Progress

A correspondent of the Philanthropiet writes from Now York: Since 1 have been here, I have heard the Pastor of a Presbyterian Church of some eeverai hundred members - a pastor bora and edúcate tí in Kentucky - prcach a decided and clear abolition discourseen which hc called the frec eolored people present, in the congregaron his ;'lriends" nnd "krethren," and strongly reprehended the Jisabilities and opressions undcr whicli they Jaor by being excluded from most branches of useful and honorable industry. I haveseen coiumnf afreports of Anti-slavery speechea and editorial laudation of Anti-slavery meetings irt the public prints of the city, which, six years ago, when a convention of lecturers met here, either took no notice of ihem at all, or advertiscd thern a3 ':an infamous gang of aboliiionists lurking in somc part of ihe city hatching their mÍ3chievous de signs lor embroiling the land." . Eut the tone and spirit of our public conveyance3 furnish the most striking proof of the drying up of the pro-slivery spirit of the country, for these are the veins and arteries of society along which n voluntarily flows. Six years ago slavrholders regardcd our rail roads, rivers, and cañáis as a part of their own domain - a claim which the crouching spirit of gain ín agents and stock-hold'zrs is ever ready to accord to these who expend, in travelling, the most insolence and moncy. It is easy to see that public sentiment along our travelling routs, presses more heavily upon slaveholders now then it did upon abuli- tionists then: thouch it does not manifest itself. as the former did, in ferocious and savage insult upon their persona