Wicked and cruel as is the end aimed at, it is fully equalled by the criminality of the means by which it is proposed to be accomplished. These consist in organized societies and a powerful press, directed mainly with a view to excite the bitterest animosity and hatred of the people of the non-slaveholding States against the citizens and institutions of the slaveholding States. It is easy to see to what disastrous results such means must tend.'—'The incessant action of hundreds of societies, and a vast printing establishment, throwing out, daily, thousands of artful and inflammatory publications, mast make in time a deep impression on the section of the Union where they freely circulate, and are mainly designed to have effect. The well-informed and thoughtful hold them in contempt, but the young, the inexperienced, the ignorant, and thoughtless, will receive the poison.'

Upon the above extract we remark—

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1. They who oppose the abolitionists, but argue in favor of the ultimate abolition of slavery as a most desirable end,'-as if such a view of the question would be perfectly agreeable to the holders of slaves, are thus admonished by Mr. CALHOUN, that such an abolition, at any period however remote, or under any circumstances however favorable, would be wicked' and 'cruel.'*

2. The organization of societies and the establishment of 'a powerful press,' are not proofs of the criminality of the means ' adopted by the abolitionists; for they are invariably resorted to by the friends of every benevolent, just and holy enterprise, as essential to its success. Without organized action, and without a press, what progress could be made in the cause of Temperance, of Peace, or of Religion? What could the Bible, or Missionary, or Education Societies do without them?

3. If the abolition press throws out, daily, 'thousands of artful and inflammatory publications,' this may be a sound reason why the anti-abolition press should throw out, daily, tens of thousands of publications of an opposite tendency-but it cannot justify the plundering of the public mail, nor the destruction of the great palladium of human rights. If infidelity be

The language of Gov. McDuffie is yet more emphatic than Mr. Calhoun's :-' No patriot who justly estimates our privileges, will tolerate the idea of emancipation, at any period however remote, or on any conditions of pecuniary advantage however favorable. I would as soon think of opening a neg ciation for selling the liberty of the State at once, as for making any stipulations for the ultimate emancipation of our slaves.' The Charleston Courier says:- We protest against the assumption, the unwarrantable assumption, that slavery is ultimately to be extirpated from the southern States. Ultimate abolitionists are enemies of the south, the same in kind, and only less in degree, than immediate abolitionists.'

zealous and daring in the dissemination of its poisonous sentiments, shame upon christianity if it be not as active in its own cause-shame upon it if it demand that infidelity shall be gagged, fettered, and crushed by force, instead of meeting it with those spiritual weapons which are mighty, through God, to the pulling down of strong holds !

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4. The assertion, that the well-informed and thoughtful' hold the anti-slavery publications in contempt,' if true, would voluntarily place Mr. CALHOUN and his associates in the ranks of the inexperienced, the ignorant and thoughtless '—for they regard these publications with far different feelings: they cannot despise that which excites so much consternation among themselves. If the assertion be true, then it is an insult to that enlightened and virtuous class even to hint, that there is danger of their being misled by those who have more zeal than understanding,' who are smitten with the blindness of fanaticism,' and who are fanatical zealots.' If the assertion be true, then all the mobs, riots and lynchings in the land, with reference to slavery, have been perpetrated by the well-informed and thoughtful,' and their unresisting victims have been the inexperienced, the ignorant, and the thoughtless' !-But it is calumnious, and Mr. CALHOUN knows it it to be so. If he really believed all that he says in favor of slavery, that it is as beneficent a system as exists under heaven,-and all that he says against the abolitionists, that they are ignorant, unprincipled, insane men,—would he tremble lest they should win over to their side the wise and prudent,' the pious and philanthropic ?Would he confess, that the delusion of a despised band would prove too powerful for the reason of the nation, unless they were put down by the strong arm of law? Or would he wax hot, and be thrown into a paroxysm of fury, the moment any individual should begin to investigate that system which he says is producing so much happiness and prosperity? His terrorhis anger his dread of examination-his opposition to free discussion-his call for judicial pains and penalties to be inflicted upon the persons of abolitionists on account of their opinions

-his willingness to shackle the press-his recommendation to make the robbery of the mail of any and every document, whether printed or oral, which merely touches the subject of slavery, a lawful and obligatory act-all these evince a state of mind ill at ease, a conscience troubled with its own fearful monitions, an understanding filled with guilty confusion. How is the declaration of the Almighty confirmed to the letter !—' For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?'

Mr. CALHOUN, in the extremity of his argument, holds up the lex talionis over the heads of our northern citizens, in terHe says, by way of solemn admonition :

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The sober and considerate portion of citizens of non-slaveholding States, who have a deep stake in the existing institutions of the country, would have little forecast not to see that the assaults which are now directed against the institutions of the southern States, may be very easily directed against those which uphold their own property and security' (!!)

