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E. A. ALLEN, Publisher. Published under the sanction of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society. C. L. KNAPP, Editob.
VOLUME I. MOWTPELIEU, VERMONT, DECEMBER 14, 1830. NUMBER .10.
From the Washington Globe.
" $700 Reward.
" Kan away from the subcriber, living one and
a half miles south of Leesburg, Loudon county,
Virginia, on the night of the 2(5th of Oct., SEV
EN SLAVES, a woman and six children; the
woman, Patty, rather a bright mulatto, about 35
years oi age, rather under the middle size, with
her upper front teeth out, full mouth, and high
cheek bones; her eldest daughter named Sophia,
and calls herself Sophia Purceli, about sixteen
years old, a bright mulatto, and very likely ; the
next a boy about twelve years of age, calls him
self Tho's Douglass, with large front teeth, a very
snrip-htlv mulatto: the next oldest calls himself
Charles Douglass, about ten years old, a blight
mulatto, ve'ry likely, and stammers in his speech ;
the next oldest named Maria Douglass, about
eight years old, rather lighter colored than the rest,
full mouthed and likely ; the next oldest named
Vincent Douglass, about six years old, rather dark
er than the older ones ; the next named Agnes
Douglass, about three years old, and rather the
blackest of any of them. The above slaves were
carried off by a free man who calls himself Vin
cent, Douglass, and who is the father of most of the
children, tolerably black, about forty years old,
j'fSVe feet eight inches high, stout made, quite in
telligent and free spoken, and who has been track
ed to the District of Columbia, and most likely is
making to the North, or may be lurking about the
District seeking an opportunity, and who has some
money. The above reward shall be given if they
are taken in Pennsylvania, and $500 if they are
all taken in Maryland or the District, and $400
jf taken in Virginia, and secured so that I get
them, or in proportion for any, or 100 for Vin
cent Douglass, if he can be convicted of theft :
and it is quite probable that the woman has forged
free papers. They are travelling in a hack or
rarrvall. as much concealed as possible.
We beg leave to assure " Joseph Mead, of Lees-
burg, Loudon county," that we make no charge
whatever for the above insertion. We are duly
,1 with the enorrnitv" of the outrage of
which it gives the details and we wish to let even
the abolitionists know, whafdisastrous consequen
ces arc resulting from their movements. This ir
respective of color doctrine of theirs, is playing the
mischief with the " institutions" of our country.
The free colored man in the North is becoming
"saucy" enough to claim his rights, as a man and
a citizen ; and in the slave states, he has the au
dacity to steal his own wife, and his six children,
from their "lawful owner.' Let abolitionists think
of this result of their labors. What other fruit
could they expect to grow from their doctrine of
"doing right, regardless of consequences?"
We think this is a peculiarly hard case. We
have been accused of unkindness and severity to
wards slaveholders heretofore, but thisbereavement
of Joseph Mead, touches our sensibilities. He isa
Pennsylvanian by birth the son of honest Quaker
parents, in one of the green vallies of our Allega
nies where he used to wear a" plain coat," and sit
in " monthly meeting." He went down South,
nnd there became " one of our southern brethren,"
and slavery became " entailed" upon him. Now
this slave holding is one thing for a native Virgini
an, who has from his youth up been taught tobe-
lieve that raising slaves for the South and South
S West is the great end and aim of life ; and quite
another thing, for a man who has just slipped out
ol his yualcer coai, anu wnu tun icium u u.i ,.
'collection of the good old " testimony" of Friends
about this human merchandise business.
Joseph, we may naturally, suppose, must nave
had a sore trial in accommodating himselt to his
" vocation."-' And it is particularly aggravating,
That just at this lime, when he got the better of
his Pennsylvanian conscience, and laid the ghost
of all his Quakerly reminiscences, just as he was
beginning to fancy himself a veritable Patriarch,
vih " servants born in his house" and just when
hifhad begun to tell his northern visitors how his
slaves got "entailed" upon him, and how he
would like to "get rid.lof them," and how " they
woiild'nt take their freedom if it wa"s offered them;"
he find himself deserted by a wholt family
hildren : not stealing away one
bv One as if ashamed ot their mgratrymer
Aj.mr vwiv. na it thev wiff dome te must
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in the world. It is a sad aliair af.
el that one has-sold himselt 15 the
sant matter' but to mourn, over
YihP monev is still worse, it
f r. .. ,Um pnd"
jTcamentoi uui uuumuoui
frv a'fhicts us. He had itseemsjust
ed in " taking tfft' account of stock,
reft services ot f proiuaaiumu
1tj" . . .ts tin unrtn
" -dltie9 10 sei a amv. ur..
