The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 2

voxtrasxrxxx 70 COMMUNICATIONS Bs Si 9 at a I 3 SM 1 It may be added that all the attempts by thegov ernment of any nation to force the influence of its laws on that of another for any object whatever generally defeat their 6M1 pVrports by producing dissatisfaction resentment and exasperation Bet ter it is far better in nil respects that each nation should be left without interference or annoyance direct or indirect to its undoubted right of exercis ing own judgment in regard to all things belong ing touts domestic interests and domestic duties? This is doubtless a principle of which nnne have been more tenacious than ttye Americans so long ns it suited them We have how an opportunity of seeing how far they are ready to recognize in others what they have ever so jealously claimed for them selves churches after mature reflection refuse to consider the subject consider yt one with which they have nothing to do ttnd prove incorrigible I believe we are bound to withdraw from them Let us stand alone if needs be contending for the right and soon we shall have others enlisting under our ban ner We can then organize iftto a church and go on our way rejoicing Let Us only do our duty in regard to this subject and slavery' with all its at tendant evils will soon come to nought and liberty be proclaimed throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof God speed the day 4 Yours for a Christianity disconnected from sla very HOBART BRIGHAM The Texian Sympathy is somewhat like milk? Wasted in abundance where it was neither wonted nor deserved It turns out that murders in Texas and pillage of towns and plunder of the in habitants by a horde of 13000 barbarous Mexicans is the veriest humbug Like almost all these exag gerated stories coming from that quarter when anaT lyzed they evaporate in moonshine' Instead of the formidable body of men which it was said was about to march rough shod over the people of Texas it appears that they consisted of ouly two or three hundred marauders on the frontiers These fellows had frightened some of the women and children stirred up with a long pole some of the Texian he roes and then quietly retired to their own side of the border Out of revenge for the disappointment the Texians were in hot pursuit at the last dates determined to carry their blood and di rect into Mexico We may now expect to hear of blpody doings '(Perhaps the be turned in another quarter The intelligence that all is safe in Texas and that the troops were in full march for Mexico where 'beauty and booty is abundant will operate like a upon the State House yard meeting thia afternoon Per haps the current will change and the sympathy with the wrongs inflicted will run in behalf oVrr it rom the Herald and Journal Resolutions The following resolutions were adopted Quarterly Conference held for Pembroke station March 24th 1842: Resolved 1 That we believe slavery as it ex ists in the United States to be a moral and politicalevil that it is opposed to the temporal sicial and religious welfare of this nation at it is a misfor tune to the slaveholder an injustice to the slave and a sin in the riff hi of God Resolved 2 That we believe it to be onr duty to remember the slave as being bound with him that a difference of color makes no distinction of ob ligation towards him Resolved 3' That it is a source of grief and mortification to us that slavery should be counten anced or tolerated in the church of Christ especially that branch of it? to which we belong and that we earnestly beseech all who have named the name of to depart from this iniquity Resolved 4 That while we would give no countenance to those wild and disorganizing senti ments which strike at the foundation of civil socie ty and religions association we do believe that us cit izens and as Christians we should show ourselves opposed to this enormous evil and that we should use all lawful and prudent means for its extirpa ion LEWIS HOWARD Scenes tn Kcjv Orleans NewOrleans eb 4 1842 Mr Garrison Dear Were I about tn write from any other part of the world save this sink it would doubtless be necessary to preface my epistle with apology but addressing you as I do from this place I shall offer none' My object Sir in writing is not so much to give you for that yon have from better as to vent certain feelings of indignation at the abominations of this part of the world of which I am made an unwilling witness feelings Sir which I can nor restrain I have witnessed to day the arrival of one of those floating a slaver from Charleston having on board from fifty to sixty as wretched mortals as 1 ever saw though I was born in a slave land and have visited almost all parts of the world An American slaver only think of it! But how shall I describe my feelings or the cause of them It is nlrhost in vain to make the feeble attempt Picture to yourself Sir small brig as dirty as you can well imagine with from fifty to sixty half naked filthy male and female: blacks from one to seventy years of age as the ground work of your scene ahd then to particular ize look at that group of six or eight females perch ed up on the top of the long boat in the most inde cent positions nothing abashed at the numerous spectators some with demure looks and some quite delighted with the novel appearance of things Look at that poor aged female resting her decayed frame against the same boat with a calm but cheer ful countenance rejoicing no doubt at the thought that her shackles will soon be torn off by that iron hand which it is out of the power of even the slave holder to arrest Again view that group of youth of both sexes with anxiety depicted in their counte nances doubtless lest they should be torn from all that is dear to them on earth and sold to harder masters and that mother with a babe in her arms and two or three little ones clinging to the remains of what might once have been a garment and who in view of the sufferings she is called to endure can scarcely restrain her tears! How noble she looks while standing forth in all the grandeur of the no blest works of God and yet really degraded even below the brute But hark! here goes an order from an inhuman monster in human form to muster all his chattels to answer to their names name stands at the head of the list and here is a great cry for Pompey At length Pompey makes his appearance and answers