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I a 1 4 5 Committee sii ft I I 1 4 94 wte Bl 1 wN Jr 'Hr ITEENTH ANNUAL MEETING AMERICAN anti slavery society The ifteenth Anniversary of The American GEN TAYLOR The election of General Taylor is in accordance with republican precedents in this country At the close of the year 1852 we shhave hud three non slaveholding Presidents each in office four years and eight slaveholding Presidents whose united terms of office will amount to fifty two years As the non slaveholders constitute at least twenty nine thirtieths of the whole voting population the inference seems pretty reasonable that not being able general ly to find men qualified for the Presidential office among themselves they have found it necessary to select from the small class of slaveholders who are bom with the jus dixinum Another inference equal ly reasonable is that in the estimation of the three million Whig and Democratic Christians andrepubli cans of the United States there is something in slaveholding peculiarly in harmony with institutions founded upon the doctrine that all men are created equal with certain inalienable National lira TREMONT AWelcome to thb ugitives A tor 4 1 A public meeting will be held on Sunday evening next April 1st at the Tremont Temple to 'give awelcome to William and Ellen CiiAPT the recent fugitives from slavery in Georgiannd to'hear air he is a 'Such is the reasoning which istoo often heard Now bur view' is such is just the individual who should be spared' Ignorant friendless degraded what good can spring from such an example All thinking men will look upon it viewed in connection with the many who havebeen spared as a barbarous nad dastardly murder A colored man one whom society most pre eminently doomcd with such inevitable cer tainty to ignorance and vice by cruel prejudice and wicked statutes in almost every part of the country thexhHd of an abused iwccJt Let it not be said that the last man Massachusetts bore to hang was a color Good Samaritan applying tho winc of Truth and the oil of Mercy to the specific casc bcforo that it is bound with fetters of a cold that it wrapped with a stately in its man tle of self that it to its solemn wor ship its proscribed ritual its stated and constrained and coldly upon "those who are endeavoring to carry out with a self devoting carnest ncss the great Christian law in reference to certain social abuses and public Now if i these are the characteristics of the Christian Church' in what does that Churchdiffer the synagogue of And is it not strange that af ter making admissions Mr' Hall reproachfully say Here' are our brethreh 'the Re formers suffering themselves to be taken off from their noble work by passionate attacks upon Church by exposing and magnifying its errors and deficiencies by attempts to defame and destroy it I Is it not plain that such a Church has no claim to I be regarded as of Christ being destitute of his spirit "and hostile id his cause Is not the a divine one to the trulysincerc who arc yet connected with out of her my people that ye be not par takers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues If to separate from such a body of faith less cowardly unprincipled time serving pharisaical men as Mr Hall justly represents them to be and to refuse to recognize them as the disciples of Christ be not a be not putting in contrast the true with an apostate Church be not an act of reverence for God and fidelity to his cause then is it praise worthy to strike hands with thieves consent with adulterers and have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness 1 While acknowledging the det and all prevailing corruption of this pseudo Christian what is it better than fatuity forMr Hall to Standing as I do by office and by choice within her sacred precincts believing in and loving her solemn servi ces There are no sacred precincts about such a Church and as for her solemn services the estimate which a just God places upon them may be seen by consulting Isaiah i 13 Again what fatuity of mind is revealed in the ex Alas for the Church of Christ in the world when the Church of Humanity arises at its side I will not say as its antagonist but even as its supplement the supply of its felt deficiency As if such an event were possible We repeat the grand fallacy pervading Mr discourse is in persisting in making the Church of Christ and a body of heartless professors calling themselves by that name identical This is the extreme heresy of Rome which has stultified more intellects and ruined' more souls than any other Neither one nor many organ izations no matter by what name called constitute the Church of Christ To join them is not a religious is not to be a member of that Church At best they arc conventional mechanical transient and necessarily imperfect like other organizations They may become extinct by a variety of nay they are mutable as the waves of the sea and constantly appearing and disappearing but the Church of Christ is immortal as Love Here too is marvellous infatuation Re says Mr Hall needs the Church I look with fearful regret at his separation from it What from the Church which he confesses stands coldly aloof from the movements of Reform and interposes obstacles to their that slumbers over the wrongs of and is basely acting the part of the Priest and Levite What need has the Re former of such a Church and why may he not de nounce it as a cage of unclean birds Nay is he not morally bound to repudiate it Mr Hall seems to forget what he has written as he proceeds from page to page In one breath he Con demns the Reformers for leaving the Church and trcmDlcs for their fine in the next he fully justifies