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VOL. XL NO. 3(. REFUGE OF OPPRESSION. From the Plymouth Metnortnl.

3Ieetlnz of the Plymouth County Anti-SlarerT Society. On the 14tli inst the Plymouth County Anti- Slavery Society held its annual meeting in thw town, in regard to which the official account, publwtbed in the Liberator, stales that its proceedings were char acterized by preat harmony of spirit and unanimity of action and it cannot be doubted that a fresh impulse was given to the anti-slavery enterprise throughout the country v' an opinion groundless and totally unwarranted. To suppose the last of these assertions true, is presuming altogether to much upon the intelligence and good' seo.se of this community, and the first is not a whit more veritable. We have been informed by many who were present, that but little harmony prevailed thai divers opinions were entertained by those present concerning the resolutions offered some regarding them altogether too harsh and vindictive, while others thought them just and to the point hence warm debates and rancorous speeches were the consequences. Abuse was poured forth without stint or measure, not entirely free from direct, personal allusion the Puritan fathers were belabored in shameful style in the presence of their graves, and upon the soil which they hallowed, surrounded by associations which ought in every one, having a drop of Pilgrim blood iu their veins, to awaken the pro-foundest respect and gratitude, the memories of those holy men were profaned the clergy were insulted and pronounced a band of thieves, and the church and country branded with infamy.

Wen. JL Garrison and Parker Pillbury were the principal antogoni3ts of the Pilgrims from who3e bitter attacks, however, we are happy to learn, they were well defended by the Rev. Mr. May of Scituate. The entire proceedings appear to us the result of a mistaken policy.

What is the effect which they are naturally adapted to produce What are the results which will inevitably flow from them Will anti-slavery cause be essentially subserved, or the opposite We certainly can discover nothing in them to convince the understandings of men of the justice of tne anti-slavery principles or measures. No where can there be found the record attesting to the rapid progression of any moral enterprise by the use of severe reproach and bitter denunciation towards opponents. What grounds of hope, then, have these abolitionists that they have exerted so salutary an influence upon the cause in -which they are engaged, by their late conduct here? We are surprised at the silence of many who were present ana the witnesses of this procedure, when opportunity was offered to retort, under the sanction of a vote passed that 'all persons, whether friendly or hostile to the Society, be invited to participate in the The most noted speakers upon the occasion were Messrs. Pillsbury and Garrison, who appeared incited with the keenest hatred of all dissenting from them in opinion and yet, forsooth, one of the principal themes upon which their eloquence and labor were bestowed, was the self-same topic freedom, alike in thought, in speech, in action. At one moment, they attempted to establish its universality, and at the next, their opponents were taken pretty severely to task.

Selecting from out the walks of public and of private life those who.wnr reeling or hostility, they hurlerf at them their shafts with riendlike ferocity. Some of our most eminent men, on whom the mantle' of power has been cast, and who occupy a high place in the esteem and confidence of the nation, were malignantly assailed their character und fame reproached and private worth also was summoned at this inquisitorial tribu- Butthe American clergy appear to have been the most obnoxious to them. These were branded, in their speeches, but, in the resolutions adopted, special care was taken to exclude the same phraseology, for designs very clear, as a Brotherhood of thieves, and treated with about the same clemency and forbearance as would a band of swindlers and banditti have received. Pillsbury, in alluding to Convention lately held at Baltimore, composed ol clergymen of the Baptist denomination, made the remark that a thief was chosen Chairman, and another thief elected as preacher of the conventional sermon. This epithet of 4 thief seemed a favorite with them, and whenever speaking of the clergy, was invariably applied.

There were, how-, ever as they affirmed, some few exceptions, and these were, of course, the Rev. Mr.Pillsbury, and a Tew kindred spirits. In their denunciation of the clergy, they took great pains to prepare a way of escape tor themselves. It is a mystery with us why this attack should be made in this quarter, or why the clergy are more guilty than other classes of society. We can come to no other conclusion in regard to it than that it is to serve as preparation for the introduction of other odious doctrines yet to be announced.

At this meeting the women's rights doctrine was fully carried out three ladies having been placed upon the list of officers for the ensuing year. Thus much for this meeting. We cannot but be surprised that individuals will consent to make themselves so ridiculous as have those concerned in it. The fact is now fully established, that the abolitionists of this day are influenced by selfish, exclusively party motives. The leaders at any rate are ac- tuated by such and the enterprise in their hands has become but ihejneans of attaining influence and power.

It has materially changed, too, and undergone such Lijdifications as heated partizans alone were competent to introduce. The abolition cause has been changed in toto its prominent and characteristic features at the present time bear not the most distant resemblance even, to those which it originally possessed. When in its infant stite, that infancy was comparatively pure but, to maturity grown, its every trait bears an aspect, which 4 in order to be hated, needs but to be seen. Abolitionism, as it existed ten years ago, and as it exists now, are very dissimilar things. Then it was a praiseworthy enterprise its object was good, being nothing les than the amelioration of the conditiou of the millions in this land pining beneath a degrading servitude and those engaged in it we doubt not were actuated by good and honest motives.

