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of the wilderness, or loneliness of the ocean; and the abstract time must mean some portion of the past or future, as it is never the present.

The liberty of an abolition press is to be silent; the liberty of conscience for an abolitionist is to think to himself; or else to think like his slaveryloving neighbour, or stop thinking.

The threat of dissolving the union is the universal medicine for every political difficulty at the south. One day Georgia threatens the dissolution, on account of her Indian territory, gold mines, and state jurisdiction, and the missionaries; then again the poor union was to be dissolved by the postoffice robbing state of South Carolina, to vindicate the beauties of nullification.

Then again, this union was to have been dissolved in 1828, 1830, 1831, 1832. At four distinct periods within a short space, because the tariff laws were not made to suit certain slave states; but the noble union held together, we did not hear of a single rafter or brace flinching, in 1835. The union is to be again dissolved and charged in account current to abolition. The joke of it all is, that nothern men professed to be frightened to death every time a negro-driver cries "dissolve the union,-dissolve the union." As well might a man who lived in a powder-house, every time he became angry call for firebrands?

Let southern men dissolve this union if they dare; slavery would then take care of itself, and its masters too, in one little month both would become extinct. No! oh! deceived northern man,

the southern man will be the last to dissolve this union, by it he expects to enjoy his slaves, without it he cannot one day. But the wily politician of the south has discovered the ghost that never fails to frighten the north, and the north has been kept in a political sweat for the last ten or twelve years, for fear the men, who could not exist as slave-holders without this union, would dissolve it.

It seems dissolution is threatened by the south, unless thirteen free states disfigure and disgrace their statute books with bloody laws to protect slavery, forbidding abolitionists to speak, write, or publish any thing against slavery, or petition for its abolition in the District of Columbia, under heavy penalties; the despotism of which laws would so far exceed any in Russia or Turkey, that Nicholas, and the Grand Seignor, would recoil with instinctive abhorrence, from so foul an insult to our common humanity. So it is not enough that eleven states must bend their backs under the shameful load of slavery, with statute books blushing for the wrongs done by man to man, which all the unfathomed waters of the great deep could not wash away; but the tongues of northern men, on the subject of slavery, must cleave to the roofs of their mouths, and the inditing hand be palsied in giving the world a history of the negroe's woes. MY COUNTRYMEN, YE SONS OF THE

PILGRIMS, THE TYRANT IS AT YOUR DOORS, LIBERTY

IS BLEEDING, LIBERTY IS DYING, slavery has robbed you of the liberty of discussion, of conscience, and the press. Armed mobs are to do the work of the slave-holder, till the legislature obeys his mandate

Then read from your own statute book your doom; your are a slave without his privilege! Had the six hundred delegates, freemen, now before me, been deterred from meeting this day, from fear, IT

WOULD HAVE BEEN WORSE THAN IN VAIN, THAT A WARREN FELL, A MONTGOMERY BLED, AND A LAW

RENCE EXPIRED.

You, for this moment, are the representatives of American liberty, if you are driven from this sacred temple dedicated to God, by an infuriated mob, then my brethren, wherever you go, liberty will go, where you abide liberty will abide, when you are speechless, LIBERTY IS DEAD.'

No. X.

The following individuals residing in the City of Utica, are referred to as witnesses of the doings in that city previous to and on the 21st October, most of them were eyewitnesses of the outrage at the Bleeker-street church; one or two of them the author is informed were absent on that day.

J. A. Spencer, Esq,
John Bradish, Esq.
Samuel P. Lyman,
Hon. James Dean,
Sylvanus Holmes,
John H. Edmonds, Esq.
P.H. Hurlbert,
Dr. J. P. Batchelder,

Dr. Rathbun,

Dolphus Bennet,

Bradford Seymour,

E. M. Gilbert,
James M'Gregor,
H. Bushnell,
Andrew Hanna,
Amos S. West,
David Owens,
B. F. Farwell,
D. E. Stilwell,
B. S. Merrill,

Edward Norris,

Eli Manchester,

The fact, that they were driven from the place where they were then assembled, with all the circumstances attending that unparalled outrage, have already appeared.

