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1A VI1 i if 'it! I 4 Mi. 'I t4'i 1 -v I. 1 1 vim i 'Hi (Hi 1 s- I iff 1 1 Iff? 7 4V MWWff VOL. XXII. KO, 29 THE LIBERA TO 15G -1 For the Liberator.

ran: 1 aktericane--a new bono. r- 1 it ST W. MILXX. Tunc Seottteha .114 Calmljwiil ye tuffer wrong Se the feeble by the Urong Held in eheine and alarery i Ye to whom a freeman hw ye forgot llojr'jo'vir pbe broiher tought, By your. aide, for liberty i Erery moment he remains, bylyoti In aerrile chains Deeer, darker makes the ataina your jailt and knavery.

Rie! and with' a 'giant's might, freedom's moral battles fight ''VlJbsi 'the. word of Justice smite yur Eagle, suddenly Sable cheeks are wet with tenr, And a wailing fillsIIis ears, Vho in' mercy ever hears The fain tee), cry of Jnise'ry't', Heavy burdens haste undo, lest'jn'wrath'ile visit you, the vengeance jutly due, Be requited fearfully. Ilelpless infancy invokes, Hoary age with snowy locks, Woman. -too, for justice knocks At your doors beseechingly. Shall their tears to pity move, Tcais observed by God above, God.

whose justice, truth and love, Hewer sides with tyranny Blush, Americans for shame 41 Thetn a blot upon your fame "Wipe it out, and get a name justice, truth and equity. 'Then the Union, all around. Songs of Jubilee shall sound, 'And a State no more be found, Stained with human slavery. For the Liberator. 1 A DAQTJEHEEOTYPE.

BT AM ARTTST OF THE OLD COLOXT. They call theo godlike' ah! their empty praise For thy departed honor poorly pays They call thee 'patriot' lo the Yain profession No heart to feel for victims of oppression They call thee great expounder of the law' No man, no fiend one more depraved e'er saw Thev call thee statesman hast thou lostthv soul'? Whatepr.tbou rst gained, no profit 's in the goal V'. LEND A HAND. "Wo'rling'mid the world's commotion, -'rjw Fighting up life's thorny road, Patriots, a hijjh devotion, ni Struggle in the cause 'of And to us that band is And their griefs before us AowLtQ us band is saying. Brethren lend a hand 1 Men of freedom men of daring Blett.

withrhealth and strong in youth, Come, with all your, noble bearing, ight tne battle-fight of truth. Former friends reject and slight us, Fiends aiid men resist and spite us, ll'3 iaW and hell combine to fight us a hand of and men of station, has had your aid too long Come, then from their degradation Help to raise the wretched throng. JOt ioom of wbe? unthinking, a poison eup they're drinking, In aaea of death they are sinking -i ones! lend a hand i man Men high and soaring, -jo ilt jeape yonr flights past human ken 1 Lend your mighty aid in pouring si Knowledge round the paths of men. 'Jo jji-o Round you is a solitude Minds with higher powers endued, Perishing for lack of food! -Genius! lend a hand I I Alcn of God! whose noble calling Has come down from Heaven above, Cease your scheming and caballing each in truth a Savior's love. AVhile but trifles you're decrying, 1 Millions for the truth are 6ighing, And the second death are dying Christians lend a hand of every mind and station.

Sow the seed and strike the blow Rise iq hones) indignation. Rise tw -tight the common fe There's a field for all yout working, Mcn reigaing, sip is lurking; jLcithcrelbe no dastard sliirkikgv i axriola lend a hanU. I riuT From the National Era. i "OHSIST -AND MARS, OR CnMSTIANTTY "AND WAR 'Trust in the Lord, and keep your powder Said Croma-eU, when along, the darkened sky Flew forth sw ift-winged messengers of fate, Which sent a legion down to riuto'a irate i 1 jTrast in the Trd and pray, Our Father, Goo7 TThen 'smite his children with a demon's tod Braathe forth 'thai prayer, 'Moat hallowed thy i name, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, the same tln earth then ope the cannon's mouth, Lft slip )he dogs war, from North to South, From Eat to West let fiends incarnate rage, And make mankind in hellish scenes engage Trust in the Lord to 'Give us daily bread, tThea eat yHr food with, hands by murder red VS Forgive Lord, as we our foe forgive, Then rob them of thoie joys for which they live temptation lead us not. Oh Lord, give sta heart to kill with grape and sword From every form evil set free, help us flood the earh with crimsoned sea tnfe honor, power, For aye be when in a direful hour Tfco lights of heaven shall fade amid the glsra Of.uuiTersat fires, and demons wear I The crown of undisputed right and sway Sueh is the scene where Ckomwelis rule the day, And such the part that Cukistu Va.hioss play I D.

