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a general iruurrection. Its effect have already been teen. Though the sparks be concealed in the embers, they will burst forth again with greater violence, and overspread the land with ruin. Combining all the materials of war, havoc, and devastation into one tremendous cloud, like an overwhelming torrent, they will pour their savage millions over the land, through the length of it, and through the breadth of it. Like a raging pestilence, they will ravage the whole country, plunder every dwelling, and deluge the land in blood.

And where will thj carnage cease They have been long oppiessed. And now they have commenced, they will not cease but will contend for their liberties to the last inch of ground, and Jtill the last drop of blood has been sacrificed upon the altar af Freedom. Alas as well might we expect the sun to stop in mid-heaven, or the leopard to chango his spots, as to expect that that ignorant, oppressed and wretched people hould cease to make depredutions on every thing which had the remotest tendency to make men comfortable and happy. In their mad career, they would have no regard to ago or sex. Husbands would be torn from their wives, and children snatched from the tender embraces of kind and indulgent parents.

Yea, thousands would fall a sacrifice to tbeir hellish rage the laws and institutions of the land would be demolished libraries wrapt in flames te.mple.V--and churches abrogated from the -'worship of the living God, and consecrated to the service of devils. Such is a faint picture attendant upon a general tion. Its fearful effects are portrayed in bold relief in the recent insurrection at Jamaica. We need only open our eyes, and we shall see causes enough for alarm. We need only unstop our ears, and the groans and supplications of two millions iu bondage, imprecating the vengeance of Heaven upon our heads, will rouse us to im- mediate, energetic action.

We need only open our Bibles, and we shall every where find, that God frowns upon the oppressor, utters his most solemn denunciations against him, and commands him to break the chain, and let the oppressed go free and to do justice, love mercy, and walk uprightly. However enthusiastic I may have been in my remarks however much I may have been governed by a zeal, not according to knowledge, or actuated by a mistaken philanthropy howev er much I may have wandered in the regions of fancy, or described horrors, that dwell only in a frensied imagination yet may God, in his infinite mercy, preserve us from the fatal reality, and a-vert from our country the evils and dangers which threaten it. But to beseech God to preserve us from calamity and distress, while we keep two millions of human beings in bondage, is solemn mockery. Let us bo consistent. 4 God will not be mocked for whatsoever a man sowetb, that shall he also aSince it is a truth, self-evident, eternal, unchangeable truth, demonstrated by ihe voice of God and by the Constitution of our own Government, that man cannot hold property in man let us at once emancipate our slaves, leaving the consequences to God.

Let justice be satisfied, though the Paradise of America be converted into a howling wilderness. Let us be just and fear Let us not forget the wretched victims of their oppressors' deep-stained depravity. Let us use every endeavor to meliorate their moral degradation, and devote our wealth, our talents, and our lives to the accomplishment of an end so devoutly to be wished let us anticipate the day, when our colored population shall enjoy the blessings of freedom when moral and intellectual culture shall be the bulwark of our Republic; and when our banner, free from stains of blood, shall wave in triumph and glory over a country, flourishing, happy and disenthralled. PUBLIC DISCUSSION. The discussion on the merits of the American Colonization Society was continued to a late hour on Monday evening last, at Franklin Hall, head of Franklin street, beforg a large audience.

It will be renewed on Monday evening next, at the same place. Ladies and gentlemen are respectfully invited to attend. We have no room, to-day, to make any remarks upon the debate of the last evening. Th principal advocate who lias appeared in behalf of the Society, is Mr Isaac Orr, ex-cditor of the American Spectator. Our best compliments to the gentleman we shall pay him particular attention hereafter.

ADDRESS ON "SLAVERY. ItZp An Address on Slavery will be delivered in this city on Wednesday morning (July 4th.) by William Lloyd Garrison. At the close of the services, a collection will betaken up in aid of the funds of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. A notice of the hour and place -of the meeting will be given in the daily papers. Hold! Give Nothing! The Rev.

