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and both stand upon equal ground, enjoying alike
the protection aud subjected to the laws of the |
land to which providence has cenveved them, and
which govern the fate. of the citizen and the
stranger seeking it's benevolent asylum The
principle contended for is at variance with, and
repugnapt TO divine justice and human honor -
Yet Mr.. Webster holds out the idea to Great
Britain, that her proceedings in such cases may,
if persisted in, early endanger the peaceful rea-
tons or the two countries. God forbid the
thought that the blood of freemen should be shed
in the maintenance ofsuch doctrines and in so un
righteous and unhallowed cause At any i'm
pulse to ameliorate the condition of the slave at
home or abroad-at any expression. OF, charitable
sympathy for their hard fate-the"South,talk of
their rights, and we are told that their negroes are
s'goods and chattels," in which we have no voice
to interfere And yet, every three out of five
slaves are opposed to the North as voters, to neu
tralize the influence of Northern freemen Il


As regards the South, within its jurisdiction,
we of the North pretend not to interfere with
their slaves; but we cannot refrain from bestow
ing our pity on the hard fate of the slave. Can
we refrain from inviting the slave owner to edu-
cate, aud thus prepare thes slave for the proper ap
preciation. of his future freedom? For that day
must come-and when it comes thus prepared,
the good order of society is maintained, the hap
plneSS OF the slave decreed and the safety OF the
former master made perfect


In the meantime it should be distinctly under
stood by the South, that the North will never
consent to be dragged into difficulties with Eng
land to claim slaves, who, in exercising the right
of~rescuing. themselves from bondage, which eve
ry man who has soul to feel and hand to use,
or is endowed with reason, will, and is justified
in attempting!


1t is right sanctioned by the law of God and
it is honorable and just and natural to every cap
tive so situated-to break assaadeE the fetters
which confne him-the feeling is, and should ev-
er be, irresistible. No flag on the ocean should
be permitted to wave over slavery, and if the
loathsome negro trader or brutal overseer takes
the poor slaves from one State to another to car
ry on his traffic in human flesh, let every christian
rejoice, when the inspiring spark swells their
veins and urges them on to the cheering hope of
liberty. England has nobly unfured her banner
in their cause, and wherever her laws prevail,
there also is freedom. Her soil knows no slavery.
and her habeas corpus act recognizes no such de-
hnition as " goods and chatlels," when applied to
man, displaying the image of his God ! Under
their laws, the beautiful language of Curren tells
him that " the first moment he touches her soil,
his chains burst from around him, he stands. re-
deemed, emancipated and disenthralled ~ And
no modern sophistry will ever induce England to
violate that blessing, conferred on the oppressed