Now, we observe a different state of affairs. True, the fundamental principles which abolitionists avow as the foundation of their plans remain the same and thus unalterable will they ever endure. It is as righteous a doctrine at the present hour, as it ever has been in past time, that all ma tiki nd are created equal, that Heaven has given to no individual authority to domineer over his fellow-man and that when this power is assumed, it is only done at the sacrifice of justice and by an insult ouered to mms Creator, 1 his equitable Trinrirl it irotntol rtntjtii)rv tli folinill tinn btone in the abolition structure and who is there among us that will refuse cheerfully to recognize it who, but will aid in every laudable way to extend its power, and hasten the day of its universal adoption So far as this extends, no one, we venture to affirm, will refuse his encouragement to those who adopt it as the leading article in their creed. The abolition enterprise was originally started as one of philanthropy and benevolence. When, in 1829, a few bold spirit commenced their work of the bondman's redemption, their mission was one of love and good wilL They admitted no party feelings or prejudices to dissever those who should remain firm and united in a common bond of union and fellowship, while prosecuting a laborious undertaking designed for the rescue of many of our race from the most abject slavery.

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AGFJITI. Jas fivnr; Edward Soiitfcwict', PlyMOVti P. Rogers, Concord William Wilbur, Cnase, MUford. 1 a-a most. John Boment, JWJLtoci Lowland T.

Robinson, AVrlAFerriairr. Massachcskt-ts. Wm. E. Kimball Trpsjitidi Moms merr.

ri AVreAerv C. Wbippbs. JV'caria- ryprl Isaac Stearns, Mamffitli-Lntber Boole II, Groioa-B. F.NcwballwywjiW.S Wilder, Fitch juld S. li.

Ives, Henry Hammond, Dudley; G. fodh V.XIar- si, Elia Hwhards, H'eunumtS Edward Ear! Witr- titer; Win. Stone, H'mtertotcn A.Barae,Oa-trttUU Israel Perkins, Lynm f-E Eiri, TnU m. 37 For eontinuation of tl.U liat, tie last page, last column WM. LLOYD GARRISON, Editor.

TJ IS S. r. 11 -i- tT XL TJ wr -n ja ti a t. t. a ir then was a moral enterprise, and it aimed at merely me Bccompiisnmem or moral meets.

The meas ures then advocated were widely at variance with those proposed and supported by the present body of abolitionists the ultra doctrines of the latter were undreamed of. i But what is modern abolitionism (a9 it perhaps well known,) assumed such an aspect a year or two since, as to orodnce a collision in the ranks, and cause a division into two parties. This was brought about by on attempt' on the part of the acknowledged leader, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, to in troduce and connect with the enterprise, as its part and parcel, a tissue of absurd whims, none of which bad even the remotest connection with' it The separation tnus made paved the way for constant turmoil and discord, and it has been kept op with unceasing vigor to this moment As to any benefit being rendered to the cause which both seem to have so much at heart, it is altogether out of the question for so bitterly does party strife and animosity rage among them, that the one grand aim seems to be to overcome and annihilate each other. It may justly be pronounced a partizan warfare, all other considerations than that of the securing of the victory being thrown aside! Where now are those professions of attachment for the slave those sorrows for his wrongs those appeals in his behalf, wnicn nave peen portrayed in strains of elo- qjence.

1 hese ore heard not above the din and tumult of strife. Political matters seem to have been incoroorated with abolitionism, and desirninir Dartizans have ta ken advantage of it to gain emolument and power. SELECTIONS From the Herald of Freedom. Church and State. 'And I saw a woman pit unon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names bla.phem v.

having seven heads and ten horns. Rev. xvii. 6. The woman and the beast are the same John saw in his vision, in the 12th chapter.

The woman is an emblem of all who profess Christianity, in all ages of the world. The beast is an emblem of all earthly governments, civil and ecclesiastical. In the 12th chapter we are informed of the perse cutions of Christians by the civil authorities. Then Christianity was not corrupted its professors were clothed with the sun the moon was under their feet and on their heads was a crown of twelve stars. 1 hey were clad in the whole armor of God He was their defence; and on Him thev denended for protection.

And because they trusted in God, and not in the power of the beast, they were compelled to flee into obscure and- unfrequented places. joui in process or time, protested Christians cor rupted themselves, and looked to the beast, and not to God, for safety; they formed a league with the powers of darkness, and submitted to their usurped authority. This many-headed monster no Ionsrer persecuted professed Christians, but suffered them to ride on his back holding on by his horns and from the time they took refuge under his protection, thev have done more to corrupt the world, and fill it with blood and murder, with slavery and infidelity, than anyother portion of our guilty race. Thejrrninijs making ministers and those who have learned their religion from them, have employed themselves in the same abominable abominations. And now, with few exceptions, they worship the scarlet colored beast, and are more concerned to promote his kingdom in the world, than the kingdom of Christ It does not so much disturb the clerical brotherhood and their followers, to hear the name of God profaned, and the peaceable kingdom of Christ denounced, as it does to hear that the pow er of the beast shall be broken, and bis body taken and given to the burning flame.

