The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 1

HORSE 4 i i 4 SL AVER NO 31 RIDAYs JULY 28 1837 makes of one hrill cili as yet however the softened that that noble ship of state guid Tlie fact Let politicals dema Providence ecr ihall the whtcli of desolation 2 4 vi 1X0 danger is apprehended sweeps with so larger a diameter the itriiation whx'r would olh I err The of the world in i The world is shoutm? about ibis anomaly cannot he dwellers in the South wonld its plough share of ruin oyer th social rights and Subjects thos modeled aftar thq character religion of the land and when i OUR OOUNTHY IS THE WORLD OUR COUZmTRTMEN ARE A1X INKIND larmobious charm on all around sweet feeling of security and spell a fatal trance the hapless victims But hark! methinks: 1 hear the it comes the wings of the tempest louder alanche that rolls from the moun irow bpirit or patriotism arise 4 above the roar of the storm of civil commotion the dnmnn of nnnrocsinn eTrom the da tb do nature tne mid night of ruin shall gnther'in sombre shades around her blood stained let her take the fipld as a pioneer in this rightequs cause girLwith the panoply of divincprulh andspen the arrival of the happy hour pvhen the proud eadc ofjVncrican liberty frejed' from the last of attraction Ishall spiead his strong pinions cut the yielding air mid soar aloft where the gleam of fits plumage will faint though steady lustre around the place on which 1 stand Aided by its graciousgleam fl stretch my vision across the wide spread plain and in the distant' vista I see a movement Amid the flourish of celestial trumpets I be hold clustered in one unbroken phalanx an in vincible company of Patriots Philanthro pists and Christians Look how theirarmor dazzles eye while it glitters in the sun beams of Heaven Ah 1 this is a band of moral Heroes whose blood less laurels shall weave around their brows a fadeless wreath of glory'? Called to thq field by he clarion of love and beckoned onward by the doleful cries of human suffering that isigh with every moaning' wind that is wafted from the death damps of wo they march under lheshining shield of the Lord Almighty with a firm and unwavering step to the very threshold of the tefnple of tyranny see them marshal their forces plant their standard unfurl their display their escutcheon open their batteries and levelling their whole artillery hurl flaming thunder bolts of truth at each massive bulwark that sur rounds the castle the foe The sluggish dements unaLjle longerto 'remain inactive themselves co opcrate in the work of destruc tion The sea of public sentiment lashed to firry crested with power and thrown into wild cam motion dashes its foaming and vengeful bil lows with resistless force A living tide of light and love poured forth from the pulpit and the press rushes to thcscene of conflict Xvith an impetuosity that forefokens a speedy triumph At length the proud edifee begins to tremble on its hitherto immovable foundations' Be hold Jthe Bastile of American oppression reels and rocks from centre to circumference its mighty battlements its lofty towers and turrets nod and topple to their fall The throne of the tyrant tumbles to the ground One general collapse one long loud hideous yell of dismay and the enemy is forfever vanquished! the haughty citadel with all its vast store of chains and fetters hand cuffs whips and collars is taken by a storm of moral power while the trumpet of Jubilee proclaim the victory afar 'And lol where that proud form so' lately stood see another structure with its fairpro portions rising in 'majesty and might Ils basis is laid deep and strong in the immutable prin ciples of justice and truth It is the temple that is dedicated to the genius of liberty hal lowed by her presence and guarded by her care I see the flag of equal freedom stainless as thd ctherial blue waving gracefully over its stately dome while beams of celestial brightness of hope and love linger and play round the summit The din of has now passed away the roar of the tempest is hushed in repose and itie lias sunken into the slumbers i of a calm And hark I hear a iriilder sound a voice gently borne onthe Uirigs of the viewless winds Ah the note of trralhph sung by redeemed souls ajid disen thralled spirits how its ravishing sympho nies strike on the ear How sublime isjthat song of the free! How its soothing strains are caught and echoed from tongue to tongue from the valley to the hill top and from moun lain io mountain until tne whole jand is wrapt in its melody spirits on high join in the cho rus angel and seraph cherjub and saint ipro tractrthe song and the pealing sky in louder tones or sottened thunder gives back the ing anthem OUR DUTY IN RELATION to SLAVERY' The lust numlier of the Clu published in this city by Rev Himes contains an Addrdps delivered nt Lynn on the Alli inst by Rev Alexander of that Mr Alexander discusses two points! iz the sin of slavery and our duty in relation to it YVecojjfy below hi remarks under the het head I 1 I I I I ff If 11 i ntr 1 1 4 11 VUldUHC) glanced at the system of American servitude as a social moral and political evil it follows of course as an axiom of dutyjtbat we should labor as Philanthropists Christians and Patri ots for its complete exterminamon The locomotive of slavery hasj most impiously insulted the image of God by dragging it down from its elevated station in theiscaleof animal existence The slaves are now in a stalless night cut loose from their moorings turijed out upon a watery world where they are c6itantiy