Mr Danforth, an Agent of the American Colonization Society, will deliver an address on the 4lh of July, in the Bowdoin-street church in this cily, in behalf of that Society. A contribution will be taken up in support of a project, which (to adopt the lartguage fan able writer) is of a naluro to give eclat to a few ostentatious speech-makers amuse the curious tantalize the credulous pick the pockets of the liberal disappoint the sanguine; furnish a few drones with spending money, and to fail for the want of funds. We believe that the lime is rapidly approaching, when the benevolent and pious in the New-England States will consider it more insulting to their intelligence and moral sensa to be urged to support the system of slavery, than to support the Colonization Society on its present principles. Mr Danforth may advance many good sentiments, make many pathetic appeals, and draw many delightful pictures but he is utterly unable to prove by just argument, that the doctrines and operations of the Society do Dot retard tha altotition of slavery, ind the -rip id improvement of the free people of eolor. Io the pulpit, he will be safe from in terrogation otherwise some difficult questions might be propounded to him for an answer.

Appointment or an Agent. The New England Anti-Slavery Society has appointed A R-if old BtTFFDM, its worthy President, to visit various parts of New-England as an Agent, to deliver addresses on the subject of slavery, lake up collections in aid of the funds of the Society, form auxiliaries thereto, and make every exertion to enlighten and reform public sentiment. in relation 1o this no-blest of enterprises. Mr Bufium is possessed of untiring perseverance, great clearness of moral vision, indomitable courage, and expansive philanthropy. He is, moreover, an attractive speaker.

We trust his mission will prove eminently serviceable to the cause of God and of bleeding humanity, and that the friends of tha cause, wherever he may meet them, will promptly assist him in his arduous and responsible labor of love. Far the Liberator. ODES FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY. WRITTEN FOR THE NEW-ENGLAVD ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. Am Auld Lang Syne.

Shall Afric's children be forgot, And never brought to mind That much enduring who long In slavery have pined Oh no they shall not be forgot We MI ever bear in mind The millions of our fellow men Who still in slavery Shall we our country's freedom boast, Forgetful of the sigh Breathed from two million countrymen. That gives our boast the lie Two million of our countrymen By countrymen oppressed Grief, shame and indignation swell Each true and generous breast. ShaH woes unequalled be forgot. Which slavery's victims bear The toil compelled, the hunger, stripes, The anguish and despair By tyrant power asunder torn, Bereft of all that 's dear, When husbands, wives, and brethren weep, Have we no answering tear See childless parent, orphan'd child, Though child and parent live Live, still the kindred tie to feel, The parting still to grieve. Oh no their woes we 'II ne'er forget, We 'II do, as well as feel Their utter, hopeless, helplessness Shall be their strong appeal.

Shall we the days gone by forget Our nation's infant song, That all men free and equal Which burst frotn every tongue Like auld lang syne this truth we hold, And never will resign Our brethren's rights we ll still declare, For auld lang syne. Then give a hand each freeman true, And here 's a hand of mine This holy cause must sure succeed, If all true hearts will join. Then here we join each heart and hand, Resolved we ll ne'er despair Nor cense our brethren's cause to plead. Till they our freedom share. YE WHO LIBERTY REVERE Air Bruce" Ye who liberty revere I Hold it far than life more dear Ye who Niast from year to year.

Free and equal laws In the name of the opprcss'd. In the name of the distress'd, We demand their wrongs redress 'd Who will aid our cause Who. when freedom he commends, Freedom but for self intends, Let him rest in selfish ends, Selfish liberty. Who for others' wo or weal, As his own can strongly feel-Let him hark tlio slaves' appeal To his sympathy. To boast our country free, how vain Freemen will the boast disdain.