the course they have pursued in separating themselves from it thus Alas for the Church of Christ in the world when it comes to be reasonably suspected of any indifference to the cause of human freedom of human rights of human welfare It will lose then and rightly its hold upon the reverence and confidence and love It will have forfeited its claini to be regarded as the Church of Christ Men will leave it in name and by theib very interest in and allegiance to his This is precisely what the Reformers say and have done Then why blame them for taking him at his word Is not here a most palpable contradiction Ludicrous though seriously intended is the dec laration Most surely the Church should endeavor to win back if possible these wanderers from its Most surely this is a downright absurdity Wanderers from its fold forsooth They rightly belong to How so Because she is dead to humanity and they are alive to it! because she is apostate and they are faithful A most valid claim let them come back to their true home this is pitiable incoherency of speech and sentiment i Reformers need' the the corrupt Church from which 'they have fled That is not true Church cannot afford to lose these bands of earnest toilers for the good of That is true In vain thctcall They iwill not come? i Not the Church breaks away from the fetters of a cold That also is true But this is incapable of reformation it never will repent itj will never bring forth fruits meet for repentance Its foundation is imposture and its topstone a lie As an organization it claims to be divine the Church of and that is its crime and curse that is the worm in the bud the cancer upon the vitals The true Church is not organized or constituted It is a spiritual body which no conclave ever fashioned or voted into existence Mr Hall blesses the Church for her saints and martyrs who have displayed before the world a hero ism too lofty for the But he overlooks the fact that those saints and martyrs were buffeted and persecuted as heretics and fanatics by the popular Church in their day as the Reform are by the same Church at the present day He also forgets that Babylon is to bedcstroyed not reformed There are other suggestive points in his essay but our comments already occupy more space than we can conveniently afford in our present number cle Bmoadway New Yobx on Tuesday the '8th day of May 4e "TheAnnual Meeting of the American Society is the most important anti slavery meeting held any where during the year The Anntvehsatui At the Tabehnacle represents to the country at large theprogrcss the efficiency and even the existence of the Anti Slavery cause It is to vast numbers people the only signal the con tinued zeal and spirit of the Abolitionists whose local meetings they fiever hear of The Business Meetings of the Society have always brought together in counsel a larger number of Aboli tionists from various parts' of the Northern States than is ever convened on any other occasion The general interests of the cause command at that time a consideration which at no other can be given them It has never since the formation of the Society been more apparent than at this moment that the Anti Slavery cause is left where it ever has been in the hands of the members of the American Society There is as yet no reason to suppose that Slavery will ever be abolished except through its efforts The general importance of the annual meeting and the aspect of the cause at this moment which gives us every thing to hope for if we persevere every thing to fear if we appeal alike loudly to Abo litionists all over the land to make the ensuing An nual Meeting of the American Anti Slavery So cie ty one that shall do more even than any previous one has done to drive the South to despair in defence of its felonious system of society and the North to a more determined attitude than any portion of it has ever yet ventured to assume in defence of its own rights and the assertion of the rights of the slave WM LLOYD GARRISON President Wendell Phillips Gay Secretaries a man to every chapel door to scrutinize every shil ling how could the tiling work The point intro duced was one upon which they must allow the ree Cfiurch to differ till they had better light for no mxn could say that the question was so' simple so free from difficulty and doubt as at firat might ap pear Ho hoped there would be no want of unity because they could not quite agree upon the ques tion of which was the best way to overthrow elave ry but however much he valued the good opinion of others he had made too many sacrifices for the sake of thotruth to bo driven into a course he could not The church in Scotland had testified to tlid churches in America that they were guilty of a great dereliction Of duty in not using their most strenuous efforts to put down the abominable system and they hoped that it would soon have an end The revetehd doctor concluded reminding the meeting that the non conformists of the three king doms stood in" a rnost perilous position and that there never was a period when there was greater need of a Complete Union 1 Mr Crighton admitted that the position of the southern States of America was a most equivocal one and that after the remonstrances of the ree Chfidbh tHevlstobd in it different position from that which they held when the deputation was sent out He had in his heart os great an abomination of sla very as any one but he differed as to the best mode of( abolishing it and believed that the extreme abo litionists had taken an injudicious course and that they kept back the good work He gave Mr Norris all credit for good intention but he questioned the policy of his proceeding which he considered pow erfully