driven by furious winds and made the port of warring elements for every gale mockjs their misery and every wave laughs them to iscorri We ar called to go to their rescue I How shall we reach them? Here is the shib of abolition the life boat of'the slave Sle is a gallant barque built in the harbor of nhilanthronv sailed ftom the long wharf of hppe and bound on a voyage or rove ble frame und stately trical form and exact proportU lofty bearing extended spars i her flowing canvass and bro ing proudly to the breeze I fe she is destined to deliver the from a worse than watery grai ye vvindsof Ileaveu and spCe way until with i smiles hrough her cordage sha THE LIBERATOR IS runtISHEO WEEKLY AT NO 35 BIT LLdYb 1 MB I TWO DOlsIsdRS per annum payable in 3250 al the end of six months i $300 dll letters and communications must be post I mU The rule is imperative in order I shield us I fron the frequent impositions of our enemies Those I iktrefwe who wish lheir tellers Id lie taken from the I Post Of ts by its will be careful to pay lheir postage I CT it Ivcrlisemcnt making one square ord I SMcidj equal length and breadth will of inserted Jkr for one dollar CITIZENSIUP PEOPLE COLOR' Before I entered New England while 1 ins as Icendmg ihe Mississippi was told by a Boston I gentleman that the people of color fn the New I England Slates were perfectly well treated that the children were educated iff schools provided for I them and tnat their fathers freely exercised the iwuwiki i ms gentleman certainly believed he rza filing mo the truth That hey a busy citizen of Bstop should knijw no better strick ing an exemplification of the state oTthe case to me us a correct representation of the facts would have been etjTherc are twocau es for his mistake He was not aware that the schools fty life colored children in New England are unless thev rscnnn' i nr the schopl liouse awav upon rollers over Ifoiiuer ot a pious State which will not endure i that its colored Citizens should be educated He I was not aware of a genlleman'of color and his family being locked out of their own hired pe in a church because white brethren will not worship by their side But I will not proceed with an enumeration of injuries too familiar to Ameri cans to excite nny feeling but that of weariness and too disgusting to all others to be endured' Tne other eaue of this mistake was that he did not from long custom feel some things to bo injuries which he would call any thing but good treatment if he hail to bear them himself Would he think it good treatment to be forbidden to cat with fellow citizens to be assigned to a par ticular gallery in his church to be excluded from college from municipal office from professions from scientific and 'hterary associations if he felt himself excluded from every department of society but its humiliations and its drudgery would he dcclareJnmself perfectly ell treated INOt a Word more of: statement is needed A Connecticut judge lately declared bn the bench nt hi hoiioircsfi zj rv I a ma 1 ered citizens in thcr 1 wrong of the acts by which people of color are termed I citizens Of course no judge could have forgotten this who had as 'citizens ftor in a man ot couiu one ot tne most eminent statesmen nnd law i rdotibf in iht minds of some high authorities is as mistaken as the judge There has been no such doubt since the Connecticut judge was Corrected and enlightened TJie error ofjthe statesman arose from the samecause he had never seen the col ored people treated ns citizens In fact? said he people hold an anomalous "situation They are protected as citizens when the public service requires thtir security but not otherwise treated ns Any comment would weaken this intrepid statement i The common argument i about the inferiority of the colored race bears no relation whatever to this question They are citizens They stiind os such in the law and in the acknowledgement of every one who knows the Jaw They are citizens yet their houses and schools are pulled down and they can obtain no remedy nt law They are thrust out of offices and excluded from the most honora ble employments and stripped of all the best bend fits bf society by felldw citizens who oncega year solemnly lay their hands on their hearts arid declare Jthat all men are born free and equal and thatrulers derive their just powers from the consent of the governed This system of injury is not wearing out La fayette on his last visit to the United States ex pressed his astonishment at the incifense of the prejudice against color lie remembered he said how the black soldiers used to mess with jthe whites in the reVoIvtionary war The leaders ofthat'war nre gone where principles are where prejudices are nothing' If their ghosts could arise in majostic arrny American nation on tKeir great anniversary and hold tip before them the mirror of their constitution in the light of their first principles where wouldthc people hide themselves from the blasting radiance They would call upon their holy soil to swallow them up ns unworthy to trend tipop lit But not nil It should ever be remembered that America is the country of the best friends he colored' race has ever had The more truth there is in the as sertions of the oppressors of the blacks the more heroistnrthere is in their friends The greater the excuse for thii pharisees of the community the more divine isThe equity of the redeemers of'the colored race If it be granted that the colored race are naturally inferior naturally depraved disgusting cursed it must be granted that it is a