to his name and then comes These are all pushed over on the other side of the ship to make room for oth ers I have said that these wretched beings were not half clothed but I forgot to say that what they lacked in apparel was made up to them in a liquid fire which from its color I took to be whiskey Their portions of this stuff they all appeared anxious to obtain The impressions made on my mind by seeing this man thief serving out grog to his vic tims will never be obliterated And all this Sir done in a free country of course Surely shame lieth at her door But the finishing stroke is yet to be put on View in the back ground a white fe male numbering some forty years perhaps with her family around her She is looking on this doleful scene with a broad grin of delight which perhaps her husband takes for a smile And now Sir det me ask any man with only common feelings of hu manity nay more with only common sense if sla very is not degrading to all that are concerned in it But while I complain of the oppression of the slave let me also say a word of the bitter wrongs which we suffer who have a name to be free we who get our bread upon the waters The existing laws do not it is true forbid our coining here but we are liable to be taken up and imprisoned if found on shore day or night and I have known the steward of a ship to be taken up in passing from one ship to another in the next tier with a pitcher of milk and carried to the Calaboose together with his milk There are many other bit ter wrongs in this land of equal rights of which I might complain but enough for the present Let this suffice that the Constitution declares that thb citizens of each State shall enjoy the rights and im munities of citizens of the several States But the Lord help us! We are not citizens of any State though native born Americans Go on Sir and may God prosper you in all your labors Although these inhuman brutes rave pos terity will bless you yea even the posterity of these slaveholders when rid of the curse will laud the names of such men as Wm Lloyd Garrison land his coadjutors while the names and memory of their ancestors shall rot The Liberator and other anti slavery papers are received and read here as the Louisiana American testifies Your humble servant 1 Work Burr and Thompson We have received a pamphlet containing a rative of respecting the arrest and imprison ment of these young men It was prepared by a committee of whom Rev Wm Beardsleyas chair man It more than sustains what has heretofore been said of the cruel abue heaped upon them They were fastened to a heavy chain sixteen feet long one end of which was attached to the wall They were watched by a guard who were gamblers profane and licentious Bail was refused them though a man confined for murder was bailed out Their friends were not allowed to see them or send them any comforts They were refused paper to communicate with them In short there appeared to be a settled determination to abuse and convict them The jury who tried them frankly admitted that they were prejudiced against them and instead of standing to guard the law on one hand and the prisoners onjthe other they but yielded to the popu lar sentiment and violated both law and the rights of the prisoners The diary kept by the young men on the margin of exhibits the very best spirit and shows that however much they mistook the path of duty in the first instance they had none but good wishes towards all and were far enough from de serving such treatment at the hands of the people of Missouri Oberlin Evangelist Political and Religious Action Abington April 13 1842 To the Editor of the Liberator Dear Sir I wish through your interesting jour nal to express a few thoughts in regard to the course pursued by those members of our churches who urge it as a solemn duty upon us to withdraw ourconnexion from the two great political parties of this country onaccount of the connexion which exists between them and the system of American slavery and yet refuse to introduce this subject to the consideration of the churches of which they are members There is an inconsistency about this matter which I wish to exhibit to those who main? tain this position If the institution of slavery sb corrupts and con trols these two political parties on account of the connexion which exists between them and this ac cursed system that we cannot remain with them and are bound to withdraw' our support from them in order to be the friends of the slave ot equal rights and consistent politicians how can we remain in connexion with a church that refuses to take any ac tion whatever condemnatory of this abominable in stitution And not only this but receives those to its communion who are actually guilty of carrying the principles of this system into execution Now if we are in duty bound to withdraw from the one why not from the other? Yea are there not ten fold more reasons why wc should withdraw our sup port from that church which maintains this position than from the political parties I contend there are As moral right is greater than political so are the reasons which can be offered as a justification of a withdrawal from the one greater than those of the other The support given to slavery by the religion of the country is infinitely greater than the political Mr Birney declares that the American church is the great bulwark of American slavery How can we then and be consistent abolitionists the friends of God and humanity urge it as a duty to with draw from the lesser evil the political parties and refrain from urging the same duty of withdrawal from those organizations which are the bulwark this accursed institution Most cer tainly we cannot It is nonsense for us to expect that the politics of the country will be in advance of the religion yea it is impossible Men will never be convinced of their duty to any great extent to engage in the anti slavery political reform so long as the moral sentiment of the country remains where it now is Be assured of this fact If then we would be consistent and set that example which the times seem to demand let us commence the work tof reform in our own breasts then in the church of which we are members and when this is accom plished we may see yea we shall see that the course we are now pursuing in regard to the duty of withdrawal from the political parties is inconsist ent uncalled for and labor spent in vain while we pursue