hope she will re
main so.
I he Columbian County Anti-Slavery bociety
met at New Lisbon, June 21. A committee of
that society have procured the establishment of
two schools for the colored people, having together
about 50 scholars. I he people themselves paid
$(32 for the winter session, and the county paid
$24. For the summer the people have pledged
$21 and the Society $30.
"The committee would further add that, in their
opinion, the improvement among the scholars has
more than equalled our expectations, and that the
funds of the anti-slavery societies cannot be better
expended than in the promotion of education a
mong this neglected portion of our race."
Resolutions were passed, condemning the black
law, and discountenancing its execution by pub
lic officers. Also recommending Aug. Wattle's
manual labor school, and appropriating $45 to its
establishment. Also advising meetings of the lo
cal societies on the first of August, recommending
A. S. Libraries, appointing six lecturers for the
county, and directing their Executive Committee
to question candidates for office. The following
resolutions are excellent :
"Resolved, That a nation's liberties are inse
cure when their only sure foundation has been re
moved, a conviction in the minds of the people
that their rights and liberties are the cift of God,
and cannot be violated without incurring his dis
pleasure. "Resolved, That the ministers of the different
churches who, in the midst ol derision and re
proach, have based themselves upon the broad
platform of human sympathy and Christian duty,
and have identified themselves with the cause of
the poor down-trodden slave, are entitled to their
highest esteem and respect.
"Resolved, That the ministers who strive with
all their influence to embarrass the anti-slavery
cause, are flagrantly guilty of the sin of slave
ry-
"The citizens of Putnam held a meeting on the
4th of June, says the Ohio Statesman, and passed
resolutions strongly deprecating the course of the
abolitionists. One of the resolutions is in the fol
lowing words :
"Resolved, That we will be united in moral and
legal endeavors to prevent any more abolition con
ventions being held in this town. That is, the
mobosrats of Putnam and Zainsville are to 'be n
nited in moral and legal endeavors' to egg and
choke abolitionists, burn down barns, and mob
them even to death, if necessary. This is perfect
ly consistent with the code of morals avowed and
practised upon by the North and South. Will
the South thank them for their servility ? 'What
has the North to do with slavery? Aurora.
From the Pennsylvania Freeman.
Triumph of Truth.
The followinsr eloquent extract 13 from the re
port of the Susquehanah Anti-Slavery and Free
Diccussion Society, which was read at their last
anniversary on the -4th of Seventh month. It is
a correct view of the great contest which is now
going on in the world, and particularly in our own
country. Principles resting on the basis of immu
table truth, will never be shaken amid the shock
of contending elements. They nre deeply inbed-
ded on a foundation which remains eternally and
unchangeably the same ; and becoming the strong
pillars in the superstructure which we build, we
have the undoubtinjr assurance that we labor not
in vain. Let such be our hope and our confi
dence.
The crreat Truths which are now going forth
in our land, and are doing battle with Error, de
rive much of their sablimity from the very myste
ry that enshrouds their operations and their pro
gress. Their achievements may, for the moment,
attract less of the world's gaze, than a victory like
that of Pharsalia or Waterloo ; although their in
fluences upon the world, are infinitely more irn
portantand more lasting. The progress of a war
may be distinctly traced ; the deadly array the
fierce conflict the blood the death the triumph
or the downfall and the wide-spread desolation
all address themselves at once to the senses, and
produce effects palpable and immediate. Such
struggles are readily appreciated by the vulgar
mind' Far different is the moral warfare. The
mighty assailant is invisible, ethereal her arena
is the heart, and the judgement and her victory
will be first over abstract error and prejudice, then
over those visible effects, which appear in the shape
of stripes and chains and blood. Truth marches
not like an invading arrry, from fortress to for
tress, and from battle-field to battle-field, in her
course of subjugation she consults not time,
place, circumstance, nor knows art and stratagem ;
but descends at once into her field, and grapples
with every foe. And while the vulgar observer
of outward manifestations, may lament the link
added to slavery's chain, the riot, and the murder,
which he calls effects;' the philanthropist sees in
them only' an evidence of the unsseed struggle,
and of the feeble and temporary resistance of er
ror. The crimes perpetrated at Utica, Phidadel
PHiAnnd Alton the strife in neighborhoods, and
the divisions in churches, grow not out of the op
erations of Truth, but out of the opposition raised
to her progress, by Error. It is not the Anti, but
the 2Jro-Slavery man, who is chargeable with
their criminality. Shall Virtue cease to enlight
en, to reform, to save; because opposing Vice
strives to degrade, to darken, to destroy ? Shall
inviting Heaven drop its drapery of glory, because
gaping Hell still calls for its myriad victims? No.
