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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1841

SPIRIT of the- PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—The Tories, smarting under their failure
to carry the Boroughs of England by storm, of bribery, and
intimidation, have resolved on a coup de main in Middlesex.
We forewarn the independent electors of that county that a
plot is hatching against the " Father of the House of
Commons," the venerable and consistent Liberal, George
Byng. This veteran Reformer, for upwards of half a cen-
tury the honest and consistent representative of two genera..
tions of the Middlesex constituency, is to be opposed. A secret
meeting of Conservatives yesterday concocted the plan. A co-
vert canvass has already commenced, and a fox-hunting squire
is the probable Tory nominee. We have reason to believe
that Reynard will be turned out of the bag to-morrow
(Sunday.) We rejoice, however, to hear tbsp he will have an
instant and sharp run. A second candida• ,in the Liberal
interest, will follow him without delay. We anticipate, there-
fore, the return of two Reformers for Middlesex, and we urge the
local ccmmittees immediately to re• organise their forces. We also
warn the Constituencies of every English and Welch county, re-
taining a Lii,erai candidate, to be on their guard, and prepared
for opposition. The Tories do not rely on any gain in Scotland
or Ireland ; and thus grievously disappointed in the boroughs
of England, they are cLmspiring to make up their numbers
in the counties. We, t,"crefore, earnestly advise the Li-
berals in the country to organise opposition, whatever
their chances, wherever opposit,on is practicable. bet the
Tories at least be made to pay for their " rotten coun-
ties." We point to the noble struJgle now pending in
South Derbyshire, where Mr. M. Gisbene is opposing Col-
ville and Munday. We may run the Tories 0i.71: of many seats.
A whistle may be bought too dear, and we know that several
Conservatives will not face a contest. The Liberal gains in
Bath, in Nottingham, Lewes, Hereford, Gloucester, Stockport,
Preston, Walsall., Greenwich, Marylebone, Stoke, Brighton,
Bolton, and South Shields—have sorely disappointed the Tors.'
calculations. The Times and Standard pompously put for-
ward their gains among venal freemen and bought watermen
of the city of London ; but Mr. Walter's retreat from Moscow
(Nottingham)—the great triumph ever Gladstone Brothers in
Walsall, and all other sickening losses of the Tories, are care-
fully left without comment. We repeat, that the ingenuous
members of the Conservative clubs do not conceal their chagrin
at their small success in the boroughs ; and an ex. Chancellor
and his ally, a welLknown Qe,cketeeig.fieviewer, openly express
their opinion that a "working majority" for Sir Robert Peel is
now not to be expected.
TIMES.—Such a powerful and noble spirit now reigns
throughout the land, that nothing but the grossest neglect or
mismanagement of those entrusted with the details of our
election interests can disappoint the expectations of honourable
men, or leave the assailants of our constitutional monarchy a
shadow of criminal hope to rest upon. The great cause of
Conservatism, supported as it is by all that is upright and intel-
ligent•in the nation, proceeds triumphantly to its destined goal
—the command of official power throughout the empire. Its
course, as we have said, can be checked no otherwise than by
errors of commission or omission in its appointed servants. If
the means at their disposal be not put forth with energy,
and directed with skill and vigilance, they are guilty of
a crime amounting to no less than treason against the public
weal—a crime of which an entire century may not repsir the
consequences. Greatly and successfully as has the Conserva-
tive battle during this election been fought, in many places
where the promise of victory was least flattering, it must, per-
haps, be also admitted that where materials most abound they
have not been employed or sought for with corresponding vi-
gour. Wherever a strong Conservative impulse exists, it is the
duty of those who undertake the guardianship of the cause to
turn that right sentiment to immediate profit. Wherever men
fitted for Parliamentary duty are to be found, it is the busi-
ness of those who constitute themselves managers of the
constitutional interest to summon such gentlemen into
action, and in the name of their country to clothe
them with the rights, obligations, and responsible character
and elevated rank of representatives of a people struggling not
for mere prosperity, but for moral and political existence. We
have hinted that more might have been done ere now for the
metropolitan county of Middlesex than at present seems likely
to be realised. We are sure that for the great and important
district of West Surrey twice as much might be still accom-
plished as has yet, at least publicly, been proposed. Why
should the excellent gentleman who has hitherto represented
the Conservative electors of that all but metropolitan district,
Mr. Trotter, be left any longer unaided in his arduous office by
a colleague of like principles to his own ?
ADVERTISER.—So far as the elections have yet pro-
gressed the Tories have undoubtedly gained the advantage
of a few seats, a circumstance well calculated to excite as-
tonishment, considering the nature of the questions upon which
the country has been appealed to for its decision. Stripped
of the complications of financial theories and the meshes
of special pleading, the great question now at is-
sue is whether it be more advantageous to a country
drawing the whole elements of its existence from manu-
facturing industry and commercial enterprise, to have food
and the necessaries of life from &cheap or from a dear market?
To facilitate the accomplishment of all things necessary or de-
sirable to the existence or enjoyment of man is the great end
of an elightened civilization. fie who devises means for pro-
ducing two blades of grass where but one had previously grown,
has been truly designated as a benefactor of his species. This
aphorism, however, has been reversed by the monopolist ; and
those who now claim the suffrages of the British constituencies
in opposition to the proposed modification of the prohibitory
duties, base their pretensions to popular favour on the mon-
strous iniquity of allowing the people to have but one leaf, where
otherwise they might have two ; and to the disgrace of
the English constituencies these pretensions have received
confirmation in the majority of elections which have
as yet taken place. Yes ; notwithstanding the notorious fact
