The North Star, 1851-01-23

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RIGHT IS OF NO SEX; TRUTH IS OF NO COLOR; GOD IS THE FATHER OF US A,LL; AND ALL MEN ARE BRETHREN.
ROCHESTEK, N. Y., THURSDAY/ JANUARY .28, 1851.
AS ADDRESS,
Delivered at Oberlin, Ohio, by Miss.
Sally Holley, daughter of the late
Myron  Holley, of Rochester JV. F.
Ladies of the Anti-Slavery Society:
I am happy in being permitted to address you—glad to lift up my voice in
behalf of human freedom And tho' this
phrase is often on our lips and in our
ears, yet we cannot too full) drink in its
blessed spirit, nor too vividly realize its
grand significance and glorious truth.
And if the few words that I shall say,
this afternoon, will advance but one
hour, the inevitable progress of human
freedom and the downfall of human slavery, I would not exchange that consciousness for all the gold of California, or the fnmeofn Washington.
If in the bosom of a single individual,
they shall aid to extinguish one bitter
and cruel prejudice against the colored
race, or kindle and quicken the slumbering energies of one heart into generous sympathy with the despised and
outraged African, I shall be amply rewarded, and il you will excuse this one
expression of a filial affection that
"never slumbers nor sleeps" I will
add, that I shall feel, from out his mansion of rest in heaven, the smile of a
sainted father's love resting upon me.
I propose to consider my subject under the following heads;
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*"<&     What   R has   actually ftocoui--j tears of symp any it
n^   ,-j. I «<" A««A«lowo,
ba. What can we do for its advancement?
Elihu Burrit says, "The idea that a
man cannot own property in man, or
make him a chattel, has not fifty years
of age or expansion." If we may say
it, reverently, the Virgin Mary of that
idea, was an obscure English woman,
who was startled from her slumbers,
night after night, by its vivid revelations—it wrought in her mind for
months, absorbing all of her thoughts,
all the glow of her sympathies, all the
vigor of her convictions.    And its hour
came.    She proclaimed it to the world
with  a heart-power  that  reached the
consciences  of  statesmen  and stirred
the nation to emotion. Look at the idea
now!    See how   tho principalities and
powers of the earth are bowing before
it!
And a few years ago Harriet Mar-
tineau wrote, "The most sublimespec-
tacle   now moving  on the face of the
globe are the abolitionists in the United
States.    They  include men   of every
shade of color, of every degree of education, of every variety  of religious
opinion,   ot every  gradation  of rank,
bound together by no vow, no pledge,
no stipulation, but each preserving his
individual liberty, and yet they act as if
they were of one heart and of one soul
—a well grounded faith towards a noble object, is  the only principle which
can  account  for   such  a spectacle."
Thus many of the leading minds of the
age  early appreciated the importance
of   the    Anti-slavery    movement.    If
there   was  any  doubt in   their  mind
about its ultimate triumph, it lay in this,
that like the doctrine of our immortali-
The Anti-Slavery movement is important in another most interesting
sense. One of its most striking characteristics is, its genuine and exalted
regard to the moral nature. It may be
doubted whether, since the days of the
apostles, anything has ever occurred
to awaken so large a portion of the
world to the great fact, that they hid
spiritual rights and hopes, as this same
Anti-Slavery movement. It teaches
that the identity of a human -being is
not in flesh and blood, but in thought,
affection, conscience, will, and all the
riches of the spiritual nature. When
told that the slaves have cookies, and
dances, and so ought to be contented, it
indignantly replies, "Is it not true that
the. life is more than meat, and the
body than raiment? Shall man live by
bread alone, and not by every word
that proceedeth out of the mouth of
God?"
The Anti-Slavery movement is important, for it appeals to all the noblest
sentiments and aspirations of the human soul. It awakens a fervor of love,
an earnestness of devotion, and an enlarged hope that is twice blessed,
"It blesses him that gives and him that takes."
