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Y. Courier and Enquirer. Dinner Parti in High Life and Exhibition of the Fine In these times of difficulty and distress, it is gratifyin to find that neither the innocent gaitiesof life, nor the more important interests of the fine arts, are likely to suffer very materially. We have been favored with the following account of a fashionable dinner party at the house of jjr (j a respectable merchant of this city and an evening exhibition at the Chatham street which we cannot but think will prove highly gratifying to all lovers of equal rights, and all connoisseurs in the finaearts. The principal details may be depended on implicitly.

A few days since a respectable Presbvte- rinn clergyman was invitca to uine wun me aforesaid" Mr. who is one of the distinguished members of the Society whose object is 'The immediate emancipation of the whole colored race within the United .1. r- States; and tlie emancipation 01 uiw irte colored man from the oppression of public sentiment, and the elevation of both to an intellectual, moral and political equality with the On arriving at Mr. 's house, the clerical gentleman was ushered into the room where he found that worthy philanthropist of one color, surrounded by some ten or a dozen strapping candidates for 'intellectual, moral and political At first the clergyman mistook them for a display of waiters, and wondered at friend 's ostentation. But his error was speedily rectified, by being formally introduced to Brother Coffee, Brother Quashee, Brother Cato, Brother Cresar, Brother Pompey, and several other illustrious Pagans, who he found were invited wuests on this occasion.

The good man had all the humility becoming a christian pastor, and would not have hesitated to preach to these 4 Dusky Davys nay, he might have reconciled himself to an 4 intellectual, moral and political equality but this kind of social levelling almost destroyed his relish for the expected dinner. However, conceiving it his duty as a christian to submit to these little crosses when they fell in his wav, he determined to let the thing pass, and hob a nob it with Messrs. Cuffee, Ciesar and Pompey, for this time at least. When the company came to sit down at table, it was found there were not seats enough for them all, and Mr. G- with a decree of high breeding above all praise, directed his daughter to take a seat at the side table to make room for the illustrious Cuffee.

Our informant says the dinner passed off in the first style of high breeding. The Gem-men they called each honor to the feast and their education, and exhibited no bad copies of some of the thinnest of the waisted dandier in Broadway. They beat them all to pieces in whiskers, nnd handled their silver forks to admiration. The conversation turned principally on the superiority of the black epidermis to the white on the murderers and men-stealers of the South and on the necessity and morality of intermarriages among the whites and blacks. All agreed in this last, except the illustrious Ctesar, who objected on the ground, that this intermixture would in time detract from the natural superiority of the 'gemmen of by producing an approximation to tho white skin, which the ereat Jackspur had denounced as 4 lily-liver-etL Upon this our informant handed a piece of tolerably "brown bread, thinking itmMitbe taken as a compliment; but he declined it in rather an indignant manner, grumbling something about 'consisting a gemmen of The dinner on the whole went off tolerably well.

Mr. and his daughter, we believe, waited on the 'gemmen' when they wanted any thing, and they all went away quite sober, the entertainer thanking them tor the honor ot tiieir company, ua-sar pm-ted the cheek of the young lady at the side table, and expressed some regret that he could not pay his addresses tc her, without in some measure disgracing his Thou Hi we have given these details somewhat inlhe spirit of badinage, being absolutely unable to do it seriously without indulging in unbecoming indignation, yet the public "may rest assured that the principal tacts arc true. Such dinner was given by Mr. (i a respectable Presbyterian clergyman was invited: the daughter of Mr. was sent to the sik' table, and the black centlemeu, who, from their language and manners, were ot me iowo-i graoe 01 city negroes, were received and.

treated in the manner related. We are also assured, on the best authority, that this same Mr. has a daughter at a school in Oneida county, where blacks and whites are educated together on terms of perfect equality. A man in this free country has certainly a right to give dinners to whom he likes, and send 'daughter to any school he pleases. But when byso doing he commits an outrage on the feelings and customs of the society of which hn is a member, and sets an exam ple dangerous to the peace and union of that nation of which he is a citizen, ls.equany our right, nay, as we conceive, our duty to notice such pernicious innovations.

hat but the corruption and degradation of the white man can result from this indiscriminate intercoursc, this debasing cqualijy You. cannot raise the negro to the level of the white man all history and experience is against that. But you may degrade the white man to a level with the negro, as you can adulterate gold to an approximation to the basest metals. Such examples as that given by Mr. are proper subjects of public censure because, on tho one hand, ne in flying in the face of the settled principles and decorums of social life, and on the other, affording a precedent which, if universally or extensively followed, must end in debasing his epecies and disrupting this union.