of the ruinous fluctuations caused by the prohibitory duties in
the corn trade, whereby one day the market is forced to its
maximum standard, whereat foreign corn may be admitted at
the lowest duty of one shilliitg, which is insignificant as a
matter of revenue, and the neat day the market is glutted, so
as to prevent the native grower from obtaining a fair price for
his produce, and even the landlord derives only a limited ad-
vantage compared with the evil inflicted on the rest of the
community; notwithstanding all this sacrifice of general to
class interests, to the eternal shame of the borough constitu-
encies of England, a majority has declared in favour of the
faction who resist the reduction of imposts so pernicious in their
operation, and so unproductive to the revenue.
HERALD.—We see, with great pain, that the Conservative
cause loses in Mr. Freshfield, who is defeated at Chipping Wy_
combe, one of the most upright, intelligent, and useful of its
advocates ; a gentleman whose rare felicity it has been to pre-
serve during a long Parliamentary career the respect and at-
tention of both parties. We fully appreciated, in his last ad-
dress of thanks to his former constituents of Penryn and Fal-
mouth, the high feeling which induced him to decline the
offers of support tendered to him by the latter of these boroughs,
lest his acceptance of them should seem to compromise the
disinterested and public-spirited efforts he had previously made
in its favour, with a view to retain its pre-eminence as a packet
station. But we thought, and still think, that he carried this
principle too far. The result of his appeal to the constituency
of Wycombe confirms our exception to the step we speak of;
and the prejudice which his party sustains by his defeat still
further corroborates it. He is a person, however, who
must soon, again, recruit the ranks in which his services
were always so constitutional and effective. But if Mr. Fresh-
field have erred a little on the score of a refined feeling of
delicacy and good taste, the public will be at no logs to find a
compensating principle of thorough-paced, unflinching, open
selfishness,—and the most intelligible type of senatorial assu-
rance in the person, and the epistle of Mr. Joseph Hume, the
ejected of Middlesex ; the palmed-upon Kilkenny,—the now
re-jetted of Leeds. We are about to recur to a letter which
we need not introduce by any such an announcement as that
of the handsome robber in the play to the fair listener,
"'Tis Mazzaroni,—the brigand—who sings ! "
For, when we say that we allude to the epistle of an unscru-
pulous state-tinker, willing to work three holes in the constitu-
tion rather than forbear the reforming of one which he
has assisted to make himself, and wandering about
the country from one constituency to another, soliciting ems
ployment, and professing to work at the cheapest rate for his
employers, every body must anticipate that
"'Tis Joseph flume, sirs, that sings' Wha wants me ?' "
In his letter to " Mr. Low, the Secretary of the Whig-Radi-
cals of Dundee "--(what a berth ! but, probably, no sinecure,
as we suppose that the gentleman's principles are, for the most
part, marksmen)—Joseph wheedlingly writes--" It would have
delighted me to have represented. Dundee, but I was prevented
from looking towards it by Sir Henry Parnell being in
possession." Alas ! this unwonted respect in the Greek
Joseph for possessory rights, is, like some people's repent-
ance—a very short-lived emotion. In the very next
sentence, his native greedinesss breaks out again l Like some
old pike, vacillating, in the favouring covert of the sedges of
his native lake, between his intense desire to gulp the tempt-
ing bait and his habitual cunning and sagacity at " w'awc the
hook"—so, our Joseph eyes the Dundee trader furtively at
first ;—then dashes halfway at the line ; arrests his own course
midway ; swims round and round the depending prize ; now
rises, now descends; half rejecting, but aeon returning to the
tempting morsel—then his keen eye detects the danger, and
like other varieties of the economical'shark-fish, he turns from
the danger and seeks the most obscure and muddy soltitude in
which he can conceal his vexation and his disappointment, and
—snap up some easier and smaller fry.
POST.—We had occasion a day or two ago to explain one
part of the machinery which had been set in motion, with a
view to protect the Administration from the disgrace that, it
was felt, would have been inseparable from the rejection of
Lord John Russell by the electors of London. We allude to
the nine Conservative liverymen, Government clerks, residing
in Chelsea, who were compelled by the threat of dismissal to
vote for the Noble Colonial Secretary. But it was not only
by the exercise of intimidation upon legal voters that the Go-
vernment party laboured to secure that result which they
regarded as vital to their character and interests. They
brought to the poll persons not legally in possession
of the franchise, and had them enrolled as voters in favour of
Lord John Russell and the other Ministerial candidates, in
numbers sufficient, we believe, not merely to make up Lord
John Russell's majority of nine over Mr. Wolverley Attweod,
but to make tap Sir M. Wood's comparatively large majority
of 298 over Mr. Alderman Pirie. We will here present to
the public a small specimen of the manner in which the Minis-
terial party in the City of London have procured the return of
their two favoured candidates. In one small part of the com-
paratively small Ward of Coleman-street no less than five false
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3. Charles Roach Smith, No. 356 on register, voted for
Lord John Russell, upon the qualification of a shop and rooms
at 47i, Lothbury. The house has been pulled down some
months, and there remains nothing but a vacant space.
4. Henry Wilson, No. 9,557 on register, voted for Lord
John Russell upon the qualification of house No. 42, Coleman-
street. He had removed rrom these premises for some months.
5. Thomas Holloway, No. 9,701 on register, voted for Lord
John Russell upon the qualification of the house, No. 25,
Coleman-street. He was once the partner of Mr. Trucman,
who still occupies the premises, and in that capacity was re-
gistered as joint occupant. But the partnership was dissolved
a considerable time ago, and Holloway has no longer anything
to do with the premises.
We hope that the Conservative Association of Coleman•
street and other wards will each pursue to its completion an
investiga,ion similar to that by which the circumstances above
stated have been revealed.