such a course of action in regard to our churches The connexion which exists between the churches of the North and the South in regard to this sub ject demands our serious attention Here we see one of the greatest systems of wickedness and op pression that ever existed connived at and support ed by these organizations At the South this sys tem with all its enormity is actually supported by individuals who profess to be born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God! Churches and associations professing the same equally guilty And when we cast our eyes over the churches at the North what a spectacle do we behold The pastors refusing to dissolve their connexion at the table of our Lord with their breth ren at the South and the churches also are in full fellowship with those of their brethren who are guil ty of supporting this accursed system! Nor is this all They refuse even to speak as such in any manner condemnatory of the system and not only this but condemn all actions of its members when they introduce this subject for their consideration and affectionately call upon them to come out and be separated from such an institution They con sider it a question that does not concern them and humiliating and astonishing as it may appear they will excommunicate those of their members who withdraw from them after they have labored to in duce the church to take action condemnatory of the system and they refuse Now I seriously inquire such being the case (and how far this description falls short of the reality!) if it be not the duty of every Christian to dissolve his connexion with such institutions? Can he re main with them and be the true friend of God of Religion and Humanity? If the American church be the 'great bulwark' of American slavery can we as Christians and abolitionists remain in con nexion withit? 1 ask these questions in sincerity and in truth An answer to them in the affirmative cannot I am confident be supported from the ora cles of truth The great apostle to the Gentiles has expressly commanded us have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of to partaker of no sin? How can we then as Christians fellowship those churches which are guilty of de fending and supporting unfruitful works of American slavery the greatest system of dark that ever existed and those at the North that are the greatest bulwark of this accursed institu tion and not violate these declarations of the apos tle? Now we find many professed abolitionists who will not remain in connexion with or fellowship a slaveholding church yet these same individuals will remain in connexion "with those churches at the North which are in full fellowship with the slave holding churches at the South And they will in fact condemn us and consider us as causing division in the church if we call upon them to come out and be separated from this institution! Such inconsistencies ought to carry their own antidote with them How absurd how contrary to every principle of moral right is such a position Sinful to remain in connexion with a slaveholding church but not sinful to remain in connexion with a church that is accessary to the system by receiving slave holders and their apologists to its communion Con demning all agitation npon the subject excommu nicating all its members for calling their attention to its greatest Now I contend that the politics of the country are not so directly connected with this institution as the religion Take for instance the politics of Massa chusetts or Vermont for an illustration The peo ple of each of these States through their Legisla tures have taken decided action condemnatory of this system Yet this is not satisfactory to the ad vocates of the Liberty Party' A distinct and sepa rate organization is demanded even here Yes say they we cannot support them they say and do not their actions give the lie to their resolutions and if we would be the friends of God of humanity of the slave and a consistent politician we are bound to withdraw from them and form a distinct and sep arate organization' Yet these same individuals can be consistent Christians' the friends of the slave of humanity and of God and remain in connexion with the churches that refuse to take any action whatev er condemnatory of the system consider it a subject foreign to the objects of their organization and ex communicate its members for withdrawing from them from the very fact that they refuse to condemn the system Oh Shame where is thy blush If this system of iniquity so corrupts and defiles an individual who makes no pretensions to Christi anity to such a degree that we cannot countenance and support him for any office in a political point of view I seriously inquire how we can sit down at the table of our divine Lord and Master and fellow ship an individual who professes to be a Christian who is equally guilty of defending arid supporting this institution Will some of our Liberty friends please answer Do ihey expect that thoee who make no pretensions to religion willtome out and take action against this system while those who do refuse to do thus Do they expect that the politics of the country will be in advance of the current religion Impossible If they would commend to others the genuineness of their abolitionism I' would say to them affectionately arid respectfully to com mence immediately and count the cost and be pre pared to carry out their principles in Church as well as in State I believe it to be a solemn duty binding upon all abolitioniststo introduce the subject of American slavery to the consideration of the churches and especially those who are members We cannot be faithful to God and the poor down trodden slave and neglect thia I believe there are great re sponsibilities resting upon us to act in relation to this matter Had you a dear child a father mother brother or sister subject to all: the woes attendant upon this heart rending institution aud the church of which you are a member was so connected with the institution that holds them thus that it was con sidered its greatest bulwark would you not act? Whatsoever therefore you would that men should do to you do ye even so to them? And if the Texas The sympathy which exists in behalf of Texas nt the South looks to other objects than the mere de fence of that Texas is desired as an ap pendage to the strength of the South They wish it annexed to the Union that the balance