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might be done by inflammatory publications addressed to the blacks, and cirr.iifntod smnnir them. I have understood that a book wbicn I believe is known by the name of Walker's Appeal is of. this character, though I have never seen it. But the pernicious tendency of that volume, whatever it may be, did not arise from its being written at the North, nor was it, that I can learn, more approved at the North than it has been at the South. This and all other books, however, must be judged of by their contents, and not by the place in which they were written.

My own impres sion is, that if all that has been printed at the oouth relation to slavery were generally circulated among the blacks there, it would have much more tendency to rouse them to insurrection and bloodshed, than all that has been published at the North on the same subject. The feeling of contempt of the African race, and the disregard for the rights of all persons who have any taint of negro blood, which are but too apparent in a large part of the laws of the Southern States, and which breathe in too many of their publications, appear to me directly calculated, if these productions rise against their masters. On the other hand, without denying that there may have been injudicious publications at the North, the general character of those which I have seen, has been mild and temperate, and neither intended to inflame the slaves, nor likely to producf such an effect. The truth, I am persuaded, is, that it is not publications upon the subject of slavery, with the perhaps, of such incendiary works as I have alluded to, circulated secretly among the slaves, for the express purpose of stimulating them to acts of blood, it is not publications, which have produced bad conduct in slaves, which have led them to plot insurrections, to run away from their masters, and to murder the whites but it is the actual severity of suffering which has brought forth these results; I believe it will be found true, in almost all cases, that slaves, behave best where they are best treated, and where the laws and public opinion pay TTlAaf 0 tm -rA trial vnnrKte an A friaf a 011 na A UgUl I I UUVl WlUb UA (1U9UA V-k? of severity which are resorted to, to keep down the slaves, only render them more dangerous. In my next essay, I shall consider- the actual situation of the colored population of tne United states.

H. COLONIZATION. The recent formation of an Auxiliary Colonization Society inAVorcester County Mass. calls forth the following commentary from the editor of the Boston Statesman 'We were, however, rather surprised to see the proposal of sending the free negroes to Africa as returning them to their native land. It would be as well at least to talk of sending these reverend gentlemen back to England as their native land.

The negro is just as much a native here as are these reverefid gentlemen themselves. Here the negro was born, here bred, hero are his earliest and pleas-antest associations here is all that binds him to earth and makes lifa valuable. If the welfare of the negro, and not a new scheme for begging, be really the object in view, we desire the reverend gentlemen to step forward and vindicate the rights of the negroes trampled upon by their brethren in Park Street. If they would really promote the happiness of the negro, let their enorts be directed to raise the oppressed black in the 6cale of moral elevation Let them admit him to more rights in the social world but unless they desire to be laughed at by all sincere and thinking men, they had better abandon the Quixotic plan tf colonizing the Southern negroes at the cost of the North, until we can tree our own borders from poverty, ignorance and distress. Editors all over the country are requested to insert the following advertisement.

We trust that there will be a thousand vigorous pens put into motion for the prize. PREMIUM. A Premium of Fifty Dollars, the Donation of ft benevolent individual the State of Maine, and now deposited with the Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, is offered to the author of the best Treatise on the folio win or sub ject: 'The -Duties of Ministers and Churches of all denominations to avoid the stain of Slavery, and to make the holding of Slaves a barrier to communion and church The composition to be directed (post paid) to either of the subscribers the name of the author in a separate sealed paper, which will be destroyed if his work shall be rejected. Six months from this date are allowed for the purpose of receiving the Essays. Tne publication and circulation of the preferred Tract will be regulated by the Penn-aylvania Society bove mentioned.

WRawus, J. Pristox, Commillee. Thomas Shipx-kt, Philadelphia, Oct. 11, THE LIBERATOR. A PHILANTHROPIST.

The following remarkable communication appeared in the Palladium of the 15th ult We append a few notes to it. 4 Slavery. A memorial, I understand, is in circulation in this city in favor of the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia. It has not been handed to me, Should it be, I would say to the amiable gentleman who bears it, your philanthropy is misdirected. (1) The slaves, whose sufferings you seek to alleviate, are freer and more happy than you are.

(2) 1 hey are happy ignorance, and in the possession of those enjoyments which are appro priate to their condition and their education. (ti) But you, who are born to freedom, who are blessed with the means of an education which enlightens and liberalizes your mind and refines your feelings, are, in your own city, liable to have vour property seized and taken away, and your body dragged to jail without a moment's notice, and even without having any cause of action alleged against you. I can, in ten minutes, without showing any cause of action, obtain a writ against your person, which, in default ot bail, will take you from your business and your family, and lodge you in a jail. (4) Slavery is an evil, and ought to be (5) Imprisonment for debt is a greater evil, and ought to be abolished. (6) But the difficulties which impede the efforts of philanthropy for the amelioration of the con dition of the Elave are great, and even ap palling; wnereas tnose wnich prevent tne amelioration of the condition of the debtor are either inconsiderable or altogether imaginary.

