steal from me, I sometimes heard of their depredations on the garners and hencoops of the slave-holders. C. STEWART RENSHAW." SLAVE-HOLDER. Is it possible? Why was this?

ABOLITIONIST. I will tell you. Mr. Renshaw was the warm friend of the negroes, was laboring for their elevation, cknowledged their righ's, and they knew it."

For the A. S. Record.

"CONTENTED AND HAPPY."

Proof. Some time since, a mother and two children escaped from slavery in "the low countries," and came up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati. After being in that city a few days, she heard that the agents of her master were in pursuit of her, and had already arrived in the city, and were searching her out. She had breathed the pestilential atmosphere of slavery and the pure air of freedom. She loved the latter,—for God nad adapted her lungs to inhale it. She resolved never to become a slave aga. Especially was she determined that her children should not wear a chain. Fearing her pursuers might learn the place of her concealment, and if they did not succeed in taking h might carry off her two little children, by robbing her of them we asleep, never did she, for many days, go to bed at night, without irst binding the children to her body with a piece of the bed cord, a d depositing a razor or sharp knife under her pillow; so that, if suddenly seized, she might take the life of her children, and then her own, rather than be carried back into slavery!

A MAN in Cincinnati, who had formerly been a slave in Virginia, was asked if he had not rather be the slave of a kind master in Old Virginia, where he had plenty to eat and drink and light work and no whippings, than to live in Ohio, where the laws were so severe, and he had to work hard for a living. He replied, "I had rather be a free man, and own my own body, and call my wife and children mine, and be compelled to beg my bread from door to door, and go to the Ohic river to drink, than to be a slave in Virginia, where I used to hear the cries of my poor perishing brethren, as they were daily beat and whipped by the cruel overseers."

[There was moral sublimity in this answer.

This man looked not on his own things, but on the things of others. He could not be joyous, while his "poor perishing brethren" were in anguish. If all had this spirit, how long would slavery endure?]

JAMES BRADLEY, an emancipated slave, formerly of Lane Seminary, speaking of the heaven born and irrepressible longings of the slaves for freedom, gave utterance to his own feelings thus: "Even liberty is bitter to me, while my brethren remain in bondage."

[That sentiment is worthy of an angel. It is entering fully into the injunction of the Apostle, to "Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them."]

For the A. S. Record.

MONARCH! on thy throne of power-
Maiden! in thy silent bower-
Sailor! o'er the bright blue sea
Laborer! 'neath the forest tree-
Painter! forms on canvass throwing,
With more than mortal beauty glowing-
Poet! in thy bright Ideal,

Blending the fancied with the real,
Till common things and faded seem
Fresh, from the splendors of thy dream-
Mother! with thy babe at rest,

Softly pillowed on thy breast

Father! at thy happy hearth-
Infant! in thy careless mirth-
Sage! enwrapt 'mid ancient lore-
Peasant at thy cottage door-
Saint! whose offering of prayer,
Angels unto Heaven bear-
All who on the land or sea

Dwell or roam at liberty,

Fair, and Wise, and Good, and Brave,

Join to free the outcast Slave!

Join! in crusade holier far,

Than that 'gainst mosque and scimitar

Join by the ties of earthly love,—
Join by the hope of bliss above,-
Join by the seal of Heaven, imprest
By God himself in human breast,-
Join for his sake whose pitying care,
All castes and every color share!
Slavery breaks the highest laws,
Wrests justice from the poor man's cause,
Rends asunder friend and brother,
Parts for ever child and mother.-
Pleasure in the bud is blighted,
The rising day of Hope benighted,
All that's high in man-effaced,
All in woman pure-debased,
Each trace of lineage from on high,
Worn out and lost by Slavery!
Oh! join, nor let the fertile soil
Be cursed by unrequited toil,

Nor the bright sun from his high path behold,
Man by his brother mortal, bought and sold!
Immortal man, by man immortal, driven
Far from the only hope to mortals given-
Oh! join, and warn the Tyrant ere too late
What from offended GOD must be his fate,

Join 'till erect each drooping head ye see,
Each fetter broken, all the oppressed gone free,
"Till Peace to all her many colored bow displays,
And all unite to sing a common Father's praise!