All over our 'and are those that
could'rise up and testify to the great
work it has wrought in their own souls,
enriching and elevating their entire
being. In consequence of the agitation of the Anti-Slavery question, many
an otherwise would-be cipher in society, both men and women, are now
transformed into characters of perma-
net interest and beauty. It has imparted vigor and freshness to theii
once dull and withered lives. And as
one after another of the colored race
escape from the South and undo the
heavy chain of ignorance, they too astonish and delight us by exhibiting a
force of intellect and a fullness of elevated sympathy, that before was "not
so much as dreamed of in our philosophy." Witness that most, remarkable
man of the age, Frederick Douglass.
Hear his rich and touching language
—"I sometimes forget the color.-of my
skin, and remember that I am a:\man.
I sometimes forget that I am hated "of
men and loved of God. Has the white
man religious aspirations? .So have I.
Thoughts that wander thraj eternity,
and affections that ascend even to the
everlasting throne and cling around
my Heavenly Father." Here let me
ask you all to read Gerrit Smith's recent tester '-Mr. Douglas"     T» is good.
tohav -'•    •-' r^!Fl
bv    the'
of symp any it oc^. .--.it-, Jt the
cause of Anti-Slavery had made us acquainted with but one such spirit a?
Gerrit Smith's, we should gwatly rejoice, what then should we not feel
when we call to mind the "glorious
company" of the Anti-Slavery reformers!    Think of a Garrison, a Goodale,
in the subjugation of the principles of
freedom or of oppression? 4s a body
they must be ranked as the enemies of
the slave. So while society is going
thro' its greatest of moral revolutions,
casting out its most hateful abominations and bringing its Christianity into
its politics and its social conduct, the
church and the clergy are pitying and
ridiculing the apostles of the revolution
preaching speculative doctrines,mourning over the wickedness of the ancient
Jews and telling how stiff-necked and
rebellious people were a thousand
years ago; advocating third and fourth
cate objectd of human exertion and
leaving it to the laity to carry out the
first and pressing reforms of the age.
They are blind to their mission of enlightening and guiding the moral sentiments of society in its greatest crisis—
And yet professing abolitionists sometimes tell us, "Beware how you disrespect the church and, the ministers
Anti-Slavery must not-.lose its never
ence for them—come of the slave*
what may. Abolish slavery- if^cgii can
but reverence the clergy, the p'ulpit-j
and the steeple whether or no." Our
judgment and our conscience answer
no. We must prefer Christianity to
(he church—the inward spirit to the
outward means. And lastly, I will
mention one of the considerations for
which I deem the Anti-Slavery movement important. Though in this, I
may differ from "some whose characters I admire and whose opinions 1 respect and whom I should feel honored
to call my friends." I allude to what
it has done for woman as woman. Il
has no small measure awakened her to
the great fact that she has political as
well as social rights and duties. It has
made her intelligent as to the wicked
laws and usurpations of government in
this country. "Honorable women, not
a few, are beginning to feel and act in
view of their immense responsibilities
in all philanthropic improvements.
The Anti-Slavery movement has
helped them to see the difference between a few man-granted, peculiar
privileges, and the essential God-given
rights of their moral nature. Before
Anti-Slavery agitation, who ever heard
of women's attending political meetings and  listening with  thrilling inter1
U st   to •political   speeches?    When   a
Chase,   a  Seward, Pres.  Mahan and
Prof. Hudson speak in this chapel, who
does not know that a 'arge portion of
the audience are the w >men of Oberlin!
mendable. There is a well selected li
brary connected with the school ant-
many other appliances for eff*ctiv(
teaching. In the girl's department
were 80 girls, who were lady-like and
orderly, with a fair share of intelligence, They read well, wrote very
well and sang better. Some drawings
and paintings were decidedly good.
The principal. Miss Roe, (colored.) is
an intellectual and accomplished woman." "Cha's Avery, an opulen; citizen ofPittsburgh, Pa., has founded a
high-school for people of color,; with oi.Mured to test him
intending to exclude other youth,."."'/n,.a'
has been opened within a short time.
It is called "The Alleghany Institute," and is by its charter a college.
Of the nine trustees, 6 are colored-
nine successors to continue in the same
ratio forever. "The people of color
are making agricultural efforts that are
when I was c<mverted they all left me.';
Here was a genuine conversation!
