The Pro-slavery Spirit

ft seems to have become a matter of course with the slaveholders to abuse, ibreaten, insult, vilify and injure cvery man in the Union who has the courage to declare hts belief that slaveholding is a sin or a moral and political evil. This spirit aeems prevalent univcrsally - in ConrcgS - in the churches - and in all the political and religious papers. In some nslancèé the Legislaturas have manifesled the same (eeüng by thcir official acte, and it has caused ihem p Utke the most absurd ond unlenable ground. - j R. G. V 'illiams was ituJicted by the Grand Jury of Tuscaloisa county, A!abama, as "wicked, maliciouSj sedilious and ( ill disposod persoir' because he had publishcd in New York city the foilowingi words in the Emancip.ilor. "Gud con-; mands, and all nature cries out that men should not be held as própctïy.1' Was not this most convin-ting eviden.ee of a malicious, wicked dispósitioft? Yet upon this tcstimony,Gov. Gaylk, of Alabama, made a formal dcmaiul upon Gov.Maecyj ihat Mr. Williams should be delivered upi for immolaiion upon lbo altar of slavery, against which he had published such blasphemous words. Dec. 20, 1836, Wilson Lumpkin, Governor of Georgia, ipproved llie act of the Legislature of that Stalc, appropriating 5,000 for the prosecution and conviclion oí the publisher of ihe Liberator. A clergyman of Va. closes u published letter "to the sessions of the l'resbyteriani ennregations, within Ihe bounds of the! West Hanover Presbytery, ihus: AIf there be any stray goat of a minister among us tainted with ihe bluod-hound principies oi'abolilionism, let him be fer-j relied out, silcnced, exeommunicated, and j.efl to the publc to dispose of him in othcri respects. Your afleciiooate brother in the Lord, KOBERT N. ANDERSON." In a debate in Congress, Feb. 0, 1841, Mr. Black, of Georgia, said to Mr. Gid-DiMJs of Ohio: "If ihe genllemun fron: Ohio will put his foot in my country, wc will givc him a taste oí Lynch law, anc honur him with an elevation that he little dreams of. Put ihatdown in your bookl'' üe rcad from ihe Bible the first five verses of the seventh chapterof Matthew, and whcn he cametotho beginning of the fifth verse, he turned tu Mr. Giddinos and with a sarcasiic air, and pointing of the finger, that were truly awful, exclaimed. "Tiiou Hypocbïtb!" in the sanie debate, when Mr. Dowxing, of Florida, was spcaking, Mr. Giddings arosc to explain or correct him, Lut Mr. ü. beggcd him not lo interrupt. Said he, "I had raiher stay wrong than bc put right by that gentleman, formuch as I muy respect l:im in otlier repecls, I cannot consent to como in contact with his almosphere on this sulject. ín all olher mat. ters I rniht meet him, but on this I would not touch him with a ten foot pole!" Yet our Northern methbers of Congress, with a some half a dozen exceptions put up wi:h this eontiiiual slream of abuse year aftcr year, and neither dare to return their insults in the same lauguagc, nor openly and manfully resist these displays of Southern insolence, and put them downII is a humiliaiing faot, though we are sorry to believe ii, that the conduct of our Northern member3 generally shows conclusivcly thai ihey ::re underlings, anu ihati ihey are as cfTbcluaüy diiven about by their Southern 'masters, as iu afarmer'd yard, the weaker and more cowardly eni- mals are driven about by those that are' stronger and more insolent. But they are' not thus Uunc aud imbecile, because they have no spirit or capacity or energy - lar from it. They have them all. But ihey lold their scais in Congress by menns of the ascendency of their party; and ihatj ascendancy can only be attained and pre-: served by securing ihe aid of the slavc- holderí. Sh.uld ill the Northern h'v memberá take ile same manly stand Mr. Giddixgs has done, all the slaveholding States would join'lhe Democrats, and thus areak down the whigs. On the other ïand, shoulc' the democrats insist on carrying out their great docrine of equal rights to all men, the slaveholders to a man, would turn whigs, and thus put down ihe democratie party. By thus holding the balance of power, the slaveholders veep two parties in subjection at once, and are enabled to be as insolent towards joth, agthey may choose to be, without the "ear of a rebellion by either. Heneo we see the neecssity of a liborty party. 07=The whole revenue of Texas for the yèar ending Sept. 30th,amounted to $433,J35.