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REFUGE OP OPPIIESSIOIJ. NO PROHIBITION OF SLAVERY EITHER IX THE LAW OR GOSPEL The following scandalous article is from the pen of the Rev. It. W. Cushman, editor of the Christian Gazette, printed at Philadelphia.

It is replete with contradiction and cant and if the author be not evidently a wolf iu sheep's and a disgrace to his clerical profession, who is Reader, put this and that together We know of nothing in the law or the gospel that can be called a prohibition of slavery 1 we believe it is not prohibited uuder the old dispensation or the new That hereditary bondage is an INFRINGEMENT OFjTHE LAW OF NATURE, we have no Thus the law of nature is more merciful and just than the law of God, and irreconcilably" opposed to ill! But then this reverend apologist for the base kidnappers at the south has a New-England abhorrence of that which neither the law nor the gospel prohibits Verily, we believe him. shame We have been perusing the following articles: the 'Report of a Committee to whom was referred the subject of the Religious Instruction of the Colored Population of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, at its late session in Columbia, S. C. a Letter from Jermiah Hubbard, of Guilford County, N. und Clerk of the Yearly Meeting of Friends of that State, to a Friend in England 'The Seventeenth Annual Report of the American Colonization and the 'Liberator' of the 22d containing a report of the proceedings of the Massachusetts Colonization Society, and Mr.

Garrison's comments on thoo proceedings, and on the question of Colonization and an account of a meeting of Abolitionists in Glasgow, assembled in view of the embarkation for this country, of Geo. Thompson, Esq. We took up these papers with a sincere desire, we believe, to be enlightened to understand a subject which we have long thought would, at no distant period, become the engrossing one in this country. We have laid them down with the following impressions 1st. That slavery, whether politically, socially, morally, or economically considered, is a grievoti3 curse to the land.

2d. That neither the North nor the South will much longer tolerate it; and that it must therefore como to an end. 3d. That the slaves must be colonized that they must either leave the country, or the rice, cotton, and sugar section of it must be relinquished to them. 4th.

That the enterprize of the American Colonization Societ-, as that Society is now-organized, deserves the co-operation of every philanthropist in the country, whether slaveholder or abolitionist. 5th. That the objects of the Colonization Society and those-of the Anti-Siavery Society are not incompatible with each other; and that the opposition of the leaders of the latter, to the former Society, is injudicious, and injurious to the general cause of African melioration. We hire nercr mtt with, any thing to con-tince us that it is a sin to be a holder of slaves. We.

know of nothing in the taw or the gospel that can be called a prohibition. Slavery existed when the christian code was given and, both by its prevalence and its evils, furnished the most ample opportunity for Apostolic denunciation and if it had been essentially incompatible with Christianity, we cannot but believe it would have been denounced. Whatever may be said of silence on that point by the Saviour, will not apply to his Apostles. For, although we may admit that it was not necessary that his personal instructions should cover the whole ground of morals, yet if hereditary bondage was essentially incompatible with Christian fealty, the Christian code would not have been completed without an express prohibition of it. And thoujrh we may attempt to account for the absence of such express prohibition in the letters to the churches, on the ground of prudence or expediency, we cannot admit the influence of such a consideration in reference to the letter of Philemon.

His servant, or slave, Onesimus, had actually absconded from him; and, on becoming a Christian, was reminded into bondage by the Apostolical order. Did the Apostle do right or wrong? If it be said that the right and duty of declaring freedom to the slave did not belong to the Apostle, but to the master, very well if the duty belonged to the master that is, if it was the master's duty to liberate him, what reason can be given for the omission of the Apostle to tell him We are no friends to slavery, and never were trc have a w-England abhorrence of it. But we wish to see the opposition rrosecuted on tenable ground. And as tee zlieve it is not prohibited under the old dis pensation or the neic, we deplore the use of reasonings that are fallacious, and language that exasperates, by those who labor for its abolition. Arguments employed airainst an opponent, that are seen to be hollow, are converted into bulwarks cgainst those that are sound.

