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You may Sell my cLU drew to Georgyv But yon cannot harm llieif soul They will join the forty, thousand by and bye. 'CoiissVslave-lrador, conic in ton The Lord's got a pardon lwsre for you You shall join th forty thousand by an bye. Gou poor niggor, cmi in too -The Lord's xot it pardon hero for you; Yoo shall join the forty thousand by and bye. 'My skin is bluek, but my soul i. white And wlwn we get to Heaven, we'll all be alik ball join the forty thousand by and bye.

That's the way to glorify the Lord." Scarcely had the cracked voice ceased the trcm- chant in which these words were uttered, when a. loud altercation commenced some crying out vehemently for the blood of the white men, others maintainin? that the old man's doctrine was right The aged" black remained leaning on his staff; and mildly replied to every outburst of fury, But Jesus said, do good for evil. Loud rose the din of excited voices; and the disguised slaveholder shrank deeper into the shadow, -in the midst of the confusion, an athletic, grace-fully proportioned young man sprang upon the stump, and throwing off his coarse cotton garment, slowly turned round and round before the assembled multitude. Immediately all was hushed; for the light of a dozen torches, eagerly held op by fierce, revengeful comrades, showed his back and shoulders deeply gashed by the whip, and still oozing with blood. In the midst of that deep silence, he stopped abruptly, and with stern brevity exclaimed, Boys shall we not murder our masters Would you murder all inquired a timid voice at his right hand.

'They don't all cruelize their There's Campbell, pleaded another; he never had one of his boys flogged iu his life. You wouldn't murder him, would you Oh, no, no, shouted many voices; 'we wouldn't murder Mr. CampbelL He's always good to colored folks.1 'And I wouldn't murder my said one of Mr. Duncan's slaves and I'd fight any body that set out to murder him. I an't a going to work for him for nothing any longer, if I can help it; but he shan't be murdered for he's a good master.

'Call him a good master, if ye like said the bleeding youth, with a bitter sneer in his look and tone. I curse the word. The white men tell us God made them our masters I say it was the Devil. When they don't cut up the backs that bear their burdens, when they throw us enough of the grain we have raised to keep us strong for another harvest, when they forbear to shoot the limbs that toil to make them rich, they are fools who call them good masters. Why should they sleep on soft beds, under silken curtains, while we, whose labor bought it all, lie on the floor at the threshold, or miserably coiled up in the dirt of our own cabins? Why should I clothe my master in broad-cloth and fine linen, when he knows, and I know, that he is my own brother and meanwhile, have only this coarse rag to cover ray aching shoulders? He kicked the garment scornfully, and added, Down on your knees, if ye like, and thank them that ye are not flogged and shot.

Of we they'll learn another lesson Mr. Duncan recognised in the speaker the reputed son of one of his friends, lately deceased one of that numerous class, which southern vice is thoughtlessly raising up to be its future scourge and terror. The high, bold forehead, and flashing eye, indicated an intellect too active and daring for servitude while his fluent speech and appropriate language betraved the fact that his highly educated parent, from some remains of instinctive feeling, had kept him near his own person, during his lifetime, and thus formed his conversation on another model than the rude jargon of slaves. His poor, ignorant listeners stood spell-bound by the magic of superior mind; and at first it seemed as if he miffht carry the whole meeting in favor of bis views. But the aged man, leaning on his oaken staff, still mildly spoke of the meek and blessed Jesus; and theHocility of African temperament responded to his gentle words.

Then rose a man of middle age, short of stature, with a quick, roguish eye, and a spirit of knowing drollery lurking about his mouth. Rubbing his head in uncouth fashion, he besan I don't know how to speak like Bob for I never had no chance. He says the Devil made white men our masters. Now dat's a tin? Tse thought oo a heap. Many a time I've axed mvself how pon arth it was, that iist as sure as white man and black man come togeder, de white man sure to git he foot on de black man.

Sometimes I tink one ting, den I tink anoder ting; and dey all be jumbled up in my head, jest like seed in de cotton, afore he put in the gin. At last, 1 find it all but. White man always git he foot on de black man; no mistake in dat But how he do it? I'll show you how? Thrusting his hand into his pocket, he took out a crumpled pieee of printed paper, and smoothing it carefully on the palm of his hand, he struck it sig-nincantlv with his finger, and exclaimed triumphantly, Dat's de way dey do it Dey got de knowl-edce Now, it'll do no more good to rise agin our masters, dan put de head in de fire and pull him nut agin and may be you can't pull him out agin. When I was a boy, 1 hear an old conjuring woman eay she eould conjure de Divil out of any body. I ask her why she don't conjure her massa, den and she tell me, 'Oh, nigger neber conjure buckra can't doV But I say nigger can conjure buckra.

How he do it? Get de knowledge Dat de way. We make de sleeve wide, and fill full of de tea and de sugar, ebery time we get in missis closet If we take half so much pains to get de knowledge, de white man take he foot off de black man. May be de British land, and may be de British no land but you tell you sons to marry de free woman, dat know how to read and write and you tell you roil to marry de free man, dat know how to wad and write and den by'm bye, you be An Tlritish yourselves! You want to know.lvow manage to get de knowledge I tell you. I want right bad to learn to read. My old boss is the most begrudgfull-est massa, I know he won't let me learn.

So, -when 1 see leetle massa with he book, (he bout six year old,) I say to him, What you call dat He tell me dat is A. Oh, dat is A So I take old newspaper, and I ax missis, may I hab dis to rub my brasses? She say yes. I put it in my pocket, and by'm by, I look to see I find A and I look at bim till I know him bery well. Den I ask my young massa, What you call dat? He say, dat is B- So I find Lim on my paper, and look at hint till I know him berv well. Den I ask my young massa what CAT spell He tell me cat Den, after a great long time, I can read de newspaper.

