The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-07-13

o'heT pubic act. The bill, IN substance,
provided that all overt acts and praetices
calculated and design.d to eLcite the slayes
IN the siavehOlding states against their mas
ters eneourdgeing them to insuryection and
mereoy endongering the property, safety and
hres OF the people of those states, should be
deemed TO be criminal offences and punish
ed, dc. DC. There was not syllable in
the bill that could be construed as interfer
ing, in the renotest degree, with the free
dom of discussion or of the press.-Not n
word that could be honestly complained of
by any good citizen who neither meant him
self, TO commit the crime intended to be
punished, nor was willing that others should
be left at liberty to commit it. Ii would
have been well if our memorialists. before
allowing themselves to be so made use of
by these hired agents and lecturers from
other states; had reflected upon the very
unfavorable inference to which their COM
planning of bill simply providing for the
Just punishment of a most faiitious crime
must unavoidably render them liable. But
they were fellow-citizens and were treated
with Indulgence, although they had no man
ner of right to claim to be heard, Except by
their memorials) upon such an occasion.
What then shall we say of the matchless
impudence of set of hired foreign agents
and emissaries in the pay of foreign as
soclatlon; who have attempted to interfere
in our legislation ;-have dared to demand
hearing before a committee of our Legs-
ture in objection to public law pending
before that Legislature; and are now out
rageously abusing and denouncing that
commine and Legislature and the citizens
OF one OF our principal towns because their
demands were. not complied with This
Is the manner in which the american Anfi
!Stdcery Society addresses itself" to the un-
derstand'ng and consciences of the people %
What would have been the style of their
oratory, had these declamers succeeded in
forcing themselves upon us, in defiance of
the wishes of the great bulk of the people
of the town, some slight idea may be form.
ed from the following short specimen in
speech of similar character throughout. de-
llvered before company of young men in
New-York, by the eloquent brother Stanton,
and published in the society's "Hamqn
Rights" Aug. Sth 1885. "Oh, but imme-
d'ate emancipation aeouH be msotc,-the
Stare ~Ontd butcher his master, oni til the
tand with r0Pinc ard mmder." " !Suppose.n
said Mr.. Stanton, Z" the intelligence shoaH
reach this city today, that the slares had
risen an msnrrectiOn, and vere scattering dis
may and death through the South. Would
not the ceriest child know the cause ? " 7Hev
are fighting for their Jrcedom," would be
the universal cry" And let us see what
was to be expected from the Rev. fmcs
Phelps, who, no doubt, would have expa- |
tiated upon his favorite scheme of amalga-
mating the white and black races bv marry
ing white women to black men as the only
sure means of begetting "perfcct cquaHty''
and levellng all distinctions. In his lec- |
lures IN slavery and its remcdy;" (p. D.
235, e, 7, 81 combating the objections to
he says, "phen hear il ! |
k0rdty knoo whether most to pity the igno-
rance or trovn vith Indignation ct the toHy
At betrays." His the ofsp ring of a most
cruel and wicked prejudice. 1t merits only
PITY or contempt. Jby and by, this preju-
dice should melt array and the generation .
then on the stage should hare no objection to
amatgomation 'chy should yOu DC concerned.
ghey" your children-sons and daughters)
. choose 1t, Why should you forbid them ~
lie then reinforces himself by quotation
from female advocate for negro husbands
as follows, viz. " Letthc sons and daughters
t Africa both be educated and then then
ciH be fit for each other. They" (the me-
,ro men) "aciH not be found TO make war
tpon their ~hite neighbors for uives nor
0W they, if they hare intelligent uOmen of
heir own, see any thing so rery desirable in
he pryeet."
We do not know whether Amos Phelps
himself claims to be white man or n ne
yro, or is the offspring of his sweet amalga-
nation. From the beastliness of his appe-
ties 1--WE will not call them sentiments) he
night be taken for genuine angola of the
highest perfume.
Such are the moral nfuenees' by which ,
he society is going to effect immediate eman- (
e,,ch a.,