heavenly charity which descend? among them to give such solace as ipc an to their incomprehensible existence As long as the excuses of the one party go to enhance the merit of the other the society is npt to be despaired of with tliis poisonous anomaly at its heart Happily however the colored race is not cursrd by God as i' is by some factions of his children The less clear sighted of them are pardonable for so believing Circumstances which no living man is answerable have geperuted an erroneous coilyiction in the feeble mind of man which sees not beyond the actual and immediate No remedy could ever hive been applied unless stronger minds than ordinary had been brought into the case But it sb happens wherever there is an anomaly giant minds rise up to overthrow it minds gigantic not in understanding' but in faith Wherever they arise they 'are the salt their earth nnd its cor ruption isretrieved Sq is now in America While the miss of common men and women are despising and disliking and fearing arid keeping down the colored race blinking the fact that they nre citizens the few of aristocracy are putting forth a strong hand to lift up this race out qf oppression and tf eir country from the reproach of it If they were but one or two trem bling and toiLrig in solitary qjM'fJjy the world afar would be confident of their success But they num ber hundreds arid thousands and if cver they feel a passing doubt of thmr progress it is only because they nro pressed upon" by the qjeancr multitude Over the sea mo onu doubts victory Id is ascertain as that the risen siin will reach the me ridian Already are there overflowing collegesyherc no drstinctiunpf color is allowed overflow ing because no distinction of color is alhpyed "Al ready have people of color crossed thuThrcsholds of many whites ns guests not as drudges or beggars Already are they admitted to worship and to exer cise charity among the whites The world has'hbnrd nnd seen enough of lie re proach incurred by America on account of her col ored population It is now lime to look for the' faimr side The I crescent streak is brightening towards the full to wane no more is the world bcyond tlic sea beginning to tlunkmf Ameri cp less as the country of the double faced pre tender to the tinme of Liberty tlijn as the home of the single hearted dear eyed Presence I which tftid Jr the name of Abolitionism is majestically passing through the land which is soon to be her throne lb Toasts al the an Buren Celebration of the ourth at Cambridge By Wtn'jTl Law Esq Amer ienn Slavery The blackest broadest blot on Co fair fiime over which deep mourns the eigle with shattered wing on yonder Etar spangled banner it gayest plumage lost By A irlow intelligent yeomanry of Vermont tdo independent to be carried by the pow ers that be and too honest to be caught with exec utive Patronage To day the venerable Ex President Adams en ters his seventieth year He was born on the 11th July General birth day is alsq in Boston Advocate of July II While I (survey her no scran her syinme mark her owering nnasts banner float assurred that uckiess 'victim Blow then id her onward every sing ink zephyr that ill tie heard tne loud acclamation of freedom an 1 joy You need not fie told that shiv 2ry drivesdeep rom the Upper Canada Christian Guardian A WORTHY EXAMPLE Mr and Mrs his wife ara citi zens of the state of Georgia and members in that respectable denomination of Christians the both well stricken in years the husband being rising and the wife rising of 55 I Sev eral years ago two female slaves were given to them by their parents when infants and from these the number has been multiplied About seven years ago they gave freedom to tenrof their slaves who immediately proceeded to Upper Canada where they have resided ever since and some of them ace respectable members of the Baptists persuasion As the excitement respecting the Slave Question has been warmly agitated in the states for a year or two past Mr and became 'more and mdre confirmed the belief that it was their du ty to liberate all their slaves as soon as it could be done with safety to the slave Accordingly Mrs herself her husband being infirm came to Canada last full and brought one mora of her slaves with her and gave' him his freedom on arriving here This spring brought seven more and given them all their freedom' Th! reason assign ed by Mrs for accompanying them lierself to Canada is to prevent theirbeing kidnapped on their way and hurried off to the southern market and also to see herself that they were safely land ed upoii British ground the land of true liberty She says she dare not let it be known ins Geor gia that it was her design whendeaving home to go to Canada neither while on her way passing through other states that this wasTher object so numerous are those honorable characters men stealer in the of liberty The distance from her residence 'in Georgia to Gosfield Western District Upper Canady is about 900 miles sq that Mrs has travelled last fall in the cause of liberty and humanity a distance of 2700 miles3 What Christian what heart but that of stone would not say to every slaveholder glrthou and do Mrs is now in this place has purchased for her liberated slaves a barrel of pork and a barrel of flour and designs to see them 'otherwise provided for before she returns4'1 MILES 'Gosfdd May 23 1S37 1 EDITORIAL REMARKS I 1 What! has it come'to this that American cit izens have to from the professed home of the brave and land of to shorts as to the land of true to seek an asylum from the hand