ny end, lying fabrications ! ees * The Ghurane on Slavery. It gives us great pleasure to be able to insert the faithful testimonies of ministers of the Gospel, and ecclesiastical bodies, against the inhuman system of slavery ; and we are proud to be able to present our readers with some very interesting selections gu this subject. Batract from the Address of the Rev. I. P. Guilliver before the American LHome Missionary Society. "With the single exception of Slavery. from which we must work ourselves free before we can possihly accomplish our destiny, we have none of those cumbrous unmanageable inheritances from the past which embarrass the progress of every re- form in Europe. "T wish you could observe for yourselves how every fault or flaw in our system or ourselves is searched out and published far and wide. I wish you might know how familiar every European is with the story of the wrongs we have done the red man, of our repudiation of our just debts, of our theft of Texas, and of our invasion of Mexico--liow well he is in- formed in regard to every peculiarity of manner, of expression and custom among us, and. especially how thoroughly he appreciates, the inconsistency of the in/ stitution and laws of slavery, with our loud professions in regard to liberty and equality and the inalienable rights of man, I wish you could see how generally the guillotine and the reign of Terror are associated in the minds of men with American slavery, and how all these re- volting ideas are linked to the idea of republicanism. The definition which multi- tudes would give of a republic, if they should precisely utter the ideas they have, would be' something like this 'A loose and feeble sort of government, which allows men to plunder and enslave and murder their féllow-men as they please.' These false and exageerated nofions are promulgated with the greatest diligence, and every occurrence which fayors them is carefully made known. "Tn the very depths of Russia, where the people scarcely know of the existence of our nation, where at least no good report ofus has ever penetrated, I found the history of our so-called fugitive slave law quite well understood. Said an intelligent Rus- sian nobleman to me, ' What strange peo- 'ple you republicans are !--we have nothing so bad as that in Russia.' These are the means which the enemies of God and man find:most efficacious to check and destroy the' influence of this country in behalf of the cause of liberty. Would to 'God they received no aid from ourselves ! Would to God the American traveller could lift his hand to heaven, and declare that these accounts are, from beginning to If that could be, the tide of revolution would roll like an ocean over Europe. If that could be, the crushed Italian and the bleeding Magyar would no longer appeal to distant'strangers for aid and succor, An inherent enersy, animated by the hope we should excite -- moulded by Christianity, guided by en- lightened reason,--would develope among every people a power which could easily overturn the feeble dynasties hy which they are now enslaved, and which would permit no haughty despot to leave his own totter- ing throne to render aid to his distressed "comperis.< ) © L repeat it then, in no vain or 'boastful spirit, but in the deep conviction that T am giving utterance to the great truth' of the tim 's--the truth which should prominently _oceupy our thoughts and guide our actions the batileof the world's Sreedom is. to be fought on our own soil, The thorouch eon- formation of our institutions and customs and: laws to the spirit. and principles of . Christianity is the grand problem, the sue- cessful solution of which is to emancipate the nations, , . 'Never had nation off-red to it a destiny so sublime! Never had the friends of hu- manity such room and verge for the pro- 'seoution of their philanthropic enterprises, Never had the followers of Jesus sneh an opportunity to establish his kingdom othe kingdom of righteousness and peace -and jov in the Holy Ghost all through the NPD UE eit ps ok: 4 Tnaddition to the above, we also subjoin an extract from the report of a Christian + Anti-Slavery Convention, which assembled | - Tately at West Randolph, Vt. Ivis selected from the Portland (Me.) Inquirer: The Convention opened with a discourse Silas MeKeen, from Matthew 7, supported the following conelu- Pty We should agquaint ourselves. with condition of the slave. We should sympathize with those ndage ani sincerely desire to do them the Ve should endeavor by all proper acticable means to convince slave- of their error. « ' ; 4, In electing principal officers, we should vote for those who are able and willing 'fo act forthe slave, 5 : 5. All clittrches and ecclesiastical bodies should keep themselves free from the evil,-- denounce it, aud maintain. the supremacy se of God's law over all the enactments that are opposed to it. Y 6. We should pray for slaves and slave- holders. ; : The positions taken in the resolutions are sound as truth, and it is cheering to see them thus sustained. 