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Show ' ,.. (-· ~-- ·.~~ ' '• "' -' ~ '"~~~ ... - .l ,. . ~r-:, ') ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 184J5, by JoHN H. EASTBURN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of l\lassachusetts. SLAVERY. CHAPTER !. TuE Reverend Dr. Channing has recently been designated in the London Quarterly Review as one of the only "two living classics" in the United States; and our own Nonh American, in anticipation or in echo of its European contemporary, has t·epeated this title of respect. This is but the exaggerated expression of that proud rank which he unquestionably holds in the opinion of the literary world. A philosopher, a scholar, a casuist,- at the head of the Unitarian clergy, and connected by numberless associations with the literature, the opinions, and the character of his countrymen,- he can write nothing that will not can y with it a portion of his own personal fame ; he can maintain no doctrine that will not derive force from the authority or his reputation ; he can advunre no opinion on the controverted questions of the day, which will not be recei1•ed, at home and abroad, as the general sent iment of the community,- or if at first it should be taken for one of those novelties that some· times startle us by their boldness, it is yet known to fall in the teeming soil of popular admiration, from whence it springs again with exuberant fecundity. The book which he has recently published, on the exciting subject of S lavery, is the popular wonder of the day. \<Vrit· ten with a fervor which bears the evidence of sincerity, with a glow of benevolence that captivates the affections, and a spirit of piety as earnest- though it may be as mistakenas the zeal of the crusaders, it is still made more captivating by "the elegance, correctness, purity, power, and point, in |