And when this loathsome leprosy shall cling only to the republicans of our Southern and Western States, in what light will they, must they, be regarded by the rest of the human race? This is an age in which public opinion has snatched the sceptre from kings and senates, and reigns an imperious and absolute despot. She may indeed be influenced, but not resisted. She called for the abolition of the African slave trade, and the traffickers in human flesh, for centuries encouraged and protected by law, became a proscribed race. She is now calling for the freedom of the slave, and his shackles are falling from him. Emancipation will soon become the common cause of Christendom, as the abolition of the slave trade was a few years since.

In 1822 the House of Representatives requested the President to enter into negotiations with the several maritime powers, for the effectual suppression of the slave trade and its ultimate denunciation as piracy, and negotiations were accordingly opened on this subject with Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Russia, France, Netherlands, Buenos Ayres, and Colombia.

In 1821 Portugal persisting in the traffic, the British House of Commons called upon the king to endeavour by negotiation, to prevail on the powers of Europe to exclude from their ports the produce of the Portuguese colonies. Portugal yielded, and the trade has been renounced by every Christian nation in Europe and America. And may not the same, or similar means, be adopted by other nations to put an end to American slavery? It is by no means improbable, that before many years elapse, laws will be passed, and treaties made, for excluding the products of slave labour from Europe*.

So long ago as 1806, Mr. Windham, in the House of Commons, "did not hesitate to say, that when the proper time arrived, and the consent of other powers could be obtained for its abolition, slavery ought not to be suffered to exist among the institutions of any civilized State."

The Emperor of Austria has issued a decree, declaring

* A statement has recently been laid before the British Parliament, of the amount of such produce of American slave labour imported into Great Britain, as enters into competition with the productions of the West-Indies.

-"Every man, by the right of nature, sanctioned by reason, must be considered a free person. Every slave becomes free from the moment he touches the Austrian soil, or an Austrian ship."

The Edinburgh Review insists, that "the existence of slavery in America is an atrocious crime, with which no means can be kept."

Mr. Buckingham, member of Parliament, lately asserted at a public meeting :

"The greater proportion of the people of England demand not merely emancipation, but the immediate emancipation of the slaves, in whatever quarter of the world they may be found."

Daniel O'Connell, shortly before the abolition of slavery in the British dominions, declared in public:

"The West-Indies will be obliged to grant emancipation, and then we will turn to America, and to every part of Europe, and require emancipation.'

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A Society has just been formed in England, entitled, "The British and Foreign Society for the Universal Abolition of Negro Slavery and the Slave-trade."

Our pride may revolt at the idea of foreign interference, but it will be the interference not of force, but of public opinion, against which our fleets and armies will be of no avail.

We cannot compel other countries to buy our cotton and sugar; or to admit our citizens from the South, when they visit Europe, to the usual courtesies of social intercourse. "When an American comes into society," said Daniel O'Connell, in a numerous assembly, “he will be asked, 'Are you one of the thieves, or are you an honest man? If you are an honest man, then you have given liberty to your slaves; if you are among the thieves, the sooner you take the outside of the house the better.'

The very coarseness of this invective, in the mouth of the great agitator, indicates the temper of the British populace on this subject; a temper which, fostered as it is by the progress of liberal principles, will, in time, become the temper of all Europe; and, indeed, of all the world. While the slave holders are suffering, without sympathy and without redress, from the harassing influence

of

this temper, their slaves will be multiplying with a fearful rapidity, and becoming each day more conscious of their own strength; and unless their fetters are loosened, they will inevitably be BURST.

Our Southern brethren are the masters of their own destiny may a gracious God lead them to know the things which belong to their peace, before they be for ever hidden from their eyes.

THE END.

London: Printed by W. CLOWES and SONS, 14, Charing Cross.

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