What! a child of Heaven despising any
color that God had seen fit'to-give his?
human family, tho' ^the hue, for very
blackness,
"To t-hame might bring
The plumage of the Raven's wing."
highly commendable^.,.The muniiicen
grants of land to th<^c'oIm«e^n|ywoiis by J
Gerrit Smith, in the State$$lPv York,
have induced a number eg them to
-commence subduing the forest and tilling the soil. Thus their attention is
wisely drawn t© the country, and from
the employments and temptations incident to their condition in cities." The
Convention of colored citizen!, held
last winter in Columbus, was spoken ol
by the newspapers with approbation of
the order of the proceedings, the
ability of the speakers and the happy influences exerted. There are news-papers published and conducted by colored persons which compare handsomely with any in the counfy—and,
my friends, I might enumerate many
more instances that show what the Anti-
Slavery movement has actually accomplished—I presume it is unnecessary.
Your own observation and reading
can supply them. But if I were asked
to tell, in one single phrase, what is
the best thing the Anti-Slavery struggle has accomplished, I would answer
—It has developed in the minds of the
community, the idea of perfect human
freedom!    One  of the  greatest  ir'e^<-
that ever dawned upon created mind.      __________	
Personal freedom! political freedom—I it in the natural way. But they were
religious freedom—tor every individual, innoculated. It was breathed into their
of the human race! For this inestima- veins and incided into their systems by
ble service we are immediately indubt-J Old Dr. Slavery. It is fouler than Old
ed to the Anti-Slavery movement. And f Testament leprosy.    It   seems  to set
A few years ago, a gentleman, who
professed to be a "good abolitionist,*'
was staying at my mother's—I suspected that he plumed himself rather
high upon his abolitionism.    So I ven-
      I invited   tl<<>;   only
w. < vii neighbor we had to take tea
with us. I said nothing to this gentleman about it and when tea was announced, I was not surprised to observe the quick fiush of indignation that
broke over his countenance, as he entered the room, from which, when he
saw who was there, he precipitately
retreated. Afterwards, I said to him,
"I thought you called yourself an abolitionist!" He replied, "well, soldo,
but I don't intend to eat with black
folks!" And even in Oberlin, this
spirit sometimes manifests itself. In
this place, not many years ago, a gentleman invited all his table mates- to
accompany him on a ride to the Lake.
Now, it so happened one was colored
and did not go. On the way out, a
lady suddenly exclaimed, "O we are
not all here, after all. I do not see
—'■—(naming the colored individual)—
a gentleman replied, "I think he
showed his good sense in not coming.
He would not have enjoyed the ride
with us." "Well," said the lady,
"whose fault is it? His, for wearing a
skin not colored like ours, or ours who
by our behavor are constantly reminding him of the difference in our colors?"
There is truth in what an Anti-Slavery
editor has written. "Our people have
got the colorphobia. Some of them
have it in blue, collapse stage. Many
of them have got it so bad, they can't
get well. They will die of if. It will
be a mercy if the nation does not What
a dignified, philosophic malady! Dread
of complexion. They don't know they
have got it, or think rather,  they took
hafc actually accomplished.    It is gen-] 1S the fir^-  work fof a '
Angelina Weld, and Lucretia Mott,
"that beautiful example of womanhood," (to use the language of Dr.
Channing,) and a host of others, even
the most unfriendly to Abby Kelley,
must see that she has brought holy and
beautiful gifts to the altar of God and
humanity—"With all thy faults I love
thee still."
The Anti-Slavery movement is important, because it proposes to unite
the two races into one. Although I
have forgotten many other good things
that Professor Thome said in the Rhe-
I torical class, I shall not easily lose his
remarks, made while criticising an Anti-Slavery discussion. He said—"It
is a great  happiness forme. I love to
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look forward to the time when through   tjan of Congress.
erally admitted that since the commencement of the Anti-Slavery struggle, the condition of tne free people of
color has greatly improved. Talent
enterprise and moral worth have been
developed that have ensured the esteem and commanded the respect of
community. Prejudice in various quarters is giving way, and caste will abate
as slavery becomes more odious, until
they both descend to the region of
darkness, from whence they sprang.