M.Ka. Geneve, Illinois, 1852. f.SitLti fi.tti.n'l vi ft aT 7 PBXCEPTIVE. Think whst is just is not enough to do, 4 TJnloaa- thy very thoughts are upright too. 1 Dte the truth V'fjr that Who will riot die A coward and give himself the lie.

Qiiit taint' HOPE ON, HOPE EVEB-' rf August 1, 1852. Dear Gaautsos steady pers'istance in your great and good Work has. by the sight of a Liberator. been called to my mind and I feel encouraged not to despair of human I had began to rest from voluntary exertion; satisfied to leave Kings to God forgetting aa to human th.ngs he works through human agenW that all our faculties were given to promote his purposes, and that each is bound in his circje to use them actively; and that we must not hope to escape moral and just retribution, if we hide our talents, though but one, in a napkin. This i beautifully illustrated by Jesus in the parable of the talents.

much, it seems, at times, it is to be re gretted that' his teachings had not come down to us unattended witti tne writings oi me araeni riui thouzh aa thev have come down so, I am satisfied it ia for the bet-t that they so csrae. The fact that a thing has happened to me, sufficient to justify the conclusion, that it was best it did happen. Our business and duty is to correct, or aid in cor recting, what we think wrong. We cannot get rid of thnast facts: thev have cone down the stream of time, arid we must be content with fatalism, or infer that we have a duty to perform in thi life, and that is to aid in improving the effects whieh may be made to flow by the active energy of the wise and the good. It is from the whole stream of facts that men, in the ages that have passed, have derived and transmitted their knowledge to after ages and that increasing knowledge has enabled us to see the good which Nature (God) is ever educing.

Efectricity, which aforetime was deemed to be a visitation of vengeance, is now turned by knowledge to the mighty blessing of transmitting and increasing intelligence by almighty wingv and in the'end will strengthen the power of the masses against despotism. This despotism and priestcraft will be dismissed to the darkness from whence they came- They sprung from darkness and and to that darkness they will All nature is chemistry man himself is a laboratory and the knowledge of nature, which is the knowledge of the laws of God and his works the knowledge of the comprehensive and beautiful philosophy of Jesus, which teaches the love of God and man, and acting to-wcrds our brother, and judging him aswe would that he should act towards and judge us will be found to accord. shell be fitted for higher being, and find our reward. Your perseverance in your good work heartened me up again that is, it suggested a train of thought which did so, at a moment when my view of the political aspect of things here had thrown a wet blanket over me. It is never long with me before it dries, as my that all things work together for good, is steady, though as others, occasionally find myself puzzled to reconcile tmngs that happen coiurarj io the way in which I wished.

This thought, I have no doubt, or something like it, occurred to the abolitionists when the iniquitous Fugitive Slave Bill passed; but the discussion to which that bill has given rise has done more, and will do more for the abolition of slavery, than we at first saw connected "with it. Take an instance Uncle Tom's Cabin' was printed here at 2s. Cd. It sold so rapidly, that it was soon printed for a. shilling and it is now printing in penny numbers.

It is largely contributing to diffuse the abolition of slavery, which you had made a world-wide question, reach the meanest in circumstances, and it will tend to strengthen the poor and ignorant against slavery, ere they embark for your country. It is narrative which brings the sufferings of the slave home to the heart and the feelings, in a form in which hundreds and thousands can appreciate them, and are made to abhor those who inflict or advocate them. The work enlists the feelings of. all who read it, and the feelings lead the majority and if there is reasoning power, and it is awakened, the feelings in the end lead the judgment. The judgment is pretty sure' to enter the same regiment in which the feelings have enlisted.

Go on, then, my earnest, good friend Be assured you will reap, if you faint not. It will be an honor, in a future day, to have labored with you in your great mission. 1 an amazing number of progressive move-. merits a man sixty years old might record as movements, the fruits of which he has seen And when he remembers how often he has grieved himself at the influences which appeared to oppose the rapid advance of the good, or what he thought so, and now looks back and takes note of the progress made, how truly and fully docs it prove that society, notwithstanding these influences, is a growth, and is ever impelled onward that it is a process of adaptation, and that onward is a law of our being, and is for good. Every man has his errors but, inasmuch as all have not the same errors, truth progresses, though the errors impede.