of the cruel oppressor Yes it is verily so' Britain has washed her hands from the blood that but recently stained her Bat who in whose veins flow a drop of the blood of76 would have supposed that in the short period of 50 years the scene would have been so changed American citizens for no other crime than lhat of boirig ex posed to the vertical rays of the: sun must hasten through this land purchased the blood of our fathers the land of true for fear of being and offto the Sobthern market And to whom exposed To their own fathers! Yes in danger of being hunted down and sold by their own fathers! Merciless Ruffians! Vengeance will soon overtake you The angel of death will soon pursue you Miscreants Leave then this vile traffic and seek pardon' from your 1 1 2 AV hat America Ara not thy own citizens safe while passing through the free states Arc tjrey even exposed to the merciless fury ofthe pro fessed CARISTIAN SOUL CATCHERS hHAlL COLUMBIA Nurturing in thv bosom these monsters ef the human' race A mf yet that pre tendest to be free Hypocricy brands Amer ica in thy pretence to 'Liberty! Thy deeds arc known Halls of Legislature proclaim 11m rom the Middlebury Yl) ree re TEXAS? The question of the admission of Texas into the Union will be a prominent subject of discussion the coming session of Congress Itj has alreadyi become a topic of great interest and one which it is the duty of every freeman to examine with a direct s' reference to immediate action uponit A desper ate attempt willbtr made no doubt to force that country into the union Some of the of the Southern States have already moved in the matter and passed resolutions approving and recom mending its admission" No man in the free Statescan it seems to view the success of such a rc commendation in any other light than the mostdire I fulof any calamity which now threatens the prosperity and perpetuity of this republic' The adf mission! of Texas into the Union will destroythej balance of power which now existajbetween th slaveholding arid the non slaveholding States and is open the door for tho ascendancy of slavery and fiif freedom in the national councilor It' would more over most probably be followed byj a war with Mexico which" would very naturally lead to insur rectlons among the slave population of the south and be attended in every aspect by evils the meat appalling Under tho' Mexican government slavery has been abolished in Texas The 'glorious revolution which the fugitives from justice and desperadoes of 5 that country have accomplished will result in tho re establishment of that most' complicated of all' villainies arid' this state newly enfranchised from 'the shackles of tyranny will come into the union with the chain and whip and co file as tho blazonry of its armorial bearings England has a treaty with Mexicoiwhich pledges that government against any extension of lhe slave system and the rulers of the anchored will scarcely permit so fine a region forlhe cultivation of free institutions as Tex a ns to be wrenched from the grasp' of liberty and placed under the curse of slavery without a remon strance or a struggle But the crowninV calamity of the success of the southern project 'will be that it will produce a state of things which muirtinevit ably rend asunder the Union With a preponder ance of slaveholding power in tho government there would beno alternative for the free states but submission to its encroachments extension and domination or a withdrawal from all connexion with its of What is the duty of every person under the cir cumstances of this it not to protest reniSi spcctfully but firmly and earnestly against the a doptionof aconrse on tho part of the government fraught with such manifold and giant evils8 Wo trust that people of Vermont will rise up and i with one voice remonstrate against this project of South Let every individual who loves his country and its free institutions and hates slavery send in bis warning against this most suicidal of all measures jy 1 1 Texas' Appearances clearly indicate jthat strenuous efforts will be made at the extra session of ongress in September to annex Texas to this Most of the members from the slave holding States are known to be decidedly favorable to the measure and indeed determined to do their utmost to effect its accomplishment and so prompt and pliant are many from tho North to do their bid sding that there is great reason to fear that their exertions will be successful" Glowing appeals have been and will continue to be made in behalf of kindred successfully struggling like our T' venerated forefathers" for the achievement of theirindependence the unjustifiable exactions' and re lentless cruelties of tne barbarous Mexicans' and the patriotic valor of the heroes of San Jacinto will be portrayed in 'the most eloquent terms and the powerful' considerations of justice patriotism and humanity will all be urged in fafor of ttho measure But the real objects contemplated of Texas it is believed are to strength on extend and perpetuate the abominable system ofSLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE in this COUntfjT 'and to secure controlling southern influence inour national councils SA nnrafrZc 'd JS'! aA a i 1 1 dostyen ers of human prey by thine Own anlhoritive Sim: And still thou dost boast of the equality qftby lawj and of the hospitality of thy sons LBut in vain lby7 boastings! Thy deeds of infamy arc written os in sunbeams on the very capital of thy fame 3 4 Worthy deed! God bless jhee' for this thy generous act! Thy heart