The time will come, we are encouraged
to believe, when individuals will be appreciated according to their moral
worth, irrespective of complexion, sex
or condition in life, when disabilities
will be removed, and all enjoy the
privilege of rising according to their
talents, enterprize and character. The
Anti-Slavery movement has accomplished what, from the outset, it meant
to do. It has brought the subject of
abolition into our national and state
legislatures. Anti-Slavery is the all-
absorbing   subject  of interest  in the
this  brings  me to the 3d head of layi
address—which is—
What can we do for the advanumem\
of the Jlnli- Slavery cause 1
jtrue uholiU«
to do.    At home and abroad, >n h.
ways and by-ways, in stage-coach h
steamboat, in song and sermon, alw.
and everywhere, we must set our fa
against it.    Yes, the poor black sla*
as he  is,   a  stalking animal with i,
mind  all  crushed in  walking on tti.i
green earth, without a single pulsatio,,,
belonging to a free man, must be precious and sacred   in  our estimation.
My friends, I ask you in all the seriousness of my soul, it  is not enough that
the colored people have to contend with
their own  ignorance, stupidity and indolence in the way  of their elevation,
withouc having to encounter this wicked prejudice against color,that is pressing     down    upon   them,   with   giant
weight on every side, almost alike from
^ "Vstr abovef
^•->n into people and mrke them
>or   dark-skinned   folks   like  a
$.*■ 'roes hardest with dark com-
•ned wn/v '\ j^de "
.    . iilcis wd do arY
not claim to be Anti-SIave-
i? any professing christian
ot willing to regard   and
i   irrespective   of   their
say, You may  say that
believes the  Bible   and
->^ .v-eg'the Sabbath"—you may call
Xbby Kelly "a hyena"—say that Emerson and   Parker   are of the   "worst
species    of   infidel"—that    Douglass
"scoffs and makes  fun   of religion"—
that "Gerrit Smith is a fanatic"—that
"Dr. Channing  did   not   know what
christian salvation meant."    You may
say all these things and ten times harder things if you will—but  do  not  call
yourseFf a christian.    Dream   not,  for
mercy's sake,  that    you    in   all   your
sphere of influence and usefulness"
WHOLE NO. 161.
associate with their white brethren,
they would have participated in the intelligence of tjhose brethren. Had they,
instead of being shut out from the temples of those brethren by arrangements and restrictions, such as even
the most degraded can scarcely look—
had they, instead of this outrage upon
their equal rights and instead of being
compelled to herd together in their ignorance and fanaticism, been allowed
to worship with those brethr .—i,hey
wouin" h <-ve  fallen    net   at   a)1   L r l^nd
\h the knowledge and ob
of a deportment proper to the./.^:.Hilary. As moral reform women, we cannot expect to do mu^h until slavery is
abolished. The hideousness of slavery
is most awfully seen, when it puts its
great claw into domestic life and
wrenches thence all that is most precious and sacred. This one monstrous
outrage ought to array the whole civilized world in storm and deathless energy of opposition against it. O! when
I've heard abolitionists accused of
using "harsh and denunciatory language" against slavery, I have thought
if such accusers had ever experienced
a tithe of the horrors of slavery, they
would deem all language too feeble,
too impotent to show forth faintly, the
unutterable character of this "ill" that
hath befalien inheriting "fleth," an
"ill" that flesh" by nature was not
"heir to"—well has slavery been
Called "hell above ground." There
are subjects on which not to appear
i"crazy and fanatical" would be to become a moral iceburgb. Again, as
Anti-Slavery women, we can and it is
our serious duty to keep ourselves acquainted with the changes of aspect
this question is, from time to time, assuming before the face of our country.
We should be armed with intelligence
as to Anti-Slavery affairs, so as to be
able to converse freely and with effect
upon everything concerned in them.
Bring up the subject as often as you
can, and discuss it earnestly and feelingly. I confess I have great confidence and hope in talk. I believe with
;0ne of our professors, that it is the
"Heavenly light." It is one of the
mightiest agencies for good or ill, that
has ever been placed in the reach of
jhuman beings, Anti-Slavery women
should read the doings of Congress,
when such men as Henry Clay and
Daniel  Webster   rise  in   the   Senate
should desire with all my soul, to exorcise these in th« way that shall be
most potent most efficient for good?
