energies of a society which can, in addition to its regular expenses, circulate 122,000 copies of pamphlets, must be much greater than those of any political association, which this country has yet witnessed. The following "Plan of Publications," from the August number of the Emancipator, will exhibit the number of their regular publications and the extent of the different editions.

"This number of the Emancipator is the first of the monthly series. It will be issued to a great extent gratuitously. Already 50,000 copies of the small paper entitled HUMAN RIGHTS, have been sent forth, and 50,000 copies of the ANTI-SLAVERY RECORD, for July.-The EMANCIPATOR and the SLAVE'S FRIEND will complete the series for the month. Next month the same series will be repeated."

It must be remembered that these papers are gratuitously distributed. Thus it will be seen that every week fifty thousand publications, made up with great skill, and containing the most inflammatory and dangerous matter are distributed. A large portion of these, no doubt, inundate the South. The remainder are intended for those in the North, "who read but cannot reason." Who can wonder at the results effected by the abolitionists, when he contemplates the tremendous energy of the means employed?

The following statement is made by the Emancipator, of the number of papers distributed in the month of July.

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The Slave's Friend, here mentioned, is a periodical designed ostensibly for children, but intended, beyond a doubt, in reality, to operate on the slaves. It is written in very simple language, and is decorated with inflammatory pictures. Its very title betrays its real character; and its contents prove it to be intended for the slave alone.

It must not be supposed that the publications of the Anti-Slavery Society, comprise all the periodicals which sustain their principles. The following extract from the Emancipator will correct any such erroneous impression.-" Among the things that encourage us, not the least, is the rapid increase of anti-slavery presses. Nearly half the newspapers in our exchange list, about one hundred, admit articles favourable to emancipation, and a large number of them are decidedly anti-slavery. We shall endeavour soon to exhibit a list of the anti-slavery newspapers in the United States."*

It is impossible that any reasoning man, can contemplate the resources and activity of the abolitionists, and wonder at their progress. It is impossible that any patriot can view, in connection, their past success, their present energies and activity, and their future prospects, without coming to the con

In the list of anti-slavery publications advertised by the Society, we find upwards of fifty different publications, prints, &c., offered for sale. The following are some of the articles advertised,

"Picture of a slave in chains, with the negro's complaint, in poetry. Our countrymen in chains, with poetry, by J. G. Whittier.

"Anti-Slavery handkerchiefs, ornamented with 4 cuts, and extracts from the Slave's Friend, printed with indelible ink, price 50 cents per dozen.

“Anti-Slavery Seals, giving a fair impress of a slave in ehains on sealing wax, price, single, 20 cents.

"Plaster images of a slave in chains, price, single, 50 cts."

clusion, that, either this band of traitors must be crushed, or the Union abandoned. They cannot exist together.

Let the South look to it. We have demonstrated that the advocates of abolition are neither few nor feeble; that they are wealthy, powerful and united; possessed of a number of influential presses; and led on by men whose intemperate zeal is only equalled by their untiring energy. Their strength is despised because it is not known. Let him who takes an interest in this matter examine the open evidence of facts; let him observe the extended and insidious operation of presses, agents and societies; let him mark the progress and results of these efforts for the last few years; and then, if he is still incredulous, and still secure, he may sleep on, until he is roused by the glare of the midnight conflagration, or startled by the whoops of the negro at his chamber door.

Let the North beware. Let not the wise and well affected regard the operations of the incendiaries with a sneer. The Union and its glories, the commerce and manufactures of the North, the peace and safety of the South, the tranquillity, integrity, and honour of our country are in peril-in imminent peril. If the abolitionists are permitted to make the North the scene of a warfare the most deadly upon the South-it is vain to affect ignorance of the results-separation is inevitable. We repeat, they must be crushed or the Union abandoned.

CHAPTER XVI.

The course of the Abolitionists prevents abolition -Aggravates the condition of the slaves, &c.

THE abolitionists never deign to weigh the consequences of their actions. They determine that a peculiar course is required by an accordance with their sublimated notions of abstract right, and pursue it, wholly regardless of the results.-Are they mad, or guilty, or both? Think they that they can deluge our land with blood-and preserve their souls from the crimson taint of murder? Think they that they can unloose rapine, and lust, and slaughter upon their native country-and that her shrieks will not rise to Heaven against them? Not responsible for the consequences of their madness! It has ever been the plea of the bigot and tyrant. The darkest crimes on record have been committed under the frenzy, real or affected, of fanaticism. Cities have been wasted, realms destroyed, in the name of God. But will God hold them guiltless because profanity was added to guilt, and His holy name impiously borrowed to sanction a wanton waste of the blood of his creatures?

In the responsibility incurred by the abolitionists, the consequences of their policy to the slave, will not be the lightest article. If slavery be the evil they proscribe, how much have they to answer for in its perpetuation. If abolition be a benevolent and holy scheme, how can they be justified for the pros

tration of every reasonable hope of final emancipation. They are the real anti-abolitionists of the land. They are the worst foes of the slave. Their madness has riveted his chains; and if his freedom be ever attained, it will be when their reckless opposition to the rights of the South is forgotten.

They admit that the slave can only be emancipated by his master. To effect that result, the master must be convinced and conciliated. What measures have they taken to persuade or win him into their views? They have trampled upon his rights-endangered his property denounced him in the vilest billingsgate the language can afford-excited his slaves to discontent, and endangered his life, and the honour of his wife and daughters. Are not these most winning persuasives to abolition! Is not this policy certain to soothe the feelings, sway the sentiments, and insure the confidence of the slave-holder?

"The truth is, and it must be suppressed no longer-we have been hired to abet oppression, to be the tool of tyrants-to look on coolly, while ten millions of our brethren have been stripped of every right, and woRSE THAN MURDERED."-First Annual Report.

"The man who seizes another in New York, and drags him into bondage, (alluding to the legal arrest of a fugitive slave, under the constitution of the United States) whatever laws he may have in his favour, is to be REGARDED AS A ROBBER AND PIRATE!"-Ibid.

"Slave-holding IS PIRACY, equally atrocious with slave-trading; and if there is any difference in criminality, slave-holding IS THE WORST OF THE TWO!" -Speech of Mr. Phelps.

"The slave-states are SODOMs, and almost every village family is a brothel."-Speech of Mr. Thorne. But why should we multiply quotations? Suffice