could no filonger steel itself against the claims of justice and the cries arid groans of injured innocence 2700 miles in the cause of liberty and human 7ity Here yc professed ministers ofthe blessed Jesus who barter in the imago of your master an example of missionary toil" Willyou pattern1 after the of this? virtuous DAUGHTER GEORGIA? or will you fatten still upon" the 'r unrequitted toll of your brethren 'Look: forward we besecchybtt to the retributions' of that 4 day when tho great vindicator of tho oppressed 'shall deal with you upon thq principle With what measure you meet to others shall be measured to you'' Union laugh Nicholas of rxtsstX: yh Mayor of Savannah agreeable to a rote the City Council bus issued tho following procla mation i Ww Whereas The Mayor arid Aldermen of the' City of Savannah in Council assembled this day' havcA directed that the Mayorido'oflcr a reward of IVE 2 HUNDRED DODLARS for PHILBROCK4 aste rpa nd KELLER Mate of the brig Susan for secreting and carrying away to Thomas1 ton in the'Stctq of Maine a fugitive slave the property of James and Henry Sagurs Now know i yc that I John Millen do hereby offer the said re ward of $500 for the apprehension and bringing to punishment the said I) PHILBROCK andE KELLERUM or either them Given under my hand and Seal 6f the I City of Savannah this 22d day of June IE37 JOHN MILLEN Mayor PT Attest) Myers I vol viz i I rota Miw Miutmeau in I HUbrOiV MkSSACHUSETTSil WN ii 1 I pOltl 1 IVA i Mr 1' ic When I entered the United States there was an absolute and most ominous silence in Congresshniit slitery Almost every leading man theru told me nr conversation that it was the grand ques yon all that cverv mind wis full it nearly all oilier questionswerc much af fected nr wholly determined by it yet no one ev rea alluded to it in public Before I left it hud futirid its way into The houses had in some sod come ton vote upon it which show ed the absolute abolition strength in the House of Upresentativesto bo forty seven'' The entering wedge having been thus fir driven it is inconceiv able that lh nation will allow it to be withdrawn nirronderinnr their rirrlit nf netitnn When aniiuiiu an UIIIIJC IIIIV left however tho people had virtually no right of by their insignificance shut up or pulled dowri wiui rrarii iu iuh over which tjqy their have" an exclusive ju fistiiction' Again There were loud and extensive com plaints session of the despotism of tho chair in the House of chiefly in con nexion wilh the subject of slavery No members it wis said were allowed fair hearing but those who sat in particular part of the house If this complaint arises out ofthe peevishness of political disappointment it wi'l soon be contradicted by facts If it is true it is a grave injury In either "case the chair will not long possess this power cf despotism If the favored are few ns the com plaint states the injured many will demand and obtain the power to make themselves heard in turn and no spirit of parly can long stand in the way of a claim se jrist IJi Again After the gentlemen of Charleston haff disgraced their city" and country "by breaking into1 the post office and burning the contents of the msil in their drend of abolition papers a post master wrote to a member oPthe cabinet de Boston? sirino his approbation for having examined and re needed fused to forward certain papers mailed at his office i Anememuer or cue cauincr nenasu gave me ue i umi ue oeiievea people ot color were not consid aired sanction to this audacious stoppage of the ered citizens in ihcf laws He was proved to be post office function declaring that the good of 'the wrong He was actually ignorant of the wording community as judged of by the individual) is a of the acts by which people of color are termed consideration above the law The strangers in the citizens Of course nd judge could have forgotten land knew not wirat to mane oi me looi narmness i of hazarding such a declaration in a man of could qnfe of the most eminent statesmen and law wit It was known that he desired the yers in the country have tedd me that it is still a office of Dost master ercneral that the President wished him to have it and that the doubt was I whether peopfe of color are citizens whether thp Senate would connrm me appoint 1 merit Soon sfter this apparently fatal declaration he was nominated and the Senate confirmed his Iappointment The declaration no doubt Seated him in office The southern members were won by iL Kendall calculated rightly for his imme diate object What is to become of him when the people shall at length recognize the peril and insult to themselves of one of their favored ser vants declaring the will of an individual to le oc casionally subversive of the law i of the will of the remains to be seen Meantime 1 the continuance in office ofthe person whose de claration to the above effect remains unretracted my be regarded as one of the deepest wounds whicl has been inflicted on the liberties pf the nation 1 Another attempt brought'on no doubt by Ken to derange or stop the function of the post office has failed Mr Bill commonly called the Gag Bill prohibiting post masters from receiving and forwarding any papers whatsoever containing any tiring relating to slave ry actually was brought to a third reading by the castin vote of the president of the Senate There was fear at the time that this casting vote might ensure the success of the bill from the popularityof the Vice President But the bill was thrown out on the third reading and the effect of the casting vote has