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Bouverie has arrived
in town from Malta. Sir Henry had an interview with
Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NE WS
SJN.—The mercantile accounts by the overland mail
arein no respect flattering. Every where the mar-
ket: are suffering from the effects of a long-continued
cesation in the demand for, and a consequent accumu-
latim in the stocks of, imported goods. The supplies, of
mechandize in China are described as being immense.
Tit India markets are acted upon of course by the state
of hose in the mother country, where its staples have
for ruled low.
afternoon there was much buoyancy evinced in
th( Foreign Exchanges. Bills at three months were
dravn on the leading continental cities, at about the
folowing rates :—Paris 25f. 62c. to 671 c. ; Amsterdam,
1241 to 5 ; .Antwerp, 12 31- ; Frankfort, 150 ; Ham-
bugt,, 13 Hi to 11 ; and Trieste, 9 57 to 59.
Die Funds still wear. every appearance of firmness,
altioug,li money is worth currently 5 per cent. Con-
sol. realized 891- to 898` for the opening, ex.-div. ; Ex-
chequer Bills realized 9s. to 12s. premium ; Bank Stock
ro 1 per cent., viz. to 169 and 1691 ; the Reduced
Thee-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 99 to * ; and the
Thee per Cent. Annuities were worth 894 to 90. India
Bolds were at par to 3s. premium.
?he Peninsular Stocks were rather drooping, but the
Soith American Securities rallied a little. Spanish Ac-
ay( Bonds were at 218, and Portuguese New 32 and
318 Brazil Stock was heavy
at 68. Belgian Bonds
wen marked 101, and Dutch Five per Cents. 1002. Co-
lom)ian brought 208 to 21, and Buenos Ayres 201, being
ratter improved quotations.
There was not much done in Railway Shares. Great
Western brought 27 to 261 ; the Fifths, 6:1 ; and the
Lonlon and Birmingham, 69 prem. Brighton were 3
:to : Manchester and eds, 174 ; Midland Counties,
1141 and Birmingham and Derby 39 discount ; National
Provimial Bank of England, + prem.

