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 THE
AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY
AilllAC, FOR

1843.
BEING THE THIRD AFTER BISSEXTILE, OR LEAP YEAR; ATJD
UNTIL JULY 4th, THE SIXTY-SEVENTH OF THE INDE-
PENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES.

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To the Christ of the Cross man is never so holy,
As when braving the proud in defence of the lowly."

COMPILED BY L. M. CHILD.

NEW^YjORKs
Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, at 143 Nassau street
New- York ; 25 Cornhill, Boston ; and 31 North
Fifth street, Philadelphia.
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THE "NATIONAL ANTISLAVery STANDARD.
Published weekly, at the office of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 143
Nassau street, New-York, edited by L. M. Child, and D. L. Child.
The Executive Committee commend this journal to the support of every
friend of liberty and truth. While it is a constant and watchful advocate of
the rights of the colored man, it furnishes a good proportion of miscellaneous
literature, intelligence, foreign and domestic, and practical hints for house-
keepers. In a word, it is intended to be a pleasing and useful family news-
paper, as well as an earnest anti-slavery advocate. It is the organ of no sect
in religion, and of no party in politics; but impartially rebukes all sects and
parties, which exert a pro-slavery influence, while it cheerfully awards praise
without preference to those who discharge the obligations of Christianity, in
relation to this great curse of our land. It represents that class of abolition-
ists who consider the formation of a distinct political abolition party unwise and
injurious but it makes no war upon those who think differently.
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ber. I believe God governs the world, and I believe it to be a maxim in His
as in our court, that those who ask for equity ought to do it." Letter from —
John Jay.
" The
institution of slavery supersedes the necessity of an order of
nobility. It will be fortunate for the non-slaveholding States if they
are not driven to a similar institution in less than a quarter of a cen-
tury.*'— Annual Message o f Gov. McD iiffi e, of South Carolina.
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ECLIPSES IN THE YEAR 1843.

There will be two Eclipses of the Sun and one of the Moon this year.
I. There will be an Eclipse of the Sun on the 27th of June, at 2h. 24m. in
the afternoon, invisible to us.
This Eclipse will be central and annular on the meridian in longitude 109
deg. 41 minutes west from Greenwich, and latitude 5 deg. 30 minutes north.
On this occasion a small Eclipse may be seen on the Sun's southern limb in
Texas, and in some parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Magni-
tude in parts of a digit, at Natchez, 0.63 at Mobile, 0.48 at New Orleans,
; ;

0.95; and at Austin, the new capital of Texas, 1.80 digits.

II, There will be an Eclipse of the Moon on the 6th of December, in the
evening, visible. Beginning, 6h. 22m. Middle, 7h. 15m. End, 8h. 8m.
; ;

Duration, lh. 46m. Magnitude, 2.42 digits on the Moon's southern limb.
IH. There will be an Eclipse of the Sun on the 21st of December, at Oh.
13m. in the morning, invisible in America.
This Eclipse will be central and total on the meridian in longitude 102 deg.
26 minutes east of Greenwich, and latitude 8 deg. 27 minutes north. It will
be visible nearly all over Asia.

MORNING AND EVENING STARS.

Venus will be the Morning Star until October 2, then Evening Star until
July 23, 1844. Jupiter will be Evening Star until January 25, then Morning
Star until August 15, then Evening Star until February 29, 1844.
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1st Month JANUARY, 1843. 31 days. 1

What awaits, O new-born year

On thy brief, untried career ?
Pass not, till the world is free

From the yoke of tyranny

Broken be the oppressor's rod,
In the dust his throne be trod. W. L. Garrison.

1 NiEW-YoRK.^lsi Qr i)d 3h 15m eve Full Moon, 16d 3h 31m mor; 3d Qr 22d 8h 5m eve;
:

1 New Moon, 30d 7h 5m mor. Boston.-IsJ qr 3d 3h 27m eve Full Moon, 16d
;

3h 43m mor ; 3d qr 22d 8h 17m eve New Moon, 30d 7h 17m mor.
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3 3 Tue 22 51 7 27 4 43 7 53 10 52 7 32 4 37 7 50 51
4 4 Wed 22 45 7 27 4 44 8 54 11 28,7 324 38 8 52 1 28
5 5 Thu 22 38 7 27 4 45 9 53 mor. |7 32 4 39 9 52 2 4
I 6 6 Frid 22 31 7 27 4 4610 52 27 32 4 40,10 52 2 38
7 7 Satu 22 24 7 27 4 4711 50 37/7 32 4 4111 52 3 13
8 s I 22 16 7 27 4 48 mor. 1 13 7 32 4 42 mor. 3 49
9 2 Mon 22 8 7 27 4 49 50 1 507 32 4 43 52 4 26
§ l0 3 Tue 21 59 7 264 50 1 51 2 33 7 31 4 44 1 55 5 9
§ M 4 Wed 2! 50 7 264 51 2 54 3 32 7 31 4 46 2 58 6 8
1 12 5 Thu 21 40 7 26 4 52 3 56 4 45 7 31 4 47 4 2 7 21
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1 I7 3 Tue 2!) 46 7 24 4 57 6 57 9 35 7 29 4 52, 6 53 ev. 11
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I 19 5 Thu 20 22 7 235 9 2610 59 7 23|4 55| 9 25 1 35
20 6 Frid 20 9 7 225 1 10 39 11 417 27 4 5610 40 2 17
121 7 Satu 19 56 7 22 5 2 11 52ev.23 7 26 4 57; 11 54 2 59
1 22 s 1 19 43 7 21 5 3 mor. 1 77 26 4 59 mor. 3 43
I -23 2 Mon 19 29 7 205 4 1 4 1 54 7 25 5 1 8 4 30
124 3 Tue 19 14 7 20 5 6 2 15 2 49 7 24|5 1 2 20 5 25
§25 4 Wed 19 7 195 7 3 22 4 27 235 2 3 28 6 38
126 5 Thu 18 45 7 185 8 4 23 5 25 7 225 4 4 29 S 1
12? 6 Frid 18 30 7 175 9 5 16 6 50 7 21 5 5 5 21 9 26
8 2s 7 Satu 18 14 7 165 10 6 7 54 7 21 5 6 6 5 10 30
129 l s 17 58 7 165 12 6 37 8 437 20 5 8 6 41 11 19
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I 31 3 Tue 17 25 7 145 14 6 42 10 2 7 18|5 10 6 39t
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 CHRONOLOGY. — JANUARY.
Jan. 1817, a meeting of more than 3000 free colored citizens assem-
bled at Philadelphia to express their distrust and abhorrence of the
Colonization scheme. The venerable James Forten presided.
The New-England Anti-Slavery Society, formed at Boston, Jan. 30th,
1832. It was the first formed in the United States, and originally con-
sisted of twelve members; not fishermen, but "fishers of men." It is
now called the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
Jan. 1841, the Supreme Court of the United States decided what is
called the Mississippi Slave Case. Mississippi had passed a law
against the further importation of slaves, and out of the violation of this
law arose a law-suit, referred to the Supreme' Court. Judge McLean
pronounced the memorable opinion that "Slaves being considered as
merchandise in some States cannot divest them of the leading and con-
trolling quality of persons" According to this decision, Congress
has no power to regulate the internal slave trade ; for that power
could be derived only from the clause of the Constitution which em-
powers it to "regulate commerce."
Jan. 1841, Supreme Court of United States decided that the Africans
taken in the Amistad were free.
Jan. 13th, 1842, the first Slaveholder's Convention met at Annapolis.
Maryland. Their object was to induce the Legislature to pass laws
to prevent manumission, and to increase the oppressive weight already
resting on .he free colored people ; and thus if possible to drive them
off, with the aid of Colonization, The resolutions adopted were tyran-
ical and barbarous in the extreme. They excited so much indignation
in benevolent and religious-minded citizens, that several memorials were
sent to the legislature remonstrating against the passage of such des-
potic laws; and they were not passed. At this Convention Rev.
Charles T. Torrey was arrested and thrown into prison for the crime
of being present as a reporter.
Jan. 24th, 1842, Hon. J. Q. Adams presented a petition, signed by forty
citizens of Haverhill, Mass. praying Congress " peaceably to dissolve the
Union." He moved that it might be referred to a commiutee, with instruc-
tions to report against the prayer. Nevertheless, the wrath of southern
members was so intense against him, that they demanded he should be visited
with the severest censure of the House. After several days of fierce uproar,
the whole subject was laid on the table. This petition, so offensive, coming
from the North, was a literal copy of a petition from the South, during the
days of nullification.
Jan. 30th, 1842, at the anniversary of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery So-
ciety, was read in Faneuil Hall, Boston, the Irish Address, signed by 60,000,
among whom were Daniel O'Connell, Father Mat.hew, and Dr. Madden. It
was an exhortation from the Irish to their countrymen in America, to co-
operate with the abolitionists for the overthrow of slavery. It was received
with great enthusiasm many Irishmen being present. Large meetings of
;

Irishmen in various parts of the country, expressed great indignation at this

proceeding, and pronounced the document a forgery to which opinion Bishop
;

Hughes of New- York, gave his public sanction. It was, however a genuine
document, sent spontaneously from Irish hearts.

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Masons and Dixon's Line. This boundary takes its name from
CharlesMason and Jeremiah Dixon, appointed to run unfinished lines
between Maryland and Pennsylvania, on the territories subject to the
heirs of Lord Baltimore and "William Penn. The disputed question
was settled by their survey in 1762.
 2d Month FEBRUARY, 1843. 28 days.

Where'er a human voice is heard

In witness for the true and right,
Where'er a human heart is stirred
To mingle in Faith's glorious fight,
That voice revere —
that heart sustain
It shall not be to thee in vain. A. W. Weston.
Nxw-YoRK.-lst Qr 7d llh 36m mor; Full Moon, 14d 3h 14m e\e ; 3d qr 21d 5h 50m mor
3o»ton.-1siE quarter, 7d llh 4Sm mor Full Moon, 14d 3h 26m eve
; ; 3d qr 21d 6h 2m mor'

m Calendar for N. Y. City ;J Calendar Cor Boston; New-

Conn. N. Jersey; PennJ Eng. N. York St. Mich.
Ohio ; Indiana, & Illinois), Wisconsin and Iowa.