V The following is a true
of appraisal :
(COPY;
) .
.Gliomas 12
Charles 10
m i
Maria 8
lucent 6
ir$2,775 00
value of:the above Ne
Knd'fa'il seveniy-nve
r i,
Wiujam K. Isn.
far be it froirftts to (insinuate the flight of
i j 1 eniranTU.lu'd rlitllntrc
u r.i,o Virginia ianinduced Joseph Mead
1 fr, o rpward of $700, through the columns ol
wurtii ui iiiu f r a
: . f .i . r Ik. i' r,.o
Mc" family, and thereby set that amiable class of
r ii.... l:,:ne whn o OW tne lauuauio uci.u-
in 'full howl after them
JTU' .cL T: " :frnm VVashinston to Philadel
ail a long vu .. f sheer
tin a. Jjetusraiuer ww . ,
bone volence,growing out of fear that they "could nt
. ,"e r ,ham,PfvfiS." We are happy, there-
Let us rather iook u" - - y-
,,tra of themselves." We are nappy
ore to have it in our power to offer some consoUr
. .... i .,a num Ptnnn. We saw a fam
i V WHICH BNSWii" y.j - fri,-.,
iription, a short time since, .in this city. They
lire
' 1S500
wMMfa. i. r iiiii
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were just preparing to make the fashionable tour of
the Canadas, and they did not seem to realize, in
the slightest degree, the fact lhat they were " run
ning away from happiness." It will be gratify
ing to their late " owner" to learn that they were
furnished, in this city, with a good store of warm
clothing for their northern journey ; and that they
seemed as happy a family as ever were gathered
under a hospitable roof.
P. S. The editor of the Globe will confer a
favor by giving the substnnce of the above for ihe
benefit of his Datron in Loudon County, and it
might save that reputable portion of his readers,
known in the abolition vocabulary as kidnappers,
who daily consult the slave advertisements of his
columns, some trouble and expense, if he would
just inform them that the whole family had safely
arrived'in Canada ; and the only " reward" which
they can now hope to obtain lor their exertions
will be the satisfaction of having done all in their
power to restore them to the "happiiifps" of a slave
plantation. Fa. Freeman.
From the Pennsylvania Freeman.
A GROAN FROM THE PATRIARCHS.
We copy from the Centreville, (Md.) Times
the following article, as one of the "signs of the
times." It will repay an attentive perusal. The
belief that slavery must soon cease in all the pro
vision growing states, is by no means confined to
Maryland, but is almost universal throughout the
South.
FHEE NEGROES AND SLAVES.
When it is too late, the people of Maryland
will begin to look for the means of protection in
their slave property. We still say slave proper
ty, although, notwithstanding slaves are recogniz
ed as property by the constitution, without which
recognition this confederation never would have
been formed, yet such has been the effect of fa
natacism and emancipation of the intermeddling
machinations of abolitionists, and the mischiev
ous agency of free negroes, that the very oiuners
of this species of property seem to begin to doubt
whether slaves are property or not and so much
has its value become impaired, in the possession
of those who reside contiguous to the non-slave-holding
states, that the question has been raised
whether they are in fact worth keeping. Either
discipline must be so much relaxed, as that the
labor of the slave will scarcely pay for his sup
pert or if forced to labor no more than is even
necessary to health and contentment, they abscond,
and passing over the lines into a non-slaveholdiug
state, are thre concealed and protected. The
number and success of elopements leave no doubt
of the establishment of a regular chain of posts
accessary to. and of systematic plans deliberately
organized for their reduction and concealment.
In these escapes the free negroes are, for the most
part undoubtedly instrumental, as they are to
most of the robberies committed by slaves.