been npt to aid the bill but to in jure materially the popularity of the Vice President This is so far well Itshi's that the peopleware preparing to grapple honestly with the great the hideous question out of which arise these niinor encroachments upon their liberties light the far (distant nations to the land of tho free and thchotne of the brave! The causp of abolition moreover appeals to us as patriot's in a two lold sense on one hand ivc are called upon to arrest the fatal progress of a deadly evil on the other to restore a healthful str te to the now sickly carcass of a rotten republic He is not the friend of iris country whb applies an opiate to her alarmed conscience hut he is a patriot who tells her the truth unwelcome though that truth'rriay be The public mind has long been strangely in fatuated onjthis point A patriotism is now frequently by his contempt of law his inobocratic spirit the false praise he may lavish upon his count or the runi he drinks onthe 4th of July" And after a midnight levelry you may readily discoverdiv ing marks of his devotion iu blood shot eyes or a broken pate Yes marvellous as it may scorn the flame of patriotism has been suppos ed glow iiLthc bosom of the drunkard that wallows in yonder gutter himself more filthy than the gutter which he is Noisy bacha nalians have prated in grog shops about liberty and the ederal Constitution and with their clamorous nonsense attempted to silence those who plead for the down trodden and the dumb 1'his anniversary of the American Indepen dence is most fjhamelessly desecrated and if ever the Devil was served to perfection it ison the 4th of July I wish lhat Doctors of Di vinity who apologize for man stealing would listen torthe outlandish jargon and vile gibber ish of their comrades in arms against the cause ot human rights How curious! to see rum mongers wine bibbers drunkards and gluttons in one haggafiLpubrid mass mixing with pro fessors of has logy JfSdghpps Ministers and Dtacoys iri a rrusade against the abolitionists And vet these miscreants talk of ouralbribus funion abolition fanaticim and a host of other topics that: pro slavery embraces will not now waste the time of enumerating Let such minions of southern despotism know there is a band unbought unawedj who will not succumb or emper but dare toXspeak the truth Although execrated as mad men now their fame will yet be sung by the last tail and dyinjr groan Ami if all the abolitionists in this laud wcre now brought to gether and burned on one fundral pile and heir ashes scattered to the four winds of Heaven a voice frofli their shapeless graves loud as the tones of thrilling thunder echo the judgments bf God in the ear of op pression It seems that divine Providence has at length mysteriously fate of the freeman with that of tlie slave TheXrightof petition freedom of speech arid ofthe press! are uuw lueniineu wnn uie emancipation oi me negro from' the thraldom 6f southern tyranny Abolitionists no longer stand before the pub lic in the attitude of such (so Tar as the right of Jree discussion is concerned they crave a common boon andwe arq now brought to the momentous alternative either to witness the abolition of slavery or be btiricd be neath its bloody car In this cause of human rights We ar urged forward by a just reward fpr our personal immunities and every golden thread that Lands us to our native land As 'patriots "therefore let us go bn until the soil of Columbia shall be untrodden by the foot of a slave Lovers o( the home of your athers awake I Look see oqr country like some gallant barque floating on the broad bosom of Behold her richly freighted with the right of the free man interests of the master qud the hope of the plavef But there is a vortexat hand and she is iow in the other circle of the mael strom The scenery is enchanting the day smiles sweetly and the waters ply harmlessly on every sjide No danger is The circle sweeps with so large a diameter that it appears to be a straight Ijne but ah the delusion it is the curse of death Each successive uweep is swifter and id smaller cir cumference tliunders of the distant cataract seem to throw a of lulling to a binding in on lioard its forces from afar careering oi than the avj tains lofty ascend quickly the high "promontory of liberty hold but the beacon light of free discussion un dimmed sc ed by such a star mrfy enter the harbor of freedom unscathed ere the terrific roar of the mighty waters rushing through their subterra nean oulle: shall whelm in the whirlpool: of ruin the boon of the freeman and the hope of 1 1 1 i It is idle tral grounc tiuctiori is stand Tn it: who of us glorious Eti i tyranny an then as tl start from" encounter dom whicl right of th to iinagirie that we can occupy neu in this matter for the line of dis now so straight thtt if you dare to way it will cut you in sunder And' Would wish tobe excused in this uggle between liberty and life death I trusts none! Let us worthy sons of the pilgrim sires our slumbers armed for the moral and fly to the rescue' of thatfree is and will jbe the Highest birth an arid dearest gift ofGod In this nterprise we may be assured of sue cess Let the friends of the cause be valiant for the truith let them fearlessly write on the folds of bannef the motto iat juititia ruafCfBlui And they shall ultimately know the truth i omnipotent and will prevail rom the eminence on which I stand to day methinks discern in the far off distance the great prison house ofsuvm Its founda tions havelbeen laid in broken hopes broken hearts and