And what you tink I find dere? I read British going to land! Den I (ell all de boys British going to land. What you do, s'pose British land When I stand behind massa's chair, I heac him talk, and I tell all de -boys what he say. Den Bob say must hab Methodist meeting, and tell massa, Tom going to preach in de woods. But what you tink I did toder dav You know Jim, massa Gubernor's boy Well, I want mighty bad to let Jim know British going to land. But he live ten mile and old Boss no let me go.

Well, massa Gubcrnor he come dine my massa's bouse; and I bring he horse to de gate and I make my bow, and say massa Uu heritor, how Jim do? He tell me Jim bery welL Den I ax him, be Jim good boy He say yes. Den I tell bim Jim and I leetle boy togeder; and I want mighty bad send Jim someting. He tell me Jim nab enough of ebery ting, Oh, yes, raasa Guber-nor, I know you bery good masja, and Jim hab ebery ting he want but when leetle boy togeder, dere is always someting here, (laying his hand on his heart) I want to send leetle backy to Jim. I know he hab much backy be want; but Jim and I leetle boy togeder, and I want send Jim someting. Massa Gubernor say, bery well Jack.

So I gib him de baekr. done up in de bery bit of newspaper dat tell British going to land And massa Gubernor himself carry it: And massa Gubernor himself carry He clapped his hands, kicked op his heels; and turned suinersets like a harlequin. These demonstrations were received with loud shouts of merri- merit and it was sometime before sufficient order was restored to proceed with the question under discussion. After various scenes of fiery indignation, gentle expostulation, and boisterous mirth, it was finally decided, by a considerable majority, that in case the British laaded, they would take their freedom without murdering their masters not a few, however, went away in wrathful mood, muttering curses deep. With thankfulness to Heaven, Mr.

Duncan again found himself i the open field, alone with the stars. Their glorious beauty seemed to him, that night, clothed in new and awful power. Groups of shrubbery took to themselves startling forms and the sound of the wind among the trees was like the unsheathing of swords. Again be recurred to Saxon history, and remembered now he had thought that trou-bled must be the sleep of those who rule a conquered people. A new significance seemed given to Wat Tyler's address to the insurgent laborers of his day an emphatic and irost unwelcome application of his indignant question, why serfs should toil unpaid ih wind and sun, that lords might'sleep on down, ami embroider their garments with pearl- 1 1 And these Robin Hoods, and Wat Tylers, were my Saxon ancestors thought -Who shall so bnlance causes and effects, as to decide what portion of my present freedom sprang from their.secraingly defeated efforts? Was the place I saw to-night, in such wild and fearful like- the haunt of the Saxon Robin Hoods? Was not the spirit that gleamed forth there as brave aa theirs And who sliall calculate what even such hopeless endeavors may do for the future, freedom of their race These cogitations did not so far as I ever lead to the emancipation of bis bondmen but did prevent his revealing a secret' which would have brought hundreds to an Immediate and violent dcatlu After a painful conflict betweencontendjng feelings and duties, he contented himself with sd- vliinir tfia mnri3tratra to forbid all mCCtinTS what soever among tlie colored people, until the wax was ended.

He visited Boston several years after, and told the story to a gentleman, who often repeated ft. in the circle of his friends, in brief outline, it reached my ears. I have told it truly, with some filling up by imagination, some additional garniture of language, and the adoption of fictitious names, because I have forgotten the real ones. American Christianity, We are glad to find in Pr. Channing's new, work on Emancipation the following testimony respecting the pro-slavery character of American Christianity i I pass to another topic suggested by Mr.

Gurney's book. What is it, let me ask, which has freed the West India slave, and is now raising him to the dignity of a man "The answer is most cheering. The great emancipator has been Christianity. Policy, interest state-craft, church-craft, the low motives which have originated other revolutions, have not worked here. From the times of Clarkson and Wil-bcrforce, down to the present day, the friends of the slave, who have pleaded his cause and broken his chains, have been Christians; and it is from Christ the divine philanthropist from the inspiration of his cross, that they have gathered faith, hope, and love for the conflict This illustration of the spirit and power of Christianity, is a bright addition to the evidences of its truth.

We have here the miracle of a great nation, rising in its strength, not for conquest, not to assert its own rightsbut to free and elevate the most despised and injured race on earth and as this stands alone in human history, so it recalls to us those wonderful works 4f mercy and power, by which the divinity of our religion was at first confirmed. It is with deep sorrow, that I am compelled to turn to the contrast between religion in England and religion in America. There it vindicates the cause of the oppressed. Here it rivets the chain and hardens the heart of the oppressor. At the South, what is the Christian ministry doing for the slave Teaching the rightfulness of his yoke, joining in the crv asrainst the men who plead for his freedom, giving the sanction of God's name to' the greatest onence against nis cnuaren.

i nis is me auuei view, presented by the conflict with slavery. The very men, whose offiee it is to plead against all wrong, to enforce the, obligation of impartial, inflexible justice, to breathe the spirit of universal brotherly love, to resist at all hazards the spirit and evil customs of the world, to live to. die-under the banner of Christian troth, have enlisted under die standard of slavery. Had they merely declined to bring the subject into the church, on the ground of the presence of the slave, they would have been justified. Had they declined to discuss it through the press and in conversation, on the ground that the public mtna was too iunous near uie truiu, would have been approved 'by multitudes; though it is wisest for the minister to resign his office, when it can only be exercised under menace and unrighteous restraint, and to go where with unsealed lios may teach and enforce human duty in its full pvipnt.