Their 6laveholdinr and war-maKing systems are based upon, and protected by, this many-headed de formity and his bloody throne ot cruel'y and oppres sion must be sustained, or kit and their authority must wither and perish together. XSew organization, too, is mounted on tne oacK oi this 6ame murderous monster, and relying on his power, to fill the earth with righteousness and peace. New organization is seeking after the applause of the world and worldly power, to compel men by force of arms to submit to its 'usages and former customs. It is now making a desperate effort to get the government of this slaveholding, war-making nation into its hands. It is training and teaching children, in Sabbath schools, to worship the God of slavery and war.

It is a tact no longer to be concealed, that tne 6carlet-coIored beast leads about the clergy of every sect and all in the interest of each, wherever they would go to celebrate the work of death, and rejoice in it, though they connect it with the religion of the Prince of This was fully at a Sunday school celebration in Manchester, in this State, 5th inst. The whole proceedings were such as to cause the friend of God and man to weep at the madness and folly of pro slavery and new organization, in teach ing unconscious children to hate and murder tneir enemies. Un the occasion, an enclosed piece oi ground southward of the new village, was consecrat ed for a burving place. But to whom, or to what it was consecrated, we are not told, it to uod it was His before. If to the dead 'the dead know not any thing.

This solemn pertormance looked like consecrating and christening a church bell in Rome. They call their bells by some peculiar name, and then baptize them in the name of the Trinity. And our clergy consecrate a piece of ground. What can looK more supremely riuicuious: iui the performance was solemn. It is said to be a very solemn time when a Catholic priest consecrates and baptizes a bell It is so now, that our clergy can contrive to get Sabbath school children and their teachers into a grave-yard, (a solemn place indeed,) and then make what they call a consecrating prayer and make the children, with the teachers and su perintendents.

if not themselves, believe that the place is more sacred than it wa3 before, and that God has a more sacred respect for it because of their ceremonies. The burying-place is to be called tiie Manchester cemetery, (as we were told.) Per haps the poor will allowed to pay acu dollars for a grave in some lonely corner of that now holu place and the rich, many dollars, for an elegant soot to build a tomb, or raise a monument to their honorable names. This is the way they consecrate their meeting houses to God. On to this ground the Sunday school scholars in Manchester and vicinity were marched, in mduar-f order, to music played by the Stark Uand; (and they played as well as any band,) and then 101-lowed a prnyer. After the prayer, the children sung a hytnn.

Then Jlrv. Air. Wallace made an address to the scholars. He is' a new organizationist and no doubt contrived to perforin that part to make him popular in the vicinity. In his address he said Sabbath schools were useful, because they built up society.

Congregationalism, we suppose. Then the superintendents and teachers were ad dressed by Itcv. Mr. Sinclair Freewill Baptist minister; It is wonderful that he was suffered to be there ia such a solemn, popular place. A very few years ago, the Congregational clergy would not nave 'set him with the dogs of their flock.

Now they treat hint with respect 4 because they fear the people. The Freewill Baptists are growing popu- After Mr. address, the children sung another hymn. Poor children how Utile they know of the designs of those who have them in their power. Then the parents and guardians, (and our factory villages are full of guardians,) were addressed by tQcv.

air. xtauey uapust minister, a nxs denomi BOSTON FRID AY, SEP EM 3,1 8 41. i 1 i' i i i II St nation is more popular than the other they have more elegant meeting-houses, ani more Theological Seminaries, and are more orthodox. They believe as Calvin did and that will make any body popular; Rev. Mr.

Jones Methodist minister, was permit-tod to succeed Mr. Bailey, and address the assem-bly generally. It is remembered when a Methodist minister was considered more dangerous than war, pestilence, and famine; when they were sneered at and treated most contemptuously by the Orthodox clergy. But they have found favor with the people, and so the clergy are compelled to treat them with respect not because they love, but fear them. They would treat Methodism now, as they do anti-slavery, were it as unpopular.

They favor whatever is popular. With them, as with politicians, the voice of the people is the voice of God. Mr. Jones lives in a popular place, and if his meeting-house is hot so large a3 Rev. Mr.

and Rev. Mr. still, a great many of 'the common people hear him After his address, another hymn wits sung by the children, and some one made a prayer. After the prayer, an anthem was sung by the Manchester Sacred Music ('Stark Band music is not sacred, that's only to march by.) Then a prayer and another anthenw- All this was followed by an address from Rev. Mr.

