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of our citizens, and to lead them into idle and dissolute habits.

And they have the fullest confidence in the wisdom and ability of your honorable It retards the growth of our population. body to devise such measures as will efVirginia has a territory nearly one-third fect that desirable object, without any greater than any of the old thirteen greater interference with the rights of states; is blessed with a delightful cli- individuals than every patriot will be mate, fruitful soil, and many of the finest willing to submit to for the good of his harbors and navigable streams in the country. If, however, you shall not feel world, and had once the largest popula- yourselves authorized to adopt such tion of any of the states; her whole po- measures in relation to the whole state, pulation is now less than that of Penn- then your memorialists pray that you will sylvania or New York, and she has few-pass an act prohibiting any slaves from er white inhabitants than other states being brought into that portion of the which have not one fourth as much ter-state lying west of the Blue Ridge, after ritory. In 1789 she had ten representa- the first day of June next-and provitives in Congress; Pennsylvania had ding for the gradual abolition of slavery eight, and New York had six ;-she will in that portion of the state. And your now be entitled to twenty-one, Pennsyl- memorialists will ever pray, &c. vania to twenty-eight, and New York to forty-two.

It impairs our national strength-for no state can be powerful which is full of internal enemies.

COLORED SETTLEMENTS IN CANADA. We have received from Wilberforce, Canada, a communication relative to the formation of a new Joint Stock Company, for the purchase of It is inconsistent with the true spiritland, &c. Further notice will be taken of it of the Christian religion, which teaches next month. us that all men are equal in the eye of God.

It is degrading to our character as a nation. It is degrading to our national character not only because it is inconsistent with the principles of liberty and equality, by which we profess to be governed, but because thousands of our cltizens are engaged in a traffic, at the bare mention of which humanity must blush-a traffic in human beings.

An article has been published in some of the newspapers, recommending the "Colborne Settlement," near the head of Lake Ontario, to colored emigrants. This, also, will claim our

attention hereafter.

A SIGN!

the British Government to the Governor of the
The following order was recently sent from
Bahamas.-This is "glorious news," truly.
"CIRCULAR.

Downing Street, 29th May, 1832. Sir, I am to signify to you the King's commands, that in future grants of land made by the Crown, a condition be inserted for the forfeiture of the grant, on proof of the land having been at any time (subsequent to the date of the grant) cultivated by the labor of slaves.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
GODERICH.

Governor, Sir J. C. Smyth, Bahamas."

It must ultimately lead to the most ruinous and destructive servile wars. In many counties our white population is rapidly decreasing, whilst the slaves are every where increasing. In that part of the state lying east of the Blue Ridge the colored has gained upon the white population more than one hundred thousand in the last forty years; and it is susceptible of the clearest demonstration that that gain must be much more rapid hereafter than it has been in times past, until at last the disproportion will be-Texas, which states that emigrants from this come so great, we must expect that the horrid scenes of St. Domingo, or such as took place in the island of Jamaica during the last year, will be acted over again in this country.

Your memorialists, deeply impressed by these and various other considerations, earnestly entreat your honorable body to adopt such measures as will insure the gradual and certain abolition of slavery throughout this commonwealth.

MEXICAN TREATY, &c.

We have seen a late letter, from Brazoria,

country are entitled, on settlement, to naturali-
zation by virtue of the late treaty. This is, evi-
dently, a mistake. Let our citizens beware!

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THE HORRORS OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

Go then with me to this long-abused continent, where the first act of this infernal tragedy is acted over every month, and you will have some faint idea of the atrocities which it unfolds. In that

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thicket crouches a human tiger, and just beyond it you hear the cries of children at their sports. The next moment he springs upon his terrified prey-nor sister nor mother shall ever see them more. On the right hand you hear the moans of the captive, as he goes bleeding to his doom; and on the left a peaceful village flashes horror upon the face of midnight; and as you approach the scene of conflagration, you behold the sick, the aged, and the infant, either writhing in the fire where they lay peacefully down, or attempting to escape. You see them forced back into the flames, as not worth the trouble of driving to market. And then, O what shrieks from the bursting hearts of the more unhappy survivors! what agonies in the rending of every tie! what lacerations, what fainting, what despair, wait on every step, and afflict the heaven which lights them on their way to bondage! How many would die, if they could, before

they have been an hour in the hands of those incarnate demons who are hurrying them away!

is wafted by the. reluctant and wailing winds upon the complaining waters, to be chained and scourged, to pine and die, in the great western house of bondage?

