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INCENDIARY MOVEMENT AT THE NOBTH. Emciptent Coalition between the Seward- Scott Party and the Original Tappan Antl- avery Party. [From the New York Tribune, (Anti-Slavery.)] AW ADDRESS FO THE ANTI-SLAVERY CHRISTIANS OF THE UNITED STATES. FPrrenpe AND BRETHREN :—We address you in be- half of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery So- ciety. Approving of the principles avowed and the measures pursued by that association, we beg leave to submit to you the considerations which peculiar- ly entitle it at the present juncture to the active sym- pathy and effectual aid ef the friends of the anti- slavery cause. While the advocates of constitutional government im Europe are Jamenting # wide-spread reaction in Debalf of despatic authority, the friends of the ina- Tenable rights of man behold with grief and morti- fication a similar reaction in our own republic, in be- half of a despotism more inexorable, and more hos- tile to human progress and happiness, than any which afilicts the Eastern continent. In both in- @ances the reaction is more apparent than real Opinions in favor of human liberty remain the same, cans to hold their own countrymen, fellow-Christians, and often their own children, brothers and sisters, as slaves. Without admitting the premises, we utterly deny the conclusion drawn from them The Creator and Judge of all men, in- bis own modes of maintaining his moral government, and of inflicting deserved punishment; and none ma say unto him, “What doest thou?” To him b longeth vengeance, and none may execute it in his name, except by his appointment. He saw fit to ftom this act of divine sovereignty that saints have a moral right to drown sinners? For their extreme wickedness, the seven nations of Palestine were doomed to extermination, and the Jews were order- ed to take possession of their land, and to put all the inhabitants, men, women, and children, to the sword; to make no_ covenant with them, ner show mercy unto them. Does this commission to the Jews confer upon us similar rights in other lands? The na- tions eaicining Palestine were idolatrous and other- wise excessively depraved; and we are assured by pro-slavery divines that God, by an express revela- tion, gave the Jews the privilege of buying and holding their inhabitants as slaves; and hence we are taught that, without any similar revelation to ourselves, we are authorized to keep our own brethren in bonds, and to reduce them to the con- dition of beasts of burden, in defiance of the express cammands of God to do justice and to love mercy, and to do to others as we would they should do unto us. We utterly deny the authorized existence of hereditary chattel slavery in the Jewish eommon- wealth, such slavery being absolutely forbidden by but the expression of them has toa greater or less degree been stifled by a sudden, mighty, and com- bined effort of capitalists and politicians, aided toa great extent by ecclesiastical influence, and in each ease accompanied with violated pledges and revolt- ing perfidy. In our own community the cause of Christian morals has been deeply wounded, anda new im- pulse given to infidelity, by the varieus modes adopt- ed by merchants, politicians and divines to coneili- ate the slaveholding interest. Doctrines have been advanced on high authority respecting the Supremacy of human laws, which, if true, con- vict the ‘‘neble army of martyrs,” including the Dlessed apostles themselves, of being but felons and traitors. Public men, and even public meet- ings, have professed in unqualified terms their ignorance of a higher law than the federal consti- tation. Rich men among us have given of their abundance to reduce to slavery the fugitive from bondage ; and lawyers, heretofore regarded as repu- table, have not shrunk from taking reward against the innocent, and prostituting a noble profession to the service of the slave-catcher. The sympathy heretofore felt for the victim of oppression who had eseaped from his prison-house, and the repugnance manifested to aid in his arrest, have been denounced as “ prejudices to be conquered ;” and lips which once uttered noble words in behalf of human rights have been busily employed in preclaiming to repub” Ticans the duty of catching slaves. Nay, some pro- fessed ambaszadors of the merciful Jesus have an- neunced from their pulpits, that He has sanctioned the conversion into articles of merchandise of beings @harged with no crime, made a little lower than the angels, and redeemed by his own blood! A law has been passed for the recovery of fugitive slaves, which, for its cool violation of all the received and acknowledged principles of judicial justice, for its outrages on humanity, and for its arbitrary require- ment of every citizen to assist in a slave-hunt when commanded by an official menial, is unexampled in the legislation of any Christian country. Yet an active agency in the execution of this most detesta_ ble law has been mado, even by professed ministers of the gospel, a test of Christian obedience. ‘The success which has thus far attended the com- bined effort to which we have referred, has been in @ great measure owing to the fancied security of the North, and the stimulated violence of the South. EXTENSION OF SLAVERY AND PANIC ABOUT THE UNION. The war against Mexico was waged for the ac- quisition of slave territory, and great .was the fear felt by the North that human bondage would be ex- tended to the shores of the Pacific. No leas than fourteen States protested, through their legisla- tures, against any enlargement ofthe area of sla- very. The voice of Daniel Webster was raised to warn his countrymen of the impending calamity and to approve and enforce the great principle announced by the Free Soil Convention at Buffalo. The inmate love of liberty was awakened through ‘out the North, and its representatives in Congres bowed to the will of their constituents; and all the @eviees of the slaveholders to procure territoria’ governments for the conquered territories, allowing the slavery of a portion of the inhabitants, were de- feated. Soon, the Wilmot proviso, applied, with the assistance of Daniel Webster, to Oregon, secured that important territory to freedom. This was fol- lowed by the joyful intelligence that New Mexico and California had both adopted State constitutions prohibiting slavery. A shout of victory ascended from the North, and the greatness of the triumph ‘was supposed to be attested by the wailinge of des- peration uttered by the slaveholders. It was at this moment of fancied security that the capitalists and politicians contrived a panic about the Union, and traders in Southern votes and merchandise devised the patriotic work of saving the Union, by surren- dering the territories of New Mexico and Utah to the slaveholders, and making slave-hunting a na- tional duty, under regulations of extraordinary eruelty. The work was hastened on by the most astounding