Wo have not room for the exhibition of tho Fine Arts at Chatham-ftrert chapel, and must postpone it till.anothcr day. VOL.IV.3 ROSTOJY, 31ASSACHUSETTS. SLAVER7 DISCUSSION AT LANE SEMINARY. From the Cincinnati Journal. Mr.

Editor, An erroneous and injtn'ous impression, with ref erence to the Lane has been made upon the community, by an article in the last Western Monthly Magazine. As the editor of that periodical re I uses to disabuse the public mind, by any correction of its misrepresentations, I solicit the publication of the following communication in the Journal. To James Hall, Editor of the JVettern Monthly Jaarin. Sir As you have avowed yourself the author of an article, published in the last Western Monthly Magazine, and headed Education and Slavery, I make no apology for addressing you thus publicly by name. The article in question seems to have been framed with the design of exciting public indignation against the Lane Theological Seminary, on account of the stand recently taken by the students upon the subject of slavery.

The text upon which the homily professes to be constructed, is 'The Preamble and Constitution of the Anti-Slavery Society of Seminary. io shrink trom avow ing the name of the seminary, whilst desig nating ii in other respects, with a pains-taking particularity a delicacy truly original. The courtesy of the article indicates a Ches-terfieldian origin. A few specimens will serve as an illustration 'precocious 'minors, who are at 'embryo a set of young gentlemen dreamingthemselvesinto full-grown boys at sophomoric declamation, paper caps, and wooden mind their own business and their That the public may know something more of these 'minors at who are rebuked for examining the subject of slavery, 'until they have acquired the privileges of acting as men, and voting as I will give a few statistics of the theological students, whose infantile prattlings have so ruffled the equanimity of the reviewer. Thirty of the theological class are over twenty-six years old, fourteen are over twenty-eight, and nine are between thirty and thirty-five.

Two of the class were members of colleges seventeen years ago; two others graduated eight years since six others, three years since and the remainder have either graduated, more recently, or have gone through a course of study substantially equal to a college course. One of the class was a practising physician, for ten years twelve others have been public agents for state and national benevolent institutions, employed in public lecturing, in various parts of the Union. Six of the class are married men three of them have been so, for nearly ten years. For more specific information relative to these striplings, permit me, sir, to refer you to Ely Taylor, Esq. joint proprietor with yourself in the Western Monthly Magazine; and the enterprising publisher of the Cincinnati Journal.

Some years since, Mr. Taylor was the classmate of twenty of the members of the present theological class, and the younger brother of not a few of them. So much for the babyhood of the theological students. In the literary department, eighteen of the students arc between twenty-five and thirty years of age; twenty-eight are between twenty-one and twenty-five, and ten are between nineteen and twenty-one. TliPre is but one regular member of tho institution under nineteen years old.

I will state a few facts to show, that those who took part in the recent discussion, were thoroughly acquainted with slavery in all its forms. The discussion occupied eighteen eve- ninsis. 1 n.re were vifjiiiei ii of them were born, and had always lived, in ni I slave str.tes. The average ape of the eight speakers was twenty-four years. The re maining ten sneakers hart resided more or less in slave states.

Six of them from one to six years. The average age of these speakers was twenty-seven years. The eighteen speakers rave, in their addresses, tha results of residence and personal obser vation for years in each of the following slave states. Virginia, twenty-nine years South Carolina, twenty-three Alabama, twenty-four; Tennessee, twenty-two; Missouri, twenty-three Kentucky, sixty-four. Besides these, they gave the result of obsecva tion during residences of from six months to five years in Louisiana, Arkansas Territory, Maryland, North Carolina, and Mississippi.

2. The entire tendency of your article is such, as to mislead the public mind, and pro duce the impression, that the discussion of the subject ot slavery in mis institution, was productive of wrath, malice, and every evil work. You talk of the 'rancor of contests of contamination of malig nant 'the withering touch ot party angry I do not assert that on have, in so many words, explic itly declared thattnese results were actuany realized at this Bcminary. But you have so dexterously practised the tactics of manoeuvring, as to produce that impression upon the public mind, as strongly as if effected by direct assertion. Now, what are the facts in the case student in this seminary will testify that courtesy and kindness pervaded the whole debate! Not an instance in which motives were impugned.