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The following petition has been prepared for circulation by the New England Anti-Slavery Society. If the British people can collect (as they have done) a hundred and fifty thousand signatures on a single petition, praying for the liberation of the slaves in the Colonies, ought not the American people to be equally zealous for the overthrow of slavery in the District of Columbia, over which Congress has entire control.

Liberator.

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled:

The undersigned citizens of this Republic would, in the most respectful manner, approach the appointed lawgivers our land, as the delegated guardians of the prosperity and welfare of our beloved country. We approach your Shall I attempt to describe the horrors honorable body as humble supplicants of the middle passage-the miseries in the cause of justice and the equal which await these wretched beings in rights of men. We implore you to excrossing the ocean? I have no pencil or tend the shield of your protection over colours for such a picture. But I see upwards of six thousand of our fellow them literally packed alive,by hundreds, citizens, who groan in the bondage of in a floating and pestilential dungeon-slavery in the District over which you manacled to the very bone, under a tre- especially preside, and in which you are ble iron hatchway-tormented wth thirst constitutionally clothed with exclusive and devoured with hunger-suffocated legislative power. We believe the time in their own breath-chained to corpses, has fully come when this Christian naand maddened by despair, to the rending tion should wipe the foul blot of slavery of all their heart-strings. See mothers from our national character; when, as and young girls, and even little children, a nation, we should be delivered from. seeking refuge in the caverns of the deep the reproach of upholding a system from the power of their tormentors; which tolerates the buying and selling and not to be diverted from their pur- of innocent men, women, and children, pose by the hanging and shooting of such born in our land. That any portion of s have failed in their attempts. Be- the people of this country should be rehold the sick and the blind struggling garded as mere cattle--should like catamidst the waves into which avarice has the be subjects of sale and purchase-and cast them, and shrieking, in the jaws of should, with their posterity, be doomed the shark, for the unpardonable crime of to interminable bondage, we can but rehaving sunk under their tortures, and gard as an offence against Him who lost their marketable value on the voy-created man in his own image; seeing age. See them headed up in water casks and thrown into the sea, lest they should be found and liberated by the merciful cruiser.

The foregoing is a mere extract from the blood-stained records of the Slave Trade. Who then will undertake to sum up the amount of human misery which

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He hath "made of one blood all nations of men that dwell on the face of the earth.” We therefore humbly pray your honorable body, that a law may passed forthwith, declaring all persons in the District of Columbia free, and equally under the protection of the laws of the Union.

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Ladies' Repository.

Philanthropic and Literary. PRINCIPALLY CONDUCTED BY A LADY. ANOTHER FEMALE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. It is with very great pleasure that we notice the formation of a Female Anti-Slavery Society in New-England. May it be the forerunner of similar ones in every city and village throughout the Eastern States. Such associations ought long since to have been establish

ed in every state and territory in the Union. It appears to us that the females of this land are without excuse for their heartless indifference to the miserable condition of so many of their countrymen. It seems perfectly incredible that they can so far forego their natures as to know of the existence of slavery-and such a fearful slavery-within the limits of their dearly loved country-that they can know, too, that so many hundreds of thousands of their own sex are among its victims, and make no more efforts than they have done, to advance the cause of its abolition. They behold thousands of their sisters degraded, and terribly wretched, exposed to all the cruelties of capricious tyranny-the groans of their agony comes, ever and anon, wafted to their ears, as some heart-string breaks with its exceeding anguish—their brethren, who are labouring in the cause of those oppressed ones, call for their aid, yet still so many of them remain passive and indolent spectators, and, painful as it is, we fear we must add, abettors of this cruel oppression. Amidst the gloomy reflections excited by such a prospect of wide spread apathy, it is delightful indeed to meet with an evidence that the cause of the slaves is not wholly forgotten in the hearts of our sex; that there are yet some who cannot hearken heedlessly to the cry of human woe, nor selfishly pursue their own gratification, at the expense of misery to others.

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and righteousness in the world :-where-
as the present is a time when justice and
equity have in a pre-eminent manner
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fallen to the earth, which groans for the
violence, iniquities and oppression with
which it is filled; and as slavery stands
at the greatest distance from that love
which is the fulfilling of God's law, and
being an evil existing among us of
ertions in breaking every yoke and let-
such a nature as requires our united ex-
ting the oppressed go free :-Therefore,
we, the undersigned, being sensible that
the purchase and consumption of the
productions of slave labour are the great-
est support to the existence of slavery,
will endeavor to do the best that circum-
stances will admit, in renouncing the
productions of slavery from our use; and
also that we will endeavor by all other
means agreeable with law and gospel, to
effect the abolition of slavery, and also
to inform and correct public opinion on
this important subject, as truth may open

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way.

RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved, That this Society adopt the Boston Liberator as its official organ, and that we use our utmost influence to extend its circulation.

Resolved, That the funds of this soprocuring any Anti-Slavery publications ciety be appropriated to the purpose of within its limits, and circulating the

same.

Resolved, That this Society procure and circulate all possible information with regard to free goods.

Resolved, That we gratefully accept any advice which the publishers of the Liberator may favor us with.

Resolved, That this Society admit any member or members who may feel the necessity of joining.

Resolved, That this Society meet the first second day eve, in every month, when each member contribute the stipulated sum.

CRUELTIES OF WEST INDIA SLAVERY.

By an Eye Witness.

We doubt not but our readers will shudder as we have done, in reading the paragraph below, to reflect how often female limbs have been tortured by "this dreadful engine," as it is most aptly termed by the author. Will they reflect, too, for what cause a large portion of their sex are subjected to such inhuman treatment, and driven out daily to their toil with this terrible instrument? Oh thankful, indeed,

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may those feel, who can turn inward to their
hearts, and say, it is not for us; it is not to sup-
ply our tables with a cruel sweetness!

"Think, ye ladies, iron hearted,
Smiling at your happy boards;
Think how many backs have smarted,
For the sweets the cane affords !"

Let it be remembered that it is to supply female lips with their wonted luxuries, that

this tremendous scourge " unfolds its torturing coil" over thousands of sinking and helpless female forms. That it is because woman shares with the man-stealer in his blood-purchased spoils, and refuses to give heed to the agony of her unhappy sisters! Oh how can one christian-one female heart know of all the misery, aye, or a hundredth part of the misery endured by the victims of British and American slavery, without instantly and forever renouncing the use of the articles for the sake of whose cultivation they are kept in bondage, and devoting itself with unwearied energy to the cause of their emancipation!

flict a gash at every stroke, so as to make a few lashes a tremendous punishment. It is not an uncommon thing for them to lay open the flank of a mule or ox, when driven, cutting fairly through their tough hides at a single stroke. But you must observe that cutting does not mean merely drawing blood and fleecing off

the skin-for these are the effects of althis instrument, however leniently apmost every lash on the naked body, with plied; but it means cutting into the very muscles and flesh below.

For the Genius of Universal Emancipation. OH PRESS ME NOT TO TASTE AGAIN.

Oh press me not to taste again,

Of those luxuriant banquet-sweets!
Or hide from view the dark red stain,
That still my shuddering vision meets.
Away! 'tis loathsome! bear me hence !
I cannot feed on human sighs,
Or feast with sweets my palate's sense,
While blood is 'neath the fair disguise.
No, never let me taste again

Óf aught beside the coarsest fare,
Far rather, than my conscience stain,
With the polluted luxuries there!

ELA.

For the Genius of Universal Emancipation. THE CONSUMPTION OF SLAVE PRODUCE.

Description of a West India Slave Whip. It consists of a short handle with a thick and strongly platted whip, about three yards long, formed either of rope as hard as iron, or a strip of dried hide, the lash of it being made of the fibers of a poisonous plant named penguin, in appearance like the finest flax; It is often asked, What benefit can when twisted up and knotted it becomes result to the slaves from the disuse of the as hard as steel, and will cut equal to a product of their labor, or what injury razor, and instils a portion of its poison from the continuance of its consumption? into the wound. Those drivers being To this it may be replied: That as their themselves naturally harsh and unfeel- labor is only valuable to their proprietors ing brutes, from the cruel treatment they on account of the profits arising from the in their time experienced, become, from sale of its products, the want of a marlong training, most expert in the use of ket for these would tend directly to the whip, and they well know how to emancipation; even the most direct and how to aggravate or mitigate prejudiced of the planters cannot be its inflictions at will. They have a kind supposed to be so attached to the sysof emulation in the loudness of the re-tem, as to retain their slaves in bondage port which they produce from this in- at so manifest a disadvantage. It would strument of torture, and the noise is so also, until a general emancipation took dreadful that I assure you when I first place, have a tendency to secure them came here, I have jumped out of bed at better and milder treatment, both in orfive o'clock in the morning, supposing der to ward off, as much as possible, the it had been a pistol discharged under my odium attached to the system, and by window. No wonder that it makes the removing the inducement to exact from strongest of its male patients, not to them an extraordinary amount of labor. speak of the females, tremble, for even || Further, as consumers are so evidently the very mules and oxen tremble at the the supporters of the system, abstinence thunder it sends forth. The drivers, from slave produce, even if it was prohowever, can, when they please, in in- ductive of no benefit to the slave, is a flicting punishment, produce, from the sacrifice which all, who profess themadroitness with which they use it, a loud selves enemies of slavery, owe to their report without proportionate severity of own consistency. With what face can stripes, whilst on the other hand, when they declare they detest oppression and told to cut, as the phrase is, they can in- tyranny, who are doing the best that lies