Gage Universalis minister, i This is the climax of ne organization, Orthodox consistency A Universalist minister allowed to make a speech on such solemn, consecrated ground, and at a Sunday School celebration I Had Garrison, and the editor of the Trumpet been there, the whole assembly would have been changed into an infidel Convention, as imperceptibly as Stephen Burroughs could transmute iron into silver. And Phelps and Tracy would make all ears to tingle that heard it It were well for the children, that Garrison and the Trumpet editor did not come there to cause such a change in such a vast congregation as an age would not have changed them back agaiu to sectarian Christianity. How often have the Orthodox clergy called the Uni-versalists Infidels and dangerous persons in society. What bitterness and ability have they displayed in writing against them, and their peculiar sentiments. But that denomination is growing popular and the clergy begin to treat them with respect They sing, and pray, and make speeches together whenever it is popular to do so.

It would not just now, be popular to meet together Sundays to worship God except perhaps, at a third meeting, or for temperance Sunday School, or some such sub ject which is not purely religious, as the clergy say. Anti-slavery is not religious and cannot be introduced into sacred worship but it is 60 nearly allied to'it that new-organization can't have Universalists meet in their abolition Conventions. It makes them Infidel meetings. If they have- teaman there, it-makes them Infidel. But when they have a Sab-bath-school-Fourth-of-July celebration, then the Universalists, the Methodists, the Baptists, and Con-grcgttionalists men, women, and children, can all unite in one great assembly, without turning infidel.

Perhaps the Abolition Standard, or the Congrega tional Journal, can explain how this change is effected in an anti-slavery, and not in any other meet ing. I cannot see how they are made Infidels in an anti-slavery meeting, and not in any other. I want to have them tell how, or by what means Garrison, and the editor of the Trumpet can change an antit Gage produces" ho sTiclTTerrible effect in a. Sabbath School celebration and convention in Massachusetts. Those who did not know Mr.

Gage, said he made the most appropriate, the most spirited and interest- made to believe that he was a universanst ana supposed him an Orthodox minister from JVeie-York. Another anthem the consecrating prayer, by Air. Bailey hymn, by the congregation, and music, by the 4 Stark Band, closed the solemnities of the day. But brother Rogers, all this was done under the protection of the Stark" a military compa ny, whether ot Manchester- oc tjondtown, is not known. They appeared as well as any other com pany of military.

At the head of the procession was the Stark Band to play marches for the clergy and other professed Christians, Sabbath Schools, stangers, Jews, and proselytes, to Kcp step oy, wneu moving from Concord Square to the cemetery. Next in order were the Stark adorned in military costume. The cemetery committee formed on next after them the several committees of arrangements next them the reverend clergy took their firm and dignified stand, and all the remain der as they were directed by their superiors. Being paraded, each sect by itseir, at the word oi command the drum commenced beating, and the wind instruments blowing, and each one, clergy and all, began to frame in his or her mind how to step according to custom. You know they all have to step the left foot first As soon as they were pre pared, they marched on alter the btarK uuaros' to the grave-yard.

Having arrived at the gate, the otarK uuard3 and music opened to right and left, so that the clergy and the whole procession could pass in order to the place of solemn consecration, and Sunday School addresses, All this was performed in pro-slavery style, and according to new organization 4 custom and It is astonishing to see how the clergy are ma-nceuvreing to get the military power into their hands. The beast, however, will never suffer them to have it again. They had it in Rome, and so abused it, they can no more be trusted with it As the Catholics did, so would the clergy fill the world with bloody strife, and persecuting wars, to build up sects. We should preier to have the military in the hands of another Bonaparte, rather than in the hands of the clergy. Were it in their power, they would drive every slave and free colored person into the sea, to Africa, or some where else, as speedily as Michael turned Apolyon out of Paradise.

Depend upon it they are thirsting for the blood of their enemies, and will not be convinced but what it is duty to blow their brains out with gunpowder though Jesus has said, love, pray for, feed, and forgive, them. If new organization is not lusting after military honors and power, why does it want to have James G. Birney President of the United States? Were he President, he would be commander-in-chief of the American army and navy. I am willing to have that command where it is, rather than in the hands of new organization. The military and the clergy meet together, and sing war songs, and psalm tunes on.

the same, occasion they pray, and fire big and little guns, and crackers, on Fourth of July, and other selected days. 1 hey ireh about together, tu the tune or ankee Doodie, or some other, having no fear of losing their dignity. In the pulpit they pray for. and preach peace; on the traiuing field, they pray God to teach the hands of men to war, and their fingers to hg.it. In the pulpit they preach love to enemies oa the battle-field, that it is the duty of soldiers to hate their enemies, and to slay and destroy, tliem.

Tbey celebrate the Fourth of July together, in memory of what our lathers did in rebellion against the powers that were, and teach their own, and the children of others, foltow their anti-christian example. We were intormed, that one clergymen to.d the. Sabbath School children, that Manchester was the' very place for them to meet to celebrate the Fourth of July, as it was the very town where one of the heroes of Bennington lived, and where ha now sleeps in death. lie is said to have talked loud about American liberty but said nothing about her slavery. Thus we see the religion of America is blended with slavery and war.

