Suppose that the southern states were full of mad dogs which were beginning to bite the people, and suppose we of the north were quite asleep to the matter, confident of our safety though exposed to danger, having in our hands the means both of prevention and cure, but quite ignorant of hydrophobia, and careless of the fate of our neighbors. And suppose it were the object of a lecturer to stir us up to act for the relief of others and our own salvation; would it not prodigiously increase his power, if in the course of his lecture half a dozen men, bitten by mad dogs, and foaming with canine madness, should rush in among his audience? There would be proof positive, not only that hydrophobia was a dreadful disease, but that his northern hearers were endangered by it. Now, in regard to slavery, if all at the north who are interested in their pockets to support it, were to tolerate abolition lectures with perfect indifference, there would be some reason to believe the stories they tell us about the mild and beneficent nature of slavery, as practically exemplified at the south. But now we know, and can effectually illustrate, the diabolical horrors of the system which crushes our colored brethren at the south, by the malicious, mean and murderous outrages upon their humble advocates at the north. When was a good cause, or a manly cause, or even a tolerable cause defended by hard swearing, brick-bats, and stale eggs, wielded by mobs of gamblers, debauchees, and sots, marshalled by well-dressed extortioners and cringing office-seekers? Really, it is difficult to say which is least to the credit of slavery, the character of these mobs, of the leaders, or of the missiles. The M'Duffies will mistake their interests, if they do not immediately pass word to their faithful allies at the north to put an instant stop to these mobs. Every abolition lecture they break up is a ruinous victory to the cause of slavery. The abolition lecturer comes into a place with his brains and his pockets full of facts and arguments to prove that slavery concerns the north, is supported at the north, endangers the north. The mob breaks in and drives him from the church. The next day he meets the same, or a still larger audience in a barn perhaps, and says, "the occurrence of yesterday renders it unnecessary for me, as I had intended, to develop and illustrate our connexion with and support of slavery, I shall therefore pass to the next topic." But, if the lecturer should be entirely driven off, the audience, dispersed by a pro-slavery mob, would not fail to make the same inference. 7. The salvation of our country now depends upon our living down, and working down, these mobs. They have already triumphed over law; it is ours to show them, and the country, and all future generations, that such a triumph must be short, and soon repented of. It is ours to show that when a proud and tyrannical majority overleaps the sacred bulwark of the constitution, to trample on the minority's freedom of speech, they shall then meet a terrible avenger in the person of calm TRUTH, by whose unerring pencil and unfading colors, they shall be hung up on the canvas of the sky for everlasting contempt-a salutary warning to coming ages. Let us plead the cause of the poor and the needy, for his Redeemer is mighty. In illustration of some of the previous remarks, we subjoin from the Emancipator the closing paragragh, in an account of the recent mob in Lockport. Near the close of Mr. Weld's lecture there, a meeting was called of the abolitionists of Niagara county, to organize a County Anti-Slavery Society, and the use of a church was obtained of its trustees. The mob, headed by the first judge and sheriff of the county, met at the same place. The result was as follows, and we hope it will teach abolitionists not to fear "the face of clay." "One resolution decreed, that Mr. Weld should leave the place, and demanded an answer on the spot. Of course, he refused to respond to the call of the mob, although his answer was repeatedly and loudly demanded by its chairman. Another resolution declared, that no County Society should be formed. After about four hours of such turmoil, the mobocratic meeting dissolved, though scarcely any persons left the house. During all this commotion, the abolitionists kept their seats. The uproar having ceased, Mr. Weld rose and said, the abolitionists would now test the question, whether they were slaves without rights, or men with rights, by proceeding to organize the Niagara County Anti-Slavery Society. The Constitution was then read, and the society duly organized, the judges and sans culottes looking on. Mr. Weld then said, it was well understood that this was to have been his last lecture, having been so announced some days before, and well known to the mob, and hence they had shown their courage in resolving that he should leave the place, after he himself had resolved that he would do so. But duties alter with circumstances; and he would now stay, and test the question, whether our constitutional rights were realities or mockeries, and whether Statute law or Lynch law prevailed in Lockport. Accordingly, with leave of divine Providence, he said he should lecture in that house on Monday, at 2 o'clock, P. M. -remarking, that if the lecture passed off without interruption, it would be his last, but if not, he should stay in Lockport and continue to plead for constitutional liberty, and the supremacy of the laws, till liberty or he was defunct. After a session of five hours they adjourned. Monday came, and with it an immense assemblage, crowding the house to overflowing as on Saturday. Mr. Weld lectured between four and five hours, and at the close of his remarks, four hundred and eighty new members united with the Anti-Slavery Society. There being no disturbance, he lectured no more, and soon left the place. It was a glorious triumph of courage over cowardice, right over wrong, liberty over anarchy, religion over heathenism." "THE BILL OF ABOMINATIONS." BY J. G. WHITTIER. [From the Essex Gazette.] LINES written on the passage of Pinkney's Resolutions in the House of Representatives, and of Calhoun's "Bill of Abominations" in the Senate of the United States. Now, by our fathers' ashes!-where's the spirit Of the true hearted and the unshackled gone? Their names alone! Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within us? No-when our land to ruin's brink is verging What! shall we henceforth humbly ask as favors Here shall the statesman seek the free to fetter? Torture the pages of the hallowed Bible Shall our New England stand erect no longer, Oh no methinks from all her wild green mountains- And clear, cold sky! From her rough coast and isles, which hungry ocean From the free fireside of her unbought farmer→ From each and all, if God hath not forsaken Loud as the summer thunder-bolt shall waken Startling and stern!-the Northern winds shall bear it And buried Freedom shall awake to hear it Within her grave. Oh-let that voice go forth-The bondman sighing Let it go forth!-The millions who are gazing Oh-for your ancient freedom, pure and holy, Sons of the best of fathers; will ye falter Prayer-strengthened for the trial, come together, APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT TREASURER. The Executive Committee have apointed Mr. Lewis Tappan, Assistant Treasurer, to act during the absence of Mr. Rankin in Europe. $13.00 Who bids? "INCENDIARY PICTURES.” Owing to the absence of the Editor no "incendiary picture” was prepared for this number of the Record. We have, however, procured and placed above a little one-"inflammatory, incendiary, and insurrectionary in the highest degree”—which is in common use at the South. The cast from which it was taken was manufactured in this city, for the southern trade, by a firm of stereotypers, who, on account of the same southern trade, refused to stereotype the Record, because it contained just such pictures! Now, how does it come to pass, that this said picture when printed in a southern newspaper is perfectly harmless, but when printed in the Anti-Slavery Record is perfectly incendiary? We have nothing further to say about it till this question is answered. RECEIPTS Into the Treasury of the American A. S. Society, | York, N. Y., Individuals, per Wm. Mefrom May 15th, to June 21th, 1836. Bath, Maine, Friends, Champlain, N. Y. Prudential Com. of C. Benev. Soc. China, N. Y., C. O. Shephard, Esq., Hartwick, N. Y., per S. Maynard, Mansfield, Ct. Dr. J. Adams, 54 62 Crackan, Miss S. 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