An/I here, to my gentleman friends
present, let me ask—do you value the
ballot-box that executes your will as a
freeman—that guards as a sacred treasure your deposite in the cause of the
good and the right? Do you prize this,,
inheritance beyond all price? Has God
given to man the rights of self-government and not to woman also? Is our
sensibility to be wounded by the tals
of oppression, consequent on bad laws
and the power to be withheld from us,
to counteract as far as we might, by
good, by just legislation? It is useless
to plead that we are ignorant and there*
fore incapacitated. Give us knowledge—give us light—give us encouragement, as you would the serfs of
Russsia or the Peasants of Hungary.
It is insufficient to urge that home and
society afford just as good and all
necessary opportunities for manifestations of patriotism, of humanity. Let
the law-made condition of three and a
half millions of slaves answer with
refutation! Let the response of your
own hearts to the question, would you
for any consideration give up your enfranchisement? be the answer. The
day will come when the right and ne*
cesity of woman's voting will be felt
and acknowledged, God speed the
tight, find ii.-re, '.Vit were :u order,*
Lvvouh y *wy oi   closng,  that
>hc icast re-
o few women i ~ ^\?-^
snonsibiiity ir this mM't*>". Uf * does it
not all spring froivi the man-spoli-o'a and
woman-echoed precepts that "women
should not meddle with politics." "It
would generate family feuds." Why,
then, is it not dangerous for men too?
Certainly it is very clear they ought
not to meddle with politics. In whatever effects the interests of humanity,
men and women must have a common
cause. The cynical sneers of the
press and from all other not wholly the
most philanthropic, unquestionable
quarters in regard to the awakening interest of woman in politics—is by no
means an ill or even discouraging
omen! And if the honesly good join in
the shake of the head (they will not
point the finger) of derision, we need
only leave the temples of truth, where
the light of religion, of science, of freedom, are now beaming with sunny
brightness, and take our way down the
broad avenues, gradually becoming
less and less broad, the lights dimmer
and more dim, till we are compelled to
thread a passage, almost feeling our
way. To Galilee before the inquisitors
—to Luther before the Worm's Diet
—to Jesus before Pilate! Were all
the good among the spectators of those
scenes entirely free from doubts. The
grand, immediate want of our day, is
an unflinching, might-and-main opposition to the malaria of expediency
and compromise. It is the hateful
genius of their doctrine that has given
so much to slavery!—that has taken
s > much from human freedom! It is
notoriously true that so infectious is
their influence, combined with party
passions and individual ambition that
by far the majority of men hold the
anomalous practice, if not theory of
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and a political conscience, aright thing
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Oh! could we make our doubts remove,
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And see this Canaan that we love
With uabecloudcl eyes."
And,   m>   friends, it   is good /or us
now that the Anti-Slavery struggle hasi
gained many victories, to revert to the '
-tneers of this great moral enterprise,
'•efreshing to the very soul to think
-"->urage and heroism.    Most of
„m the beginning, foresaw that
onflict was  likely to be long and
ous,   and   they  girded themselves
dingly for the conflict. They pre-
us a noble example of a brave fi-
y and a devotfdness   to as holy a
se as   ever blessed mankind.    For
J-slaverv is the child of Christianity,
bears on its very  front "the  image
.nd superscription" of God.    The Anti-Slavery movement is important,  because  it not  only  is to redeem  three
and   a   half millions of colored people
from "the vilest system of slavery the
sun ever shone upon," and place them
on a level of a common humanity,  but
it is also to bring freedom to all races.
We must  never   forget  that  it is as
much the cause of the white,  as of the
colored   people.    With  every     black
slave   a white will also   be   freed.    It
is prophetic of the doing away of all oppression.    It is  the foundation of universal freedom.    It is the dawn of that
day when the rights of all shall be respected,
the divine influence of Christian Anti-
Slavery principle,   the two races shall
mingle  into  one."    "The  two  races
united and  in kindly activity can find
out everything and accomplish everything that is true.    They will subject
the elements then, instead of subjecting
one another.    The elements are made
for subjection.    Their broad shoulders]
are spread for service.    It does not degrade them, or weary them, or impoverish them, to be made to work.    Aye
they are   willing   to   work.    All   they
want of intelligent   mankind  is, that it
will stand out of the way and give them
elbow room and a chance."