That hereditary bondage is an infringe-punt of the law of nature, however, tee have no doubt. That law has been correctly stated the memorab instrument in Inch our fathers declared themselves absolved from bondage. All men are by nature free and equal and are endowed bv their Creator with the inalicnuble rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And the in consistency of making such a declaration, and fighting against Britain to defend it, and against their bondmen to refute it, is too gross to be justified or palliated. The adoption of that article of our Constitution thai recognizes involuntary servitude, to pay the nest of it, was a virtual retraction of the po eition assumed in the Declaration of Inde pendence.

And to say no more than truth, slavery is a morbid excrescence on the body pontic; a deformity to its beauty, and a run ninar sore to its strength. Of the truth of these assertions, our South ern fellow-citizens need no ortAfra Lights to convince them. The Richmond Tele graph recently told us, that many owners of laves arc thinking intensely, ana praying IV. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. over this subject- It is discussed, too, by many.

We believe there are few in Vir ginia who do not consider the possession of property in human flesh a calamity We have travelled pretty extensively in that State, and though stimulated to inquiry by the feelings which may be supposed to belong to in reference to this sub ject, we never found one who hesitated to confess that the existence of slavery was an evil and the instances were numerous in which a willingness was professed to give them vp without compensation, if they could be removed from among and provided for. That similar views and feelings exist extensively in the most Southern StatPS, we infer from the tone of the Synod-ical Report above referred to. That it should ever have been seriously proposed by those at the South, and much more thnt it should have been yielded by those of the North, who framed our Constitution, that the African should be represented in our National Legislature, after having decided that the yoke that made him a beast of burden should not be brokei, has always been to us a rmtter of astonishment. Instead of contributing to the strength of the nation, the slave is a burden which demands no inconsiderable portion of that strength for protecting him from receiving, and doing harm and which acts as an unjust weight on the balance of power between the South and the North. lie has thus ever been an occasion of discontent on the one hand, and jealousy on the other a jealousy and discontent that we must not expect will die while the cause itself exists.

OUR FREE COUNTRY! tO" Here is a specimen of the manner in which human beings are flaily advertised and sold in this land of the free. We copy it from a handbill printed at New-Orleans. VALUABLE NEGROES AT AUCTION. BY WM. II.

ROBERTSON. Will be sold on Saturday, 1st February, at 12 o'clock, in front of the Auction-room, 10 Valuable Slaves. As follows: 1. 24 years of age; very athletic, and a good teamster and ostler. 2.

Fa.n.nit, 22 years of age, wife to Squire an excellent cook and laundress. 3. Ned. 35 years of ago a good carpenter, and an excellent driver on plantation. 4.

DoliY, 38 years of age, wife to Ned; a good cook, and first rate laundress also, a good field hand. 5. Eari.t, 18 years of age very iikely, a first rate field hand hand, cook, 0. Mart, 17 years of age; a good house servant nnd laundress. 7.

Sam, 15 years of age; very likely. 8. Clarrissa, 17 years of age; a first rate field hand and house servant. 9. Philms, 15 years of age good house servant.

The above Negroes are acclimated, and their titles and health guaranteed. Terms 6 months, for approved negotiable paper. ALSO At the same time, several valuable servants and field hands. Jfew-Orlrans. Januury 27, 1834.

LADIES' DEPARTMENT. For the Liberator. CONSTITUTION OF THE FEMALE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY OF "PHILADELPHIA. adopted 12th mo. 14th, 1833.

Whereas more than two millions of our fellow creatures of these United States are held in abiect bondage and whereas we believe slavery, and the prejudice against color, ars contrary to the laws of God, and to the principles of our far tamed Declaration of Independence; and recognizing the rurht of the slave to immediate emancipa tion We deem it our duty, as professing Christians, to manliest our abhorrence ot the flagrant injustice and deep sin of slavery, by united and vigorous exertions for its speedy removal, and for the restoration of the people of color, to their inalienable rights. For this purpose, we, the undersigned, agree to associate ourselves, under the name ot 1 he Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery to be governed by the following rules: Article 1. The object of the Society shall be to collect and disseminate correct information of the character of slavery, the actual condition of the slaves and ot the tree people of color; for the purpose of inducing the community generally, and our sisters particularly, to unite in removing this foul stain from our boasted land ofliberty, and to adopt such measures as may be in our power, to dispel the prejudice against the people of color, to improve their condition, and to bring about the 6peedy abolition ot slavery. Art. 2.