If ten is taken as representing society, only one of the ten would be found riding the same hobby and though the other nine should have their hobbies, there will always be nine against each larticular hobby, and the stream would still run in the right direction. Hence the purposes of God, or nature, are worked 'out, independently of the will of man; yet through his agency. We are creatures of necessity, creatures of the great first cause. Man has what to the world has appeared, and what to many still appears to be, a free will yet is he a creature of jnccessity. His language has been formed out of what to men has appeared to bo their state and position, namely, that of free agency: they form their own language.

Higher views of God's providence show, that all thing- proceeding from Him are governed by him, and are 1 overruled to his purposes. He works through the agency of creatures; and, notwithstanding their misapprehension or non-apprehension of the laws of na-- ture, the laws of nature act and govern and influence, whether we understand them or not they control, and we enjoy or surfer, as we conform or err. We are compelled to submit to them, whether knowing them not, or suffer the consequences of disobedience or non-conformity. ji There js no liberty, so to speak, but the liberty of obedience. Wisoor ignorant, man cannot suspend or eontrol their action though, knowing them, he may use them, and profit by their use.

The laws which govern and control us, as individuals, arc as certain, physically, mentally and morally, as the laws which govern external nature. We cannot control the tides or the plants neither can we refuse our being. We ere not consulted as to receiving or going out of life, or as to the laws which control it. We cannot but breathe, and that brings sensation into action, and we cannot resist our sensation. The eye, it cannot choose bute; We cannot bid the ear be still Our bodies feci, where'er they be, Against or with our will.

cannot suspend the gastrio juice and from this proceeds our motives to action, to labor, to learn, and thenc our ititellectuarand artistic attainments, our moral convictions, our intelligent obedience, our lore for excellence, our enjoyment of high and pure -These' sensations, which are Independent of ourscives, compel us to act. Lei every mart act in conformity with or against these laws, and ho will neither miss the reward nor escape the consequences, whether, he ins, from ignorance, or against knowledge. r. Whether wo call this obedience, to the law of nature, or the law of God. is but a dirTarenee in word, not in essence If we say with the secularist, those who obey the law of nature will reap the reward of their wisdom or c-be Hence the higher power; orj Ma for the good of those who love Gd, we express the name thought in different words.

The one form is conceived in the language Suggested by those who reverence power a evidenced in the law of nature, hut have not imagined a being or person the other is language conceived by those Who have found or embodied an idea of person, connected with the We should endeavor to arrive" at the essence of the thoughts expressed, treating tho words as the mere dresa. Many of the disputes about free will or necessity have arisen from the words used, but much more from the difficulty inherent in the subject, because it has relation to the infinite, and the agent is finite but man can see enough to know that the power that creates is greater than the thing created, and has not subjected his laws to the -creature's will. Man's charac ter is formed for him, not by him. This doctrine, that God rules all things, ia put by the Evangelists into the mouth of Jesus Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father's notice. But the very haire of your head are all numbered fear ye not.

therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. 5 1 This is a faithful saying. It is one of the leaves of the tree of life appointed for the healing of the nations, end is able to make us unto sal vatio and thoroughly furnished unto all good Works. It is a great truth, and must not be suffered to fall to the ground. That is the cause of a thing, without which it would not be.

The character of a man flows from his life and organization. His life he cannot help receiving; bis organization he cannot help obeying. Man'a' organ ization is sustained and controlled by his Creator, as fs evinced by the language we have quoted from the great Christian Philosopher, wbose philosophy would, ere this, have pervaded the world, if the dog ma of credists had not been taught in its stead, and in his name, by priests, who built arches over his doctrine, and then pretended they were founded upon his teaching. We receive our thoughts and coin our language through the senses. Without the senses, there is r.o thought without these, no words for words are but the symbols having conventional meaning only.

These senses are. put in action by the material things surrounding which are the types of all new ideas to which they give rise and as we increase in knowledge, we multiply our desire of symbolizing extending our view of God through his works. Mind is ever growing as it sees more of science. Though the physical types that is to say, the works of God, as spread out before man, are the same, and the eye visual may be the same the eye mental is not the same its power of vision is increased. The omnipotent type is ever the same.

