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the Book Company that it commenced some ten years aim, in individual enterprise, and by legacies and individual of in friends, it has no accumulated to eight or ten thousand dollars, and all thev asked was an act or incorporation to facilitate their business transactions. Mr. Raker, of Ilillsboronph, 'wished the amend ment miarht passsaid they had asked forcxclu sive privileges, and the legislature might impose such restriction ns thev chose, and micht withhold iho charter, and who is ho tbat had any right to complain Air. Wilson, of Koene, denied that they had nsk-eJ, or that the bill granted any exclusive privileges they asked no more than the ripht of every man in the Slate a form of law to facilitate the transaction of the same biuincoa thy are now transacting, and have a right to transact. The question for the 'adoption of the amendment length was put, and decided in the affirmative, ond tile vote beiu disputed, a short discussion ensued.

Oue member said he was not an abolitionist, and never was, and never meant to he, but his experience had taught him that opposition always helped to build np whatever it attempted to destroy and as he did not wish to help the abolitionists, he hoped the amendment would the mover finally withdrew it. The bill is indefinitely postponed. Frew the Nantucket folander. Reform Some two or three weeks since, a Convention of the friends of social and religious reform was held at Boston in the Chardon street Chapel- It has pleased sundry of our contemporaries, as well those on the democratic side, as those who nave Dei lowed themselves hoarse in the cause of 4 Harrison ami Reform? meaning thereby the turning wit of one sot of office-holders to put in another, to expend a vast amount of toothless satire, in speaking" ot the proceeding of the Chardon street reformers. Papers so nnlike ch other as the Boston Daily Advertiser and the New York Post, have alike made them the subject of ridicule.

The former has cracked one or two of those ponderous, elephantine jokes, of which it is occasionally delivered, though the wotjc or par turition ever alarms its friends as much as it excites tha laughter of all others. The Evening Post, in a letter from a Boston correspondent, has pomo safiri- cal remarkTery ratten ttse those which have pass ed noon the "works of nil other reformers, and the of Jesser -light have doue their part in making )s. We cannot beiiRve Uutt we stand alone in the opinion which we hold, but if we do, we t.e not ashamed of it; and onr opinion is this, name Jy, that the Convention held in Boston, so soon after the late political contest was known, was the first manifestation of that reforming spirit which has ta ken a great hold of the public mind, and which is rapidly taking a form and semblance that will make the present great ones of our country tremble, de stroying as it roust their ambitious hopes, and pros trating as it will their chances of political elevation. iSoch men as Brownson, damson, uraham, tiuincy, and a host of others, brilliant in point of intellect, well-educated, and of undoubted honesty, have not been laboring in vainfor years. Their united minds, converging from various and far different points, v.

have met, at last, at a common centre, after having brooded over a social chaos for years. Nor have tire gentlemen whom we have named, and their co-la borers of both sexes, alone been the means of de veloping the spirit of reform, which is destined, we verily believe, to build up an entirely new order of thugs on the ruins of the old. In the fearful con test of which oar country has been the scene for the Jast twelve years, first principles have been appealed to by leading men of both parties, and at times with terrible effect. This has made enquiries of men who might otherwise have plodded on their weary way without profit to themselves, their generation, their country, or the world at large. The effect of such enquiries has been to convince thousands, as it ultimately will hundreds of thousands, that our whole social system is as rotten and corrupt as sin that it is, in fact, one huge sin.

It is seen by many that the world is one vast gambling-house, in which the great majority, the masses, are plucked by some few knaves; a sort of lottery, in which all put something, but from which prizes are obtained by but a few, and those the most worthless, while the many are compelled to toil on, like the Israelites for their Egyptian masters, only that the light is with the few, and that for tha laborers there is no Goshen. Chardon-strcet, we predict, is destined to no mean fame, from the fact that it is the spot on which the first meeting of the JVew- Reformers has been held for the cloud, which now, in the eyes of the enemies of all reform, looks not to be larger than a man's hand, ay, and the delicate hand of an aristocrat too, will eventually increase in mag- nitude, until the whole political sky shall be covered with it; and this will take place, too, ere many Ll, an LI iuis ui ukc uiatc. iuu. cio 11jti.11 years time- To say nothing of its being in bad taste, it be trays an unpardonable degree ox ignorance, tms sneering at the first movements and the earlier la borers in the cause of reform. There never yet was a reform undertaken, whatever its nature, or whatev er the object against which it was directed, but that it was sneered at, raado the subject of sarcasm and raillery, and finally, after all, adopted, to the confusion of those by whom it was scouted, as idle and visionary, the offspring of a devout The sneer of that princely epicurean, Leo X-, against 'Brother was no doubt considered a capital hit by the literati and dilletanti of the Papal Court but it turned out an ill jest, in the opinion of most men, when the same Brother Martin de fied the Pope, and was backed up by men and nations.

The schoolmen who sneered at the 'New-Philosophy' ot Bacon, were no doubt very clever fellows; but the next age, to which the author of the 'Novum Organum' commended the care of his fame, believed that they were not so clever as they thought themselves, or at least that Bacon was the wiser, and wiser than their favorite Aristotle. The man who was bored at a dinner party by the prattle of Fulton on the power of steam, and on its applicability to the purposes ot navigation, no doubt thought himself a deep critic on men and things very deep; but facts have proved that Fulton was right, or rather, that be was rigat to the extent of his understanding; for his fault, if any lie had on the subject, was, that he did not sufficiently appreciate the power of steam. These, and many other facts of similar nature, ought to teach people the folly of hasty judgments when others, who are either quicker or better than themselves, engage in works of reformation, whether of a social, a political, or a physical nature. A little time will throw light enough on the subjects discussed to enable all to form correct judgments. Democratic papers, of all others, should be careful not to offend those men who are now gradually forgetting 'minor and uniting for the purpose of meliorating the condition of the masses.

