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188 For the Liberator. PAST, PSE3ETT, AND I'UTUHE. Our fathers Mi dark Slavery's root la SaUa's CompromUe To-day wo plwck th ripened fruit Of blood, Md theft, and lies. How let us dig. and never cease, Till falls thisUpas ires Then plant the olive-bough of Peace, Whose fruit is Liberty.

lUch field, October, 18G1. Hrrcarita. THE TWO T7ATCHW0EDS. A cry from the South," edition, Scream of a Fury to startle the sight, Ruthless contention, and reckless ambition, Hatred of rule, and destruction of right Tyrannous pride; and lust of oppression, Wicted defiance of reason and law, This, 0 false Southerner, this is "Secession," 5 Tilest of treasons th world ever saw A roioe from ths North, long suffering in sadness, The grief of an angel to darken the day Calmly rebuking the popular madness, Slowly determined that hydra to slay Order, and peace, and social communion, Law had in honor, obedienoa to rule This is tb Northerner's watchword of Union, jKoblest of lessons In loyalty's school ichToHhese twain should an Englishman favor, or chaos, the right nr the wrong, Slavery's rose, fowl of ill sa.w, Or blessed Freedom, that bird of sweet song Which of these twain will Proyidence, guiding, Lead to tho haven of national might? Joy to thee, Northerner, justly confiding Woe to thee Southerner, ruin'd outright Albury, (Eng.) Manns F. Tfppwu SOUTHEEU TBEASOH.

Another American ballad by Mr. "Tapper. Like Jesebel's face at her easement, Strangely dismay'd and perplcxt, The world looks forth with amazement, Marvelling what's to come next The world looks round her in wonder For beauty and strength destroy'd, t. For brotherhoods broken in sunder, And statecraft quite made Toid Alas, for America's glory outright," And all her magnificent story Told as a dream of the night Alas, for the heroes and sages, Sadden'd in Eades to know, That what tbey had built for all ages, Melts as a palace of snow And woe, for the shame and the pity That all for no cause, to no end-City should ftgbt against city, And brother with brother contend Alas, for this libel on freedom-Patriots gone to the bad, Citixen Arabs of Edom, Slave-drivers, liberty-mad How sadly, through sons so degraded, Pigmies Ul-eprung from great men, Even your glories look faded, "Washington, Franklin, and Penn Popular government slaoder'd, Mid the deep scorn of the world, star-crowded standard 1 Foul'd by black treason, and furl'd "Southerners shame on such treason Shame on your folly and guilt "Woo for this war of unreason Woe for tbe brothers-blood spilt Curse on such monsters unfilial, Tearing their mother to shreds Curse on those children of liel ial, Curse on their parricide heads Albury, (Eng.) Martts F. Tutfir.

THE QUIET SLTJMBEK. Lay him gently to his rest Fold his pale hands on his breast From his brow Oh how cold and marble fair Softly part the tangled hair Look upon him now As a weary child he lies. With the quiet, dreamless eyes. O'er which the lashes darkly sweep, And on his lip the quiet smile Tbe soul's adieu to earthly strife, And on his face the deep repose We never saw in life. 'Peaceful be his rest, and deep Let him sleep No tears fyr him he needs them not Along lireS-drear and toilsome road Firmly his manly footsteps' trode, to bear his weary lot, With such a pride upon his brow.

Wiw Buca a pain wtiom nis sears, Ttrw-firmoef ot the SaTjrwiU Veiling th secret smart. Oh it is weU the strife is o'er, That thus so peacefully he lies, Tnheeding now the bitter words, The cold, unpitying eyes. Fold his mantle o'er his breast-Peaceful be his sleep and blest Let him rest 1 No sigh to breathe above his bier, No tear to stain the roarble brow Only with tender pitying love, Only with faith that looks above, Wo gaaoapon bins now. No thought of toil and suffering past- Hut joy to think the task is done, The heavy cross at last laid down, The crown of glory won. Oh bear him gently to his rest Oh gently heap the flowery sod, And leave his body to the dust, Ilia spirit to his From the Salem Gasette.

ON THE COMPLETION OP THE PACIFIC TEL-' EGEAPH. Swift to the western bounds of this wide land, Swifter than light th Electric Message flics Tbe continent is in a moment spanned. And. farthest West to farthest Eat replica, While War asunder drives the nearest States, And doth to them all intercourse deny, i Science new bonds of union still creates, -1 And the ntott distant brings forever nigh I bait this omen for our country's cause For it the stars do in thelrourses fight In vain men strive against th eternal laws Of Peace and Libfrty and social Right; Bebel' against tbe light, and hope to sUy Th dawn oa earth of Freedom's perfect day. -OOTOBEK DATS.