of power may still be found on the feeble side of Ma son and line? Once let the cry for succor be rung through the land and the annexation of Texas they imagine will be as easy as it is desira ble So reasons the South Let the 'North reason otherwise The Texians are not deserving of aid or sympathy The invasion of that country by Santa Ana is not unprovoked It is in a great measure justified in retaliation for the Santa expedition which had for his avowed purpose the subjugation and pillage of Mexico The Texians have provoked the assault and now they roust abide the conse quences unless a fool hardy and absurd idea pre vails that we must succor these men because Tex as affords a refuge for outlaws and desperadoes for the whole continent of North Phila Gaz Third Partyism Mobocracjr Sandisfield April 2G 1842 Dear Garrison: It is now about three weeks since I commenced an anti slavery tour in this part of the State In that time I have been able to discover some of the great obstacles which stand in the way of the final triumph of our cause If there is one thing more than another that is an obstacle to the speedy tri umph of anti slavery it is Third Partyism No one can tell but those who have made actual observa tion on the subject what a blasting witheiing effect it has hud on the anti slavery enterprise It has had a torpedo influence upon the moral sensibilities of abolitionists It is a moral horse leech that absorbs all the moral influence that would otherwise be brought to bear upon the system of slavery The idea prevails extensively here that if a man votes the third party ticket he has gone to the ne plus ultra of abolition Nothing more remains to be done The false idea that slavery is a creature of law seemsto pervade the minds of most of the advocates of third party indeed I have not conversed with an in dividual of that party who has not taken that ground and made it the foundation of his advocacy of third partyism Now no idea can be further from truth than that slavery is a creature oj law jSlavery is a creature of wicked heart It is there the foun tain is found that is sending forth its corrupt and impure waters which seem likely to overwhelm our land with destruction Law is simply a protec tion thrown around it which gives it a kind of sanc tity and enables the slaveholder to rob and plunder helpless men women ahd children with impunity The disposition thus to rob and plunder the helpless lies deeply imbedded in corrupt and avaricious heart The law itself is a creature of this corrupt sentiment in heart and how foolish it is for us to spend all our energies in trying to femove the effect while we leave thecause untouched! Here is where third partyism fails It directs all the ener gies of its adherents against the effects and by this means blinds their eyes as to the true cause of those effects It has a tendency and no doubt it is the design of some of its leaders to lead the attention of abolitionists away from the church which as Birney says is the of American slavery? There can be no doubt that the pro slavery clergy may absorb the whole anti slavery movement for should that be the case should the whole question of anti slavery be made a political one then when we present the claims of suffering and perish ing poor to them they will coldly reply they have nothing to do with politics Thus will they have a screen behind which they can hide their pro slavery heads or my part I am unwilling they should have any such screen I do not want they should have even the semblance of an excuse for not plead ing the cause of the slave or this reason among others I shall continue with my feeble efforts to op pose third partyism Last riday evening I lectured in Southwick I heard that this was a temperance town' that no ar dent spirits were sold in the place I judged from this circumstance that it might be a good place to disseminate anti slavery truth Whether I was mis taken or not the following factswill tell? After having arrived in town I made diligent inquiry to know if there were any abolitionists in the place I was told there were and was directed to several individuals all of whom however declined calling themselves by this hated name After laboring in vain to find an abolitionist or one enough so that he would invite me to his house I found me a boarding house and determined to get up a meeting without help This I did without much difficulty having obtained the use of the town hall At the time ap pointed great numbers came out to meeting I saw by the movements of certain individuals that some kind of mischief was brewing When I had about half finished my lecture a parcel of rowdies com menced stamping their feet which failing to stop or in any way interrupt me they thought they would try something more effectual This was the dashing an egg against the partition near whjch I was standing by which means I was pretty well besmeared' as well as some others near me I still continued my remarks though the audience was thrown into con siderable disorder and some of the ladies were so frightened they left the hall In a few minutes af ter another egg was thrown which scat tering its contents over my whole dress I was de termined howeverto finish what I had to say and after talking about an hour and a half I closed by inviting any one who had aught to say in contradic tion of what I had said to come forward and say it As no one appeared I dismissed the meeting When I came to the door I found it surrounded by a mob of forty or fifty every one ready to ask some sneer ing question utter some obscene jest as damn the niggers? You may judge of my feelings at that time far from my home without a single individual friendly to me or the cause in which I was engaged and surrounded by a rowdy mob wanting only a lit tle alcohol to make them gnash their teeth on About the only sympathy I got was from an individ ual seemingly a of property and stand ing? Says he a good looking fellow and I like to see you daubed all over with eggs but what good do you expect to do by stirring up such an excitement in such a peaceable place as this was before you came here I told him I thought I had accomplished a great deal by waking up the people and if he or they had any humanity in them they would not sleep again over the wrongs of three mil lions of their countrymen I then addressed the mob and told them if they wished they could throw more eggs at me