treachery, 61 rted by the audacious assumption that the law o! physi geography and Asiatic scenery rendered it physically impossible that any portion of the vast region conquered from Mex- oo could ever be trodden by slaves. A dissolution of the Union could have no other effect on the slaveholding interest than to break down those bulwarks which the federal government, from its beginning, has been busy in raising around it, and to rouse all beyond the élave territory into active hostility. But, although the Union was in little danger, the work of saving it was no less pro- fitable than patriotic, as it tended to prevent the litical and commercial non-intercourse threatened yy the South; and the proceedings of Union-saving committees were found a convement mode of adver- tising for the trade and votes of the slaveholders. In this mannor an influence was exerted, which, aided by the supposed security of the North, led to the so-called Compromise, in which the fruits of the recent victory were all thrown away, with the sin- le exception of the anti-slavery constitution of Saiifornts. Something was, indced, gained to the character of the national capital, by prohibiting the importation of slaves for sale, but nothing to the cause of humanity, since the traffic was ouly trans- ferred from Washington to Alexandria. In return for the Californian constitution, which Congress could not have prevented, and did not dare to annul, we have had the prodigious enlargement of the slave Btate of he abandonment of New Mexico and Utah to s id the enactment of the Fugi- tive bill, as drafted by the slavcholders themselves, forced through the Hoase of Rt i out discussion, and so inteneel, odious and wicked that not even per interest nor party discipline could induce on of the members of the lower House to incur the infamy of giving it their votes. The political parties, having thus « slaveholders, entered upon a new race between themeelves for power and office, and mutually agreed to prevent, as far as possible, all interference in the ted the race by the avowed friends of human rights. The anti-slavery ag 1 wasto be suppressed at all hazards; and every man who expressed sympathy for the opprested, ‘or indignation against slave- hunts, was to be driven from either part By vir- tue ofthis compact, similar in its spirit to’ that which in Europe is smothering every aspiration for freedom, all who protest against the oppression of millions of native-born Americans are to be deomed distur bers of the public pea the powers of slaveholders, like those of k to be regarded cof God acred to be ned RIPTURAL AND ® un ances ed, that we a tians of the {the duty of o the universal emancipation proclaimed on each re- turning jubilee. But so far as relates to the lawful- ness of American slavery, it is wholly immaterial whether the Jews held slaves or not, since it is ad- mitted by all that if they did, they acted by virtue of aspecial and express permission from God, while it is equally admitted that no such permission has been given to us. If american elavery be sanctioned by the religion of Jesus Christ, then, indeed, is that religion an inexplicable riddle, both tolerating and forbidding every species of cruelty, injustice, and oppression. Friends and brethren, we believe before God that American slavery is hateful in his sight, and utterly irreconcileable with the holy and merciful precepts of the gospel of his Son. Hence we believe it mo- rally wrong to render any voluntary aid in uphold- ing an iniquitous system, or in redueing a fellow man to bondage. GOVERNMENT IMPLICATED WITH SLAVERY. We are continually told that the federal govern- ment has nothing to do with slavery, and.yet, from a very early period, its powers lave been exerted to, Freee to extend, and to perpetuate the institation. tis the object of the A. and F A. S. Society to effect, as far as possible, an entire divorce ef the federal government from the subject of nevety In relation to. the constitutional powers of the federal ‘overnment, we indulge in no opinions more ultra than such as have been avowed by Daniel Webster himself. With him, we hold that Congress is fully authorized to abolish and to forbid slavery in its own territories, to suppress the commerce in slaves between the States, and to refuse admission into the Union of new slave States. We also cordiall concur in his “ te eee expressed in his speec in the Sefate, on the 7th March, 1850, that the con- stitution does not confer on Cungress the right to legislate respecting fugitive slaves. In accordance with these views, the A. and F. A. 8. Society aims at delivering the gencral government from all en- tangling alliance with slavery, and they desire to effect this much- desired deliverance by inducing the people to select for their representatives in Congress such men only as will resolataly refuse to legislate in behalf of slavery. THE CHURCH IMPLICATED WITH THE SIN OF SLAVERY. But as anti-slavery Christians, our duties in re- gard to this horrible and sinful system extend be- yond the jurisdiction of the federal government, and reach even to the slaveholders themselves. True Christianity is an aggressive religion. ‘Go ye into all the world,” was the command of its divine founder. Can it be our duty to send mis- sionaries into China and Hindostan, to rebuke the sins of their inhabitants, and to prostrate in the dust their altars and their gods, and yet to observe the silence of the grave in regard to a sin which, in our own country, reduces millions to ig- norance, degradation, and wretchedness, and, by denying them the lamp of life, keep them in vir- tual heathenism? Convinced that slavery is a sin, we not only have the right, but are bound by the obligations of Christianity, to oppose it, and to use all lawful means for its abolition, whether in our own or other countries. If slavery be not sinful, then we know not what degree of cruelty and injus- tice amounts to a violation of the law of God. A combination of circumstances has led many ef our clergy at the North, and nearly all at the South, to regard slavery, with all its inseparable abominations, as an exception from the Christian code. We must love all men as ourselves, with the exception of such as are black. With the same exception, we must do goed unto all men, and exer- cise Juetice and mercy to all. We must give Bibles to men of all lands and all races, except to about three millions of our countrymen. The laws must protect the marringe tie, except in the case of these same millions. Supplications must be made for all men, except those among us who are of all men the most miserable. In short, as Christians, we must rebuke every sin except that giant sin of our tation which involves the perpetration of almost every other. But it is affirmed, by way of apology, that We at the North are free from this sin, and have therefore no coneern with it. Were the assertion true, the apology would be equally valid for not, at- tempting