Yet one smil more, departing, distant sun, One mellow suule through the soft vapory air. Ere, o'er the frosca earth the loud wiods run, Or snows are sifted o'er the meadows bare. On smiU on tbe brown hills and naked trees, And tj dark rocks whose summer wreaths are east, And ost gentian flower, that, ia tbe breese, Nodirs nely, of the beauteous rae the last. Tet a few" sunny days, in which the bee Shall murmur by the hedge that skirts the way, The cricket chirp upon the rasset lea, Aid men delight to linger in thy way i A Yet oncjr'ch' smile, and we will try to bear 't The piercing winter frost, and winds, and darkened air AN AETPUL DODGE. In October of this year, a balky octavo volume was published by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions prepared by Hev.

Dr. Rufus Anderson, its Senior Secretary entitled, A Memorial Volume of the first Fifty Years of the American Board." It purported to give a sketch of the Board' history and operations for that period, and treat praise was bestowed upon it by the "reli gious penouw-Tu j'i r. The Congregational itt slightly qualified Its pmise by regretting "that the relations of the missionary churches to slavery have not been stated as reey as those which they sustain to caste and polygamy." lit an article written lor the Congregationalist, but refused admission to that paper. (nd "ubsequently printed in the Liberator of October 14th.) I pointed out that the relations of the Board's mission churches to slavery, instead of being merely imperfectly stated, in Dr. Anderson's Memorial Votume," were not stated at all and that the transactions thus omitted, instead of being small or trivial, (and thus necessarily or justifiably passed over in a sketch covering half a century,) occupied forty of the Board's fifty.years had given rise to numerous and urgent remonstrances on the part of its members and patrons had occupied much time, given rise to much exciting debsite, and occasioned thepresentation of many special reports in the Annual Meetings had necessitated the sending of two expensive deputations from the Board's headquarters to the Indian Territory, to attempt an adjustment of these difficulties and had forced the Prudential Committee into the unpleasant dilemma of either abandoning a course of policy which they had commenced in 1817, and carried on ever since, or of maintaining it at the expense of truth and justice, by a long series of disingenuous and dishonest contrivances.

The article in question proceeded to show, not only that the Prudential Committee had adopted, and persisted in, the latter of these alternatives, but that the Senior Secretary, in his Memorial Volume," had followed the same line of policy; not only omitting material and important portions of the history which he pretended to sketch, but making gross misstatements in regard to other parts of that history. The Congregationalist of the 8th inst. announces that this oversight" so the editor has the hardihood to call the entire suppression of one great department of the history in question has been rectified in the fourth edition of the work and page 303 is referred to as containing this rectification. On turning to the page, the whole of the pretended rectification is found to be the addition of the following passage The relation of the mission churches to slavery, where that has existed, has been the 6ame as that sustained to caste, polygamy, and other evils and sins. The qualification required for admission to the ordinances of the gospel has been common to all the churches in the missions, and also to the churches in this country supporting them, namely, a credible profession of.

faith in Christ, in the judgment of those whose duty it is to act in the case. With that prin ciple, the Board, not being an ecclesiastical body, lias had no power to interfere. The churches among the Cherokees and Choctaws, acting on that principle, have admitted holders of slaves to their communion but the statistics show that this class of church-members has been decreasing for some years." Mem. Vol. p.

303. This is the whole of the addition which the Con-gregationalist represents as having rectified the book, in regard to the forty years' complicity of the Board with slavery. This is the only addition to the substance of the book. But it has been thought needful to add something more to its appearance; and the fourth edition has been made to seem different from the preceding editions, just as a fashionable lady is made to seem different by the application of roiie, or a stolen horse by the application of paints and washes The first edition contained the word "slavery in four obscure places, where it was indispensably needful for the elucidation of other topics, but this word did not appear in the Index, norin the headings of the chapters. A person cursorily examining the volume would not have discovered that it mentioned slavery at all.

A person searching for the mention of that subject would not have been able to find it, unless ac curate previous knowledge of the facts had taught him precisely where to look. Kow, in the fourth edi tion, besides one-third of a page really added, at the end of a 'chapter, to the substance of the book, the word slavery has been skilfully let in, in two places once in the Index, and once in the heading of that chapter to which the passage -above quoted makes the tail. Slavery is now as conspicuous in the Index as the rowe on a lady's cheek. Every inhabitant of Boston has seen placarded on its walls the name of the great Magician, Wizard, and Prestidigitator, Anderson But none of his feats have been more wonderful than this trick performed by his namesake, the change of a line of printing in a stereotyped book. Forwhere the Index to Dr.

Anderson's first edition rend Sewall. General Henry. 142 in the fourth edi tion, (Presto Change this line has disappeared, and we read in its place" Slavery, 140, 303, 357, 358, 361." And in the heading of Contents" to Chapter where the first edition read Among the Choc taws. In Other Tribes. Tabular View of the Churches," the fourth edition reads "Among the Choctaws.