Rut the ministers at the South have not been content with silence. The majority of them are understood to have given their support to sla very, to have thrown their weight into the scale of the master. That in so doing, they have belied their clear convictions, that they have preacbed. Known falsehood, we do not sav. Few ministers of Christ we trust can teach what their-deliberate judgments condemn.

But in cases like the present how com mon it is for the judgment to receive a shape ana; hue from self interest, from private affection, from the tyranny of opinion and the passions of the mul titude! Few ministers, we sin against clear, steady liffht But how common iff it. for the mind to waver and to be obscured in Tegard to scorned and persecuted truth When we look be- vond the bounds of slavery, we find the civilized and Christian world with few exceptions reprobating slavery, as at war with the precepts and spirit of Christ uut at tne jsouui, nis ministers sustain as consistent with justice, equity, and disinterested love. Can we help saying, that the loud, menacing, popular voice has proved too strong tor the servants of Christ We hoped better things than this," because the prevalent sects at the South are tne flietnoaisis ana Baptists, and these were expected to be less tainted by a worldly spirit than other denominations in which luxury and fashion bear greater sway. But the Methodists, forgetful of their great who cried aloud against slavery and spired and the Baptists, forgetful of the sainted -name of Roger Williams, whose love of the, faspised Indian, and whose martyr spirit sfciould have taught them fearless sympathy with, "five negro, have been found in the ranks Jt the foes of freedom. Indeed, their allegiance to slavery seems to know no bounds.

A Baptist association at the South decreed, that a slave, sold at a distance from his wife, might marry again in obedience to his master and that he would even do wrong, to disobey in this particular. Thus- -one of the plainest precepts of Christianity has been set at nought Thus 'the poor slave is taught to renounce his wife, however dear, to rupture the most sacred social tie, that, like the other animals, he may keep up the stock of the estate. The General Methodist Conference, durinsr this very year, have de creed, that the testimony of a. colored member of their churches should not no Teceivea against a white member, who may be on trial before an ecclesiastical tribunal. Thus in church affairs, a multU tude of discioles of Jesus Christ who have been received into Christian communion on the ground of their spiritual regeneration, who belong, as is believed, to the church on earth and in Heaven, are put down by their brethren as incapable of recognizing lie obligation of truth, of performing the most com mon duty of morality, and are denied a privilege conceded, in worldly affairs to the most depraved.

Thus the religion of the South heaps insult and injury on the slave. And what have the Christians of the North done We rejoice to say, that from these, have gone forth not a few testimonies egainst slavery. Not a few ministers in associations, convention, presbyteri es or have declared" the inconsistency of the system with the, principles of Christianity, and with the law of love. Still the churches and congregations of the free States have in the main looked coldly on the subject nd discouraged too effectually the free expression of thought and feeling in regard to it by the religious teacher. Under that legislation of public opinion, which, without courts or offices, sways more despotically than Czars or Sultans, the pulpit and the press have, in no small degree, been reduced to silence as to slavery, especially in cities, the chief seats of this invisible power.

Some fervent spirits among us, seeing religion, in this and other cases, so ready to bend to worldly opinion, have been filled with indignation. They have spoken of Christianity, as ha life here, as a beautiful corpse, laid out in much state, worshipped with costly homage, but worshipped very much as were the prophets, whose tombs were so ostentatiously garnished in th times of the Saviour. But this is unjust Christianity lives and acts among us. It imposes many salutary restraints. It inspires many good deeds.

There are not a few, in whom it puts forth a power, worthy of its better days, and the number of such is growing. Let us not be ungrateful for what this-religion is doing, nor shut our ears against the propliecies which the present gives of its future triumphs. Still, as a general rule, the Christianity of this day falls fearfully short of the Christianity of the immediate followers of our Ijord. Then, the ineaningof a Christian was, that he took the cross and fid lowed Christ that he counted not his life dear to him in the service of God and man, that he trod the world under his feet Now we ask leave of the world, how far we shall follow Christ What wrong or abuse is there, which the bulk of the people may think es-ontial to their prosperity, and may defend with outcry and menace, before which the Christianity of this age will not now neeu a new juihi, wu-f with the untamed and solemn energy of the wilderness, shall cry out among us, repent We need that the crucified should speak to us with a more startling voice, 'He that forsaketh not all things, and fol-loweth me, cannot be my disciple. We need that the all-sacrificing, all-sympathising spirit of Christianity should cease to bow to the spirit of the world.

We i-eed that wider a'deep wnse of w-nnt nnJlwo, the church should cry out, "Thy. kin gdom and with holy importunity should brisi. dawn new strength, and life, and love from Heaven. T- t. From the Bonlon Daily Ad writer aud Patriot.

Court Calendar. DISTRICT COURT OT THE UStTED STATES. Saturday, Dec 2. S.lave TaADE. Yesterday morning, Nathan Augustus Frye, master of the brig Tigris, of Salem, and the crew of the brig, were brought before the District JuJge, on the complaint of E.

Smith, for the Government charged with being engaged in the ranspoTtition of slaves, contrary to the act of Con- gress oi is jo, cnap. en, sec un neing lmerrogaieu by the Court, they severally said they were not guil ty. Their counsel proposed to go into examin ation at once but the Court consented to postpone it till Monday, when it "was hoped Mr. Mills, the District Attorney, would te "present- It was suggested, that the evidence might be of such a nature, as to authorize a detention lor capital onence. The deposition of the negro boy, said to have heen transported or seized as a slave, and certain other papers throwing light on the case, bein in fortu-guese, were placed in the hands "of the Hon.

