tion in obtaining a total repeal of the Tariff of 1828, which were laid on the table and or lered to be printed.

Where will the blindness, folly and wickedness of these aristocrats stop? Here is a resolution of at least a majority of the Legislature of that State, modestly asking Congress, to break up, make bankrupt and annihilate all the manufact iring establishments of sixteen or seventeen sister States, at the whim and caprice of a few wrong headed politicians! for no benefit whatever to themselves, and to make the United States worse than tributary to England, even without the consolation of feedi ger starving millions, but to pamper her proud and wick ed aristocracy, and enable them to do more mischief in the world:-and not only to impoverish but to ruin our own beloved country.

Arother item may be seen in the following, in the march of intellect. The grand jury of Richmond County, Georgia, Charles Lapuz in, foreman, have made presentment of a most heinous crime which they understand prevails too generally;that is to say, the practice of printers and publishers of news. papers throughout the State, but particularly in the city of Augusta, of employing negroes in the different departments of their establishments; thereby affording them the means of learning to read writing, and affording a source of information to that class of our population, which sound policy forbids!!O God! in Thine infinite pity, for the sake of Thy dear Son, deliver my country from every thing that must be supported by such measures as this! Says Jefferson, in his notes on Virginia, when speaking of slavery, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just!"

And another item in the list of the ridiculous folly of aristocracy is seen in the legislature of South Carolina. The fol lowing resolutions were adopted in the house of Representatives on the 2d of December, 1829; the first, by yeas 99, nays 20, and the second without a division.

"Resolved,-That our Senators and Representatives in the

Congress of the United States, be requested to oppose with all their zeal and ability, any appropriations on the part of the General Government, for the purpose of internal improvement, and particularly all such appropriations for the benefit of the State of South Carolina, or any of her citizens,

Resolved-That a copy of the said resolution be forwarded by the Governor of the State to each of the Senators and Representatives in Congress."

Here is perfect Vandalism! Are these men fit to represent the free and enlightened citizens of South Carolina, in this enlightened age? They might possibly do to legislate for the Black Foot Indians, on the extreme heads of the Missouri or Kooskooskie river, where civilization can hardly reach for a century to come. During the same session of Congress, the Rail-road Company at Charleston, having petitioned the General Government to take shares in the stock, the petition had to be presented by Mr. Webster of Massachusetts.

The time is come to speak truth on these momentous subjects, and to speak plainly and fearlessly, even if it give of fence. It is surely the part of wisdom to listen to the truth, from a sincere friend, rather than to be made to hear it, in a voice of thunder by and by, from a cruel and relentless ene ny. The injustice the oppression, and cruelty-not to say the bad policy and demoralizing consequences of slavery are acknow ledged by all: to give a true history of which, no man of delicacy could perform the task; nor would it bear a reading. A few plain matters of fact which came under my own obser vation, is all I shall say on that subject.

I know a wealthy man who was the owner of a great many slaves, who hired out twenty of his young female slaves, at a certain public work, from year to year, fort he purpose of increasing his stock of yellow slaves. This man made his boast in my presence that their wages were little, compared to the value of his yellow children. Another instance of no uncom mon occurrence, but which is still more abborent:-I knew a

man in high starding in the world, a judge of a court, whe gave two of his own yellow children which he had by colored mothers, to every white child he had, as slaves for life. Another instance:-I knew a certain Colonel, who was high sheriff of the county, that had two mulatto men, slaves for life, given to him by his father, his own half brothers by a colored mother. Another instance, equally shocking:-An abandoùed wretch took up with a free yellow woman who had three children. He lived with her some years, had two children by her; and finally persuaded her to move with him down the Mississippi, where he intended to sell the mother and children. But he was detected, and had to escape out of the country.But another instance, which was really heart rending:—I was present at the transaction. A bachelor who was reduced to straitened circumstances had a number of slaves, none of which were so saleable as a handsome yellow woman, by whom he had three children. He was obliged to raise a sum of money; none of his slaves would please the slave dealer but this particular one; she would not go without her children; she' was the man's own balf sister, his father's daughter; but he actually sold them with a promise to redeem them. Such a scene I hope never to witness again: the parting was more like a funeral than a sale.

If the Almighty Ruler of the Universe would, in infinite pity and compassion raise up and qualify a number of my countrymen with the spirit and talents of William Wilberforce, to set this all-important subject clearly, with all its enormities, before the American slave holder. We might anticipate with beartfelt pleasure the time when that dismal, dark cloud would be dispelled from our political atmosphere; when our country shall be the land of equal rights, in principle and practice; and when men will cease to palliate their faults by false excuses and humbly acknowledge their sins, and forsake them, with brokenness of heart and contrition of spirit, in the sight of God

This traffic is stated, by Mr. Fisher, surgeon of the British ship Athol on the African station. to be carried on more briskly than usual. Not one of the ships in ten concerned, are taken. The writer states that 6000 slaves are liberated annually by the British vessels. The whole number taken and carried off annu

ally is estimated by him at 50,000.

The African chiefs and

priests cause all persons among the common people, who learn to read and to write to be put to death.

Now here is priestcraft and aristocracy among the heathen. Observe its uniformity all over the world.

O for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of oppression and deciet,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,

Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd,
My soul is sick with ev'ry day's report

Of wrong and outrage with which Earth is fill'd.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart,
It does not feel for man; the nat'ral bond
Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax,
That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin

Not colored like his own; and having power

T'enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful

prey.

Lands intersected by a narrow frith
Abhor each other. Mountains interpos'd
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys:
And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd
As human nature's broadest, foulest blot,
Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat
With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart
Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast.

Then what is man? And what man, seeing this,
And having human feelings, does not blush,
And hang his head, to think himself a man?
I would not have a slave to till my ground,
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,
And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth
That sinews bought and sold have ever carn'd.
No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's
Just estimation priz'd above all price,
I had much rather be myself the slave,
And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.
We have no slaves at home-then why abroad?
And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave
That parts us are emancipate and loos'd.
Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud
And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,
And let it circulate through every vein
Of all your empire; that, where Britain's power
Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too!

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COWPER'S TASK.

The following is an extract from the Rev. Mr. Newton's "Thoughts on the African Slave Trade,' who in the early part of his life was a captain of a vessel in that trade.

"With the English ships on the coast of Guinea the great object is, to be full. When the ship is there, it is thought desirable it should take as many as possible. The cargo of a vessel of a hundred tons, or a little more, is calculated to purchase from two hundred & twenty to three hundred and fifty slaves. Their lodging rooms below the deck, which are three, (for the men, the boys, and the women,) besides a place for the sick, are sometimes more than five feet high, and sometimes less; and this height, is divided towards the middle; for the slaves lie in