It is the imperfect that changes, not the perfect. It is man'a power of comprehension and appreciation that enlarges; and as it goes on enlarging, he is enabled to see more of God in all things and ultimately he will, as I think, see all things in God. And yet priests have dared to say to mind, Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther. They who compelled Gallilco to bend the knee to a lie who shut up the words of the kindest philosopher, and the most comprehensive philosophy from the world and burnt and destroyed who sought its diffusion, by the Inquisition, were the great enemies of man and those who partake of the disposition to represa thought are of the same spirit. The world will not know true religion until we get rid of priestcraft.

I had almost said, until we get rid of priests. EDWARD SEARCH. THE BIBLE QUESTION. (Reply to Joseph Barker Concluded.) It our opinion is correct, Joseph Barker, is a man of war. He considers the New Testament as tame, servile and pusillanimous, because its doctrine it, Resist not evil, overcome evil with good, and recommends patience and resignation under afflictions, if the sufferers cannot belter their J.

-B. would overcome his enemies and oppressors with powier and lead. He says It seems extremely difficult to annihilate European tyranny, or American slaveholding, as long as the Bible is considered of Divine authority. The scriptures represent it as a matter of little importance whether men be slaves or free-men. The scriptures sanction political tyranny and despotism forbid rebellion against tyrants, and sentence to damnation all who resist existing authorities, requiring men to be subject both to ecclesiastical and political rulers, on pain of eternal ruin and when they find you proving that the scriptures even require you to obev everv ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, without rrgi.rd to its character, you may depend upon it they will tremble.

The world will have to henr the truth, and the sooner they hear it, the better. The hypocrites will tremble for their calling and their (Did you. Mr. just occupy the position of a priest for the sake of the hire? Were 'you then a hypocrite And the honest, but deluded, ill tremble for the honor of their religion and the salvation of men's True enough, this makes us have fenrlul forebodings as we acknowledge ourselves to be among the number of the deluded. But we hare already troubled our readers with an account of such a paroxysm of horror, that we will not again trespass on their sympathies.

If Mr. B. goes on to make one discovery after another, of the iniquitous teachings of the scriptures, what shall we do He has now discovered that the Apostles were the tools and lick-spittles of the- despots cf their day, preaching submission to their behes's, be they right or wrong, they ere to obey "man rather than God. It ia easily discovered, when B. puts us on the track, what the reason was why the great folks treated the Apostles with such distinguished attention.

They scarcely ever visited a country or city, but a reception meeting was got up through the influence of the big folks. Some orator or orators would make an adulatory reception speech, addressing them on behalf of their country, or city, of which the following is an example These that have turned the world upside down are eome hither also and these all do contrary to the decrees of Ctear, saying there is another king, one They were specially complimentary to Paul. He boasts of his distinction in this way, 2d Cor. 11 2327. They greeted him thu3: What will this babbler say He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods.

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world. He teachcth customs which are not lawful for to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. They conferred the distinguished honor on Paul, of giving him the privilege of displaying his prowess by righting with wild beasts atEphesus. Not only would the Apostles be addressed in a flattering manner) but they would aTso be presented with tokens of respect; not gold medals, indeed, hut something in the shape of chains and fetters, stones and whips well applied and were accommodated, at the expense of the community, as the people's guests, in public houses, denominated jails, with special orders to the-ofScer in attendance to make their feet fast in the stocks. vAnd as a final reward for their loyalty to the despots, they would not allow them to die as ordinary mortals thus not subjecting them to the risk of encountering the infirmities of old age, but removing them, by a violent death, in the comparative vigor of life not stretched on the couch of death, in a private chamber, eur.

rounded by a few weeping friends, but they were honored by dying on a public 'scaffold, or extended on cross, or broiled before slow fires, their death witnessed by thousands of spectators, vocirerating, Crucify him crucify him I Away with auch a fellow from the earth, for it is not fit that he ahould live I' I If the above will be of any use to Mr. for the purpose of proving that the Apostles, in their own if we sav with the Christian, an inmgs work together dinance'of'tnafi for the, Lord's ake without regard to it character, and that the despots in their day considered them their friends and allies, it ia at hi But if the discovery has never been previously made, that the scriptures do support political tyranny and despotism, it has done no harm. How has it corrupted the public mind, if it has not been discovered till now Nor has the Bible had much time to retard the abolition of sla-Ycry. You' have informed that it had not been discovered that the Bible justified slavery, ur.til after British West India emancipation. Now, we do pray you, Mr.