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in their power to support both? How, too, can such persons be innocent? Would an accomplice in robbery or a purchaser of stolen goods, knowing them. to be such, be innocent because they detested the crime of theft, or because they had no other means of obtaining any thing more than the bare necessaries of life? It would be evident that such persons did not hate the guilt so much As they loved the advantages of it; and if it were not for the misleading influence of habit, I believe many now really upright minded people would readily view the consumption of slave produce in the same light; they would feel that to consume the fruits of slave labor, is to become a partaker in the spoils of robbery; to sanction oppression and cruelty; to join hands with the man-stealer, and to share the profits of the dealer in humau flesh. CORA.

For the Genius of Universal Emancipation.
LOOKING AT THE SOLDIERS.

Mother, the trumpets are sounding to-day,
And the soldiers go by in their gallant array!
Their horses prance gaily, their banners float
Come, come to the window,dear mother, with me!

free,

Do you see how their bayonets gleam in the sun,
And their soldier-plumes nod, as they slowly

march on?

And look to the regular tread of their feet!

Keeping time to the sound of the kettle-drum's

beat.

This, mother, you know, is a glorious day,
And Americans all should be joyous and gay;
For the Fourth of July saw our country set free:
But you look not delighted, dear mother, like

me!

No, love; for that shining and brilliant display,
To me, only tells of war's fearful array;
And I know that those bayonets, flashing so
bright,

Were made in man's blood to be spoiled of their

light.

And the music that swells up so sweet to the ear,
In a long gush of melody, joyous and clear,
Just as freely would pour out its wild, thrilling
flood,

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For the Genius of Universal Emancipation.
TEA-TABLE TALK.
Helen and Maria.

"Dear me, Helen, I cannot conceive why you think that taking a lump o sugar in your tea, or eating a piece o cake, or a preserve, can do any harm t the slaves. And when you are in company it must be so disagreeable, and look so singular, to decline eating almost every thing that is offered you! I think you must almost starve sometimes!"

"I have never yet been driven to such an extremity," answered her friend, smiling; "but I will acknowledge that it is certainly very disagreeable to be obliged so frequently to disappoint the kindness of my friends; neither is it at all pleasant to appear singular in one's notions, which however is not now greatly to be feared, since abstinence from slave articles has become lately quite common. But even if that was not the

case, my reasons are, I believe, sufficiently strong to render singularity in this respect entirely proper, and to enable me to bear the imputation of it patiently."

"But you have caten of such things all your life, till lately, and never thought it wrong; and all the rest of your family make use of them, so that, begging your pardon, cousin Helen, I cannot think it otherwise than very silly for you to make such a fuss about it now."

"In telling me that I have made use of slave produce through the whole of my life until lately, you have mentioned an excellent reasou, my dear Maria, why I should patiently and cheerfully endure any privations that an abstinence from But be

To stir up men's hearts to the shedding of blood!
Our country, my boy, as you tell me, is free,
But even that thought brings a sadness to me;
For less guilt would be her's, were her own fet-it may impose upon me now.

tered hand

Unable to loosen her slaves from their band.

We joy that our country's light bonds have been broke,

But her sons wear, by thousands, a life-crushing yoke;

And yon bayonets, dear, would be sheathed in their breast,

Should they fling off the shackles that round them are prest.

cause I have done wrong ignorantly, or because those whom I most love have not the same views with myself in that respect, shall I continue to sin against my conscience?"

"I suppose you should not, if the use of slave produce really were wrong, or could be done without altogether ;— but

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