The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-09-29

will be paid for their insertion by the next
Congress.
We endeavored to get the subject up before
the last Congress, but could accomplish moth
ing We will Join with the InteLLigencer to
have the matter remedied at the next session.
ANTI-SLAVERY IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Mr.. Helper, the author of the Impending
Crisis" publishes various interesting extracts
from Southern correspondents. Among them
we find the following from Wesleyan Meth
dist minister in North Carolina
Returning from the west part of my circuit
yesterday, found your letter of the 18th inst,
TO which l hasten this reply. You are at per-
feet liberty to use my correspondence in any
way you may judge best, as | am already COM
mitted at every place where l speak to the most
open hostility to the system of human bondage.
have denounced it at every point, and espe-
clally Its clerical supporters and apooglsts,
with whatever of language and emphasis l
could command. They deem me more plain,
more caustic, than either of my predecessors,
Crooks or Mcbride. If no danger results from
my speech here none need be apprehended
from the publication of my letters. The Boston
Tract letter. reprinted in the sniveling, serville,
little Day Book, which you sent me, went the
rounds of the North Carolina press. From it
sprang much angry, excited discussion, and
one challenge for duel. This was given by
the editor of the Fayetteville Carolinidn to the
editor of the Salisbury Wdtchman Consider
able ink was shed, but no blood. Continued
reference was made to me in these Newspaper
missiles, as the reverend writer of the Boston
Tract letter. or the reverend gentleman sup
posed to be the author of the Boston Tract let
Ter; and, though every one knew to whom
these references pointed, / am not certain that
my name has been once given in a Carolina
paper"
The following extracts are from several let
tiers, received at various times, from this same
gentleman, who as will be observed, gives a
brief but interesting outline of his location and
personal history:
am a minister in charge of Guilford Cir
cult of Wesleyan Methodists, North Carolina.
l think you have some knowledge of our de-
nomination. l am native of Guilford county,
but have resided some thirty-fve years in the
West. Last fall / returned to North Carolina,
to remain and preach at least a year. | boldly
preach Anti-Slavery from my pulpit Various
threats of mob violence have been made against
me but l have the pleasing satisfaction of in
forming yon that thus far, in the performance
of my duty, | have sustained no personal injury
Both myself and wife have numerous relations
IN Gulltord and Randolph counties, which, Join
ed to my age and Southern birth, has operated
much In my favor.
think the Impending Crisis should be
extensively circulated in this poor old Slavery
cursed State, and / am willing to take the re-
sponsibilily of putting it in circulation to the
extent of my travel. 1t is highly probable that
North Carolina court might deem the book
incendiary, but l am willing to risk the result
The facts the book contains should be generally
known
81 have disposed of the fifty copies of the
Impending Crisis which l brought with me
from the city last fall, and want more; please
send me forty additional copies Our
success in spreading the principles of Freedom
has been beyond my most sanguine expecta-
tons. l am particularly surprised
that no excitement has followed the distribution
of the book. Formerly, Mcbride, my predeces-
sor here IN the ministry, was prosecuted and
convicted for vending a single sheet to prove
Slavery inconsistent with the ten command
ments, and now / am suffered quietly to scatter
broadcast the Impending Crisis over this
whole community And the onslaught l make
from the pulpit on Slavery is said to be far more
severe than the words of my predecessor; vet
shareholders even, bear it with all the patience
oil a Joo. hrst began to vend the
work privately, but soon, throwing off all con-
eealment, did it as publicly as a Yankee ped
lar would sell tin hair comb. If a
prosecution were instituted against me, would
read IN my defence before jury every syllable
ofthe book, making necessary comments. 4
The gentleman to whom | referred some time
since was Mr., of Greensboro, well known
in that place as an Anti,Slavery man. His re-
mark was this: When the first copies of the
Crisis reached Greensboro, such was the
anxiety to learn its contents that the citizens
would gather in clubs of some fifteen or twenty,
on Sunday afternoons, and one would read, and
the others would listen, and so deep was the in
terest to hear, that he continued, facetiously,
feared 1T would soon supplant the Bible ~