John Pickering, who consented to translate them for the use of the court The defendants "recognized with sureties in the sum of $500 each, for their appear ance on Monday next The negro boy was in court -He appeared to be about 13 years of age. He speaks nothing but his native language and it is doubtful if there is any body in this country, who can understand him. He appeared not a little frightened by the proceedings in the midst of which he found nimseli. A question arose as to the custody in which he should remain. He has been with the master thus far and it was with the consent of all the counsel-in the case, that he should continue with him till the ex -This course was adopted, from a desire to avoid causing the unfortunate boy needless fright by a change of custody, the reasons of which it was impossible to explain to him.

Messrs. Robert Brookhousc, and Wm. Hunt of Salem, recognized for his appearance in court on Monday morn-inff. in the sum of 31000. They.

are the owners of the brig, and most respectable merchants, against whom there is no suspicion or suggestion of any scienter or knowledge of the alleged dealing in slaves. "The "brig was sent to the Coast of Africa with a cargo of merchandise to be exchanged at different points on the Coast for the produce of that country, intended for the Salem market a trade in which the owners have for many years been engaged. At the time of her seizure by the British cruiser Water Witch, she had disposed of the greater part of her outward cargo, had received on board part of her homeward cargo, and purchased the residue. The cargo actually taken on board, with the undelivered portion of the outward cargo, has been brought to Salem with the vessel, and is of much value. The Tisrris was taken possession of on the African Coast by Mr.

Matson, Lieutenant and Commandant of her Britannic Majesty's brig Water Witch, under circumstances which led him to suppose that she had on board the negro boy above-mentioned, in violation of a law of the United- States prohibiting the Slave Mr." Matson placed on board ofl her Mr. Jackson, an officer of the Water Witch, and seven men, who have conducted her, with her crew, to Salem. The original master and crew of the Tigris were sent home unconfined, and attended in Court yesterday, by arrangement with the Marshal, without having been actually arrested. 1 he bng Tigris and her cargo are nOw in the custody of the Marshal, to be proceeded against for a forfeiture, on account of the alleged violation of the Jaws ot the United States against the Slave Trade, one moiety whereof accrues to the United States, and the oth er moiety to the informer, the Bntish seizer. It is not probable that the-case "will beery fully examined in the preparatory stages.

Mr. Jackson, the British officer, attended in Court He probably will give testimony in the criminal pro ceedings, lie also represents the interests ot tne British seizors in the proceedings for a forfeiture. It will be recollected that Air. the com mander of the Water Witch, who made the seizure in the present case, was engaged in the capture of the piratical crew of the Spanish brig Canda, who were tried in Boston in E. Smith, Jr.

for the United States. Choate and J. C. Perkins, of Salem, for the master and the owners of the Tigris. George S.

Hillard and Charles Sumner for the British seizers. I The complaint charges that the officers and crew of the Tigris did take a negro boy, being a native and inhabitant of said Coast of Africa, wnth intent to make such negro a slave. Lieut Matson, of the Water Witch, who made the seizure, in a letter to the Registrar of the American Court says tliqtuie boy Heme is a native of Guillengues neat Bengue-la, from whence he was forcibly taken "by the crew of the Tigris, and that hd was Teing transported in the Tigris from his cy.fii country to St Thomas's, in consequence, his having been sold to Castro, (a merchant there) whose property he now actually 117 B. M. Lieutenant evidently has a very extravagant opinion of the buying and selling propensities of the Yankees, for he very gravely adds The ultimate fate of the boy 'Heme was of course uncertain; had he been sent in the 'Tigris' to 'America, he might have been sold there, or he might have returned to St Thomas but it is evident that he would never have returned to his native After the seizure of the brig, Capt Frye sent the following letter to the British To the Lieut.

Com'g Her B. M. Water Witch: Sir As you have detained the American brig Tigris, under mv command, under circumstances which to you are suspicious, I wish fully to explain all the circumstances of the case to you. July 27th, 1840, 1 arrived at St Thomas direct from Salem, S. A.

While there, finding my cook and steward drunk, I punished him, and turned him out of the cabin, and requested Jozes De Castro to let me have a boy to carry to the U. States, to act as steward in the cabin. He let me have one, but as I did not much like his appearance, he told me that if he did not prove good, 1 might leave Hun witn nis friend John Almada, of Benguela, and for that purpose I got -a passport for bim. Upon arriving at which I did. on the 18th of September, I sent the boy on shore, and before sailing I took a boj of John Almada on board, to carry to the United States, and put him on the shipping articles.

Letters which I carried to Benguela from J. De Castro to John Almada, I think explained all to him, and the purposes for which I wanted him, and what 1 1 Wa8 going lu UO Willi uuiu vsu iiu ui uvuwci, while I was on shore, I saw your brig off the port Your boat soon after boarded the Tigris, and, upon the officer's asking about the boy, he.was told by the mate that he belonged to St came from there and his reasons were, that as I was not on board, he thought there would be less questions asked if he said he came from there. Soon my boat came on shore, and informed me of the boy's having been taken out of the brig by you. I immediately went on board, and upon getting there was told by the mate that he had told you the boy cameou board at St Thomas, and his reasons for so doing. Soon after, your boat again returned, bringing back the boy and now, I thinking if I told you be came from Benguela, the different stories would lead to some detention, I said he belonged to St Thomas, as J.

De. Castro, of there, is one that gives him liberty to allow him to go to the U. States. My Log-Book and shipping articles are sufficient security for me, and even if I had him not logd, the custom of our ves-J- sels carrying these boys home to learn English would warrant me in it. You now have on board tho Water Witch a Kroo boy that I took at Cape Palmas on my last voyage, and had him with me 12 to 14 months.