,    Tha    A nti_P;lnvf>rv   mnvpmpnt, is im-
nominal church of our country. It has
stripped off the stolen mask ofgoodness
and purity with which she has so long
tried to "deceive if possible, the very
elect," and shown up the cant hypocrisy, hollow-heartedness and utter world-
liness that lay concealed beneath. Let
none of my friends mistake me here. I
love and reverence the true church of
God as "the very gate of heaven," as
"the shadow of a great rock in a weary
land," but this is a very different thing
from the pro-slavery churches of this
world. No one of us can for a moment
look at the church and clergy of our
land without the deepest humiliation
and mortification—with a few noble exceptions, it must be owned, they are all
on the side of oppression.
We live in a crisis when a tremendous conflict of principles is taking
place. On one side is the oppressor,
struggling to keep his power for the
sake of his gold, and with him, the mercenary, the faithlessly timid, the am-
bitous and the weak. On the other
side are the friends of the slave, and
with them those who without possibility
of recompense are sacrificing their
reputations, their fortunes, their quiet,
and risking their lives for the principle
of freedom. What are the church and
a great portion of the clergy doing
amidst this war which admits of neither
peace nor truce,  but which must end
the sinner and the professing christian? are an appropriate representative of
Think you, the thought that you helped the Lord Jesus Christ! Do not ask
to swell the tide of bitter prejudice us to believe your spirit and life to be
against color, will add to the treasure christian! Tell us not, to think you
of your holy recollections in the great are "not far from the kingdom of hea-
future?    Think  you,  your Heavenly'        " '   ' '      '-   u-ilJ
The first men of the nation are now
engaged  in its discussion—and a few
days will bring us intelligence concerning  it, of the deepest  interest.    The
Anti-Slavery   movement   has   caused
Ohio to repeal her "black laws," and
provide for the education of her colored children.    The proper officers are
authorized to admit colored children into  the regular jmblic schools and in
case they do not admit them, they are
required to create schools for their special benefit.    Colored persons are now
placed in regard to the distribution and
benefits of the school   funds upon the
same footing with white persons.    The
Anti.SJayejy   movement   has   greatly
efforts for inteliect'ual and sbciare/evd-
tion.    Among many instances we notice the following.   'The Salem Register   says,    "Robert  Morris, Esq , of
Boston,   the young  colored lawyer, a
native of this city, appeared as counsel
in a case, before the court of Common
Pleas, now sitting in Salem, on Tuesday last.    He managed his case with
much ability, and his presence excited
considerable sensation.    We  hear his
effort spoken of as having given great
pleasure and satisfaction, which were
not  diminished   by  the  consideration
that the   first colored  lawyer who has
ever made his appearance in the courts
here, was one of our townsmen."   The
graduate at the last commencement at
Middlebury (Vt.)  College, who delivered the Latin Salutatory Oration, was
a colored man.    The New York Central College at McGrawville, has a colored Professor, who is said to fill his office   with - dignity   and  ability.    The
New York  Tribune   in  giving an account of the examination of the Public
School, No. 1, (colored,) by the Trustees, in the presence of many visitors
and distinguished friends of education,
says:
"The boys under Mr. Peterson, a
colored teacher, numbered 150, and
compared, intellectually, very well with
some of the other Public Schools.
Their order and readiness were corn-
Father will welcome you with more
love into his mansions of glory! Will
the smile of his countenance be more
radiant as you enter? Will it give melody to your voice, as you join the song,
"Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb."
My friends, I beseech you by all your
hopes of heaven, by all your sympathy
in a Savior's dying love, to cast off, at
once and forever, all prejudice against
color. I know the influence of education, association and custom of society,
is great. 1 know the power of sin and
selfishness is strong. I know the
bondage of the flesh and the world is
not easily broken. Alas! how few of
us ever escape! Alas! how few of us
ever know what "full salvation" means!
Let us  all remember that ,.ey.ef«r,*;ir,«
ven." That you are helping to build
up the kingdom of truth and righteousness, which Jesus came to set up on
earth—for which the "Lamb was slain
before the foundation of the world"—
which caused the Indefinite Father,
out of the fulness of His Love to send
t.heir intellects    and    preventing   l.^.. ,.
tmora! ser/se and inducing them to close
their   hearts   against   the   cry of  the
down-trodden  slave.     O, is it  not  a
high duty for the Anti-Slavery woman,
to be able to point out to those around
her the unprincipled   baseness of such
.speeches and to counteract their effect.