the wreck of immortal minds Its unhallowed walls cemented with tears of bit terest anguish tower qpward with a Heaven insulting ffefianbe Clouds of black despair in sullen gloom begirt its murky frowniqg summit Witfiin its deadly confines stand the accursed altars of mammon built on the ruins of all that lis lovely and continually smoking with the blood of their slaughtered victims While I gaze on this colossal structure tv fiich seems made to challenge invasion and mock the power of the earthquake and the storm my heart sickens darknessand dpubt seiz'e my mind a sa'dness steals and my spirits droop like the willow that bendsits piensives branches the gliding stream to wqep in si Ince At length the dawn of hope begins to shed a THE THRTC AT DISUNION There are many among the slaveholders of the Smith who threaten secession Such of these asre in earnest ard under the mistake into which men fill when they put eVerv thing to the hazard of one untenable object The untenable objejetonce relinquished the delusion will clear away With the disappearance of its cause and the Union will be to lhem with good rensoflrdearer than it has ever been? Tb southern States could not ex iSJ separately ith their present domestic institu tions in the neighborhood of any others They would have thousands ofl miles of frontier over which their slaves would Ke running away every day ofthe year In case of war they might bjj on ly too happy if their slaves did runaway instead of rising them at home If it was neces 'rary to purchase lorida because it was a retreat for run i wavs if it was necessary first to treat 'with Mexico for the reslitut'on of runaways and steal TUR MOST HIGH HAND ED THIT MODERN TIMES if it is nc csssary to pursue runaways into the northern Stdtcs aad to keep magistrates and jails ip perpetual re for the restitution ofsouthern htitnjin prop erty how would the southern Slates manage by themselves? Only by ridding themselves of slave ry in which case their alleged necessity ofscpa ntiari is superseded As for their thehoe bu uness of New York State is of itself larger and more valuable than the entire of Ge irgi i iha largest and richest of thp southern States' Tne mere act of separation could not be accom plished In case of war ag iinst the northern Stales it would be necessaryw 'erpploy half the white population 1 take card vf the black and otthe re nrinmglialf no one would undertake to Say how mrny aru at heart sick and weary of slavery nnd would be lherefbre untrustworihy Thq middle riaye Stites now nearly ready to discard slavery wuil seize so favorable an opportuu ty os that af fjrdcd them by the peril of the Uriion The rci ti the free States Rpm Pennsylvania to the ssissip pi having every tbsng to losu by separation and jiudiing to gain would treat first overt act as rebellion proceeding against it and punishing it IM such cas: is so palpable as scarcely to even brief statement as this Wjiich renders such itement worth making is that nt ot those who threaten the dissolution' of the Union it in order to divert towards this im practicable obi I er nc and winch will ore long turn against the insuiutmu oi riav upon thi it ittiitim UM) on ipio ion be answered La tmcorisrtiouS of that aiyfu! gaze They tl I fain hot h'bar the reverberation of tint about I iusy would fainlperstinde iheuiselves and others lhat they are toobiuy in asserting their rights and lheir dignity ns citizens of tha Union to heed the world beyond 1 This self and: mutual deception will prove a mere tnpr il evil The natural laws which feg'dato comintiirities and the will of the majority mty be trusted to preserve thq good and to remove Lie bad elements from which this dissension arucs requires no jiift of prophfecy to anticipate the fte ofan anomaly arnotrg a self governing penje Slavery was not always on anomaly but it has one 'Its doom is therefore sealed ohd its ration nowlmerely a question of lime Any OreL'r rii the Computation of this time 'is reason able for it will not only remove a more tre jpendoua curse tlian can ever again desolate society ih rls' tho universality of that generous at atlunpot to tlieir common institutions jwlrich has been ami will again 'be' to the American people honor safety and the means of perpetual pro We Ib i io forthwith ex pelled from her hallowed precincts that his sac religious himds may no lotigiKtZrjfe the 'em blems of a ly ing lovq 4 You are probably aware ladies' and gentle men that quite a controversy has recently been induced relative to the political hearings of this question Now I frankly con fes that 1 deprecate those appeals which ome have made to the political enthusiasm of abolitionists I thinkwe may fairly discover lat the success rtf our cause has owed itself mainly to a dis avowal of any connection vfith olitics When assailed withkhe charge wc have hitherto been able to clear ourselves therefrciD by directing rur efforts to the conscience But if we now appeal tothe ballot box then ah as we have in deed Io4 that power for what conscience can thereby in political pnrtizan warfare? Althoughve admit that every national legislature will he the prevailing this Country is thoroughly renovated inoral pranciple will form the basis of our government et I believe we have but little to hope fromlthat quarter at prescijtJ Conceding however forrthe sake of argument that the subject ha assumed a po aspect still it is an ainscttled point whether ministers churches Sand Christians both in their individual arid associate capacity should not ac? upon the unless the