The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • Page 1

I. J. ''Tlsr'-' -x r- WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON AND ISAAC OAPP, PUBLISHERS. KO. 37.

9 OUR COUNTRY IS THE WORLD OUR COUNTRYMEN ARE MANKIND. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, feul baa Mi tea lata Hal IJ PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT NO. 10, MERCHANTS' HALL. 1 WJI. LLOYD GARRISON, EDITOR.

TERMS. Two Dollars per annum, payable in advance CZf No subscription will be received for a short er period than six months. tC3 Agents allowed every sixth copy. JCIF AH letters and communications, excepting from Agents, must be post paid. AGENTS.

Joseph CLovejoy, Bangor, Me. Daniel. C. Colesworthy, Portland. Edward J.

Pompey, JVantucket, Mass. Harvey Amesbury. Benjamin Colman, Salem. William Henry E. Benson, Providence, Jt.

I. Alfred Niger, J. L. Cross, Jew-Haven, Ct. John Wm.

Creed, William Saunders, Hartford. Rev. Jehiel C. Beman, M'uldletuwn. Willi am Harris, Norwich.

Philip A. Bell, Jreu-York City. George Hogarth, Brooklyn, JV. Y. Nathan Blount, Pouzhkcepii, V.

Y. John jlrtony, v1 Y. Josiah Gren, Rochester, V. Y. Abraham D.

Shadi, Joseph Cassey, Philadelphia, Pa, Joseph SharpLess, Tsmas IIauvletoxv Pa John Peck, Carlisle. Pa. William Watrins, Baltimore, Md. Benjamin Lundy, Washington City, D. William Wormley, George Cart, Cincinnati, Ohio.

William B. Bowler, Port-au-Prince. THE LIDEIlATOr. IdJ Wlial would you say to a in private life, who should pretend to be no thief, because he only bought stolen good or that he was no villain, because he did not forge a deed himelf, but only paid another to do it, and enjoyed the estate by that honorable security Yet this is literally the title which the Americans plead to the unfor tunate inhabitants of Africa. Ihomas Uat.

THREATS TO ASSASSINATE. JCjT In attacking the system of slavery, I clearly foresaw all that has happened to nio. I knew, ot the commencement, that my motives would be impeached, my warnings ridiculed, my person perse-euted, my sanity doubted, my life jeoparded but the clank of the prisoner's chains broke upon my ear it entered deeply into my soul I looked up to Heaven for strength to sustain me in the perilous work of emancipation, and my resolution was taken. Thanks be to God, that resolution grows loftier with time, and sinks its base (leeper and broader as danger approximates. Th following letters infuse new blood into my veins.

Sure I am, that, if the sacrifice of my life be required in this great cause, I shall be willing to make it only regretting the meanness of the offering, and the want of a thousand lives to lay down in the same enterprise. Sure I am, that the progress of liberty cannot be arrested by the dagger of the assassin that the principles of justice, being eternal, cannot be overthrown by any tyrannical machinations that the murder of one white man, however insignificant he might be, endeavoring to effect the complete emancipation of the slaves by moral suasion alone, would kindle a fire of indignation and sympathy in the breasts of the p3ople, intense enough to melt every chain. Such a sacrifice may be necessary to hasten the day of deliverance and, u-doubtedly, it would accomplish more for the anti-slavery cause, than even the violent death of Morgan has done for the anti-masonic cause. This consideration is in the highest degree consolatory. The first letter is dated Princeton, N.

J. August 4th, and was written probably by the son of a slave-bolder in one of the schools in that place. I publish it verbatim. It is impossible to gauge the Hastiness, stupidity and depravity of the mind which nditari it. Mr William Lloyd Garrison You rascal I have misfortune to fall in with your hellish paper called the Liberator, and must say that I have never been so much disgusted with bad grammar, silly expression, in short sir, I have seen many silly papers, but never has it been my lot to be bored with one of the same stamp as this now before me ou seem to hope to rouse the slave to some act of desperation, but let me assure you that no writing of voure will ever accomplish would require man of more sense and mettle than yourself yoo pitiful scoundrel you toa caier you a a son ol a helt is gnpin, for you the devil is feasting in anticipation you wooden ass You blackguard You traitor- God your soul for ever and ever amen You devil incarnate go to 1 you black 1 is hissing and you will soon be burning Your most inveterate foe and one who despises you Enclosed in the foregoing scrawl was a piece of paper, containing the following lines, iu order to make double postage.