Our cause can succeed oaly by rallying to its ban ner tho men who are sick at beholding the unequal operation of hniuaa laws. These men will be sure to unite with that party which carries onward the work of reform. There is about to be a vast upheaving of die political and social elements, and if the democratic party does not perform, its duty, it will meet with a sure and speedy destruction. It must take the initiative It must war against abuses of all kinds. The tendency of the age is to Reform, and if in our party shall be found the fullest devel-opement of the spirit of the age, we shall certainly triumph, and that too at no' distant day.

At all events, nothing bst adopting the reforming spirit in its most comprehensive sense, can save our party from utter annihilation. There is no middle course ichich tee cajc pursue. Without the aid of the reform ers who are not now with us, but who will be if we are faithful to our mission, the Democratic Principle must succumb, and fall into an oblivious sleep. Kanke, who has written the history of the greatest of revolutions, wisely says His a necessary condition of every great and important tendency of human opinion, that it should he strong enough to establish its auinoruy ana acnieve us unumpn. it must pre DOMINATE OK PERISH.

We hold in tho highest respect those men who assembled at Chardon street Chapel, believing as wc do that they are the true friends of man. They are the representatives of those who wish to do away withdraw, so that their place may bo filled with realities. We mistake them much if they are to be turned from their holy purposes, either by the sneers of tho ignorant, or the deliberate misrepresentations of the unprincipled. Their cause is the most righteous in which human beings can engage. It has for ita end the rescuing men from the aloagh of Despond.

into which they have been plunged by the operations of, wicked and fool wh institutions and laws. Their success may not be so rapid as tho true friends of humanity should wish it to be, for money a powerful enemy against which to fight, and in all previous contests it has been the successful combatant. But, ultimately, the reformers must prevail, their object bein" to give God's child his proper place in the scale of created beings, for 'mm was born to walk erect, and look upon the etars. van Stewart to Gov. Polk.

The fallowing are the intnnluctory paragraph of a caustic letter published in a late ntttnhcr of the Friend of Man, from Alvau Stewart. The whole letter is an excellent fpecimen of the nrgvmenlttm ai hominem. Utica, N. Ym Nov. 18, 1840.

James K. Polk, Governor of Tennessee Sir I was surprised and astonished that you should manifest such a feverish sensibility in relation to an act of courtesy, shown' you by the lion. R. M. Gates, in employing his official frank in letting yo-i, as Chief Magistrate of Tennessee, know what going on in tho world, in relation Lithe -elaveholding piracy of the South.

In the first place, 3-011 should have thaaked Tlr. ualcs lor-his po-ite-ncss in letting know the extirpation in which your peculiar institutions arc held by one of the most remarkable congregated assemblies of men who have ever assembled upon this globe, to advance the great social interests of our race, and relieved you from the sense of injustice practised upon your pocket, as one of the 1(1 millions of this republic. I should judge from this specimen, that a slaveholder's notion of rendering an equivalent for what he receives, must be uncommonly nice and scrupulous. But I understand the matter to be quite otherwise that they slaveholders hold that the man who works for ono of them for twenty years, is still entitled to no more than if he had worked but ten, or one year, or even one day. The slaveholders of the South hold the slaves entitled to nothing but a perpetuation of their existence.

The master has the slave's earnings, and the privilege of kicking, cuffing, and in some cases of killing his body, and in all cases of selling his body; and thus the slaveholders live on unpaid, unrequited toil. This does not look much like your postage exactness. You, or some man for you, catch a man who has a dark colored seal on his countenance, which I un derstand is a sort of frank, by which there is no postage to be paid that is, you are to work him for life, yes, and his children after him, free from wage3. 1 hose threatening, union-splitting gentle men of the South, get their own existence franked, and the expense of it, I am told, is entirely borne spirit of inquiry is alive and awake on this important subject The expense of such an undertaking, I was aware, would prove an objection, but it is hoped and believed that gentlemen competent to the task could be obtained by the payment of their per sonal expenses, which need not exceed three hun dred dollars. 1 would suggest the raisinr that sum one individual.

Cannot twelve hundred persons in Ohio be found who will instantly give that sum Surely the nine hundred and three upright and hon est anti-slavery men, who, at the late election, refused to cast their votes for a slaveholder, or a person pledged to sustain and uphold the slave system in our country, would, at once, each give his twenty-five cents. Thus would we commence the work on a sure foundation and it is presumed that hundreds would the like sum to obtain the information such committee would be able to afford. But it need not be understood that euch donations would be the only means ladies and gentlemen could contribute what each in their judgment should think proper. Permit me further to suggest, that it is in contemplation to hold an Anti-Slavery Conven tion at Columbus, and as the Anti-Slavery Convention of Clermont county has. recommended an early day for that purpose, hich, if not generally acceded to, I hope that another day, as early as convenient, will be fixed upon, and 1 trust that every county in the State will send delegates.

Would it not be well for such delegates to bring with them whatever sum may be contributed for the purpose herein mentioned, and if a sufficient amount be obtained, then the Convention to appoint a delegate to proceed immediately to Washingon, on receiving information that the anti-slavery men in any two of the other States have appointed a like delegate. I am one of those who believe that action suitable to the attainment of an object must always be had, before Uie object be obtained. I have no confidence in faith without tcorks. To free our country from THE LI II A human action. Will not our fellow-citizens consider these thing I have extended this communica tion farther Umn I expected when I sat down to write, but the half is not yet told.

