Year: 1859

give never vo to slave holder; pay no taxes to their government if you can either resist or evade them; as witnesses and Ju- TOTS, give no testimony and no verdicts in support of any slaveholding claims; perform no military, patrol or police service; mob slaveholding courts, jails, and sheriffs; do nothing, in short, for sustaining slavery, but everything you safely and rightfully can, publicly and privately, for its over throw

 White rascals of the south! Willing tools of the shareholders! You who drive slaves to their labor, hunt them with dogs, and fog them for pay, without asking any questlonsl We have a word specially for | you. You are one of the main pillars of the slave system. You stand ready to do all that vile and inhuman work which must be done by somebody, but which the more decent shareholders themselves will not do. ! ct we have heard enc good report even of you. ltis, that you have no such prejudices aSalnst color, nor against liberty, as that you would not as willingly cam money by 1 q fugitive and returning him to his master Ii you are thus indifferent as to whom you serve, we advise you henceforth to serve the | slaves instead of their masters. Turn about, and help the robbed to rob their robbers. The former can afford to pay you better than the latter. Help them to get posses sion of the property which is rghtfully their due, and they can afford to pay you liberal commissions. Help them fog individual shareholders, and they can afford to pay you ten times as much as you ever received for tiogging slaves. Help them to kidnap the shareholders and they can afford to pay you more than you now get for catching fugitive slaves. Be true to the slaves, and we hope they will pay you well for your services. Be false to them, and we hope they will kill you

 Lawyers of the south, you can, if you will, exert a potent influence for good in this matter. If, in the true spirit of law as a science, you shall see man as the most crushed of human beings, and, recognizing his right to obtain justice by such means as may be in his power, you shall take the side of the oppressed in this controversy, and teach them to trample oh their tyrants and vindicate their manhood; if you do this, and then aid in establishing new institu- tions based upon liberty equality and right, you will have the satisfaction of doing your part towards bringing into life great, free and happy people, where now all is crime, tyranny, degredation and death. If, on the contrary, you shall take the side of the shareholders, and continue to be-as pro- fessonally, under slave institutions, you must forever be-the degraded, pettifogging pimps, hirelings, and tools of few soul less robbers of theil species-denying con tinually the authority of justice and the rights of humanity-if you shall do this, we need not attempt to tell you what your true rank will be in the scale of lawyers, statesmen, patriots or men.

 Merchants of the south! We hope you will deliberately consider this matter, and make up your minds whether the slaves have the right to take the property of their masters in compensation for the injuries they have suffered. Ii you decide that they have that right, we hope you will act ac- cordingly, and will not hesitate to buy of them cotton or any other property which they may have taken from their masters; and give them in exchange weapons, or any other articles they may need. If you will but do this, you will soon put an end to slavery.

 Non-slaveholders generally of the south If it is right for the slaves 10 take the pro- perty of their masters, to compensate their wrongs, it is right for you to help them? Your numbers, compared with those of the shareholders, are as five or six to one. It will be perfectly easy for you, by combin- ing with the slaves, to put them in posses sion of the plantation on which they labor, and of all the property upon them. They could afford to pay you well for doing them such service. They could afford to let you share with them in the division of the | property taken. We hope you will adopt | this measure. It will not only be right in itself it will be the noblest act of your lives, provided you do not take too large a share to yourselves, and provided, also, that you afterwards faithfully protect the slaves in their liberty and the property assigned to them

 Finally, we say to all, correspond with us of the north Let each person who re- ceives or sees one of these sheets, send his letters to the one who sent it, with liberty to publish them in the northern papers This correspondence, we are confident, will be more interesting literature than the south has ever furnished, and will enlist the feelings of the northern people to such a degree that we shall be induced to go in large numbers to your assistance whenever you shall need us

 The following note is to be addressed to some person at the south, and signed by the person sending it, giving his own resi- dence:-

 SIR-Please accept and exhibit to your neighbors this copy of document which we are intending to distribute very exten- sively through the south, and which, we trust, will give birth to movement that shall result not only in the freedom of the blacks, but also in the political, pecunia1y, educational, moral and social advantage of the present non -slaveholding whites. Please let me hear from you often, informing me of the progress of the work. Direct to me at.