You yankee, you hipocritical son of a you worthless puppy you are not worth Sic. The second letter, it seems, is from one who is a' vowedly a slaveholder. It is impudent, audacious and inconsistent to a marvel. How jealous jhe, writer is of his own rights how utterly regardless of the rights of others Was there ever a more signal dis play of tyranny and folly I deny that 1 have made any cfibrts to rouse the slaves to rebellion but, on the contrary, I am endeavoring to save the lives ol the planters, by wanimg them of their imminent danger, and urging them to make that immediate restitution which justice demands. I would not, vvitting-ly, harm a hair of their heads, nor injure them in their lawful property.

I am not their ene my, but their friend. It is true, I abhor their oppres sive acts nor will I cease to denounce them in terms of indignation. They will surely ba destroyed if they do not repent. must be free and whoever unjustly takes away their liberty, must expect a dreadful retaliation. American slavehol ders sin against the light of nature, against reason, gainst the bible, against their own heaven-attested declaration and, if they continue to oppress, they must not expect to go unpunished.

A Freeman what a libel upon the name savs the slaves are dead to every proper princi ple, ignorant ns bottentots, degraded to a level with brutes, and lost to every sense of Who have plunged them into this condition He and other slave owners. Why does he not join with me, in calling for their instruction As a sane man, lie can not deny that they are rational beings, capable of ast improvement for brutes never plot against their masters, and the most patriotic appeals would be lost upon thtm. lie assures me that the Liberator cannot be much longer Judging from the increas- on ing number of subscribers, I think otherwise. He talks of the Constitution acknowledging the blacks to be slaves. The term slaves or slavery is not found in it.

He would make a worthy member of the Coloni zation Society for he urges the free people of color to go to Africa, to become Kings and How benevolent Ere he speak in a voice, loud and terrible as thunder, let him attend school and learn to mend his orthography. 4 Washington City, Aug. 26th, 1831. Sir As a freeman and slaveholder as a son of the South as an American citizen as a man knowing, dearly appreciating, and determining at all hazards to maintain my rights I conjure you, by every thing that makes life valuable, and death dreadful by all the precious ties which bind Americans together as a band of breathtren by the best interests of the slave population and by the fearful consequences inseparable from exasperating freeman, to desist your infamous endeavors to instil into the minds of Negroes the idea that men must be free You cannot be ignorant of the fact, that your efforts to rouse the slaves, throughout the Union, to rebel lion against their rightful owners and protectors, they succeed at all, will only call down upon them the vengeance of freemen, and ensure their entire annihiallation. What turn loose noon society race of beings, dead to every proper principle, igno rant as Hottentots, and by nature fierce as savages, degraded to a level with brutes, and lost to every sense of virtue And for what why, because the colored gentlemen of Boston would have it so.

No, no, Mr Lloyd Garrison you miss your maik amazingly, if you suppose those who hold in their hands the lines of slaves, are to be so easily fright encd into measures. Your paper, sir, cannot be much longer tolerated Freedom of the press cn only be allowed, where efforts are used to enlighten the minds of freemen and make men, who are already free, realy happy, hat right does the constitution of these United Slates vest any set of men with, to rouse up to re-sisteHCt, those whom that very constitution ac knowledges to be slaves, and whose owners this very Government is bound to protect in their rightful property, and assist them in maintaining a righteous authority over them Sedition, treason, burn in every line of your outrageous sheet, and the growing evils which it occasions among us cry aloud for en erguic redress. Shame on the Freemen, of Boston, (or pel uniting such a vehicle or outrage and rebel lion to spring into existence among them Are they not famed for love of order, and a jealous regard for the well being of those who are ever ready to go hand in hand with them Tor their protection and wellare? Why, then, tolerate in the very heart of patriotism, an engine whose efforts are point ed against the peace, happiness, security, and even life of their breatheren of the South But, sir, if the freemen (don't understand rue to mean by the term freemen, yellow skins or knotty heads these I do not recognize as such, nor are they look ed upon by men of high honor and noble feeling as in any degree elevated above a level with slaves) if the freemen of Massachusetts have no regard for their welfare, or respect for themselves if they are dead to every ennobling sentiment as to suffer the circulation of your vile paper among them be it known to your Jlugust Highness, tiiat we of the South know what is due to ourselves and our children too well, to look on with indiilerence at your base endeavors to raise up among us a band of out laws and cut-throats. You think Negroes should be put on an equality with whites, -do you Then go to Africa, and become Kings and Queens, for what we care but none of your insufferable insolence here The people of Boston may make companions and equals of you, 4 colored gentlemen, if they choose, and bow and scmpe to your flat nose race but rather than thus degrade ourselves to so low a level, we of the South, who know and will have our rights and preserve our dignity, would suffer ourselves to become annihiaUattd. You will hear from me again, perhaps, ere long when, if you continue your infamous career, I will speak in a voice loud and terrible as thunder.