Any female uniting in these views, and contributing to the funds, shall be a member of the Society. Art. 3. The management of the concerns of the Society, and the disposition of the funds, shall be entrusted to a Presiding Officer, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer, and Librarian, who, together with six other members, shall constitute a Board of Managers, whose duty it shall bo, to consider and adopt tho means best calculated to promote the objects in view, and report the same to the Society at each stated meeting. They shall have power to fill any vacancy that may occur in their board until the next stated meeting.

Art. 4. The Recording Secretary shall keen a record of the transactions of the So ciety, and notify all meetings of the Society, and of the Board of Managers. Art. 5.

The Corresponding Secretary shall keep all communications directed to the Society, and manage all the corresponaence with any other bodies or individuals, according to the directions of the Society, or of the Managers. tea OUR COUNTHY 13 THE VOHLD-OUR Art. G. The Treasurer shall collect the subscriptions and grants to the Society, make payments according to its directions and those of the Managers, and present an ac curate account of the funds at each annual I meeting. Art.

7. The Librarian shall take charge of all books and pamphlets, belonging to the Society, and conform to the rules and regulations, prescribed by the Society for the management of the Library. Art. 8. The Managers shall meet once a month, or oftener if necessary, on a day fixed by themselves, and stated meetings of the Society shall be held quarterly on the 2d day in the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th months.

The officers shall be elected annually in the 1st month. Art. V. It is especially recommended, that the members of this Society should at all times, and on all occasions, give the preference to free produce to that of slaves believing, that the refusal to purchase and use the products of slave-laljor is one of the most efficient means of abolishing slavery. officers for the f.nsciso tear.

ESTHER MOORE, Presiding Officer. Lucretia Mott, Corresponding Secretary. Margaret Fort en, Recording Sec. Ann Bunting, Treasurer. Ltdia White, lAbrarian.

REVIEW THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY FURTHER UNRAVELLED. BY CHARLES STUART. 'The heart is deceitful above all thing, and desperately wicked. Who can kuow it Jer. 17, 9.

The truth of the above declaration is written in every page of the history of the world but, in nothing has it been more strikingly evinced than in the colonizing of barbarous lands by civilized nations. One beautiful exception appears it is the settlement of Pennsylvania, by William Penu. Look where else you will, and you find the civilized stranger sweeping away the uncultivated native, os the pestilence prostrates in its course the sweet charities of life. Where are the Peruvians the Mexicans Whero the Indians of the United States of Canada? Where arc the original neoole of Hay ti, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Antilles? Where are the Hottentots of the Cape of Good Hope, and in whose hands are their valleys and their streams The Romans, Saxons, Danes, Normans, colonized England, and the blue-eyed Briton perished from his native country, or survived only by the suf-lerance of strangers. Yet, with the blood of the poor, calling out against them from almost every corner of the earth, civilized nations still pretend to benevolence, in colonizing barbarous lands.

I say, in order to distinguish what I mean, from missionary establishments, such as we find in the Sandwich and Society Islands, in New Zealand, in Africa, and amongst the remnants of the Indian nations, in Canada and the United States, establishments, worthy of the Gospel, and as different from fire-arm, rum, and gunpowder colonies, as the weapons of truth and love are, from the weapons of hypocrisy, selfishness, pride, ambition, and blood. Of the colonial description, a bolder and baser imposition has never perhaps been attempted upon the common sense, and common feelings of mankind, than by the American Colonization Society, and the settlement of Liberia. The Americans have a large class among them, for whom they seem scarcely able to find terms of sufficient reprobation. They call them 'a curse to the 'a class the most corrupt, depraved, and abandoned 'a momentous, inert, and deeply-seated social evil 'destitute, depraved, the victims of all forms of social misery a dead weight upon the skirts of the 'the dreadful calamity which has long afflicted our country, and filled so many with an anomalous race, the most debased on ccc. They speak of Africa as a barbarous land, and they eloquently and justly dilate upon the horrors of its slave trade.