While at Easton two weeks since, lh slaves of
two gentlemen made their escape, being of each,
if not recovered, a loss of one thousand dollars
and the firm persuasion was, that in both cases,
the negroes were furnished with passes by a free
negro barber. Even if apprehended, these gen
tlemen will have been put to the expense of not
less than three hundred dollars, and this without
the slightest pretext of ill usage or any unkind
ness. The usual process is, when the owner is sup
posed to have despaired of his recovery, for some
abolition or free negro lawyer to open a corres
pondence with the owner representing the runa
way to be in Canada, or otherwise beyond appre-
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hension coolly adding, wun a inyuwuymuii a
impudence, take that or nothing and the owner
has to put up with a total loss, or compromise for
a third of the value of his property the result in
either case proving an incentive to others to make
nfi in lilff? mnnner.
If the Legislature would require the owners ot
tramhnits nml railrnmls to render an account of
the number of free negroes to nnd fro, between
Mnrvlnnrl nnd Virginia, and the slates of Ue la
wn rp nnd Pennsylvania and especially those
who go between Baltimore and Philadelphia, it
tbpm eves to the extent of the inter-
course, which is maintained between the Iree ne-
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groes ot Maryland ana me jjistrici oi vuiumuia.
nnd the nholitionists of the North and all won
der would cease, if anv still exists, at the number
nf rnnnwnv netroes, their success m escaping
and their concealment. Ihe truth is, u tne
slaveholder wo.uld bring himself to look the truth
in the face, that nothing which is called property
rc nrpenrious as that which is now held in
ctnno in Mnrvlnnd nnd those who hold them
H-nnMilrvwe toma ceuD ineir minus ui mi
wlioth'tt mpnna enn be taken to secure themselves
in the.enjoyrrttent of property, which it was vainly
supposed, at the time of the confederation, was
sprnrpd to th em bv the law and the constitution
-or whether, if they cannot, they must suomii
to the necessity of securing it, while yet tney may
v, o.,i in iho Smith nr dv rroinir mere vviui it.
W thev be lorced to yield to ianaucui encruuur
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ment, the land of their fathers the finest portion
of the Union, seeking security and support in the
South or will they, or can they, mice some ei
foctual measures to guard themselves from depre
lo,; fnr rlonrpdntinn mav be commuted, as
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...pll l,.r onti.-pmnnt nwav. as bv direct invasion
nnrl eoiinrp nf votir nronertv.
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If free negroes, allies ot the abolitionists oi tne
North, cannot be banished altogether from ihe
state, can they not be prevented from passing to
,rM frn bptween the slaves in one state, and fanat-
:..o f ortinminrr nnes. actinsr ns promoters of
.inmni nml instruments ol sedition f Has not
the Legislature the power to prevent the return
into the state of all the free negroes, who go be
,l ;q limits? Have they not the power to
; i .i.o.n tn hind out. under the direction of
the Magistrates' or Orphan's Court, their chil
dren, until they arrive at a certain age, to persons
;u hr'mir thpin un in habits of honesty and
industry ? Look nt those who are free, and see
n lirtpronm in iKa nnnearance, character,. and
nnniiinn nf snrh ns nn born free, and those who
have been manumitted at mature age, by the mis
nKilnnthrnnv nf thpir masters. In nine ca
ses out of ten, the manumitted slave is as mu,ch
superior to the free' born negro ns industry nnd
honesty can render a man superior to the vagrant,
the drunkard, and the thief. With some excep
tions, it is freely admitted, it is not in their nature
to labor systematically and voluntarily tor their
living, when left to themselves. They have not
sufficient mind and sound reflection, and continu
ous resolution, to labor steadily and systematical
ly, and perseverence to provide for the day of rain
and of sickness, and for seasons of scarcity and
the helplessness of old age. Too many white
n.sn fail to do this, and the nesro, being left to
his own impulse, living in a state of political deg
radation and surveillance, is sure to become ener
vated. When prompted by actual hunger, or the
near approach of it, he will labor for an hour o.