And the strongest hold they have is in the church, (so called.) The religion of America is a man-killing, war-making, slaveholding religion, and is no more like the religion of Jesus, than the religion of the heathen is. Had all the children, with their parents, nnd the clergy too, remained at hom and committed to memory the 13 last verses or the 12th chapter of rani epistle to the Kontns, more good might have been done to themselves, and the world. Oh, brother Rogers, let us learn to abhor what is evil, and cleave to that which is good. -Let us bless them which persecute us let ns bless, and curse not Let ns be of the sime mind one toward anoth er. Let ns not mind high things; "but condescend to meu of low estate.

If we are not persecuted, we are not Christians: for all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution. Your brother in tribulation, BENJAMIN SARGENT. Chester, July Oth, 18 II. "7 From the National A. S.

Standard. Political Action. Voting at the polls is one of the chief practical rnofleifn wjiich abolitionists can manifest their principle. Where principles have become deeply and irrevocably fixed in the convictions of the understanding, and the affections of the heart a restlessness nnturally ensues to apply them to action- This is illustrated in the eager, and, as we have been admonished, sometimes imprudent observance of. an impartial and fraternal deportment towards our colored fei lb w-citizem; and in the great and most encouraging revolution which has been well nigh effected on this subject in the midst of a prejudiced and pro-slavery community.

It is no wonder, then, that the exercise of thn elective franchise, in which abolitionists act on this community, not hv their example mreTy, but by their sanctions and commands, should be held dear by As an instrument, it is invaluable; but it is wn'tf an instrument and should not be permitted to nsnrp in our esteem the place of the cause' For abolitionists to vote for pro-slaverv ennidates raoti' fa mf as inconsistent as it would hivn been fnr Paul to hire sold th silver shrines of Dim. To refrim from sustaining sTnvery through the bil-lot-hox is incident of genuine abolition, and follows it as it follows that the worshippers of one living God, cannot bow down to images of stonrforWay. And this my first ground of dissent from the scheme of a third political" pirty. Where a moral conviction, which cin move and direct a world of matter, hs nen nrodncen, ouch a party is superflu ous; and wtere it has not been produced, such a pirtv iiuntvai'ing; for the snnrions and half-wav abolitirgilst "will not maintain allegimce to if, tho-igh he fryr it Such a pirtv will do hadlv that which would fee well' done without it. It would be as wise to detach ajjart of.

the the pole, and hitch it to the hind axle of a stuge coach, nom pre-tenee that the hind wheels did not follow the for ward ones fast enongh. The only possible effect would be to pull them nut of the track, and to stop or grMtlv retard their progress. Politics in this country has for the most pirt de generated into a contest for office. Offices do not now go after good men, but a host of bad ones go after He who makes himself conspicuous in a political is generally supposed to expect an' office i and in case of success, he obtains it by the established rule. The public at large couio not be persuaded that they were more pure or disin terested than other politicians; hence tne anti-sia- verv truths thev might utter, though -with the utmost sincerity, would be taunted by the suspicion of sin- ister motives, and a selhsh end.

uo poimcat aooii-tionists find no significance in the constant repudiation by the founder of Christianity, of all schemes of political power? Had he cherished these, he might have obtained popularity for the nay, and acceptance with the Jews but what would they have done for his mission, and for mankind Nor would the awakening of such suspicion in the public mind, be the worst of anti-slavery electioneering. It would really arouse a prurient and ill-proportioned ambition in abolitionists themselves. Already have we seen in a Congressional district of Massichusetts one abolitionist in the field, and another desirous of taking it the former a min ister, and the latter a lecturer, and a non-resident until within six weeks of the election. The result was disastrous a high exasperation was produced, without the accomplishment of any known or imaginable good. The anti-slavery cause was acknowl edged to have lost ground in that district, which it has never since regained once among the most fruitful of anti-slavery fields, it is now as if afire had passed over it The public mind will not bear that an individual, distinguished merely as an abolitionist, and without known general qualifications, should come forward and claim at their hands an office of high trust and dignity, for which they are turning their eyes on a proper successor, for years before the contingency of an election occurs.

But the character of moral reformers is incompatible with political ambition. A moral reformer, in order to persuade, must be disinterested, to convince; he must be zealous and to be zealous, he must be sinode-minded and devoted. All this comes from the heart never from calculated schemes of interest and ambition, nor can it exist with them. Besides the essential antagonism of these things, in the mind itself of him who aims at a moral regen eration of his countrymen and the age, there is an external barrier to a political career, which aboli- would do well to consider at the outset Po-Sitical and military revolutionists attack only the tyranny and abuses of governments, only the effects of vices, not the vices themselves. Moral reiorms attack directlv personal and prevailing vices.