With re-pct, yours, THOMAS MORRIS. From the National Anti-Slarcry Standard. Our National Presidents. We have in Brown's Pocket Almanac a chronology of the births, inaugurations and retirements from oiBcc of the Presidents of the United States. A book of the kind without the Presidents, would hardly be thought a complete book.

It occurred to us, on running over this account, how little there was to be said of any of these worthies, beyond this chronology. Their birth, inaugurations, and exits is it not ahont all their story What have any of them done for humanity or for God We know the haz ard of the question. It is like speaking lightly of ltlois in a heathen country. We tsill speak our mind, however. What has either of these Presidents done to entitle tbem to honorable remembrance in history? Washington pruJently abandoned his military power, when perhaps or Alexander, overturn those atrocious systems or cruelty by which or Burr, or Jackson, would have made themselves a man as worthy of liberty as yourself, is converted absolute with it.

They sav, too, that Washington into a chattel, and is compelled by a system of bar- was a Christian. We will not deny that here but barous laws to become your unpaid laoorer, at ino 1 we will state an anti-slavery fact of him and of his pern or violence, nigeuauon. yea, even ceaui, 11 successors, all but three of our great presidential he chooses to depart, or resist your will. jjgt stares, while they professed to be democrats mc inen.ioie meanness 01 compelling a numan 1 and after they had sworn that mankind were enti being to administer to yonr every necessity, with no tied to equal, inalienable libeHy. Washington fought other compensation than and clothing necessa- the British to make good the doctrine that man could 1 a .1 0 ry to protect uis existence, ior your oeneni anu not not be enslaved.

Then he held slaves during his life. his, is only equalled by the avarice whioh lies at the I He freed some of them by will, to be sure. But bottom, seeking the use of this man life and time this only proves that he was aware he was doing for your profit, and not his. wrong to hold them. We do not accuse him.

In- Your patriotism 6eems to be roused that Mr. Gates deed, he was a marvellously good man for a fghting, snoniu uave empioyea nis irana 10 sena you xne slaveholding, ambitious christian age and country. doctuncnts of the World's Convention, through the Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, U. S. of expense.

To be sure, Mr. Gates anj enslaved his own offspring. Monroe was as might have paid the government 18 cents, and have distinguished for we believe, as he was for anything. Jackson was a 6lave-dWrer. Of! the three who did not nominally hold their fellow 'countrymen in one was a 'northern man with southern principles' and he goes out of office, and into the grave, and as far down toward posteri- I 1 ty as ue can oniiaoove waier, wun uiis reputation upon him that he held to slavery without its temptations.

His non-slavehoWing predecessor, John Quincy Adams, was against the abolition of slavery at the national government-seat Born in the Bun ker Hill State the child of the Revolution, and son of its Ajax Telamon' he still declared himself I against putting a stop to trading in humanity and holding it in brutal slavery at the very government- seat of republican liberty. Posterity has got to hear that of him, and all because he despised the character of an abolitionist. And his father, the third of the non-slave Presidents aforesaid with sink or on his lips, live or die, I am for the Declaration the very threshold of which named with the self-evident truth, of all men's birthright title to liberty their inalienable title to liberty hej did live and die he swam and at last sunk on the very anniversary of his great Declaration the 4th of July, having suffered one sixth of his countrymen by the colored people. I presume you are one of to live and die by his side in unpitied, imremembered the gentlemen franked through life, who has a free bondage. Such were our immortal Presidents as ticket, but in reality at the expense of some colored I to the one rrreat item of Liberty.

We reproach men and women, to whom you deny the privilege of them not They were all patriotic' all honorable learning to read and write, lest they should examine I men but have we not spoken the truth about them by what law, human or divine, you attempt to frank yourself through the world at their expense. But to return. You seem to consider the docu ment of the World's Convention incendiary. The crime of franking yourself through life, at the ex pense of your fellow passengers on the journey of existence, is exciting the indignation of the civilized and christianized world. And if you regard the noble protest of the World's Convention against your franking yourself and family through tho re mainder of your lite, as incendiary, your situation We ask tho people to consider that truth, in the light of history if not of eternity, From the same paper.

tetter from John G. Whit tier. Amesbcrt, 18th 12th mo. 1840. To the Editor of the Standard Some one has been kind enough to forward a num ber of the Standard, containing the commencement must be very exposed, for the press of civilized Eu- of a review of a letter of mine, in which I am offi- rope groans daily with cries ot inhnue abhorrence I ciauy lniormea inati am no longer an aooutionist against your existence-franking system and the I and in which I am unceremoniously turned over to incendiary elements are fast nccumulatin-r which those wicked 'new who, accord- I 1 I will consume from the face of U10 corUi all of the to the editor ot the standard, are less suscepti- curious contrivances, gags, clubs, manacles, fetters, I ble of anti-slavery impressions, than such pro-sla- statute franks, and bloodhounds, by which you have purloined your passage down the stream of life, free of postage.