They declaim against the wrongs which Africa has suffered from white men and now, say they, we must make amends. But mark the mode The colored people, whose ancestors (on the colored side) were transported from Africa, must themselves be transported from America. This will be justice to them, because Jifrica is their And as many ship-loads as may be, of the most corrupt, depraved, and abandoned people in America, must be sent to the African coast, well provided with fire-arms, gunpowder, and rum! this will be justice to Africa Might they not as well pretend to love me, by sending a libertine into my house, provided with poisonous drugs, and carrying arms under his cloak The fact is, that the people "whom they reproach, are not quite so corrupt, depraved, and abandoned that they are rising in worth and in respectability, in spite of the ferocious oppression, which weighs like an incubus upon them that their numbers and their influence are increasing too rapidly and that, as the whites have no inclination to allow more of them to remain at home, than they need for their lust, avarice, or their pride, they have long been looking anxiously round them for a remedy, and at length have got one exactly to their taste. It is, to colonize the western coast of Africa with 'an anomalous race, the most de based on earth, ror we may suppose them to say, thus shall we rid ourselves of this momentous, inert, and deeply-seated racial evil this dead weight upon the skirts COTJITTRTZYIEN" A HE ALL of our country and thus, shall we thrust happiness down their throats, in spite of Lir ungrateful So, these same colonizationists set to work and they even come over to England, to beg us to help them to cover up their sins, that they may continue free slave traders, and frte musters in America, without shame or remorse, under the cloak of attacking slave trading in Africa, and of making amends to Africa for all the woes which white men have heaped upon her, by planting on her shores the 'dead weights' of America, with plenty of fire-arms, gunpowder, and rum The population of the United States is about of these, upwards of 2.000,000 are enslaved, and upwards of more, though free, are brutally oppressed. These facts are thus spoken of in the Appendix to the Seventh Annual Report of the American Colonization Society.

But it is enough to say, in regard to the moral influence on the blacks, that laws exist in nearly all the slavcholding States, prohibiting their instruction, and even driving them from Sunday Schools, because the public safety requires them to be kept in perfect iernorance. And in regard to its influ ence on the white population, that the most lamentable proofs of its deteriorating effects may be found in the fact, that excepting the pious, whose hearts are governed by the Christian law of reciprocity between man and man; and the wise, whose minds have looked far into the relations and tendencies of things, none can be found to lift their voice against a system so utterly repugnant to the feelings of unsophisticated humanity. A system which permits till the atrocities of the domestic slave trade which permits the father to sell his ch ldren as he would his cattle a system which consigns one half of the community to hopeless and utter degradation and which threatens in its final catastrophe, to bring down the same ruin on the master and In the United States, there are at least 71 actions for which slaves are capitally punished but for which whites are only liable at most, to confinement in the Penitentiary and out of 38 crimes, slaves are punished with death for 21, for which whites arc liable to no punishment at all. Stroud's Sketch, pageW-J7, 111, 112. A white man, partially intoxicated, some time since, entered the house of a man of color in Galliopolis, and began to abuse the females.

The owner endeavored to get him out, and was assisted by a young friend. The ruffian stabbed this young man, whoxlied. A eentleman. whose name I will ffive, if necessary, had the white assassin arrested and brousht to trial. The witnesses appeared but they-could not awear.

Why not? Were they dumb No they spoke and felt like other men. Why then was not their evidence taken Was their.character bad Had they perjured themselves No. What then? Why, their skins were too dark by a few shade. The murderer consequently escaped, rejoicing in the. free latss of Ohio Zonesville Gazette, Ohio, Ang.