to overthrew the idolatry of the Hin- dooz, or the delusions of the false prophet, and for recalling all our missionaries to the heathen. But unfortunately the assertion is utterly destitute of truth. Probably not a sermon is preached in our large city churches which is not listened to by tlaveholders; probably not a congregation is as- sembled in the free States whieh does not include persons directly or indirectly interested in slavery. Few many of our sons are constantly remeving to the South, and beeoming slaveholders? What num- bers of our daughters are mistresses on slave planta- tions? How many Northern clergymen now descant from Seuthern pulpits on the divine rights of slave- holders! And shall we be told that Northern Christians huve no cause to raise their voices against a sin which is daily corrupting their sous, their daxghters, their politicians, and their clergy? Alas! there is a mighty conspiracy, prompted by selfish considerations, to suppress all di ion of this sin, all exhibition of its withering influence on human virtue and happiness. We © great national secieties for disseminatin, Chr in truth ; but no reader of their tracts an Sunday-school books learns from their pages that it is sinful to rob black men of all their rights; to compel them to labor without wages; to deny them the Holy Seriptures ; and to send fathers, and mothers, and children to market, like cattle bales of cotton. All other sins are in those ublicutions faithfully and freely rebuked; but every allusion to this great and all pervading sin of our nation is carefully excluded. a tract or religious biography from the other side of the water is deemed werthy of republication ; but it is first submitted to a process significantly termed ** cottonizing,”” and whieh consists in care- fully expunging every expression condemnatory of bumean bondage. The A. andF. A.S. Society, utterly repudiating such # time-serving view of Christian duty, aims at convineing the hearts and understand- both at the North and at the South, of of American slavery. 88 ANI INHUMANITY OF CASTE. THE 2 It inust, however, be understood that this So- ORE labore to the abolition of caste We have among ourselves lividual of which is a swift lty and unchristian conduct. nist_the injustice and oppres- r Southern brethren, let us p guilt of our Northera com- ciety ets it ae y catuicat of the free people of color. ry can reconcile the soorn fe contumely poured upon se people with the precepts of the gorpel of Chr -of that gospel which makes love for each er the badge of the Redeemer’s disci- ples. It ry to dwell on the pi i and disabilities to which our colored citizens are subjected. When the professed ministers of Christ refure to sit in the councils of the church with their reveren¢ ot colored like themselves, and when « andidates for the ministry are ex- cluded from theological seminaries solely on account of the Uineture of their skin, it is not surprising that others should regardless of the temporal, as cor- tain of the ¢ eof the spiritual, welfare of men to whom Go: «n pleased to give a dark com- plexion. When the pious colored youth is denied the usual facilities for qualifying him to minister to th discares of the souls of bis people, who shall y condemn the professors of the healing art tor nying similar facilities for ministering to the dis- of the be by excluding o d students fiom their leeture rooms? Surely the rufians who insult and abuse the colored man, and the dem: gogucs who, availing themselves of a popular prejn dice, deny him equality before the Jaw, have high tenu to justif ure to ¢ sample nd cr , and even their , finite in wisdom, goodness, justice, and power, selects | destroy by water a guilty world; but will it be inferred | the A joinin, | Christian duty. . and F. A. 8. Beciety to dissuade all from in clave-hunts, as a palpable violatign of Setting aside the moral turpitude of slavery, the Fugitive Slave act comprises a mass of iniquity in no degree required by the provi- sions of the constitution. The act points out the | mode of seizing and surrendering, not slaves, but ersons owing service or and is there- ine applicable to white Apreiiicss, and to rsons under contract to lal for a limited ) time. Apprentices have already been surrendered under it, and there is no reason why others, who are alleged to have hired themselves out for a month or # year, may not be. To illustrate the in- tense injustice of this act, let us suppese a young man to Sage his father’s home, in Boston or New York, for California. After the lapse of # year or two, he returns. While ‘an honest call- ing, he is arrested in the street, on the charge of ttealing—the steroceyDe charge in such cases, to prevent resistance—and hurried before s commis- sioner. An affidavit made in California, and there certified by a judge, is read, setting forth that the risoner is the apprentice of the deponent. Imme- Tiately; without being permitted to produce any testimony to rebut a document which the law de- clares shall be conclusive, he is put in irons, and sent on board a vessel departing for the Pacific, without being permitted to take leave of his parents, wife, or children. Do we revelt at the mere suppo- sition of such barbarity? ,But does the barbarity and injustice depend on the complexion of the vic- tim? That the constitution requires the perpetra- tion of such horrible outrages on justice and hu- manity, is denied even by Daniel Webster, the reat champion of the law, since he proposed giving the accused the benefit of a trial by jury Ve should be faithless to the cause, not only of Chris- tianity, but of civil liberty, did we not oppose an enactment so detestably atrocious; one which es tablishes a title to property in an intelligent, so- countable, immortal being, on testimony which, in Be eivilized country, would support the claim to a dog. The cruelty and heartlessness attending the exe- eution of this law—the extraordinary zeal which our rich men and politicians manifest in its behalf —the sanction given to it by Bares divines—and the infidel sneers which many of our party presses have deemed it expedient to cast on the adyo- cates of ‘‘a higher law” than an act of Congress, have unitedly exerted a most disastrous influence on the tone of public morals. One of the most striking instances of this influence is the vile at- tempt made in Pennsylvania, under the special countenance of the fedoral administration, to convert resistance to the execution of the Fugi- tive act into the capital crime of high treason. A fugitive, who had been arrested at Boston, was libe- rated by some of his colored friends, who, finding the door of his room in the court house open, hus- tled the officer, and secured the escape of the in- tended victim. Not a weapon had been provided, not a wound was given, yet the rescue was boldly Panes by Mr. Webster, Secretary of State, to be an act of treason—a levying of warffagainst the United States! THE