Truth must go forth as she is ; immaterial, indes
tructable, omnipotent, from the hands of her Au
THonpassing unschathed, and unobstructed thro'
the fagot, the prison, and the fetter stirring, ex
citing and crushing all opposition and flying
back to her spirit home, only when her triumph
is complete, and the peace of virtue is established.
Then follows the mild and peaceful genius of e
mancipation, infusin? new hopes in the breast of
desponding patriotism, and putting rejoicing upon
the lips of disenthralled and redeemed millions.
Such is the course, and such are the principles, of
every moral reform, since the world began ; and
no one, who is at all acquainted with their history,
can doubt the ultimate success of anti-shivery
truths in our land.
From Zion'i Watc hman.
"I am an Abolitionist but''
"J am an a,nti-slavery man, but cannot go all the
meausres of modern abolitionists."
The above is an extract from the professed creed
of probably three-fourths of all the anti-abolitionists
of the North. The number who will appeal
to God's revealed Word, for proof, in favor of A
merican slavery, is at present small, and the num
ber who will attempt to maintain that ground, re
minds us of the defeated king of Sodom and Go
morrah, in the Slime pits of Skldim's Vale. The
objections, nt present, then, are not so much a-
gainst the principles, as the odious measures of
abolitionists. That there have been some among
the abolitionists, who, in their zeal have adopted
measures which are somewha, objectionable, we
do not pretend to deny; but we ask, what cause
is there under heaven, but some of its advocates
have adopted objectionable measures ? We all know
that even among the professed friends of Christ's
religion, there are some who have adopted wrong
measures, but yet, we, who are christians in prin
ciple, do not think that a sufficient reason, why
we should give our influence and support to infi
delity. But what are those measures which ore
so repulsive as to cause our anti-abolition friends,
to stand aloof, and give their influence against
what they consider true and correct principles ?
First, "Abolitionists represent all slaveholders
as sinners against God, and in the road to hell."
That abolitionists say that all slaveholding, to
say the least of it, is keeping back by fraud, the
hire of those who have reaped down the fields ;
and of course, sinful in the sight of God, we do
not deny ; but whether all the slaveholders are in
the road to hell or not, is a question we do not
pretend to decide. How much allowance God
may make for their early impressions, and their
present prepossessed views, and strong prejudices,
in favor of their "Divine Institution," is what we
are not able to determine. No temperance man
has any hesitation in saying, rum selling, and rum
drinking are acts of sin against Cod : yet, no one
will say that all who sell, or drink run., nre in the
road to hell. The last clause, then, of the above
objection is an "anti-abolitonist" mistake.
Another objection is, "Slaveholders are repre
sented as being ignorant." We do not object to
the charjre : but ask how they can be otherwise ?
We do not accuse them of beincr imiorant about
everything; but simply the' sin of slavery. We
admit they have more to do with slavery than we
have, and that is the prominent reason why they
are ignorant of its true character. We do not go
to the highway robber and hear him tell how gen
teelly he has taken his neighbor's purse, and how
well he has used those from whom he has taken
the last dollar, in order to know whether it is a
sin to steal. Who would think of going to the
"gate way of hell'' to inquire about the sin of li
centiousness ? as soon as to our southern prison
house, to inquire about the sin of slavery? It is
natural for man to reject the light, when lie knows
it will prove his guilt. No man would expose his
diseased eyes to the direct rays of the sun, when
he knew it would prove their ruin: and what
slaveholder will open his mind to receive plain,
logical arguments against the sin of shivery, when
he knows by so doing, a thorn will pierce his al
ready troubled breast; or he be compelled to let
the oppressed go free, by breaking off every yoke
from his human beasts of burden, and making
men and women of his goods and chattels. Ig
norance is the only plea .we can make for our
southern brethren : take tlm from us and you de
prive us of the last and only apology we have for
slaveholders.
