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Show 76 TRE MONTHLY OFFERING, the same purpose too, "arch Van Buren" aroused his determination to veto any bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, to which avowal the peo ple by electing him to office said Amen! The same love for suffering humanity was in the General Conference of the Methodist Church at its last session in Baltimore in refusing to permit colorer! testimony against white persons, and in the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church when it called on its Presbyteries to receive their anti-slavery acts. But a truce with this irony. I ask once more seriOU$· ly, how it happens, if, as represented, the majority of the people of this ; country are opposed to slavery, (and the North has always been a majority) that seven thousand slaves are still pining in bondage in tha District of Columbia, and thousands more in Florida; and how does it happen that less than 250,000 slave owners are able ts keep three millions of human beings in slavery if all the rest of the nation are "as much opposed to slavery as any body!" I pause for a reply. I conclude by saying as I commenced that the person who, in the face of all the facts to the contrary which are scattered so thickly and broadly over our countr'y history during the half century of its existence, will still maintain that the North has always been and is still truly hostile to the foul system of slaveiy, shows himself to be either strongly deceived or most wretchedly depraved. N.H. W. - The American and the French Statesman. The !!Teat statesman of New England, as he is called, Daniel Webster, in the sincerity of his belief that a single crumb is better than no bread, has outraged the great principles of liberty on which our country's prosperity and existence rests, in order to afford the South a guarantee for the continuance of slavery. The great French s~at~sman, the Due de Broglie, is the president of a commissiOn PETITIONING. 77 for effecting the aLolition of slavery in the Erench Colonies. "This" says the Revue des deux Mondes,-a French periodical, "is a work great and complicated enough to claim the first a~tention of a statesman, even his who has so firmly held the reins of government in the most difficult times. In recompense for the rarest of all self-denialthat of ambition, it is reserved to M. LE Due DE BROGLIE to attach his name to the last serious act that libe1·ty has to do in FTance to accomplish Iter legal woTk." The proposisition of a law of emancipation mny probably terminate the session of 18<11, and open the session of 1849. M. W. C. Petitions. It will doubtless suggest itself to the monthly collectors to combine other labors with that of collecting. Petitiening is tl~e next work to be done. Forms are ready for d1stnbutwn at the rooms of the !\1assachu setts AntiSlavery Society, 25 Corn hill. We would exhort you not to be easily discoura<>ed in the task ?f obtm.nin(i signatures. If you find igno~ance, try to enhghten 11; 1f you find scruples try to remove them · if you. find i.ndifference, try to arouse' sympathy. One of our fr~ends m Boston declared that two-thirds of the signatu: es tn her ward, were obtained after a battle of argument fa1r!y fought and ':'on. This answers a three-fold purpose. Y ~u ~ot only 15am the person's name, but you excite inquu~ m her m~nd, and ~he will excite it in others; thus the httle cucle 1mpercep!Jbly Widens, until it may embrace a whole town. . Do not . t~ke it for granted, that any one will refuse to 81~~ a pe!Jtwn because he or she has hitherto opposed u~. VIsit every house, ask every individual. Annually renew you{ appeals, Make them uncomfortable in their sinful ~g: I~ence, by giving repeated opportunities to decline 1 eu uty: Then, when they read or hear any stories of ~~t suffermg slaves, it will not be your fault if their con-ences do not say, You have not even asked that young |