Sun Sun Moon jHWa Sun Sun ,Moon;HWa

Ris. Sets. Sets. N. Y. Ris. Sets. Sets. |Bost'n

4 17 Wed 8 135 15 7 42 10 33 7 17 5 121 7 40; 38

25 Thu 16 51 125 17 8 41 3,7 16o 13 8
11 40! 9
36 Frid 16 33 11,5 18 9 39.11 347 15:5 14 9 40 39
4 7 Satu 16 16 105 19 10 38 mor. |7 13 5 16 10 40 10
51 S 15 58 95 20 11 3S 37 12|5 17J11 41 39
62 Mon 15 39 .)•>
•Jjtnor. 357 115 18mor. 11
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Tues .15 21 23 39 * 105 20
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84 Wed 15 2 55 24 1 4044 7 915 2! 1 45 20
95 Thu 14 43 45 25 2 4031J7 75 22 2 46
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117 Satu 14 4 25 28 4 29 117 55 25 4 34 7 47
12 S 1 Il3 44 7 15 29 5 15377 45 26 5 20| 9 13
13 2 Mon! 13 24 6 595 30 5 55437 25 27 5 53 10 19
3 4 6 585 3 o rises. 32 7 15 29 rises. 11 S
154 Wed 12 43 6 57 5 33 7 3 167 5 30 7 211 52
16 5Thu 12 22 6 55 5 34 8 19 9 58,6 585 3 8 19 ev. 34
17)6 Frid 12 16 54 5 3c 9 35 10 406 575 33 9 37 1 16
18,7 Satu 11 40 6 53 5 36 10 51 11 216 55|5 34 10 54 1 57
19,1 S 11 196 5X5 38 mor. eve. 26 54 5 35 mor. 2 38
202 Mon [$ 53 6 505 39 4 44 6 52 5 36! 9 3 20
213 Tue 10 36 6 49 5 40 1 14 1 27 6 5lS5 38 1 19 4 3
224 Wed 10 146 47)5 41 2 17 2 22 6 49*5 39 2 23 4 58
235 Thu 9 52 6 465 42 3 13 3 33 6 48 5 40 3 18 6 9
246 Frid 9 306 445 44 3 59 5 6 6 46 5 42 4 4 7 42
25,7 Satu 9 86 43 5 !
45 4 38 6 36 6 45 5 43 4 42 9 12
26 I S 8 46 6 415 46 5 10 7 42 6 43 5 44 5 14 10 18
27,2 Mon 8 23 6 40 5 47 5 33 8 29 6 42 5 45 5 41T1 5
28:3 Tue 8 lta 385 43 6 3 9 5 6 40'5 46 6 411 41

James Madison thought it wrong to admit into the Constitution of the

United States the iJea that there could be property in men. The Convention
thought so likewise; therefore the original clause was altered, so as to re-
cognize slaves as persons, not as property. 1*
 CHRONOLOGY. FEBRUARY.

Feb. 20th, 1835, the brig Enterprise, which sailed from the District
of Columbia to Charleston, S. C. with 78 slaves on hoard, put info
Bermuda, in distress. At the request of the Friendly Society of coU
ored people, the slaves were brought before the Chief Justice, and he
pronounced them free, under the operation of British laws. They all
remained there, except a woman with five children, who chose to re-
turn to the United States; a proceeding for which her children may
l^ereafter curse her memory.
Feb. 13th, 1833, Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski, brother of the last
k*ing of Poland, died at Florence, aged 78. He rendered himself illtis*
trious by being the first to emancipate his serfs throughout his
extensive estates.

SONNET.
Addressed to Isaac T. Hopper, of New- York city, who, for more than half
a century, has heen the active, uncompromising, and dauntless friend and
advocate of the colored population of the United States, (both bond and free)
-*-and through whose instrumentality, multitudes of wandering fugitives
from the southern prison-house of bondage have been put in possession of
the inestimable boon of liberty.

Hipper! thou venerable friend of man,

In heart and spirit young, though old in year?t,
The tyrant trembles when thy name he hears,
And the slave joys thy honest face to scan.
A friend more true and brave, since time began,
Humanity has never found: her fears
By thee have been dispelled, and wiped the tears
Adown her sorrow-stricken cheeks that ran.
If like Napoleon's appears thy face,*
Thy soul to his bears no similitude ;

He came to curse, but thou to bless our race

—
Thy hands are white in blood were his imbrued :

His memory shall be covered with disgrace,

But thine embalmed among the truly great and good.
Wm. Lloyd Garrison.

* The resemblance of this venerable philanthropist, in person and features,

to Napoleon, is said,by Joseph Bonaparte, to be most remarkable,— beyond
that of any other person whom he has seen in the old or new world.

THE PRESS.
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press ?
By thee, Religion, Liberty, and Laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause;
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell,
Diffused, make earth the vestibule cf hell.
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;
Thou ever-bubblina: spring of endless lies;
JbiKe Eaen s uread, probationary tree.
Knowledge of Good and Evil is from thee. Cowr-KR,
 3d Month MARCH, 1843. 31 davs.

Was man ordained the slave of man to toil ?

Yoked with the brutes and fettered to the soil ?
Weighed in a tyrant's balance with his gold?
NO Nature stamped us in a heavenly mould
!

She bade no wretch his thankless labor urge,

Nor trembling take the pittance and the scourge.
T. Campbell.

w-YoRK.-New Moon, Id lh 7m mor 1st qr 9d 4h 53m mor: Full Moon, 16d lh 3m raor
; ;

$d qr 22d 6h 88m ere New Moon, 30d 6h 63m eve. Boston. -New Moon, Id lh 19m mor;
;

1st qr 9d 5h 5m mor :Full,lGii lh 16m mor Sd qr 22d 5h 50m »ye

; New, 30d Th 6m eve.
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Calendar for N. York City Calendar for Boston ; Ncw-

Coitn. N. Jersey; Penn. Eng. N. York St. Mich.
Ohio: Indiana & Illinois. Wisconsin and Ioua.

MoonlHWa.
Sets. Bost'n
 CHRONOLOGY. MARCH.

March 2d, 1807, the Foreign slave trade prohibited by act of Con-
press ; to take effect Jan. 1st, 1808. "The foreign slave trade, I
mean, sir."
March 1820, Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slaveholding
State. AM
the representatives from the Slave States voted for the
admission, and 14 from the Free States. Any two of them might
have prevented this extension of our great curse.
March, 1841, Gov. Seward, of New-York, refused to deliver up to
the Executive of Virginia, Peter Johnson, Edward Smith, and Isaac
Gansey, charged with the crime of stealing a slave. The reason as-
signed for refusal was that stealing a slave, within the jurisdiction, and
against the laws of Virginia, is not a felony, or other crime, within the
meaning of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution
of the United States. A
long official correspondence ensued, distin-
guished on Gov. Seward's part by great courtesy and dignity,
combined with firmness.
March 1st, 1812, the Supreme Court of the United States decid-
ed that the provisions in the Constitution of the United States, relative
to fugitive slaves, executes itself so far as to authorise the owner or his
agent to seize the fugitive in any State of the Union as property : and —
that no State law is constitutional which interferes with such right.
That Congress having legislated, such legislation is the supreme law
of the land, excluding all State legislation upon the subject.
This decision was drawn forth by a suit Maryland vs. Pennsylvania.
A slave girl married a free man, and removed to Pennsylvania. A
relative of her master, some years after, seized her and her children as
slaves ; and though the latter were born in Pennsylvania, the Supreme
Court decided that those who carried them off were not kidnappers.
This decision has greatly emboldened slave-hunters, and increased the
dangers of the colored population.
March 21st, 1842, Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, submitted to Con-
gress certain resolutions concerning the Creole. They purported that
the Federal government had jurisdiction over all subjects of commerce
and navigation on the high seas ; that when the Creole left the territo-
rial jurisdiction of Virginia, the slave laws of that State ceased to have
jurisdiction over those on board said brig; and that, in resuming their
natural right to personal liberty, they had violated no law of the United
States, to which alone they were amenable.
This excited great uproar; and there was immediate demand that
Mr. Giddings should be censured. At first, they showed no disposition
to allow him a chance to defend himself; but growing cooler next day,
it was graciously intimated that it might be allowed as a favor. But
Mr. G. would either speak as a matter of right, or not at all. This
not being accorded, he resigned his seat, and returned to Ohio. He
was soon sent back, however, by an overwhelming majority.
—
A Temperance Gem. S. J. May, talking with a young man on the use
of wine, thus stated the complete argument in a few emphatic words " If :

it is a small sacrifice for you to give up drinking wine, do it for the sake

of others ; if it is a great sacrifice, do it for your own sake."

The world has heard the tocsin of truth and is awaking. Man is felt to
be MAN— whether European prejudice frown upon him on account of his
station, or American prejudice because of his color. Charles Follen.
 4th Month APRIL, 1843.

They found them slares but who that title gave

! ?
The God of Nature never formed a slave !

Though fraud or force acquire a master's name,

Nalure and justice must remain the same
Nature imprints upon what e"er we see,
That has a heart and life in it, BE TREE ! CoWPER.
New-York. -1st Qr Td 6Th 10m eve Ftdl Moon, 14d 9h 33m mor 3d qr 21d 7h -29m mcr;
; ;

New Moon, 29d llh 23m mor. Bostox.-1s£ Qr 7d 6h 22m eve Ftitt Moon, 14d 9h ;

45m mor 3d quarter, 21d 7h 41m mor New Moon, 29d llh 35m mor;
; ;

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o > — Conn. N. Jersey; Penn.* Eng. N. York St. Mich.
Ohio ; Indiana & Illinois. Wisconsin and Iowa.
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Sun Sun Moon HWa Sun Sun Moon. HWa
P. Ris. Sets. Sets. N. Y.^ Ris. Sets. Sets. Bostn

1 7 Sat 4 29 5 46 6 23 8 21 10 5 5 45 6 24 8 25 12
2 1 s 4 52 5 45 6 24 9 21 10 35 5 43 6 25 9 26 41
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o 2 Mori 5 15 5 43 6 25 10 21 11 5 5 42 6 26 10 26 1 11
4 3 Tue 5 38 5 41 6 26 11 18 11 36 o 40 6
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27 11 23 1 41
54 We 6 1 5 40 6 27 mor. mor. 5 38 6 28 mor. 2 12
6 5 Th 6 24 5 38 6 28 11 9 5 37; 6 29 17 2 45
7 6 Fri 6 46 5 36 6 29 59 50 5 35 6 30 1 4 3 26
8 7 Sat 7 9 5 35 6 30 1 41 1 40 5 33 6 31 1 45 4 16
9 i s 7 31 5 33 6 31 2 18 2 42 5 32! 6 33 2 21 5 18
10 2 Mon 7 53 5 32 6 32 2 51 4 10 5 30' 6 34 2 53 6 46
11 3 Tue 8 16 5 30 6 33 3 22 5 34 5 2S| 6 35 3 23 8 10
12 4 We 8 38 5 28 6 34 3 52 6 43 5 27 6 36 3 51 9 19
13 5 Th 8 59 5 27 6 35 4 23 7 36 5 25j 6 37 4 21 10 12
14 6 Fri 9 21 5 25 6 36 rises. 8 21 5 23, 5
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38 rises. 10 57
15 7 Sat 9 43 5 24 6 37 8 32 9 4 5 22' 6 39 S 36 11 40
16 ji s 10 4 5 22 6 33 9 46 9 50 5 201 6 40 9 51 ev. 26
17 2 Mon 10 25 5 21 6 39 10 52 10 35 5 IS! 6 41 10 57 1 11
IS '3 Tue 10 46 5 19 6 40 11 4811 19 5 17 6 43 11 53 1 55
19 4 !