or anything else they I should not injure them or take the law of them let them do what they would but one thing I should do and that was preach anti slavery whether men would hear or forbear After uttering some rebukes to them for their dastardly conduct I left them Tor my boarding house Just before I reached it an egg went whizzing past me and dashed itself against the house I expected to find some real sympathy from rny landlady but in this I was mistaken Her greatest fear was that the town was disgraced not sympathy for me as being outraged and mobbed I had appointments sent on as far as this town or I should have stopped and lectured im Southwick again I have thus given you some of the facts of a dis graceful scene Not one individual except myself uttered any rebuke to the mob though some of the most influential men of the place were present and witnessed the whole transaction If theyhad any influence nt all it was on the side of the mob If they had discountenanced it nodoubt they'would have desisted Yours for the slave ADDISON DAVIS i b'' The Baptist Church in Kingston Kingston April 28 1842' Mr Garrison: In a communication in the last number of the Lib erator' signed by Justus Harlow in rpply to a state ment made by me which appeared in the Liberator of April 1st over the signature of the writer appears to have labored tinder misapprehen sion in several particulars which in justice to my self I feel bound to correct The statement which I made as to the' Baptist church in this place having received a slaveholder to communion is not denied and in stating the fact I did not intend to be understood that every mem ber was aware of it It' was enough that it was known by several who were thought to be the most thorough abolitionists in the church And as I be fore stated their apology is (not that did not suspect the individual referred to was a but) that theyjjjeard a report that he had offered lib erty to Kis chattels and they could not be prevailed on to accept it And it strikes me as a singular ar rangement that one of the guilty should undertake to apologize for the innocent As respects the pro slavery clergyman alluded to it is somewhat remarkable that after three constant labor among us it should be necessary to refer to what he said in private conversation of his sentiments three or four years since to ascertain his present position on this subject? Arid as to the scrip tural reference I unable to perceive what that has particularly to do with the question Yours for the truth THOMAS BICKNELL rom the London Times Mr Webster ft Mn fcrerett We published ih dOt paper a des patch as temperate is 'coulfl possibly be expected from Mn Webster to Mr Everett the American Ambassador in Londoh oh the suoject ofihe bng Creefe? 'That Vessel it will be remembered was carrying slaves from one port to another of the United States1 when part of the cargo rose master ed the crew killing one of the passengers in the setiffle and carried the Vessel into the harbor of Ntssnlr On fts arrival thither nineteen slaves pfeVed to haVe been concerned in the rising were confined by order of tlfe but he entirely refused to interfere with the movements of the re mainder about 116 ifi Yriimher who accordingly landed and for the most part shipped" themselves off before long to Jamaica Her said the Ameri can Consul on the 14th of November' 1841 and the authorities colony the slaves of the Creole were considered and treated as passengers they being allowed to go pn shore in boats tendered to them from on It is plain that according to English law these Macks uduld tfe and no other wise than as English law recogni zes no such relation Sa master and slave and any governoTtna gist rate vor constable who in English territory attempted to restrain the actions of any man whatsoever on plea of his being a slave whether of a native or foreigner would be using absolutely illegal force and would lay himself open to an action for false imprisonment If any officer does venture so to interfere with any personal liberty ho must show distinct authority in the Eng lish law for so doing and that law no more author izes him to meddle with any human being because he is a slave than because he has curly hair or a pug nose or thick lips We have our own laws and our officers within our own territory are bound to obey them: it is not an American Consul or even an English oreign Secretary that can absolve them from that obedience Not Lord Aberdeen or the Crown itself can justify a detention which the law does not justify not all the sweet voi of the United States will excuse a British func tionary in overstepping that authority with which the law invests him We have our laws and we SoVem by our laws and it is mere arrogant impu ence mere presuming on English gullibility to demand eff us to govern by any other This how ever Mt Webster is obliged to demand We do not doubt that he feels the difficulty of his task we believe he is alive to the audacity of requiring that English magistrates should adminis ter American law on English territory His tone is not that of a man who 'diiriks himself in the right But he finds it necessary to avoid drawing down on his own head aud that of the American Executive all that raving of Mr Calhoun aUd bis friends which at present finds a more innocuous vent in the direc tion dfG rent Britain And with this view he has bad to write a letter which shall have about it enough display of argument and menace to satisfy these warmer spirits without absolutely closing the door against reconciliation or palpably makings fool of himself in the eyes of the British Minister If these ars his objects his letter deserves much credit ingenuity with which he has accom plished them 4n the first he seems to have been completely successful Wulker expressed his gratitude at the tone and principle of the in structions Mr Calhoun had heard the documents read with great pleasure The argument occupied the whole ground and coming from the source it did it would he 'hoped an end to this dangerous and unpleasant Judging from the cogency of Mr arguments as they ap pear to us we can only comprehend this excess of satisfaction in those in Whose behalf they are adduc ed upon the supposition that Messrs Calhoun und Co are sharp enough to see how the real merits of the matter stand end are actually surprised to find how much can be said for them like the winner in a famous