day that gives hi in the means ot satiating nis
pnetite, and enough: besides to buy a sunicieni
measure of intoxicating liquors, lo produce intox
ication, and to this he yields himself without any
effort to resist it ; becoming in a short time the
subject of a poor house, or a tenant of the peni
tentiary. But it under tne supposition mat ineir
children were bound out to moral ana sooer peo
ple, under the euardian care of ihe Orphans'
Court, who ought to be required to take bond for
their humane and moral treatment, by the time
they come of age, they would have acquired hab
its of regular labor, and ot abstinence, with some
pride and sense of moral obligation, which would
make them useful to. the state, adding to the num
ber of efficient laborers so much needed in Ma
ryland. That the number of free blacks should
be as much as possible diminished is admitted by
all, and no measure would restrain their increase
more effectually than a prohibition of marriage
between the slave and the free ; a connection
which is pernicious and cruel in whatever light
it may be regarded pernicious because of the
contrast in their condition. The closer the com
munion between the slave and the free negro, the
more is the condition of the latter aggravated in
his own esteem and it would not be saying too
much to affirm, that far the greater number of
thefts and offences committed by slaves are the re
sult of connections with, or instigations by, those
who are free. Cruel, because it often subjects
the slave, who mav be well brought up, and oi
good character, to the mortification and distress of
seeing himself the father of a numerous offspring,
tterly incapable ot self-support ; sick ana wunoui
medicine ; hungry, and without bread so that
for their relief he must steal or starve himself.
Even the abolitionist would unite in condemning
the union of the free male with the female slave,
because thereby he adds to the number of slaves
while the s lave male cohabiting with tne iree
female, augments the list of free negroes, and
helps to perpetuate a miserable class of beings.
The slaves ure most happy in the southern
states, where the treatment is humane clothing
and provision abundant and wholesome, and the
discipline strict; and where there are no free ne
groes and abolitionists to mortify and harrass them,
keeping them in a state ot -excitement ana morti
fication. There . is not an interest that is not im
paired, by the proximity of the free states, and the
protection there afforded to slaves, nnd by the prcs-
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ence and intercommunion oi me iree wnn wie
slave neero. Even the value of land is diminish
ed by it. Maryland suffers the disadvantages of
slave state. This disadvantage consists in the
reputation (the odium north of the Deleware,) of
being a slave state. 1 lie capitalists oi me inonu
refuse on that account to invest in Maryland lands,
though they could buy land in Maryland for $20
J. . . r ii .i. .i
an acre, which is intrinsically worm inuiu uiuh
theirs, which thev could sell for an hundred
Our condition is in fact, that of neither the one
or the other, and unless something can be done to
counteract the progress of fanaticism on this sub
ject, and that abuse of strength and heedless in
justice which always follows irresponsible power
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slavery vi Maryland must cease, airier mj saie,
whue the right remains to Vie slaveioiaer, or, ere
long, by forced emancipation.
V rn nia. once nroud and independent Virginia
already half captive to the North, will soon take
her n ace ns lie irontier Slave state; ivmryiuuu
with her southern principles, eaten out by north
ern men, will then assume lo her, the relation that
Ppnnsvlvnnia now bears to Maryland nay, it is
but too obvious that as things are now working, in
process of time, and that not slowly, slavery must
cease to exist in all the provision growing states,
its northernmost line will be the lino ol the sugar,
the rice and cotton culture ; the climate alone af
fording to the slaveholder that shelter which jus
ticp ronlil not offer from the rapacity of his pursu
pre Will thp. southron still accent the shadow
without the substance of equal and confederate
powers ? Be his relation then what it may, inde
pendent, confederate, or colonial, for one, we say,
r . . . , ,M . . e .1 .1 1.
let it be denned. To the misery oi uie siavf, iui
him not add the meanness of the dupe. Let nun
rnmpmhpr that time and corruption have often
achieved what would have defied the power of the
sword; in a word, let the slaveholder think,
while yet, if yet he. has the power to act.
New Missionary Field.