Slavery. Tabular View of the Church es." The introduction of this word Slavery into the Index of Dr. Anderson's book is not only a false ad vertisement a pretence, in four of the five places mentioned, of a subject being treated there which is not treated there, and where only the name stands for the thing, only the painted mask for the face but it is doubly deceitful, since the one place out of the five where slavery is really spoken of (to the extent of one-third of a page) gives a false representation, and is adroitly expressed so as utterly to mislead the confiding reader. 1. The relation of the Cherokee and Choctaw mis sion churches to slavery has not been the same as that sustained to other evils and sins in those nations and it has not been the same as the relation sustained to polygamy and caste by the mission churches of the "American Board" in the nations where these vicious customs prevail.

In the book entitled Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Sla very," evidence is given, compiled from the Annual Reports of the Board, (which are prepared by this same Dr. Anderson,) thoroughly disproving both his allegations above quoted. Taking, for instance, the vice of intemperance, it may there be seen (pp. 34- 30,) that the missionaries among the Cherokees and Chcvtaws preached against it, printed tracts against it, adopted church rules against it, formed societies against it, and wrote to the Prudential Committee periodical account of those tabors, and of the success or want of success attending them. It may also there be seen, (pp.

100-113,) not only that the same missionaries did none of those things against the equally prevalent vice of-slaveholding, but that they made a merit of mot having done them, and declared that they would continue to treat slaveholding as un objectionable, and to receive slaveholders to their churches as Christians. As to the treiitmeut of polygamy and caste by missionaries of the Board stationed in Asiatic or Af rican nations where thoe vices prevailed although it is true that a decree or unfaithful and unchristian laxity has sometimes been practised upon these points wbichu; would astonish and. confound the churches at home, if it were collected and placed before tlieui yet, on the other. hand, many instances of faithful rebuke of these sins can be found, spoken by the missionaries and printed in the Board's publications, such as cannot-be paralleled in a single case by the action cf the Cherokee and Choctaw mis-ionarief in regard to slavery. -T ELI ii OkR Examples of the real purpose and effort of the 1 Board's missionaries in Asia (not in America) to overthrow and destroy caste, may be found in the following places.

In the Board's Annual Report for 1839, p. 166 of the Appendix, there is an account of a meeting of delegates from the Ceylon, Madura and Madras missions. One of the questions which they discussed was What is the best method of destroying caMe in the native churches 1 To this question they reply" Tie whole power of the go pel must be biought to bear upon it. There must be a constant pressure upon it, and there is danger perhaps in our missions of frrowiuir weary in the contest. Tbey would allow no distinctions of caste at the Lord's table, or in the church." In the Annual Report for 1846, p.

139, is an account of the suspension of a chtirch-member by the Ahmed-nuggur mission, for. adherence to caste, and on the next page his repentance, public confession land res toration are recorded. Page 143 of the same Report mentions the suspension of five church-members, for the same offence, by the Madras mission. After months of persistence in their offence, "all these persons, with oneor two others who had joined them, came forward and made full and humble confession, and promised for the fu ture to conform to what was reqaired ij renouncing caste." A These are specimens of a faithful performance of the duty of missionaries on this subject, testi mony of the missionaries among the Cherokees and Choctaws shows that they never did anything of this sort in opposition to slavery, and that they never used against slavery one of the various methods of active opposition which they used against intemperance, If they had done these things, no remonstrance would ever have been made, (because none would have been needed,) against the Board's complicity with slavery. Since they did not do these things, nor any of them, the statement of Dr.

Anderson, added to the fourth edition of his "Memorial Volume," that "the rela tion of the mission churches to slavery has been the same as that sustained to caste, polygamy, and other evils and sins is a statement directly and fla grantly violating the truth. 2. In the above-quoted passage, adroitly veneer ed" into the middle of Dr. Anderson's book, it is asserted that the Board, not being an ecclesiastical body, has had no power to interfere with the accept ance of a credible profession of faith in Christ as the recognized and sufficient qualification for mem bership in the mission churches. This introduction of a statement which, though true in itself, is entirely without pertinence to the matter in hand, and is a dishonest evasion of the dif ficulty which it purports to answer, is a fair specimen of the ordinary dealing of the Prudential Committee, and of the Secretary, upon this subject.

I will dis entangle it. Kohody ever pretended that the Board was an ec clesiastical body," or should try to exercise the pow ers of one. Kobody ever pretended that the Board should de mand of their missionaries the requisition of any qualification for church-membership other than credible profession of faith in Christ 1 What was demanded of the Prudential Committee was, that they should dismiss from their employment missionaries who persisted in assuming the practice of open and flagrant vice to be consistent with a credi ble profession of faith in Christ," and in admitting persons manifestly living in such vice to membership in their churches This is the thing which the Prudential Committee have constantly refused to do, and which the Board have constantly refused to require. Hits, However, is the thing winch their own con fessions, recorded in their Annual Keports, plainly show to be their duty. As long ago as 1845, they declared, by an unani mous vote," (in which Dr.

