partial and broken medium of that Northern literature, may be made to bear lightly as the gossamer film of sumthrough which only they are now exhibited to the world. mer. Let them exhibit the mighty, though noiseless inIt will be idle to look for the pure light of truth, until the fluence of public opinion, in softening the harsher features rays of knowledge, sentiment and opinion, reflected from of slavery, and converting its elements of danger and sufthe diversified surface of our whole country shall inter-fering into springs of refinement and virtue. Let them mingle and melt in a comprehensive and truly national literature."

"The fact that literature has been recently brought to bear upon the institution of slavery, ought not to be dismissed by us, who know how lasting, diffusive, and almost omnipotent is its influence, without the gravest consideration. The success of Uncle Tom's Cabin' discloses the most formidable danger which crosses our line of future march. Moral delusions can not be resisted by

physical resources. They can subdue the power of
fleets and armies, treasures, fortifications and natural bul-
warks. We have no cause to fear, lest a breach be made
in the constitution by the bloody hand of violence, lest
'Some dread Nemesis,

Break from the darkened future, crowned with fire,
To tread us out for ever;'

deliver to an immortality of honest scorn, the libeller who has raked through the prison records of a nation, that she might hold up the isolated and exceptional cases of cruelty to be found scattered over the tract of half a century, among its millions of population, as types of a them rid us of the superstition, that slavery is a cleaving whole people, and generalizations of their character. Let mischief, and by contrasting the general comfort, content and virtue of our people, with the pictures of English life that have been drawn to our hands by her favorite poets and novelists, with the fierce confederate storm of sorrow, barricaded evermore in her great cities,' with and fields,' with the visions of crime and despair, which the solitary anguish, piped by humanity amid her groves welter through the pages of Dickens, and Thackeray, and Jerrold, bring conviction home to the most unbeliev ing and desponding amongst us, that the age of gold was not more unlike the age of iron, than is our primitive society remote from the vice and suffering which mark the civilization of the old world, and which are beginning to draw miniature lines of their darkest features around the free States of the North.

lest our people be called to fall in despairing files, around their violated hearth-stones, and amid the horrors of national fratricide the gates of mercy be shut upon mankind.' We are threatened by a policy more insidious in its approaches, but not less fatal in its results. The na- "Let us Southern scholars but be true to the respontive and foreign organs of fanaticism have expressly avow-sibilities of our time and place, and the darkness will no ed it as their object, so to corrupt the moral sentiment of longer dare affront the light.' We shall divide the pubthe North, that it will be ready to sanction either an openlic opinion of the world, break the force of its sympathy, violation of the constitution, or a dishonest perversion of and by pouring through the bosoms of our people the its meaning, and so to divide the public opinion and weak- living tide of hope, strengthen their hearts for the day of en the public spirit of the South, that when legislation is trial, and cover our land aud its institutions with a shield invoked to consummate the last act of injustice, it will of fire." be impossible to rally in that unbroken phalanx, which might bid defiance to aggression.

"We can no longer cover the salient points of our institutions, through the halls of Congress. The voice of the statesman and the orator can not reach the masses, with whom lie the issues of life and death. Literature alone can dispossess the demon of fanaticism by its 'sweet compulsion.' Let us appeal to her varied forms, of poem, drama, novel, history, and essay, to enter every cottage in the land, and disperse the delusions which invest this whole subject of domestic slavery. Let them vindicate it before the reason and conscience of our people, and hallow it as a great instrumentality of Providence, in their affections. Let them declare, how earnestly we resisted its original imposition, how consistently we have laboured for its subsequent amelioration, how uniformly we have sustained every measure of policy which promised for it a peaceful euthanasia, and how fiercely those who still roll in the unblessed wealth of that bloody commerce from which it sprang, have sought to close every avenue for its gradual extinction, and hem it in, to perish amid social and national convulsion. Let them point out in characters of light, which all who run may read, that human wisdom has yet devised no scheme for its abolition, which does not call upon a great and enlightened people to sacrifice all the civilization which makes life valuable for the mockery of conferring an empty freedom upon a race unfit for its enjoyment. Let them show that although the same imperious necessity which suspends ordinary laws in times of peril, forbids us to banish from the statute book the provisions which uphold the power of the master over his slave, yet that all human laws receive their form and pressure from the spirit of a people, and like the atmosphere we breathe, although possessing a weight more crushing than iron,

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