interest but general humanity, prompted the legislation which forever shut down the hatchway on that bloody trade. Humanity now cries aloud-she goes in our streets—she weeps and howls on our highways-she knocks at the door of public feeling till her locks are wet with the cold dews of night-she goes across the ocean-she pleads not in vain for friends to fly to the rescue--she, through England, has sent back her indignant voice like the sound of many waters, to fall on the guilty slaveholder's ear in America. Motives and reasons for abolishing the slave trade between the States are greater, as far as the question of humanity is concerned, than in the old slave trade. No doubt there are twice as many groans, sighs and agonies felt, suffered and endured from the American slave trade among the States, as were felt by the slaves brought from Africa to the United States in any one year, between 1789 and 1808. Yes, two persons, at least, suffer the horrors of migration from one State to another, where one suffered by importation, from the coasts of Africa to the United States. The word "migration" employed in the first clause of the ninth section of the first article, is significant indeed, and means nothing more nor less than going from one State to another, not from one part of a State to another; not coming from a foreign country beyond sea, that would be met by the other word "importation" which the abolition of the African slave trade undertook to prevent, in the six statutes passed for its abolition. CONCLUSION. It is firmly believed, that, were a rigorous law passed by Congress, forbidding the internal slave trade between the States, it would be equivalent to the manumission on the soil of two-thirds of the slaves in the United States in less than ten years. It is therefore earnestly desired, that every anti-slavery society, or individual who may petition Congress on the subject, may make the annihilation of the domestic, or internal slave trade between the States, a point of the most prominent importance, and pray for its entire ABOLITION. EXTRACTS. SLAVERY ARRAIGNED. THE slave still groans, humanity weeps, the helpless yet implore. We are in the midst of the greatest moral battle ever fought by Mercy, pleading against intelligent and vigilant villainy. The Abolitionists are the organ of national compassion, and are making up the dreadful issue between criminality enthroned upon laws, and justice beleagured by the myrmidons of robbery. We have arraigned the greatest criminal ever summoned to the bar of Divine and human reason, the triers of whom are the good and the just of this and all ages, and the verdict is written and pronounced by the Saviour of the world, who is the Foreman of this grand inquest, and brings in the verdict of guilty, while the Universe cries, "Amen." It has been the undertaking of AntiSlavery men, for many years past, to make the men of this generation understand and believe that such is the rendered verdict of Divine as well as human wisdom. One half of this besotted nation denied the existence of such a verdict, while a vast portion of the other half folded their arms, and said, "If there was such a verdict, the criminal had the power to nullify it; and if the criminal saw fit to call the verdict of 'guilty' an acquital, by a law of his own, why that made it so!" REFORMERS MALIGNED. We, perhaps, have encountered more obstacles than have often been presented to a band of Reformers. The political power of the country having been claimed and wielded by two great parties, nearly balanced, we might have reasoned, in ordinary cases, that if one party persecuted us, the other would have protected us; but, no, the party to which we might flee, felt that it had more to lose, in the estimation of slaveholders, than they could gain by our votes, and each party run a race, to the top of their speed, against us, and the one which could shout our condemnation the loudest was supposed to be nearest the goal of its ambition. In fact, the weight of our vote was nothing, as compared with the disgrace of our alliance. Both parties scouted us; the mobs howled around our conventions, and pursued us to our homes; the churches, in their aggregate capacity, refused to acknowledge that we had found truth; but all parties, religious or political, in power or out, the women-whippers, the man owners, and their apologists, the mobs, the Pharisee and Saducee, the sinner and publican, the drunkard and debauchee, formed one grand line, standing shoulder to shoulder, deriding our arguments, jeering at our philanthropy, traducing the slave, mocking his sorrow, defaming truth and libelling Omnipotence, until the civilized world was shocked by the impurity of our sentiments, and the violence of our actions. LIBERTY'S IMPERIAL GUARD. Good men will be willing to spend and be spent, and work in our conventions, prepare resolutions, advocate them, write tracts and scatter them, notify meetings and attend them, print votes and distribute them, give money and time, and stand up for the slave on the bridge or in the boat, in the car or the stage, in the pulpit or the press, at the fireside or the ballot box. These men will carry your reformation through; they will not lead you in sight of the promised land, and at last advise you that the Constitution is in the way, and that you had better go back into Egypt and acknowledge Pharaoh's jurisdiction, and go to making bricks, raising onions, and weeding garlics; nor would they advise you to die in the wilderness for fear of those huge Anakims, and for the sake of saving the expense of a graveyard. DOUGH-FACES. We shall conquer; we shall perform the mighty work. The world is coming to our side. Let those who are discouraged be sent home on an everlasting furlough to the Whigs and Democrats, and there let them live and die, contemplating the beautiful mysteries of cowardice, and the essential attributes of the meanest position ever occupied by man. SYCOPHANCY INVADES THE COLLEGE. The professor in our northern college respectfully approaches the young heir of a hundred negroes, and with his hat under his arm, and humble genuflections, timidly inquires, when it will be convenient for him to receive an idea ? THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE. We slept at Manchester, and passed over the Green. Mountains near this place, through one of those notches the Great Creator left for a passage of his creatures from one side to the other. It would be strange if Vermont, the rocks of whose eternal mountains are yet red with the blood of the war of independence, the war for human rights, should have been found throwing her weight into the slaveholders' scale, from expediency, fear of new measures, ultraism, or any other ghost, kept in the pay of the devil, to scare men out of their duty. But it is not so. Vermont will do her duty in the great struggle between slavery and liberty. DESERTION FROM THE RANKS. I will not accuse Mr. J of having deserted the glorious |