No accusations of unfairness and misrepresentation bandied. Harmony and brotherly love prevailed not only during the debate, but still remains unbroken. True, it has been loud-v bruited, that half of the students were rivon from the seminary, by the rancor of the debate, and the wrathful spirit which succeeded it. Tiic facts however are these. Only five of the students have taken a dis-mi-jsion from the seminary 6ince the debate.

One of them has been ordained as a m.loriho American Board. The four ntbN int from considerations totally uncon nrrtwl with tha oucstion of slavery. During oun oouutry is the would OUR the same period, six individuals have become members of the seminary twelve others have applied for admission. Of the latter, five are from the state of Kentucky, and have made application for admission since the publication of your article. 3.

Much pains is taken to produce the impression, that the formation of an anti-slavery society, in this institution, was a political movement; mat the students are political partizans, hot and heady, and are driving their measures to revolutionize the government. The article teems with swelling words about the 'establishment of political 'predisposing minds to peculiar dogmas, in relation to political 'perverting seminaries of learning into political debating clubs and yon say this is tho first time we have known of a set of young gentlemen at school, setting seriously to work to organize a wide-spread political revolution, and to alter the constitution of their Why, sir, did you not substantiate these charges? Why not quote the language of the document, and permit your readers to judge for themselves, whether its doctrines are unconstitutional and its spirit insurrectionary? Vague vituperative harangue may easily avail to lash up popular clamor and coarse ap peal to the cruder elements, that reek on the surface, or thicken at the bottom, are cheap expedients for stamping upon any cause tho indiscriminate stigma of a blind public odium. A good cause seeks no such auxiliaries. Let those enlist them that need their aid. 'Setting seriously to work to alter the con stitution of their country Sir, have you read the document, which you condemn? If so, you know that it not only contains no such sentiment as that, which you charge upon it; but explicitly disclaims and repu diates all resort to such means, for procuring the abolition of slavery.

I will quote all that part of the ireamble, in which allusion is made to the government of the country. Mode of operation. YV shall seek the abolition of slavery: 2. 'Not by advocating an interposition of force, on the part of the free states. We are no advocates for war.

3. Not by advocating congressional in terference with the constitutional powers of the slates; even if Congress had power to abolish slavery, our principles 'show us a more excellent way. I make no comment. False glosses and perversions of fact will speedily find their level. Setting seriously to work, to alter the constitution of their country Sir, such courtship of vulgar prejudice, needs no herald to announce its titles men who move at the bottom of society, raise the same hue and cry against temperance societies.

And while lungs can shout, and ink can blot, they will ply their vocation. Let them do it. It be nts them. 4. You reprobate the discussion, on the score of policy and allege its tendency to decrease the patronage of the institution.

hat are our theological seminaries to be awed into silence upon the great questions of human duty Are they to be bribed over to the interests of an unholy public sentiment, by promises of patronage or by threats of its withdrawal Shall they be tutored into passivity, and thrown to float like dead matter in the wake of the popular will, the satellite and the slave of its shilling vagaries? Are theological students to be put under a board of conservators, with special instructions to stifle all discussion, except upon the popxdetr side In selecting topics tor discussion, ore thestudentstoavoid those which are of great public concernment, hose is sues involve all human interests, and whose claims are as wide and deep, as right and wrong and weal and wo can-make them? In taking sides upon such questions, the stu dent must needs inquire, not where is right and what is duty, not which sida is worthy of support, not what will quicken the church, turn the nations from their idols, pioneer into being the glories of the millenium, and cause earth to bloom with the hues of heaven Ah such interrogatories are all out of plaee They would be 'impolitic' and 'decrease 'Young gentlemen, who ask such questions, had better 'mind their business and their The only questions becoming theological students, are, which side of the question is popular: which will be huzza'd and hosanna'd: which will tickle the multitude, and soak a boo for the Cerberus of popular favor. Sir, the advo cates of immediate emancipation lack every qualification for the propoundmgotsuch ques tions. They leave them to be put by those, who are fitted for the employment. But why should the discussion ot this sub ject prevent the citizens of slave states from becoming members of this institution? I hat some will stand aloot, who, it members, would add nothing to it, except names to the catalogue, follows of course. But young men of intellect and ott, insteau of being repelled by the consideration, that there is in this institution free inquiry and discussion, independent thinking, and the kind, but energetic collision of mind, would be attracted by it.