While two million countrymen Pine in slavery. By our country's sacred name, By her glory and her shame, Hence be it our solemn uitu From her shame to free. i By oppression's woes and pains. By our brethren's servile chains, We will still, while life remains, Vfar with slavery. Yet no battle's storm shall lower, Truth shall claim the day and hour, And religion's holy power Gain our victory J.

E. THOUGHTS ON COLONIZATION. Extract of a letter from a clergyman in a neighboring State. I have been employed in reading your work on the Colonization Society. So far as I have read it, I like it the spirit of it is good, and it will cost our opponents much labor to get over tha truth and arguments there presented.

It will do much to correct public opinion and circumstances, which must bo operating more and more to show the falsity of their doctrines generally and the bad spirit of their productions, will corroborate your statements and arguments. Your argament against the utility of the colony as a means of advancing Christianity, if not at once perfectly convincing, is exceedingly fair and forcible, and will throw much light on the minds of those who are supporting it primarily to that end. Rest assured that you have not written in vain, nor exposed the hypocrisy, ignorance and folly of many of the grand abettors of colonization. They JOURNAL OF THE TIMES. will try to evade the force of your diarges, but the testimony against them, as a whole, is unequivocal.

The south will undoubtedly cone into the scheme mote end more the north tnas withdraw. and then the machine will work on principles of selfishness and oppression, and will nly help to make up the cup of trembling which bin the hand of the oppiessors, and is ready to run over with destruction. The north, I trust, will enter upon tha i abolition of "slavery and the iinprovmenl.of the people of color here, and will establish missions mong the natives of Africa. One half the money spent in direct missionary efibrts in Africa, would, I believe, have converted, under God, store natives than the Colonization Society lias sent emigrants to Africa and these natives, many of thun, might be preaching and distributing tracts and billes in many parts of Africa. I have longed for the establishment of a missionary station in Africa, and am quite fluxions that a Missionary Society should be established for that continent.

The colored people would have confidence in such a plan, and so would christian public I have perhaps 20 collected at our monthly concert for foreign mission, particularly in Africa but we know not what course to take with it, as there is no missionary society in the country which has missionaries among the From a Gentleman in Jeiv- York. Colonizationism is about to experience a shock, which, like the earthquake, will level all before it. A Society so manifestly iuiquitous as the Colonization Society, must at some time or other fall such a Society cannot exist long Already have the enemies of the unholy crusade of African Colonization unfurled the banner of reason, and, led on by justice and philanthropy, have begun to wage war and the army of justice is rapidly and auspiciously The Colonization Society holds no more meetings in New-York, now What a pity How long before they'll stop altogether? And the Editors of the Journal of Commerce, Col. Stone, the Jew gatherer-together, Sec. talk no more of Great Meetings Now should there be another insurrection, what a ferment there would be a-mong all the great men A dozen Colonization Meetings would be called, and, without effecting anything whatever, they would be forgotten amid the bustle of our great city.

Let us, my dear Sir, continue our warfare until we behold the condition of our distressed countrymen Another Statement Contradicted. Tho Liberia Herald of Feb. 22d asserts that but two of the emigrants who went out from this country in the ship James Perkins (an old woman and a child) had died. We have seen a letter from a highly respectable colored merchant in Liberia, da ted Feb. 19th, (three days prior to the publication of the Herald,) from which we make the following extract This is an uncommonly healthy season, nnd not more than ten or twelv deaths have occurred (ac cording to physicians' report) among the emigrants per James Perkins but I do not think, from what I have seen, that there are more than 40 ptmons left of the 100 per LADIES DEPARTMENT.

o. Woman a FEMALE LITERARY ASSOCIATION. During his recent sojourn in Philadelphia, (rendered inexpressibly delightful by the kindness of friends,) the Editor of the Liberator had tho privilege of visiting and addressing a society of colored ladies, called the Female Literary Association. It was one of the most interesting spectacles he had ever witnessed. If the traducers of the colored race could be acquainted with the moral worth, just refinement, and largo intelligence of this association, their mouths would hereafter be dumb.