If the South, in the revolution of human affairs, should be called upon by a committee, with power to send for persons and papers, to explain this past franking, for one century and a half. and to whom the unpaid postage was due. and whether those who had carried the mail had ever re ceived any postage, I think, on striking the balance. the sum would be found equal to the value of the entire South, and those gentlemen and their fami lies ho have been franked from generation to gen- eration, might consider themselves fortunate if they very mobs as hunted for the life of George Thomp son, murdered Lovcjoy, and burned Pennsylvania Hall I am likened to a star shooting madly from its sphere, launching like Carazan of the Eastern story, into the abyss ot infinitude i' A comet shorn, Out into utter darkness borne. And a mock lamentation is set np over me, which would be pathetic, did it not partake so largely, under all the circumstances of the case, of the ludi crous.

Now if the editor of the Standard means by all this, simply that he and myself disagree on some 1 1 -t rij i i -i I have been devoured by the 'steely teeth of werc i( Te' WIVes and chl.1,d- reference to anti-slavery movements, and ren, where the old rule -of franking may prevail a if believing, as a matter of course, that his views are lew years longer man it win in uie unuea crates. From tho Philanthropist. Communication from Mr. Morris. Dr.

Bailet I learn from a number of respecta ble papers, that the proposition I submitted to the public, through the Philanthropist, on the subject of an anti-slavery committee to attend at Washington during the sessions of Congress, has obtained some favorable notice. It is gratifying to know tbat the correct and mine wrong, ne chooses to express in this way, his dissent from my conclusions, and to expose their folly and fallacy, I have nothing to say. Let him argue down or laugh down my heresies, if) he can. lie may rest assured that 1 can do justice to a sound argument, even if it overthrows a favorite doctrine and relish good natured wit and humor, even when exercised at my expense, consoling myself, like Falstaff, with the reflection, that if I have not wit myself, Iam 'the cause of wit in Even if brother Rogers should so far shut up the bowels of his compassion, as to quote my own poe try against me, and, as in the case ot poor Cinna, the poet in Shakspeare's Julius Ctesar, 'condemn me tor my bad however 1 might writhe un der the infliction, I don't know as I should complain. But, it ir.

Kogers means (what his lan- by donations of not more than twonty-fivecents from gff0 somewhat strongly implies,) to impeach my character as an honest man to assail my moral in tegrity to brand me with the foul suspicion of I treachery and hypocrisy as one wilfully reereant to the cause ot emancipation i have only to say, I that his recent voyage search of a World Con has wrought in his head and heart a sea change which would have astonished the tenants of Prospero's island transforming the generous and nign-minaea innstian genueman into a ialse accuser of his a Titus Oatcs swearing away more than the life of his friend. I am told, in unqualified terms, that I shall never be able to do anything more for that cause to which I have devoted the morning of my life on whose altar I have laid all that I possessed. Indeed, it may be so. lie who, in His 'dealings with the children of has seen fit, to visit mc with lin gering pain and illness, knows whether more labor will be required at my hands in that cause, and, if so, will give me strength to perform it I will not believe that the editor of the Standard intended to reproach me with an inability, which no one can de plore so deeply as myself. I hare neither health nor disposition to enter into personal controversy with abolitionists.

Whatever others may do, I cannot forget the days that have passed our common struggles against prejudice and persecution I cannot forget Uie disinterested devotion and the sacrifices of those with whom I have been associated and widely as I may differ with thert on some points greatly as I may believe some ot tbem to err in judgment I shall be slow to relinquish my faith in their moral integrity and the oppression and curse of slavery, much must be 8ha11 conceive it to be possible that they may to do that work ariirht. rranivtpni know 1.1 I be as honest in what I believe to be their error, as I of the subject must be had. Slavery is all around am whjlt 1 conscientiously believe to be the right ami anion ir us. It exists not onlv in tho Stntfv I a one sentiment in the editors comments I fully whose constitutions and laws sustain it, but it exists I respond, viz: that the South cares very little for ni ton alarming extent by connivance and fraud no-1 stract resolutions. A wholesomcr truth could not on the ignorant slave, even in the free States and 1 well be uttered.

It has been the burthen of my tes I am satisfied, from Tecent facts which have come to I timony for a long time. It has led me to question the mv knowledge, it exists in our own citv vou know I practicability ot abolishing the slave laws by mere i- the facts to which I allude, and I have no doubt will concur ith me in opinion. There is another extraordinary fact, a part of this pyramid of human abominations; it is wealthy persons in the free States owning slaves in the slaveholdiug States, and some large plantations of them. Our own Constitution prohibits the existence of slavery amongst us, except as a punishment for crime it views slavery as a resolutions anu looeueve mat a discussion, wnicii ends only in discussion, will prove to the poor slave like another feast ot the Barmacides an invitation to the starving to feed air. It has led me to doubt the potency of moral suasion' against sla very when coupled with its practical support at the oaiiot-oox.

it nas led me to say. with William Llotd Garrison at Edinburgh, tl at I know of no irreat political eviL and a violent personal wrou. instance in which the oppression of tyranny has been and only justifiable as a punishment for crime. Can I Put down oral suasion and unless some other he then be considered friendly to our Constitution inuuence is brought to bear upon the colossal evil, 1 who is the owner of slaves, though he keep them in fear little will be done to abolish It has another State Is not such act, morally speaking Ied me to respect, if I cannot fully imitate, those at least, treason against the Constitution and sove among U3 who 'touch not, taste the products eignty of Ohio, and is it not worthy of consideration labor to na" satisfaction the cotton that it should be made penal by our laws, and the I culture of India, to honor the practical abolitionism person convicted thereof be deprived of all his oolit- of Birney, Brisbane, and others, the efforts of Vig- ical rights Ict it not bo said that we have no ilauce Committees and of all who aid the fugitive oower over offence in another stat-1 thin is admit. I from oppression of Wattles, Wilson, and their fe ted but in the case above mentioned, the offence is male co-adjutors in tha blessed task of instructing here where tho slaves are, tho holding of them is nd elevating the oppressed colored man.