That single consideration, instead of making the institution a centre of repulsion, driving from it in every direction with centrifugal force, would make it a centre of attraction to elevated intellect. There are illustrations of this truth now, in this institution. I fling to the winds the unworthy imputation, that the people of the southern states are such compounds of prejudice, pas sion and cowardice, as to shun the. contact of those, whose opinions upon the subject of slavery differ from their own, and who pro fess to sustain their opinions by argument. As to minds of another sort, capable of be ing induced by such considerations to forego the rare advantages ot this theological sem inary, (advantages which can be appreciated only by wno enjoy mem, wncn quan couirrn-sraiEir ahe all tily beoines the standard of value with insti-j tutions of learning, and the great induce ment fir joining them, is the privilege of being ountrd, such students will be regarded as accessions to a seminary.

5. fou condemn the formation of an anti-slavery society in this institution, on the score cf the precedentand say if it is proper that tie students should form such a society, 4 it is tqually allowable that they should or-ganizt societies to regulate any thing whicli concerns the public, and which does not cflicern the minors, who are at Colonization discussions have been held, and colonzation societies have long existed in almost all our institutions of learning and who ver started up in panic, and rung an alarm bell, and uttered ghostly warnings about' political clubs, and 'altering the and 'things which do not concern the ninors, who are at school Temperance discussions and temperance societies, moral societies, societies for discouraging gambling, profaneness, duelling and licentiousness, have been life for years, in our institu tions of learning. Why, Sir, have you never befor? uttere your fiat of reprobation against 4 political clubs among 'precocious under and 'embrvo So long as discussions upon the subject of slavery conducted to results in accordance with your views, your horizon, it would seem, was unclouded with portents ot ominous booing, and yoir vision unscared by 'gorgoos and chimerss You prophesied no peril to the cause of education from the discussion of such subjects. But recent discussions have roduced convictions on the subject ot slavery, winch disown amnity witn yours; and hsve led to the adoption of measures at war with your views of expediency; and ndw, forsooth, disaster and downtal assail the cause of education. 'Now there is mounting in hot haste drums beat to arms hurried bands wave signals of distress bat teries re mounted and thundering and upon the Western Monthly devolves the responsi bility ot seeing that the Republic receives no In the discharge of its high functions, the Monthly issues its decree, ad- vcrtising theological students, that the sub ject of slavery does not concern the 4 minora who are at school and bidding them 'mind their business and their G.

But in solemn earnest, I ask, why shoul.not theological students investigate and discuss the sin ot slavery Shall those who are soon to be ambassadors lor Christ commissioned to cry aloud to show to the peeple their transgressions shall they retuse to think, and feel, and speak, when that accursed thing 'exalts itself above all that is called God and wags its impious head, and shakes its blood-red hands at heaven Why, I ask, should not students examine into the subject of slavery? Is it not the business of theological seminaries to educate the lieart, as well as the head to mellow the sympathies, and deepen the emotions, as well as to provide the means of knowledge If not, then give Luciter a professorship. He is a prodigy of intellect, and an encyclopedia of learning. Whom does it behoove to keep his heart in contact with tho woes and guilt of a perishing world, it not a student who is preparing for the ministry? What fitter employment for such a one, than gathering facts, and analyzing principles, and tracing the practical relations of the prominent sins and evils and all-whelming sorrows of his own age; especially when all these heave up their mouotain masses full upon his own vision, and at his own door and still more especially, when these accumulated wrongs and woes have been for ages unheeded Is any thing better adapted to quicken sympathy and enlarge benevolence, than deep pondering of the miseries and the wrongs of oppressed humanity, and thorough discussion of the best means for alleviation and redress? It is false, both in fact and philosophy, that any thing is lost to the student, by engaging in such exercises." Instead of his progress being retarded in the appropriate studies of a theological course, (which should certainly be his main business,) it will be accelerated. Whenever intellect moves in the sublimity of power, the heart generates its momentum, It is when the deep tides of emotion swell out from full fountains that intellect is buoyed upward, and borne onward in majesty and might. A subject so deeply freighted with human interests as that of slavery, can not be investigated and discussed intelli gently and thoroughly, without amplifying and expanding the intellect, and increasing the power of action upon all subjects.

