finds it. There is no place so remote, no station so lofty, no power so great, no government so peculiar, as to shield sin from rebuke and exposure. Yet proud and pharisaical America is enraged to madness, because she is admonished for her bloody crimes by a christian stranger; and her priests and her churches (with some signal exceptions) artfully strive to inflame her hatred, and join in the sanguinary cry, Away with him! crucify him! crucify him! his blood be upon us, and on our children!'

The last question, whether he was qualified to sustain so important an agency, was one which, sincerely distrusting his own abilities, he referred to the consideration and decision of the most discreet friends of the colored race in Great Britain. As soon as the mission was suggested to them, whatever may have been their opinion of its suitableness or feasibility, they unanimously agreed, that GEORGE THOMPSON was pre-eminently qualified to prosecute it. Nor did they throw up any obstacles in his path: on the contrary, they generously proffered all needful assistance.

Having ascertained the views of his numerous friends, MR. THOMPSON gave me the joyful assurance, a few days before my departure, that Deo volente, he would visit America, and cast his lot among the proscribed advocates of injured humanity. But he must first perform an important work in England. It was proposed to organize a Society in London, for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ; under whose auspices, Mr. T. would embark for the United States. To accomplish this noble object, Mr. THOMPSON travelled through the kingdom, lecturing in the principal towns and cities, and stimulating afresh the

compassion and benevolence of the colored race universally. The parent society was soon organized in the metropolis, and several auxiliary associations were also formed in various parts of the country. In Scotland, particularly in Edinburgh, MR. THOMPSON was received with every demonstration of respect, affection and delight. The enthusiasm of his crowded audiences was boundless.

Here I may pause, to notice some of the many ridiculous charges which were brought against MR. THOMPSON, after his arrival in this country.

First. He was taunted with being a 'Scotchman,' 'the Scotch emissary,' &c. This sneer is as false in fact, as it is puerile in reason, and worthy of those whose nativity the most degraded tribe on earth should be loath to claim. Surely, to be born in Scotland is no more justly reproachful, than to be born in the United States, and, indisputably, is quite as honorable and praiseworthy. Contempt of other nations belongs to barbarism, and is generally a proof of personal or domestic inferiority. Still, if we may lawfully enslave men because they or their ancestors were born in Africa, we have an unquestionable right to contemn those who originated in Scotland. To this grave charge, that he was a foreigner, MR. THOMPSON used playfully to reply, that he had no choice, or control, in selecting the spot upon which he first drew the breath of life; that if he could have made an election, at the time of his birth, perhaps he might have chosen Boston, or New York, or Philadelphia, in America, as the place of his nativity; and that, if any mistake had been committed, he had done what he could to rectify it, by leaving England for America!

It is proper to state,—not to relieve Mr. T. of any odium, but for the sake of accuracy,-that he was born in Liverpool, and must therefore relinquish the satisfaction of belonging to renowned and enlightened Scotland.

Again. It was partly alleged, that MR. THOMPSON was sent out to this country, by a small number of antiquated spinsters, in Glasgow or Edinburgh :

'As to THOMPSON, the foreign vagrant, who has attempted with impudent zeal to create excitement, he has been hooted from every place where he has recently attempted to hold forth. He will soon find it most expedient to return to his own country, and give an account of his mission to the silly women who squandered their money for his support.'-[Boston Centinel.]

"The ethics of the abolitionists, as expounded by their imported mouthpiece, THOMPSON, in the employment of the Glasgow philanthropistisses, appears to be gaining some ground in the Slave States. Several murders have recently been perpetrated, and God willing,' as these murderous hypocrites have it, we suppose several more will be committed,' &c.—[New York Courier and Enquirer.]

What! the Cradle of Liberty [Faneuil Hall] in little more than half a century to become its coffin! The place where the Adams's and the Otis's have so often uttered, in burning eloquence, the matchless value of our institutions, to echo with the raven croakings of such creatures as Garrison! -the mad imbecilities of Stow, the flatulent dogmatisms of the fanatic Birney, from Kentucky, and the theatritcal contortions of the mouthing and noisy driveller, acting as the stipendiary of the Glasgow seamstresses? -the poor creature, who, having been found too dishonest for employment by men, has tied himself to the apron-strings of some canting old women, and derives his only power of purchasing his daily bread and butter from the scanty savings of a few Scotch females. This is one of the scoundrels, —we have no mealiness of phraseology for incendiaries, sent here with lighted torches in their hands to set fire to our social fabric, &c. [Idem.]