The members assemble together every Tuesday evening, for the purpose of mutual improvement in moral and literary pursuits. Nearly all of them write, almost weekly, original pieces, which are put anonymously into a box, and afterwards criticised by a committee. Having been permitted to bring with him several of these jpieces, he ventures to commence their publication, not only for their merit, but in order to induce the colored ladies of other places to go and do likewise. This society is at present composed of about twenty members, but is increasing, and full of intellectual promise. TO A FRIEND.

You ask roe if I do not despair on account of the Bill now before our Legislature I am cast down, but not in despair. I am aware that it will be our lot to suffer much persecution, and I have endeavored, for the last year, to fortify my mind against approaching trials, by reading what others have suffered. In perusing Sewell's History of the people called the Quakers, I was particularly struck with the account of Barbara Blaugdon, a young 'and timid woman, who, by the help of the Almighty, was enabled to endure cruel persecution, not only with patience but with joy. On one occasion, being severely whipped, even until the blood streamed down her back, she sang the praises of her God aloud, rejoicing This Bill is to prohibit the migration of negroes and mulattoes into the It h-i been postponed to the next LegNlature we trust, for tho honor of Pennsylvania, postponed forever. Ed.

that she was counted worthy to Buffer for his. name which increased the anger of the executioner, and made him say, Do ye sing I'll make you cry by and But Barbara was strengthened by an invisible power, and afterwards declared if she had been whipped to death, she should not have been dismayed. Earnestly have I prayed, my friend, that a double portion of bcr humility and fortitude may be ours. In despair no, no God is on our side. With the eye of faith, I pierce the veil of futurity, and see our advocate, after having honorably borne the burden and heat.

of the day, sitting down peaceably by his ain Time has scattered a few blossoms on his head, but left his manly brow without a wrinkle. Hundreds of liberated slaves are pressing round him, eager to testify their gratitude, See yonder mother, with her infant She approaches him, and kneels at his feet, raises her eyes to heaven, and would speak her gratitude but tears and sobs impede her utterance. her tears are far more eloquent than words. I see black and white mingle together in social intercourse, without a shadow of disgust appearing on the countenance of either'; no wailing is heard, no clanking chains but the voice of peace and love and joy Is wafted to my ear by every breeze. And what has wrought this, mighty change? Religion, my sister the religion of the meek and lowly Jesus aad such are its effects wherever it appears.

Could I not thus look forward, I should indeed despair. ZILLAH. Philadelphia, April 1st, 1832. THE FAREWELL. Farewell but thou wilt soon forjet The stranger thou hast seen," And in the gay and busy world.

Forget that I have been. And thought of me will scarce intrude. When other forms are nigh Who, decked in beauty's bright array, Shall pass before thine eye. Another's lips will rthann thee then, Another's voice will praise Thou wilt forget we e'er have met In past end happy days. And thou wilt scarcely d-ign to think Of friendship's early dream, Or cast one glance, in after years, On this poor offering.

Farewell farewell 't were better far That we had never met. Than meeting one brief moment here, To pari and then forgot. ADA. PnHadelphia, June 12ih, 1832. slavery nscons.

SLAVERY IIORRIULE AT BEST. Ex tract of a tetter a Clergyman. I -have seen several pious person of the north wtttf have resided the south, who give their unqualified testimony against slavery. Men of Lupines are apt to apoh-gise for the south, if they to visit it for weid.h but r.ien who are not influenced by such motive declare slavery, as it exists in our country, hortible at best. In the south-west, the hardships of the blacks are awful.

They are almost uniformly driven from day-break to star-light, with only a short interval for dinner. Young females on most of the planlatio.is hold the plough in Mississippi, and work as long as the men. Slaves nre high in that state a common' hand will bring $-'500. Mulattoes are house servants generally, and are much higher and superior female mulattoes will bring $1000 each. The Colonization Society begins to receive patronage from many slaveholders a few fiom benevolent motives, who are willing to release their slaves but generally because they wish to get rid of the free people, and to hold their slaves the more SILVERY IN THE WEST INDIES.