H. Dunn.
North Ferrisburgh, Vt,
The Mobocrats J
WHY NOT ENSLAVE THEM .
It would only be turning upon them with their
own logic, and treating them accordin? to their
own doctrines. Occasions are not wantinsr ; look
at the following :
Riot. On Sunday night, the 20th ult there
was a tremendous fight among the Corkonians and
Fardowns enjra";ed at Burrell's Mills, and other
sections between this and Tarrytown. Firearms
were resorted to, shanties torn down, nnd several
were severely injured. Many of the offenders
were taken, and carried before the court then sit'
ting at Bedford. The ringleaders escaped. Hud
son River Chronicle.
Why not enslave them ? The popular doctrine
is, that the laborers in the southern states must
be kept in slavery," for fear they will be riotous
and unruly, if suffered to go free. A poor . rule
that won't work both ways! Why don't those
who believe in the doctrine, make a move for en
slaving nil our mobocrats high and low "gen
tlemen ot property and standing among the rest ?
Or if this would'nt be popular at first, just begin
with the loafers the grog-shop gentry the rot
ten egg corps. Nobody will miss them much in
society. The "respectable gentlemen" who set.
them on, would make very good slaveholders, no
doubt, and "treat (?) them well !', as they are al
ready aocustomed to do. Gov. McDuffie has said
they must be made slaves, in order to make prop
erty secure from their depredations, and they seem
determined to fulfil the prediction. All the logic
of the anti-abolitionists calls loudly for their en
slavement. They are no "better off" than the
slaves ! They "can't take care of themselves !"
"We shall be overrun with them !" "We can't
keep them in subjection." "They are not prepar
ed for freedom."
If the colored population must be held in fetters
for fear they would be riotous, what logic under
heaven can preserve the actual rioters themselves
from being fettered ? We speak not in jest or in
irony, we confidently ana seriously predict mat
if the anti-abolition doctrine prevails, there will be
laws for enslaving riotous northern loafers, iu less
t'.iau twenty-five years from the time Gov. Mc.Duffie
predicted it. Friend of Man.
From the Rochester Freeman.
The following statistical account was taken
from the Albany Eve. Journal, a pnppr that is not
by any means devoted to the cause of abolition.
If slaveholders do not see, in this statement, the
ill effect of their favorite institution, it is because
they are not willing to look at the subject as it is.
The abolitionists are the true friends of the South.
They say to the South, abolish slavery, and em
ploy free labor ; adopt a right system of agricul
ture, and then you will shortly, "not only rival the
North in commerce, but your lands, instead of be
ing worth six or eight dollars per acre, will be
worth, as they are in New York and Pennsylva
nia, from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars.
The South are deceived by the pro-slavery mer
chants of the North. They fan the flame of anti
abolition to please the slave-holder, and to induce
him to view till this in the light of friendship,
knowing that as long as slavery exists they are
under no apprehensions of rivalship IVoin south
ern merchants. But without dwelling longeron
this subject, let every Southerner carefully read
and consider the following statement; and if he
cannot fairly attribute the great decline of com
merce with them, and the increase of it with us,
to any thing but slavery on the one hand, and
freedom on the other, he ought to view those who
are earnestly engaged in pleading the cause of u
uiversal ind immediate emancipation as the true
friends of the South. Let him study the work
ing of emancipation in the West India Islands ;
but don't let him be deceived by drawing his con
clusions from the distorted accounts in many of
the newspapers, in which the writers have some
private interest or the gratification of some pique
in view. But let him go to all the documentary
evidence that has been published, such as the offi
cial communications of the Marquis of Sligo, Sir
Lionel Smith, the Queen's speeches, &c. &c.
Let him study the work of Thome and Kimball,
which he will find rep'e'e with documentary evi
dence that cannot be resisted. If he will lay aside
his prejudice.and enter on the study of this subject
in earnest, he will see the good policy of that sys
tem, which would instantly change their millions
of slaves into freemen. Then, instead of "the
wolf returning after the lapse of an hundred yean,
to howl over the desolations of slavery," as one of
Virginia's representatives, a few years since, said
of her, we should shortly see her old barren fields,
'flourish and blossom as the rose."