28, 183a This dreadful state of society imperiously needs a remedy. In Russia, it is loathsome. But in the United States, which boast of being The home of the free what words can express its vileness The American Colonization Society recommends one remedy. The American Anti-Slavery Society urges another. The American Colonization Society would remove the colored race to Africa.

The American Anti-Slavery Society wishes to restore them to their unforieited liberties and rights in their native country. The American Colonization Society declares this to be impossible, and grounds its assertion upon the acknowledged and desperate wickedness of its country. The people of the United States, they say, are so seared in this sin, that not even the gospel of Christ can turn them from it for, say they, 'it is an ordination of 15th Annual Report, p. 17. The American Anti-Slavery Societies af firm that nothing is wanting but willingness in the whites, and that this willingness may be won by.

moral and religious means. But, says the Colonization Society, the process will be too tedious. The more we sustain the invincibility of sin, reply the American Anti-Slavery Socie ties, the more tedious must the process of its destruction be. The more the power of the gospel is asserted nnd applied, the more early must be the victory over it. But then, the slave party will be so angry, that they will never join us, cries uie Colonization Society, and it is impossible to succeed without them.

We have better hopes of success, returns the Anti-Slavery Society, without their aid, as long as their aid can only be won by condescending to their wickedness. The servants of God best prosper in His work of love, when they refuse all compact in inqui-ty with His enemies. This is all abstract principle, says the Colonization Society, and will never do in actual life. Nickname it as you will, returns the Anti-Slavery Society, it still is truth? and truth is what the world wants. But we ought to be as wise as serpents, retorts the Colonization Society.

True, replies the other, but we ought to preserve in our wisdom the harmlessness of the dove and where is the harmlessness of continuin? to plunder the gmltlesa ot liberty, or in goading them to fly from their native country in despair? We neither deprive them of liberty, nor goad them to exile, exclaims the Colonization Society. All that we do, is to help the sufferers to remove out of the way of What the oppression of which you epeak? 3VT AITHINTJ. WO. 16. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1834.

The oppression of slavery and prejudice. Who are tou We are nine-tenths of the white people of the United States. Who are the perpetrators of the above op pression. The same nine-tenths of the white people of the United States. 7 lien you have the command.

Juy your own account you are nine-tenths of the governing1 population of your country, and you can do as you please. Why theu do you not immediately abolish slavery, and take to your bosoms the victims of your pride, if you really are penitent, and wish them well The fact is, that the body of the white peo pie of the United States, in this particular, are like the libertine, who has rioted in the ruin of innocence, who will not cease from sin, but who offers a few pounds of his thousands, provided they will remove to a foreign land, to his wretched victims, when he is ureu or afraid of them then, struts abroad and swears that he loves them. Dr. T. Hodjrkin, a eentleman of London has just produced an elaborate pamphlet on this subject.

It is a placid and specious defence of sla very and prejudice admitting, as all sinners and all advocates of sinners do, the abstract turpitude, but asserting the practical neces sitvof crime. It is written under a delusion which many of his best friends deplore, and serves a cause wmcn is totally auverse io ui- acknowledged benevolence. It applauds the insane idea of abolishing the African slave trade by lining the African coast with foreign forts; and thereby draws nway attention from the greatandonty effec tual means, which is, the abolition of negro Human cupidity and daring will always obtain a supply, wherever there is an adequate demand, though all the men in the world should become soldiers, and every s'one be used in constructing fortresses, Pull down slavery in the British West Indies Pull down slavery in the United States. Pull down slavery elsewhere. Leave it no hiding place, and ring their sin without ceasing in the cars of slave-masters Then, will the slave trade cease Dr.

II. seems to think, that because he has produced numerous extracts from the publications of the American Colonization Society, and (riven them the most flattering interpretation in his power, his renders mnst, therefore, be deluded with him, into approbation of that nefarious association. Of this there is a remarkable instance in prge 22 of bis pamphlet. He says, quoting from Seventh Annual Report: Excepting the pious, whose hearts are eovcrned by the christian law of reciprocity between man nnd man, and the wise, whose minds have looked far into the relations and tendencies of things, none can be found to lift their voices against a 6o utterly ccc. In other places he admits that the American Colonization Society does not lift its voice against that horrible system.