Anderson is named as taking part,) that the slaveholding.syfitem js, a tremendous that its effects are that "its destructive influence is seen on the morals of the master and the slave that it sweeps away those barriers which every civilized community has erected to protect the purity and chastity of the family that "we also see its baneful effects on the rising generation and that the abolition of it is a consummation which justice, humanity, and Christian principle demand should be hastened." As long ago as 1848 they declared, in a document drawn up and signed by Dr. Anderson himself, that slavery "ia at variance with the principles of the Christian religion." And they further declared, in the same document, that in the case of any missionary who refused compliance with his duties, their resource was to dissolve his connection." The missionaries to the Cherokee and Choctaws had not only previously gone on, from year to year, receiving slaveholders into their churches as Christians, and thus upholding slavery in the most efficient manner, but in that same year, 1848, they expressed their determination still to do so. It then became, therefore, even more emphatically than before, the duty of the Prudential Committee to "dissolve their connection." This they would not do. And their refusal to dismiss these openly pro slavery missionaries (whose converts, be it remembered, are now in arms against the United States in defence of shivery,) is the very ofllnce which has continued, from year to year, to be charged against the Board and its Prudential Committee. And yet Dr.

Anderson has the effrontery to present, as an appropriate and sufficient reply to this charge, the statement that the Board is not ah ecclesiastical body," and thereore has had nopower to interfere." What is to be said, therefore, to this portion of Dr. Anderson's apologetical paragraph is, first, that it is not at all an answer to the charge and, next, that its conclusion palpably a non sequitvr, not following from the premises is manifestly placed there with intend to mislead its readers. 3. The next paragraph, telling only half the truth, is also manifestly placed there with deceptive intent. It says that the churches among the Cherokees and Choctaws" have admitted slaveholders.

But the charge is agaihst the" slaveholding missionaries, and the Prudential Committee who. employ them, and the Board who sustain them. And all these admitted, as long ago as the Annual Report of 1848, that some of the earliest converts, in both nations, were the proprietors of slaves'." The missionaries, then, began the course of recognizing slaveholding as perfectly consistent with a Christian life and it is they, not the Indian churches which they educated in that pernicious error, who are to be held responsible for it. 4. Dr.

Anderson's apology closes with saying" the statistics show that this class of church-members has been decreasing for some To this, two things are to be said. First, no such statistics are before the public The Prudential Committee have given none in their Annual Reports, except such as have been cork-screwed out of them by the importunity of the remonstrants and these are not sufficient to explain the relation of the successive years to each other. Next, part of the decrease claimed T8 discreditable to the churches and the missionaries, being a voluntary departure of the worst of the slaveholding church-members, who were dissatisfied that the missionaries merely tolerated slavery, inetcad of eulogizing and extending it. These men, (who ought to have been excommunicated, instead of being dismissed with letters of recommendation,) went away because they wished to join more pro slavery bodies, which they found among the Methodists and Baptists. We find this departure (and the shameful permission for them so to depart) admitted by Mr.

Secretary in 1855. lie mentions that the missionaries are denounced by many as "abolitionists," (which is well known as the readiest vituperative expression in the i-laveholding region,) and adds, that" Some of their slaveholding church-members have left their churches for another connection on this account." The alterations in the fourth edition of Dr. Ander son's book do not avail to excuse, or to" tmlliate, the conduct of the Prudential Committee." Since, they show a new attempt to mislead tbe public, they show additional guilt on the part of the nutnor. Let it be remembered let it never De lorgoiwn until the Prudential Committee and their Senior Secretary retract their shameful declarations that the present attitude of these two in regard to slavery, in i the end of the year 1861, is the loiiowmg me ru-dential Committee testify that the slaveholding Cherokees are "a Christian the Secretary," in his Memorial Volume," echoes this assertion, and adds to it the representation that the slaveholding Choc taws also are a Christian people whne the fact is, that these two nations of Indians are not only as desperately bent upon the maintenance of slavery as the people of South Carolina, but that Uiey nave joineu that people in making war upon the United States to secure the extension, perpetuity and supremacy of slavery w. WHO ABE THE DTFIDELS? Ho.

IL By the late Rev. J. P. Fessendcn, of Bridgeton, 3Ie. Mr.