Geo. Tracy, Gardiner Tracy, James Knox, Esq. T. F. Tracy, Wm. B. Clark, John C. Hastings, John Wells, Apollos Cooper, Alfred Hitchcock, William Stacy, Edward Bright, J. H. Richmond, Edward Curran, John S. Peckham, Thomas Sidebotham, John Fish, Zenas Wright,

Alexander Cameron, Wm. T. Meeker,

Quartus Graves,

Anson Thomas,

Curtiss Holgate,

Abijah Thomas,
Lewis Lawrence,
Alvan Stewart, Esq.

Spencer Kellogg,
Jacob Snyder,

James C. Delong,

Rev. Oliver Wetmore,
Samuel Lightbody,

George Lawson,
Geo. D. Foster,
Francis Wright,
Morris Wilcox,
Palmer V. Kellogg,
Orren Clark,
Rev. Amos Savage,
John B. Shaw,
Frederick Southworth,
Shubael Storrs,

S. H. Addington,

J. T. Lyman, Esq.
S. M. Perrine,
Wm. C. Rodgers,
Wm. G. Miller,
Thomas Stevenson,
Wm. Sowers,
Henry D. Tucker,
Edward Herrick,

Thomas James,

S. Bayley,

Thomas Powell,

Lucius Lawrence, Rev. James Griffeth, John S. Bailey, Thomas Thomas,

Daniel Thomas,

Job Parker,

Thomas Roundey,

Abijah Mosher,

James C. Gilbert,

Ezekiel Clark,
Henry S. Cole,
Rev. Abijah Crane,
W. D. Hamblin,
Henry Nash,
Asaph Seymour,
Elisha Cadwell,
Noah White,
Wells M. Gaylord,
James Sayre,
Levi Kellogg,
Phillip Thurber,
J. E. Warner,
Briggs W. Thomas,
John Thomas,
J. D. Corey,
Geo. Smith,
W. F. Gould,
J. Martin,

Amaziah Hotchkiss,
John S. Lattimore,

Geo. L. Dickinson,

John P. Guest,

John F. Temple,
Erastus Barnes,
Jacob Vanderhuyden,
Orrin Kendall,
Josiah J. Ward,
Alfred Wells,
Ira Thurber,
Oliver V. Worden,
L. P. Rising,
Thomas M. Martyn,
James Clark,

E. R. Beadle,
L. S. Kellogg,
Henry Newland,
Richard C. Thomas,
Robert Debnam,
David Lynes,
E. P. Marshall,
David Ladd,
E. P. Curry,
Samuel Thorn,
Palmer Townsend,
William Whiteley,
George Brayton,
Thomas Davis,
I. P. Van Sice,
6. M. Beckwith,
Stephen N. Bushnell,
George Walker,
E. P. Clark,

Wm. H. Gray,
Theodore Monroe,
Nelson Fleetwood,
Henry Putman,

Dr. Joseph P. Newland,
Mr. Arnold,
Barnes,

William Parker,
Nathan Christian,

J. W. Doolittle, Abram Clemmer, D. H. Hastings, John Moffit, Edward Vernon, Alerick Hubbell, Bradford S. Merrill, C. Burnett, Robert Roberts, John Lloyd,

Isaac Merrill,

Wm. G. Miller,
A. Mosher,

Chester Scofield,

William Clark, Proprietor

of Temperance Hotel, Henry Johnson, Esq. William Williams,

E. Carrington,
William Osborn,
Charles Border,
J. G. Rittie,
Jacob D. Edwards,
C. Field, Esq.
Orrin Marshall,
A. V. H. Webb,
J. C. Shippy,
S. G. Giles,
M. S. Bailey,
W. D. Hamlin,
W. Kimball,
Silas Hawes,
John Bailey,
S. Aylesworth,
Charles Doolittle,
William N. Dobson,
William M. Davis,
Maj. William Gere,
Stephen Mather,
David E. Morris,

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