Let all our institutions engage in discussing sub- jects of great practical moment, such as slavery, temperance, and moral reform; let them address themselves to the effort, let it be persevered in through an entire course, and they will introduce a new era in mind the era of disposable power and practical accomplishment. But besides the general impulse given to thought and emotion, by contact with subjects of vast practical moment, a large amount of definite knowledge upon such subjects must be acquired. The mind should have a household familiarity, with all their principles and bearings the inter ests afiected, the wide relations to right and wrong, and the ultimate effect upon human joy and wo. This applies with tenfold force to theological students, lie who would preach in the nineteenth centnry, must know the nineteenth century. No matter how deeply read in the history of the past, if not versed in the records of his own day, he is not fit to preach the gospel.

If he would bless the church now. he must know her now; where she is, and what her moral lati tude roust scrutinize her condition inspect her symptoms ascertain the mode of pre vious treatment, and compare it with the prescriptions contained in fiod's book of directions, where the case is described. He iviiuiriiiD. UO. 24.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1S34. must inquire diligently how obstructions are to be removed, the circulation quickened, the solids braced, the humors thrown off, and the sources of vitality replenished. Is a man prepared 4rightly to divide the word of truth, giving to each his portion in due who is ignorant ot prevailing sins and evils. the moral movements of the day. the spirit of the age, the causes of existing inefficien cy, and the nature, position, aud relative power of those counteracting causes, which defeat instrumentality, both human and divine, and roll the world away from the millenium It is an axiom with universal mind, that discussion, discussion tree as air, is the grand desideratum for eliciting truthj If our theological seminaries pursue any other course, they will fall behind the age.

This kind of training is as important a part of the preparation for the ministry, as an acquaintance with the principles of interpretation or a knowledge of didactic theology. In short, our theological seminaries will only mock the exigencies of the age, and the expecta-; tions of the church, unless they hold their students in contact with these exigencies, that when they have finished their preparation, and are thrown into the midst of them, they may know where they are, und feel at home. 7. With reference to your eulogy of the American Colonization Society, 1 have only to 6ay, if you had advanced any argument, it should have been noticed. But os you have employed merely assertion and magnificent appellatives, I shall neither calculate their value nor ruffle their rhetoric.

8. With respect to the fling about a cunning agent' employed to 'work upon the sympathies of these young gentlemen enlist their prejudices and prepare them to divulge the doctrines of his party' 'a cunningly devised scheme which would be creditable to the ingenuity of a college of I shall not waste words upon it. Its own ingredients secure its decomposition sooner in a natural way, than by any artificial process. 9. As to the paper caps; and wooden swords, with the other farthing baubles and baby toys, for which a fondness is manifested as amiable as have merely to say, let him trick out the show-windows of a doll- shop, who has served at the employment aud aspires to the vocation, feuch rare endowments for the occupation entitle to a mono poly of the business.

Lict the candidate be installed. 10. With reference to the promulgation of anti-slavery sentiments, your tone nnd air are quite extraordinary. You advertise your readers that it will meet the decided and prompt rebuke of public and finally you resort to menace, and proclaim that 'the indignation of the community will put it This is precisely the inflammatory language, word for word, which was used by certain demagogue prints in the city New-iork, last October. Such invoca tions of public indignation were the drag nets, with which they swept the sewers tor materials, to mob down the meeting, which organized the city anti-slavery society.

The indignation of the community will put it What! Has it come to this Is free inquiry to be paralyzed by the terror of pains and penalties Is ir to be driven in from its excursions, and made to cower under the menace of public indignation? Is investigation to be proscribed, and hunted down, and catechized into subservience, by the spontoon of a drill master Is research to be hoodwinked, and debate struck dumb, and scrutiny embargoed, and freedom ot speech measured by the gag-law, and vision darkened, and sympathy made contraband, and vigilance drugged into slumber, and con science death-struck in the act of resurrec tion, and moral combination against damning wrong to be forestalled by invocations ot popular fury Go on, sir. Set in a blaze the passions of the mob. Such artifices rarely fail, even when practised with ordinary skill but of this be advertised, that you have studied most supcrhciaiiy the character of those who advocate the immediate abolition of slavery, if 'U suppose they are to be trowned down by public sentiment. ISo, sir! They have pondered the whole subject too thoroughly. They have too long baptized it with prayer.