Garrison is an infidel, in respect both to the benevolence and philanthropy of the men who founded and have all along patronized the American Coloniza tion Society. He does not believe, as do the friends and patrons of this Society, that God has planted such an invincible aversion to colored people in the breasts" of white people, that it is impossible for the former ever to live in the same country, in the pos session and enjoyment of equal rights and privileges with the latter. He does not believe that the coloni zation of emancipated slaves in Liberia will facilitate the civilization or evangelization of the heathen in "Africa, or essentially better the condition of the colo nists who are sent there. But he does believe that this Society is an iniquitous scheme, which has a direct tendency; to foster and perpetuate the Bin of caste, and was got up by selfish slaveholders at the South, and pro-slavery men at the North, for the purpose of removing the free colored people from the country, that slaves may be held by their oppressors in greater safety and security. lie is decidedly infidel in respect to the blasphem ous dogmas, generally held by orthodox ministers and churches at the Sonth, and extensively embraced by professedly religious persons at the North, that God authorizes American Slavery, and the Bible sanctions that system of utter abominations, by which, in half the States of this nation, nearly four milious of human beings, men, women and children, for no fault of theirs, are, by the strong arm of the imbruted, doomed to the most degrading ignorance.

and subjected to countless wrongs, indignities, suffer ings and sorrows, at the contemplation of which the heart of humanity is pained and the eye of benevo lence weeps. He is infidel to the generally assumed fact, that slaveholding ministers and churches, and those minis ters and churches in what are called the Free States who uphold or abet slavery as it exists in this coun try, either by their direct teachings, or by their influ ence in any way, or even by their silence in regard to it, are ministers and churches of Christ. He believes that they are not Christ-like, and, therefore cannot be his ministers and churches. He does not believe that it is right or proper for professing Christians in the free States to recognize, as ministers and churches of Christ, and hpld fraternal intercourse with them as such, ministers and churches -of the South who hold slaves, and defend the iniquitous sys tem of chattel slavery as a divine and benevolent in stitution. He believes that, in such recognition and fraternal intercourse, these Christians give the whole weight of their influence in the support of slavery, and practically declare to the world that, in their esti ination, imbruting human beings is riot inconsistent with true piety, and a good standing in the ministry and church.

He is an unbeliever in the false and ridiculous sen l-4irocite wliith kr rj hei cnrfVntln Tlreianl; both among professors and non-professors, that the slaves are generally contented and happy in their present condition are in a better situation in bondage than they would be in the enjoyment of liberty, and in a better situation than are the free colored people of the country, and the free laborers of the North He has no faith in the equity or Christianity of the Fugitive Slave Bill, the opinions of eloquent states men, and learned doctors of divinity, and pastors of churches, who have written and published speeches and sermons in vindication of it, to the contrary not withstanding. But he believes it to be a cruel, barbarous and infamous "enactment, which is disgraceful to the nation, at variance with the Gospel, with hu inanity, and all the great principles of liberty and hu man rights; and which ought to be spurned and trod den under foot by every free man in the nation. He is a believer in the doctrine of immediate eman cipation, that every slave in the country is entitled to his freedom on the soil where lie was born, without any delay, and that no slaveholder can withhold the blessings of liberty from any wretched victim of op pression in his possession, for a single hour, without being guilty of the grossest injustice and wrong. He believes that any concessions to slavery, any compromises with" slaveholders, made, either in the Constitution or the administration of the Govern ment of the country, are sinful, "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell," and ought to be annulled. And his motto, therefore, is, "Ao union tcith slaveholders, jtolitically or ecclesiastically." He believes in the Bible as an anti-slavery book and all along, throughout the whole course of his anti slavery career, for a quarter of a century, has openly and strenuously main tinned, that it is a calumny to say it gives any countenance or support to the vile and hateful system of American slavery.

In all his speeches and writings which have had any reference to the subject, he has avowed his belief that the teach ings of the Prophets, of the Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles, are to be relied on as the grand instrumon tality, above all others, for the overthrow of slavery intemperance and war, and all other sins in our coun try and the world. He is a firm believer in our Savior as a Teacher sent from God, and maintains that his spirit must be imbibed and his example followed by every person who can lay any just claims to being his disciple. He believes that it is sinful for individuals and na tions to rob the poor aud oppress the afflicted, and has never been known to swerve for a moment from the faithful discharge of hi duty in opening his mouth in behalf of the suffering and the dumb. In the midst of bitter obloquy and unrelenting persecution, when assailed by mobs, and obliged to take refuge in a jail as the only shelter in which he could be protected from the violence of infuriated men, and a large price offered by State Legislatures for his head, he kas never forborne to do all in his power for the deliverance of the helpless victims of oppression in the country who are daily drawn unto death, and are ready to be slain. And it is doing him but simple justice to say, that a man of purer character, greater integrity, I kindness, benevolence and self-denial, for the promotion of every good cause, is not to be found among us.