Finally, lawful here it is a violation of the spirit, if not the has led me to follow the example set by N.P. letter of the Constitution. And as the seat of newer Rogers, two years ago, viz: to nominate anti-sla- holdin-r such men slaves is very candidates where none such are in the field, here abo, and not in the State where the laws of "id to invite all who love humanity to rally to their slavery exist, because the slave laws themselves upport. 1 ruly thy mend, would be a dead letter, if not brought into life by I JOHN G. WHITTIER- Recosnitioa of Texas.

At a meeting of the Comtrittee of the British and Foreign Society, held at 27 Ne Brmd-street, Lonrftin, on Wednesday the 2d day of uecemocr, 1C4U: Jacob Post, in the chair. It was unanimously resolved 1. That, inasmuch as the svstem of slavery forms an part of the Constitutional law of the new Republic of Texas, this Committee have heard, with feelings of the deepest sorrow and humiliation, that her Majesty's Government have been induced to enter into a commercial treaty with its representative, by which act that Republic has been introduced to the high distinction of a place among the great family of civilized and that thus the moral dignity and national honor of this great country have been outraged the dearest interests of multitudes of human beings their liberty and happiness trampled under foot a fearful impulse given to slavery and the slave trade and the sacred cause of our Christianity, civilization, and freedom, immeasurably retarded. I ii I fiat in the view, of the great-fact, that the legislature of this country, stimulated by the tion zeal of its people, has abolished for ever the guilty traffic in numan beings, and terminated the States and themselves, as well as for the utter expulsion of all free persons of African descent, and the final extirpation of the aboriginal tribes, from the soil, and thus to violate every principle of humanity and justice, and to consolidate, extend, and perpetuate slavery and the slave trade in a country which, as part of the empire, had been previously devoted to freedom. 3.

That therefore this Committee, as the organ of anti-slavery principles and feelings of the country, feel bound to enter their solemn protest against From Zion's Watchman. Exquisite Sensibility. Our readers will remember that we referred, a few weeks since, to a Sabbath Convention, which Bishop Morris, and some others connected with the Methodist E. Church, were concerned in getting up, in Cincinnati. One of the first objects, in calling that Convention, was to promote the better observance of the holy Sabbath.

Well, the Convention met, at the time appointed, and, in the course of the discussions, (as we learn from a report of its proceedings in the Cincinnati Observer,) the following incidents took place Rev. Dyer Burgess, West Union, Thought that Society needed a thorough reformation on the subject of the Sabbath, and it should begin with clergymen. He thought thut the men with black coats ought by church discipline to be compelled to keep the Sabbath and that the men with black skins ought to be permitted to keep it. Armstrong, of Hoped they were not to be taunted with the negroes in that Convention. Did any one suppose there was a Christian in in all the land who compelled his black people to labor on the Sabbath Rev.

Mr Sehon, M. E. Church, Cincinnati. Concurred in the sentiments last expressed. He, fr one, could not consent to be considered a member of a Convention where such subjects were to be lugged in.

What consistency! The Convention was called for the avowed pwposc of considering Uie obligations resting upon ail to keep the Sabbath. And when a slight allusion is made to the condition of three millions among us, who are not permitted to keep it, a minister of the M. E. Church declares that he cannot consent to be considered a member of a Convention where sveh a subject is lugged COMMUNICATIONS. Explanatory Letter.

Boston, Dec. 28, 1840. Bro. Garrison: Jn your brief remarks last week upon my letter in the Lynn Record, are a few points to which I wish to direct your attention. 1.

You say my article is the veriest piece of mis chief-making you have seen for a long This is your individual opinion, ou know that there are others who entertain the opposite opinion and you know too, tbat 1 protes3 at least to have written the article for the purpose of promoting the good of the Society, and not Why, then, did you not, as a friend to free inquiry and free opinion, publish it, that your readers might have the opportunity of judging of its mischief for them selves? 2. You say that it casts some reflections upon the Board of Managers of the State Anti-Slavery Society Whether thev do. is a Question upon which the rea der should judge for himself. But if they do reflect, is the fault mine? or is it the fault of those who have made the facts what they are? 3. Again, you say it 'calls for a detailed account of all the doings and operations of the Society for the public This is a mistake.

1 he request for information to be laid before the friends of the Society, covers considerable ground but not all the ground that you state. Other questions about Uie doings and operations of the Society might be multiplied to an indefinite extent. 4. To make this exposition, the Board have no objection, provided it be demanded by the 1 shall not controvert this statement; and 1 am glad the statement is made. Time will show whether or not any influences are put in moUon (as I hope none will be) to induce the Society not to call for the information asked in my communication.

But how far may an individual inquire into Uie affairs of the Society, without subjecting himself to the charge of mischief-making And is there nothing but the regular 'demand' of Uie Society, made in meeting assembled, which will ever induce the JJcard to give information, such as is requested in my letter? Again, will the Board prepare definite answers to Uie questions previous to the approaching annual meeting, and permit any friends of Uie Society who may be present at that gatiiering, to examine both the answers and the books from which they were Or, if not, will Uie Board prepare the answers, and let Uie Society decide whether individuals may-examine Uiem and the books of accounts This Board, I am sure, will confer a favor upon many friends, by doing -according to either of the two last propositions. And if so much as. this should be intimated, it would put this matter very happily to rest until Uie annual meeting. ou Vou say 1 have taken Uie course 1 have because the Board have refused to allow themselves to be dragged before Uie public at my individual re quest Js Mr. Bosson, who joined in the request, nothing? And is it nothing that we made Uie request in behalf of others as well as ocrselves But my rea sons I very frankly stated, so far as I thought it ne cessary, in my letter in tne Kecord.