Never in the   history of our   country,
since the days   of Arnold,   has  there
been so traitorous a  political  act,   as
Mr. Webster's speech, and it ought to
I rouse the wholo country to burning indignation against it. . Never has Boston exhibited   such   preposterous  and
[ glaring inconsistency as in  condeming
J. W. Webster, while approving   and
congratulating Daniel Webster. Why,
John W. Webster has killed only  one
man and then in a moment of passion,
while Daniel has deliberately consigned three and a half millions to a  condition, ten thousand times   worse than
death.    It shows up the moral sense of
that cit)» in anything but   an  enviable
light.    As   Anti-Slavery   women,'  we
cannot take an enlightened interest in,
we cannot render a good and  efficient
service to the cause we love and- honor
without knowing how it stands  before
country.    We  must   be  able  to
their ptbTes—her tenderness of soul—her enduring  zeal—her devotedness of purpose—her religious enthusiasm, in this
anti-expediency,    anti-compromise effort!    Senator Chase's remark "Honesty is the   best   policy—Justice the
highest expediency, and principle   the
only proper basis of union in a political
organization," is a worthy motto—and
if its spirit   should   henceforth  be  instilled into the   minds of our embroyo
statesman, we might confidently expect
and calmly await the   dawn   of a  new
century upon universally  emancipated
America!       And      if   the      so    off
cited   "experiment" of  free self-government is to be   successfully   demonstrated in America, there   can  be  no
doubt, but  the   experiment of human
slavery is   by   her  to be   as  signally
proved  a   failure! and   her tableture
may bear two inscriptions—"She  resisted oppression and was delivered"
—"She ceased   to   oppress  and was
free indeed!"
SALLY HOLLEY.
our
Excitement at the Irving Hou^E.
—Soon after the decision of Judge
Judson, of the U. S. Court, to send
Long, the fugitive slave, back to   Vir-
iruvc mm ...v ;v—ft-r..T- --■    j ginia, was made  public  yesterday,   a
^rves  the  deepest   abhorrence of all  large number of colored   persons   col-
u ristian hearts.    Many of the  young   lected in and about the Irving  House,
peo pie here are reading his speech and  supposing that   Long   was   there se-
think" it "fine," and   their  minds  are  creted,   preparatory   to    being   sent
taking  a  permanent    stamp   from it.  back. One of the blacks struck a white
His only begotten Son to  die,  to  re- [ prove that the course of H. *Clay de
deem us from sin and misery.    Do not serves  the  d<
expect that you have any part or  lot  christian hearts.    Many of the  young | lecte
in this matter.    You are not  laying a
solitary   stone   in the  walls of Zion.
Human Redemption.    The angels and
'arch-angels of God love to  look   over
the battlements of heaven to witness the
Now, we ought, as a matter of christian Anti-Slavery principle, cultivate,
going forward of this grand provision! if we have it not already, a decided
of the wonderful love of the EverlastJ taste for such reading and with all the
ing Father. Think, I ask you, what: intellect and energy we can summon
ihe words mean, that you so affecting-" up battle valiantly for the true and the
right.    I do not believe  that if in the
talk   about  dress,
>> slng—   T
"Jesus I my cross have taken
^akWr^Si^^U^^/feke
I hou, from hpnoe .»y .*;i -i—:* ,
count of color, whether in the chirr"* ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
in the choir, in the street, in the recita- \ Again we can aid the Anti-Slavery:
tion  room,   in the social party, every j cause by embracing every opportunity?
time we refuse to associate with worthy colored people on terms of perfect
social, civil and religious equality, we
are helping  to bind tighter tlje chains
to do all in our power to elevate the
colored people. Give them our respect
and confidence. Give them offices of
trust and honor—we must  minister  to
of the poor slave—vve are assisting to j their self-respect.    Their highest pow-
put further offin the future, the day of
his deliverance—we are aiding to1
trample under our feet and deeper in
the dust, those for whom Christ died.