CHRISTIANA AFFAIR. On the 11th September, 1851, a more serious af- fair occurred. An armed party, headed by a depu- ty marshal, attempted to arrest some fugitive slaves in Pennsylvania, The fugitives, aided by some others, stood on their defence. The claimant, a Ma- ryland slaveholder, was shot in the affray, and the fugitives escaped. Five days after, the Governor of Maryland was officially informed, from the Depart- ment of State, that the District Attorney was spe- cially instructed to ascertain whether the facts would make out the crime of treason against the United States, and, if so, to take prompt measures to secure all concerned, for trial for that offence. Faithfully and zealously were the orders from Washington obeyed. Incredible as it may seem, grand jury was found with consciences sufliciently pliant to present no less than seventy-eight indict- ments against thirty-nine persons alleged to have been concerned in the riot. All were indicted for treneen) as well as for various crimes of inferior grade. Let it be recollected that the constitution, to pre- vent tyrannical prosecutions for constructive trea son, declares: “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them. or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” It may well be supposed that the go- vernment selected for the commencement of the prosecutions the Snel Ge case of the thirty- nine. On the 25th November, Castner Han- way, a white man of irreproachable character, was placed at the bar, charged on the oaths of the Bae jury, that, on the Ilth September, 1851, ‘‘he did wickedly and traitorous! fie war against the United States.” The only offence proved against him was, that he was near the scene of ac- tion, unarmed, and on horseback, and that, when ordered by the deputy-marsBal to aid him in cap- turing the fugitives, like an honest man, he declined rendering the required assistance. The presiding judge charged the jury that ‘‘the court feel bound to say, that they do not think the transaction with which tle prisoner is charged with being connected, rises to the dignity of treason, or of levying war;’ and a veidict of pot guilty was returned without hesitation. This verdict Ied the government 10 abandon all the indietments for treason, amon, which was one ‘ngainst Samuel Williams, a colore' man, for levying war against the United States, by ee bg notice to the fugitives that a warrant had een issued for their arrest. But still an effort was msde to punish him for this act of benevolence, and he was tried on an indictment for misdemeanor, un- der the Fugitive act, for obstructing the arrest by his notice, and for which, if convicted, he was liable toa fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding six months. The trial by juy was again vindicated by a verdict of acquit- tal. All the prosecutions were then abandoned in despair; and, if the gallows and the prisons were denied their inteuded victims, the government, could at least beseech the slaveholders to accept the will for the ced been as it is said no lees than seventy thousand dollars were expended on these prosecutions from the public treasury. COFRCING PEOPLE OF COLOR. In connection with the Fugitive act, we ask your attention to the renewed efforts to transport the free people of color to Africa. We freely acknow- ledge not only the right of these people to seek a more favorable home than this country affords, but alsothe rightand duty of others toafford them, accord- ing to circumstances, the aid they may desire for this purpoze. But the American Colonization Society proffers them undesired aid, and some colonization- ists recommend their removal to Africa, as render- ing slavery more secure and more profitable, and relieving the country of & ,popaliton which they represent as a nuisance. To induce them to ac- cept the proffered aid, the oppressions they here suffer are excused and often justified, while attempts to render their condition here more tolerable, by romoting their intellectual improvement and en- fogece @ field of their industry, are often dis- countenanced. In short, the whole tendency of the society is, by rendering their condition here intoler- able, to extort their consent to go to Africa. We all know the extreme anxiety of the slaveholders to expel the free blacks from within their borders. Says.a late South Carolina paper,* recommending the State “to ship herfree negroes to another land: “The very condition and the circumstances that surround the free negro are in direct hostility and diametrically opposed to the institution of slavery.” Mr. Webster, in his memoralle speech of 7th March, 1850, adroitly recommended himself to his new pa- trons by dleclarings that eighty millions had been received from the sale of lands ceded by Virginia; ard that, ‘‘if Virginia and the South see fit to adopt any proposition.co relieve themselves from the free people of color among them, they have my free con- sent that the government sball pay them any sum of money oul of the proceeds whieh may be ade- quate to the purpose.” And again: “If any gen- Herman from the South shall propose .& scheme of wlonization to be carried on by this government upon a large seale, for the transportation of her colored people te any colony or any place in the world, 1 should be quite disposed to facur almost any degree of expense to assomplish the object.” Of course, the Secretary of State is willing to tax the whole republic to any amount not exceedin; eighty millions, not to benefit the free leo! color, not to civilize and christianize Africa, but to banish to any part of the world hundreds of thou- sands of his own countrymen, selely and avowedly to relieve the slaveholders, and give additional se- curity and pemnaneace to the system of human bon- dage. And this gentleman is now the public obam- pion of the American Colonization Bociety. DELINQUENCY AND DP£Y OF THE CHURCH. We have in our country a population, free and bond, of between three and tour millions, who, merely on account of their complexion, are treated with an almost total disregard of that justice and bumanity enjoined by the religion we profess. The A. and ¥. A. S. Society are laboring to secure to them that Ch treatment to which the gospel of Christ entitl In this work of mercy, they invoke, and have a right to invoke, the coun- tenance and aid of the church. We are not uncon- ous that the church has, in past ages, been fre- ithless to her high mission of cultivating will among men; and he is but lit- ainted with passing events who is ignorant i hurch is at this moment one of to be self-in- | gy have not s of American ate and | hen, if we could, roy the forbid. I the world is so full of sin dness notwithstanding the ehurech, what without a church? ‘The answer may be ruelties and abe of pagan- n rs } en of like | inepired questien:—‘‘He that loveth not hisbrother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?” Surely, it is worthy of remem- brance that, at the day of