Decline of Southern Commerce. The report
of a committee of the Southern Convention,
which was held last April, in Charleston, furnish
es the following table, showing the comparative
progress of commerce of the North and South.
The statistics of the United States enable us to
present the following statements exhibiting at one
view the rise, progress and decay of Southern
commerce. They are extracted from one of the
documents formerly published by this Convention
and show that the time was when the people of
the South were the largest importers in the couiv
try.
In 1769, the value of the imports of the scvera
colonies were as follows :
Virginia, .851,110 sterling
New England States, 561,000 - "
New York, 159,000
Pennsylvania, 400,000
South'Carolina, 555,000
The exports were in about the same proportion:
Virginia exported nearly four times as much as
New York ; and South Carolina nearly twice a
much as New York and Pennsylvania together;
and five times as much ns all the New England
States united.
. The same relative proportions of imports is pre
served until the adoption of the Federal Constitu
tion, when we find them to he in the year 1791 a.4-
follows :
New York, $3,222,000
Virginia, 2,430,000
South Carolina, - 1,520,000
There are no data to show the imports into the
several States from the year 1791, to 1820, but
the general fact may be assumed, that 'he impori
trade of New York and other Northern States ha.'
been constantly prooreissiuo, while that of Virgin
ia and South Carolina has as regularly diminish
ed. From 1821 to the present time, we have suf
ficient data, and they exhibit the following as the
state of the import trade :
New York. Virginia. S. Carolina
1721, $23,000,000 $1,078,000 3,000,000
1522. 35,000,000 804,000 2,000,000
1523, 29,000,000 (:S3,000 2,000,000
1824, . 36,000,000 639,000 2,400,000
1S25, 49,000,000 553,000 2,150,000
1827, 39,000,000 431,000 l,800,00g
1829, 43,000,000 375,000 1,240,000
1S32, 57,000,000 550,000 1,213,000
Thus the import trade of New York has grad
ually increased from jC1S9,000 sterling, about
$S40,000 in the year 1769, and from about three
millions of dollars in 1791, to the enormous sum
in 1832, of fifty-seven millions of dollars ! While
Vinrinia has fallen off in her import trade from
two a nd a half millions of dollars in 1791 to $375,
000 in 1529, and $550,000 in 1S32, not a great
deal more than the freight of half a dozen ships !
From these calculations, a few curious facts ap-
n. . . f r . t- i ni.,
pear. Ihe imports oi new hoik were, m ioo,
seventy times as great as they were in 1759, -nnd
nearly twenty limes more than they were in 1791.
Virginia, on the other hand, imported in liSiv, a-
bout one eleventh of what she did in 1769, nnd
about one seventh of what she did in 1791, In a
period, too, of eight years, the argrtgnte imports
of New York amounted to three hundred and e
leven millions of dollars ; those of South Caroli
na to about sixteen millions, nnd those of Virginia
to about hva millions! New York imported,
therefore, in 1832, eleven limes as much as Vir
ginia did in eight years preceding, and nearly four
times as much as bouth Carolina did in eight
years preceding. Again, New York imported in
one year (1S32) nearly fifty limes as much as
South Carolina in the same year, and 110 times
as much as Virginia,
Politicians.
We have all along affirmed that abolitionists cart
place no reliance on politics or politicians. They
will never turn their caucuses into anti-slavery con
certs of prayer, or "deliberate assemblies" into
meetings, for fanatical discussion. They havH
larger business on hand. They have "other fish
to fry," even the "two fishes" of the "loaves and
fishes" of office. "Seven principles has" such a
politician, said John Randolph seven, viz : 6
loaves and 2 fishes. Randolph's eccentricity a
rose from his uncongeniality with party. He is
said to have been inclined to honesty in politics.
That may have won for him the reputation of in
sanity or if he was actually crazy, trying to bo
honest in politics was enough to have made him
so. A politician is on unholy ground. It is ask
ing too much of human nature to ask him to be
conscientious. Conscientiousness would be treas
on against party. Can a man be conscientious at
a horse-racing or the gambling board ? The first
workings of conscience would drive him away
Conscience in a politician would dictate to him
to resign. Virtue in a politician is fidelity to par
ty. To love party, with all the. heart, soul
strength and mind, is the first great political com
mandment and the second is like unto it, to love
a fellow partizan as himself. On these two hang
all the morality and religion of politics. Ourpar
ty, our whole party, and nothing but our party, is
the foundation of ethics of political patriotism.