Why does not either the American Board or the
Home Missionary Society establish missions, or
send missionaries, to the two and a half millions
of slaves in this Christian nation ? The Southern
Church calls them heathen, and we showed in
our last that Southern Christianity was inade
quate to their salvation. There they are perish-
nirfnnhoirnsnp . and no man cares ior men
souls. Is it said that the law ol the slavehoiuing
'"fa O . - . . , , !
states is in the way ? So they arc in China so
oro in ,r,nt r'nimtrips where we have mis-
inn Thp rn mmand of the Head of ihe Church
is, "preach the gospel to every creature. lo
matter what laws what human arrangements
:ni0.nci ilia rrntmpl must he vreached. We have
missionaries among the Indians, why not among
ihp sin vps ? It is said. " the erospel s within their
reach nominally at least." So it is in Armenia
nthor countries to
A tho P-osnel in its purity. jod
r ,lo l.io nncnnl "thp nroachinEr lhat hp
those slaves, f be word
must be received " at his mouth," and not the
slaveholder's. The Bible Society proclaimed to
family in the
nation with the Word of God, when millions nev-
..nr Ii . V hif o-rpPil. . tacitlv. with, we
slaveholder lo pass by the poor slave and leave
him to perish, is it said, this will bring us into
collision with the South ? This is what we want.
God has a controversy with them, shall hi3 people
lave IIUIIU I ilr c lou iu sue vniioiiuu m.oo.v....
ries go there in the spirit of the apostles, and
preach the gospel to the slaves; and it they are
put to death let there be the same spirit manifes
ted as when Munson and Lyman fell by foreign
violence. It is the duty of our missionary socie
ties to take the lead in this. Let the churches of
the North go with the high commission of their
Lord, and do their duty. Here is moral ground.
Try this, if political action is vrong, try this. We
hope this point will be pressed to an issue. Ad
vocate of Freedom. 5
fCT" We learn, by a recent letter from Baltimore,
that one man at least is acting in accordance with
the above sentiments. A clergyman of the Bapr
tist persuasion has been for some weeks preach
ing in that city, drawing around him immense au
diences, of all colors and classes, both bond and
free. He is bold, eloquent, and impressive re
buking a p&pular-seeking and time-serving clergy
and denouncing those who make merchandize
of their fellow-beings as " men stealers." In one
of his sermons, he took up the subject of preju
dice, and " respect of persons," and gave many
anecdotes, demonstrating the vincibility of preju
dice against color. He allows of no distinction in
this respect in his congregations, declaring that
the God whom he serves is no respecter of per-
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sons, and that no distinction oi coior exists in
Heaven. We understand an extensive and al
most unprecedented revival of religious feeling has
resulted from his labor. Pain. Freeman.
F.vtrnrls from Jnv's "View of the Action ol
the Federal Government iu Behalf of Slavery."
Second Edition.
RENEWED ACTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN
BEHALF OF THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
We have already seen the character and extent
of the aid afforded by the Government to the Colo
nization Society under pretence of providing for
recaptured Africans. Some of the southern mem
bers of Congress, not fully understanding the true
tendency of this society, and believing its influence
hostile to slavery, objected to tnis aid on constitu
tional grounds, and it was di: continued, after an
expenditure of $264,000. That the society is now
more justly estimated appears irom tne ioiiou ing
recent testimonies in its behalf.
On the 10lh of January, 1S39, Mr .Henry ise,
a member of Congress from Virginia, delivered an
address before the Colonization Society of that
State. He remarked, that a few years since lie
became suspicious of the Society i i consequence
of the sentiments avowed by some of its members.
That he had before that time been " '.he zealous
and active friend and advocate of the great origin- j
al principles of the design, fo secure ana jornjij
the institution of slavery itself by colonizing the
free people of color;" but he coniesses mat tne
line of demarcation is now too strongly drawn
between abolition and colonization ever to be cros
sed. Their principles are diametrically opposed to
each other, and their warfare will tend to press
each to occupy its appropriate ground and position.
The Colonization Society must now maimnin mat
great original principle upon which it was founded,
"friendship to the slaveholder."
In the month previous to the delivery ot tins
speech the Baldwin (Alabama) Colonization
Society issued an address rrceonimrnding coloni
zation, " Because it proposes to remove from among us
a degraded, useless, and vicious race.
" Because we consider the measure of all others
best calculated to preserve good order and proper
discipline among our slaves.