Now, let me offer it as my humble that it would be more befitting, in religious journalists, to purge the leaven of infidelity out of the' evangelical ministry churches of the country, before they undertake to condemn Mr. Garrison for. any heresies of which they may suppose him to be guilty. If he is an atheist who denies the existence of God, he is a much worse atheist 'who makes the God he professedly believes in a monster of iniquity, by giving license to men to commit with impunity crimes of the greatest enormity, If he is an infidel who denies the divine authority of the Bible, he is a worse infidel who believes it to be God's word, and that it gives its sanction to the sum of all Tillaniea." If they are infidels who rite treatises against the inspiration of the Scriptures, they are worse infidels who write books in vindication of American slavery, and endeavor to make their readers believe that it is a benevolent institution. 1 authorized by God and the Scriptures.

What term, i then, oueht we to apply to those Theological Protess- OTS, Presidents of Colleges, and Doctors of Divinity, in our very midst, who have written and published books which teach that slavery is in accordance with both natural and revealed religion I What name ought we tqapply to ministers who have endorsed these books, and thanked God for them, and who have written and published sermons in justification of the Fugitive Slave Bill In my judgment, such writings do a far greater injury to the cause of Christ and the pro-gress of true Christianity, than all the open infidel works that have ever been published. And I think it would be well for evangelical ministers and Christians at the North to inquire, whether they are not justly liable to the charge of making infidels in fearful num bers, by extending the right hand of Christian fellow-ship to slaveholders, and the abettors and supporters of this dreadful system. They are, surely, guWty of prac tically endorsing as Christian, the foulest iniquity thaC the sun ever looked upon. It is a fact which ought to make them hang their heads in shame, that, with the Bible in their hands, and professing to believe it to be the word of God, they have suffered American slavery, from a feeble beginning, to grow with the growth and strengthen with the strength of the nation, till it has become a sin of giant magnitude and power, over shadowing the whole country, threatening its speedy ruin, and bidding defiance to all efforts made for its overthrow. It ought to cover them with confusion of face, thaf they have suffered it, unmolested, to build its strongest fortress in what they call the church of Christ, and to cover in this fortress its defenders with the oracles of God, as an impenetrable shield for their immunity and protection against the assaults of all op-posers.

At their door, more than anywhere else, must lie the guilt of fostering and protecting the crimson iniquity. They have been, from the beginning, and are still, its chief bulwark. Had they done their duty, we should have been saved from the mortification of seeing the lips of such bodies as the American Board, the Tract Society, and the Sunday School Ur.ion, hermetically sealed against uttering the gentlest word in its condemnation. Had they done their duty years w. i ago, slavery would nave ceasea to exist, ana wouia now bo remembered only as a frightfuj sin that had been.

And I trust the few ministers and Christians in New England, who have been in profound slumber, and even now are only partially roused ill regard to it, will not forget that the dead sleep in which they were so long holden was broken by the shrill ne of the anti-slavery clarion of the very man whom they stigmatize as an infidel Whatever they may say of him let them not be guilty of the meanness of withholding from him the credit, which is certainly his due, of succeeding, after a long and persistent trial, in disturbing a little the insensibility which they have manifested in regard to the enormous sin of American slavery. DARBY VASSALL. The decease of this well-known and worthy colored citizen occurred in Boston, Oct- 12th, 1861. The day of his burial (15th) completed just 92 years and 5 months since his birth. Mr.

Vassall was born in Old Cambridge, in the celebrated Vassall house, known as Washington's headquarters, (now the residence of Prof. Longfellow.) It was formerly occupied by Col. John Vassall, (a royalist,) when, in 1775, it was confiscated, and subsequently called the Cragie estate. After his marriage, Mr. Vassall settled in Boston, where he became known to many of the wealthy families, including Peter C.

Brooks, James Sullivan, William Stevenson, and others by whom, to the day of his death, he was universally respected for his general intelligence and excellent character. He was the oldest member of Brattle Street Church, having received the ministrations of the following stated occupants of that pulpit, viz Peter Thatcher, J. S. Buckminster, Edward Everett, John G. Falfrey, and Samuel Lothrop the present incumlient whose "remarks at the funeral bore deserved tribute to the virtues of the deceased.

lie was among those colored citizens of Boston who, in 1796, instituted the "African Society." Its objects were lienevolent, and the preamble to its Constitution expressed its loyalty by the following emphatic clause Behaving ourselves, at the same time, as true and faithful citizens of the Commonwealth in which we live, and that we take no one into the Society who shall commit any injustice or outrage against the laws of their country." In alphabetical arrangement, the name of Darby Vassall stands last on the list of members, and he lived to be the last survivor. In April, 1843, he was presented with a paper by Miss Catharine Graves Russell, which contained this provision: I have promised Darby Vassall that he and his family shall be placed in my grandfather's tomb under the church in Cambridge, built by Henry Vassall, and owned by me, his granddaughter." It happened that the centennial anniversary of Christ Church was being commemorated on the veYy day of the funeral. The tomb had not been opened since the death of Miss Russell, some sixteen years ago and to those who were not cognizant of the provision for Mr. Vassall's interment therein, the event seemed strange indeed. The idea of this tomb being his last resting-place was often the subject of his meditation, and he was eloquent if grateful expressions towards her whom he had always regarded as a considerate, rare, and valued friend.