XV hat is the evidence that I stated them falsely, and that I have acted from Uie reason you assign I thank you, however, for assigning this, as it exonerates me from being moved by the still baser motives which some to reprint my communication from the Record, so that all may have the opportunity of judging for themselves. I have said what I have, as I felt called to by way of explanation and defence, but I have no desire to forestal the action of the annual meeting. Iam willing, having said what I felt bound to sy, that all matters involved should be decided then. It is my desire, and even how. that such a presentation of a.Tairs will then be made, that I shall appear to be altogether in the wrong, in anything upon which I have had the nnhappiness to differ from yourself and the Board.

Very respectfully yours, J. P. BISHOP. Playactors rising, or the Clergymen falline. Mr.

Editor Lat evening, the Rev. Dr. Booth, of the Mctho- dist denomination, delivered the best and most faith ful lecture on Temperance, which has ever been de livered in this city. It was decidedly ultra, as our respectable wine and brandy drinkers would say and he placed the responsibility of intemperance, for once, where it belongs on the shoulders ot tne wealthy, the influential, and the assumed and con- aWions system of bondageVhich formerly existed ceJed. rtspedabUs of our city, State and natioy in the British colonics, and that the Government has ut JSlTLSiZ nerserfirino-rr.

if not far. what has this to do with the heading of your the entire suppression of the foreign slave tradefat communication? I will tell von. At thmuue an enormous cost of the national "treasure and of hI.ur-?"d the hall of one of our rumerw human life, the Committee cannot but express their 19 Cll7a SSXi lZ' great astonishment as well as their orofound regret, a and dmmiste cer- Uiat her Majesty's ministers should have entered in? 001 orejof our good citycre Jtenmg to friendly relations with a people whose first act, 1 If Jif" after a successful hnt whnllT how to read the Bible. Shame, shame 1 when a pro- was to ingraft on their constitution the system of fe. minister of Jesus Christ thinks it necessary slavery, to create a slave trade between the United ins a temperance meeting, where many of the foun dation principles of theii religion they knew would be promulgated.

JJut so it is, in too many congregations. This world, and its fading interests, are not only uppermost in the hearts of the people, but, it is to be feared, they are in quite too many instances uppermost in the hearts of the clergy. Sir, I do not wish to bring the clergy into disrepute, nor the cause of pure religion but I do wish they would set better examples than this, and I do very much doubt the sincerity of their professions when I hear them preach for, in my view, they are .1 Cl? decidedly under the influence of the worldly mind r. "''nedmenwho compose their congregations, and who oy ine jusuce or uie agency ot uie case, as iraugnt contribllte most to" their 8Upport. a pert little miss," with the most injurious consequences mankind, Mtmain9 tn nna nf the chnhea.

who with her min- and as consequently deserving the unqualified rep robation ot all good men. (Signed) JACOB POST, Chairman. ister was present said, that she supposed some of the old icomen of the church would try to make a noise about their minister being there. I hope they will, at least sufficient to deter him in future. The other clergymen were of the liberal order, but there will, I apprehend, be no old woman to make a noise in their churches.

This is but a sample of the course of many of our professed ministers of the meek and lowly Jesus, at the present day. They are almost any thing but what their Divine Master would have them to be meek, humble, self-denrnng. and self-sacrificing. A member of an orthodox church said to me the other day, that it was too true, (as I had said,) that the worldly-minded of their parishioners pretty much decided what should come from the pulpit as the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ Many of the ministers are, said he, decidedly under the influence of this class of hearers. 1 General Riley, of New-York, lectured on Tem perance this evening, at Ut.

I uefcers cnurcn, and gave general satisfaction to the friends of the cause. One of his main topics was, that it was the duty of the church to be foremost in this noble and godlike enterprise; and he as well as Dr. Booth, placed the responsibility of the evils of intemperance on the right class. But I looked round in vain for the clergymen of this city. There were, it is true, some four or five of them present, men who may generally be seen on such occasions.

The clergy, many of them, talk ranch about reformations among their hearers but they may rest assured that, unless they reform themselves, their ranks will continue to be thinned of the self-denying and self-sacrificing disciples of Jesus but they may be filled with the worldly-minded and the contemners of morality and religion, Slaveholders and the abettors of slavery, moderate drinkers of alcohol, and persons fond of theatrical and other amusements, will be their main supporters ere long, unless they pursue a different course. Already has a considerable number withdrawn from one of our orthodox churches, and established a new'church, solely on account of a want of interest in tho old church on the moral questions in the community, the clergyman going with the liberal party. When, when, will religious teachers be like their Divine Master, whom they profess to serve When will they declare all the counsel of God to their hearers, whether men hear or forbear ANTI-BACCHUS. Providence, R. Dec 22, 1840.