It is also the pride or the blavc States, that instances of the enforcement of the law of imprisonment for debt are there few, very few, in comparison with the number of instances which occur in the Free States. (1) So say our southern planters. And yet this writer assumes the name of the philanthropist Howard It is marvellous to observe with what coolness of manner, with what mildnesB of tone, with what liberality of sentiment, some people discourse on the subject of slavery. They wonder how the trivial fact, that millions of human beings are held in chains and treated like brutes in this country, can excite the indignation or "horror of any body. But if an injury be done to their own persons, or to their children yes, oreven to a dog of theirs how they 'clamor redress 1 (Q) A libel upon common sense a libel upon freedom a libel upon constitutional government.

(3) Enjoyments of slavery Of course, these consist in being fattened upon corn, in the frequency of pleasant flagellations, in the al most total absence of mind, in the destruction of the social relations pf life (4) We do net condemn, but rather highly applaud, the feeling which the writer manifests on the subject of imprisonment for debt. It is certainly a crime to make honest poverty or unavoidable pis fortune a crime. Still, the people must be their own judges in this mat ter; and, having the means of redress among1 themselves, the fault is theirs if they suffer any public grievance to exist. We are united heart and soul with 'Howard' in his benevo lent enterprise but let him beware, Jest he make it ridiculous by talking of the superiority of African slavery over American liberty. (5) Yet the philanthropy of those who are striving to overthrow it, is misdirected (6) Then, as a people, we are more to be commiserated than our slaves Does Howard' believe this? If so, let him go to the south, and put himself under the lash of a driver.

The following thrilling effusion is from the pen of the young lady who superintends the Female Department in the Genius of Universal Emancipation. For her years, she has not her equal, perhaps, in the Union. THINK OF OUR COUNTRY'S GLORY. Think of our country's glory, All dimmed with Afric's tear Her broad flag stained and gory With th hoaided guilt of years Think of the frantic mother. Lamenting for ber child, Till falling Ushes (mother Hercries of anguish wild Think of the prajrera ascending Yet (hrieked, alaa in vain When heart from heart i( rending, Ne'er to be joined again Shall we bshoid, unheeding, Life "a holieat feelings crushed When woman's heart is bleeding.

Shall woman's voice be hushed? Oh. bo by ever blessing That Heaven to thee may lead. .1 7 Forjct not, sister, friend POWERFUL "LANGUAGE. Hear the energetic language of Henry Brougham, relative to slavery in the British Colonies is he, too, a madman Similar was the language held by Charles James Fox and the younger Pitt were they fanatics With such madness and fanaticism (be it my boast!) I am deeply imbued I would the contagion could spread until every individual in the land be infected 5 with such associates, I am not ashamed to keep company. Shame on the great men 'of America, that their lips are sealed on the subject of African emancipation The cause is worthy of he loftiest ambition and the noblest genius.

To it I am wedded, as long as I shall have a pen to wield, or a voice to speak. Poverty may assail me with her hungry whelps rPersecution may light his fires Slander may spit out her venom and Judicial Power may attempt to intimidate. I care not for the luxuries of wealth, if the inward man be opulent for eternity; I care not for bodily tortures, if i suffer in a righteous cause I caro not for the aspersions of the slanderer, if my conscience bear good testimony I care notforryraiiBical authority, if I serve my God and enefit my fellow crea tures by lawfully resisting it. Wherever op pression, fraud and violence exist, I am for exposing to merited infamy the tyrant and the thief; wherever there is a virtuous struggle for liberty, there also is my heart. But read the following extract: I trust, that at length the time is come, when Parliament will no longer bear to be told that slave-owners are the best lawgivers on slavery no longer suffer our voice to roll across the Atlantic in empty warnings, and fruitless Tell me not.

of rights talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves. I deny the right I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of the laws that sanc tion such a claim! There is a law ebove all the enactments of human codes same throughout the world, the same in all times such as it was before the daring eremus of Co lumbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one world the sources of power, wealth and knowledge to another, all unutterable woes such it is at this day it is the law written by the finger cf God on the heart of man and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man In vain you appeal to treaties, to covenants between nations.

The cove nants of the Almighty, whether the" old or the new, denounce such unholy pretensions. To those laws did they of old refer, who maintained the African trade. Such treaties did they cite, and not untruly for by one shameful compact, you bartered the glories of Blenheim for the traffic in blood. Yet, in despite of law and of treaties, that infernal traffic is now destroyed, and its votaries put to death like otier pirates. How came this change to pass? Not assuredly by parliament leading the way but the country at length awoke the indignation of the people was kindled it descended in thunder, and smote the traffic, and scattered its guilty profits to the winds.