On my previous voyage, I had taken one of these boys home Cape Palmas was my first port, nd I then had the boy on board, bringing him back, at the time I took said Kroo boy on board. Were more proof wanting as regards my inteution towards the boy, you will easily find it in the letters which J. De Castro wrote to John Almada, of Benguela. One part of my conduct to you regret exceeding hf, and ichieh lam axeart will lead to great censure tn the U. States that when you asked all my crew, I did not check them.

But seeing them all give the same answer, I was in hopes they did not recognize the boy, but was afterwards told by my mate that he had told them all to say that he came from St Thomas, as they icere. not on oath. N. AUGUSTUS FRYE, Com'd'g. Amer.

brig Tigris. Witness to this and copy Sam'i. From the Abolition Standard. rro-Slavery Iiesislatioo in Wew-IIampsalre. We like to make a record of the legislative proceedings on the subject of slavery, and faithfully re corrihe names of voters for it may be profitable to jefer to them hereafter, when the suffrages of abolitionists shall again be called for.

Wc intended to have given the resolutions, but they hive disappeared. We have been to both of the legislature, and to the secretary's office, but the papers are not on their files. And where have they gone Imagination asks -where Is the author of them afraid to suffer them to remain in quiet retirement in tho secretary's office, lest they shall sometime rise up in judgment against him, 'and those who voted for them, and condemn them Or are they to be sent a secret embassage to the South, to declare the story of New-Hampshire's mean servility? The report and resolutions yielded the rights of the North to the demands of the South, requiring the delivery of her free citizens, whose humanity had prompted them to suffer a fellow-being, escaping from cruel and unrighteous bondage, to land on the soil of freedom, to be tried by southern laws, and subjected to southern penalties. The debate on this subject was opened by the speech of Dr. Batchelder, of against the report and resolutions.

During this speech, mu rmu rings of disapprobation began to be manifest But in the evening, Rev. Mr. Moore, of Milford, rose to speak on the same side of the question, when followed the scene we will try to describe. Mr. Moore said he belonged to none of the ultras nor fanatics of the present day, but was as cool as an iceberg.

And cool as an iceberg he stood, concentrating and scattering, with burning effect, the scorching ravs of the sun of liberty. The House was soon on fire. Many thought that the monster abolitionism was in their very midst and the hall was at once a scene of wild confusion. The stamping of feet nonndinar of benches, courrhinr? and hemming, and aiir.h lilro nro-slaverv arguments, with the cry of out qf order, echoed and re-echoed through the dignified and honorable assembly. But the mob spirit spent its fury in vain.

It was not abolitionism it had to contend with, but an exposition of the Constitution of the Union. The Speaker of the House frequently called the members to order but his interference was like the playing of an inefficient engine upon a building in flames, whose feeble dashes but increase the blaze. Such disgraceful disorder continued through the whole of Mr. M's speech. But he stood undaunted, the tones of his voice becoming fuller and louder as the noise in the house increased, so that he was distinctly heard.

And why was this uproar in the legislative hall The speech itself reveals the secret It was because Mr. M. opposed the doctrine that the rights of the South are paramount to all other rights. It was because he objected to the monstrous doctrine of the report and resolutions, that the South- has a right to extend her slave power over the free citizens of the North, and drag them from the protection of their own laws, to be immolated, for no crime, on her bloody altars. Mr.

Wells, of Lancaster, moved the postponement of the subject till the next session said he approved of the report and resolutions in the main, but they were imperfect and needed amendment arid more time than the House had to bestow upon them this session. Mr. Baker, of Hillsborough, objected to the post-. poncment said it would be such a triumph to the abolitionists as he did not wish them to enjoy he wanted them to know they were not going to rule the State of New-Hampshire quite yet lie wanted the South to know they were sustained by the New- Hampshire Legislature, and he was unwilling for the delay. The following are the yeas and nays on the ques tion, shall the report and resolutions pass Only about half of the members voted at all, on a subject in whose principles the rights of our own independ ent State, and the liberties of her free citizens, are so deeply interested.

And where were the rest of the House Where rilere follows tho list Yeas 112, Nays 26 for which we have not room in our present number. The report and resolutions were then sent to the "Senate for concurrence. But as it was just at the close of the session, and there was little time for deliberation, the- subject was postponed till the next session. The next morning the morning of adjournment the House were in session again at 4 clock. A motion was made that the Speaker should sign the 'report, and" send it out as the sense of the House, But an obiection was raised that there was not a quorum present and a call of the roll was ordered ana a sergeant-at-arms was votea 10 onng.urem in.

But he was afterwards excused from the duty, and the subject lays overfill the next session of the legislature. And thus ends the disgraceful, slave-like cringing to the South of the New-Hampshire Legislature, for Uwf present- I. Jjj The following is the account of the infamous affair above alluded to, given by the Concord correspondent of the Clareniont Eagle Saturday being the last working day, the House had an evening session, which lasted till about half oast ten. The principal subject was JJakers long report and resolutions, concerning the resolves of the Virginia and Georgia legislatures touching the surrender of fugitive slaves. As you will see, the subject of slavery was somewhat involved in the discussion.

Bakers resolution (a copy of which, together with the report accompanying the same, it was pioposed to send to the executive of every State,) took sides with the slaveholding States, and their passage was opposed by several mercbers, who are inclined to abolitionism, particularly by Mr. Moore of Milford, and Batchelder of Marlboro', While they were speaking, the House was in a perfect uproar. There was stamping of feet and slamming of benches in the most approved style. The speaker' pretended to preserve order, but his looks and actions showed plainly enough that he had no disposition to calm the turbulence of the House. He might have preserved order, but would not and the House was in the utmost confusion.

