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JAMES WATSON WEBB.

No man not blind to future consequences, to all former examples, and to all the lessons of past experience, can hesitate a moment in foreseeing that the triumph of the abolitionists is a thousand times more likely to be consummated by the extermination of the masters, their wives and their children, than by the freedom and consequent happiness of the slaves.

As the enemies then of social order, of the rights of property, of the lives of hundreds of thousands of our brethren of the race of white men, their wives and their children, and as the vilifiers and sappers of our social institutions, Laws and Constitution, we say therefore, that the preachers, and expounders of such doctrines, are justly amenable to the laws of the land, as common and notorious disturbers of the public peace, enemies to the rights of property, and traitors to the country. We ground this assertion, not on any particular statute, but on that great and universal principle of the common law of nature, which recognizes, not only the right but the duty of every human being, and every human society to protect their property, their rights, and their lives.

Here are a set of fanatical railers, half foreign, half zealots, half hypocrite, railing and raving against the constitution, the laws, and the social institutions of the land, and denouncing them as directly at war with the rights of nature and the laws of God, of which they impiously and insolently pretend to be the sole interpreters, Careless of consequences, or what is more likely, eagerly anticipating the result of their labors, in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of their brethren, and the second act of the bloody drama of St. Domingo; despising the lessons of the past, the auguries of the future, and foaming at the mouth with the hydrophobia of fanaticism, they rush madly from city to city, calling on the people of the north to become their accomplices in the ruin, and extermination of their brothers of the south, and proclaiming with all the fury of the inspiration of darkness, a crusade against their own kindred, color and blood. And this they call philanthropy; this they blasphemously denominate a compliance with the scriptures, and the will of the great Being by whom their writers were inspired.-N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.

HENRY A. WISE.

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"Let Texas once proclaim a crusade against the rich States to the south of her, and in a moment, volunteers would flock to her standard in crowds, from all the States in the great valley of the Missis sippi-men of enterprise and valor before whom no Mexican troops could stand for an hour. They would leave their own towns, arm themselves, and travel ou their own cost, and would come up in thousands, to plant the lone star of the Texan banner, on the Mexi can capitol. They would drive Santa to the South, and the boundless wealth of captured towns, and rifled churches, and a lazy, vicious and luxurious priesthood, would soon enable Texas to pay her soldiery, and redeem her State debt, and push her victorious arms to the very shores of the Pacific. And would not all this extend the bounds of slavery? Yes, the result would be, that before another quarter of a century, the extension of slavery would not stop short of the Western Ocean. We had but two alternatives before us; either to receive Texas into our fraternity of States, and thus make her our own, or to leave her to conquer Mexico, and become our most dangerous and formidable rival.

"To talk of restraining the people of the great Valley from emigrating to join her armies, was all in vain; and it was equally vain to calculate on their defeat by any Mexican forces, aided by England or not. They had gone once already; it was they that conquered Santa Anna, at San Jacinto; and three fourths of them, after winning that glorious field, had peaceably returned to their homes. But once set before them the conquest of the rich Mexican provinces, and you might as well attempt to stop the wind. This Gov. ernment might send its troops to the frontier, to turn them back, and they would run over them like a herd of buffalo.

"Nothing could keep these booted loafers from rushing on, till they kicked the Spanish priests out of the temples they profaned."Speech in Congress, April, 1842.

ANTI-SLAVERY PERIODICALS IN THE U. S. Aug. 1, 1843.

NEW ENGLAND.

LIBERATOR, 25 Cornhill, Boston, W. Lloyd Garrison ed❜r. $2,50 EMANCIPATOR AND FREE AMERICAN, 32 Washington st. Boston, Joshua Leavitt.

TRUE WESLEYAN, Boston, O. Scott, J. Horton and L. Lee. CHRISTIAN REFLECTOR, do H. A. Graves.

ESSEX TRANSCRIPT, Salisbury, Mass. G. J. L. Colby.

CHRISTIAN FREEMAN, Hartford, Conn. 7 Asylum-st. W. H. Burleigh.

VERMONT TELEGRAPH, Brandon, Orson S. Murray.

VERMONT FREEMAN, Norwich, Vt. J. E. Hood.

HERALD OF FREEDOM, Con. N. H. Main-st. N. P. Rogers. PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE, Concord, N. H., A. St. Clair.

LIBERTY STANDARD, Hallowell, Maine, Joseph C. Lovejoy. BANGOR GAZETTE, Maine, John E. Godfrey.

NEW-YORK

NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD, 143 Nassau-st.
David L. Child.

NEW-YORK EVANGELIST, 113 Fulton-st. N. E. Johnson &
Wm. Bradford, $2.50.

ANTI-SLAVERY REPORTER, American and Foreign A. S. Society, N. Y., S. W. Benedict, printer, monthly, $1.

ALBANY PATRIOT, 6 Exchange-st. Albany, Charles T. Torrey,

CHRISTIAN INVESTIGATOR, Honeoye, On. W. Goodell, monthly, 50 cts.

LIBERTY PRESS, Utica, J. C. Jackson & W. Bailey.

PENNSYLVANIA.

PENNSYLVANIA FREEMAN, 31 N. Fifth-st. Philadelphia, J. M. McKim, monthly, 50 cents.

SPIRIT OF LIBERTY, Pittsburgh, Penn. Edward Smith.

WESTERN STATES.

PHILANTHROPIST, Main -st. Cincinnati, Ohio, Gamaliel Bailey. OBERLIN EVANGELIST, Oberlin.

do.

AURORA, New-Lisbon, Ohio, John Frost, $1.

SIGNAL OF LIBERTY, Ann-Harbor, Michigan, Guy Beckley. WESTERN CITIZEN, Chicago, Illinois, $2.50.

FREE LABOR ADVOCATE, New- Garden, Indiana, H. H. Way and B. Stanton, $1.50.

NONE.

THIRTEEN SOUTHERN STATES.

[All the above are published weekly at $2 per annum except when otherwise specified.

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