calculated to strengthen the course taken by the 'Duke of Buccleugh and their persecutors in Scotland (hear and no) Mr Norris came forward to reply but was inter rupted by the Chairman and by mingled applause and cries of sit The Chairman 'said asked Mr Norris if his apeech referred to the motion which had been read he replied that jt did He (the Chairman) did not consider the introduction of a totally new topic into the business of the evening a fair carrying out of the statement which Mr Norris then made (ap plause and disapprobation) Had he been aware that a new topic was to have been introduced he should have Resigned the chair and for tliis reason that he did not consider it right generous or just where a meeting had been called for a specific object to in troduce some other object (cheers and oh) He begged to enter his protest against a practice which Rot right initself had of late made public meetings a by word and an object of reproach They would give up one of tthe strongholds of their liberty and would be jallowing the platform of public meetings to slide from under their feet if they allowed topics to be introduced for discussion different from those for which tlie meetings were hcld and he must repeat that had he been aware that Mr Norris was not going to speak to the resolution he should have resigned the chair The course taken had altogeth er weakened the influence of the meeting and whatmust be its effect ujxrn the deputation? They were men like themselves with feelingsand passions capable of being raised or depressed and would they be likely after what had taken place to go forth enedbraged or discouraged? (hear and Let them spud back tlie The mischief would not merely lie in what would appear in the public papers but it would be more deeply seated it would weigh down the hearts of those who were required to go forth as the champions of religious freedom He considered that Mr Norris had done wrong and whether he should be heard again must be deter mined by the meeting The Chairman then put it to the meeting whether Mr Norris should be again heard and tlie show of hands numbered about three to one against hearing him 4 Mr Norris amidst some interruption called upon the press to record his protest against the chairman ship of that night The amendment was then put and having been rejected by about the same majority as on the previ ous division the original motion was adopted A collection was then made but we are informed that only £3 7s was raised A QUAKER CHAMPION SLAVERY A pamphlet of fifty pages entitled The North and tlie written by Mr Ellwcod isher a Qua ker gentleman of Cincinnati (but of Southern birth) has been lately introduced into this city and has re ceived tlie admiring sanction of Mr Calhoun and other distinguished Southern gentlemen It exhibits Beat ingenuity and ability no doubt though Mr orace Greeley calls it wild and Mr Horace Mann says that the author blunders greatly in his statistics or example' in making out tlie great wealth of Vir ginia which he states to be greater than that of New York per head to the free population by three to one Mr Mann says he is compelled to value tho slaves at $1585 a head A large edition of 5000 or JO 000 copies is to be published here for general dis tribution The pamphlet is full of the most astound ing assertions to Northern ears in regard to the com parative wealtli virtue prosperity and happiness of the'North £qd South The South is 'alleged to be far in advance of thelNorth in all these particulars The pamphlet cannot long go ton correspondent of THE CHURCH AND THE REORMERS On our last pagfe we have copied entire from the Monthly Religious Magazine for March 1849 (a well known and ably conducted Unitarian periodical in this city) a paper on Church And the which will amply repay a thorough pe rusal "With the writer of it (the Rev Hall of Dorchester) we have no personal acquaintance but the catholic spirit in which he writes the courtesy and fairness which pervade his essay the frankness and ingenuousness of his confessions as to the guilt of the Church the evident sincerity of his regrets as to the separation which has taken place between the Church and the Reformers all these commend him as one actuated by good intentions for which we desire to give him ample credit It is so seldom we meet with any thing like fair and manly treatment from any occupant of the pulpit that when an instance like this occurs we are more than gratified and we will strive to the utmost not to be outdone on the score of magnanimity Where in controversy or dis cussion we perceive no bitterness of spirit nothing low venomous or flippant nothing of the old serpent we never indulge in severity of reproof however op posite the sentiments of the person may be to what we regard as the rule of rectitude and the measure of moral obligation With apostates and railers with hypocrites and time servers with tyrants and tticir abettors we endeavor to make a short work in right or the 'benefit of all such we have a nomenclature exactly adapted to their real character and position On such alone do we pour out the vials of righteous indignation yet in no case we trust with any feelings of personal ill will We must take exception to the vcry first sentence of the paper under consideration A body of pro fessed says Mr Hall arisen in these days among us setting itself in earnest opposition to the Christian Church characterizing her piety as for malism her worship as Now this i a serious allegation is it true No on the con trary the Reformers who are thus impeached have always spoken reverently of the Christlvn Church have held it in exalted estimation have vindicated it from the aspersions of