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44 mor. 2 41
20 5 Th ill 28 5 16 6 42 34 52 5 14' 6 45 39 3 28
21 6 Fri ill 48 5 15 6 43 112 1 47 5 12J 6 46 1 16 4 23
22 7 Sat 112 9 5 13 6 44 1 44i 2 51 5 111 6 47 1 47 5 27
23 i s 12 29 5 12 6 45 2 11 4 12 5 9 6 48 2 13 6 48
24 \2 Mon 18 49 5 11 6 46 2 35 5 24 5 S 6 49 2 36 8
25i3 Tue 13 8 5 9 6 47 2 58 6 30 5 6 6 50 2 58 9 6
26|4 We 13 28 5 8 6 48 3 21 7 20 5 5, 6 51 3 20 9 56
27 15 Th 13 47 5 6 6 49 3 45 7 58 5 3 6 53 3 42 10 34
28;6 Fri 114 6 5 5 6 50 4 10 8 34 5 2| 6 54 4 7 11 10
29:7 Sat il4 25 5 4 6 52 sets. 9 6 5 6 55 sets. 11 42
30il § 114 43 5 2 6 53 S 15 9 38 4 59 6 56 8 19 mor.
" I am very sensible of the honor you propose to me, of becoming a mem-
ber of the society for the abolition of the slave trade. You know that no-
jbody wishes more ardently to see an abolition, not only of the trade but of
jtiie condition of slavery and certainly nobody will be more willing to en-
:

jcounter every sacrifice for that object.-" Thomas Jefferson.

 From the Journal of Commerce.
WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION,
Having recently arrived in this country from Jamaica, and purchased
a farm in Ohio, with a view to r.pend the remainder of my days in this
land, and finding the minds of the people so blinded as to the real state
of slavery on the one hand, and the results of emancipation in the
British Colonies on the other, I feel it to be a duty I owe to God and
to the slave, to publish to the world my knowledge of the effects of
slavery, and to bear testimony to the happy results of emancipation in
the West Indies. As I have resided thirty-one years in Jamaica, and
the Island of Old Providence, during which time I was a slaveholder,
it may he supposed that I can give a pretty accurate statement of the
horrors of slavery. I was considered by my neighbors in Jamaica as
too indulgent to my slaves. They said I spoiled them made them —
lazy —and that thus they were a bad example to the other slaves
around me. Yet my treatment of them was harsh and arbitrary in
the extreme. I would often flog men and women without mercy, and
without sufficient cause. I thank Cod that he has awakened me to a
sense of my guilt in treating my fellow men worse than the beasts of
burden. I have seen enough of slavery to convince me that it is a
system that every Christian should shudder at, and look upon as revolt-
ing to humanity, and contrary tothe blessed precepts of our Lord Jesus
Christ, viz. " whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them."
I can assert without the fear of contradiction, that emancipation in
the Island of Jamaica has been a blessirig to ail classes of its inhabi-
tants, and has had the effect of influencing the emancipated to be in-
dustrious, orderly, and useful members of society. So far as my
knowledge goes, this is the case in all the British Colonies. Having
been a participator in the sin of holding my fellow men in cruel bon-
dage, I rejoice and thank Cod that the blacks in Jamaica are now the
happiest class of peasantry, I believe in the world. They are seizing
with avidity the means which are employed to enlighten their minds
and point them to the cross of Christ. Another pleasing feature in the
character of this people is the desire they manifest to have their
children educated; and I am happy in being able to affirm that their
children are as docile as any class of white children I ever saw. They
are making rapid improvement in their studies. I have no other
motive in thus coming before the public, than to give a simple and
unvarnished statement of facts which I feel it incumbent on me to
publish. P. LIVINGSTON.

Governor SEWARD'S answer to the demand of the Governor

of Virginia.
" Icannot believe that a being of human substance, form, and image
— endowed with the faculties, propensities, and passions common to
our race, and having the same ultimate destiny, can, by the force of
any human constitution or laws, be converted into a chattel, or thing,
in which another being, like himself, can have property depriving;

him of his free will, and of the power of cultivating his own mind, and
pursuing his own happiness. I cannot believe that can be stolen, which
is not, and cannot be, property.'''*

Speak the True Word, Live the True Life. —

One watch set right
will do to try and on the other hand, one that goes wrong may be
many by ;

the means of misleading a whole neighborhood.

 5th Month MAY, 1843. 31 days.

Whether we sow or reap ihe fields,

Her admonitions Nature yields,
That not by bread alone we live,
Or what a hand of flesh can give
That every day should leave some part
Free for a Sa Dbath of the he art. Words WORTH.
^EW-YoRK.-lst Qr 7d 3h 28m mor ; F dfMoon,
13d~5h 3 Sm eve ; 3d q r 20d 10h 58m eve.!
New Moon, 29d lh 59m mor. Bosto*.-1s£ Quarter, 7d 3h 40:n mor ; Fuil Moon, 13d
5h 50m eve ; 3d qr 20d llh 10m eve ; New Moon, 29d 2h 11m mor.
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Ohio ; Indiana & Illinois.] Wisconsin and Iowa.
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23 Tue 15 20 0'6
5 55'10 7 10 42 4 56 6 58 10 13 46
3 4 Wedl5 3S4 59 6 56 10 56 11 18 4 55: 6 59 11 2 1 18
4 5 Thu 15 55 4 57 6 57 11 40 11 55 4 54 7 11 44 1 54
5.6 Frid 1612 4 56 6 58 morn. morn. 4 52 7 1 morn. 2 31
6,7 Sat 16 29 4 55 6 59 17 38 4 51*7 2 2 3 14
71 S 16 46' 4 54 7 51 1 30 4 50 7 3 53 4 6
8 2 Mon 17 3 4 53 7 1 1 21 2 29 4 49 7 5 1 23 5 5
9;3 Tue 17 19 4 51 7 2 150 3 46 4 48 7 6 1 50 6 22
10'4 Wed 17 35 4 50 7 3 2 20 4 58 4 46 7 7 2 IS 7 34
ll'5 Thu 17 50' 4 49 7 41 2 51 6 7 4 45 7 8 2 48 8 43
12 6 Frid 18 6 4 48 7 5 3 25 02 4
7 44 7 9 3 21 9 38
13,7 Sat 18 21 4 47 7 6, rises. 53 4
7 43 7 10 rises. 10 29
14|l S IL8 35 4 46 7 6 8 31 42 4
8 42 7 11 8 36 11 18
15 2 Mon 18 50 4 45 7 7 9 33 33 4
9 41 7 12 9 39 ev. 9
163 Tue 19 4 4 44 7 8 10 25 20 4
10 40 7 13 10 30 56
17 4 Wed 19 18 4 43 7 9 t
11 7 4 4
11 39 7 14 11 12 1 40
18 5 Thu 19 31 4 43 7 10 11 42 49 4
11 38' 7 15 11 46 2 25
19'6 Frid 19 44 4 42 7 11 morn. ev. 36 4 37 7 16 morn. 3 12
20,7 Sat 19 57 4 41 7 12 12 1 27 4 36 7 17 14 4 3
21 1 S 20 9 4 40 7 13 38 2 20 4 35 7 18 39 4 56
22 2 Mon 20 21 4 39 7 14 1 1 3 21 4 34 7 19 1 2 5 57
23 3 Tue 20 33 4 38 7 15 1 24 4 28 4 341 7 20 1 24 7 4
24 4 Wed 20 44 4 38 7 16 1 48 5 27 4 33 7 21 1 46 S 3
25 5 Thu 20 55 4 37 7 17 2 13 6 25 4 32, 7 22 2 10 9 1
26 6 Frid 21 6 4 36 7 17 2 40 7 15 4 31 7 22 2 37 9 51
27i7 Sat 21 16 4 36 7 18 3 12 7 56 4 31 7 23 3 S 10 32
28 1 S '21 26 4 35 7 19 3 50 4
8 35 30, 7 24 3 44 11 11
29j2 Mon 21 36 4 35 7 20 sets. 4 29.7 25
9 14 sets. 11 50
30|3 Tue 21 45 4 34 7 21 8 54 51 4 29| 7 26
9 8 59 morn.
314 Wed 21 54 4 34 7 21 9 39il0 27 4 28' 7 27 9 44 27
Slavery in Maryland was founded in a disgraceful traffic, to which Ens-
land lent her fostering aid from motives of interest. But wherefore should
we confine the edge of censure to our ancestors, or those from whom they were
purchased ? Are we not equally guilty ? They strewed around the seeds
of slavery ice cherish and sustain the growth. They introduced the system|
— we enlarge, invigorate, and confirm it. Its continuance is as shameful as
its origin.'" —
William Pinckney.
 CHRONOLOGY. MAY.

May 26th, 183G, the United States House of Representatives passe-d'

the following resolution, which still remains in force:
Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, and proposi-
tions, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever to the subject of
slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid on the
table, and no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
May 14th, 1838, Pennsylvania Hall, in Philadelphia, was opened for
free discussion of all subjects interesting to American citizens. On the
the 17th of the same month it was burned by a mob, because aboli-
tionists were allowed to hold a meeting there.
May 1841, the Legislature of New- York repealed the law that
1st,
allowed slaveholders to hold their slaves nine months, within the juris-
diction of New- York.
May 1st, 1842, the Inspection Laws of Virginia, went into operation.
They were passed in retaliation of Gov. Seward's refusal to deliver
up the citizens of New-York, who were accused of bringing away
slaves. Under pretext of searching every vessel for hidden slaves,
New- York captains are subjected to processes involving vexatious de-
lays, while they are compelled to pay the officers who serve them.
They have paid the expense without murmuring, but they immedi-
ately rose in proportion on the price of freight; so that the expense, ia
fact, falls on Virginia.

^(^<^ErTGUESTS~
It is well known that very few colored people belong to the Society
of Friends. Natural temperament, and the influences of their station
in life, both tend to make them partial to more exciting forms of reli-
gion and the Friends, being no more free from prejudice against color
;

than other sects, offer no additional attraction to draw them into their
meetings. On this point, our friend Isaac T. Hopper once bore, his
testimony in a very characteristic manner. David Mapes and his wife,
the only colored members of meeting, were a very worthy and
respectable couple. They came, among other Friends, to share the
hospitality of Isaac's house, at Yearly meeting. Some questions arose
in the family whether or not the white Friends would be offended to eat
with them. " Leave that to me," said Isaac. When the hour came,
he announced it thus: "Friends, dinner is now ready. David and his
wife will come with me and as I like that all should be accommoda-
;

ted, those who object to dining with them, can wait till they have
done."
Several smiled, but none of the guests remained behind.