helm ot state is abandoned to goguee which inay a watchful forbid i I Let the chufdh thfcn awakf dream that she has nothing i whole field ol silkpn'chnrds that bind srtciety to the will of the master to be cut by him in sunder as his caprice or whim may chance to direct In full view therefore of these alarming facts who but! a misanthrope can remain unmoved I pity lhat little soul which seems not to know when slavery with its bloody iron heel traipples pn tbesacred concatenatimi that unites and makes (if one blood all nations that dwell On le earth Shall all the ties of consanguinity be reared with sla red hot bi and and our sense be paral ized 1 Let freemen remember that the wrongs of the negroes are an outrage upon his own let the voice of philanthropy be awakened and speak with its trines of thrilling thunder in the sluggish Car oflthe conscience of the tyrant and if the Jast fvCstige1 of hu manity is not already gone the kppeal will not be in vain with all Its heart freezing horrors shall be banished from! the borders of our then happy land This qrit ion likewise concerns us as Chris tians And methinks if we pre deaf to all other call's the voice that speaks to our religion will be heard 1 know that some of our north ern Divines while seated very comfortably in their Theological chairs have arrived at the sage conclusion that the dible interdicts church action upon this subject but will undoubt edly be admitted by all that it devolves upon the church at least to purify hjerself What! shall the tone of moral be higher in an Abolition Society than intilie Temple ofthe Holy I thought the church was de signed to embody with her sc cred enclosure every benevolent enterprise Shall it be said 'that the chu ch has nought to do with slavery when the hydra headed monster has taken refuge at her nltars coiled his slimy' folds around the pulpit Jrissing there in hellish triumph When ie has (belched forth his sickening effluvium until the pestife rous vapors of his stinking brqajth have con taminated the whole moral atmosphere with the miasmi of ruin? Slavery has dared to tread holy ground and with its rough shod cloven foot the decalogue in the dust men slumber when the wav sweeping over the land threatens to bury in one coiinnQii grave both the churcH and the state? Shall not the note of alarm be sounded by the legates of Heaven when slavery like the simoon of the desert has scattered from its bale ful wings the deadly poison and is pow with ering and scorching and blasting the fair flowers that bloom in the garden of tlu( Lord Rather let the church arise prrayed in her rom the Washington County Sentinel y'' PETITIONS i Vi Not a time should be lost in circulating' extensively petitions against the annexation of riTexas to the United States Congress meets ear ly in September and tens' of thousands of niDesW 4 should pour in the first day "of the session Ws well know that the pitiful and miserable creature of the Sandy Hill Herald has sounded the alarm to the faithful that new measures of are on foot 'and that' the Ilouse of Representatives ogain to be the scene 'of warm and animated de SSbate on the subject 6f Slavery and Abolition" We well know also that the smuggler the kidnapper the Jorse thief or any other loafer blackleg freebooter wishes to avoid discussion and excite? ment in on' his dark and nefarious de signs But the friends of the annexation of may as well be informed first as last that the Pre vious will hardly succeed in arresting discussion of the merits of the application for ad mission into th We do sincerely hope 'that every person in tho i county who has a copy of a petition will put itim mediately in Circulation One is "opened at this office and men of all partiee throughout the county who can make it convenient nre requested to call and sign iL It will remain here nrd may be secn at any time and we wish it might bo seen and sign ed by at least five hundred citizens of the town Greenwich A We feel more than a common interest in relation! to this matter for the very moment that Texas be comes a part and parcel of this Union we may con sidcr the interest jand hopes of freedom sealed over to slavery forever Two states more will make the '5 slaveholders tic with us in the and three will give them the balance of power And can if be possible 'in view of this most deplorable dreaded result that northern men can be found whot will openly advocate such an extension of our torial limits aswill throw the preponderance of po litical power into the hands of the enemies of Uni versa! Liberty The prevailing' expression had been foryoarsbe fore Texas struck for the liberty of slavery that our 5 territory was too large and that for our own safety'd and the perpetuity of qur government we ought rather to plead for a curtailment than an exensionii a Now we ask northern men to carry out thir ownviews and act on their avowed princij8Wo nesitate nor nor should any republican hesitate to donrzince that man as an enemy to Jris'country and? i miffilMnd who from party motivegXvill pursue a course calculated to injure if notdestroy tho cause of freedom in the netv world Such of our citizens as havenot 'cotisidcreiMhis matter thoroughly should immediatelydnvesligata its merits and bo prepared Tor prompt and vigor ous action against the designs ofthose daring and reckless adventurers who wish' to enrich and elevateithemselves at the expense of their best interest nnd the rights bf man SLAVES onrn oer to us AT Slim Sb 1 A r1 5 Hie i is fef" S' 4 lIAi 0 3 fk 1 14 TluntiTT 4 si i I.