1. Resolved, That the subject of American Slavery calls loudly for the vigilant atten- tion of Christian men, and for their increas- ed endeavours not only to resist the further progress of the evil, but to deliver our country entirely from its existence. 9. That we believe American Slavery, both in principle and practice to be directly, opposed to the religion of Jesus Christ, and every principle of moral rectitude, and utterly abominable before God. 3. That we consider slayeholding. as much ont of its place in the church as would be any otlier system of iniquity, ; and that it is the solemn duty of all people of God to deliver themselves as speedily as possible from all participation in the enormous evil. 4, That those who persist in the'practice of slaveholdine, whether church' members or ministers, should not be treated as members in good standing; and there should 'be no fraternal correspondence with ino in their churches, and refuse to listen to the voice of remonstrance. 5. That the revealed will of God is the supreme and immutable rule of man's duty ; and that God has never given any authority to man to annul or modify his law; and that any law of man which conflicts with the law of God, ought not to be obeyed. 6. That the late act of Congress called the "Fuvgitive Slave Law " is incompatible with the revealed will of God; contrary particularly to that' fundamental principle of the gospel, "All things whatsoever ye would that inen should do unto you, do ye even so to them:" that strenuous endea- yors ought to be used to procure its repeal ; and that in the mean time it 1s in- comparably better <o endure peacefully its penalties than to sin against humamity, conscience and the authority of God. by yielding obedience to its unjust requisitions. 7. That the act of the Levislature of Vermont, of 1850, "relating to the writ of habeas corpus to persons claimed as fugi- tive slaves and the right of trial by jury " ishighly honorable to the legislature which, passed it, and one which ought not to be repealed ; its principles bemg as firm as 'the foundations of our mountains. 8. That no-preaching of the gospel is likely ever ta reclaim men from the sim of slaveholding without direct and faithfu application to the evil itself, as in other cases of transgression, 9. That our great religious societies which are laboring to establish the gospel in the waste places of our land and tosend it abroad among heathen nations, ought to remember the millions in this country who are purposely kept in heathenish ignorance ; and by no means tolerate slavery in the churches gathered by their missionaries any more than caste, or polygamy, or any other iniquity, and that missionaries who persist in. receiving slaveholders ought to be rejected. 10. That Rev. Silas MeKeen, Rev. E. J. Scott, Rev. Horace Fletcher, and Rev. Moses Kidder are hereby chosen a com- mittee to offer for publication in the religious and other papers in this State and in the National Eva, the doings of this meeting ; to issue an address to the chimn'ches, and to call another Convention of like chavacter next year, at such time and place as they shall judge best. Tn conclusion, we will add a resolution adopted by a meeting of the Universal Reform Society in Boston composed prin- cipally of universalist ministers. Recalued, That we view with deep con- cern the present' attitude of our country on the subject of slavery, believing as we do, that eamest efforts must be made for the overthrow of slavery, or the just judg ment of God will descend on our land; and seeing, with great pain, a dis- position on the part of those ealled states- men to patch up ¢ompromises, which merely lide hut cannot cure the evil, we feel called upon as Chiristians to testify against the unrighteousness of slavery, and to request our fellow Christians of eyery sect, 16 unite with us in striving to break down that loathsome institution. Spirit of the Anti-Slavery Press. MAINE, Our cotemporary, of the Portland (Me.) Inguirrer, is rallying the Freesoilers of Maine to turn out to the State Convention, which meets in Winthrop, Maine, to-day | (July Ist), to nominate a candidate for Governor of the State, and Presidental electors. He states the pro-slavery aspect of this year's canvass, and appeals to them thus: tl "The great decisive elections of the year are just upon us, in which the tyranny of the land, avray ed in all the power of govern- inentl and party energy fully, basely, in- sultin'ly subsidized to its purposes, will exert jts utmost for the total destmetion of the holy cause of American Liberty. Tas ecclesiastical bidies who tolerate slavehold- |- 18 THE GRAND END AND AIM OF THE CAN- YASS OF THE YEAR ! "Shall this be done? All who fear God or regard Man, SHALL THIS BE DONE? Let this question burn into your souls. Think of those $0,000 merchantable infants who can't think! Think of humanity in chains! Think too, of our national slave- hunting, our guilt, our shame--the derision even of the Russians. "Think also of the bottomless abyss of deeradation into which the Austrian ' de- mocracy" of the country has plunged, There is no reservation or limitation. Even free speech is surrendered, slave-catching 1s adopted, tlie veto hung like the sword of Damocles over a repeal of the infernal slave act; honor, morality, justice, liberty--all, all are squandered with the profligacy of a harlot. Will you sit, down under this' in silence? Is the Jast drop of free 'blood gone from your hearts? Has indignation at shameless wrong forever left your brow ¢ NO. Yen thousand hearts in Maine all bowed with grief mingled with unconquer- able resolution wait to renew this contest. Then go to the Convention and re-organize the army of the Revolution, which was disbanded too soon." NEW HAMPSHIRE, The Independent Democrat, published at Concord, N. H., pitches into the resolutions of the Baltimore Democratic Convention, whieh pledged that, party to the 'finality of the Compromise," ina manly style. We have room only to insert one paragraph of this terse article. 3 "By this Platform the Fugitive Slave Law, which denies to a man, what the} Common Law and the Constitution both guaranty to a dog or horse, is invested with the sacredness and intanibility of the Con- stitution, A statue enactment which denies a Trial by Jury in cases involving rights dearer than life, is declared unalterable; and the faith of the ' Democratic Party ° is solemnly pledged, that, no matter what wrongs and oppressions may hereafter exist under i's administration, it ' cannot with fidelity ' to the Constitution, be either 'repealed or so changed as to impair its efficiency.' More stringent it may be made. lf there is any right dear and saered to free- men, which it now fails to trample under foot, it may. be 'so changed ' as to make the power wf despotism perfect and irresistible. I free speech, free thought and a free press shall be found dangerous to the despotism of American Slavery, and unfayorable to the 'efficiency' of the Slave Law, these may be suppressed. Ifthe pulpit, in the dis- charge of its divine mission to preach 'de- liverance to the captives,' shall prove an obstacle to the ' efficiency ' of that Law for the purposes of the man-hunters, the pul- pits may be closed. In a word, that law being made part and parcel of the Consti- tution, there is no right, human or divine, which has the guarantee of a straw's value, so it conflicts with the ' efficiency" of an act whose atrocious pravisions would disgrace the darkest annals of tyranny in the darkest period of the world's history." The Independent Democrat, also con- tains the journal of the proceedings of the Free Democratic State Convention, which met at Concord, N. H., June' 11th 1852. Tt was a spirited gathering, and some noble resolutions were unanimously adopted, four of which we present to our readers as a specimen of the whole ; Resolved That we meet under circum- stances requiring in this degenerate age the utmost yigilanee on the part of the friends of Freedom, who should never tire or falter in the race until the great princi- ples of human rights, (which are the basis of all true Democray) are universally re- cognized, established and maintained, Resolved, That: those principles--pro- mulgated im the Revolutionary period of 'our history and exhibited in the sterner Republicanism of our futhers--are sustained by the dictates of eternal justice, strony as the throne of Onmipotence they will ever stand amid all fluctuations of human affairs --and in their ascendency and practical manifestation, alone can be re:lized the full developement of our free institutions. Resolved, That we cordially approve of tle sentiment avowed at the late conven- tion at Dultimore--'That the Federal Go- vernment is one of limited powers, derived solely {yom the Constitution, and the grants of power therein, ought to be more strictly construed, by all the departments and agents of the Government, and that It is -|inexpedient and dangerous to , exercise consutuliinal powers '--and_ therefore aye deny to Congress all authority to legislate in any way upon the rendition of fugitive slaves,--such legislation being entirely un- authorized by the Constitution--* inexpe- dient and dangerous." Resolved, That tr the power had been given to'Congress to legislate for the return of fugitive slaves, it could only be exercised in conformity with those portions of, the Constitution which explicitly provide for Tran By Juny-- for Judges with a fixed salary appointed by the President and | Senate--for the writ of Annas