RTING INTELLIGENCE.
\LUDLOW RACES.--WEDNESDAY.
The LudloW Suso:es of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if de-
' clared, with 30 sovs.' added. Once round and a distance.
Lord Powis na Fat Jack, aged (Marlow) 1
Mr. Flintoff's Prudence, 5 yrs 2
Mr. T. Walter's Sir ark, 6 yra 3
The Maiden Plato of 501. Heats, as above.
Mr. Walter's Miss Whinney, 3 yrs ... (Stagg) 0 1 1
Mr. Peel's Meerut, 4 yrs
Mr. Smythie's bc by Safeguard, 3 yrs
Sir. Gough's Fausta, 3 yrs
Mr. George's Tippoo, 5 yrs ........ . .
The Oakley Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 251. added.

SP

Heats, as above.
Mr. Botfield na Henley, 4 yrs
Mr. Robinson's Finality, aged
Mr. Cowley's Spangle, 6 yrs
THURSDAY.

The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added. Twice
round. •
Mr. Denham's fby Pantaloon—Souvenir, 3 yrs (Stag) 1
Mr. Fowler's Prudence, 6 yrs ........ 2
Mr. 'Walter's Sir Mark, 5 yrs
Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, with 30 added. T. Y.C
Mr. Ovsley's Happy-go-lucky .. (Bradley) 1
Mr. Fowler's The Pacha ... 2
Mr. T. Walter's Guz Beg... 3
The Bozough Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 10 added. Bests,
as above.

Mr. Durham's f by Pantaloon—Souvenir, 3 yrs
(Dodgson) 0 1 1
Mr. Walter's Miss Whinney, 3 yrs 1 4 3
Mr. E. Peel's Rancour, 3 yrs
Mr. Botfield na. Sportsman, 4 yrs
Mr. Goigh's Greenfinch, 4 yrs
The Sottk Shropshire Stakes ,bf 5 soya. each, with 20 added.
Heats, Ludford Stakes Course.

Mr. Bogeld na. Henley, 4 yrs (Jones) 1 1
Mr. Barrow's Catharine, aged

CARLISLE RACES.—THURSDAY.
The All Aged Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 30 added. Heats,
mile and a quarter.
Mr. Ramsay's Neptune, 4 yrs 1 1
Mr. Orde's Queen Bee, 4 yrs 2 2
The 7ally-ho Stakes of I sovs. each, and 10 added, once
round aed a distance, were won in two heats by Mr. H. John-
stene's The Returned.

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.
FRIDAY EVENING.
lavritrooL CUP.-3i to I agst Charles the Twelfth and
Orelia; 10 to 1 agst Orelia; 15 to 1 agst Milksop (taken) ;
and 25 to 1 agst Retriever.
GOODWOOD Cur.-7 to 1 agst Colwick (taken).

TO THE ABOLITIONISTS OF THE

UNITED STATES.