Mr. Moore, however, who was speaking, would not be put down, but raised his voice to a still higher pitch amid every new attempt to silence him, shrill and loud, like that of the sea-bird above the storm. His speech was an elegant one, replete with sound views, and in point elegance and freshness of diction, would nave done no discredit to any of our scholars. When he had concluded, the question was taken, after various ineffectual motions to separate them from the report, on the resolutions separately. The yeas and nays were called half a dozen times it was found there was no quorum, the members having gone home or retreated to the srallery points of order were raised and final ly the report and resolutions were declared to be 'adopted by the House.

They went to the Senate, and were postponed by that body, to the next session came back to the House this morning at four o'clock, and there being no quorum, could not be acted upon, and of course were lost So dies Baker's Slavery, Report, much to his chagrin and mortification. From the Northampton Courier. A Sis of the Times As an, indication of what the free States of this Union1 are to encounter, "when they shall assert, and attempt to maintain their constitutional rights, copy the following article, which originated in the New-Orleans Intelligencer of Dec. 7. Quite, a modest affair, when considered as coming from a State, a majority of whose inhabitants are slaves The dear lovers of liberty at the South, those who profess most and practice least, are all alive to the sacredness of the Constitution, whenever the North expresses its conviction of the repugnance of slavery to the spirit ot republicanism, and to our own Declaration of Independence but only let the manufacturers, and farmers; and mechanics of tho free States present their claims to the encouragement and protection, to which they are clearly entitled by the Constitution, and their tone is changed at once.

No more is said about the sacred compact' the compromise 4 the glorious Constitution' 'the solemn guarantee, no; the Declaration of Independence is a rhetorical flourish the Constitution an obsolete document a worthless piece of parchment Then, forgetting the fraternal duties they had before preached to the North, they are ready to cut the bonds of brotherhood, and prepared for intestine commotions, and all the horrors of civil war, as of small moment, coirijiared to the privilege which they claim, not only of holding in bondage the black men of the South, but also of controlling the destinies of the freemen oi tne iMortn. We Tegard this note of nullification as entitled to the grave consideration of the citizens of the North, rT7 THE LIB It A It rnursel as the expression of individual but as tlte probable senlimekt of a vast nwyor-ity tf the free people of the South. not NLt.iricATio2f. It is well knows to oar friends generally, that we hara opposed tlto exorrine oi aralntt the unconstitutional "and oppreswve encroachment of the General Government npon tlie sovereign riahts of the Stales; but (we mun co.s iiKetb lalu presidential election, ouy opinttnsl it hare been rreatly.shaken 4 we now see what, un til now, we did not see, that iclmicatioi wm Kill be considered the on' rent conservative CIM.K of tho -constitutional ri-hu of Slates, and Iie oporcwive laws of the Gnt-ml Gowrnim.nl, short dissolution and revolution. H'C reu.edy, It is true, is a severe one, and mar bo eonsiattrca mar Do eonsiatrcu nothing more or less than reroiutmn.

than that tho freemen of Hie Soutli snouiu oe mu submit to injustice, oppression and slavery Ttiese they will not endure. We shall say more upon this subjjct. Fugitive Seventeen fugitives from slavery! recently came to York, Pa in one day: The mani-honnds were on their track; and they were, with Wh" difficulty, saved from their jaws. They are nbw safe in Canada. Says the Cleaveland Ohio Atitator, speaking of those who prefer to lake the Ohia route to Cana- We liave no means of ascertaining the exact number of fugitives who have pasted oyer Lake Erie this season but we are confident it is greater than it was the last when eight hundred was the.

estimated number. They have singly and in pairs in tens and twenties, and evdn in large companies. Husbandsdiave gone withbut- their wives, and wives without their husbands barents without their children, and children without their parents and husbands and" wives have gone! with their little ones around them. Many have come from barely over the border of Virginia and and others from remote South Carolina and Mississippi. We have looked upon their toil-worn and loTmIfif forms: we have seen upon their backs the cruel imprint of tho tyrant's lash we have listened to the recital of what they te't and siifTorod inner vars of hopeless bondage passed over them; we naVe heard the tale of their providential and almost miraculous deliverance from their blood thirstv nnrstiers i we have felt the pressure their Hnrd an.l stiffened hands, and seen upon their hoV lb toar of as we 'left the side of the vessel which was to carry them to a land of nnA froodnm and we have heard of their wild nntiimiM frladnesa when with elastic bound they leaped upon the northern shores These things have made us Tricks of Priestcraf.

Our bro. Hawley, in the last number of his Church Reformer, fa paper, by the way, well worthy of ex tensive circulation,) irf reply to a slanderous attack upon by the Rev. David Stowelj of Townsend, very justly remarks This is no new method of attempting to oppose a cause that is so deeply founded upontruth, as to defy all direct assaults, however malicious or oft-re-nnntod. Tt is an old as Dersecution 'itself. It was r.novnl snd coextensive, and it will be co-perpetu al, with religious persecution.

It is the devil's first, and most successful good men have felt its withering jqff'-4sting effects' Our Divine Master was -chaf ared with felony, an suffer ed a felon's death. The apostles wien? accused of the most flagrant and enormous crimes, and every where treated as the grossest; and most intolerable offenders. And by whom By hypocritical priests and vaunting. religionists. These hiive been, and are, the deadliest foes of true religiorj, and the roost thoroughly skilled in the art of They are the first to oppose, and the last to favor, any good cause.