B-, don't let it out that the Bible sanctions political despotism, and it will do no harm. Do not, by yorr superior wisdom, enlighten the world. Ignorance ia bliss, in this case. What good will it do you to frighten a set of hungry priests, and a class of deluded mortals, keeping them trembling and qua king? 'And if you don't let it out, it will avert perse eution. It seems yon have been grievously persecut ed, on account of your opposition to the Bible; but you am amply compensated by having the approbation of your own conscience.

We hope you will not be called to seal your testimony with your blood! Your class of men has not as yet produced many mar tyrs. It would be a poor thing to be a martyr for they know not what. No promise to support them on which they can rely no support but the vagaries of their own imagination. Mri B. most egregiously insults the understanding of the community, to reprcs Ttt them as a set of igno rant dolts, not knowing what the.

scriptures teach, but as he informs Mr. B. brings up a host of warriors, who resisted unto Wood against opiession, and represents them as being condemned by Scripture. He has a Cromwell, Hampden, Milton, Pym, Washington, Franklin, Kos suth, and Mazzini. The men he has mentioned considered the Bible the palladium of their liberty and that it forcibly taught the equality of the human family.

The reason fs plain it had not then been that the Bible was in favor of political oppression, or despotic tyranny. In the army of Cromwell, religion was exceedingly popular; that distinguished man himself expounded the Scriptures to his troops. Profanity was unknown throughout the camp. The soldiers spent their leisure hours ih reading the Bible. Kossuth professes to be a firm believer in the Divine authority of the Sciiptures.

He says, 4 The doctrine of Jesus Christ is sublime in its majestic simplicity, and regrets that no Christian nation is governed by its precepts. All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to The observance of this rule would banish all oppression from the world. The. great' Magar has not discovered that the Bible is an obstacle in the way of annihilating European tyranny. It is only a chosen few that can unfold the mysteries of the Bible.

We do hope they will keep this secret on the Bible! It was. not discovered in; Washington's day the revolutionary struggle went on triumphantly the Bible was no obstacle in the way of the car of liberty. and a great majority of the revolutionary fathers, reverenced tho Bible. Washington had religious services in his camp and many ministers of the gospel went to tho field of battle, with their Bible in their hand. How far they acted with the true spirit of Christianity, we will not now stop to inquire.

However, of one thing we are sure, Christianity ever sympathises with tho Oppressed and down-trodden, and gives oppressors no quarters, and its weapons nr mighty through God. People who wish to play the tyrant always wish to exclude the Bible from their victims. It would be impossible to make a Bible to please the different schools of anti-Bible divines. Daniel Foster and Henry C. Wright call themselves Christ-inns.

They consider Christ's example and teachings perfect. Mr. Foster says I receive Christ's teachings as infallible give me the words of Cnrist, and I receive them as wholly true. He occupies to my soul a position which no other teacher Liberator, Nov. 14, 1851.

Henry C. Wright has expressed substantially, the same. opinion. Barker aims his malignant shafts particularly at the teachings of the New Testaments, and charges Christ with teaching or approving ol gross immoralities He says Christ allowed of slavery, that is, he considered it From J. B's manner of reasoning, in charging Christ with considering slavery law ful, hi intention is to charge him with contidcring lying, treason, highway robbery, fornication adultery, thieving and murder to be lawful It is discouraging to see the discrepancy in the opinions of anti -Bible men- They agree, in one point, that is, to demolish the Bible but there is a poor prospect of their agreeing on a new Bible.

We. suppose a majority of anti-Bible preachers are Henry C. Wright, Daniel Foster, with a great nvmy other anti-Bible- men, consider the Old Testament to be diabolical one principal reason they give is, in their opinion, it justilies war. They peremptorily assert that God never gave a revelation to mar. that would justify war, wa1 br ing contrary to the nature of God.

Henry C. Wright says: God never authorized one of hU children to kill another He must blot out man'a present nature, and relations and obligations, before he can, without injustice, invest him with the power of life and death over his brother, to slay him as a penalty for crime in Daniel Foster is expressed the same opinion very pointedly, Liberator. 2i ox. 1851. We have already seen, that Joseph Barker rejects tho New Testament as being a revelation from God one principal reason for which is, if not the only reason, in his opinion it justifies slavery, and other oppressions, because it forbids all tear, or the shedding of blood even for the purpose of obtaining liberty, nenry C.

