PROVING THAT THE PRINCIPLES OF ABOLITIONISM ARE INJURIOUS TO THE SLAVES THEMSELVES, DESTRUCTIVE TO THIS NATION, AND CONTRARY TO THE EXPRESS COMMANDS OF GOD; WITH STRONG EVIDENCE That some of the principal CHAMPIONS of Abolitionism are inveterate Enemies to this Country, and are taking advantage of the 'ANTI-SLAVERY WAR-WHOOP' to dissever, and break up, the UNION . "While they promise them Liberty , they themselves are the Slaves of corruption."—2 Pet. ii. 19. BY W. W. SLEIGH, F. R. C. S. L. FORM

The conflagration of the late " Pennsylvania Hall " having frustrated the contemplated discussion between some of the champions of Abolitionism and the Author, he feels it a duty he owes the public, and the best service he can render this country, to make known, through the medium of a Pamphlet, a few of the facts and arguments which he intended adducing on that occasion. Thus contributing his mite of information towards allaying the general excitement on this subject, and, if possible, to open

Mankind has ever been disposed to be carried away with names and words , with the representation of things, rather than with things themselves : and that portion of mankind thus apt to be deceived by mere sound , is generally the most innocent—the best—the most unsuspecting—the most charitable—these very qualities rendering them the easy victims of design and imprudence: the history of the world proves, not only this, but also that demagogues are the first to fly from the commotions, which they

As Abolitionists are constantly taunting the friends of Colonization with the charge, that the founders of it were Slave-holders, (which, by the by, like almost all their other statements, as will be shown in a subsequent chapter, is destitute of truth,) they cannot complain at their opponents taking a peep into the principles of some of their Chief Champions , and Promoters of Abolitionism—And, as William Lloyd Garrison , Esq. stands pre-eminently distinguished as their great Apostle, we shall

The professed object of the Abolition Society is to procure the immediate , instantaneous , and unconditional emancipation of all the slaves in America.—And the means adopted by this Society to accomplish this object are the publication and circulation of vast numbers of papers and pamphlets, by way of enlightening the slave, and the slaveholder—but which consist, for the most part, of exhortations, and encouragement, to the slave, to disobedience, insubordination, and rebellion. This advice is

There is no argument more frequently used by Abolitionists than that the Scriptures prohibit the purchase, or sale of men, or holding any man as property—and as the above Magazine has no doubt contributed much, by the talent, learning, and ingenuity , (I don't like to say sophistry) of its editor (Mr. Elizur Wright, jun.,) to build up this most preposterous assertion, I shall take leave to investigate a few of the arguments adopted therein. There is a great difference between a man going to the

One of the peculiar features in the practice of Abolition champions, is to discredit every statement proceeding from all others, except from themselves: and in this respect they resemble very much, as I stated in the preceding part of this pamphlet, the champions of Infidelity! If there be, therefore, any truth in the common adage, that "none are so suspicious as those who are conscious that their own statements ought not to be credited," there can be no difficulty in accounting for the unbelief

We have before shown that although the only object of the Colonization Society is to restore the free man of colour to the land of his fathers, yet that the accomplishment of this very object necessarily involves the removal of the actual cause of slavery itself, and of all its horrors, viz. the African slave-trade . In this respect alone, if it did no more, it as far exceeds in utility, the Abolition Scheme, as the light of the sun exceeds that of a taper. Moreover this one fact, and this alone

The unexpected length to which this pamphlet has extended prevents the Author introducing here, as he had contemplated in page 11 , an article on the difference of opinion among mankind in all parts and ages of the world, without divine revelation, on that which is really good and really evil. See article " Morality ," in " The Christian's Defensive Dictionary ," by the Author....

Extract of an Address of William Lloyd Garrison, Esq., from " The London Patriot ," of August, 1833; and republished in " The Colonization Herald " of this City, May 16th, 1838. "I know that there is much declamation about the sacredness of the compact which was formed between the free and the slave states, on the adoption of the national constitution. A sacred compact, forsooth! I pronounce it the most bloody and heaven-daring arrangement ever made by man, for the continuance and protection of

As it is not improbable that the partisans of Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, following the example he set them last week in Pennsylvania Hall, (page 19 ), will ask what right has this " foreign adventurer " to interfere in this question? The simple reply of the Author is, that as he will yield precedency to no man on earth, in subjection and faithfulness to the laws of that country in which it pleases the providence of God to place him, so he considers it his duty to serve it to the utmost of his p