ANNA.

THE

ANTI-SLAVERY RECORD.

VOL. II. No. VII.

JULY, 1836.

WHOLE NO. 19.

HINTS ON ANTI-ABOLITION MOBS.

For three or four years past, a small but rapidly increasing portion of the community have waged a moral warfare with slavery. By this is meant, that they have endeavored to persuade every body to regard as a sin against human nature, and against God, the holding of men in involuntary bondage as brute beasts, "goods and chattels," merchandise. A sin, which, like every other, ought to be immediately abandoned.

In connexion with this moral warfare, it is notorious that there is hardly a city or village in the land, in which there has not been a tumultuous outbreak of popular indignation in the shape of brute force-or, more briefly, a mob, to frighten into silence the promulgators of this plain, self-evident, and by no means novel doctrine of human rights! What is worthy of special remark in regard to these mobs, is the fact that they have all been Anti-abolition, not Abolition mobs. The brute force has always been on one side. It has always been against the cause of abolition. And it may be remarked, by the way, that the anti-abolition side would not have resorted to physical force if they had had a superabundance, or even a moderate supply, of argument.

Now, it is of late often said-"The day of mobs has gone by." This is a great mistake; and it is partly to correct this mistake, and partly to put the friends of human rights on their guard, that we have taken up the pen.

Anti-abolition mobs will die on the same day with slavery, and not

before.

But why will not mobs die before slavery? Because, 1. Slavery is a system of violence and wrong, both physical and moral, and will always defend itself by violence and wrong, physical as well as moral. 2. Our constitutions of general and state government, which are

founded on the doctrine of equal rights, of which slavery is the most enormous violation, will not permit abolitionists to be silenced by law, hence they must be silenced, if possible, by violence against law, or, slavery must go down.

3. Though mobs can never put down abolitionism, so long as the laws of God endure, yet slaveholders and their abettors will always be too blind to see it.

4. Thousands of northern merchants, manufacturers and others, share with the masters in the unjust gains of slavery. To say that slavery is a sin, touches their pockets almost as directly as those of the slaveholder; it excites as much wrath, and must naturally call forth the same violence that the slaveholder is wont to bestow upon all who question the mandates of his sovereign will.

5. So long as slavery exists, slaveholders will give their presidential votes with reference to the support of it, and so long will the whole horde of hungry sycophants who seek offices in the gift of the president, do the bidding of slaveholders-and so long will they be bidden to raise anti-abolition mobs.

6. So long as slavery exists, the men at the north, whether at the bottom or top of society, who love to live in idleness, will sympathize with the oppressor, and so far as they can do it safely, will mob or murder every abolitionist. Why? Because they have no true and conscientious regard for law and order. A man who can, to any extent, act on the principle of slavery, can have no just regard for the supremacy of the law, for slavery is in the highest degree the triumph of brute force over law-the substitution of the dictates of arbitrary will, for the restraints of righteous principle and constitutional enactments. A man who believes that, in some circumstances, unoffending, unconvicted, untried men, may be justly deprived of their liberty, must of necessity be corrupt enough to believe that, in some circumstances innocent citizens may be mobbed in defiance of law. Such a man may be expected to encourage mobs, in some circumstances; always, of course, "for the good of the country." So long as slavery exists, there will be abundance of such men at the north, men who love idleness themselves and reverence it in others, men who hate industry themselves and despise it in others, and who will for ever sympathize with the tyrants who can get the most work with the least pay. Indeed, if there were not such men at the north, slavery would instantly cease. They are its most efficient supporters.

If the causes above mentioned will continue to operate so long as