To them, change is terrific, and light is tormenting. With them, error with gray hairs is theT choicest truth and sinful bearing the marks of antiauitv. are most sacred atid right and worthy of unlimited perpetuity. Evfery new trut that is developed, they markkas a dfreful every reform, however sublime, 4nd how mucfi soever fraught with good, they regard as a terrible calamity. With such, opposition to all new things is loyalty to God And in this opposition, he that is the most unscrupulous about the.

means he ent-ploys, will be the first candidate fojr colonization. In such a holy the end will sanctify tie means If new principles cannot bd proved falie by scriptural-truth or sound argumentation, they must ts rendered odious by an unholy crusajde s-ainst the characters or trose who Cherish them, and are endeavoring to give them currency. COMMUNICATIONS Onsht Abolitionists to withdraw from exisdne Church Organisations It Pacts. One-sixth of the population of the Uni ted States are now existing under the following circumstances. The marriage institution; is abolished, and they are obliged to live in a state" of concubinage.

Their children are labelled asnerchandize as soon as born, and reared for the mawet arid, in due time, torn from their parents and sold. They are forbidden to read the Bible, and it felony, for parents or others to teach them to read it All knowledge of letters is forbidden by severest penalties. They are born slaves, and death is the penalty for any attempt to change their Tbey are robbed of all their earnings during their lives. Slaveholders are in the habit of raising their, own children for the market and selling them. Such is the condition of the American slave and slaveholder and theft, robbery, ignorance, heathenism, concubinage, man-stealing and murder, are essentia) elements of existence in American slavery, Existing church organizations, icilh few exception, constitute a main pillar of support to this system of atrocious crimes.

How They receive, as christians and christian ministers, slaveholders and apoio-gists for slavery. They sustain the negro pew. They oppose the discussion of abolition in church meetings, and in the pulpits on the Sabbath, Tbey keep silence which is, in fact, the most efficient support to slaveiy at this time. All that slavery wants of churches is silence. What ought abolitionists, who belong to these or ganizations, to do Duty to God and the oppressed requires some immediate action.

Ought they to withdraw I think not There is a more efficient way a way calculated to produce betterYesults to these organizations, to the community at large, to the cause ot human rights, and to Christianity. Abolitionists ought at once to introduce into; the different churches, of which they are members, the following resolution, or one to the same effect: I Resolved, That this church, believing, slavery to be a sin under mil circumstances, and imsnediate and unconditional emancipation the right oftlje slave and duty of the master, will not receive any) man to fel lowship, as a christian or christian minister, who is a slaveholder, or who, by silence or otherwise, countenances and sustains slavery. Let men and women, at once, as fearless and ua- compromising aavocaies ior uoa ana numamry, use their rights in these church organizations, and urge upon them some such resolution. Let them take their places in the meetings for for business. for conference and exhortation anu there speak out for the slave, and urge the church and minister to speak out as though they were slaves.

After hav-ing labored faithfully to get the church, as a church, to cease all fellowship with the foul, system of crimes; and if the church refuses, and is determined to continue to fellowship adultery, concubinage, and man-stealing, then let abolitionists, men and women, write Utters to the churches to which they belong, refusing longer to recognize them as christian church' es. Disown them as christian organizations stating distinctly the reasons for so doing making all allowance for individual members who are in the way of duty.but renouncing the. body as a christian body. This is the way, and the only way, by which churches, as such, can ever be brought to efficient action against slavery. Abolitionists have not done their duty to the church organizations among us.

Tbey have indeed passed resolutions in anti-slavery conventions against their silence and connivance at slavery; but what nave they done as members of them Have they done for the slave what they would wish other to do for them and their children," if they were slaves They have suffered their fear of ministers, of church censures, of agitation, of loss of standing and reputation in the church, and of excommunication, to overcome their pity for the slave, and their regard for the immutable principles of justice and humanity. This should not be. Now let them make up for past neglect of duty to these organizations, by future promptness aqd energy. Let their onset upon pro-slavery churches be bold, decided. fc calin- nersevanngand simultaneous.

rv the war rifcht into their midst and demand, i of Govt and the oprireaaed, some open, decid. action againit slavery nd if this cannot be bad- let there solemnly, renounce them as chnstutn bo-die, and wit st.iaooi;e,.. or SaTair on every church organization that refuses to speak out, as a againpt the 'system of wron and outrage. So tong'as Abolitionists go on, as tliey have done, to recognise pfro-lavery combinations of meo and wo. men churches, they make Christianity a covering for theft and robbery, and every crime.

As they Jofe God, as they pity the slave, as they wish to save the slaveholder, and to see a world regenerated and redeemed oy tbe power of ty, abolitionists are solemnly bound, at once, to do their duty to all church organizations of which they are members, and disown them, as christian church- es, if they will not bodies, speak out against Slavery, by ceasing to recognize any slaveholder-or apolo'nst for slavery as a Christian or christian nun-Ster." IL C. WRIGHT. N. B. Lest A.

A- Phelps, J. Leavitt and WntT Goodell should seize upon- this as' one of tbc4fesx of JL Wright, and publish it to prejudice prople against the liberator as opposed, to a- christian church, I would say, it is on those organizations o-. ly that by silence, or otherwise, countenance and sunnortthe concubinage, injustice and cruelty, of which slavery is composed, upon in the-above, write, synagogue of Saton. A christian church-Stove ana cherish as of Christ, bot.s yro- atarery church, (and by this I mean all church refuse to bear an open, out-spoken tC3timoiy slavery as a sin per te,) I abhor and reject t-; ly foe Vwao I.W I A 'T A. i nooeui on uomoiasiues Abica V.V Ok BosTOw.Jan.l1"1' Dea Brother GiEtisox Onf reading in the Liberator of December 54.., 'an article headed, 4 Communities, I was agreeably struck with the idea of living in a community whose governing principle is only love; and the thought, that kindred spirits may yet dwell together even in this i world, whose superstructure is based on tin) eterpal rock of truth and right, and the conviction that' whatever is mine belongs also to my equal brother, caused a thrill of pleasure, which was in-expressibly delightful.

