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Show THE MONTHLY OFFERING. JULY, 1 8 4 0. OUR OBJECT. WE have often been strongly impressed with the importan~ and mJces•ity of a cheap Anti-Slavery periodical which coulcl be afforded so low that every one might procure it, who had a desire to become acquainted with the nature and influpnce of slavery, and the means employed for its removal. 'fhe great body of the people of the free states are, nnd ever have been, in feeling and sympathy, abolitionists. The absence of all opposition to, and the great inter~st manifest· ed by them for the colonization ~cheme, during the time it was held up before them as competent to remove slavery from the land, is conclusive evidence of the truth of this proposition. If the same influences which were enlisted for colonization, could be marshalled in favor of immediate and unconditional emancipation, the slavery sustained by the General Government of the United States, the very life·gnard of the whole system, would at once be hewn down, leaving the confused ranks of slavery in the several states, unprotected by this great ally, an easy prey to theall- suhduing influence of moral principle. The reason, then, why our cause has been treated with so much oppo-- |