ABOLITION OF NEGRO SLAVERY
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IN VIRGINIA.


The approaching Convention, to which
will be entrusted the framing of new
Constitution for the State of Virginia, is
looked to with much anxiety by all classes
of her citizens: but by none is the subject
considered more important than by the adj
vocates Of the abolition of slavery. These,
in every section of the United States, III
deed, view it with interest. Never since
the organization Of our Federal and State
governments, has more suitable occasion
presented itself, or more apparently au-
spicioug moment been ushered into exist
ence, than that which is just at hand, for
making a powerful demonstration upon
one Of the strongest bulWarks that defend
the grand citadel OF African tyranny In
4his IL epubIiv t4A8a tl5ot s0oh q demon
stration s0iU DC made, We are happy to say,
may confidently be relied on. We speak
advisedly, when we state, that potent ar
ray of talent and energy will be exhibited,
in that assembly Of sage reformers, against
the political inconsistency moral corrup-
ton, and nation-damning sin Of slavery,
that its supporters little dream Of noWo-
The young Lion Of Virginia patriotism
will, it is hoped ere long, hunt the Tiger
Of African oppression frem her forests and
her plains. Ills roar is already heard from
her mountains. Her vagiies will echo the
sound from border to border--lrom one
extreme to the other Of her territorial linn
its. Her bedlamite statesmen shall not
much longer be permitted to plant The
standard Of despotism on Mason and
Dickson's Line" and bid bold defiance to
the God OF Justice there, Her proud es-
cutcheon shall yet be rescued, by the
might Of intellectual combat, from the
VandaI hands Of f3rocjous and domin-
eering Aristocracy The lineaI descend.
ants Of her wild, untutored forest lords,
who pride themselves, beyond measure, on
their noble extraction, W i'll be taught the
practical lessons Of republican equality, a
bout which they have tke0yi2ed bJjndfo7d,
until they have lost every trace of its dis
tinctive character.


Since the publication of the Memorial
from Augusta, we have received sundry
letters, and verbal information, from vari-
Gus parts Of that Commonwealth and we
are reloiced to learn that this subject will
be pressed upon the consideration of the
/ Convention, as one of paramount import
lance, bY those whose influences a..d slant