Compromises of the Coustitution, they were bound to amend the Constitution, and to offer compensation to their former co-partners in guilt and shame; or to separate themselves from them in accordance with the principles of honour known and practised amongst the brotherhood of thieves.

6th. That until these things were done, all attempts made by them to restrict the area of slavery, or to exterminate it by the adoption of the Missouri Compromise, or Personal Liberty Bills, were unconstitutional and revolutionary.

7th. That when the Southern States and people passed acts of secession from the broken bonds of the Federal Government, their sister States in the North ought to have hailed the news of the separation with rapturous emotions of joy, as it would have brought with it both the destruction of slavery and protective tariffs, without violence or calamity.

8th. That the rush of our Northern States and people to arms, with all their abettors and promoters, in order to coerce the sovereign States of the South, and enforce their unwilling obedience to the Federal Government, in the presence of its broken bonds and their own bad faith to the South; and, also, their cruel treatment of the vanquished in the long continued imprisonment of Jeff Davis, arrest and trial of parolled prisoners of war, the proclamation that the possession of twenty thousand dollars makes Southern men rebels, the confiscation of their property, and the ominous shout in the North of Africa for Africans, as if negroes born in America were not Americans, deserve the severest censure of mankind, and turn our Federal bureaus of justice and freedom into a mockery, delusion, snare.

9th. That our religious history, which brings before us and makes to pass in review our churches, with their extraordinary revivals and five millions of members, their vast array of authors, editors, and divines, is associated with deeper criminality than the civil, or it would have made impossible the political jugglery and fraud, ostentatious parade of our mock virtues and privileges by our Federal administrators and people, as well as sought some other adjustment of our difficulties than an appeal to the arbitrement of the sword, which has brought so horrible a termination of the dreadful and manifold evils of slavery, but leaves us with the black hoofs of military despotism on our necks-an anomaly to ourselves and to the whole world, feeling no satisfaction except that the Lord reigns, who makes the wrath of man to praise Him, and restrains the remainder of it.

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progress we have been called all manner of hard names-the shafts of calumny and slander have been hurled against us with all the power that can be evoked by association with fierce, rancorous, and malignant hate; but despite the inconvenience attributed to us by Mrs. Croft, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Croft, "of having a slate off our roof"-the charge falsely made by Fred. Douglas that we were seeking to reimburse ourselves for losses sustained in America "-the insinuation by the editor of the "U. P. Magazine," that "our philanthropy was assumed as the friend of the slave," causing the editor of the "Daily Review" to dance a hornpipe before us in derision of our name-the editor of the "Examiner and Times," Manchester, to utter his growls in the language of dark and mysterious hieroglyphs, and the editor of the London "Spectator" to dash down upon us from his observtory, a mud-storm of abuse-despite this process, we have held on the even tenour of our way, but not without some recognition of our honesty of purpose and intensity of desire, if not of ability to do good, in unfolding to the reader the tragic events and scenes of the New World, and directing him to the deeper sources of our criminality and calamity.

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AMERICAN

STATES, CHURCHES, AND SLAVERY.

BY THE

REV. J. R. BALME,

AN AMERICAN CLERGYMAN.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"Mr. Balme writes with considerable observation, some humour, and a positive air of sincerity. There is a sledge hammer method of oratory with which he knocks down all the idols of American enthusiasm, which renders. it very easy to believe that he made himself a most unpleasant neighbour among the idolaters of the Union. The Jesuitical cunning of Everett, the Pharoah's hard-heartedness of Lincoln, the hypocrisy of the Beechers and Mrs. Stowe, the unblushing sophistry of Seward, the impious inconsistency of most of the negro-hating emancipationists who are still clamouring to reduce the South by war, are held up to universal loathing and contempt' with a fervour which would probably land him in Fort Lafayette, if he were now within the reach of President Lincoln's police."-Saturday Review, Nov. 8, 1862.

"At the present momentous epoch in American affairs hardly anything can be published which does not contain more or less interest. Pamphlets and volumes which may have been published years ago are eagerly enquired after, since they are almost certain to contain facts and allusions which in some way bear on the great crisis that has suddenly riven a continent in twain. Mr. Balme's work, in spite of its imperfections, contains a vast amount of useful and important facts, which are probably unknown to the great pro

portion of English readers. And though much of what he writes is well known to them, it is acceptable as being recorded in a permanent form. His opinion of the President, the Secretary of State, and other men in the government, is by no means flattering, and some extracts from their writings and speeches are peculiarly interesting. As a book of reference, and containing much that is useful and curious this work will, we doubt not, find many readers."-Christian News, Aug. 30, 1862.

"The author of this volume is British-born, but having emigrated to America he acquired property, and was naturalized as a subject of the United States. Taught from his early years to regard slaveholding as a monstrous wrong, he did not, like very many of our countrymen who emigrate, lay aside his anti-slavery thoughts and feelings, imbibe the prevailing prejudices against the coloured races, and palliate and defend the enormities of the "institution.' Instead of this, the more intimate his knowledge of the system the more deep-rooted became his abhorrence of it. Instead of speaking with bated breath upon the subject, he lifted his voice like a trumpet in behalf of the down-trodden negro, and vehemently denounced all who were directly or indirectly engaged in the accursed traffic. The result was such as might have been anticipated. He was subjected, not to petty annoyances and foul reproach, but to the most truculent and unrelenting persecution, being compelled, after a narrow escape from Lynch-law, to sail for England, in which he landed two years ago in a state of destitution. True to his mission as an apostle of emancipation, we find him here coming forward with unconquered spirit, telling the people of this country what he thinks of the Federals and the Confederates in their connection with slavery, showing the fearful extent to which the ministers of religion and the Christian denominations are implicated, and declaring that, in the war now raging, with its accumulated horrors, there are the tokens of Heaven's vengeance on the unfaithfulness of those who profess to be witnesses for God. The