those who have made it the refuge of have represented it as invaria bly on the side of the oppressed have measured slaveholders warriors usurpers et cetera by its pure standard and pronounced sentence of condemnation against thorn and have placed tire founder and head of that Church in the fore front of their aggressive movements upon the giant sins of the age We in vite Mr Hall to quote from their writings or speeches if he can a single sentence or word in disparage ment of the Christian Church How is it thenwith a mind apparently so candid that he thus mis apprehends and misrepresents them Starting with this fallacy and reasoning upon it as if it were true his criticisms are without point his pleadings destitute of power We despise quibbling and ever mean to be honest and explicit in the use of language What Mr Hall means by the Christian we readily perceive what that Church really is is quite another thing Either it has a distinctive character and fixed princi ples or it has not If it has then by that character and those principles it may easily be recognised If it has not then instead of being founded on a rock it is no better than a shifting sand bar which any storm of opposition may utterly remove We believe in its permanence and purity in its growth and glory but in no outward sectarian or denominational sense or shape As wc wrote of it in the Liberator years ago so now we say Chiirch of the living God in vain thy foes Make thee in impious mirth their laughing stock Contemn thy strength thy radiant beauty mock In vain their threats and impotent their blows assaults agonizing throes or thou art built upon the Eternal Rock Nor the thunder storm the earthquake shock And nothing shall disturb thy calm repose All human combinations change and die their origin name form design But firmer than the pillars of the sky Thou standcst ever by a power Divine Thou art endowed with Immortality And canst not perish own life is thine By the Christian Mr Hall obviously means the American Church not the Unitarian exclusively but the various religious organizations as such in the land Now what are his admissions in regard to this Church Look at them and say whether any of the have surpassed him in the delineation of its criminality He says that it has been greatly faithless to the trust committed to that it has put a preceptive and formal moral ity for that of principle and the heart and a creed theology for a life that mark this frauds and falsehoods and tyrannies and bigotries have been and are within that the most part it has stood coldly aloof from tho movements of Reform has even in many cases interposed obsta cles to their that it has slumbered over the wrongs of Humanity while others have waked and that iY has been the Priest and Levite looking upon and passing by in its rou tine of prescribed ceremonial the plundered and bleeding wayfarer contenting itself at the best with general aentiment of 'benevolence or the incul cation of its abstract but not' like the UiiU VWAAAAVAVJlUAaAAV UV U1LLTII1S fllH entire innocence hc verdict rests on circumstan tial evidence of the most flimsy character and the source from which most even of this comes is 'most suspicious men and women of more than dohbtful reputation The main point of the case seemed to be whether Goode really was the individual' seen at midnight of a dark and rainy night by persons on the other side of the street from the individual they declare to be him YX know how utterly unrelia ble how extremely open to mistake this testimo ny as to personal identity urther this man is friendless ignorant and neg lected and there are those who fear that a desire to see whether after the repeated commutations of piin ishment tho penalty of death can be inflicted1 in Massachusetts a desire to test the question or in language sometimes heard man shall be hnng or the Jaw formally repealed has had in dooming this friendless wanderer on tho face of so ciety to the gallows There have been seAeral out rages of late many condemned to death have' been allowed to live in prison it is time to take one life and show we can this man las few to care for This mistake in reckoning the locality of the lo tired object misled others It left General Cass late ly with his heels in the air And yet General Tay lor found it in that very position and succeeded in sitting down in it 1 Wc have said that tho name of Mr Clay comes up to the mind associated with tlie advancement of no great principles of no interest that has bearings more general than a locality or class It is true that he was an advocate of emancipation in Kentucky half a century ago and he tells us that his opinions have remained unchanged ever since That fifty years have wrought no advancement or ripening of his ideas on this subject does not tend to raise him in our minds as a statesman? But in truth his views of slavery have never been those of a statesman nor of a philanthropist Statesmanlike they Could not be for they were limited by the supposedinterestsof a single class and they have received no forward irn pnlse no expansion during tlie period of more than an entire generation a generation that has ac plishcdmore than any other in tlie propagation of so cial and humanitary science Truly philanthropic they could not be for they were smothered by tlie pressure of merely physical majority The medical history of the human mind exhibitsmany instances of sufficiently ludicrous hallucina tions Men have fancied themselves to be teapots junk bottles and what not Lord Timothy Dexter had a penchant for considering himself dead and we have known those who took it for granted that they were alive with as little substantial foundation in fact But