Jaw suit from whom the speech eff his own able 'counsel is said to have elicited the incautious ejaculation that had never known be was such an honest man Of this we wish Mr VV eb ter joy But further he has succeeded in accomplishing this object witljoUt pledging himself to a quarrel or ad vancing ar(y absolutely absurd principle of national law And this by a 617 simple method The state of the case really was that the captain of the Creole entered the port in the power of the black mutineers that so far from its being necessary for the British authorities to use any violence in order to wrest the slaves from the masters they had rather to exert their power in rescuing the masters from the slaves With respect to the subsequent move ments of all the blacks not concerned in the mutiny the American authority above quoted tells us that their principle was absolute non interference The slaves to go oh shore Mr Webster on the corftrary finds it convenient assume throughout that these slaves were freed by the actual unfriendly of English an inter ference' which (whether justifiable or not) lie proba bly knows to be totally imaginary and as Mr Web claim for indemnification is only contingent on facts turning out as it may now be withdrawn at any moment without the shadow of in consistency on their? turning differently And so Mr Webster is enabled at once to talk loud enough to please Mr Calhoun and isely enough to save his own character and prudently enough to preserve to himself the privilege of retreating at any notice through the loophole which he has left open behind him But this is not all The American Statesman has by some strange delusion taken this opportunity for enunciating in the strongest form those very princi ples Upen which our government refuses to take any notice of the servile character of those whom it found in its harbor Though we must observe by the way that it might have fared i'll with his friend the cap tain and would carry no little encouragement to pirates and other malefactors if the principle of non interference even within our own harbors were car ried quite so far as he proposes in the first of these quotations being no importation nor intent of impor tation 'what right had the British authorities to in quire into the cargo of the vessel or the condition of the persons on board These persons might be slaves for life they might be slaves for a term of years? under a system of apprenticeship they might be bound to serve by their own voluntary act they might be in confinement for crimes committed they might be prisoners of war or they might be free How could the British authorities look into and de cide any of these questions Or indeed what duty or power according to the principles of national in tercourse bad they to enquire at all The persons on board the Creole could only have been regarded as Americans passing from one part of the United States to another within the reach of British authority only for the moment und this only by force and violence? These passages are actually intended as argu ments agatMt our conduct against those who re fused to inquire whether the blacks were for or slaves for a term of years or in confine or prisoners 'of dgainrt Uiose who considered they could not Hook into or decide any of these who the blacks (free) Americans passing from one part of the United StaJLes to and quite at liberty to stop atNasau if they chose But beyond this Webster volunteers some almost explicit ad missions which? when he is at liberty more fully to admit the fasts oC the case? he will doubtless allow to be UOnctuslve aninst his cnuntrvmnn piat in such cases the active arencu of Brduh law invoked and refused it is thaf un friendly interference deprecated? and those good offices and friendly assistances expected which a government usually afford to citizens of a friendly power when instances occur of disaster and dis And more If ii nfrtAnfll IUI notwithstanding the fulfilment of their duties of pomity and assistance by these authorities the mas ter of the veMel could not retain the persons nor pre vent their eseave tthen it would be a different question altogether whether resort could be had to British tri bunals or the power of the Government in any of its branches to compel their apprehension and res We have not1 time to notice' the palpably unim portant distinction by which he seeks toescape from m11 admission a distinction between those who within British territory and those who have actually mixed themselves with the Britishpopulation but will conclude our remarks by auoth extnct bis letter professedly indeed aimed at us but which our readers will probably think mor for the consideration of Mr rom the Portsmouth Journal Bit of ight The Philadelphia correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot gives tire following extract from a private letter dated Rio TE Janeiro eb 12 1842 A few days since large ship' (a Haver) sailed from this port under American color? Tor the African const An Engiib frigate which was lying in port knew her destination arid determined to capture her They met few miles outside the harbor the frigate sent her boat to bourd the American ship the officer in command wm told to keep off or they would fire into him The boat kept on when the Yankee let loose gun upon him The commander of the John Bull frigate then hailed Hint he would fire into him if he did not heave to ire and be was the reply accompanied by a broadside from the wcll Irnined guns of tlic Yankee which carried away the fore and main yards of the frigate The fellow crowd ed all sail and was out of the range of the guns before he well knew what was the matter wilh him I saw the frigate afterwards her main was down and they were in the act of sending down the fore which I could see had been much damaged The Englishman declares he will have the ship if he loses his vessel in the undertaking If the above account be true it fully bears out all that Mr Van Buren said about the African slave trade in his valedictory message He stated that the trade was carried on largely under the American flag and perhaps in American vessels and urged the importance of doing something towards wiping off this national blot The slave vessel above mentioned being more than a match for the English frigate in manceuvres and gunnery might possibly be more than a match also for our whole squadron on the African coast which