final account, the Judge will consideras done to himself both the kindness and the'cruelty shown to the least of his brethren. ”; We are constantly reminded that the church is the great instrument ofmoral reform. Most grate- | fully do we allow that the precepts of the Fosrel | are sufficient for all the moral necessities of man. | **Do to others aa you would they should do unto ou,” ig a law which, if obeyed, would of itself | Pantan slavery and oppression from the face of the | earth. But, unhappily, the church, or at least a | portion of her ministers, have not always applied the preeepts of the gospel to existing and popular | sins. It is certainly no exaggerated statement that not one sermon in a thousand delivered at the North contains the slightest allusion to the duties of Christians toward the colored population; while at the south, multitudes of the clergy are as deeply involved in the iniquities of slavery as their hearers. It is no libel on the great body of our Northern clergy to say that, in regard to the wrongs of the colored people, instead of eaeiena the part of the ood Samaritan, their highest merit eonsists in fol- lowing the example of the priest and Levite, and passing by on the other side, without inflicting new injuries on their wounded brother. But we rejoice to know that there are ministers of Christ among us, and not a few, to whom these remarks are wholly inapplicable; men who pray and preach and labor against slavery and caste, and thus adorn tho doctrine of God their Saviour. We rejoiee, also, to know that such ministers are appreciated and honored by Christians abroad, of every name. The clergy of England, Scotland, and Ireland, decline ad- mitting into their pulpits clergymen from this coun- try holding what they deem heretical doctrines; but can they exclude any for a fouler heresy than that which abrogates all jthe Christian precepts of justice and mercy in their application to colored men? We trust our friends in Great Britain will not weaken our hands, and strengthen the pro- slavery influence of our churches, by overlooking, in their reception of American clergymen, the course they have pursued at home on the snbject of slavery. They may be perfeetly assured that the American clergyman who, abroad, is too dignified to be questioned as to his opinions on human bondage, is at home too patriotie to offer any vigorous op- position to the “peculiar institution” of his country. OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. We havo thus frankly stated the objects of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and confidently ask if they are not fahieats worthy to be pursued by rational, aecountable, Christian men? Nay, we go farther, and ask, has not a s0- ciety pursuing such objects valid claims on the countenance and generous aid of every philanthro- upholding human bondage. A large portion of the ee prees in our commercial cities is enlisted in the same unholy cause. Public rumor tells us that a committee in the city of New York, compris- ing many of its wealthiest citizens, raised a fund of one hundred thousand dollars; and knowing that opposition to slavery has its strongest fortress in the | religious sentiment, this committee has ad broadcast through the land multitudes of copies of pro-slavery sermons. While the votaries of Mam- mon and the aspirants to political power and emolu- ment are thus active and zealous in supporting and extending a horrible and degrading » to farther their own selfish and ambitious views, will not the friends of bs len vr! justice and mercy, be up and doing? We beseech yon to reply by en- rolling your names amon the members of the A. and F’ ‘A. 8. Society, and and by speedy and liberal contributions to its treasury. “a Davip Tuurston, Congregational Minister, Vas- selboro’, Maine. SAMUEL FEssENDEN, Portland, Maine. 4 Tirvs Hutcninson, Woodstock, Vt., Ex-Chief Justice. LAURENCE BRAINARD, St. Albans, Vt. Cakes Francis ApaMs, Quincy, Mass. SamvEt Oscoon, D.D., Pastor of the First Con- gregational Church, Springfield, Mass. m114M C. Cuarin, Fall River, Mass. ‘ J. G. Forman, Unitarian Cong. Minister, Nan- tucket, Mass. J.C. Wesster, Pastor of Cong. Church, Hopkin- ton, Mass. J. P. Wittiston, Northampton, Mass. Jonn Prerront, Unitarian Cong. Minister, Med- ford, Mass. Banorort Fow er, Cong. Minister, Stockbridge, fase. Isaac Bassett, Stockbridge, Mass. Wiiu1aM Wartyky, Stockbridge, Mass. WittuM W. Parton, Pastor of Fourth Congre- gational Church, Hartford, Conn. Witi1aM Jay, Bedford, N.Y. ME ee eee) Pastor of Baptist Church, Wheat- and, N. Y. 8.8, Jocetyn, Pastor of First Congregational Church of Williamsburg, N. Y. Joun CHANEY, Minister of the Free Will Baptist Denomination. M. Granm, Pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church, Sullivan street, New York city. J. Warner, Williamsburg, N. Y. LinpLey Murray Moorg, Rochester, N. Y. Haron Kinassvury, Staten Island, N. Y. J. A. Paine, M.D., Albany, N. Y. Wituiam E. Wuitina, New York City. Joun Rankin, Brooklyn, N. Y. Lewis Tarran, Brooklyn, N. Y. AnrTHUR Tappan, Belleville, N. J. GrorGEe WuiPrPLe, Belleville, N. J. C. D. CLEVELAND, Philadelphia. pist and Christian in our country ? Hostility to slavery has pemany been associ- ated with various objects of political and moral re- form. It is natural it should be so, since the same love for our neighbor which revolts at his oppres- sion, seeks to advance his general welfare. But experience hag fully proved that associated action cannot be efficiently maintained in behalf of various plans, respecting which the individuals associated entertain diverse opinions. Henee the A. and F. A. 8S. Society, without passing any judgment on other proposed reforms, confine their ef- forts in their associated capacity to the abo- litien of caste and slavery, leaving to their mem- bers individually the full and entire liberty of a vocating and promoting, in such way as sisy may think proper, any other reforms, moral or political. We believe every manis bound to exercise the elee- tive franchise in the fear of God; but while we shall ever rejoice in the election of virtuous rulers, who will do justice and love mercy, it is not the provinee of the society to recommend particular individuals for the suffrages ef their fellow citizens. It is consoling to us to know that, in the senti- ments we have expressed, we enjoy the sympathy of almost all without the limits of our own country who bear the Christian name. A vast multitude on our own soil hold the same gentiments, and did the; act with one heart and ene yoice, would soon tri- umph over the prejudice which supports caste, would array the church on the side of mercy, an rescue the federal government from its unholy and unconstitutional alliance with slavery. But, un- fortunately, the sympathies of this multitude, not being concentrated in aetion and counsel, are, in no small degree, powerless for good. The anti-slavery host has been divided, and of course, enfeebled, b: conflicting opinions on ae. not immediatel. ak fecting the colored man. For the sake of the slave, for the prosperity of the coy, for the good of the church herself, we earnestly desire the union of all abolitionists, and their harmonious action in be- half of their colored brethrn. We ask all who prove the opinions we have expressed, to give vi- tality and energy to those opinions, by aiding the American and Foreign Anti Slavery Socicty in dis- seminating and enforcirg them. XT AIMS TU RECTIFY PUBLIC OPINION Public oy inion is in this country the controller of legislation. Hence, at one period trafic in African savages Was encouraged by law, as an enlightened and legitimate commerce. At a later period, all but two States were desirous to abandon it, and, as a compromise, Congress was restricted from abolishin it until ufter twenty years. At a still later ea. a commerce which had been guaranteed by the fe- éeral constitution was, by an act of Congress, de- nourced as piracy. Public opinion now, acting throvgh the Legislature, holds him a felon who brings to our shores for sale a native African, while we have just een a citizen tried for his life beeause he declined to assist a slave-catcher in reducing to davery anative American. To buy and sell Afri- cans is wicked, base, and detestable; to buy and sell colored Americans rfect accordance with the most exalted position in both State and Church. In the city of New York, we have seen ‘‘men of great stakes,” merchant-princes and others, lavishing eourtesies on the most reckless and violent cham- pions of slavery when they honored them with their presence; and we have seen these same gentlemen Fyne aid and comfort to the slave-catcher, without oging their place in polite society. Most certainiy public opinion on these subjects is unsound, and ought to be reformed. Very many of our elergy and their hearersneed to be reminded that the commands of God have no reference to the color of a.man’s skin, but that all are equally entitled to reccive, and are equally bound to render, the justice and benevolence enjoined hy him who is the common father of us all. Christians generally are to be warned not to be partakers of other men’s sins to- wards the colored race. The cruelty of State and federal legislation is to be exposed; the influence of the colonization scheme in exasperating the preju- dice against our colored brethren is to be demonstrat- ed, and the public is to be fully instructed in the moral, social, and political evils resulting from sla- very arf caste. WANTS OF THE SOCIETY. But how are these great ends to be accomplished ? Individual effort can § but little. In the present age, the press is the great lever by which the world is moved, but it can be employed toa great extent only through the united pecuniary contribution of many. The influence of a private abolitionist can rarely reach beyond a contracted neighborbood; but as a member of tho A. and F. A. 8. Society, and a donor to its funds, he may address thousands. The National Era was established at Washington with funds supplied by the society, and since repaid; and it now weekly addresses anti-slavery truth to seven- teen thousand subscribers. The ‘society atl: needs a periodical of its own, but its present funds are insufficient for the establishment of one. ‘Treatises on various branches of this it subject are constantly offered to the society, but it lacks the means of giving them to the public through the press. Intelligent, well-informed lecturers are wanted to awaken public attention, to collect popn- Jar assemblies, and to enlist the sympathies of those whose vocations deny them the opportunity of read- ing anti-slavery publications. Agents are desired to aid in tho formation of auxiliary societies. Editors and authors are to be enlisted in the cause; and pre information and statistics, to be collected at much expense of time and labor, are needed for the use of members of Congress and other public men. The instrumentalities for in- fluencing public opinion and correcting préjudices and erroneous statements are manifold, but they can d funds and labors. in which the friends of the anti-slavery cause should re-organize and act toge- ther. Unlese they do this, their efforts to cireum- scribe the area of slavery, to break tho fetters of the slave, ard to rescue the free colored man from his present degradation, will be fruitless. Should the Present mighty combinatien of capitalists, mer. chants, and politicians, aided by a number of popu- lar divines enlisted in their service, succeed in sup- pressing all manifestations of sympathy for the elave, all discussion of the abominations of slavery, all compassion for the fugitive, the North will undoubt- edly be prepared to sanetion the designs now enter- tained for the erection of New Mexico, Utah, and Souther California into slave States, together with the annexation of Cuba, Hayti, and the Sandwich Islands, all to he added to the domain of the slave- holder. Let us never forget that duties are ours, although events are not, and that, ever may be the form in which it may please Divine Providence to punish our guilty us not only to love merey, but to « ommand we fail » obey, £0 long as w wful means to nd ard to th contribatic of the A ed by the ; than byt 1 cause. y aro oir treasury. | . | ea} to you in kebalf | of pture, we Gi works, Bo = Samvet Ruoaps, Blockley, near Philadelphia, ‘enn. Cuares Avery, Minister of the Methedist Pro- testant Church, Alleghany city, Penn. CuaR.Es B. Boynton, Pastor of Pine street Con- gregational Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. 4 JoHN Ranxin, Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church, Ripley, Ohio. . 1. B. Hupson, Prof. of Languages, Oberlin Col- lege, Ohio. eee R. Grppinas, Member of Congress from 110. Fiavet Bascom, Pastor Cong. Church, Gales- burg, Ill. 1 Sea Buancuarp, President of Knox Col- ege, . ‘Guantes Durkee, Member of Congress from Wis- consin. J. BiazLow, Washington city. : Joun G. Fre, Pastor Independent Congregational Church, Cabin Creek, Lewis Co., Ky. Exxis Cuizpz, Amsterdam, N. Y. New York, May, 1852. Affairs of the Mormons. A REMONSTRANCE AGAINST THE ADMISSION OF DE- SERET INTO THE UNION. Wasuinaton, June 8, 1852. James Gorpon Bennett, Esq.