we have never met with any vagary of mental assumption more preposterous than that Mr Clay should suppose himself an Abolitionist His letter reminds one of Governor din ner in the island of Barataria The preparations for the meal seem satisfactory enough and we sit down expecting a substantial repast But one by one the dishes are whisked away from us and we are finally left to make such an arrangement with our importu nate appetites as the assets left to us in the shape of knife fork and napkin will admit of (We have no complaint to make of the three or four introductory paragraphs Mr Clay treats all the non sense about the benefits of slavery contemptuously enough But he immediately proceeds to consider the question with sole reference to the presumed ad vantage of the white race He takes the case out of the court of conscience where alone it can be deci ded absolutely and without appeal and puts it at the mercy of tlie never ending litigation of political econ omy If there be no moral wrong in the robbery of one half of the community by tlie other half the problem of the advantages of such a system would meet with a very different solution from each moiety respectively But if tlie system be wicked and un profitable because that is one necessary condition of wickedness the chances of prolonged debate are greatly lessened Even after taking it for granted that emancipation is ror tne interest ot Kentucky Mr Clay humbly con cludes by saying that if the majority decide against him he shall submit The majority of the people of the United States has several times decided against Air Clay and yet he has shown no bashful reluctance to being again a candidate your flint and try was his motto a few years ago Is a question which: concerns an entire race to be given up more readily than the shadow of a dream of a chance for the Presidency If the majority be thus absolute in deciding what things are right and what wrong what Office would insure the throats of the masters in any State where the slaves became numerically superior The truth is that Air letter is disgraceful to the community! in which it is written We admit that deliberation should characterise the movements of States and siuch deliberation will necessarily without any precaution of ours characterise the movement of large masses of men living under a long social system provided tney are begun early enough and are made in accordance with the spirit of the age or example ifthe slaves of Ken tucky were liberated to morrow and relieved from every political disability the question of their posi tion in the social order would settle itself by the slow and gradual operation of natural causes A social wrong based originally upon brute force and perpetuated by it may be reached and remedied by legislation and the sooner the bettter Why wait for tlie rust to eat handcuffs asunder when there is a key ready to unlock them We concede to Air Clay that deliberation should characterise Statesmen no less than States The rudder which determines the direction of tlie intellectual or ethical advance ment of any age may be behind it as in a vessel Buti the steersman at the wheel is in front and with a clear outlook forward Air notion of the du ty of the man at the helm seems to be that he should be keeping his balance astride of an empty cask out of sightin the rear of the ship We shall not trouble ourselves with an analysis of a document which all our readers will probably read for themselves The spirit of barbarism which dis tinguishes it would alone be a sufficient argument in condemnation of a system which could so blunt the sensibilities of an originally fine nature andobscure the perceptions of a keen and quick intellect The Letter is valuable chiefly as a curiosity and as a sign of the times It is the unwilling creaking of a rusty political weathercock which begins to feel the first indications of wind from a new quarter One thing is very certain It is not of such mate rial that reforms are made Here is a compromise outcomproinised and terms offered to the devil such as he would not have dared to ask Here is wrong to be treated on the principle of similia similibus cu rantur but with no homoeopathic dose The poor slave if he escape bping sold out of the State and if he survive tlie thirty nine years administration of the hairs of the dog that bit him prescribed by Air Clay is to be transported to a fever manufactory at his own expense A man is drowning and Dr Clay is called in The following is his prescription Take of water (if distilled the better) enough to submerge the pa tient Keep him carefully sunk therein thirty nine hours or more in proportion to the length of time he has already been under water Then raise him care fully attach a fifty six pound weight to each ankle transport him to tlie middle of tlie Atlantic oepan (at his own expense) and there drop him overboard I think he will never be liable to a recurrence of the Wc have not done with Mr Letter but our readers will be content this week with the fore going wiity and keen review of it by James Russell Lowell who excels alike in prose and poetry Air Clay in endeavoring to occupy a position half way between right and wrong between liberty and sla very will yet find to his that honesty is the best Alas for his moral cowardice 4 My'kind love toihe'nbble twk 1 1 1 'V" S' A5 1 A Sermon by Luccetia indebted I to our friend for? neatly printed copy) of a Sermon to thoMedical Studenfs delivered by 5 Luctjetia at Cherry Street Meeting hilade'l 5 phia on irst day evening condmontbllth J849 it being a revised phonographic report! every effort of the kind on the part of this distinguished and excellent woman it is marked by