The former can pursue their ends without wounding individual self-love, or provoking, to much extent indi vidual enmity. Far otherwise it is with the latter. Every one conscious of vices, which are the object of a moral warfare, feels himself personally assailed and if he does not become a convert, which at first is difficult and rare, becomes an open or secret ene my. Thus it is that the moral reformations, by the slow but sure progress of reason against mistaken interests and opposing passions, are always finally successful the workers ot them, in a worldly point of view, seldom are so. Their crown of victory is crown of thorns their cup of rejoicing, the juice of the hemlock.

If political and personal advantages are among the final results, they are reaped by those who come in after the toil, odium, and perse cution are spent This has been, and probably will be. the history of every effectual and fundamental moral reformation. It is the flaming sword, keeping off. or quickly expelling, all who are not qualified by a spirit of meekness, self-sacrifice and unalloyed de votion to truth, to aid in the vast and angelic worK of purifying a world of mind. How futile and infatuate 1, then, mu'tbe nil hopes and purposes of political and personal advantages among the abolitionists of the United States.

Their triumph (and it will be triumph enough, which if sincere they would not exchange for titles and ba toons) will be to see their principles carried out and the nation free free from chains and from guilt A variety of motives, good, bad, and mixed, which then cannot entertain with safety, either to their own spirit or to their cause, will operate, in others. to complete their achievement and these will grasp all the political and popular trophies ot me victory. Meantime, what are abolitionists to oo wuu uieir .1 right of suffrage, which has been admitted to be of great value to our cause and which, it has been admitted, will in all probability be the means of overthrowing slavery in the country Do with it what we all agreed, np to 1833, ought to be done with it Let the national parties propose their candidates, and if they are acceptable to us, give them votes; otherwise testify our adherence II 1 to anti-slavery principle, and enlightened patriotism, by bestowing our votes upon any person or persons, whom we deem in all respects suitable. It is merely a testimony and" a warning and these are alike effectual, whether we vote for one or many; provi-; ded their characters and qualifications do honor to our choice. When a party finds itself defeated for want of one, or a few votes, held by friends eager to give them, if they could conscientously do so, will not that party naturally make efforts to secure the co-operation of those friends Reason and experience demonstrate that they will.

Sincere and constant abolitionists will thus act ic every important election, with the certainty of an element, as in chemical composition, modifying with an invisible energy the whole mass. Will political parties, with the fact fully before theni, neglect this element in the composition of their tickets? Never! while parties strive for victory, or men love themselves. I am far from deeming it the duty of an abolitionist in. all instances, to vote at all. He may, by standing entirely aloof, bear a testimony, as emphatic and effectual, as he could by actually voting.

Tfte effect on the party to which he is attached may be the same. hey may see themselves) defeated for want of his vole. I feel a repugnance to voting, even in the way of scattering, for a man merely because he is an abolitionist If he does not possess other and general qualifications, which ought to com mand public confidence, I cannot give bun a vote and I deem it no advantage to the cause that any one should do so. Although a view of the manifold enormities of American slavery, and the incalcula- oie miscmei ana ueep disgrace, it nas orougnt upon our country, I consider hostility to it an indispensable requisite in a condidate for a legislator, or high magistrate still it seems to me sheer recklessness, or self-stultification, to vote for him simply on that ground. There are other inter ests, which it is right to consult Besides, it would only expose our cause to contempt and inrurv.

to send a man to a seat in Congress, for example, whose only or main recommendation is his abolition zeal. fcuch a man would be marked for the shifts of the enemy and unless he were armed at all points, he would only injure and degrade us when we had sent him tliere. Our true policy is to accept such well known and experienced public men, as ihe general opinion of the community pronounced competent, unless we Know to the contrary and who superadd. to their other qualifications, a determination to -make every inroad upon slavery, and slaveholding power, M'liicii iuey constitutionally caa.n-D. L.

c. From the Lynn Record. D. D's, and Democratic Colleges. Amherst College was established by the -oeonle.

and, under the excellent management of that great and good man, Zeph S. Moore, its first President, bid fair to become a blessing to the country. It lived awhile upon bis name. and. hid Provident Moore have lived to this time.

Amherst would nro- bably have not been surpassed, in numbers, by any college in the Union for its location is every way favorable. But unhappily, President Humphrey and his subalterns in office ivo adopted and put in practice Pharisaical, or unchristian and anti-democratic principles, by which the growth of the college has been retarded and iniiirJ years since, and the aim of several of the students in their public performance seemed to be to ridicule' the moral enterprises of the day. These parts" in, the exercises of the students are always examined and approved by the government of the college, and echo its sentiments. President Humphrey is a col-onizationist, which signifies much the same as a. pro-slavery man, and we believe is an.

officer in the Colonization Society. He is mad against every anti-slavery movement A single anecdote, will show this. William Raymond, formerly of Ashburnham, Mass an unsophisticated youth of honest independence, and a professing Christian of great humility and devoted piety, entered Amherst college in 1ck1, with a view of preparing for the ministry. The second year he was there, there was some at- tehtion to religion in the place, and among others one or two colored families in the neighborhood. These humble Christians were visited and conversed with by Mr.