Wright and Daniel Foster would not worship the ideal God of. Joseph Barker, because he is a God of war; his bands were stained ith human blood. They would call him a great many bad names they would say they did not fear him they. would' do im no reverence. He might be Joseph Barker's God, but he was not theirs.

Daniel Foster's and Henry C. Wright's ideal God is a being all love, who inflicts no penalties, on offenders, pats the cheek, and look as complacently in the face of the wicked as in the face of the right-eous. What would please the former gentleman's would be an' abomination to the latter gcntle- man's Deity. Bible men do differ in opinion, but not radically and essentially they all acknowledge and in the same God and in the same attributes. We see there is no prospect of anti-Bible divines agreeing on the basis of a new Bible, (not Directory) they differ in the moat essential matters; they cannot even worship the same God, and their standards of duty are nntagonistical, nor could they live amicably together.

Which, are right Both theories esnnot be right.If people were left without any final arbiter, in 'which they could place confidence, to act according to the dictates of their own understandings, the suggestions of their own affections, instincts and consciences, they would soon have as many gods, with different attributes, as are represented in the heathen mythology, and no settled moral standard. We cannot know the essential character of God, but as he reveals himself. AH is uncertainty and doubt Respecting the moral attributes of Uod, without Tevelation. The manifest tendency of uuuciuy is, r.o renaer unstame tne foundation of true religion and good morals, and to introduce universal skepticism. Yet 'such assuming' mortals proclaim themselves the benefactors of And what henefit has mankind received from infidelity or what reformation has it ever promoted We most emphatically answer, none and call for the proof that it has We must bring oar remarks to a close; we havi performed what we considered a and a ver painful one, and tt has been very imperfectly done, but the widow's' mite Was accepted.1 I It pains us to the heart to hear agents' of the American Anti-Slavery Society, declaring an exterminating person, did obey every or war against the Bible, thus divesting, themselves their prinripal weapon of warfaro against slavery As a fellow-laborer in the abolition cause, (in our own humble way.) we do most affectionately admon ish you, Joseph to beware ol wnat you.

are doing refrain from waging war against, the Bible, lest haply you be found to fight against God. You cannot overthrow it. No eapon that is formed against it shall prosper. If the Bible had been, of men, it would have come to nought long ago it could not have withstood the investigation of the enlightened ages through which it has passed. You deceive yourself, when you suppose you will make pro-slavery priests tremble, by your attacks on tho Bible.

They rejoice at your course they consider your attacks as infidel ebullitions, designed to operate on tho Bible, and they will fall harmless at their feet. And they also know you will defeat the cause you profess to advocate, as far as your instrumentality goes; but you cannot defeat the anti-slavery cause, for it is, of God and ill ultimately prevail. But that your principles will have a tendency, in some measure, to retard it, there is no doubt. And your principles and position will have a tendency to divest the American Anti-Slavery Society of some of the laurels it has so deservedly won. No man has ever got any honor to himself, or to any association to which he may belong, by assailing the Scriptures.

God is true to his threatening. Those who honor him," he will honor, and those who despise him shall be lightly esteemed." And, indeed, no infidel writer to whom we bave had access, is deserving of honor, even admitting' the subject was justifiable. They have never investigated the question with candor and honesty, but have resorted to misrepresentation of the Bible, arid perverted its' meaning, which has given people reason to say, that it is either ignorance of the Bible, or malice prepense, or a desire to show superior wisdom and independence of thought and expression, which instigated the attack, and not the love of truth. Recent writers have not even the honor of a claim to originality, but bring up old stale objections, which" have been' refuted over and over And, indeed, some are so much in tho habit of repeating the same objections, and telling the same story, that a glance at their pro ductions is sufficient to discover the author, without seeing the signature. -j J.

as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, you occupy a very inconsistent position. It highly becomes the members, more particularly the active agents of the Society, to defend the truths of Divine revelation as far as the anti-slavery question i concerned. The Society in its declaration of sentiment says, Slavery is not only an infringment on the law of nature, but ia also a presumptuous ftransgres fion of the holy As to its basis, it says, With entire confidence in the overruling jus tice of God, we plant ourselves upon the Declaration of on the truths of Divine revelation. as upon the everlasting rock. Now, Joseph Barker you are the only person, to our knowledge, who has publicly recommended and urged tho repudiation of the Divine authority of the Bible, to be adopted on the anti-slavery platform as an anti-slavery measure.