Mr. Pierpont being asked for his autograph, at the Massachusetts Fair,
hastily wrote with a pencil the following happy effusion :

THEY CANNOT TAKE CARE OP "THEMSELVES."

Our Tobacco they plant, and our Cotton they pick
And
our Rice they can harvest and thrash ;

They feed us in health, and they nurse us when sick

— —
And they earn while we pocket our cash.
They lead us when young, and they help us when old;
And their toil loads our tables and shelves
But they're ".niggers;" and therefore, (the truth must be told,)
They cannot take care of hemselves.
1 6th Month JUKE, 1S43. 30 days.

1 Wake ! children of the men who said,

" All are horn free" Their spirits come
!

Back to the places where they bled,

In Freedom's holy martyrdom,
And find you sleeping on their graves,
And hugging there your chains — ye slaves ! J. PlERPONT.
NjE\v-ToRK.-lst Quarter 5d 9h 39m mor Full Moon, 12d 2h 15m mor ; 3d quarter, 19d 3h
;

34m eve; Neiu Moon, 27d 2h 24m eve. Boston.- 1st Quarter, 5d 9h 51m mor;
Full Moon, 12d 2h 27m mor 3d qr 19d 3h 46m eve Neio Moot1, 27d 2h 36m eve.
; ;

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37 Satu 22 18 4 327 23 11 24 mor. 4 27 7 2911 26 2 21
4 S1 22 25 4 327 24 11 53 28 4 27 7 2911 53 3 4
5'2 Mori 22 32 4 327 25 mor. 1 19 4 26 7 30 mor. 3 55
6 3 Tue 22 39 4 31 7 25 21 2 14 4 267 31 20 4 50
7 4 Wed 22 45 4 31 7 26 50 3 17 4 267 31 43 5 53
85 Thu 22 51 4 31 7 27 1 22 4 26 4 257 32 1 19 7 2
96 Frid 22 56 4 31 7 27 1 53 5 32 4 25J7 33 1 54 8 8
10 7 Satu 23 1 4 30 7 23 2 41 6 36 4 25 7 33 2 35 9 12
ii l s 23 5 4 30 7 28 3 32 7 3/ 4 25 7 34 3 2540 13
122 Mon 23 9 4 30 7 29 rises. 8 31 4 24 7 34 rises. 11 7
13 3 Tue 23 13 4 30 7 29 9 9 21 4 24 7 35 9 511 57
14 4 Wed 23 16 4 30 7 30 9 39 10 8 4 24 7 35 9 43ev. 44
155 Thu 23 19 4 30 7 30 10 11 10 53 4 24 7 36 10 14 1 29
166 Frid 23 22 4 30 7 31 10 39 11 35 4 24 7 36 10 40 2 11
177 Satu 23 24 4 30 7 31 11 4 ev. 16 5 24 7 37 11 4 2 52
181 S 23 25 4 30 7 31 11 27 59 4 24 7 37 11 27 3 35
19 2Mon 23 26 4 30 7 31 11 51 1 43 4 257 37 11 49 4 19
203 Tue 23 27 4 30 7 32 mor. 2 27 4 257 37 mor. 5 3
21 4 Wed 23 28 1 31 7 32 15 3 19 4 257 38 12 5 5-3
225 Thu 23 28 4 31 7 32 41 4 25 4 257 38 38 7 1
23 6 Frid 23 27 4 31 7 32 1 11 5 27 4 257 38 I 7 8 3
24:7 Satu 4 31 7 32 1 46 6 26 4 267 38 1 41 9 2
25 1 $«** 23 25 4 32 7 33 2 28 7 23 4 26.7 38 2 22 9 59
y 262 Mon 23 23 4 32 7 33 3 17 8 9 4 267 38 3 11 10 45
f.
273 Tue 23 21 4 32 7 33 sets. 8 51 4 27 7 38 sets. 11 27
28 4 Wed
23 19 4 33 7 33 8 18 9 32 4 27 7 38 8 22 mor.
39 5 Thu 23 4 33 7 33 W 8 5510 13, 4 27 7 38 8 58 8
30 6 Frid 23 12 4 33 7 33 9 2710 54 4 28 7 38 9 29 49
1
" We have found that this evil has preyed upon the very vitals of
the
i Union and has been prejudicial to all the States in which it lias existed."—
;

James Munroe. 2
1
 CHRONOLOGY. — JUNE.
'June, 1840, the first General Anti-Slavery Convention, sometimes
called " The World's Convention," was held in London. Lucretia
Mott, (a highly-gifted minister in the Society of Friends) and two or
three other women, were appointed delegates from various parts of
the United States. They were treated with much courtesy as indivi-
duals, but not allowed to take their place as delegates; on the ground
that custom did not authorize women to take part in deliberative as-
semblies. A young girl of 18 was at the same time the supreme head
of the British nation, and Commander of its armies, and navy.

Of the many cunning contrivances to escape from slavery, we think

the following is about the most shrewd we have heard yet. Two
slaves in a certain county of Virginia, ran away with one of their mas-
ter's horses. They started very early in the morning, in the following
fashion. One of the slaves fastened a strong rope round the other's
body, tied him to the saddle, and drove off. When met and ques-
tioned, the rider answered, " That black rascal undertook to run
away from massa. I've caught him, and am taking him home, quick
step. I guess he won't be for running away again in a hurry, after
mussa's had the cooking of him." This failed not to elicit warm appro-
bation, accompanied with hospitable offers of refreshment for himself
and his horse.
When arrived at a convenient place, the slaves exchanged places;
the rider submitting to the rope in his turn, while the other performed
his part to admiration and, like him received assistance and praise
;

for his honest zeal in his master's service.

Thus they journeyed "in tye," till they reached Pennsylvania, when
the rope was no longer necessary. Thence they passed over into
Canada.

A PARAPHRASE OF ISAIAH— Chapter LXI. Verses, 1, £

To .

'Tis Godhimself, within me, that I feel

He prompts my lips his purpose to reveal !

I come —
the Lord's annointed —
here to speak,
—
And preach his word glad tidings to the meek;
To heal the broken-hearted captive's pain ;
Forever to dissolve oppression's chain: —
From prison to release the wretched thrall,
While, from his limbs the galling fetters fall.
Hark! hapless mourner! lend an anguish'd ear,
Hark I proclaim the Lord's accepted year.
!

The day of vengeance of our God unroll ;

And herald comfort to the mourner's soul.

See Luke iv. 17— 21. John Quincy Adams.

T rejoice to hear the guilt of slavery charged upon England. Yes,

heap it upon sinning, erring England !So much the more need that
Englishmen should strive to atone for the mischief she has done. As
you have copied England in her sin, copy her in her repentance. —
Ckorge Thompson.
 7th Month JULY, 1S43. 31 days.

Oh God what mockery is this

! !

Our land how lost to shame !

Well may all Europe jeer and hiss.

At mention of her name
For while she boasts of LIBERTY,
*Neath Slavery's iron sway
Three millions of her people lie,
On Independence day. W. L. Garrison.
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; ;

morning New Moon, 27d0h 46m morning. Bosto?j.-1s£ Quarter, 4d 2h 19m evening
;
;

Full Moon, lid Oh 22m eve 3d qr 19d 8h 56m mor New Moon, 27d Oh 58m mor.
; ;

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Conn. N. Jersey ; Penn. Eng. N. York St. Mich.
Ohio; Indiana and Illinois. Wisconsin and Iowa. .

Sun Sun Moon HWa Sun |Sun [Moon |H Wa

EC Ris. Sets. Sets. N. Y. Ris. Sets. Sets. Bostn

Satu 23
9 34 7 9 57 11 34 28,7 38, 9 5S 1 30
23 5
S 34 7 10 25 mor. 29 7 3810 25 2 10
3 2 Mon 23 35 7 54; 15 297 3810 52 2 51
Tue 22 55 35 7 32 11 24j 1 2 307 3811 21 3 38
Wed 22*6914 36 7 3211 53 1 54 317 3711 54 4 30
5 Thu 22 44 37 7 32 mor. 2 49 31,7 37] mor. 5 25
6 Frid 22 33 37 7 37 3 53! 327 37 32 6 29
7 Satu 22 31 38 7 1 23, 5 4 32 7 37! I 17 7 40
1 § 22 24 38 7 2 18 6 20 337 36j 2 11 8 5d
10!2 Mon 22 17 39 7 3 19 7 26 4 347 36 3 12 10 2
113 Tue 22 9 40 7 rises. 8 23|4
f

34 7 35 rises. 10 59
12 4 Wed 22 1 40 7 291 8 9 9 1314 35 7 35 8 13 11 49
Thu 21 53 417 29 8 39 9 59 4 36.7 34 8 41 ev. 35
Frid 21 44 4^2 7 28 9 510 38 4 377 34 9 6 1 14
7 Satu 21 35i:4 43 7 28 9 3011 16 4 38 ~ 33 9 30 1 52
1 S |21 25 4 437 27 9 '53 1 i"4 32 9 52 2 27
38J7
2 Mon 21 15 4 44 7 27 10 17ev. 24 4 397 32 10 15 3
3 Tue 21 5!4 45 2610 43 114 40|7 31 10 39 3 37
19,4 Wed 20 55 2511 11 39 I 4l|7 3011 7 4 15
20 5 Thu 20 44 2511 43 4 42 7 3011 38 4 57
216 Frid 20 32 4 48 7 24 mor. I 437 29 mor. 5:

50
Satu 20 21 4 48 23j 22 4 26 447 28! 16 7 2
S 20 94 22 1 7i 5 37 447 27 1 1 8 13
Mon 19 56 4 22 2 1 45,7 26 1 54 9 24
Tue 19 4:1 4 467 25 2 55 10 23
26 4 Wed 19 3: 4 8 33
8; 47|7 24; 4 311 9
27 5 Thu 49 17 4 19' sets. 9 16
| 48j7 23| sets. 1 1 52
286 Frid 19 3 4 54 18; 7 59 9 56 49 7 22 8 mor.
297 Satu IS 49 4 55 17 8 2810 37||4= 50 7 21 8 28 32
30! 1 S 18 35 4 56 8 57,11 16 4 51 7 20 8 56 1 13
31 i2 Mon 18 20 4 56 9 28J1 5- 4 7 19 1
9 25 1 52
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 CHRONOLOG IT .
JULY.

July 11th, 1767, John Quincy Adams was born.