Raymond, on'the subject of religion, in imitation oi his Master, who sat down with publi cans and sinners, and condescended to men of low estate. But President Humphrey was too much ot a D. and too much like him who 4 thanked God that he was not like other and especially like these humble publicans, to brook such Cbtistjanity an! the sentiraonts of the President and officers will generally pervade the whole- institution. The malignant story was soon told that Raymond was courting -one of the colored girls. But relying on his own pure motives, R.

heeded no such nonsense, and thought that the religion of Christ was not con fined to any particular color, and continued occasion ally to call on his humble friends, and impart to them instruction and consolation. Soon a worse story was set on foot, relating to one of the females, who had gone on a visit to her tnends Vuu she too- sent away by IZ. None of these things moved him. But one of these poor girls was desirous of Ending a place to work in a family, and at any rate to get, away from that place; and to get her a place in a family, which he did, carried to Ashburnham, in the vacation, where she was employed in housework. But this sealed the fate with poor although it was what any slaveholder might have done, and what is constantly done, to ride with a servant or slave but it was a horrid thing to show such kind ness, especially to ride with a colored person who was free.

Accordingly, a messenger was despatch ed by the government of Amherst tollege to Ashburnham, about fifty miles, to bring back said Raymond, nolens volens, willing or unwilling, on Saturday. He went was arraigned before that august tribunal on Monday. The next morning a tutor entered his apartment with the solemn message 4 1 am instructed to command you to have town before night' 'Why, what is my wn ordered not to tell you, said the obedient subaltern. The submissive student accordingly gathered op his wardrobe in all possible haste, and moved himself and his effects to Northampton, eight or ten miles, sending respectful notice of his location to the government of. the college.

At Northampton he waited nearly a week, anxiously expecting some official message, setting forth his crime, sentence, and destination. But hearing nothing in all this time, he engaged a student to go to the Faculty of the college, and procure a coy of the record of his case, which, for reasons best known to themselves, had been purposely withheld from him. The eta-dent faithfully performed his duty, and procured the desired copy, the tenor of which was as follows reports" highly derogatory to the character of William Raymond, a mmnber of the Sophomore class at College, have been extensively circulated, the faculty felt in duty bound to examine the and they find. ei-dence against him, though of not such guilt us required expulsion, yet of such glaring and disgraceful improprieties as cannot be passed over in silence. Therefore, Resolved, that said Ktytnond be, and hereby is dismissed from Amherst Dated Amherst, Aug.

1836. Here it will be observed that this young man was forced fifty miles from home, arraigned, tried, and condemned to banishment, for no crime or misdemeanor, or for something which they were a raid or ashamed to make knawn and ordered to leave town betore night! As well might they have ordered him out of the world. Any sovereign, who could use such authority, and undertake to enforce such despotism, would forfeit bis crown, and be likely to lose his head with it Even a thief or a drunkard cannot be arraigned and tried in this country, without having his offence fully and forwaUy set forth in VHOLE NO. 557. writing.

Had the atodent committed any impropriety, ig-norantly, or otherwise, the proper course would have been private advice or nd monition, according to circumstances. But the obedient subject of his iltjectj'a government submitted to his unlimited ponishmoot and unknown destiny, with christian meekness and fortitude, and took up his line of march for Ohio, like other emigrants. Finding in Ohio a literary inati-tion, (Oberlin.) more congenial with the spirit of liberty, Mr. R. wrote to President Humphrey for liberty to transfer his connexion from Amherst to Oberlin, which was refused.

Mr. R. being in arrears to the Faculty of Amherst college for about $15, set out for Ashburnham, within- the year, stopping on nis way at a inner witn intention ot- making arrangement for the payment of the small sum there due, on his return in a few weeks. After staving over night, at the very moment when he was about leaving bis room to visit the Faculty, and make this arrangement, an officer entered his apartment with a writ saying. 4 1 ana ordered your body 4 Well, take it' said the guileless youth, following him to the lawyer's office.

But her the lawyer was addressed in such plainness of language as Paul -used to Felix, with the same result After telling the lawyer, 4 you may carry me to jail, or wait till I can pay it' he gave vent to his feelings in a flood oi tears, lor he thought it a horrid thing to be sued. At thi- moment two stud ants chanced to enter, who asked, 4 what is the matter, Raymond? The yer answered, 4 1 have sued They asked, 4 what do you want you may have the money, or security Ashamed of his conduct he said, 4 1 have stopped it But after R. had been told, go tby way for this time, and had gone, these students, told their fellow-students what had taken which produced a creneral burst of indignation. They raised not only the monsy, and paid the debt and cost, but $10 more than enough, which they en- tweu in a ieuer it. This was' not 'all.