'England entailed this curse [slavery] upon our land; and now some maiden ladies in England send forth two mad missionaries to preach treason to our Constitution, and inculcate upon us 'a labor of mercy' towards our black population! We shall not attend the meeting in question

-but if we did, it would be to aid in tarring and feathering the impudent foreign pretenders, who have thus dared to present themselves among us, to sow the seeds of discord and disunion. Let them beware of the experiment they have attempted.'-[Idem.]

Thompson the Scotchman.-This most impudent of itinerant mountebanks, represents Miss Lucretia M'Tabb and a bevy of old maids at Glasgow, who pay him board, wages and travelling expenses, to lecture the citizens of the United States on their domestic duties; one of the most urgent of which is, to lodge him in Bridewell, until he give security to keep the peace-after which, he ought to be packed up like a quintal of cod-fish and sent back to the Caledonian damsels who exported this vagabondizing interloper.'-[Idem.]

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What renders the conduct of these instigators of treason, robbery and massacre, still more outrageous and indefensible, is the fact of their having imported more than one organ of mischief from England, to assist in sowing the live coals of ruin and desolation over a large portion of this prosperous land. Not content with the agency of the wretched libeller of his country, the exclusive friend of all the human race,' they have associated in their righteous race, an imported incendiary, who left his country for his country's good.' That this apostle of the old pussy cats of Glasgow, this tool of Tappanism, has hitherto escaped the Bridewell, transportation, or some other species of modern martyrdom, is a proof either that our laws are defective, our magistrates neglectful, or our people the best natured in the world. We hope and trust that his next attempt in this city will end in a transfer to the Penitentiary, as a common disturber and enemy to society, and would earnestly recommend to the superintendent of that society, a solitary probation, lest he might corrupt the morals of his pupils.'-[Idem.]

Occasionally, the bevy of old maids at Glasgow would be made to give place to the British Government, which was charged with having sent MR. THOMPSON to this country for the express purpose of destroying the American Union! The same individuals, almost in the same breath, would bring these ridiculous and contradictory allegations. Occasionally, the ridicule of contempt would be followed by the toscin of alarm, thus:

'Sir, these doctrines and that language, to which I have felt it my duty to advert, tending as they do to the disruption of the Union, the prostration of Gov.

ernment, and to all the horrors of a civil and servile war, have attained their greatest prevalence and intensity within the past year. Since a certain noto. rious foreign agent first landed upon our shores, who comes here not to unite his fate with ours, not as other foreigners who would make this their home, and whom we cordially receive to the participation of all the immeasurable blessings of free institutions; but he comes here as an avowed emissary, sustained by foreign funds, a professed agitator upon questions deeply, profoundly political, which lay at the very foundation of our Union, and in which the very existence of this nation is involved. He comes here from the dark and corrupt institutions of Europe, to enlighten us upon the rights of man and the moral duties of our own condition. Received by our hospitality, (!!) he stands here upon our soil, protected by our laws, (!!) and hurls' fire-brands, arrows and death' into the habitations of our neighbors, and friends, and brothers ;—and when he shall have kindled a conflagration which is sweeping desolation over our land, he has only to embark for his own country, and there look securely back, with indifference or exultation, upon the wide spread ruin by which our cities are wrapt in flames, and our garments rolled in blood'!!*-Speech of Hon. Peleg Sprague, at the pro-slavery meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, August 21, 1835.

* Circumstances combine to give to this extraordinary phillippic, the malignancy of the spirit of murder. Its author has a large reputation as a statesman; his assault upon MR. THOMPSON was made at a time when the public mind was absolutely in a state of phrenzy, and an infatuated populace stood ready to abduct, or tar and feather, or assassinate, as opportunity might offer, this noble philanthropist; it was a powerful stimulus to lawless violence,-administered, too, in the Old Cradle of Liberty,—which operated on the 21st of October, by exciting a lawless mob of five thousand 'gentlemen of property and standing' in Boston, who endeavored to snake out and lynch' MR. THOMPSON, according to the most approved mode of torture and murder at the South. This philippic was not less cowardly than sanguinary, inasmuch as it was uttered at a time, and under eircumstances, and in a place, which rendered it impossible either for MR. THOMPSON OF any of his friends to be heard in reply.

Our English brethren may feel curious to see those doctrines and that language' of the abolitionists, which MR. SPRAGUE declares tend to the disruption of the Union, the prostration of Government, and to all the horrors of a civil and servile war.' Mr. Sprague represents them to be these:

Tell the abolitionists this; present to them in full array the terrific consequences of their attempts at immediate emancipation, and they meet all by a cold abstraction (!) They answer,-We must do right regardless of consequences.' They insist that it is right that they should urge their