Yours, A FREEMAN. The following letter, received on Monday, is from highly respectable clergyman in a neighboring town. I thank him Tor bis friendly disclosures they confirm the threats in the preceding epistles, ut only add to my strength and stature. To the Editor of the Liberator. 'Dear Sir I shall make no apology for troub ling you with this letter.

I write it to discharge what I conceive to be a duty and if you should not re ceive it as a favor, yet it will afford me pleasure to reflect, that, in this case, I have done to you, as I would have others do to me. A few days since, I was travelling in the stage from this place to Boston. There was a number of gentlemen passengers in the stage, and the conversation turned upon the recent insurrection of the blacks in Virginia. One of tlie passengers stated that it was his opinion, and the opinion of many others, that Wm. L.

Garrison had contributed in no small degree to the excitement among the blacks, which had eventuated in that sad catastrophe that he was inclined to think that Mr Garrison would not be permitted to live long' that he woold be taken away, and no one be the wiser for it. He also stated, that this was the opinion of many per sons at the kMiuth where be had been living the sea son past and tie added, that be had not the least doubt if Mr Garrison were to go to the South, he would be dispatched immediately and that he had heard this opinion expressed by persons at the South, repeatedly. There was another gentleman in the stage who concurred in this opinion though each of them eppeared to feel perfectly friendly towards you, themselves. I observed to the gentleman who expressed this opinion, that sacli was the elate ol leeung in ins minds of many towards Mr Garrison, he certainly ought to know it and he replied he thought so too. The conversation was carried on between us some lime, upon the course yoa were pursuing in relation to Slavery, from the tenor of which, I understood it to be their deliberate conviction, that there were persons ct the South who were now ready to make use of the first opportunity to take your life, wher ever you might be found, whether in the Northern or Southern States.

I know not but you may have received such inti mations as the above from the before now bow-- -i ever, you will not for one moment suppose that I have given you a knowledge of the above facts to intimidate or alarm you as I have always approv ed of the end you have in view, and, so Tar as I know them, I approve of the means you make nse of to accomplish it. JAMAICA. A latter from Kingston, (Jamaica,) dated July 6, 1S31, appeared in the New-York Courier of the 5tb nit. apparently from a slaveholder, but possibly of domestic manufacture. The writer bitterly declaims gainst the powerful cfibrts which are making in En'dand for the overthrow of slavery in the colonies.

and confesses that by these efforts of the Saints, mmedifite emancipation has, in fact, already vir tually taken place. The finest negro brougW to the Havana would not now realize more than JLao and landed pioperty has consequently fallen off 60 per cent, under value. This is cheering news, and hows in a striking manner the potency ot moral power. A snort time since, we uau sumo wunwr ion with a Jamaica planter New-Haven, who confirmed the verity of the above statement, and. stated that he should hurry home to sell his slaves at ny price.

We plunters said he, the de termination of the British people, and that the Government never lifts its arm but with power and purpose to crush. That arm is now extended, and tho stein of slavery must be speedily overthrown. The Kingston writer anathematizes tho conuuci fthe Missionary Methodist Society in that place. Is a refractory negro punished for rebellious conduct His cause is immediately espoused by the Methodist Parson, Sic. He grows desperate in contemplating the immedite abolition of slavery It is hardly possible to bring one's mind to the contemplation of the scenes of confusion which must necessarily follow the emancipation of our slaves But, for God's sake a such be the ultimatum oi mw English Cabinet, what can we lose by one last des perate effort What is it to us ir we perisn Dy ino hand of a black assassin, or by that of an English hired slave The writer then swallows, with a keen relish, a rumor brought by a packet from England, that in St Domingo Mhe blacks had risen on the inulattoes.

and massacred all they could lay hold of And, finally, to cap the climax of his impudence and ignorance, he gravely makes the following declaration It cannot be denied that the present state of St Domingo requires the interference of some of the European powers. In fact, the poor blacks are in a worse state of slavery than ever they were before, and the anulattoes have had the good sense tf take i i ii..