1 hey have too carelully in ventoried its difficulties, and its perils, one by one. They bave sounded too deep into its woea and its wrongs, and haye too strong an assurance that theirs is the cause of God, and that God is with them. The results at which they have arrived, are the deliberate convictions of long, varied, and conscientious inquiry. If they bad taken counsel of world ly policy, time-serving expediency, sug-ges tions of personal safety, popularity, ease, or earthly honor, they would have escaped the inflictions of public obloquy and rage. But they have counted the cost.

Through evil report and good report, whether the storm beats in their faces or upon their backs, they will hold on their way. Sir, you have mista ken alike the cause, the age, and the men, if you think to intimidate by threats, or to si lence by clamor, or shame by sneers, or put down by authority, or discourage by opposi tion, or appal by danger, those who have put their hands to una work, ihrough the grace of God, the history of the next five years will teach this lesson to the most re luctant learner. From the entire tenor of yotrr article, it is manifest that your main object is to fore stal the public mind, and muzzle discussion upon the subject of slavery, especially in in stitutions of learning. You are too late. sir.

Discussion has begun. Already 'the little one has become a and moves vic torious from conquering to conquer. VV hat I think to put down discussion in eighteen hundred thirty-four! and that, too, by the dictum of self-clothed authority Go, stop the stars in their courses, nnd puff out the sun with an infant's breath. Men will no longer take opinions upon trust, and think by proxy upon the subject of lavery. They will no longer admit the validity of the oppressor's claim to a monopoly of sympathy tor the oppressed, and a monopoly of capacity to understand the system, and of wisdom, benevolence and conscience deviae the best means and to determine the best tisoe when tho sin of oppression shall cease.

Slavery, with its robbery of body ani tout from birth to death, its exactions af toil utirrcompensed, its sundering of kiaaVerf, its frantic orgies of Inst, its intellect levelled! with the dust, ha baptisms of blood, and its legacy of damning horrors to the eternity of the spirit Slavery, this land of liberty, and light, and revival of millennial glory-its days tri numbered and well ni finished. Would to God that all its abominations wera but day dreams. WouJJ to God that tbey were not the daily enacted horrors of living-reality the legitimate fruits of a system an- thorized by law, patronized and prstectedby republican institutions, sanctioned by pnblie sentiment, and sanctified by reFgion. Whilo these things are so, research, and discussion, and appeal, and remonstrance, and rebuke, and strong beseeching hall never cease. The nation is shaking off its slumbers to sleep no wore.

Yours, THEODORE D. WELD. COMMUNICATIONS. ELLIOTT Mr. Garrison: I um frieaa Krrxaiinrr of February last, I met w'ub spetch that wi delivered by Mr.

Elliott Cressnn the rereiU arreting of the American Colonization Sorietjr, a paragraph which astonished me murk, that I cannot forbear animadverting upon k. At the Repository may not be accessible to all your readers, I wiS quote the passage entire He (Mr. Crrsson) was gratified I ha able to state, thai this Society received the ppmbatiusi' the venerable Clarksoa and the sainted VVilberforre. He said this, heeauso paias bad been taken eoo-viarethe A mrricn people thnl Wilberforce wees down lo his grav hostile to the Ameriraa Colonisation Society. I say (remarked ilr.

Cressnn) it fat untrue. Three years ago, when in tha fbU vigor i his rnrotties. be expressed his ardent lore iai this Society. Be it remembered, whew bis signature tn the protest was obtained, be was on his death-bed, within a week of the closing scene of It is rather difficult to nndcrstmid the gentlesMi when in one breath he declares that Wilberforea did not die hostile to the Colonization Society, aud is the next, says that on his death-bed he signed a protest against it. fiot I suppose be intended to eoavcy the idea, that the faculties of this good mi were mtnainrd by sickness or some other cause.