The effect of this warning must be to relax the muscles and disturb the gravity of our 'sober and considerate citizens'nothing more. Does the Senator from South Carolina credit his own ridiculous assertion, that the same assaults which the abolitionists are making upon the slave system, may be directed against our northern FREE LABOR system? If this could be done, what is there in the temper or disposition of the South toward the North, to make her forbear retaliating in the manner threatened? Why has she descended to the vile and hopeless task of scourging, imprisoning or putting to death, without a trial, such abolitionists as have been identified upon her soil, when she holds such a potent weapon in her hands against the North, and can at any moment throw confusion among us by assailing our own institutions? Is it not strange, that, among the numerous expedients devised by southern taskmasters to counteract the efforts of the abolitionists, they have not in a single instance attempted to prove,-by appealing to the Declaration of Independence and the Bible, by reasoning from anal

ogy, by historical facts and arguments, by northern admissions and concessions, by the relation' of men and things established in nature, that a New-England farmer has no moral right to hold his farm or his cattle as his property; that a New-England mechanic has no right to receive wages and obtain knowledge; that a New-England merchant commits an aggravated sin against God in buying and selling goods; that it is a violation of the seventh commandment for us to tolerate the marriage institution among our poor and ignorant population; that we are bringing upon this nation the reproach an derision of the world, and rendering it deserving of the judgments of heaven, by possessing houses and lands, rail-roads and manufactories, carriages and horses, ships and steamboats, &c. &c.; that we are ouꞌraging human rights in making, by law, no distinction between the rich and poor, the high and low, the strong and feeble; that we deserve to be execrated, in that we do not sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes,' but let every one possess his own body, mind and intellect, for his own benefit !!— Such warnings and remonstrances have never circulated north of the Potomac, nor fallen from the lips of any slaveholder south of Mason & Dixon's line and if they should be addressed to us by our southern brethren, we pledge ourselves to receive them in good humor-not to get angry-not to threaten to dissolve the Union-not to lynch any of the remonstrants who may happen to sojourn with us-not to rob the U. S. mail-not to offer any rewards for the persons of southern planters-not to organize any vigilance committees-not to call upon the brute force of the nation to stand by us-not to stop our ears, and refuse to hear argument not to cut out the tongues of those who do not agree with us +-not to demand that the South shall

*‹ Upon this subject we can hear no argument. Our opinions are unalterably fixed -our determinations are immutably firm and s'eadfast. It is a subject with which we cannot suffer a stranger to intermeddle.'-Gov. Lumpkin's message, Georgia.

†The question of slavery is not, and shall not be, open to discussion. The system is deep-rooted, and must remain forever. The very moment any individual attempts to lecture us upon its evils and immorality, and the necessity of putting means in operation to secure us from them, in the same moment his tongue shall be out cut and best upon the dunghill.'—Columbia S. C. Telescope.

go to hanging a few thousands of our opponents, at the peril of losing our trade!!*

Mr. CALHOUN speaks of the impossibility of abolishing the relation between MASTER and SLAVE without disasters unexampled in the history of the world'! And to show with what tenacity the slaveholding States cling to their oppression, he declares that

'Every consideration-interest, duty, and humanity-the love of country, the sense of wrong, HATRed of oppreSSORS, and treacherous and faithless confederates-and, finally, despair, would impel them to the most daring and desperate resistance in defence of property, family, country, LIBERTY, and existence ' !!

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Such is the anxiety of the South to get rid of the 'evil' of slavery!-Nothing can be more closely allied to mental and moral insanity, than the language of Mr. CALHOUN, which affirms that duty-humanity-love of country, and HATRED OF OPPRESSORS,' alike demand the perpetuation of a relation' wresting from more than one-third of the southern population all their rights, and reducing them to a level with the brute creation !—and which styles resistance to emancipation a 'defence of property, family, country, LIBERTY, and existence' !! Such a statesman ought to be held in execration,† (a slaveholder being witness,) and sent to Bedlamn rather than to the Senate of the United States. Besides the atrocity of these sentiments of the Report, there is something extremely ridiculous in the intimation, that 'despair' will impel the slaveholders' to the most daring and desperate resistance' to the arguments, entreaties and rebukes of the abolitionists!

One other extract, and we have done and this intimately concerns the workingmen, mechanics and farmers of NewEngland:

*The people of the North must go to hanging these fanatical wretches, if they would not lose the benfit of southern trade-and they will do it. They know too well on which side their bread is buttered ever to give up these advantages, so long as the hanging of a few thousands will prevent it.'-Richmond Whig.

With what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens to trample on the rights of the others, transforms those into despots, and these into eneinies, destroying the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other!'-Thomas Jefferson.