July 20th, 1835, a great meeting of southerners was held in Tam-
many Hall, New-York, to put down
the abolitionists. Nobody mobbed
them for interfering with our peculiar institutions but they turned the
;

Secretary' of the American Anti-Slavery Society out of doors, be-

cause he was quietly taking notes.
July 25th, 1835, Amos Dresser, a pious young man, travelling to
distribute Bibles, was flogged 20 lashes on his bare back, in the pub-
lic square of Nashville, Tenn. His crime was being the member of
an anti-slavery society, and having a few anti-slavery publications in
his trunk. Some pious church members assisted in the work.
July 29th, 1835, the Mails of the United States were broken open by
a mob, at Charleston, S. C. The anti-slavery documents were taken
out, and burnt in the street, with the effigies of Arthur Tappan, W. L.
Garrison, and Rev. Samuel Cox.
July, 1842, three young men, by the name of Thompson, "Work, and
Burr, attemp'ed to assist some slaves to escape. The slaves, perhaps
thinking they were kidnappers, made known the place of assignation.
They were seized and sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment in the
State Prison of Missouri ; and there they now are at hard labor in their
chains. Their motives were those of unmixed benevolence ; and it
was admitted that they broke no law of Missouri, because there was
none to meet the case. Two of them belonged to the Mission Insti-
tute, in Illinois; the other was a mechanic of that State. Mr. Work
is a native of Connecticut. They bear their severe afflictions with
that heavenly resignation, which religion can alone inspire.
July 1842, in Senate of the United'States, on motion of Messrs. Cal-
houn and Preston, of South Carolina, colored men were forbidden to
serve in the navy or army, except as cooks, stewards, servants, and
musicians ; passed, 24 to 16. A
rare instance of slaveholding coward-
ice. Some of the bravest soldiers of the Revolution were colored;
and colored soldiers distinguished themselves at New Orleans and Lake
Champlain, in a manner that elicited the warmest praise.

APPROPRIATE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY.

Who can with patience for a moment see
The medley mass of pride and misery,
Of whips and charters, manacles and rights,,
Of slaving blacks, and democratic whites,
And all the piebald policy that reigns
In free confusion o'er Columbia's plains ?
To think that man, thou just and righteous God.'
Should stand before Thee, with a tyrant's rod,
—
O'er creatures like himself with souls from thee
And yet to boast of perfect liberty!
Away away
! ! I'd rather hold my neck
In doubtful tenure from a Sultan's beck,
In climes where liberty has scarce been named,
Nor any ri*ht, save that of ruling, claimed,
Than in this Land, where bastard freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mock'ry over slaves. Thomas Moore.

If the North would do its duty, every southern man would go

back from his visits to the free States, humbled and thoughtful, a
missionary in the cause of freedom. Ellis Gray Loring.
 8th Month AUGUST, 1843. 31 day;

Then swelled the choral anthem.

Those sunny isles among !

- The MAN" shouted in his joy,

free'd
Andsongs were on his tongue !

—
Songs of Thanksgiving bursts of prayer,
On every hill were heard
The vales were vocal, and the air
With melody was stirred. W. H. Burleigh.
New-Yokk.-1s£ Quarter, 2d 6h 31m eve Full Moon, lOd llh 58m eve 3d quarter, lSd
; ; lh
54m morning New Moon, 25d 9h 39m morning. Boston. -1st Quarter, 2d 6h 43m eve
;
;
Full Moon, lOd Oh 10m mor 3d qr 18d 2h 6m mor
; New Moon, 25d 9h 51m mor.
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Calendar for N. York City ; Calendar for Boston; Neiv-
Conn. N. Jersey ; Penn. Ei r. N. York St. Mich.
Ohio ; Indiana & Illinois. Wiuconsin and Iowa.
 CHRONOLOGY. —AUGUST.
1st of August 1842, occurred the worst of several mobs against the
colored people of Philadelphia. It was an entirely unprovoked attack
upon a temperance procession of colored citizens, in commemmoration
of British emancipation. A
church and Hall, built with the hard
earnings of colored ciiizens, was burnt down, their houses demolished
or badly injured, and themselves beaten and mangled in the most fero-
eious manner. The city authorities afforded no efficient protection till
the mischief was all done, in a riot of two days. The National Intelli-
gencer, the organ of Governm nt could draw no other moral from the
bloody scene, than that "it would serve to teach the colored people the
danger of having processions."
22d of August, 1839, departed this life, Benjamin Lundy; one of the
earliest, most active, and most disinterested friends of the American slave*
August 1st, 1834, Great Britain emancipated 800,000 slaves in her
West India Islands ; a glorious reward for the 800,000 women who sent
a petition to Parliament almost too bulky to be carried in. Up to this
time, not a single plantation has been fired, nor a single drop of blood
shed by the emancipated slaves. The worst result is that large plant-
ers have to pay more for labor, because their former servants are eager
to settleon small farms of their own.
August 10th, 1835, an academy established for children, without
regard to complexion, in Canaan, N. H. was drawn off into the swamp,
by a mob.
August 11th, 1835, Dr. Reuben Crandell was thrown into prison, at
Washington, D. C. for having an anti-slavery paper in his trunk.
1st of August, abolitionists in various parts of Massachusetts held
picnic parties, in commemoration of British Emancipation.

"TmST"0F^UGU?Tr"
Dr. Madden, then resident in Jamaica, thus wrote to Dr. Richardson,
August 6th, 1834:
" The first of August passed over without the slightest disorder. I did
not see a drunken negro, nor any great appearance of exultation, except that
which, in the subdued form of grateful piety, I witnessed in the churches.
"In fact, for a great festival, it was as quiet a day as can well be imagin-
ed. The only symptom I saw of turbulent joy, was on the part of some
negro urchins, who were throwing stones at a drunken sailor, and who,
when poor Jack made a reel after them, scampered away, shouting most
lustily to each other, What for you run away?
e
We all free now ! Buckra
can't catch we ? Hurra for fuss of Augus Hi, ! hi, fuss oi Augus ! Hurra
for fuss of Augus !'

Then the elite of the liberated blacks would courageously wheel round
and give poor Jack another volley of pebbles, and cut all manner ol ridicu-
lous capers before him. This was the only emanation of the great spirit that
had just walked abroad, that I happened to get a glimpse of."

If you could be in the British West Indies on the first of August, you
would see throngs of happy sable faces, coming up from the fruitful vallies,
and wandering in long procession over the sun-lit hills. Stop them in the
loneliness of their forests, where the bright sunshine wakes and watches
over the deep sleeping shadows of the bamboo and the cocoa, the cedar and
the palm. Ask them' " What do you think of freedom now ?" The women
will drop on. their knees, the men uncover their heads, and look reverently
upward, as they answer, "Oh, massa, thank God, and the good English
people ! Liberty so sweet !" l. m. c.
 9th Month SEPTEMBER, 1843. 30 days.

Our fathers to their graves have gone;

Their strife is past, their triumph won;
But sterner trials wait the race
Which rises in their honored place
A moral warfare with the crime
And folly of an evil time. J. G. Whittier.
'
New-York.-Is* Quarter, Id Oh 26m mor Full, 8d 2h lm eve 3d quarter, 16d 6h 17m eve
; ;

New, 23d 5h 57m eve 1st qr 30d 9h 15m mor. Boston.- 1st Qr Id Oh 33m mor Full, Sd
; ;

2h 13m eve 3d qr 16d 6h 29m eve New, 23d 6h 9m eve 1st qr 30d 9h 27m mor.
; ; ;

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P P Ris. Sets. Sets. N. Y. Ris. Sets. Sets. Bostn

1 6 Fri 8 22 5 28 6 32 11 5 1 3 5 26 6 33 10 59 3 39
2 7 Sat 8 5 29 6 30 morn. 1 57 5 27 6 32 12 4 33
3 i s 7 38 5 30 6 28 7 3 5 5 28 6 30 morn. 5 41
4 2 Mon 7 16 5 31 6 27 1 11 4 36 5 29 6 28 1 5 7 12
5 3 Tue 6 54 5 31 6 25 2 16 6 5 5 30 6 27 2 11 8 41
6 4 We 6 32 5 32 6 24 3 20 7 12 5 31 6 25 3 16 9 48
7 5 Th 6 9 5 33 6 22 4 22 8 3 5 32 6 23 4 20 10 39
8 6 Fri 5 47 5 34 6 20 5 23 8 44 5 33 6 22 5 22 11 20
9 7 Sat 5 24 5 35 6 19 rises. 9 17 5 34 6 20 rises. 11 53
10 i s 5 1 5 36 6 17 6 49 9 48 5 35 6 18 6 47 ev.24
11 2 Mon 4 39 5 37 6 15 7 15 10 19 5 36 6 16 7 12 55
12 3 Tue 4 16 5 38 6 14 7 44 10 48 5 37 6 15 7 40 1 24
13 4 We 3 53 5 39 6 12 8 18 11 18 5 38 6 13 8 13 1 54
14 5 Th 3 30 5 40 6 10 8 56 11 46 5 39 6 11 8 50 2 22
15 6 Fri 3 7 5 41 6 9 9 41 ev. 19 5 40 6 9 9 35 2 55
16 7 Sat 2 44 5 42 6 7 10 33 56 5 41 6 8 10 27 3 32
17 i s 2 20 5 43 6 5 11 32 1 44 5 42 6 6 11 26 4 20
18 2 Mon 1 57 5 44 6 4 morn. 2 51 5 44 6 4 morn. 5 27
19 3 Tue 1 34 5 45 6 2 37 4 20 5 45 6 2 31 6 56
20 4 We 1 10 5 46 6 1 45 5 44 5 46 6 1 1 41 8 20
21 5 Th 47 5 47 5 59 2 57 6 54 5 47 5 59 2 54 9 30
22 6 Fri N. 24 5 48 5 57 4 10 7 42 5 48 5 57 4 8 10 18
23,7 Sat 5 49 5 55 5 25 8 26 5 49 5 55 5 24 11 2
241,1 S S. 23 5 50 5 53 sets. 9 5 5 50 5 53 sets. 11 41
25 2 Mon 47 5 51 5 52 6 35 9 47 5 51 5 52 6 31 morn.
26 3 Tue 1 10 5 52 5 50 7 16 10 31 5 52 5 50 7 11 23
27 4 We 1 33 5 53 5 48 8 4 11 13 5 53 5 48 7 58 1 7
28 5 Th 1 57 5 54 5 47 8 59 11 57 5 54 5 46 8 53 1 49
29 6 Fri 2 20 5 55 5 45 10 morn. 5 56 5 44 9 54 2 33
30 7 Sat 2 44 5 56 5 43 11 4 44 5 51 5 43 10 59 1

3 20
" From a r jersuasion that equal liberty was originally the portion, and is
still the birth right of all men, and influenced by the strong ties of humanity

and the princ iples of their institutions, your memorialists conceive themselves
bound to use all justifiable endeavors to loosen the bands of slavery, and pro-
mote a gener al enjoyment oi the blessings of freedom."" Benjamin Franklin.
 • CHRONOLOGY. SEPTEMBER.