— Dear Sir—I am a constant reader of your ably conducted and widely extended paper, and noticed recently several able articles in it upon the subject of the extraordinary conduct of the Salt Lake Mor- mons. One article—an extract from a letter—was headed “ Terriblo Accusations,” in which the writer detailed some of the monstrosities practised there. But, sir, these accusations, terrible as they may ap- pear, including those contained in the report of the returning officers from Utah, sink into insignificance when compared to the charges made against these same Salt Lake Mormons, by a body of seceding Mormons residing in Covington, Kentucky. As you are the only editor in New York who has sufficient courage to publish and disseminate that kind of use- ful information which electrifies whole communities, I take the liberty of sending you a printed copy o these charges, embodiedin the form of a remon strance to Congress against the admission of these Mormons into the Union, under the name of the State of Deseret. Will you have the goodness to publish it entire in your valuable paper, for the benefit of mankind in general, and those saints who are gathering to the standard of the great prophet, in particular. It will be a difficult “nut” for Bern- hisel, the Mormon delegate, and his man Friday, “to erack.”” I happened to be in Congress at the time it was presented by a member from Kentucky. Bern- hisel, who was then running rourd the halls, trying to impose this great fraud upon the country (the ad- mission of the “State of eatadeh was overwhelm- ed at this sudden and unexpected exposure of the Balt Lake Mormons. It was as terrific in its truth- fulness as in its facts. It could not be met and answered by bold and shameless denials, nor b bold and shameless falsehoods. The Governor's room, 7clert the Mayor of Salt Lake City, was not ere to be used as a catspaw by the illustrious dele- ate, Bernbisel, to father his vulgartwaddle. Je- lediah, the ‘‘ Mayor,” was at home, grooming his master, the Grand Turk, Brigham—bathing his limbs, rubbing him down, and pampering andstimu- Tate him with raw eggs and pickled oysters, to en- able him to perform his important functions in true Mormon style. No alternative was left. The dele- gate betook himself to whining, begging, and im- ploring the representative not to present the remon- strance; but in vain. An effort was made to prevent its pein ae ea but that was discover- ed, ere amonth had elapsed, and failed of its dis- honest purpose. Another scheme was adopted to frustrate its effects. In a few days a paper was presented, purporting to be signed by these remon- strants, withdrawing their objections—but that was too shallow for the purpose designed. In spite of all there schemes it was presented and printed, and I now send you a copy of it. It will astonish your readers and the country. The charges of “murder, treason, adultery, fornication, robbery, counter- feiting, swindling, and blasphemy,” are openly wade, in plain English, and the accusers sign their names to it. Here is presented a wide field for the classic pen of the honorable delegate from the Mormon empire, dubbed by members of the House of Representatives with the significant, sobriquet of “Old Polygamy.” Here isa formidable gauntlet thrown down. Are these charges true? Can they be disproved? It will not do to protect these crimes under general rules of the church. The immunities of religion never legitimately extend to smothering tp crimes. Grant, alias Bernhisel, in his letter to the President, claims these prorogatives. He says, in substance:—“ let. We claim the right to estab- lish a hierarchy for the government of the terri- tery, to the exclusion of the civil authority of the United States; and in this we stand with the Roman Catholics. 2d. We claim the right to regulate the domestic affairs of the ter- ritory as we please, without interference on the part of Congress; in this we stand with tho South. He might have also added, as cardinal points of the church: ‘8d. We claim the right of having harems of wives, of divarcing at pleasure, and of Naa adi concubinago; in this we stand with the Five Points. 4th. We claim the et to embezzle the publie money—to rob and murder in the name of the Lord; in this we stand with the inmates of Sing Sing.’ And 5th. We claim the right to send your heroes and statesmen to hell—te charge your representatives as a pack of d~—d_ infernal corrupt ecoundrels, and your government asa stink in the nostrils of Jehovah; in this we stand with the Mormons.” Congress, you will perceive, aro now actin, in the matter. They have passed the bill unani- mously, giving the officers who withdrew from the territory their fuil pay. They have authorized the territorial legislatures of New Mexico, Oregon, and Minnesota to control the public moneys appro- priated, while t have forbid Jtah all inter- ference with it, The Senate will t the Mormon nominees to the offices made vacant by the return ing efficers; and nothing will saye the total repeal of the act establishing the terri but the cor- tainty of the election of Seott or Pierce to the Pre- tance of | nporta of puuric | purpose of vindicating and | sideney, when tho banditti at the head "1 there Will be swept away with the besom of des- | truction, the reins of government put into other hands, and a su at military force est d to 1 ve obedience to the laws and r to the people of tic United States. lows DESERET. ANCR OP WILLI MITT RR Al., OF CO VINGTON, KE Y, AGAINST THB AVMISSION OF DESEREN NION, Decembe Referred to the Committee on Territories to be printed To the Honorable House of Representatives of the mons to obtain (by false representatio; ‘falle fous pretensions) from the precmee ee Spee 8 State organization, to be called the Stato ¢ fees and whereas we believe that it Woald 5) ighly detrimental to the best interests of our cou tay to comply with their request, we do, thereford respectfully petition your honorable body to provid some other way for the government of the Salt-Lak| settlement. Your petitioners know most assured that Salt Lake Mormonism ix diametrically in oppd sition to the pure principles of virtue, liberty, an equality, and that the rulers of the Salt Lake chure| are bitter and inveterate enemies to our governmen They entertain treasonable designs against th liberties of American free-born sons and daughte: of freedom. ‘They have elected Brigham Goes (who is the President of their Church) to be th Governor of the proposed State of Deseret. The intention is to unite Church and State; and whil]| the political power of the Roman pontiff is passin| away, this American tyrant is endeavoring to estall lish a new order of political Popery in the recesses « the mountains of America. We have authentic in formation that more than 1,500 Salt Lake Mormon took the following oath in the Temple of God, al Nauvoo:— You do solemnly swear in the’ f Al ly Swear in the presence of Alm! God, his holy angels, and these witnesses, that — avenge the blood of Joseph Smith on this nation, teach your children; and that you will from this tir} henceforth and forever begin and carry out hostiliti against this nation. and to keep the same intent a pr found secret now and forever. 