The writer speaks in terms of high commendation offlie Moravian and Shaker systems, and styles thejn both Christian classes though, as I under-. 8tattd, not conceding either as perfection itself. Tbey are, he says, lights of christian excellence, to wich we 6hall do well to give heed as unto lamps litjat the great light Christ Jesus. Especially would 'wirecommend, should our brethren ever undertake tofestablish a community, that some suitable person sent to the Shaker and Moravian establishments for the purpose of investigating the practicatopcra tkn of their respective systems. Of the Shakers, I know nothing personally but before thing to do with thenvl would warn every person carefully to read a book, entitled Portraiture of.

hakensm, by Mary In answer to the first question, what is the great eading idea of the proposed community I would lav. that in mv opinion, it is practicable, and ob iigaiory on aft people in every neighborhood, village, Jcity, and notion, to dwell together by families in I 'love and peace, securing to themselves the comforts of life by agriculture and mechanical industry by. resorting to any other iust measure, w' I mercial orr professional, whenever, and 1 whawMi' itstrh intti viiliml. male or 'MY choose, him or herself being the sole case. i 2nd: What is the basis on which met.

Ji be admitted into this community Ans God. 3rd. How is a tract of land, or proper quantity of real estate, to be obtained for such, an establish- ment Ans. By means of a joint stock fund raised by subscription in definite shares, and judiciously expended in the purchase of the requisite real es- tate, which estate having been securedshould be afterwards divided. among the joint proprietors, according to their several subscriptions.

4th. Where shall the community bo located Ans. There should be no State lines, no geograjpb- -ical boundaries: all should dwell together as brethren of. the same family. Mind should meet mind, and heart respond to heart, and the language of each be invariably the same all mine is thine, in tl.ine is mine; and let them that have no moneyi come.

Let the proprietors say to all, 'Come, go us, and we will do you Let them give to those who ask, and from him that would borrow, let them not torn away. 5th. What shall be the size of the community Ans. As large as the inhabitants of the world, if' possible. Nevertheless, where two are agreed, let them raise joint stock funds, and purchase real estate, and dwell together in community as before stated.

Let them lay no other foundation than is -laid, Jesus Christ the righteous. Let them have no officers among them. Or official servants. Such a measure would, in my humble opinion, unavoidably tend to usurpation of power on the part of some, while others, through fear of becoming subject, i would necessarily be exposed, to say the least to the temptation of selling their birth-rights, as did 1 Esau. Shall the experiment be made Who has faith in such small things, let him speak.

-Yours, in the bonds of christian ABBi H. Social Fair have, Dec. 28, 1840. I have read in the Liberator of 25th inst a communication from 'Humanitas also an extract from the 4 Practical Christian, on the subject of Practical Christian Communities I say amen to the discussion, however foreign the topic may be considered by some to original abolition. I -have for ten years been willing to form one of such a communi ty, and have often tried to convince others of the great advantages that might be derived from it Tbt only obstacle will be removed, when men can learn that the true worship may be perforated as usefully by persons of different religious views, provided they are in 'the unity of the spirit which is the bond of as if they were all of the same opia- ions.

It must be obvious to any attentive examiner of the christian system, that selfishness forms -no 7 part of it as delivered by its Divine Author, and exhibited in his example. And every one may see that the moral atmosphere in which we are now ed- J' ucated is infected with selfishness as with a 'pesn-- lential vapor, that communicates disease and de to all the nobler faculties', organs or y' the mind of man. -If, by means of such communities, the iifv 1 other minds susceptible to surrounding influent could be placed in an. of kindness, lovey and of disinterested benevolence, the happiest results might be confidently anticipated' One of the strongest arguments in favor of tbe formation cf such communities, to my mind, is, that when the Holy Ghost miraculously descended upon the disci- pies, they seemed instinctively prompted to have all things in eomraqn, and as individuals to consider nothing their own. I hope that those who feel or sec the superior advantages of this system of lifis i and who have so far overcome the devil, of ness as to be willing to make or promote tbe exper-, iment, will freely make it known over- their proftr signatures that their number may be estimated, ix order that, at a proper time, a convention may be called to discuss the subject, and make; if practical ble.

the preliminary to cany intacf- feet a on which, in my opinion, hangs much of the prospect of the regeneration of the 1: CLOTHER GUfOSsX'J-' 1 I was disowned from the Society of Friead last 8th.ro. I wish, through the Liberator, to ctiU lenge any member of that Society to show any tuv irible cause of my disownment but mv abolition ar non-res is taut labors. I wish thee to offer them t'-C'. columns of the Liberator, in which to refute charge, which I now make. I think I can bring -good a body of evidence to sustain the charge did brother Pierpont of the Hollis-Street Church.

tor universal righteousness, Ci Li.Garrison. rr 7 Te Un the 20H of December, theCoav; mil tee of tho Georgia Legislature, to whom had referred ilia resolutions of the State of Connecticut ia favor of the protective tariff, made a report which cwk eludes with the following resolutions. 1. Resolved. That anv tariff for the nrotection tf domestic, labor, is unconstitutional and unjust- St Resolved, That while will submit to impost commensurate to the wants of the government, -deem an further increase of such duties an usurps; lion offitderalpowsrj and an imposition worse tb colonial oppression, nd, as freemen, we cannot, wi uot submit to 1 4.