great tenderness and) purity of spirit by ah 'elevated' sentiment of piety independence of thought and expansive philanthropy justly remarks been Ramenta viymiirreu its gwry ana oeautybythoj gloomy dogmas of the Rejecting the doctrine of hu i man depravity she believes man is created innately i good that' his instincts are for good It is by i version of these through diHedicmce'thnt? the puri ty of his soul She speaks in com mendatory terms of this tdmperan'hpti slaYCTy and peace movements in particular and urges them upon I the consideration and of the1 students 1 she is addressing XVhilst touching very gently bn thi duty of proclaiming liberty' throughout' all the land unto all tho inhabitants thereof ifc is 'saidm a fcw persons irritated by this refer erice to the'questiqn of slavery left the Most i delicate creatures They were doubtless Southern though they may Trave pyuliiyit ution'y Another Letter from Henry Grew to Hcrnxy Wright is on fild for1 insertion next week? Our dis turbed 'friend Elkanah Nickerson labors I under an cr roneous impression in supposing we kept back0 one of Henry letters? should readthb" Ubwatotw care(uUy yhl1 1 The article we have copied wm our dirst paga frdm the Christian Register is criticism i dn the Letters of count of their 'escape which will be given' hy WiL LIAM GRAT 03 AVilxiam IT a fnxntive will ha iwi ent and MrsCraft and Will take part tne proceedings A 7 Wendell Phillips the devoted friend andstoad fflAt rw'irra tn Ka nrrannt and may be expected to address the meetin wwcvuvu vzuwuuu attendance od i imER TRoM X' Hovnaia Bristol Kingsdown Parade March 6 My Dear rixnd Garklson: '1 foist Evbr kincc you were in this" city' laboring for the? i poorest of 4 the had ittiffie without number in ray heart to write to you largely out of its fulness but my days hours and minutes I areso completely demanded for domestic and lish service that I have: not been able other1 duties to command time to write to inform you that from this country number of emigrants 'have gonotoTcxa Georgia Tennessee and other slave States of America anil to many their credulity folly and land mania have1 end 1 ed most disastrously I now find a scheme set on by a highly respected' Baptist minister in ham to purchase 150000 acres of land In and to form a number ocolonies thereof one thousand emigrants each He vainly supposes and says Wo shall soon put down Texan slavery and1 graft old English sober sense on go ahcad Tlicsc colonics are to bo founded chiefly of religious people vtrzf i I have published two letters in the' British Banner? to warn Christians from going to the slave States of America and yteterday I sent7 a third 'ah same subject I have in other papers ns well as in tho i 't Ata I Banner called the public attention' to the suffering of emigrants and the loss of life in tha steerage of 1 ships during the middle passage' second only to 1 that of tho slave ships js 1 4jr i Now my dear friend if you would employ able pen in laying before emigrents the fcfirfuJ pousc? qucnces they will incux going to pettle intho Sodom of America Lwill get it published in as many papers in Groat Britain ar I have watched with 'deepest interest and unspesi i able delight tlie rapid advance of the holy principles i of abolition in the United States and the advocates of the ree Soil party have not sufficient moral integrity to unite with tho vanguardtbiy kfo doing battle against' the' demon of slavery 'according 1 tnaUmeasun and are therefore gpod work that will tell upon tlw conunan God and man I Prcsent my kind love to Henry Wright I doubt not he is honest and sincere inf Ml hU riews' though I believe him to mistaken'in so mb of his'conclu sions prefer his however io those of a whom I hqcwin AVestern Pennsylvania llo talso reasoned' from the immutability of the Divine I Being rind stated that as God commanded wars un der the Old Testament' they ma also be i and 'pleasing to Him under the know I nothing that deserves the name of iufidclity tn Tt I The gold of California fear' tempting many to their own1 ruin' win friend greatly' oblige me by sending mefe'y raail a thin "sheet colored of the United including tiicir jae ad difions from Mexico in a letter rKI 7 cX truly thankful that you i have been restorodifrom' second attack of illness in both of Which 1 you hod mv vurv affectionate Rvrnnuth that has prepared 'you for the will' jmake you be your shield and lengthen your days like those of the venerable Clarkson until you shall hear the shoutthat Blon is fallen' is fallen i and see your native' country a free and happy fL'of lanrl 't rom the National Anti Slavery Standard MR CLAY AS AN ABOLITIONIST SEC jOND AEARANCE IN ITY YEARS American politics' have presented no more singu lar phenomenon than the popularity of Henry Clay As Napoleon seems to be the fashionable nickname now one being the Napoleon of Peace another of inance arid a third of Magnetic Telegraphing we may call him the Napoleon of Defeat lie has a chieved more signal unsuccesses than any other statesman in the country His popularity has never struck down any deep root into the heart of the peo ple Old Hickory who put a great deal of straight forward sense into very crooked spelling who hang ed the Bank as he had hanged Ambrister in lorida who bullied rance who dragooned South Carolina andawore by the Eternal now and then had a far stronger hold upon the masses because he reflected ttem more truly But Clay somehow conjured a enthusiasm into merchants and cotton spinners: lie found and liad a way to set on fire the hearts of Brokers! Though a slaveholder uttering sentiments which would have authorised his own chattels to cut his throat he was the idol of those whose