I say this, as much for my own, as for
any body's else benefit. We need to
look this matter full in the face. It
has been dodged long enough by prof
fessing abolitionists. The only safe position for the christian reformer, is a
bold and uncompromising one. It may
lead even to the cutting off of a right
hand, or the picking out of a right eye;
no matter, it must be done. "It is better to enter life maimed, than having
two hands to be cast into hell fire."—
Christianity is true, candid, sweet and
full of simplicity, yet strong and coura-
ers must be brought out into action.
We must mingle freely with them.
The idea of "colored churches and1
colored schools" is all false. There
should exist no such distinctions in society. They must be made to feel at
home with us and we feel at home with
them. It is better for us both. "Their
presence and association with us are
vitally needed for their and our mutual
welfare—for their and our mutual
nourishment of their and our wronged
and sickly characters." Gerrit Smith
writes:—"a few years ago, I spent a
Sabbath in one of the large towns of
Western New York, and as is wont
when I have the opportunity, I worshipped with a company of colored per
man who was present and a bloody
scene came near being enacted. A
Southerner, who had been a witness
for the claimant, being present, drew
a six barreled revolver, and threatened
to blow away at any black who should
i
geousywhat   tho'her way lie through | sons.    The unregulated zeal of not  a
doubt, darkness and difficulties yet
leaning on her Father's arm she feared
no evil. A gentleman who for the first
time contributed to aid the Anti-Slavery
cause, said to a colored friend of mine,
who was lecturing, "I once had great
prejudices  against  your  people,   but
few of my fellow-worshippers was loud
and frenzied, indecent and disgusting.
Whence this gross violation of propriety ?"
This was clearly traceable to their
exclusion from the society of the well
informed.    Had   they been allowed to
place of the endless talk  about
society ana aie ueaux, we should intro-
rfwee such topics, our table-talks,   our'
home conversations,   our  rural  sides
and walks, or social intercourse  anywhere, would be any the less  interesting.    Then, too,  we must appreciate
and honor such anti-slavery champions
as Horace Mans, John  P.   Hale  W.
H. Seward   and S. P.   Chase.    They
have done nobly in  Congress.    Their
speeches are refreshing and   inspiring
to every true anti-slavery soul.    If the
speeches of Clay  and  Webster made
our hearts throb with   pain,   lhose  \)f
Hale,    Chase.   Mann    and    Seward,
caused them to leap with gladness.     I
have just been  reading   Mr.  Chase's
speech.    How much   more  honorable
to humanity   than   Daniel   Webster's.
No wonder Whittier  thought "Icha-
bod."    O when I see so distinctly portrayed the consequences of Legislative
action—the   "ship of state"  freighted
with liberty and  blessings of many—
the woes and agonies of others, its very
sails beaten with their sighs—its spars
creaking with  their  wails—its  lading
drenched    with    bloody     sweat—the
heart-breaking separation of families,
the crippling, destroying and would-be-
killing of the immortal mind, distancing
nterfere with him. Capt. Rynders,
with a party of men, was present.
After much trouble on th« part of Mr.
Howard, the proprietor of the House,
he and the man with the pistol withdrew, and the large and excited crowd
who had congregated to witness the
result quietly dispersed^ Long, the
fugitive, was in the Court Room at the
time of the disturbance.—JY. Y. Tribune.
Thieves Alarum.—An English pa=>
per describes another device to scare
away thieves, under the name ot an
'anti-burglar,' being nothing more nor
less than a "cracker" of card-board,
about the size of an envelope. To
each end is attached a loop, by which
it may be connected with the door and
door-frame, or with the window, on
small hooks, so that when either are
opened, the cracker is severed, and a
loud report takes place. The burglar
would either imagine himself fired at,
or would be scared away by the first
alarm, which would wake a very soun-
sleeper.
|C?* If a slave comes into this State
from Charleston, we are all bound under heavy penalties to aid in his  cap-
 e,   , w ture; but if a free colored seaman goes
Popery and even Mahomedanism itself; to Charleston, he is thrown into jail
while I feel hmmbly grateful for the and deprived of his liberty, and all
possession of reason, natural rights I men are expected to approve of the,
and benevolence, is it  strange that I  outrege.    »<£—*••<—i r.h^ot:„„
-Practical Christian,