How can you charge tho people of the United Stages with inconsistency with their Declaration of Indepen dence, when you have recommended it as an anti-sla. very measure to endeavor to prove the holy command ments to hich the Society alludes are forgeries, and say you will exert your utmost ability to drag down and trample in the dust Divine revelation, one of the pedestals upon which the Society has declared it is based, as upon tho everlasting rock With prayers for Mr. Barker's welfare, both temporally and spiritually, we affectionately bid him adieu. ELIZABETH WILSON. Cadiz, (Ohio,) Aug.

28th, 1852. 1 From the East Boston Ledger. 4 UNDERSTANDEST pHPENOtOGT. Several years ago, a something began to be talked of in our country, which had been called Craniologv Phrenolonv, Ccrebrology, The public knew al most noming aooui ii out one iiung tney were agreed upon that is, that the whole aff.iir was a contemptible humbug, and no mistake But this opinion has met with a change. i.

And yet I am bound to assert, that even to this day, very few persons can give a correct and complete answer to the initiatory question What is it And the very best of our books seem to me poorly adapted to rectify the popular misconceptions of its very identity. PSTCArHlSM. A few years after the introduction of phrenological art and science, another something begun to he much talked of a something which was anciently called magic, fascination, the ocull means of healing," ttr. Two hundred "years ago, Hclmout, of Germany, and M.ixwell, of England, called it, (as Mesmer did seventy years ago,) Animal Magnetism. Since then, it has had a varietv of names, as Mesmerism, Pathe-tism, Psychiloey, P.ycaurism.

i But, whatever name its friends might give it, the public did not fail to christen it Humbug, till it was preve 1 to be a legitimate child of nature and then they recorded it Hom'iug. 1 But, what is it 2 And here, agnij, is a question to which the public needs an answer and they can have iu WHT MISCONCEIVED. And why are these subject so generally misunderstood? I answer, it is becaiwe no encouragement is afforded to him who would prepare himself to instruct us. The lecturers, and publications, and exhibitions that are decently paid for, or that even get a hearing, must be adtipted to amuse, rather than instruct. People will pay for wonderments, when they will not take useful knowledge as a -'i i SPIRTLOQUT.

And similar difficulties attend the subject of spirit-intercourse. Wo attend circles to witness wonderful manifestations, which are generally few and far between. We read books that tell of the prizes, but not of the blanks books of mysterious fcts and loving messages sometimes' splendid messages all tinctured, more or less, with the imperfections and peculiarities of the carthera vessels through which we receive them. are charmed with almost superhuman poetry, and beautiful allegories of the very newest ot the New Jerusalem. And, in we have books of moral We have access to the Sacred Roll of the Shakers.

And eur own Hammond has given us books of inestimable value, purporting to come froni the converted spirit of Paine and others. And in Davis' work On Spiritual we can find excellent instruction upon the nature of the manifestations. BALLOTS. i But my present purpose is, respectfully to recommend to all who wish to have something more thm a superficial understanding ot the subject, the perusal, also, of a little book just published by Bcia Marsh. I rofer ux the- Rev Adin Ballou'a Exposition.

The over-skeptical should read it, and especially the over-credulous should read it. It will help them to understand the limits and modifications of spiritual phenomena. Every person who has anything to say for or against the doctrine of spiriloquy, ahould read this little fifty cent book. Indeed, I do not mean that it gives the whole philosophy of the subject; or that it says ns much, by way of faets or arguments, as a larger book might Say. But I am sure it is just about the thing at present needed and.

being very small, it is all tho cheaper bought, the quicker read, the easier understood, and the better remembered. The name of the author on the title page ia a recommendation to the book; but the succeeding pages bear on their face still higher recommendations. In conclusion, 1 remark, that if the excitable portion, on both aides -of this question, witl carefully study Mr. Ballou'a book, it may save them all from that fearful disorder, called Rap po-mania a disorder which seems to manifest more alarming symptoms in some of our opposers, in the religious and irreligious ew.paper. than have been hitherto observed in any ot our friends in this part of the nation.

i W. FELCH. East Boston, Aug. 28, 1852. 'T The Rev.

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