PHILADXLPIA, JUNE 7, 1841.---I was commissioned
by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-
Slavery society to present a memorial from them to
your President, and proceeded to Washington a few
days age, accompanied by John G. Whittier, of Massa-
chussetts, and a friend from the State of Delaware.
It was my first visit to the seat of legislation of your
great republic. On our arrival we went to the House of
Representatives then in session. A Member from
Maryland was speaking on our entrance, who was the
author a resolution which had been carried in a former
Congress, excluding nearly three millions of your coun-
trymen, on whom every species of wrong and outrage is
committed with impunity, from all right of petition,
either by themselves or friends. He was advocatingthe re-
enactment of this very resolution for the present Congress,
and stated that he had a letter from your President, ap-
proving the measure. Although I believe I do not speak too
:strongly when I say an attempt to enforce such a resolu-
tion by any crowned head in the civilized world would
be inevitably followed by a revolution, yet it seemed evi-
dent that no small portion of your present members were
in favour of it. It was with no ordinary emotion that 1
saw the venerable ex-President Adams at his post, nobly
contending against this violation of the rights of his
countrsimen, and I could not but regret that, with one or
two e-,ceeptions, he appeared to find little support from
his younger colleagues of the free States.
The same day we visited one of the well known slave-
trailing establishments at Alexandria. On passing it we
were shown the costly mansion of its late proprietor,
who has recently retired on a large property, acquired
oy the sale of native-born Americans. In an open in-
r closure with high walls, which it is impossible to scale,
with a strong iron-barred door, and in which we wer
told that there were sometimes from 300 to 400 persons
crowded, we saw about fifty slaves. Amongst the num-
ber thus incarcerated, was a woman with nine children,
who had been cruelly separated from their husband and
father, and would probably be shortly sent to New Or-
leans, where they would never be likely to see him again,
and where the mother may be for ever severed from
every one of her children, and each of them sold to a
different master. From thence we went to Alexandria
city gaol, where we saw a young man who was admitted
to• be free even by the gaoler himself. He had been
seized and committed in the hope that he might prove a
slave, and that the party detaining him would receive a
reward. He had been kept there nearly twelve months,
because he could not pay the gaol fees, and instead of
obtaining any redress for false imprisonment, was about
to be sold into slavery for a term, to reimburse these fees.
The next morning I was desirous of handing to the
President the memorial, of which the following is a
-

" ADDRESS to the President of the United States from
the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-
Slavery Society.
_ -

" the head of a great Confederacy of States,
justly valuing their free constitution and political orga-
nization, and tenacious of their rights and their cha-
racter, the Committee of the 13ritish and Foreign Anti-
Slavery Society, through their esteemed coadjutor and
representative, Joseph Sturge would respectfully ap-
proach• you in behalf of millions of their fellow-men,

held in bondage in the United States. Those millions'
are not only denied the political immunities, enjoyed by
the citizens of your great republic 'generally;' and the
equal privileges and the impartial protection °kite -civil
law, but are deprived of their personal rights ; so, that
they cease to be regarded and treated, under your other-
wise noble institutions, as men, except in the commis-
sion of crime,when the utmost rigour of your penal sta-
tutes is invoked and enforced against them ; and arc re-
duced to the degraded condition of chattels personal'
in the hands of their owners and possessors, to all in-
tents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever.'
" This is the language and the law of slavery - and
upon this law, guarded with jealousy by their political
institutions, the slave-holders of the South rest their
claims to propertyin man. But, Sir, there are claims
anterior to all human laws, and superior to all political
institutions, which are immutable in their nature—
claims which are the birthright of every human being of
every clime and of every colour—claims which God has
conferred, and which man cannot destroy without sacri-
lege, or infringe without sin ; personal liberty is, amongst
these, the greatest and the bst, for it is the root of all
other rights, the conservative principle of human asso-
ciations, the spring of public virtues, and essential to na-
tional strength and greatness. .