September 5th, 1841, a ferocious mob destroyed, for the third time,
the printing press of the Philanthropist, an anti-slavery paper publish-
ed in Cincinnati, Ohio. They tore down a house, where they suspected
a runaway slave was concealed: were guilty of the most ferocious
cruelty to colored men, and indecent brutality to colored women. They
were supposed to be instigated by slaveholders in Kentucky.
Sept. 15th, 1829, slavery abolished in Mexico, by a proclamation of
the President.
Sept. 5th, 1835, a large meeting in Clinton, Missouri, resolved that
"abolitionists are worthy of immediate death, and that they w ould re- r

ceive it in any part of that State." They also very highly recom-
mended the Colonization Society.
Sept. 17th, 1835, Grand Jury of Oneida county, N. Y. made a -pre-
sentment, in which they say that those who form abolition societies
are guilty of sedition and of right ought to be punished ; and that it is
the duty of all citizens, friendly to the Constitution of the United
States, to destroy all their publications wherever found.

SLAVE A^ERTISEMENTST"
The following was published by authority
of Congress, in the Nation
al Intelligencer. Northern men have a majority in Congress. " What
has the North to do with slavery ?"
" Notice. —
Was committed to the jail of Washington County, Dis-
trict of Columbia, as a runaway, a negro woman, by the name of Polly
Leiper, and her infant child William. #--##*
Says she was set
free by John Campbell of Richmond, Va. in 1818 or 1819. The owner
of the above-described woman and child, it any, are reqnested to come
and prove them, and take them away or they will be sold for their
;

JAIL FEES AND OTHER EXPENSES, AS THE LAW DIRECTS.

" May 19, 1827. Tench Ringgold, Marshall."
"RUNAWAY NEGRO TAKEN.— on the first of November I took
up a runaway, and,/o?* want of a jail, put him IN IRONS, and shall
endeavor to keep him on my plantation, on the Mississippi river, five
miles from Randolph. The negro says he belongs to Mr. Algon Smith,
about 60 miles above Louisville, but he does not know the county or
the nearest town, in consequence of never having lived with his mas-
ter, —
that about two years ago, Smith bought him in Maryland, since
then he has been constantly hired out; that he has worked at Little
Sandy Salt Works, that his name is Squire. He is full six feet high,
well made, and is strong and active, but stoops a little forward as h«
walks; is about 3'0 years old. He had on, when I took him, a strong
cotton shirt, linsey (white) pantaloons, black tabby velvet vest, and
blanket coat. He lost his hat and bundle in the cane while running
from my dogs. He is a negro of good countenance; black, though not
what would be considered very black: has two small scars on his face,
one on his forehead, and one over the right eye, neither of which would
be noticed unless closely examined. N. ROSS, "Randolph, Tipton co.
Tennessee." Louisville Journal, Ky.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Tuscaloosa county, Ala. on the 21st o!
August, 1840, a runaway Negro, who calls his name Hughey, and says
he belongs to Patrick O'Neal, of Sumpter county. Hughey is about
23 or 24 years old, 6 feet high, slender made, dark color, badly scarred
on his thighs with the lash. The owner is requested to come forward,
grove propertv, pay charges, and take him away, as the law directs,
,.W. BARBER, Jailor. August 26, 1840.— Flag of the Union! Ala.
An appropriate Flag for this Union, truly!
 10th Month OCTOBER, 1843. 31 days.

Let mammon mammon can,

hold, while
The bones and blood
of living man ;

Let tyrants scorn, while tyrants dare.

The shrieks and writhing- of despair
—
;

The end will come it will not wait

Bonds, yokes and scourges have their date;
Slavery itself must pass away,
And be a tale of yesterday. J. Montgomery.
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 CHRONOLOGY. OCTOBER

October 21st, 1835, mob at Utica, to break up a meeting to form a

New-York State Anti-Slavery Society; headed by Samuel Beardsley,
member of Congress. Bufore proceeding to business, the mob passed
a resolution thai they were "respectable."
October 21sr, 1835, a mob of 5000 " gentlemen of property and stand-
ing,"' in Boston, mobbed the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, and
dragged W. L. Garrison through the streets with a rope about his body.

SLAVE ADVERTISEMNNTS.
Congress passed a appropriating $17,000 for the maintainance of
bill
a Police Guard at Washington
to protect the public buildings, and
" enforce the regulations of die city." The people of the Free States,
of course must must do their full share toward supporting these pub-
lic buildings, and this Police Guard. The business of that police is
seen in the following advertisement, -which appeared in the National
Intelligencer of June 13.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD—I pay the above reward to
will
any person or persons, who will inform me who
he or she was
who entered the enclosure of the lock-up house on Thirteenth street,
(second ward,) and therefrom released and aided in the escape of
a mulatto girl, aged 17 years, and a slave for life, named JANE
STEWAitT, the same being placed by a police officer therein for safe
keeping for the night. The person giving such information will be re-
quired to assist in prosecuting and the obtaining and deliverv of said
negro to me. JAMES MAGUIRE,
June 17—31 11th street.
A girl of seventeen years old placed in the watch-house, for being a
slave for life —
"for safe keeping for the night." Doubtless in the
morning she was to have been carried off to some distant place.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.—Ranaway from the sub-
scriber on Tuesday, the 14th instant, a negro man slave named Levi,
who call himself Levi Carroll, about 28 or 30 years of age, dark com-
plexion, rather a pleasing countenance when in conversation, about 5
feet 7 or 8 inches high. It is deemed useless to describe his dress, as
he took a variety of clothing with him, He "left home without the
slightest provocation, where he has a wife and child he has a mother
;

living Avith a Mr. Brashears, within 5 or 6 miles of Vansville, Mary-

land, where it is possible he may stop for a short time.
I will give $25 if taken in this District, $50 if taken in Maryland,
and the above reward of $100 iftakenin any other State, and secured so
that I get him again, and all reasonable expenses paid if brought home.
MARGARET A. CULVER, Washington City.
June 20. National Intelligencer.
Being compelled to toil without wages is not " the slightest provoca-
tion" to run away ; is it ? We
are happy to state that Levi is at a
safe distance from the Washington slave-jails- In Albany, he told a
friend, that his wife and children were free ; and he discovered that
his mistress was going to sell him away from them. But then this
was not •' the slightest provocation."
For forty, out of forty-eight years, slavery has had a president from
her own .territory.
For thirty, out of thirty-six years, we have had a slaveholding
Speaker in the House of Representatives, who has the appointment of
all the Committees.
 11th Month NOVEMBER, 1834. 30 days

Ye Christian ministers of him

Who came to make men free !

While Almighty Maker's throne,

at the
You bend the suppliant knee
From the deep fountains of your soul
Then let your prayers ascend
For the poor Slave who hardly knows — ,

That God is still his friend. E. L Folle'n.

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"That the dangerous consequences of this system of bondage have not as
yet been felt, does not prove they never will be. To me, sir nothing, for
which [ have not the evidence of my senses, is more clear than that it will
one day destroy that reverence for liberty, which is the vital principle of a lie-
public. " —
William Pinckney.
 CHRONOLOGY. NOVEMBER.

Nov. 1835, the Grand Jury of Tuscaloosa county, Alabama, indicted

li. G. Williams, publishing agent of the Anti-Slavery Society, as "a
wicked, malicious, seditious, and ill-disj.osed person," for publishing
the following sentence in the Emancipator, "God commands and all
nature cries out that man should not be held as property." Governor
Gayle, of Alabama, demanded of Governor Marcy, of New- York that
he should be given up under that indictment, to be tried by the laws
of Alabama. Gov. Marcy respectfully declined the requisition, not
being able to discover that the Constitution imposed upon him any
such obligation.
Nov. 7th, 1837, Rev. Mr. Lovejoy, editor of a paper favorable to
anti-slavery, but of a very mild character, was murdered by a mob at
Alton, Illinois. His press was dragged off and thrown into the river.
Nov. 7th, 1841, the American brig Creole, bound from Richmond,
Va. to New Orleans, with a cargo of 102 slaves, was seized by 19 of
the slaves, and carried into Nassau, New Providence, one of the
British West India islands. One passenger was killed, and the captain
and a few others wounded. The whole affair was managed with a
remarkable degree of bravery, discretion, and mercy. Every move-
ment indicated an earnest desire to do as little mischief as possible,
consistently with securing their own freedom. The ring-leader, a very
large and strong -mulatto, was named Madison Washington. He had
previously run away from bondage, and staid in the family of Hiram
Wilson, in Canada. But he grew homesick for his wife, whom he left
a slave in Virginia and he determined to rescue her at all hazards.
;

He went back for this purpose, and was probably caught by his master,
and sold to New Orleans as a punishment. At all events, he was
next heard of as the hero of the Creole. It is believed that his be-
loved wife was with him on board that vessel. The authorities of
New Providence declared all the slaves free. Four -or five of the
women (supposed to be mistresses of the white men) were at first in-
clined to go back to the United States; but when the case had been
truly represented to them by the colored people of the island, they
took their freedom.
Daniel Webster, Secretary of State, officially demanded of Great
Britain redress of these grievances, in a style which slaveholders
applauded to the echo.

SLAVE ADVERTISEMENT.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.—Ranaway from the subscribers, on
the loth of last month, the negro man Charles, about 4-5 years of age,
5 feet 6 inches high ; red complexion ; has had the upper lid of his right
eye torn, and a scar on his forehead ; speaks English only, and stut-
ters when spoken to ; had on when he left, an iron collar, the prongs
of which he broke off before absconding. The above reward will be
paid for the arrest of said slave. W. E. & R. MURPHY, 132 Old Basin,
We have accidentally lost the name of thesouthern newspaper, from
which we cut the the above advertisement. It is a true bill,
nevertheless.
Anti-Slavery Zeal. —When Samuel J. May first began to feel inter-
ested in the anti-slavery cause, Mr. Garrison's zeal naturally seemed to
him excessive. Having one day listened to an outburst of indignation, he
exclaimed, '" Why, brother Garrison, you are all on fire!" With eloquent
solemnity, he replied, "Brother May, I have need to he all on fire for !
—
there are mountains of ice around me to melt."
 12th Month DECEMBER. 31 days.

Of
tyrants and their servile train
Speak as your pilgrim fathers spoke !

To embrace you from their rest they bend !

Each word falls like a lightning stroke,

Some veil of doubt to rend.
Speak ! till now slumbering, stirs
their dust,
In each high place of sepulchres M. W. Chapman.
!

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"It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion, to show that it is at
variance with that law which warrants slavery."— Patrick Henry.
"I never mean, unless some particular circumstance should compel me to
it, to possess another slave by purchase; it being among my
first wishes to
see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be
abolished by
\la uv' General Washington.
 CHRONOLOGY. DECEMBER.