consists we believe or is to consist of one schooner or sloop of war The some thing which we have done now amounts to little more than the name of having a vessel in that ser vice but we have yet to learn the news of a single slaver captured by nn Ainerican man of war In the mean time we have to bear the odium of having this slaver called a Yankee and are quite disposed to believe she may belong if not to New England at least to the Middle States If she but hoists the American flag the British ships must let her pass without examination according to Mr doctrine and our only vessel on her track being inadequate to her capture she is licensed to do as she pleases Our readers will remember that Pres ident Tyler too in his message gave it as his opin ion that something ought to be done to suppress the traffic We will not undertake Io charge either of our Presidents with insincerity in this matter but it does seem as if onr government having been the first to declare the trade piracy ought to have done someone thing before this time toprove that ibe mean what we say Giddings riend Garrison The following resolutions were adopted by the Green Plain Anti Slavery Society in the State of Ohio 4th mo 2d 1842: Whereas we have read the series of resolutions offered by Joshua Giddings in the House of Rep resentatives of the touching the case of the brig Creole on her passage from Richmond 5 Va to New Orleans and the subsequent action of said body upon them therefore 1st Resolved That we have not language to ex press the indignation we feel in view of the fact that our estimable fellow citizen was censured and a hearing denied hitn in his own defence for the ex pression of his opinions on a subject of momentous interest to the whole American pedple 1 2d Resolved That such startling revelations of the ascendency abominable tyranny and encroach ments of the slave power upon the rights of freemen induce us to adopt the opinion that the peaceful union of liberty and slavery is about as practicable as the coalition of fire and gun powder therefore 3d Resolved That a peaceful dissolution of the Union would be vastly preferable to us than the po sition of body guard to slavery 4th Resolved That the dignified conduct of Giddings in immediately returning to Ohio meets our unqualified approbation Signed by order of the meeting A DUGDALE Cor Sec Horrible We clip the following from tho Orleans American of the 14th ult Asthe facts stated in the article are drawn from lhe presentment of the Grand Jury there can hardly be a mistake in the matter: By the presentment of the Grand Jury we see that there is: now in confinement in the police pris on of the first municipality a little mulatto girl three1 or four years old swho was born in and who was never out of itsru Her died tome time ago and the? thing haa never heard the: voice of a human being save that of her jailor Incapable of having committed any crime this little creature is immured within the1 walls of a dungeon sand there none to release or care' for her Such unnecessary cruelty as this is a stigma upon a civilized community and is but one among the very many indications of necessity tofti a thorough investigation of the affairs of our prisons and one that should not pass unheeded Suppose lhat thorough investigation "khould be' made and it should be ascertained? and published the nation 'that scores of citizens Irotn The North were incarcerated within the walls of those prisons there to remain a certain number of days 4 then to' be sold into fdavery unless able prove their title to1 would the North still rest in fier supine iri atncrence to their fate aa site now doetr (shatneon her though? perfectly awaresof ihe fact already? Such criminal indifference' to such tame submission to injuryand insult on the pSrt' of the North is enough to make 'every' true 'friend' of freedom and humanity who' lias the spirit of a man not only to wish a severance of the political link ihal binds him to the South but almost to cut that which binds him to the North and to seek a clime where freedom and humanity are mure fully But? fly our country No I We recall the hasty thought we will rather cling to her and mirror forth her sins and cause her to gaze Upon them till i aha be melted by divine influence into contrition Yes wewiil cling to her even though she slay us i 41 1 The Mammoths used up The post office depart ment have issued an order staling that full postage must hereafter be charged on all the new publications similar to Zanoni issued' by theNew World aud Brother Jonathan 3Tliis would make the postage twenty fivecents on Zanoni under one hlndred miles and fifty cents over one miles The peoplein the country bad better buy the bound Jveie Xetter rom Burleigh Plainfield Conn April 21 1842 Dear Brother Garrison: The prophet Isaiah in rebuking die corruptions and iniquity of bis times has frequently pictured in a graphip manner the precise condition of uurowg? country None of these honest declarations of truth care more fully verified in the practise of tho'peoplsthan Truth failetli and he that depnrteth frotn 'fes evil maketh himnelf a prey? We make loud profei sions as republicans and Christians of our love reverence for the rights of conscience Our 'spiritual doctors tell us'lhat every man must' study the Bible for himself and always do his duty to God wliatcver the suffering or inconvenience and our statesmen clare that the right of every citizen to worship God? and exercise his religion according to his convictions of duty must never be invaded by the civil authority Wc have very good theories would that they' were' supported by a better example There are among us 7 those high in Church and State who like" the phari sees of old would shot tip the kingdom of Heaven ngainst men' neither go in tliemsvlves nor suffer them that are entering to go in? Though this has been my opinion for a long time the transactions of iyesterday have corroborated that opinion: in obedience to the teachings of Jesus Christ I have striven to keep my hands clean from blood and have refused to enlist myself to learn the science of mur der because I have declined the'discipline which bur Christian law makers deemed necessary to make adepts in the business of human butchery I was yes terday seized by one of the ministers of 1 and borne as a criminal to the county jail' The into which I was conducted was lighted by two i small