Feeling In Slave States

Dr. Bailey, of the Cincinnati Herald, has just returned from a visit to Virginia and Maryland. Of their anti-slavery aspects, he says: "As l am about leaving the Slave States, I mny say that thcre fa far less excitement in hem on the subject of aboliüon thun formcrly. rPhö politica} phtise assumed by this inovement has tended lo this result. All ihrcugh the Southern States, the name of James G. Birney, as the Liberty candidate tbr the Presidency is familiar with the people. The papers are gradually falling inlo the hibit of rccognizing the Liberty movement as a legitímate political enterprise. The. rawhead and bloody bones are fast disappearing. and, it will not be long, I trust, before a Liberty partyshall be organized in several of the slave States. The old law of iMaryland ngainst the circulation of incendiary publications will soon become obsolete. In the office of my friend, the fearless editor of theRaltimore Saturday Visitor, I found allsortsol exchanges, anti-slavery, and slavery - most of the newspapers in tact of the Liberty party. Dr. Snodgrass occupiesan important position. He is a sincere friend of the colored man, and of the cause of human rights, and much respected for his frank and manly bearing. His paper is exerting a highly beneficial influence. I do not despair of the States I have visited. A sanative influence is at work among their people. Sober men are willing to examine the evíl which has so long weighed them down, and they will ere long, make themselves feit."(t5' The aggregate influence exercised by that Garland forgery may be estimated from its effects in a single place. - Gerrit Smith writesfrom Peterboroto the Albany Patriot: "The Liberty vote of thi5 counly was, last year, 1,763; this year, it is probably tull 400 short of that nümber. Until the Saturday before the election, our ranks appeared to be unbroken and firm. Tliey hadwithstood the storm of lies about our beloved Birney; but, on that day, appearpeared the forged letter and its imposing accompaniments. .This was too much for our raw recruits to withstand. [You must recollect that more than two-thirds of the 1,763 came to us last fall.] They feil on the right hand and on the left, by dozens and by scores. Until I saw this forged letter, I was well nigh certain, that Madison county would hold up her great anti-slavery vote of last fall. But when I found at the polls, that even Smithfield Abolitionist8 believed that Birney wrote this letter, and, therefore, refused to vote for him, I knew not what limits to set to the influence of this most execrable and infamous Whig lie." EFThe majorities for the four last Presiilential periode are ihus stated in an exchange. For Jackson, in 1828, 139,468 " 1832, 123,935 Van Buren, 25,876 Harrison, 146,206 Polk's majority over Cloy is said to be about 50,000.CTThe Legislature of Vermont have determined that thcre shall be no more mili t a training in that State, ualcss in cases of insarrcciion or invasión. This was a wise enacnnent. When wiH thepeople of Michigan become wise enough to nbolish their present absirrd, uselese, expensivo, inconvenient, uaju8t,ietnoralisiivg eyoiem of mililia trairiingB?