Corrus-- for no expost facto Jaws, and for various other provisions--all of which are nullified and outraged by the late atrocious Fugitive Slave Law--a law not less repugnant to the constitution and the common law, than to the most obvions sentiments of civilized Society. MASSACHUSETTS. The Liberator contains a notice for "Freedom's grand and true celebration of Tndependence day " to take place at Abing- ton, Mass., July 5th inst. The Commonwealth has been oceupied with the report of the proceedings in the Shadrack Rescue Trials, prosecuted by the U.S. against Elizur Wright, Lewis Hayden and others. The Jury did not agree in the ease of Mr. Wright, and the U. 8. District Attorney has postponed the prosecution of the other cases. An article in the Com- monwealth on " The Issues" is an expose, of the pro-slavery platforms of the two old hunker parties. NEW YORK. The National Anti-Slavery Standard of June 10 is devoted to a spirited review of the National Democratic Convention, one article from Edmund Quiney and one from the editor. Mr. Quincy says "there was no, controyersy with the slave power, for the whole Convention was atits feet." The Frederick Douglass Paper of June 8 coutains an editorial on the approaching Presidential election in the U.8., charging these quadrennial events with exercising a pernicious influence on the cause of reforms in 'general, and rolling back the tide of moral progress that the previous two or three years to these occurrences had been fostering. The sentiment of the article in question indicates that the editor would make a true subject for her Britannic Ma- jesty, and we would be happy to welcome him here in her Canadian Province. PENNSYLVANIA. "The Pennsylvania freeman, of June 12th, has a very commendatory article on the « Woman's Rights Convention," that was lately held in the City of Philadelphia, and considers that the spirzt, if not the Jetter, of the Anti-slavery: platform, is broad enough to embrace that branch 'of reform for discussion in Anti-slavery Journals. The same paper contains an article on pro- slavery Quakerism, which is a personal ex- planation of the editor in relation toa dif- ficulty hg met with on visiting a conventicle of Quakers, in Marlborough, Pennsylvania. It appears that the members were divided into two parties, obviously on the question of slavery, and the pro-slavery friends were determined that Mr. Johnson, the editor of the Freeman, should not speak in their first day meeting, although he is a member in good standin in a soeiety of the same faith, at Salem, Ohio; and when Mr. Johnson felt moved to speak, scarce had he uttered a half dozen words, before the spirit of the Devil, which was striving with a certain Humphrey Marshall, moved him to get wp and interrupt Mr. Johnson, and command him to desist. But Mr. Johnson, still fecling# moved to continue, stich an ex- citement was raised that he finally aban- doned the desire, until the pro-slayery party had left the meeting, and then pro- ceeded. However, the pro-slavery party, still intent on doing the work of their father, the Devil, had Mr. Johnson and several members of the anti-slavery party (who had desired him to. speal) arrested and bound over for trial, on the charge of disturbing the meeting. We trust that Fillmore and Webster breathes freer by the performance of this Herculean task for the preservation of the American Union. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. i Six columns of the National Era, of June 17th, are devoted to a review of Franklin Pierce; the Democratic nomince for the Presidency. His. actions in Congress are contrasted, side by side, with that noble champion of freedom, the late John Q. Adams, and the contrast presents Pierce in the most Indicrous light on the question of slavery, and confirms his everlasting sub- serviency to the slave power. From the numerous references given in connexion with, the article alluded to above, we know that the editor has been to great pains, and made much research to prepare it. Truly he is a faithful sentinel on the watch-towers of freedom; and the anti-slavery hosts already owe him an everlasting debt of vratitude, ONTO. * The Anti-Slavery Buele, of June 19th, contains an article on the Christian Anti- Slavery Convention, lately held in Ohio. It shows up the meanness of pro-slavery ministers and churches that turned a cold shoulder to that assemblage, and enecouraves the laudable position taken by those faith- fal outspoken ministers of the Gospel, who didassomble. 'The Cleveland Tine Demo- crat, commenting upon the National De- moeratic Convention, and the despicable cringing of northern delecates, as was there manifested, uses the following strong lan- guage : "Could alower deep be found? Could the Delegates of the North mire into a blacker pool of servility 2? 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