"Our party, may it always be in the right, but
our party right or wrong !" Let abolitionists
watch and pray when they enter the house of
Rinimon. If they go in there at all let them put
on the whole anti-slavery armor, for they will en
ccouner the fiery darts of the devil in rattling show
er. The duty of going in, every man must settle
for himself. We nave no advice to give touching
that matter though frequenting state houses du
ring legislative sessions, sorely tries our educated
notions of the Divine right of human governments.
Another 30. days sitting of our general court, if
that is a fair sample, would cure us of all our ear
ly prejudices, to say the least. Herald cf Free-dom.
Alton and the Fourth.
Who would have thought that the citizens of
Alton of murderous, bloody Alton while her
streets are yet red with the blood of an American
citizen, his murderers unhung, and their abbettors
still walking in the light of the sun, would dare let
commemorate the birth-day of freedom ! Yet so
it is : and they do it too with as much seeming
patriotism as though the constitution and laws of
the land reigned, instead of the mob as though
the city had been purged of blood, by those who
shed it. Only Tead their toasts, and see with
what cool deliberation they profane the name of
liberty how proudly they boast of our conslittw
tion and laws, as though they were indeed a pro
tection to the innocent. The following are a part
of their " regular toasts :"
The Constitution of tie United States. While
its principles are held sacred by the people and
their representatives, " the Union must arid will
be preserved."
The people of the United Stales. For half a
century they have proved to the world that man is
capable of self government.
Fourth of July, 1776 The birth day of civil
liberty may it never find a grave in the country
that gave it birth.
The birth day is still remembered, but the child;
has found a grave in Alton.
Freedom of Speech and Liberty cf the Press
The great safety valves of our political sys
tern.
The safety valves were closed at Alton.
The following are " volunteer toasts :"
Freedom of Thmight and Action. Free from
all dictation, and from'all hypocrisy.
Think of Lovejoy !
The True Spirit of Liberty That which ex
tinguishes party spirit in devotion to the public
good. That which compels sectarian dogmas to
give place to moral virtues.
That sounds like Alton. Tis such as might ba
expected from the leader of a mob.' Ohio Fret
Press,
From the Herald of Freedom.
" Slave Trade.
Recent developments prove that the slave-trade
is still carried on with as much atrocity as even
(1) Not to thij countiy, unless by stealth. Bui
with Cuba and South America, and also with A
rabia and Mahomedan countries. It is estimated
by Mr. Buxton, of England that not less than
350,000 nre annually torn from their country.-
And the horrors of the middle passage are aug
mented : not so much room is allowed now for
stowage as when the slavetrade was an open busi-
ness.(z) Cilavers tninu tney mawe a goou voyage ii
they do not loose more than two thirds of their
cargo. Ihe slaves are uuter iocs 10 LOiomzauon,
because they know that just so far as Colonization
prevails on the coast, so far are they retarded in
tlieir work. (3) If the colonists had power they
would soon put an end to the business on the
African shores. (4)
What maybe surprising,' American merchants
are engaged in this traffic. (5) The American con
sul at Havana has afforded the facilities, by giv
ing false pnpers to vessels that were going out.
O, accursed thirst for gold !(6) But while we cen
sure there, wa do not extenuate the guilt of the
traffic in our own country. It is to be condemned
here and every where.'(7)
bull, that this horrid traffic should even nowba
carried on, and that so many slaves should be
dragged into slavery, is loo much for belief in thin
19ih century of the christian era:(o) but fads sub
stantiate it. Ihe proofs aie undoub'ablc, and the
hands of Americans are stained with the blood of
Africans. O when shall the gospel null hard
hearts, and bring men under the iufluence of that
gospel which proclaims peace and good will to al
mankind i(U)-l.nristian Panoply.
(1) So it is, and so it must be so long as white
christians will buy the victims of the felon trader
and conspire to send out into barbarism and ob
ivion their colored countrymen because they are
free.
(2) e have never doubted that it was an ag