In the April number of the Edinburgh Review, some infamous facts on the treatment of British slaves are given in a review of Jeremie oil Colonial Sluvery. Mr Jeremie was the Chief Justice of St. Lucia and had expressed to the under Secretary of State, in writing, on opinion favorable to the condition of the Slaves. Having sent off the opinion, which was made without examination, he saw a negro with a collar rivalled around his neck with thre prongs ten inches in length, and at the end of which were three more, an inch long, connected by chain, with fetters ut the ancle. His back and limbs were covered with wounds.

This collar was worn day and night. The females by way of punishment were hung by the arms to a peg, and the whole weight of the body rested on the wrists and the tips of the toes. The field stocks constituted another mode of torture and it is a pity that they should not plague the The luinds are inserted in grooves which may be raised high above tho tiead, and the feet are inserted in others, while the toes only touch the ground. Pregnant women are not exempt-d. Was there ever an age of Chivalry, or of Justice Mr Jeremie in his capacity of Judge had to decide in the case of an overseer against a proprietor for wages and the Litter filed an account in offset which, to show the cool manner of conducting such claims in the West Indies, we copy.

After a few items of soap, candles, itc comes, For the value of John, the Cooper, flogged to death by you, $400 For the price of the negresa Mary Clare who died by bruises received by you, 3 (JO The judge discussed the proof as a mere matter of oecocnt, but as one case only was clearly proved de- 103 ducted only the $300. Who was the proprietor that trafficked "tho in murder? He waa the former Chief Justice or the Colony, Mr Jeremie mentions a complaint in which a plantar was charged witb having murdered six or eight slaves in as many years. The complaint originated in a dispute, and not for justice or humanity. lx however produced a general alarm, and the criminal escaped. The murderer, however, made a charge of the value of one slave to the public treasury, which was paid on the ground Hint he was killed" as a runaway.

Mr Jeremie at length had his eyes opened to the colonial standard ofrihtand wrong, and he saw that his instance were not peculiar to St. Lucia. He refers to the case of Mr. and Mrs. Moss, in the Balwmas, who suffered a short imprisonment for killing a young female slave, by confinement in the stocks, repeated flo2giii2, and' rubbing in her eyes tlie capsicum pepper.

When n-tensvd from Prison, they were honored with a public dinner. What must be the people where an act like this is lionored A more general way, however, for the grand jury to ignore a bill for murder. Courier. THE WEST INDIES. By the brig Ambassador, Captain Vauglian' at New York, Jamaica papers to the 24lli May inclusive.

Iiave been received. I lis Majesty's schooner Speedwell captured on 7th. after a cliuse of 1 1 hours, and sent into Havana, I a Spanish slaver, with 239 slaves on board. Tho I prize was called the The PortorSpain (Trinidad) Gazette Extraordinary gives r.n account of an extensive destruction of growing cane on several estates by fire. Froirr tho conduct evinced by the slaves during the conflagration, it was feared that a still greater destruction would follow.

An irruption of negroes had been" made into tho town of Angostura. They nt possession of tho fort, but were eventually driven out with great slaughter. The state of insubordination among tho slaves at Berbice, is represented as very alarming. 1CJ Mr. Light' for June, exhibits a fair amount of talent.

The work is gradually gaining a substantial reputation. The writer of the sketches under the head of American Pulpit, eviuces much care in their composition much fairness, on the whole, in his awards and no small share of critical acumen. His sketch of the Rev. Dr. Beecher, in the present number, io tolerably accurate.