That he inherited loyalty will be" seen by the following facts, noted by a correspondent of the Boston Transcript At a gathering of historical writers at Professor Longfellow's, on the 17th of June, 1858, the late Chief Justice Shaw stated an incident with which he was officially conversant, of Anthony, (Mr. "Vassall's father,) and Catherine, (his mother.) viz: When the commissioners were selling the estate, Tony, who had long lived in an old house on the estate, stepped forth and said lie was no torv, but a friend of liberty, aud, having lived there all" his life, he didn't know any reason why he should be deprived of his On petitioning the General Court, a resolve was passed, granting Tony a stipend of twelve pounds annually. -About 1810, ifter his death, Cuba, hi wife, went to the State Treasurer to get her stipend, but it was found that the resolve did not include her. Judge Shaw, then a member of the House, presented her petition for its continuance, which found favor, and she had the annual sum through her natural lite." Mr. Vassall wa3 favored with a wonderful memory, and it was deemed a privilege with many persons, from different walks in life, to avail themselves of his conversational reminiscences of Boston and vicinity, in the olden time.

He had an intelligent appreciation of the Anti-Slavery movement, and loved to speak with and of Wm. Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. Those who attended the first Attucks commemoration in Faneuil Hall, March 5th, 1858, will remember his presence, and the reference'made to him by Rev. Theodore Parker. He was probably the oldest colored man in Massachusetts, and in his death has been severed the last link which associated many of his race with the wealthy and dominant class in Boston, and which (at least in his case) was kept bright by continued sympathy, friendship and recognition of his Christian manhood.

Boston, Oct. 13,1861. TV. C.N. EQUAL EIGHTS.

Bostojt, Nov. 12, 1861. Dear Fkiesd Gakrisos: The accompanying petition, forwarded from New Bedford by our active friend Wnu P. Powell, gives earnest of what his fellow-citizens are preparing for the approaching legislative season. Boston and other localities in the Commonwealth will ft is safe to infer, renew their application, trusting that the people of Massachusetts are now ready to grant them this long-solicited right W.

C. N. HGVEHBEE PETITION. To tie Sena0 and House of Ifrprevnfatim of tnonuxalth of Massachusetts, in (Jtncral Cr stmlled: The undersigned, citizens of New -Bed'- ofHhe State of Massachusetts, respectfully llW-t tne aipna auu uiuega oi cmh goernnrt th protection efnuui that every inth rendmt of this Union has" a lertect right, between all other States, to adopt such a form of govtriVny as its people shall choone but in no case to its organic law or legislative enactments, tlw of native citizens, to say nothing of forvign tt! as guaranteed to them by the United Smu-i lion; that in framing laws for the common wi the obvious duty of legislators to enact such k'rl will best secure the HUrty, virtue and happiHr their constituents that the divine right of evry vidual, whether native or foreign, should be so ed that he cannot be oppressed, or derived ot rights, either by a party or a government; that has a God-given right to luniM-lf and all 1' I i.ngs of this life, to all inteqts and in moo with his fellows, without regard tothecu Which covers his the texture of th which adorns his head. unless forfaited by nLeondaa' that cotnplexioiial and to say nothing yf ligious tt-sts, are beyond the purview of authority, and any attempt to enforce then il0v right usurpation.

Under these circumstance, x. view of the broad fact that the Federal nowhere specifies the compfexional standard of its zens, justice, sound olicy, and the growing gence of the age. alike demand the repeal ofaU which make any invidious distinction. Therefore we earnestly but rejcctfully request jcir honorable bodies to strike the word WUIJ the statute laws of this Commonwealth. And your petitioners will ever pray.

From a letter recently received from a devoteJ ri slavery friend in Albany, N. I select the encouraging facts. T.Qjf, Let us hope on and hope ever. There, tt side of the cause which must give us encoar? ment; that is, in the change as to prejudice color. The very boy that was turned out of our lie schools, some years since, fcss been sent to boys' academy from one of the public schools, ts Ur'sr the best scholar in the school, of whom each tcbf has the privilege of sending one to be tsughf gnjj; and a colored girl is attending at the academy- the most aristocratic schools in the city." The No-Pa tt Crt.