"Therefore we deem the plan of removing them
(free blacks) from the United States, the most ef
fectual method of counteracting the abolitionists.
It is known that they are the most violent oppo
nents which the scheme of colonization has to en
counter. Their penetration has discovered, its
tendency, and thev dencounce it as a scheme orig
inating among slaveholers for the perpetuation of
slavery. . .
" Nor should it be fornfotten, lhat it (Africa,)
the natural home of the negro race, and at n safe
distance, whence thev can never return to the in
jury to the slave, population." African Eipos'Uo-
ry for March, IbJV).
Thus we see that thesoceily is now regarded
as a friend and ally by both description ol slave
holders, the breeders and ilic plaidcrs. , It is not
to be supposed that Mr. Van Buren is an inatten
tive observer of the signs of the limes. Coloni
zation is just now very popular in Virginia, Gcor-
o-ia. Alabama, Mississippi mm uumMumi. un.
Clav's speech was delivered on ihe 7th February,
nml wns cerlainlv calculated to propitiate the slave
holders. He i., moreover, President ol the Co
nization Society and it would be unwise lo sitffer
him to en'Toss the influence ol the most eneciu-
nl mothod of counteraclinsr ihe abolitionists." On
the 19th of February, twelve days alter Mr. oiay s
speech, the intentions ol the government weie an
nounced in the lollow.ng letter, which "..a m:.
circulated :
1. 1 rrlit Iipvp m inform vou that the govern
nf tho United States has come lo our aid by
r,.;ci;,irr rnnnnn. small arms, both muskets, pis
,U vvnr"f!s nnd rockets, nnd an abundant supply
of ammunition, and two fine boats also made our
o-overnor their agent for recaptured Africans (!)
cnl..irw nf ffil500 a vear which is so much
iTinnpV hpsiowed on the society ; and 1 conlidentiy
" . . , ,
ihnf n shin of war will be sent to the coast
of Africa to suppress the slave trade. I here nev
or ic n (imp wtien At K'an co oiii.aiiun n.iu
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strontr claims on the benevolent public. KcKpect
fuil v yours,
' SAMUEL WILKINSON,
fieri A n" a ffhe Am. Col. Soc."
Thus while Mr. Clay can only make speeches
i r( .k o.itiHnio to aoo muni
val is lavishing upon it the public funds.under the
palpably false pretence of providing for recaptured
Africans. When ii is recollected that our mny
.ni,.rf! mo Africans, and that if we had any
...Ju Ar.:... m rpstoro to their country, they
might be sent to Liberia, in the regular vessels
at a trifling expense, it must, we think, be ad
mitted th it these appropriations to the Coloniza
tion Society, nnd this additioh of $1500 per an
num to the salary of their governor, is a fraudulent
application of the public money, to promote the
interests of slaveholders nnd the perpetuity of sla
very. There are still many at the North who view the
African slave trade with abhorrence, and groat
pains have been taken to impress thorn with the
belief, that the colonization of American negroes
upon the African coast, is the "only efficient means
of suppressing it." Here Mr. Van Buren's boun
ty to the society is regarded as his contribution to
the destruction of this commerce. The New York
Journal of Commerce affirms that the late grants
" will have an important influence in checking the
slave trade."
African negroes, we well know, sell every
slave exported from that continent ; we have the
testimony of Mr. Madison that the white citizens
of the southern States would not have entered the
American Union, had they no, have been indul
ged in the African trade for twenty years; and,
even now, many of them are anxious for its re
storation. But American negi-ocs transported to
Africa, will put to the blush the civilization, and
Christianity, and chivalry of the South, and will
manfully resist the temptation to which multitudes
of our own citizens readily yielded, of making
merchandize of their fellow men ! Do we. seek
to solve this enigma by a reference to the vwral
character of our free negroes ? Mr Clay, the .
President of the Society, assures us, lhat they
are, " of all descriptions of our population, the
most corrupt, depraved and abandoned ;" and Mr.