enthusiasm for freedom is multiplied by the square of the distance at which the struggle for it takes place not immaculate in private character he attracted to himself the support of tlie religious classes Bible Tract Missionary and Magdalen societies were well nigh unanimous for him Washington was the Jerusalem and he was the Godfrey of a new Crusade Was not all this be cause he was the Genius of Compromises of middle burses of blowing neither hot nor cold in short of the system? Whatever tlie cause the loyalty to him has po parallel except in tlie history of tlie House of Stuart In this view it becomes po As a forlorn hope as a devotion to disinter ested defeat it has gainedhere and there a recruit from a different order of minds Whittier addressed to him the most poetical of modern political verses And even now as Hogg wrote Jacobite songs after the last of the Stuarts had for years been laid in his mockery tomb at Rome Greeley turns sadly away from tlie solid Rough and Ready pudding to sup full of the east wind of long ago hopeless hopes and to compose cold water dithyrambics to tlie patriarch sitting over his wine at the St Cliarles Hotel The Whigs have at last grown weary of the at tempt to make bricks without straw out of their Clay The wreck of the great Western politician lies a weather beaten beacop upon tlie shoal of Compro mise Ships of larger rate and stouter timber are thumping there which might bo got off by backing the sails and throwing overboard a little constitu tional ballast whicli among other disadvantages has the prime one of shifting Mr Clay hais been tlie most impolitic of politicians He has niade at best only coasting voyages hugging the' shore closely all the while lie has never struck out into the open deep of great principle for his nav igation is not by compass or by the eternal stars but like fishermen who venture in their own pri vate dories by certain landmarks on tlie shore such for example as tlie White House A fog leaves him bewildered with a pair of arms and oars and his good or bad luck as it may happen Mr Clay lias in his time split as many hairs as another and as Alexander gave a bushel of peas to the dextrous pea shooter the WJiig Partyi in giving their will the wisp leader the mitten should have been careful that it was a hair one His philanthro py embraced all races but embraced the African with a that is with a handcuff He was a republican of the sternest pattern but who could conceive of a republican blacking his own boots In deed we think it would be hard to prove that Ciricin nafusthe favorite sample of tint sortcver did anything of the kind?" Ho was willing to allow that slavery was a moral and political evil to both master and slave but were not his chattels fat and sleek lie was opposed to tlie annexation of Texas but then he was in favor of it Ho was torn by conflicting enofions Northwardly he was anli southwardly In was pro He was opposed to the Mexican war it would' have relished slaughtering his private Mexican in a humble way? On the question of tlie Wilmot proviso we suppose he would be against tlie extension of slavery into new territory but would be in favor of allowing Southern to emi grate thither with their flocks and herds In review ing hi political life what great principle do we find that ho was ever capable of appreciating One and only ohts tlnt Henry Clay of Kentucky ought to be the next President of these United States But un fortunately he lias always had a fancy that the Presi dehtial chair was situated somewhere between two stools and has accordingly several times seated him self with an uncomfortable rapidity on the floor Ct A I'1! BOSTON MARCH 30 1849 No Union with Slaveholders iiT' OL The gentlemen named below were appointed at a meeting held on Tuesday at office of the Prison er' riend to set afoot some measures to savdithis' poor man from the gallows AVe understand there will be held immediately a public meeting in Bos ton and we subjoin a form of petition: which we urge upon all the friends of humanity and especially allabolitionists to circulate immediately and return: by the middle of April to Chaeles Spear office of the riend Boston i Samuel May Wm Aspinwall Esq5 Dr Walter Channing Hon Robert Rantoul' Jr Ellis Gray Lor ing Esq Ed Hodges Esq rancis Jackson Dr' I Bowditch Rev James reeman Clarke Wen dell Phillips Davis Esq Ed Head Esq Chas Spear John Browne Esq A Andrew Esq John Spear Dr Wm To His 'Excellency the Governor 'and We the undersigned ask for a commutation 'of punishment in the case of Washingtbn' Goode LETTER ROM SCOTLAND Boston March 27 1849 Dear Garrison iVZ rThe following extracts are from a letter just receiv ed from Scotland The writer is one who lives? but to bless mankind His interest in the great struggle for liberty that now convulses Europe arid America is the result of a deep innate sense of truth and jus tice He has done much to aid us in our struggle for the redemption of tho American bondman from his chains WRIGHT 1 Glasgow March 8 1848' Dear riend: 1 Your letter of the 20th ob rcached mc yesterday afternoon and it gave us all great pleasure to learn that you are in good health I am happy to see from newspapers of all parties that the question of slavery i is now becoming the prominent one in the United States The time wheri it shall be finally abolished riiay be delayed yet a lit tle but assuredly its end cannot be far off AH the nations of Europe save Spain and Portugal have this last year abolished it and Portugal seems to be preparing seriously to take steps to give it up and soon will tho United States stand alone in infamy God grant that they may give freedom to their en slaved brethren and cease to wound