But why U- he not assert tlie fact, ir be belie es it Why dnehe uoL adduce some evidence of it, if he possesses any And if he has not indubitable proof of it, what right has be to anna tbe dying testimony of this saitiied man! Tbe fart that three years age be was friendly to this Society, it ne evidence that be remained snch till death, for Wilberforce was not a man who held his opinions with obstinate tenacity, or changed them from caprice. Three year bave re moved more than one pillar front this tottering edifice. It is hard tn struggle with FACTS. Mr. Ctes son's exhortation, that the last act of litis great philanthropist be is entirely unnecessary.

We will remember, that as earth was receding fious his vision, and the effulgence of heaven was breaking in upon his soul, that just as he was going to render an account of his stcwaidxhip, he renounced the American Colonization Society. And until Xt. C. will prove tlie contrary, or at least venture to assert it, we will believe that be dul this with sound faculties, a cool judgment, and a enlightened conscience. OBSERVER.

New HATE, May 27, 1834. To the Editor of the Liberator Dear Sir We were addressed in this place last eveuing by Rev. Air. Phelps and Mr. Thome their addresses were admirable There were present a few persens who attempted te dUtntb the meeting but as several constables were provided previous lo the meeting, te be in attendance, the disturbers were soon quicled.

After Mr. P. and Mr. T. were through, the Rev.

Leonard Bacon rose and concurred in most of the statements which had been made, and then gave tbe southern youngsters a terrible lashing for daring to enter a New-England assembly to make disturbance. If all colonization men would come forth as nobly as be has done on this occasion, and discountenance the riotous proceedings of a class ef men who intend to put tlowu anti-slavery principles by noise and clamor, it would be much to their It would be well if those who are so fearful that the Constitution of the United States is lobe violated by crazy would give their attention to that part of the Constitution which declares, that law shall be made abridging tbe freedom ef speech. or of tbe press, er the right of the people peaceable to assemble to discuss such questions as are of an interesting character to every citizen of tbe republic. American Slavery is see a tptettio, and its dis cussion is not to be arrested by a few disorganizers and fire brands hose talent for argument lies chiefly in their feet. The meeting went off well.

AsnoviR, May IS, IC34. Mr. Editor In looking ovr the columns oF your paper a lew days since, I saw a ropy of a let ter from tlie Rev. P. R.

Russell of West Boylslon, iu which he says, that among ether wonderful achievements of bis, be obtained a signal victory over real thorough Colonizationisl at a puhlie debate before the Lyceum. Had be given a correct account of tbe result of tlut meeting, I should not have troubled you with a reply. But as is, I feel myself bound to answer it, more particularly, as I bad the honor of advocating therane of the glorious scheme of Colonization, io opposition lo him at that meeting. He stales that at the close of the debate, the Anti-Slavery Society was sustained by an verwbelmiof niajotity, only 5 or 6 voting the colonization This is not true. Not more tbaa SO of tbe large so-dience assembled to bear the disc assioa, voted both.

Mutt of the question. I bave stated the umber as bigh as fact will admit. I think I nuay say with certainty, that not more tbaa 10 of this number voted on hit side and beside there were a few wbe voted en tbe other side, who were not seen or counted by tbe President, say 3 er 4 and this asmber added to the 5 or 6 who were con a ted, I llu'sk wiH reduce bis overwhelming majority, to a very saiall number. By inserting the above, yoa will subserve tbe cause of truth, and greatly oblige Yours, ILLINOIS WINTER. William L.

Ganuon. For the Liberator. REV. MR. DUNBAR.

Ia last week's New-York Moral Lyceum is a earn! of the fact, that the Rev. Mr. Dunbar of New-York, publicly renounced bis adherence te the Colonization scheme, during tbe first meeting appointed far tbe examination of Mr. Browa. Were it not that any falsehood, howe vet base, in favor of eoloaizaboo and against emancipation, will be believed, let it be uttered by whom it may, it would be worse than folly to take any notice of any tiling in that paper respecting slavery, or any other subject where truth-and honesty ase requisite.

But I would stated that I had a conversation with Mr. Dunbar, several days-after that meeting was closed, and can- testify thai be avows btmseJf a thorough anti-slaver snao, in accordance with tbe views of his owa church confession, which plainly jlenics that any slaveholder can be a Curi-tian, MCDOUGAL-.