The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-06-20


States; 3, For the repeal Of laws enacted by Con-
gress for the support of slavery in the District
of Columbia, and 4. For the establishment OF
freedom in the territories of the United States;
and the result has been that very large number
OF petitions have been sent to Congress on these
subjects The committee have distributed by
agents and otherwise numerous publications, their
attention having baen chiefly directed to this OBJ
Ject during the last year. They also memoralized
the British Government on the subject Of enfor-
cling the treaties with Spain and Brazil with re-
spect 10 the slave trade.
The Corresponding Secretary has devoted the
principal part of his time TO carrying out the views
Of the Committee by the preparation and publica-
ton or tracts, furnishing anti-slavery intelligence
for the press, corresponding extensively with the
! friends Of the cause in this and other countries,
md supplying members Of Congress and indiy-
duas, both in the slave and free States, with sta
tistics and facts, and acquiring such information
as will enable the Committee to exert a proper
antI-slavery influence in the Territories lately ac-
quired from Mexico, through the press and agents
The Committee have sustained Depository for
the sale or anh-sloyery publications. and Read
ing Room in which the anti-slayery newspapers
and other publications foreign and domestic, have
been file for the use of the friends of the cause
The means necessary for the expenses incurred
have been furnished by members of the Commit
tee, and antisnyery brethren in different parts of
the country.
They also tell us that the National Era
(anti-slavery organ in this city has fifteen
thousand subscribers.
The report contains the following notice
of one Of the editors Of this paper:
"IIarly in the year 1919, MIR. Ellwood Fisher
delivered a lectureu'On the North and the South, "
at Cincinnati, O., in which he instituted compar-
ison between these divisions of the country as To
their resources and prosperity, highly favorable TO
the slave States. This lecture read with avid
ity, and gained for the ingenious but sophistica
author the applause of the South. In few
months after us appearance, an able reply was
made TO il by A CARoLINIAN, under the head of
s'The South and the North. ~ These essays are
said to be the best that have been written on
the poitco-economcal bearings of slave labor and
free. The Southern writer has, in the estimation
of competent Judges, with mastery ability, COM
pletely refuted the pro-sluery argument of the
Northern lectures and il remarkable fact, that
IA native citizen Of North Carolina should expose
| and overwhelm the rank pro-slavery sopliisms of
citizen of the free State 81 Ohio. Fisher s bold
assertions, founded false assumptions of facts,
met with such signal exposure and anniliilaton,
that neither he nor any one else has attempted his
defence; and he has, weunderstand, sought an
| asylum in the employment of some of the South
| ern friends of whose envable condition and wei
| fare he made such Munchausen statements.
*We arc pleased to see that few southern pa
pers express surprise at the audacious statements
made by Fisher, and consider them utterly I'M
worthy of credit. They are of opinion that
l"A Carolinisn,'' and writer III the Louisville
Journal, .'Justice, 2 have blown to the winds the
chat presentedby him to the admiring view Of so
many selfdeluded advocates of Slavery.
The report is very much mistaken IN say
| ing that the lecture on the North and the
South has rot been defended The ablest
attacks made omit were by Mr.. Muzzey OF
Cincinnati, andby President Young Justice
Of kentucky--the latter in the Louisville
Journal, and borrowing largely from the arti-
cles Of Mr.. Muzzey, and Carolinian. The
author Of the lecture replied, and convicted
! these assailants OF the most eyre giaAs blum
), ders in their statements, and vindicated
every position taken in the lecture.
We shall publish the reply in this paper;
| and we defy the entire corps Of anti-slavery
writer's to shake a single proposition.
/ Nor has the author Of the lecture sough!
employment or asylum elsewher.. His cir
cumstances and position did not require it.
He was called without any application on his
part, or at his suggestion, or wish, to assume
the position he now occupies, and has done
so from considerations, he trusts, above an,
thing personal or pecuniary.
We have thought it important to present
the abstract of this report to the South, to
make known the character OF the assault
now making on her institutions, the organi-
cation, the money expended, and the pro-
gress made.