And yet, throughout his pamphlet, he contends that the American Colonization Society is pious and xoise that is, in the United States, there in an atrocious system of desperate wickedness the great body of the nation are its perpetrators but the pious and wise assail it. The" American Colonization Society consists of the great body of the nation they do not assail it they are its perpetrators yet they are pious and wise Dr. like other minds of his class, mokes the egregious mistake of concluding, that because crime stains virtue, virtue sanctions crime. On exactly the same grounds a man would only have to tell of the kind tempers and generous actions of a robber or a pirate, in order to prove robbers and pirates honorable men! And what are slave masters at best, but robbers and pirates! Robbers and pirates of property as much more valuable than gold or silver, as personal liberty and safety, as a man's wife and children are, than all the glittering dust which ever sprung from the mine, or inflamed and gratified the lusts of tyrants! It is not my object, however, to pursue Dr. II.

through all the mazes of his net work. That he joins in the outcry against the noble Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the Granville Sharpe of the United States that ho discredits Wilberforce, and hopes to find James Cropper, by and by, a regenado is quite natural to a mind, which, with means of better can espouse a cause so full of cool blooded iniquity, as the persecution to which the colored people of the United States are subjected, and of which, the American Colonization Society is the disciplined and deadly concentration. The evidence already communicated to the public on this subject by myself, by James Cropper, by Wm. Lloyd Garrison, by E'izur Wright, by Whittier, by the Liberator, by the publications of the American Colonization Society, by the Emancipator, by Arthur Tappan, by the Eclectic Review, by Mr.

Geo. Thompson, by the Times, remains uncontroverted and uncontrovertible by any thing which deserves the name of proof or principle. The idolaters of their hobbies, like E. Cresson, and the pleaders for peace between uod and Mammon, like Dr. Hodfr kin, of course, do not fe4 its force, and do air that they can to blunt its point.

But Truth is great and will Let us, however, advert to a few more particulars. Page 18, Dr. H. contrasts Wilberforce, in Canada, with Liberia, in Africa. Both of them pretend to aim at the benefit of the colored people of the United States.

Is it not most natural to ask, what do the colored people of the United States think of them Wherever they dare to speak their minds without disguise, they thus speak Resolved, That should any state, by legislative enactments, drive our brethren from iu jurisdiction, will givm tbetg all Cm aid in our power, to enable taem to rrmovo a 90 settle in Upper Cauda, or elsewhere, that liiey may not be compelled to sac noes utir lives tn the insalubrious ciimaia 01 uocrra, provided for them by the Americas Colonization Minutes of Proceedings of 3d Annual Convention of the free people of color, Philadelphia, June, 633, page 23. N. B. At this Convention, delegates were present from the following States, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New-Jersey, Delaware, Jlhode liland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New-York. What woold Dr.

U. think of me. if I wers to assure him that he woold be happier away tromnu wne auu umiiy ana native lane, and were to do all I could vitkout physical force. to goad him out of his own better convic lions, and to urge uim to Uy into some distant country where ho might find rest from my wickedness? The United States are the nttive country of the colored race in question. They bay their wives and children there.

Then are their fathers, and there arc the mothers that nurtured their childhood. They love their country which hates them. They are strug gling nobly to rise there, by overcoming evil with good. 1 hey are rising. 1 hry are willing to suffer.

is there, what virtue, what religion is there, in spurning their entreaty to be allowed to die home Who does not know that happineM is not a tiling of place, or of circumstance, or of reason, but of feeling Suppose, said a Prcsbyterinn minister, last winter, in th north of Ireland, that Nicholas wej-e departed, and that a deputation should, wait upon me, from the people of Russia, to tender me the imperial crown suppose me to answer, that I preferred my ministry, and my people, and my fire-side, to the sceptre of empire; and that I therefore declined the magnificent offer. What amends would it make me for the outrage, should I be torn or enticed away, that I was seated on the throne of the Russias Dr. II. argues that the climata of Liberia is superior to that of Wilberforce, in Upper Canada; but the reverse is strikingly the case and nothing is wanting to prove it, but the fact, that all the emigrants to Wilberforce, as a body, continue healthful whereas, all the emigrants to Liberia, as a body, undergo a severe probation before they are acclimated, and very many of them perish in the process. -Dr.