Contents Dr. Lyman Beecher To Somnus Spectator, No. 2 Our Country Modern Charity To a Backwood'a Boy Musical Taste The Insane Hospital at Charlestown To Fred. Tri- fler A Trip Eastward Love of Country Associations for Mutual Improvement in Providence, R. I.

Love Melancholy, No. I Essayist Room Literary Notices. ItjZjP Agents and Subscribers the publishers of the Liberator are greatly in need of money to liquidate bills io a considerable amount. Will 'yon help us out of our dilemma tCf Tho Editor acknowledges, with pleasure, the surferior ability nnd interest which were imparted to tho columns of the Liberator, by the gentlemen to whom the paper was entrusted during his recent absence. ICJ A.

S. Mr Jones's eighth Letter, and other communications next week. JCJ Mr. Robert C. Gordon, 212, South 7th Street, Philadtphia, is authorised to act as an Agent for the Liberator in that city.

Letters received at this office from June 22, to June 29, 1832. Rev. S. S. Jocetyn, New Haven, Ct.

Henry C. Prier, Port-au-Prince Edward Johnson, Lynn, Mass. James Leach, Chillicothe, Ohio James eedham, Philadelphia, Pa. Eliza Ilazzard, Buffalo, N. Y.

Homes GailJard, Port-au-Prince, Execution of Mina. On Thursday, about half past o'clock, A. M. the culprit Mina was taken from his prison in Doylestown, and conducted to the illows. Very early in the morning Mina had a barber culled, who shaved him and dressed his hair in a fashionable stylo.

He wore a handsome new black frock coat, black vest, and light panta- tnnn. nnd hlnr! lint. It. tunlLAfl I. i.

giani composure to Ihe gallows, where he remained more than an hour conversing with the sheriff; Mr Morris, his Counsel, Mr 'Do well, and a clergyman. There was apparently no fear of death in the man, and he manifested scarcely less desire to appear at ease and stylish thun if he was going to a bull room. At half past 11 A. M. the drop fell from under him und Mina was launched into eternity.

Address on Slavery. An address on Slavery was delivered by Mr. Arnold Buffum, in Lamson's meeting-bouse, on Sabbath evening; last. A respectable audience listened attentively for more than an hour to a touching recital of the wrongs of the African slaves, and a powerful appeal in their favor. Dedham Politician.

Rev. Moses Thacher of Wrentham, has consented to deliver an Oration before the Anti-masonic Convention at Augusta, Me. on the 4th July. Ten deaths in Philadelphia week before last from Mania a Potu, or madness from ram. MARRIED In Philadelpliia, on the 25th inau by the Rev.

Samuel E. Cornish, Mr George Andrews to Miss Emily Dudley, both of P. DIED At South Boston, Mose Augustus, son of Moses Comsett, aged 7 months. HE SHRINE. This day published by COTTONS BARNARD.

Th SI. cd by a numuer oi undergraduates in Amherst College, Vol 1 No. 2. Contents Eloquence The Dying Milanese English Bard Win. Woidsworth To Laura The Writings of Junius The Pursuit or Truth The Renunciation The Oath The Character of King David; Night; Solitude; Misapplication oi Talent Conversation on Painting, Sculpture and Poetry Sonnet To a Lady.

Literary Notices, etc, Subscriptions received at Cottons and Barnard's, No. 184 Washington street. ALSO THIS DAT PUBLISHED, THE BOSTON LITERARY MAGAZINE rOH II7LT. CONTENTS. The Red Man A Tale of Troth.

Concluded; Hope; Sports of hU Satanic Majesty; Wilfred. Canto I. The Madman. Translated from the French of S. Henry Berthoud Winter of Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-Two Why I am a Bachelor Illustration Arrival at Augsburg.

From Hardenberg's Heinrich Vou Ofter-digen. Part I. Chap. II. Stanzas to My Nose The New Ship The Fine Art.

No- II- Athe-neum Gallery Statuary. Jephtbah bis Daughter Bryant's Poems. Litekart Notices. VVIIUULI.