West Wrkntham, Dec. 5, 1840. At tho quarterly meeting of the West Wren I ham Anti-Slavery Society, holden Nov. 30, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted after which, it was voted that they be sent for publication in the Liberator. Kesolved, T.

hat we highly approvo of the respect snown oy our mother country to Air. Uemond, a colored delegate from the American Anti-Slavery Soci ety, and other persons ol color; and that it ought to nilt to tllA hliwfft fhftHA AmitrirBni urhn dot ohnvn Tins, I think, Is not so certainly not unless some dins in a stage, car, or steamboat, with a colored per- of the facts stated in it are supposed to 'reflect I son, or sitting by their side in a house of public wor- ship. hcreas. The Worcester Baptist Association, at their annual meeting in Westborough, in August last, did lake up the subject of slavery, and passed several resolutions thereon, which have been published in the Liberator, ol Iov. 2U Resolved, That we highly approve the sentiments contained in those resolves, particularly those offered by Prof.

Newton, of Waterville, making it the duty of all Christians, and especially of all Christian ministers, to inform themselves, and to impart instruc tion to others, on this important subject. Resolved, That we highly approve the recommend-ation of the Hon. Thomas Morris, of Ohio, that there be an Anti-Slavery Convention held at the city of I Washington, during the next session or Congress. Resolved, That in the recent doings of the Legislature of Vermont, we have another evidence that the principles of anti-slavery are coing down into the hearts and consciences of tho people, and preparing the way for its final triumph. ELIZA C.

WARE, Sec. Millbcrt, Dec. 19, 1840. To the Editor of the Liberator Sir At a regular meeting of the Female Anti-Sla very Society in Sept. last, the following resolution was passed unanimously in bebalf of our beloved and much-abused friend, Am Kellet.

Will you please give it an insertion in your paper It may have weight with the' sensible portion of community, who are ignorant of her real character, which has ever been unimpeachable. Resolved, Tbat we deeply sympathize with our esteemed friend and coadjutor, Abby Kf.ixey, in the manifold trials she has to endure for the slave's sake and, from personal acquaintance, would recommend her to those with whom she called to labor as one of the ablest advocates of the slave. In behalf of the Society, ORILLA KENDRICK, Pres. A. B.

Humphrey, See. The Quincy Railway Company have contracted tol nmsh the portico ot the new Winter Street Church in this city, Corinthian columns, 30 feet in height, made ot hewn vtuincy granite. Times. Corinthian columns, 30 feet in height Thus modern Christians imitate the humility of their professed Master, who went about, it is said, in coarse fiaiuiciiu. ai.u iiivobiicu in uuuiiiaiitru upper cimm I 1J I 1 I I' I cuw-iwumui ucun uiuiss, uave seen it I where to lay his How beautifully his ser expeuieui cuarge upon me.

nua wnat 13 my rants' imitate his example! Corinthian columns fault? Why, I have differed from some of you in 30 feet in height How lowly, meek, and humble; opinion. I now peculiarly devoid of every thing like ostentation U. You say 1 'seem is posed to do as much mis-1 and show; and how perfectly appropriate to adorn a I i i ehiet as possible meaning, i suppose, injury to the I building in which are to be taught humility and Mass. A nti -Slavery Society. meekness! The evidences' of the truth of Chris-1 Of this von are mistaken Uie truth is directly Uie I ay crowd upon us so last in these latter days, reverse.

It you Knew nothing ot this matter except I meiancooiy to mm now any man, what is printed, I should not so much wonder at your cn nooa sceptic Boston statement; but as it is, 1 do rreauy wonder. 7. You give what one who had not seen the Lynn Record, would understand to be the action of the Board upon my letter in Uie Record. The truth is, it was the action of the Board upon a written communication, and was copied by me in Investigator. The rebuke of the Investigator is certainly well merited but if the paper sees so clearly that! such ostentation is not in accordance with the spirit of the Saviour, why doc it throw its sarcasm upon to Uie public letter itself.

My remarks upon that! Christianity, and from the folly or extravagance of re- action the reader, will see if you will be so good as I ligions professors attempt to derive an argument ia fa to comply with the" request which I here present you, 1 vor of skepticism Ed. LU. VOX.VZT THE LIBEl SOSTOIfl FRIDAY MORJIIXG, JAW. 1, 1MI. A Kew Tolone.

v-- We commence, this day, the eleventh volume of the Liberator. Ten years, therefore, have transpired, since we unfurled our utandard to the breeze. Would lo heaven that there were no longer any occasion for it liberty bad been proclaimed to all the inbab- itants of the country that an end had been pot to slavery and the lave trade forever But, more than Haifa million of victims have been added to the slave popolation during this brief period, ana1 nearly a many bare gone down to the grave and ta. the bar of God, as swift witnesses against the. white inhabitant of the land The solemn question should now be honestly propounded to every soul Vpon whose garments rest the stains of blood Who has participated "in these awful robberies and morder, or connived at their perpetration Let the qoestiott go round with the same anxiety and sincerity that were' displayed by the disciples when Jcsos gave the as-sura nee that one of thetn should betray him 'Lord, -is it I Yet not in vain have we lifted up the bat ner of emancipation.

Hundreds of thousands i Cum ik. raniea under it, aeiermmea -uw wrw. nCiinn mirht "work of nrenaratioD. V. w.w.vaj, for an approaching jubilee has been accomplished.

In less than ten years, we hope to record the Coal emancipation, of every slave now, groaning on oar soil. We are at least tea years nearer tbat glorioas result than when we commenced oar labors. From the post that we fill, occupying the whole field of operations both on the part of our enemy and those who are leagued fr his destruction, we testify that, not- withstanding the uuhappy divisions that have taken place among those who ought to act together in con- cert, and the various drawbacks our cause has had to encounter, the friends of equal rights have great rea- 1 son to rejoice and take courage. There is no cause for despondency. The commencement of a new volume is a favorable period to extend the subscription list of the Liberator and we hope our friends will snake some special efforts to accomplish thin desirable object.