80 help you God. We might mention the names of: many individu: who have confessed publicly that the above oath w administered to these peo > The rulers of the Lake church hypoeri cally pee to venerate the name and ch terfof the Prophet Joseph Smith, that may retain their popularity among that peop who believe that he was a true prophet. Th rulers are apostates from the true church Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which ch Joseph Smith was president of. They teach ay practise Polygamy, and are thereby treating wil the bonds of wedleck, paciog themselves on level with the brute creation. Surely your hong able body will not lend your aid to legalize adulte: fornication, incest, and all manner of wickedned These men have left their country for their country good. They havo leftit that they might escape $ ishment which their crimes have invoked. Th ave been guilty of murders, treason, adulte) fornication, robbery, counterfeiting, swindling, b! yhemy, and usurpation of power, Both political ecclesiastical; and we would beseech your honoral] body to send an armed foree to bring them bi from their hiding place, that they may be leg: tried for some of their offences. Their governor, Brigham Young, openly deel: at various times, before large congregations, bo| in Nauvoo and at Council Bluffs, that those w! went to California should toe the mark (that obey him) or they should be circumcised across t} throat. He hired men to assassinate the la Erenicant of the church, namely, William Smith, t] rether of Joseph Smith, in order that ho with greater facility baad the office of presi the church. He was foiled in various attempts take away the life of the true and lineal succesq in the presidency, who new has the privilege of forming your honorable body of the political trigues and tyrannical designs of these wicked mq He has robbed and plundered President Willis Smith: entering into his house, he took even last bed, his children’s clothing, horses, wago &c., amounting to some eighteen hundred do! worth of property. Aen Young also swin President William Smith out of a pasting lishment, including press, t; ¢., and estate in the State of Ohio. a system of robbery and sppresaion towards mother and widow of the Prophet Joseph Smit This is the character of the man who is the politiq and ecclesiastical governor of the Salt Lake colon this is the man who stated publicly in Nauvoo th none should live to come back from California tell any tales ; thisis the man who told his follo ers that they should not do military duty for United States, and afterwards sold 500 men unto United States. He and his confederates swindl these men and their families out of their bou money, and spent it in riotous living with their h lots. The cries of the widows and the father! are sscenciag 3D to heaven, day and night, in oq sequence of the oj 8 8, fe has also carried ression of these men. The § e settlement is like Sodom and Gomorrah. M of its inhabitants would rejoice if they could ext cate themselves from the’ miserics, eruelties, gsion and degradation in which they are pl by the stratagems and decoit of these taskmaste Lend, lend your aid, O ye rulers of republican Ay rica! save the helpless females of the Salt Lake ritory from a life of misery, de; ition, and vig Many of them have been perint deceived by false pretences of these sacerdotal hypocrites. 8 the rising generation of that land from being up in such a aink of corruption, blasphemy, treagon. ‘This is the prayer and petition of the an eal presidency of the Church of Jesus Ch of Latter Day Saints; and, asin duty bound, y4 petitioners will ever pray. Witiian Saute Tsaac Sues, Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat Day Saints. We, the members of the Church of Jesus Chris' Latter Day Saints, in Covington, Kentucky, spectfully request your honorable body to grant prayers in the above petition. Wittum G. Jarman Georer Bainny, Oris Hopart, James Gove, Rosert CoLBERTSON. News from the Mormon World. We have received Utah papers to the Ist of MI The Mormons at Salt Lake City and vicinity getting along quite Proepercany, The follo items are published in the News, of May Elder William J. Perkins writes from Lah Sandwich Islands, January 19, 1 that the was progressing with rapidity—natives and wh inquiring—that brother George Q. Cannon had tized twenty-one the day previous, and that was a general call from all quarters for brother C non tocome and preach to them, as he underst the language. ‘The natives are surprised that the Mormons h baptized so many whites in so short time, as missionaries had only added one to their co ations since they eommenced, which is many ‘hey tell the missionaries that they ‘‘ have not them the truth.” The missionaries pronounce he curses on the heads of the elders. Elder C. C. Rich arrived on Wednesday, April in company with thirteon others, (among wh were two brothers Cahoon, and most or all, we lieve, brethren, though they have not repoy themeelves, and we know not their names,) d from San Bernardino, the nearest ranche to the hone Pass, where the brethren are settled who out from hence with brothers Lyman and R Although many went from here not according counsel, we are glad to hear that they have becq satisfied of their wrong, and design to do so no mq One small family and two. or young men all that have left that hears for the mines; there appears to bo much less thought of the m in that com than with those in these vall They had Tn 1800 acres of wheat, &c., when General left, and have probably put in near a th sand acres of potatoes, &c., before this. They h generally been pest to pay their tithing; an| nnited and industrious spirit prevails. More ticulars hereafter. Elder Jobn 8. Woodberry writes from Keau Kona, Hawaii, 8. I., December 18th, 1951. was learning the language, and was preaching teaching as fast as the way opened. Prosp good. Elder P. P. Pratt wrote his friends from Vall raiso, Chili, Dec. 22. The civil warin that coun was subsiding, and cy po of pte ch ace. He was making progress in the langu ut the way had not opened for public preachin, Governor Young has % pocket knife made in Valley, good enough for Congress ; Joseph Bu: maker. Prosidents Young and Kimbalt, O Pratt, Woodruff, George A. Smith, Professor C oe Gen. Wells, Judgs Snow, Attorney Blair, She} Ferguron, Doctor Sprague, Surgeon Andrews, Cl Clayton, Chemist John Kay, and somo two or th dozen more, left our city, on or about the 22d A for the purpose of an out; visiting the southd settlements, exploring the country, ascertainin, situation of the Indians, making roads, bute bridges, killing snakes, preaching the gospsl, doing and performing all other acts and things neq ed to be done, as they may be led by the go spirit ; and we pray God, the eternal father, to ble and prosper, and return them in safety, when thi shall have finished their mission. Military Affairs. Two companies of troops left this port, on Thursd lnst, for Brases Santiago, there t> be again re-shipped, we learn, on the hip Fashion, for vort witht State anics etill rem M. Whiting, th v t Fi cighty reer » arrival Which will swell the force at ¥ — Brownsville Pte the Yuma Indians entertain very he the white di have fer » and ready a dispoeMion to f te ci The gon high termes ¢ as ¢forté are now beisig muds by'the Balt Lake Alors | | beso Aninuiay, and Assistant Surgeon Uriffin.—Lepy wc June 1h