windows which were strongly grated By the few rays of light which struggled through the close bars I could dimly discern the filth which: other or gans than my eyes too plainly disclosed To have made such a room the pen for the most filthy of beists might not occasion surprise but to compel human beings to live there is a better indica tion of a ravage than an enlightened people? and of dark and barbarous ages than of the 19th century I was told that the apartment I "was in Wai the best which the jail contains though in justice to the county I ought to say that a new prison is about i to be constructed I felt contented with my lot though I then anticipated a long residence there for 1 knew that I should fare better than He did who had not where to lay his head? Though tny cell was the same inwhicb the worst of a had been iuinrison cd I vyns also in the room where that noblc heartcd philanthropist Crandall was incarce rated for the crim of teaching children to read hardly was compelled to taste the sweets of imprison ment for I had been but xhort timet within the walls when by a gnnerousity as unexpected as it wee noble and praiseworthy 1 was liberated and again breathed freel air A' friend whose scruples of con? sciencu werenobar to bis paying the fine went to the officer and discharged (he I could not 'have done it myself but if was an act of humanity on his part? that crowns hi name with brigbter and more enduring honors than the chaplets of heroes and conquerors vV 1 should not bo just if I neglected to mention that 1 the officer who arrested me was an unwilling instru ment of iny imprisonment He expressed his regret that he was compelled to actand did all in his power to prevent my going to prison and finally relinquish ed all his fees that I might come out He is a man' of too much heart to be the tool of petty tyrants and my respect for him as a man induces me to believe? that he will4 resign nn office which requires of hint such conteniptible business This is one of many similar outrages perpetrated under a government pro fessing to abjure all restrictions on 1 the free exercise of religion? They tell us the government is ordain cd of God to be a terror to eVil dears and a praise them that do The way it prevents immorality and crime is to punish a man as a felen who obeys God and his conscience thus doing all in its power drive him into course of crime lt is as true of ourcountry and times as of the nation and day of the prophet that he that departeth from evil maketh him 1 self a prey' Yours for liberty to from ppURLEIGH? rom the Boston Transcript' 1 ires' and Alarms in AfrilV The ire Depart 3 ment was kept quite busy during the past month hav ing been called out twenty nine times: thirteen times from fires and alarms out of the city The causes asfollows i 4tb burning of a chimney '7th at midnight? two? one from Brighton and the other from the burning of a shop at Roxbury 8t flight 4 damage to a building in Broad street from burning of a chimney llth Russell's furniture store in Dock Square supposed incendiary and at midnight two alarms from llie burning of an unoccupied build ing at East Boston 12th alarm from Charleston 16th alarm from Cambridge I7tb burning of buildings in Roxbury a short distance from Bos ton incendiaries arrested and confessed 18th trifling damage to a building in Place and about the same time a barn in' Cainbridge destroyed sand during the day another alarm from? a chimney at the west part of the city 19th steamboat bell' ring '7' ing 22d slight burning of roof of a building in'Cam bridge 23d burning of woods near Lexington and 4 about nn hour afterwards another alarm from a ing in Ash street Jrifling damage 24th a carpenter's shop in Alley afterwards burning of a stable and slight damage to adjoining building in the rear of East street part the Department was still working at sthis fire another alHrin was given from the burning a carpenter's shop in rear of Rowe street destroyed 'and injured several other buildings during this another alarm caused by the ringing of rhe bell at 4" fl I i Baft fit A A nt no li a laa aww li 1 I a irciunj bell at Charlestown and the partial burning of the 4uilding ued for' storing (this is the third time the Department Jias beeq called to thisbuilding wilh ''einia short the ether alarms false i( 28tb barn in Cambridge also' an alarm' from" Watertown At midnight' a destructive' fire broke put in the rear of Warren street which before sub 'dued'destjoycd several building "Tho spark 4a 1 i rf''uT ck' miu mu juvj vi 1 UI Ibh in VUK piuC0 rear of the church which was badly burnt attic 'Jibut no any othcr building was damaged in that place as lias been slated 4 29tli a larrre stable 'on the wharf foot Ponta burnt 30th a false alarm Besides tlie above alarmson the I6th a building atJ jJ uosiun was on ore out tne alarm did not reacter 'the city "and on the 24th buildingwss set on in Broad street bur extinguished' without analnrm 5 'The Department were'calleff but past ending bn the 1st instG3 26 of which "were occasioned by fires and alarms out of the'eity' play ed the city '6' in 14 Aa BO8TON? I I 1 fi hnl' It the autjr of every Northern citizen to protest against this dying struggle for the extension ofsla very? We should remonstrate and tell our repre cT GsentaUves to remonstrate against The Legtsla ture of eyery free state should resolve against it qtSouthern interests and Southern feelings have gwayed lhe destinies of this ever since it Uuau uu jci iiuiine Munition mis incuse territory perpetuate JOrevCE that away Southern institutions have virtually expelled oneki man from Congress for raising his voice in defence sof the principles of the Declaration'of Independence and would have censured for presenting a petition Iet it not be in their power to' heapiitdig 1'' 4 nities on us forever Lowell Journal 1 teenth Congressional District that of Mr in Ohio are full of the proceedings of public meet7sV pngs relative to bis censure by the House of Repre sentatiyes As evidence of tire spirit which prevails 's we notice the following' resolution which was adopt? ed at a county meeting of the citizens of Ashtabula of by acclamation That tbe Hons Giddings onhis return to Congress? be und lie is hereby instructed tbe first moment that it shall be in order to introduce' llie identical resolutions over egeia and insist that the An HouAn ofRepresentatives wet upon them by a.