Mercer', a Vice-Pscsident, pronounces them " a
horde of miserable people the objects of univer
sal suspicicion subsisting by plunder." So far
from the Liberian colony being a restraint on the
slave trade, it will become a rendezvous for sla
vers, and the colonists themselves will be either
their victims or factors. We cannot spare room
for all the reasons on which this opinion is found
ed. Let the following facts suffice :
' The Liberia Herald mentions the capture of
three Spanish slaves, by the British brig Curlew,
while in the harbor of Monrovia." Af. Rep. for
March 1S36.
"Boats have been sent from the Spanish sla
vers into the St. Paul's, and slaves have been bougl t
in that river." Letter from the Governor of Li
beria, Sh January, 1S36. Af. Eep.
The St. Paul's penetrates the heart of the col
ony, and the settlements of Culdwell and Mills
burg are on its banks !
" Within a year, focr slave factories have
been established almost within sight of the colony."
Captain Nicholson's report to Secretary of "the
Nar:, 8th January, 1S37.
" To-morrow ihe schooner sails for New Ses-
t0S( t0 tae on ij0ar a cargo
of slaves which I
have ready there. I have been ooliged to have
one hundred sets of shackles made al Cape Mesura-
rfo(Monrovia)-Wra;?rc)ta- -letter cf 5,'br
September, 1S3S, from the captain of a slaver lo
his owners at Havana, and published by htitish
arliament.
" On the 15th of February, 1S33, arrived at
this port, a vessel under American colors named
the Monrovia, last from Liberia, with a bill nf
ale and list of crew from ihe collector of that col-
m . . 1 I 1 . I ' .
any. l ins vessel naa neuner register mu st-a
letter. 1 have ascertained without a aouct, mm
she is a vessel belonging to Don Pedro Blanco, t
of the Gallinas, has put in here, directed to his
agent, for a fit out for the coast, and that a cargo
of slaves is ready for her, There is a black man
on board, for a flag captain speaks English well
learnt that he is a complete pilot on board, to
all the inlets between Sierra Leone and Gambia.
He cannot read or write.
" Don Pedro Blanco's asentin Liberia is J. N.
Lewis, commission merchant." Lettet of Febru
ary 2Sth, 1S39, from the British Consul of the
Cape de 1 erd Jsla7ids, to Lara falmersion uru-
ish Documents.
This letter is dated at Little Sassa, in Liberia, and
between Monrovia and Cape Palmas.
A notorious ulave merchant, connected with a
houi
in Havana.
RELIGIOUS rrvOSPECTS OF THE i
SOUTH.
A few years ago it was fashionable with such
opposers ol slavery as were connected wun me
religious press in the r ree dtates, to insist that
the" whole subject of emancipation ought to be
left to the Christians of the South. And tho
most extravagant encomiums were passed upon
the piety, disinterestedness, utility and wisdom
of the slaveholding disciples of him who was "in
he form of a servant. On the contrary, the abo
litionists have ever contended, "that there was not
religion enough in slaveholding churches to keep
themselves up, or to maintain a steady course oi
efforts at genera! improvement. And so tho past
has proved, for in nearly all the oouthern states,
there has been, during the last five years, an ex
tensive abandonment of the country by the more
thoughtful and conscientious inhabitants removing
to the free states. For a long time, we have been
laboring lo convince our religious associates that
it is impossible to carry-out the design of their
Tract, Bible, Sabbath School, and Missionary So
cieties, through the southern countries, so long as
slavery continues ; and lhat hence the true policy
of the friends of these institutions is, to do no w
what they will be forced lo do at last, that is, unite
all their energies, and hasten the abolition of sla
very, nnd then go forward with their other plans.
The following editorial article in the ' Home Mis
sionary' for the present month, tells how things
. 1. '.a nlnin lliit nflnr vrnr nf pf?nr-t '
arc gon'o- lv ...... j - ..
and millions of expense in reforming southern so
ciety on its present basis (slavery,) the whole will
have to be done ngan de novo. God never con
stituted things so tfrrijjtnble and healthy society
could exist with slavery for its corner stone.
From tho Home Missionary for November.
TRIALS OF MINISTERS IN THE SOUTH.
Various couses have combined to render the
circumstances of ministers in some parts of the re
gion south of the Ohio river, extremely trying.
Tl-e nro press of ecclesinstical division, and the in-