SLAVERY IN THE U. STATES.
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in the following letter, which we find in the last Savannah papers, we recognise the precise sentiments and opinions which we have frequently had occasion to express, and which we are glad to be able to sustain by such high authority. Ilst.

 NEW YORK, May r, 1883.

 .hy Deer SNN-I have received your let ter of last evening, requesting me to state my opinion of the power of Congress on the subject of slaves and slavery, and of the existence of any wish or design, on the part of mediterranean, to interfere with the security or regulation of that species of property.

 My sentiments on this subject, my dear sir, have been often publicly expressed; but can have no objection to repeat the de- elaration Of tthaena, if 1t be thought hy YOU that such eeclaration might, in the smallest degree, aid the friends of Union and the Constitution in the south, in dispelling pre- juices which are so industriousIy fostered. and in quletlng agitations so unnecessarily kept alive.

 In my opinion, the domestic slavery of the southern States is q subject within the exclusive control of the States themselves: and this, l am sure, is the opinion of the whole north. Congress has no authority fo interfere in the emancipation of slaves. or III the treatment of them in ang aI tlla States. This was so resolved by tho House of Representatives when Congress sat in this city in i79o, on a report of q committee, consisting almost entirely of,