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Show 74 THE MONTHLY OFFERING. being so decidedly opposed to slavery? Why have almost the entire population of this slavery-hatinrr city pitted themselves against the friends of the slave, and~trove,by the most bitter and relentless persecution to crush the free spirit of abolition within their borders 1 '\Vhy is it that churches have been closed, and notices of anti-slavery meetings suppressed, and abolitionists excluded from pulpits where the southern rolber and man·stealer is welcomed with the most fraternal embrace 1 Why was it that the noble philanthropist, George Thompson, was hunted like a wild beast of the forest, ostensibly because he was a foreigner interfering with our domestic institutions, while foreigners are permited to write and speak in favor of the patriarch· chal institution without let or hindrance 1 'Why was it, that when the Marlborough Chapel was dedicated, the Mayor was obliged to put in requisition the military force of the city to prevent a mob from destroying it, on the ground that it was to be " dedicated to abolition ? " Are all these, and much more which might be named, indica· tions of hostility to slavery? If the North is opposed to this system, why was our devoted and beloved brother Lovejoy shot down in the streets of Alton for his advocacy of freedom? Why is it that this deed which, if not like that of the witches in Macbeth, ab· solutely "without a name," it would still be difficult to class with the ordinary crimes of mistaken patriotism or deliberate villainy, why is it that this deed has been suffer· ed to go unpunished and the perpetrators walk unmolested through the community, boasting their agency in the abom· inable outrage? Why is it that the only building erected for the purpose of free discussion upon all the great questions connected with human welfare in a population of fifteen millions of professed disciples of freedom, and which was dedicated to "virtue, liberty and independence" was burnt to the ground within three days from its completion by a mob composed of thousands of the citizens of Philadelphia! Why has this item been added to the nation's guilt 1 Why has this addition been made to the dark catalogue of crime THE NORTH OPPOSED TO SLAVERY. 75 and oppression with which she stands charged before the God of the universe 1 Why is it that the spirit of violence has rolled like a flood over the land,destroying the property, deranging the business and endangering the lives of those who are endertvoring to mal<e a practical appl ication of the great truths contained in the Declaration of Indpendence? Why have both church and state basely bowed the knee to the dark spirit of slavery'! \Vhy even now are the two gr~at poltl!cal parties of t~e day vieing with each other in domg her homage and trampling upon the riohts of man? Why is all this if the people of the so called fr~e States are opposed to $lavery, as Hubbard Winslow and a multitude of others say they are 1 Will any one say that this is all evidence of anti-slavery feeling and that such a course has been rendered necessary in order to prevent the abolitionists, by their wild and fanatical course, from "riveting the fetters upon the slave " and placing " th~ day of his emancipation in the more di~tant and uncertam future 1" If this is the true state of the case it was probably for the same reason that the Post Office was robbed at Charlestown, and Amos Dresser was lync.hed at N.ashvtlle, and Aaron Kitchell and John Hopperm ,Georgta, and 7ven brother Lovejoy murdered in Alto~. The same rnottve too doubtless induced Calhoun to stnve to prevent the transmission of A. S . publications thro.ugh the mail, and Preston to declare that if an abolitwmst entered South Carolina, he would be hung in spite of al~ the governments in the world ! The same philanthro~ tc feelmgs have also caused the Priests and Levites the ltte.rary an~ th~ological seminaries to oppose with such :urprtsm~ pertmactty and bitterness the mad schemes of ~hefanattcs, and to defend slavery from the word of God. he sam~ love of freedom beat in Webster's breast when ~old htmself and his party to slavery at Alexandria and chon rmed the sale still more recently at Richmond.' and t us damned h · lf t · · . ' 1 lmse o an 1mmortahty of mfamy second 0h Yh to that of him who betrayed the " Son of M~n" into 1 e ands of hts murderers for thirty pieces of silver. For / |