Dec. 14th, 1799, Gen. Washington died. He manumitted all his

slaves by will; giving as a reason for not doing it before, that they
were so intermarried with his wife's slaves (whom he had no legal
power to manumit) that it would occasion painful separations and heart-
burnings. Thus he committed the great mistake of leaving them in
old age, with helpless slave-habits, and without the protection and
advice, which he might have given in his life time.
Dec. 26th, 1831, Gov. Lumpkin, of Georgia, approved the act of the
Legislature of Georgia, offering $5000 to any one who would arrest
and bring to trial under the laws of that State, the editor or publisher
of the Boston Liberator. The laws of Georgia would have awarded
a cruel death ; but Massachusetts never took any notice of this inva-
sion of the rights of a guiltless citizen.
Dec. 7th, 1835, Andrew Jackson in his Message to Congress, accused
the abolitionists of " unconstitutional and wicked attempts," and re-
commended curtailment of the liberty of the press, in order to stop
their interference with slavery.
Dec. 16th 1835. Resolved, that the Legislature of South Carolina,
having every confidence in the justice and friendship of the non-slave-
holding States, announces her confident expectation, and she earnestly
requests that the governments of these States will promptly and
efficiently suppress all those associations within their respective limits
purporting to be abolition societies.
Dec. 4th, 1833, a Convention met at Adelphi Hall, Philadelphia, to
form the American Anti-Slavery Society. Ten States were represented,

FOREFATHER'S DAY.— December 22.

BY M. W. CHAPMAN".
The memory of the faithful dead
Be on their children's hearts this day
Your father's God, their host that led,
Will shield you through the stormy way.
Your Saviour bids you seek and save
The trampled and the oppressed of earth j

At his command the storm to brave,

Faithful and true come boldly forth
! !

Their suffering though your souls must share-

Though pride oppress and hate condem,
Stand up and breathe your fearless prayer
!

For those in bonds, as bound with them.

Unheeded fall the fierce command
That bids the struggling soul be dumb !

Shout with a voice to rouse a land !

Bid the free martyr spirit come !

Searcher of hearts, to thee we bow

Uphold us with- thy staff and rod ;

Our fervent hearts are ready now

We come to do thy will, Oh God

—
Free Thought. It is written, " Many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased." Surely the plain rule is, let each considerate
person have his way and see what it will lead to. For not this man and
that man, hut all men, make up mankind, and their united tasks the task
of all mankind. Wise man was he that counselled that speculation should
have free course, and look fearlessly toward all the thirty-two points of
the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed. T. Carlyle.
 ANTI-SLAVFRY ALMANAC?. 2?

Observe that engraving. It is a very expressive illustration of

the effects of free labor and slave labor. Look at those two charac-
ters (which may stand as likenesses of master and overseer) one
pushing and the other flogging the animal, whose labor they wish
to obtain! What b the result of all their efforts ? Two idle men are
wasting their time and energies for the creature will not stir one
;

step. He has planted his fore foot out with the most indomitable
 •*

(
}& ANTI-SLAVERY AtMlNACT.

obstinacy, as if he had made up his mind to become a fixture in the

soil ; while his hind-foot is lifted for a kick at his tormentors, if
he can get a convenient chance. This is a positiop which cer-
tainly does not indicate that he is a good Christian; but it proves
that he is not so much of a Jackass, after all.
Look at the other character, pursuing the opposite policy ;
wiser, as well as more humane. He has no whip, cudgel or bridle.
He simply holds a bunch of vegetables before the creature's nose ;
and donkey as he is, he sets out after them full chase, allured by
the smell of the eatables, and assured that he shall have the
chewing of them at last. Hurrah merrily ride, thou sagacious
!

traveller! Whole volumes of political economy, and huge treatises

on education, and folios on the safety of emancipation, are writ-
ten in that shrewd device of thine. Aye, wave thy hat in triumph,
thou practical philosopher and shout to that cudgeller behind
!

thee, that the northern donkey beats the southern, out and out, on
the race course of productive labor ; and all because a bunch of
beets are before his nose, instead of beats on his back Never
!

fear giving offense to his republicanism by the assinine illustra-

tion ! He is accustomed to consider all laborers as beasts of bur-
den he buys them in the market, with oxen and cart-horses.
;

Hurrah and let him who can stop thy speed, while that blessed
!

bunch of provender goes before thee Will not southern states-

!

men learn a lesson from this race between the North and the
South ?

FREE AND SLAVE LABOR.

One mouth, and one back to two hands, is the law
That the hand of his Maker has stamped upon man j
But Slavery lays on God's image her paw,
And fixes him out on a different plan ;

Two mouths and two backs to two hand's she creates j

And the consequence is, as she might have expected,.
Let the hands do their best, upon all her estates,
The mouths go half fed, and the backs half protected.
J. Pierpowt.

" If there be onewho considers the institution of slavery harm-

Jess, lethim compare the condition of the slaveholding portion of
this commonwealth, —
barren, desolate, and seared as it were by
the avenging hand of Heaven, —
with the description which we
have of this same country, from those who first broke its virgin
soil. To what is this change ascribable? Alone to the withering
and blasting effects of slavery. To that vice in the organization
of society by which one half of its inhabitants are arrayed in in-
terest and feeling against the other half; to that condition of
things in which half a million of your population can feel no
sympathy with society, in the prosperity of which they are forbid*
 ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANAC. 29

den to participate, and no attachment to a government at whose

hands they receive nothing but injustice." Speech of Mr. Faulk-
ner, in the Legislature of Virginia, 1832.

li
Slavery is a mildew, which has blighted every region it has
touched, from the creation of the world. Illustrations from
the history of other countries, and other times, might be instruc-
tive, but we have evidence nearer at hand, in the short histories
of the different States of this great confederacy, which are im-
pressive in their admonitions, and conclusive in their character."
— Speech of Mr. Broadnax, in the Legislature of Virginia, 1832.

" Sir, the evils of this system glare upon us at every step.
When the owner looks at his wasted estate, he knows and feels
them. When the statesman examines the condition of his coun-
try, and finds her moral influence gone, her physical strength
diminished, her political power waning, he sees and must confess
them." Speech of Mr. Summers in the Virginia Legislature, 1832.

" The wide spreading ruin of this system is witnessed in our

sparse population of freemen, our deserted habitations, and fields
without culture. Strange to tell, even the wolf, driven back long
since by the approach of man, now returns, after the lapse of a
hundred years, and howls over the desolations of slavery." Mr.
Curtis of Virginia.

" Slavery an institution which presses heavily against the best

is
interests of the State. It banishes free white labor it extermi-
;

nates the mechanic, the artisan, the manufacturer. It deprives

them of occupation it deprives them of bread. It converts the
;

energy of a community into indolence, its power into imbecility,

its efficiency into weakness." Mr. Faulkner in the Virginia
Legislature, 1832.

"The most potent cause of the more rapid advancement of

Cincinnati, than Louisville, is the absence of slavery. The same
influences that made Ohio the young giant of the West, and is
advancing Indiana to a grade higher than Kentucky, have opera-
ted in the Queen City. They have no deadweight to carry; and
consequently have the advantage of the race." Louisville
Gazette, Kentucky.

" Labor is the product of mind, as much as of body ; and to

secure that product, we must sway the mind by motives. Labor-
ing against self-interest is what nobody ought to expect of white
men much less of slaves.
;

The slave system inflicts an incalculable amount of human

3*
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suffering, for the sake of making a wholesale waste of labor and

capital." Harriet Martineau.

a Wo unto him that useth his neighbor's service without wage9

?

and giveth him not for his work." Jeremiah 22. 13.

CAUSE OF HARD TIMES.

Item Thirty Millions of dollars lost in the Florida war.
1st.
Began, and carried on, to catch slaves. See Giddings' Speech in
the House of Representatives, 1841.
Item 2nd. At least Thirty Millions, northern capital, sunk bj
United States Bank in southern debts and " cottton speculations."
(A list has been published of southern extended debts belonging
to the United States Bank, amounting to Twenty-seven Millions
of dollars!
Item 3d. Over Forty Millions lost to northern holders of south-
ern stock, including stocks of the slave States, as well as those of
Vicksburg and other banks, railroad and canal companies, &c.
Item 4th. At least One Hundred Millions, southern debts, due
northern merchants and manufacturers. (The citizens of the
small town of Lynn, Mass. sustained a loss, mostly by southern
trade, of Three Millions, being one thirty-third part of the whole
sum we have put down and several houses in New- York city can
;

show losses by southern debts, varying from Five Hundred Thou-

sand to One Million of dollars.)
Here then are causes of distress in Two Hundred Millions of
Dollars lost to the country, compared with which all other alledg-
ed causes are as " mole-hills to mountains."
But some will ask, How is it that slaveholding is so destructive
to all the pecuniary interests of the community where it exists ?

I will answer, cuts the sinews of action, takes away all

first, It
motive to exertion in the laborer, so that he neither can nor will
perform half the labor of a freeman. And again, by pouring
contempt upon labor, the system begets an all-prevailing desire in
the whole community to live a life of idleness. Secondly, slave-
holding States pay enormously for that which the free States get
for nothing. One hundred thousand laborers at one thousand
dollars each, will cost, a slave State one hundred millions of dol-
lars, and beside this the wife and children are to be paid for; while
to the free State the laborer not only brings himself and family
without cost, but brings also his household stuff and money in
his pocket; and if it be true, as asserted in the newspapers, that
the emigrants on board the ill-fated Erie, had with them one hun-
dred and eighty thousand dollars, this last item should be allowed
some weight in the account. Emancipator.

A Freeman's Answer. — The mayor of Albany, being asked to assist

in recovering " a fugitive from injustice," replied, "In the discharge
of myduties, I recognise no obligation to become a slave-catcher.''''
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STATISTICS.
Thefollowing is condensed from a long series of tables, in the
Cincinnati Philanthropist:
The tables cover the years between 1789, and January, 1842.
Table I.

Showing the comparative Representation of the North and South in

the Executive and Judicial offices, (the President pro tem. of the
Senate, excepted,) of the Federal Government, from March, 1789,
to January, 1842.
South. North.
Presidents,* , . 6 4
Secretaries of State, . 10 4
Judges of the Supreme Court,f 17 10
Attorneys-Genera],^ 12 5
Speakers of the House of Rep etatives,§ 20 9
Secretaries of War, 7 9
Postmasters-General, 4 7
Secretaries of the Navy, 6 8
Secretaries of the Treasury, . 4 11
Vice Presidents, 4 6

90 73
Table II.
Showing the comparative Representation of the South and North in
European Courts, to which the United States have at any time sent
a Minister.
uth. North.
Great Britain, 8 6
France, . 3 7
Spain, . 1 6
Russia, . 6 7
Portugal, . 5 4
Sweden, . 3 2
Prussia, . 1 2
Austria, . 1 1

Netherlands, . 4 5
Treaty of Ghent, 2 3
Turkey, . 2

56 43
* Southern men have occupied the Presidential chair forty years and nine
months; northern men, twelve years and one month.
t "Within the last eight years, six appointments have been made to the
—
bench of the Supreme Court all from the slave States.
X The present Attorney General, Mr. Legare, used the following language,
in a debate had in Congress, on a petition praying for the recognition of the
Republic of Haiti
"It ought to be rejected with reprobation. As sure as you live, sir,
if thiscourse is permitted to go on, the sun of this Union will go down
— it will go down in blood —
and go down to rise no more. I pro-
nounce the authors of such things traitors, traitors not to their country
only, but the whole human race."
$ With the exception of J. W. Taylor, of New-York, who served thr.ee
years, the North has not given a Speaker to the House since 1809.
32 ANTI -SLAVERY ALMANAC.

