Mr. Torrey's Letter

immediatrly alter his convïctión, Mr. Torrev a lona letter, for the brneiit of liis fiji-nd-s in genprul, uhich inny be oonsiJcrrd as l.-ts vuledittory. The foliowing is the conclusión of il. To iny mam, many friends, vh, by letters ufsympiil.y: mnlribtition of mcney, personal vi.sitfi ui.d messages of kindness, have made iny lonjr imprifOimiPiit in this old jail Jess rrrirvotiPj n;iy, oficn the tonice of the higliest oratifiration, I ctm expresa niv hearir'cll urrariiule f'or their kiii'lnp.s and off cii. n. May fïou do so to thrrn, n the hom of thoir need! And niay tliat Snvior who has tiot forgotten fne in niv prison, lie ihe 'smirce of ligu!, pesec nnd Idvinr? adivlty to thom, in their Ireedom I hope, tlioiigli ! rxpeect ti pnss from Fotnr most miiiils, osa "n;no dnys' talk," thal some of thf)se wilh whom ] liave oftcn i;.];nn sweet conrii-el, u'ill continue to remernber theibroilior in bom!?, whon thy vi.-it the mercy seat. ï cannot write. individunlly, Bgítin to my numerous-corresnontJents, or to nny, suve tny relativos, or qn buiijefs as my little rem unnt of freedom ihnll niake needfi;!. Somo times whfii I remember liw the widow ar.d children of thnt good man, Lvjoyt siiflcred, I am anxions about my owñ dear wifè nnd children. Dm 1 leave thoiu in God's iiands, confident Ihnt Le wil! be botter thnn fathernnd hosbnnd to tliem. To nig-ht my wife partcd from me - n l to meet ngain, perhaps - I say, prohuhly, while we Jive. During1 all the anxiousdiys ihe !üis been with mr, she would shëd no tear, tilter no word of despondency, bocause she cnme'to chec me. Goc! bless her! Had crime pnrled ns, she would no fioub', have wejit bitter tears. Help her, 't.ue yokcfe'lows,' in Chose lilernrv exertions on which the must probably rely, for the future support of herself and our littJe one?. I want stil I lo say one word of chcer to my kiborers. The intense and universal pxcitement in this city connected with my trial, wiü, I trust, do some gi'od. Anti-slavery, for once, ha? been made the topic of enger debate in évêry bar-room and eating house, and lts mott radical principies have nut wanted effenden--, in all ê-uch circles; nol to mentionilie more influential cla.-sef, in wbich similar excitement and divided feeliriirs liave been manifested. So that, no: wiihstnndmg my case bas been dealc with as one of more ordi nnry criminal jürisprudence, the issues nvolved have not befn f'orottcri, nnd I believp God wil! not suffer il:em to be t-o, till in 1350, V.m law of Liberty shall be proclaimed from lhe capiloJ of Marvland. IC God has 'ten failhful men' in all this State, (lint year wij! see AJarj'land trcr, her sfare pnsons demolished, her ílavp jmls empty, hor overseer?, and blood hound Rigdons and their likes, if not penitent, vet stmvrd into better businesí; lier slavetrufiers banislied, tJie blijht on lier prosperity, the bnne of her tnoral.--, removed, and rqual htws extended over n her citizens. Mark it welfí I850 is the set timel I write in the same oíd j-i ïl wherr, in the henrt of that noble man - whom, with all his faults we luve and honor stil! - Williain L' Garrison, God commRncrd t lm present abulition moveinent. 'J'he final battle ground of the mnrnl coi.fiict may yot be roui'd liiis nme o!d jail! From ihi.s jul, I cnlrcal lhe liffurent classes of aboliiioniöts to lay asidV1 'all wraih, clamor, and evil ppeokint.'-' of eacli otlier; to Hnve as brelhren.' if their diner mjr jmigments w11 not ahvays allow them to - 6ortogelhor. L'3t e'ich, in his ov:i viy, vTork for the slave, willjout finding fau'.t with each olher's plans or suspeeüng each oiher's pirit or faithfulness. As to the 'old' and 'nev; organizations. the Liberty party and the non-voting party, I solemnly declare my conviction that one heart, onc spirit, one object, one purpose animates, not orily the 'leaders,' but lhe entire mass of both partics. with no individua] exceptions than we find wherever human infirmity is connected with andstriving Tor any good and noble end. We all differ on a thousnnd other topics, and, when we come together to act for the slave. we c anno t leave our coats a: home! We cannot cast offour own individuality of charactcr, opinión, and habit. But we can be-'forbearing, kind, gentle, easy to be entreated.' That God has overruled our past strifes for the furtherance of the cause, does not jusüfy the many, many exhibitions of a bad spirit that accompanied those strifes, as 'much in one as in the other l!organizatjonj" and which made división an evil - othorwi.se it is none; it nnerely muliiplies laborers and forms of activity. 'Suffer the word of exhortation,' brethren. to pea ce,cordiality, co-operation, where it can be, and an imitation of Abraham and Lot, where union of action is not possible. The day of jubilee will come the sooner. O. if 1 had never known aught of the efFects of slavery on the moráis, happiness and welfare of man, but what my eyes have seen and my ears heard in this jail, I ivould vow to it, and make my children vovr undy'mg, active enmity, witliout an hour's rest, lili not a .slave cursed the land with Hls tears, or blasted its fields with his blood. 'Tis theslave's blood and swet tha: cover the South with 'old fields,' 'barren,' and decayed and log houses, where comfort is never known, where ignorance reigns, where misery duclls; where even religión consists in dreams, ecstacies, shoutingsand idle meeting-going. rather than in doing the will oj God from the heart. One thing I beg my brelhren to do. - Wait not for political ascendancy in the Nortn, or ibr the reform or overturn of all our pro-slavery ecclesiastietil bodies. . before resuming the most direct and ac. tivé and universal eíforts to diffuse our views and principies, by means of the , press andotherwise, in the Slave States. : Now, the public mind, all orerthe South, [ is prepared' to reccive the truth withnitély more calmness and intelligence than it was in 1832-8, when such a flood of publications were issucd. Let that flood of book, jjamphTet, tract nnd essay flow forth a-ga in. Get 5000 prominent names in every State- it can be easily done - and visit thetu tnonlMy with the truth. Every thing anti-slavory is now eargerly read in the South. The desire iö read is far alicad of the supply of jropcr rcadivg on the subject. 'Corisider wliat I say.' Where arethe idle stereotype plates of Liberly? I did intend to reply to the voices of sympathy that carne to my c.ell from ncross tlie water, from the land whence my puritan soldier-ancester, 'Lieutenant James Torrey,' fled, in 1G29, to find rel'tgious freedom, in the wild woods of what s my native Scituate. Now, the once tyrant Inother land teaches the daughter le?sons inthescience of person.",1 freedom and equal laws, to guard the poor in the qn iet possession of it. But l cannot even reply lo that document which bears, written in tremulous characters, the prae clarum el vencrabile nomen of Thomas Clarkson, and the kind note from Johx Scoble, which accompanied it. But your paper wil! teil that honored brotlier, and the venerable father 'of the antislavery cause, that I shall leave it with my children to teach them that a fellon's prison, for the slave's sake, does not deprive their father of the respect of those whose approval is honor.