" The mo—nstrons and wicked assumption of power by
man over his fellow-man, which slavery implies, is alit• e
abhorrent to the moral sense of mankind, to the immu-
table principles of justice, to the righteous laws of God,
and to the benevolent principles of the Gospel. It is
therefore indignantly repudiated by the fundamental
laws of all truly enlightened and civilized communities,
and by none more than by that over which, Sir, it is
your honour to preside.
" The great doctrine that God hath created all men
equal, and endowed them with certain inalienable rights,
and that amongst these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness' is affirmed in your Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and justified in the theory of your constitu-
tional laws. But there is a stain upon your glory.
Slavery in its most abject and revolting form pollutes
your soil ; the wailings of slaves mingle with your songs
of liberty ; and the clank of their chains is heard in
horrid discord with the chorus of your triumphs.
" The records of your States are not less distinguished
by their wise provisions for securing the order, and
maintaining the institutions of your country, than by
their ingenious devices for rivetting the chains and per-
petuafing the degradation of your coloured brethren.
Their education is branded as a crime against the State ;
their freedom is dreaded as a blasting pestilence ; the
bare suggestion of their emancipation is proscribed as
treason to the cause of American independence.
" These things are uttered in sorrow, for the Commit-
tee deeply deplore the flagrant inconsistency so glaringly
displayed, between the lofty principles embodied in the
late charter of your liberties, and the evil practices
which have been permitted to grow up under it, to mar
its beauty and impair its strength.
" But it is not on these grounds alone, or chiefly, that
they deplore the existence of slavery in the United
States, manifold as are the evils which flow from it, de-
moralising as are its tendencies, fearful as its reaction
confessedly is on its supporters : the reproach of its ex-
istence does not terminate in the institution which
gave it birth : the sublime principles and benign
spirit of Christianity are dishonoured by it. In
the height of Divine truth, it stands revealed
in all its hideous deformity, a crime against God,
a daring usurpation of the prerogative and
authority of the Most High. It is as a violation of his
righteous laws and outrage on his glorious attributes, a
renunciation of the claims of his blessed. Gospels, that
they especially deplore the continuance and support it re-
ceives among you ; and, in the spirit of Christian love .
and fraternal solicitude, they would counsel its imme-
diate and complete overthrow as a solemn and impera-
tive duty, the performance of which no sordid reasons
should be permitted to retard, and no political considera-
tions to prevent. Slavery is a sin against God, and ought
therefore to be abolished.

" The utter extinction of slavery and its sister abomi-
nation, the internal slave trade, second only in horror
and extent in the United States to the African, and in
some of its features even more revolting, can be argued
by the philanthropists of this country only on the ab-
stract principles of moral and religious duty, and to those
principles the people of your great republic are placed,
on the side of freedom, beyond every nation of the world.

"The negro, by nature our equal, made, like ourselves,
in the image of his Creator, gifted with the same intelli-
gence, impelled by the same passions, and redeemed by
the same Saviour, is reduced, by cupidity and oppression,
below the level of the brute, spoiled of his humanity,
plundered of his rights, and often hurried to a premature
grave—the miserable victim of avarice and heedless ty-
ranny. Men have presumptuously dared to wrest from
their fellows the most precious of their rights ; to inter-
cept, as far as they may, the bounty and grace of the
Almighty ; to close the door to their intellectual pro-
gress ; to shut every avenue to their moral and religious
improvement ; to stand between them and their Maker !
It is against this crime the Committee protest as men
and as Christians, and they earnestly and respectfully
call upon you, Sir, to use the high power with which you
are invested to bring it to a peaceful and speedy close.
" May you, in closing your public career, and in the
latest hours f your existence on earth, be consoled with
the reflection, that you have not despised the afflictions
of the afflicted, but that, faithful to the trust of your high
stewardship, you have been ' just, ruling in the fear of
God,'—that you have executed judgment for the op-
pressed, and have aided in the deliverance of your coun-
try from its greatest crime and its chief reproach.
" Signed on behalf of the Committee,
" THOMAS CLARKSON.

" London, March 8, 1841."
I thought it most candid to address a letter to the Pre-
sident, informing him of the character of the foregoing
memorial, rather than take advantage fora merely formal
introduction to present it without such an explanation.
To this letter no reply was received, nor was there the
slightest allusion made to it by the President at a subse-
quent introduction which we had to him. It may be pro-
per to state in this connection, that memorials of a simi-
lar character bearing upon the slave trade and slavery,
signed by the venerable Clarkson, have been presented
to different heads of government, in other parts of the
world, and have been uniformly received with respect.
Previous to our departure, we visited a private slave-
trading establishment in the city, and looked in upon a
group of human beings herded together like cattle for
the market, within an enclosure of high brick wall sur-
rounding the gaol. The young man in attendance in-
formed us that there were five or six other regular slave-
dealers in the city, who, having no gaols of their own,
either placed their slaves in this establishment, or. in
the public city prison ; the former was generally pre-
ferred, on account of its superior accommodation in re-
spect to food and lodging. On my making some remarks
to the young man on the nature of his occupation, he
significantly, and I think very justly, replied, that "he
knew of no reason for condemning slave-traders, which
did not equally apply to slave-holders." You will bear
in mind that this was said within view of the Capital,
where slave-holders control your national legislation'
and within a few minutes' walk of that mansion where t:
slave-holder sits in the presidential chair, placed there
by your votes, and it is certainly no marvel that, with