What is really meant by t'i homilies to which the public have been treated of by certain Democratic leaders, is plainly seen in sLt follows, from the Boston Post of the 1st We would again impress upon the minds of IV crats the importance of casting a full vote for their ticket. By giving our State ticket as large a vote a pr.1 ble, we shall prove the Democracy to be of sufiidm strength to command consideration in putJic hereajter, and thereby enable it to wield a beneficial influence in future political mortments in launrhci, Do not neglect this duty, Democratsa very iortcs duty at this time, namely to give your State ticket osm rotes as your best exertions can bring to the will dejttnJ upon sucA a course hereafter than is sec parent, and we hoje the full significance of the act lot the party in this respect will be properly apprecLl.1 by its members all over the commonwealth." df- The Lawrence Sentinel, in alluding to the Stm election, says "The Democratic State ticket a ceives an unexpectedly strong support. It will proU-bly reach the vote given to Douglas for President, may exceed it. The speech of Charles Summer, tic course adopted by some of the RepuMican leaiWn, and certain acts of the State Administration, kw given thousands of votes to the Democratic licit If we cared very greatly about party now, we shou3 find cause for congratulation in the result of TueJar' election. Prowrtionately, the Democratic vote largest cast for fifteen years, at least." The Boston -Journal and Traveller say Cut there will be a radical element in the coining Ieg! ture.

Well, we suppose that Fort Warren ia nita full. Why should not the ssnie policy be pursued ij Massachusetts that was in Maryland? Latitude Ll nothing to do with it. Boston Post. Wooies Mittens. An officer from West Toint, who commands one of the finest regiments in the Kf vice, suggests that woolen mittens for the soldiers be greatly Uye jtrold weather Will not nil who can employ themselves in luti wsy, help to furnish five hundrvd thousand pairs 1 Tht-y should be knit with one finger, to allow fM.s.-t of the first finger and thumb.

It is said there were co-rk soldiers disabled in the, Crimean war from frost-bitui fingers than from any other one cause. All newt-papers please copy this. The Richmond Examiner publishes John Ty. lers plea for votes as a candidate tor the Confcderiti Congress, and devotes itself to a eulogy of that gentis-man's Hie-long fidelity to the South, declaring tlisLts him belongs the credit of breaking up the Peace Conference of last winter Had he yielded to the tunny arts employed to seduce him from his duty, and r-ourt-ed Northern favor for the hope of Northern rewsrrfj, th result would have ben an almost unanimous report by the Peace Congress in favor of an unworthy and deceitful compromise some juggle which voalil have paralyzed the movement for independence ia tU border States." The Providence Journal says Some moa, who are a little superstitious about names, an? wrry that it bhould be our late to land a force at EuU Bay. the disasters at Bull Run, they liar is aversion to any place with a taurine appellation.

The New York Herald says that near Bull Bay is KJl Hole Swamp. A cheerfil neighborhood." J3sThe far-seeing men of the South are forward to the holidays with much anxiety for tttf is the time on which the great negro insurmflkiw have always occurred. Should this season be pswctf in peace, they are confident that the negroes csa ti kept down through the war. Xow that Gen. Fremont and his Presidential prtsj)ect8 are supposed to be crushed, would it sot policy fir the ambitious members of Mr.

Linwi" Cabinet, with the assistance of Thurlow Wwd ol Adjutant Gen. Thomas, to begin considering the propriety of finding Major General George B. guilty of incompetency, extravagance, 1c ilton Democratic Republican. dfThe Southern rebels have become dissal- wiih their flag of stars and bars. They propose have a new one.

Among the substitutes, is one vi a blue field and a spread white eagle in the centre. S40 PARKER Machines, PRICE FORTY DOLLARS. rpniS is a new styie, first elate, double thread, AJachiue, made and Hocused under tbe pettaii Howe, Wheeler A ffilo, and Grover A Uaker, 9 construction the best combination of the varw Ft tents owned and used by these parties, aod the pet0" the Parker Sewing Company. Thev were awarded a I-' Medal at the last Fair of the Mechanics' Cbaritab! i ciation, and are the beet fiubhed and eiost auUtt 3 made 1'ataily Machines now in the market. ES1- Salts lioom, 188 "Washington street.

GEO. E. LEONARD, Ip- Agents wanted everywhere. Ail kinds of Sewing Machine work done at short Boston, Jan. 18, 1861.

I A TESTIMOXT. Report of the Judges of the last Fair of tkt iU9 Charitiiblt Mechanic Afriation. "Fornr Pakker's Skwo Macbixes. This so constructed that it embraces the combination of rious patents owned and used by Elias Howe, Wilson, and Grover Baker, for which these tribute. These, together with Parker's iaiprsrc- make it a beautiful Machine.

They are sold fr $120 each. Tbey are very perfect la their being adjusted before leaving the manufactory, i manner that they can cot get deranged. Tfcs f' is a very essential point in a good Machine, itive and complete. The apparatus for guagins of stitch is very simple and elective. Tbe tenroo, as other is well arranged.

There is aao which strikes your committee favorably, vis t- wheel below the table between the standards, I eootaet with tbe dress of the operator, and t-' danger from oU or dirt. This machine makes i lock-stitch, but hi so arranged that it lays the back quite flat and smooth, duinj away, i measure, with the objection sometime ursi count." J. II. SWASEY, Law Orricx, Hi SrAia Stkxxt, T-.