Now, then, let the planters beware let their assemblies beware let the government at home beware let the parliament beware! the same country is once more awake, awake to the condition of negro slavery the same in- 1 1 .1 .1 aignauon jonoies in tne Dosom 01 tne same people the same cloud is gathering that annihilated the slave trade and, if it shall de scend again, they, on whom its crash shall fall, it 1 a 1 i wui not De aestroyea oeiore 1 nave warnea them but I pray that their destruction may turn away from us the more terrible judg ments ot iiodl For the Liberator. SONNET TO Friend of mankind for thee I fondly cherish Th exuberance of a brothers glowing love And never in my memory shull perish Thy name or worth so time shall truly prove Thy spirit ia more gentle than a dove, Yet bath an angel's energy and scope Ita flight is towering as the heaven above. And with the outstretch'd earth dotb bravely cope. Thou standest on an eminence so high, All nations congregate around its base There, with a kindling soul and piercing eye, The WToegs and sufferings of thy kind doat trace Thy country is the world thou know'at no other -And every man, in every clime, thy brother 0. Female School in Liberia, The Female Colonization Society of Richmond and Manchester has taken incipient measures to establish a Female School in Liberia.

Had it not better establish a similar school for free colored females in Richmond and its vicinity WALKER'S APPEAL. NO. I. Believing, as we do, that men should never do evil that good may come that a good ottl-does not justify wicked means in the accomplishment of it and that we dught to. suffer, as did our Lord and his apostles, unresistingly knowing that vengeance belongs to God, and he will certainly repay it where it is due believing all this, and that the Almighty win deliver the oppressed in a way which thy know not, we deprecate the spirit and tendency of this Appeal Nevertheless, it is not for the American people, as a nation, to denounce it as bloody or -monstrous.

Mr Walker but pays them in their own coin, but follows their own creed, but adopts their own language. We do not preach rebellion no, but submission and peace. Oiu enemies may accuse ue of striving to stir up the- slaves to revenge but their accusations are false, and cmdo only to excite the prejudices of the whites, and to destroy our influence. We say, that the possibility of a bloody insurrection at the south" fills us with dismay and we avow, too, as plainly, that if any people were ever -justified in throwing off the yoke of their tyrants, the slaves are that people. It is not we, but our guilty countrymen who put arguments into the mouths, and swords into the hands cf the slaves.

Everv sentence that tliew write every word that they speak every resistance that they make, against foreign op- nrnaamn ia nnll iinrin tticiv slaroa fr iTfielmtf' Every Fomth of July celebration must embitter and inflame the minds of the slave's. And the late dinners, and illuminations, and orations, and shoutings, at the southj over the downfal of the French tyrant; Charles the Tenth, furnish so many reasons to the slaves why they should obtain their own rights by violence. Some editors have affected to doubt whether the deceased Walker wrote this pamphlet. On this point, skepticism need not stumble; the Appeal bears the strongest internal evidence of having emanated from his own roinu. No white man could have written in language so natural and enthusiastic.

1 A VIEW OF BRITISH SLAVERY. The following table shows the relative proportion of the Whites, Slaves an4 Free Blacks in the West India Islands and Colonies. Ja- maica exhibits a fearful disparity between its but sure: when the explosion comes as it will assuredly come, ere long what tyrant will be able to escape Whites. Slaves. Free Blacks.

Bermuda 5,500 500 Bahamas 1 4,000 9,500 2,800 Jamaica 15,000 33 000 40.000. Virgin Isles, or mi ainn Tortola St Christopher's Nevis Antigua Mont-Serra Dominica Barbadoes St Vincent's Grenada Tobago St Lucia Trinidad Honduras 1 Demerara WIT SLW 1,800 18,500 2500 800 i000- 1,800 2,000 30,000 4,500 500 6,000 700 800 14,500 3,000 15,000 81,000 5.000 1.300 23.500 800 .24,500 3,700 350 12,700 1,200 13,500 4,000 13,500 23,000 16,000 300 2,450 3,000 70,000 6,000 Berbice COO 21,000 1,000 Cape of Good Hope 43,000 35,000 .29,000 Mauritius 8,000 76,000. 15,100 Total 108,150 812,700 143,707 VERY SURPRISING. The Centinel, a few weeks since, contained a notice from the Sheffield Iris, of the sale of a woman by her husband, for the sum of one shilling; 'It is surprising, says the editor, 'that this-barbarous custom should be tolerated in So it is, Mr Adams the annual sale of thousands of human beings, in this country, cannot be compared with above atrocious act. And why Because one white skin is worth millions of a sable complexion.

Is it not? Merited Punishment. A Dr Allen has been sentenced in Opelousas, Louisiana, to fourteen years imprisonment for negro stealing. It seems he. was in want of How ought they to be punished, who hold their slaves in perpetual bondage, either 1 purchase or inheritance Is not their crin equal to the medical kidnapper? What is tbf difference between stealing men, and holding them in bondage after they have been stolen?.