II. seems to forget in his zea that men are not palm trees. lie says that the authorities In Canada are beirjuning to feel jealous of the increase of Wilberforce. I cannot believe it. Why should they No class of people in Canada have more powerful reasons for loyalty thsn the colored people ncr is there on earth any people who have ever exhibited a more brave and loyal character than they, wherever they have been fairly tried.

Besides, if mere emigration makes them such angels in Liberia, why should they not be doubly angelic, under vastly more circumstances, in Upper Canada? I know, indeed, that upon the first immicration from Ohio, in 1829-50, the American influence in the Low er Houso (House of Assembly) of Upper Canada, obtained a bill in that house against them. But I know that that infamous bill was at once rejected by the Upper House and I know that the colored people have received the most cordial and liberal assurances of equal protection from the Canadian government. Besides, with all her faults. Great Britain is not of a temper to spurn the exile and the strange from her gates nelth--er is she so fallen, as tn tremble at the power of slave masters and colonizationists. Another says Dr.

H. 'which attaches itself to the Wdberforce settlement, may be equally applied to any colony on the continent of America. It must serve om a constant attraction and receptacle for runa-way blacks, whether escaping from slavery or from justice' And this is an objections! Look at it. It has the very soul of the Colonization Society in it and it would bo a wonder, indeed, if the man who mokes it were not a colonizationist. Oh how wicked, in Dr.

mind, would bo the country which afforded him a place of refuge from slavery for the tyrants, forsooth, would be more severe against those who remained Lie prostrate, poor bondman Dae cot to rise from the dust with which you are levelled for if you fly, the enraged despot, whom you leave behind you, will embitter the oppression of those that remain. Never mind your outraged wife your polluted daughter your little one torn from God and your bosom, and made a slave as soon as it is born. Never mind the prostration of your own soul shut out from the light of the gospel, and withering in darkness and midnight. Never mind suffer all remain beast and go down to death without an effort, lest your tyrant should be irritated, and others should suffer. Wonderful magnanimity where do we find an example of it, except in the dreams of the slave master and the colonizationist? An objection, indeed Why, were my soul to range the creation for a recommendation to Wilberforce, and the other colored settlements in Upper Can- aua, know nocwncre could nna a nobler, than in the fact, that they are a nuisance and a terror to slave masters, and a place of safety and of refuge for slaves! rior is thero a single feature in my honored country which winds her more sacredly round my heart, than that under her arm, in one portion of hei dominions why, alas why is it not in every part the slave is righted and secure the moment he touches her shores.

I could almost imagine myself to be perusing the pages of a slave inastet, instead of a benevolent London gentleman, as I proceed Dr. II. is afraid of the degrading and demoralizing tendency of the influx of new refugees into Wilberforce. Why? They are men indeed, and doubtless faults will appear. But why should this be a reason either against the settlement itself, or against preserving a place of refuge for the oppressed? Do black men alone behave ill? If there be danger from them in Canada, will there be none in Liberia? Or, is it the christian temper to spurn even criminals, even slave masters, from our doors when they are perishing? How much less tho poor sufferers of wrong? He 6peaks of the complaints of the Georgians against the Indians, and half excuses it, fraught with falsehood, blood, and bsse-ness as it was.

He does right to compare it with the Colonizationist charges against the colored people. Ho speaks of the Indians as being 'the yet more nnfortonata victims of European and American Tbey have been led into all crimes by the whites so have the colored people. They have been murdered and plundered by the whites so have the colored people..