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SLAvERY.-The Texan excitement has
caused great liow of ink from the pens OF
the anti. slavery party, which has been fol-
lowed by proflse expenditure of good in
dignalion on the part of the soaihrons. In
one respect we fully agree with the latter:
they say that before the abolitionists med
die with the wrongs of The black man, they
should first redress all the grievances vi n
the white slave groans under. Bu; il :
ever thus, in evil and in good,


Distance lends enchantment to the View
Men and women subscribe to missions for
the purpose of iorcing-iruths, if you please
down the throals of the kickapoos or
tne Grim Tariars, whilst they permit igno-
rance, vice and squalid poverty, to roam
free and unrestrained amid their own civil
lied community. 1t is the same with sla-
very-vicwed from the vista of anti-slavery
it appears a dreadful doom, on a nearer ap.
proach we find it stripped of It's terrors, and
to those habited to It's kindlier features, it
appears blessing instead OF a curse to the
African race. 70: the white slave there is
alas! hut little sympathy, He tolls on, deep
in mines, or amid the din and Ike Of fac
tories. He languishes for the free air Of
nature, but cannot reach 1t without sacrlh-
cling his work, which is TO him the life blood
of his existence, which his wages scarcely
keep in motion; yet we find no societies
for the amelioration of his lot, much less
do men encompass sea and land to make
but one Proselyte to opinions that are in
tended 10 set the white slave free. The
fact is. that philosophise rs we may, there
is u vast amount Of


-''ilis that men endure,


Which neither kings nor laws cause or cure
II is, however; in the power of the philan
thropg, to diminish, if not to set bounds 10
the extent Of some--anj we hold that in
these, as in many other things the old pro-
begb that charity begins a home, is 4 good
and benefcient doctrine, and one that ought
to be advocated in this question of slavery.
Let the wrongs of the white man be first
redressed, and then turn your attention 10
the Enthusiastically Mercury.