THE WORLD IS WAKING!

" And shall we scoff' at Europe's kings,
When Freedom's fire is dim with us ?
And round our country's altar clings
The damning shade ?"
—of slavery's curse J. G. Whittier.
TUNIS.
The Bey of Tunis has abolished the slave trade throughout his
dominions; and set the example, by emancipating all his own slaves.
Many of his courtiers are following his noble example.
SPAIN.
In Cuba a memorial has been presented to the government, from
which we extract the following
" The greater part of this community are persuaded that we should
greatly gain in safety, in civilization, and in our pecuniary interests,
by the substitution of free labor for that of slaves ; and everything
appears to be prepared for this reform.''''
RUSSIA.
At the Anti-Slavery Convention in Paris, May, 1842, among many
other distinguished foreigners, there was present M. de Tourguenoff, a
former minister of the Emperor Alexander, who with his brother had
come to concert a plan for the emancipation of the Russian seifs, and
who has himself offered to emancipate three hundred peasants.
The Emperor Nicholas is determined to abolish serfdom in Russia;
during the past year he made a strong effort to effect it, but was de-
feated, for the present, by the opposition of his nobles.
BRAZIL.
In 1835, Antonio Ferreira Franca, Deputy for Bahia, urged in the
strongest manner, the emancipation of all slaves born in Brazil. Anto-
nio Carlos de Andrada, the late premier, zealously used his influ-
ence against slavery ; contending that it was impossible Brazil could
prosper while one race oppressed the other, and stigmatizing slavery
as the plague-spot of Brazil.
Hollanda Cavalcanti, senator, and late Minister of Marine, always
the declared enemy of slavery, has lately discharged all slaves from the
arsenals of the empire ; and on his own plantation employs none but
free laborers.
Benefits have been given at theatres of Rio de Janeiro for the pur-
pose of ransoming slaves.
A variety of works against the slave trade and slavery, are sold pub-
licly. J. J. Gurney's work on British emancipation has been transla-
ted and circulated without hindrance.
AUSTRIA.
In 1826, the Austrian government issued a decree that every slave
who should set foot on Austrian soil, or even on the deck of an Aus-
trian vessel, should become free. New England has not this blessed
privilege ; and cannot have, by reason of the "glorious Union."

The Slave States have little more than half the white popula-
tion that the Free States have ;
yet they have more than tw«-
thirds asmany again ivhites who can neither read nor write whije ;

the great mass of colored population is in midnight ignorance.

 ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANAC. 33

COLONIZATION ADDRESSING ITS BELOVED VICTIMS.

Puss. Dearest rats and mice, I pray you go with me. Come and
take hold of my paw, and let me lead you; feel of my paw, it is as
soft as velvet.
Dear brethren, you can never rise in this land, to the station your
merits deserve. Men have a prejudice against you they compel you
;

to feed on fragments, and live in dirty holes. Now if you will go with
me, you shall have whole orchards of nuts and apples, and large rooms
to live in; and the shrewdest among you will soon get to be governors
and judges.
The old Rat. I say, smooth sir, will you please to tell me what you
hold behind you ? It looks to me wonderfully like a dagger. As for
your velvet paw, I have my suspicions that the claws are only drawn in.
COLONIZATION ADDRESSING ITS ACCOMPLICES.
Puss. Sir, believe me, I have not the slightest intention of injuring
your property; on the contrary I would take such measures as would
guarantee you its possession forever. You don't catch me talking
with the inferior creatures that you've got shut up. You've paid your
money for them, and you've a right to them. You've got them into a
^4 ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANAC.

tight trap, and very wisely put the Bible on it, as a precious weight to
keep all safe and steady. But you see these free rats and mice, that
are scampering round in such numbers, only serve to make the happy
creatures in the trap discontented with their lot; I've caught them
with their nose at the bars squeaking together; a practice which you
must see is unsafe for your interests. The next thing, they will be
pulling the Bible off, upsetting the trap, and gnawing a hole through
the platform. Nowr just let me colonize them, and they will be nicely
,

out of your way; and now and then for the sake of appearances, you
can let one out of the trap, and bid him go with his comrades.
Slaveholder. Ha ha! ha a good plan, by Jove. But go to the
! !

yankees, and make them pay for shipping the nuisances. But harkee,
don't call'em nuisances there; call'em misssionaries, They're going
to convert Africa, you know. The Devil take'em !"
Puss. Trust me. I have a velvet paw ; and nobody shall see what's
folded up inside of it.

" The object of the Society, if I understand it aright, involves no in-

trusion on property, nor even upon prejudice." — Fifteenth Annual Re'
port of the Colonization Society.
At a meeting in Washington, to form the Colonization Society, Mr.
Randolph said, "Being myself a slaveholder, I deem it necessary to
show that the proposed Society will prove one of the greatest securi-
ties to enable the master to keep in possession of his own properly."
" Of all classes of our population the most vicious is the free color-
ed." Tenth Report of the Colonization Society.
" Free blacks are a greater nuisance than the slaves themselves."
African Repository, organ of the Colonization Society."
" They are a useless and pernicious, if not a dangerous portion of
our population." Henry Clay.
"Each emigrant is a missionary, carrying with him credentials in
the holy cause of civilization, religion, and free institutions." —The
same Henry Clay.
" Either moral or physical force must be used to compel these people
to go." A Virginia Legislator in the Debate of 1832.
[Pussy's velvet paw is the moral force her claws and dagger are the
;

physical, kept in reserve, if velvet won't answer.]

By removing the most fruitful sources of discontent (free blacks)
from among our slaves, we should render them more industrious, and
attentive to our commands. —
Address of Rutnam, (Geo.) Colonization
Society.
" When the war cry was heard, I caught my musket, and called Mr.
Brown, and all the rest, out to fight. I fired the first musket and put

fifty buck shot into Grotio. The people came hundreds of miles after-
—
ward to see his head and eyes." Address of Mr. Harris, a colored man
from Liberia; one of Henry Clay's "missionaries of the Gospel."
The American Colonization Society has been in existence 21 years.
Prior to July 1st 1S42,had expended nearly one million of dollars.
it

it has conveyed to Africa 3704 free blacks

In the course of 22 years,
and emancipated slaves; and 300 recaptured Africans; total 3734,
This averages 169 a year; a much smaller number than is added to
the slave population every day,
 ANTI-SLAAVERY ALMNAC. 35

BENJAMIN LAY.
This singular being, as peculiar in person as he was remarkable in
character, was the earliest advocate of anti-slavery on record. He was
born in Colchester, England, 1677. In 1718, he removed to Barbadoes.
The slave trade was then carried on with great activity in the West
Indies, and the cruelties he witnessed soon moved his humane heart to
pity and indignation. The boldness with which he testified against
slaveholding soon excited popular clamor and after bearing it thirteen
;

years, he concluded to seek an asylum in America. His excellent wife

sympathised entirely in his views. She said she wished to leave Bar-
badoes, " Lest by remabiing there she might be leavened into the nature
of the inhabitants, which ivas pride and oppression."
In Pennsylvania, he soon become known to every man, woman, and
child, by the oddity of his appearance, and the singularity of his pro-
ceedings.
He was only four feet seven inches in height ; his head was large in
proportion to his body the features of his face were remarkable, and
;

boldly delineated, and his countenance was grave and benignant

" bespeaking innocency and righteousness." He was hunchbacked,
with a projecting chest, below which his body became much contracted.
His legs were so slender, as to appear almost unequal to the purpose
of supporting him, diminutive as his frame was, in comparison with
the ordinary size of the human stature. He never shaved and his ;

beard, which was milk-white, hung low upon his breast. His dress
was always the same a white hat, and half-boots, tow coat and trow-
;

sers, of his own spinning, of the natural color, often very much darned.
.It is singular, that his wife very much resembled him in size, and had
a crooked back. The similarity of their appearane even excited the
remarks of the slaves in Barbadoes ; who used to say when they saw
36 ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANAC.

them together, " That title bachararar* man, go all over world, see for
that backararar woman for himself."
He always travelled on foot, oftentimes to a considerable distance.
Having once walked to Philadelphia, with an intention of conversing
with an individual of considerable note, he found the family at break-
fast ; Lay was invited to partake vvith them; but seeing a black servant
in attendance, he inquired of his master, " Is this man a slave?"
" Yes," replied his host. " Then I will not share with thee the fruits of
thy unrighteousness ;" said he; and immediately departed from the
house. He never owned a slave himself, neither would he sit with
nor partake of the food of any one who did.
On one occasion he met a fine boy of six years old, whom he coaxed
to go with him to his dwelling in the woods. Toward night, the ago-
nized parents came to him, exclaiming, " Oh, Benjamin Our child has !

been missing all day." " Your child is safe in my house," szid he," and
you may now conceive of the sorrow you inflict upon the parents of the
negro girl you hold in slavery ; for she was torn from them by avarice. 13
His parents belonged to the Society of Friends, and he was a con?
stant attendant at the Monthly Meetings. At that time, many mem-
bers of the society were slaveholders. Benjamin gave no peace to any
one of that description. As sure as any such character attempted to
speak to the business of the meeting, he would start to his feet, and
cry out, " There's another negro-master !"
In 1737, he published a book against slavery, which was printed by
Benjamin Franklin, who always entertained the highest respect for
this singular but most benevolent man. There was likewise a very
eordial attachment between Benjamin Lay and Anthony Benezet. He
died in 1759, at his residence near Philadelphia. For forty-one yearg
he bore a zealous and persevering testimony against the sin of slavery
* A name for Europeans, or white people.

APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES.
At the long session of Congress in 1842, 70,680 was adopted as the
ratio of representation, after a good deal of resistance from the Flouse.
An amendment to the bill provided an additional representative for
such States as have a fraction over half the ratio.
In the following tables, the first, column shows the number of repre-
sentatives by the old apportionment.; the second, by the new the ;

third, the fractions; the fourth, loss and gain —

the gain marked * and
the loss marked —
Free States.
Maine, 8 7 7,033 —
New Hampshire, 5 4 1,753 —
Massachusetts, 12 10 30,819 —2
Rhode Island, 2 2 38,148
Connecticut, 6 4 27,251 —2
Vermont, 5 4 9,228 —
New-York, 40 34 25,799 —6
New Jersey, 6 5 19.636 —
Pennsylvania, 28 24 27,687 —4
Ohio, 19 21 35.185 *2
Indiana, 7 10 49,744 *3
Illinois, 3 7 51,970 *4
Michigan, 1 3 327 *2

Totals 142 133 334 58l;