the feelings of those in Europe who view their institutions with fa vor but are struck down with shame rat beholding them trampling on liberty and Christianity The newspapers by this steamer will tcH you of ano ther brutal and bloody battle in the Punjaub with the Scikhs in which the British lost many European offi cers and men When will these horrid! scenes come to an end Cobden is to bring forward a motionj very soon in the House of Commons for communications to be made to all nations proposing that agreements be entered into to settle differences arising by arbitra tion Elihu Burritt at the instance of the London Peace Society accompanied by Rev Hcnry'Richard its Secretary has lor i wo montns past going over England in its behalf and has every where been well received and petitions in its 'favor adopted They were in Scotland a week and had meetings in Edinburgh Dundee Aberdeen and Glasgow Here wchad a capital meeting in Albion St Chapel which you will remember preaching three peace sermons in By the bye Rev has broken again through the fotal abstinence pledge and Went so far that he re sigiicd and has gone six months ago tri America What hypocrites or how judicially blinded many of the clergy must be who oppose total abstinence when they see the dreadful results of drinking i habits Please send me five copies of the proceedings of the Anti Sabbath Convention and I will duly send pay ment by first opportunity Here the Sabbath AHL ance is driving heavily instead of raising as Candlish proclaimed they must and would £10000 a year only got £1300 of this £100 each from two individuals The salaries of their two Secretaries are reduced and even these arc in arrear! Dr' Gre viHe of Edinburgh is pneof the Secretaries' They were to have had £400 per year each besides travelling expenses so no wonder they tried to raise the steam But it do i 'f The Caledonian railway Carlisle to Edinburgh 'and Glasgow and Scottish Central Perth to Edinburgh and Glasgow run two mail trains each way on Sun day and ere long the few lines thatareedjniust he ppened The Sabbatarians have been doing their utmost andare still' You would L'darc say see that by offering prizesTor essays to be written by the working classes they had got about 1000 Those which have been printed are 1 the merest trash and common place imaginable To render Aho Whole af fair a farce and thoroughly ludicrous they got one of them dedicated to the Queen and Prince Albert who travelled themselves on Sunday by railway last au tumn when returning from' Scotland and their meeting for distributing the prizes was presided over by Sir Buxtriri one of the largest brewers in London whose malt barns and brew house are at work every Sunday They are unwittingly doing great good and whatever keeps the matter under discus sion and causes reflecting men to inquire is of ser vice to the cause of truth and reason Have seen Principles of Nature and her by J' A the Poughkeepsie Seer and what do you think of the narration of Davis having given it forth when under Mesmeric influence and having been illiterate comparatively ana not at au nxeiy to nave naa any knowledge of many topics on Which he treats Do you think the story is true or is it adopted' ak a means to excite curiosity and Interest and secure readers It has been published in this country Chapman of London who seems to1 think it quite true You will perhaps notice by the newspapers that the ree have lost the law suit with the Estab lished about the Extension Churches aH of which they had to give up last mrcek iDo not think however they WiH seek any new dollars from the slaveholders miich as they are want of money There are twelve of these churches in Glasgow v' ta Thanks to Sir Norris of Bristol in behalf of three' millions of American for 1 the anti slavery demonstration made by him'at a Scottish ree Church meeting held in that city as recorded in another column No countenanceshouldbe given to that Church until it repent and back thr mon ey which it obtained in the southern States through its delegates by giving the right religious'fol low'ship to foen sterilers Vvu hope to see a numerous attendance of the friends of Reform at the Anti Sabbath Pony ention to bo held in this city on Wednesday afternoon ficxt1 at 3 in the Tremont Temple Waft We anticinatn an interesting held in Boston in March' last this foUowing rotolutidn was adopted nemi I Ttcsolvcd That when this" Convention adjourn it adjourn to meet one year hence in tho city of Bos ton New York or Philadelphia at such time and place as the Publishing Cominitteo shaB appoint I lit accordant with the abovo votc thc undcreigned thereby give notice that the ConvcntionwHl be in the city of Boston on Wednesday April 4th com mencing at 3 and will probably con tinue in session the two' succeeding days and they' I cordially invite all perrons who feel an interest in'the" I important object1 of the which is 1 overthrow of religious and political tvranny in the shape of sabbatical penal to' secure thoright' of every man to warship 'Godfaccording toiiho dictates of his own conscience and to exhibit theliberty of the gospel in contrast with Jhe bondage of the law to meet uad consult together for ifofurthr ance in land and throughout the world jA The Convention wiU meet in the Tremont Tem ple HaH No 1 "to a 0 i Ml 1 RANCIS CH ARLES rKAVlUPPLE JOHN1 Alto A 1 SHALL HE BE HUNG In Boston jail lies a colored man a sailor named Washington Goode under sentence of death The day of execution is fixed for the 25th of May next Some weU acquainted with the facts of the case entertain the most serious doubts of his guilt while constantly and most confidentially he affirms his LI toll to 1 IIf i Sjfpsto A.