Let them remember tbat our enemies are active and powerful, who spare no opportunity to cripple the circulation of our paper and that correspondent efforts are necessa- ry, on their part, to prevent its extermination. It is needless to add, that the number of subscribers is not sufficient to meet its expenses for this is probably tho case with every anti-slavery jonrnal in the country. Those who are disposed to make donations for its sup- '-port can do so with the certainty that their giAs will be-faithfully applied, as a more honorable or trust- worthy committee cannot be found in the land, than 4 is entrusted with the pecuniary concerns of our establishment. The names of such men as Francis Jack-; son, Ellis Gray Loring, Samuel Philbrick, Edmond Quincy, and William Basse It, are a 'sufficient guaran-1 ty tbat the paper is under the very best snpervisioo. We offer our grateful thanks to the committee for their generous co-operation daring the past year.

They are not the men to need from us a multiplicity of words. Whatover else may be said of the Liberator, its claims to editorial impartiality, independence and magnanimity have not been invalidated. Its course towards opponents has been liberal beyond that of any other journal in the Whatever the enemies of the anti-slavery cause have written to retard its. progress, we have been careful to publish. On the subject of non-resistance, we are constantly on tho watch to collect all that we can find in onr numerous exchange papers against the doctrine, to lay.it before our reai'crs, and almost always without note or com- m'ent.

This is also tho course wo have pursued in regard to the recent Sabbath Convention, and to whatever unpopular opinions we hold anil avow. Is not this a peculiarity which appertains to no other period ical so fully as to the Liberator in the wboU world The following extract is from a letter received from-a venerable and highly esteemed member of the Society of Friends residing in Philadelphia I hope he Liberator may bo supported by the friends of freedom, long after every fetter has fallen from every slave in our land of prnfii si light, liberty and law; for I know of very few if any editors, except that of the Liberator, who stand upon independ- ent ground, prepared to speak out at all times, in high places and low places, without fear, favor or affection. I am very solicitous thatit snay. be amp ported by subscription, and many more of a similar character added to it for if there is not righteousness enough in the United States to support one free and independent press, then, truly, the advocates for doni and equal rights will have to mount, as mended by one of the Lord's prophets, in ancient time, between the porch and the altar, saying, Spare thy people, oh Lord, and give not thine heritage to So much of the paper as has been taken up with the peace question has been truly satisfactory to me, fully believing as I do that the pvHierplea sot forth and practised by Jesus Christ are essential to salvation, and that all must come to be governed by the same principle and spirit that in Jesus, before we can have any substantial claim lo happiness here in time, or a well-grounded hope of eternal rest, -when tho wicked cease from trowhlmg, and the weary soul will forever be at rest. I kepe I shall be able, to send a few more subscribers before though the popular sentiment of this neighborhood, js pro-slavery, yet I think it is ckasgiaf in favor of the.

poor oppressed, down-troddea- The Greenfield Gazette and Murenry, of this week, contains the following panegyric for such we regard it, coming from that quarter Garrison ard'thk Limkator. Mr. Grew, of Philadelphia, has withdraw his subscription from the Liberator, on accouat of the unchristian eeutiCr menu advocated in h. The withdrawal is accompanied by an abla article, giving bis reasons for the step. The number in this we believe, is increasing, who think as Mr.

Grew does that Site paper js srosslv heretical in its cbaracUr. and unworthy the sunDort of Christian commtMitty. 22 ao-AaaM pottn. pf and the women's rights doctrines advocated by it. Garrison will eventually find to- biacosi, we believe, is no go among the intelligent citizens of Massachusetts.

They wilt not act with him. Far different is the -estimate ef our labors made by onr bro. My rick in the feltowing article, fremU Cazcnovia Herald XAerator. The last number thia pioneer anti-slavery periodical contains a long article from the pea of ita worthy editor, in which be says that the Liberator baa almost completed its tenth volume. In Uio article referred to, brt.

Garrinow briefly surveys the battlefield where, fiir ten long year, he lias struggled aad fought for I be liberty ef the colored race. He hastily sketches some of the most potest difficulties he has been compelled to encounter, and at the head of the front rank he places the opposition wkkb be has received from professed friends. Strange, that ia every great and good reform in this ill-rated world, that-those who are chose of God. a hi agent to lead on the way, and break up the- fatlow-ground, should, after the enterprise becomes saccessful and gains numerous adherents, receive- the greatest opposition from those who have and converted through tlWir rnsUamentality. But, thus it has been from Faul down to the present period and thns we have reason to expeet it will be till men, universally, become perfeed rrr Christ Jesus by the spirit of holmee.

eharged wfth being tinctured with infidel principle. It is true tbat he diners ia some of his religion views from those of us who are denominated But if lie is an infidel, he ha a moat singular method of giving a practical demon stration of bis infidelity. I doubt whether Satan will be highly gratified with such an extubttioa. Amid all the storms and buatle, I ataeevelj. Wpa that the.

Liberator will em live it eppoaitMa, end its edi-tor be cheered with the gtorioa eight ef 3,000,000 of his now enslaved country men, rising in all the dignity of tree citizen of republican America. i li tl .8 8 8 ol -h Sf si ol ei bi Pi st be of of vii th ed Ol th im XV tei Yi go Be hi Jan pui PI tor na gei ris fro eti 5 f. tUe il 1 setl last ha, oec gol an for, the sia wil Tt TH dre ioi tire1 moi Th to .1 tion plet notn iigh in to hi com tha, Lori May M. ed up took qnea My with.