Their generous had been stirred up in sympathy for R. Tbey called a meeting to inquire ioto the'whole business, and to, petition the Faculty for information with regard to It's crime and punishment In the midst of the meeting. President IL having heard of the excite- ment undoubtedly, came in and harangued them in' a long speech in defence of his conduct and in en-' deavoring to hash the matter, persuading them to'' drop it there. After waiting a year, (which is tht term techni- cally signified by dismission in Amherst,) he went to see President H. to obfaiu a certificate of regular, standing, or such recoinmandatioa or writing as.

would enable him to enter Oberlin. The without asking R. to sit down, or inquiring for his health or situation, silently went to his desk, and I wrote a certificate tint the term of I Pin. RjuimmTs punishment had expired. With this, Mr.

R. took, his leave of the government of Heraan Humphrey, D. President ol Amherst College. Mr. R.

has since completed a regular course of' education at lerlin, the most flourishing literary -institution in this country, an account of which in-" stitution, more at large, we hope to givo at some fu- ture time. R. having maintained an exemplary christian walk, and an excellent character, from his youth op, is now about entering upon his important original nome, as a missionary, ii tuu iuuiuuiu Providence seem to justify' it Uod bless him and them. Is it possible, that such arbitrary, despotic, abomi nable conduct should not exert an extensive and deleterious effect in preventing students from enter- ing that college? No. Such conduct, and such principles as are there upheld, have undoubtedly hd already a inoit blighting and withering effect Dartmouth College, unlike Amherst, with a liberality becoming the free institutions of this coun-.

try, not only suffers colored people to be spoken; with and visited by students, but admits thsm into the college as students themselves, 4 with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging and tne students not only admit them as fellows, but as cers of the literary societies. Within the last year, if we have been rightly informed, more than one colored youth have been members of the college, and officers in the literary societies, one ot wnom was young raui ot uoston. a Ana, so ir is mere from being considered any impropriety for students to visit colored people, that the Professor's wives, and the first ladies of the place, we have been credi- bly informed, have thought it no harm or but a christian duty, to visit certain indigent, but virtuous colored people of the town, and treat them with the utmost kindness. The conseuuence is. that Jlmherst CoUere.

located in the valley of the Connecticut, in the heart of New-England, in the most fertile spot, with wealth, intelligence, and prosperity on all sides which was set on foot by the people, and began to be patron- tzed by the people, and to nourish beyond example, i is now withering under these slavish while Dartmouth, less favorably situated, and for- merly less flourishing, is now shooting forward with unexampled prosperity. i life in New-Orleans, JV $100 Reward, Ran away from the subscriber, on the 10th tnMn a negro man, who calls himself MOSES, but will no doubt give hiu.elf some other name. Said nejre is about 23 years old, of a light black complexion, about 5 feet 5 inches in height, well made has soma of his fore -teeth out, both upper and under; has bid small slit in bach ear, made with a knife, about three- fourths of an inch from the lower tip; though healed up, it may be discovered on examination tpea1- bly, is quite intelligent, and can read well. lis Is an -old hand at running away. IV $23 Ran away from the subscriber, on the 21th alt, ths'; girl MARYalies JANE.

Bhe i of a gri-e color, about 19 years old, full faco and large lips, snd has the mark of a whip under one of her eyes, and on the. back of her neck. The above reward will be paid to anv person who will return her to the subscriber. $10 Reward.1 I Ran sway from the subscriber, oa the 14th inst-, a negro man, named ROBERT, but passed frequently, under the assumed name of age 35 years or thereabouts is five feet 6 or 8 inches in height t5uo, -visage, having been lately sick; of dark complexion, having a dark expression of countenance, with a scar on bis left cheek, inclining towards his moelh. He haJ on when lie left, a pair of jans blue 'rants, a white linen dress and linen shoes wild broad plaits.

'The above reward will be given fr the Ipprehen- sion of the same Bob or Sam, by application to II. Wade, ob It is supposed, ha win endeavor to leave the city and the captains of vessels art hxreby forewarned uot to carry him off, under the penalty ol the iiw. it yv auu. (5 Reward. Lost, about two weeks ago, a large.

Mack bull with a wound in ths right eye, had on a leather with a rope 'attached, to it. The "above reward. will be given to whoever will retarn kirn to E. STONE, cor. New Levee and fcU.

Ran sway or stolen, the slave CAnC' T. front my residence in Cnrrolton, oti lbs Tii i L. ne- gress is about 14 years old, slim sad ir.iiej uudor lip quite thick, end msrk of a born oa of her arms. 1 warn ell. steamkosts to fee ta the lookout, lor 1 believe she will be trying to the rivsr.

-I will pay reward of 2J for Iter d-Uvery ia jiil la -this eity. or delivered to ma ia Carrufrutv 5-' g. I Seers uras whipnarks-Ueth I rr5 iCl ears behold the ratrch of fcusr-ij Vi. are copied from How-Cf 1 1 csa and the uMatiaPkilanthrtyist..