The North Aroused--how It Was Done

Professor MeClintock, of Dickinsnn College, a man highly esteemed in the Methodist cliurch, bolh as n scrholnr and a Christian, is publishing in the Ci.ristian Advocate and Journal aseries of articles on slavery. From liis fii&t number we copy the fullowing pnragrahs, which, as the Prcfessor discliims the name of 'Abulitionist proper," will be rfa:l by -ome with surpp■ie, thongh many will regard his st.-itements as substantially truc -N. Y. Tribune. " The Abolition party, properiy so caüed, mny hc. said t be broken up; the división of Northern men into Abolitionists nnd Abo] itionistsexists nolongor. We have Garrisonians, Liberty men. Methodist Extirpntors, and Whig and Democraiic Anti-Slavery men; and thrse, I ihink, enihoóy the great mass of the Nortliern qcople. The re&t, atany mtr, me hardly worth speaking of. The whole people, bating the ncignificnnt f rad ion j ust aliuded to, are mhued w!th ntisliivery feeling; nollhe -dormnnt, passive feeling wliícfl existed, we are toid, years ago, althoug'i t gave no signs of life, but a living, even an nggressive, power, which nnt only rcfjses to stiengihen the institution of slavery, but spe.iks ominously of its overthrow. In a word, the consciencc of :Iip great Northern r:ce is arousei, and even the 'potsh-rds of the earth" do homago to it in Wilnio' provisions. and ihe lik?, in tnnt very City "f Washington whei-p, within alu-strumor tuo.lhey crouchfd.Iike spanieKatthe feet of Southern masters, and refused, at their bidding, even to licar the humble petitions of their free Northern constituents. Men wl o, ten years ago, walked sofily. as on eggs when they darpd to appronch the suhject nt all, and spoke gingerly ahout the " domesttc insiitutions " of the South, have now learned to cali things by their right ntimes, andspeak out, wilh j refreshing boldness, ol the curse of slavery." Now, howlias this ohange been bro't to pass? Let the confession come.Messrs. Editor?; the Abolitionists have none it. Political events have done their share; hut politicians wonld have rermined as they were, but for ihe slimwlu-! which public opinión receivel from the Abolitionists. Wrong thev douhtless have heen ra many respects - headstronp fanal cal, ahuive, phnrisnical. if you please - but Ihcy have done tfiis thing. Thy have siirred np mon's minds to contémplale a groat truth, no matter what evil passions they have stirred up beside. Perhaps, evpn the ultraism was necessary to give tlio iinpulse, the energy. tlie almost recklfiss dariag, ind ihe unflaggii perseverance, that were essential lo so great an enterprise. The evils of the ultraism were rnany; but they have passed, or nre rapdly pnssing-, awny; ihe entliusiasm and the perseverante remain, and :nay they remain until the work is done ! ,The confession is not quito complete. It was formerly often said, nnd is now somtime, that nnti-slavery agitation only tightened the bnnds of ïlie iiiished his privilege, anl multiplicd his grievances. Southern men, not seeing tliat tliey were proclaiming (heir own shame, said this so often that they believed it themselTe?, and imiuced mnny nt ihe North to believe it loo. I confess ihnt 1 wns among the mtmber, having both spoken and written to t his effect, in youthful ignornnce; but I hae since learned, (and could prove, if it were recessary,) íhat the condition of tho slaves, taking ihe wholo South together, has been vastly improved during lilis ngi'ation. The t reo oftnith has sont forlh from its mighiy branches " itü slirring and far-heard music, wliile waving in tho slorm" of this, as ofatl oiher great controversies. Tlie slaveholders have learned that tho ejesof the world ii re un lliem, and have walke 1 accordnglv. No lo-s n man that William Capers unwillinglv testifiei to ihis, in the Southertí Cluistian Advocate if Fe'j. 4, 1817. Writing aboul slave missions, (and forgetling at tlie time, his anti-slnvery fiiends at the Nortl),) he says : "Oaly think, ihat where, seventy years ngo, the cloren people had boen, time oui of minJ ; without tho Gospel - no pieaching, no .acraments, no Bible instruction, no oa e ;!iisir, no Christian teaching oí' tcai:iing wluitever, as, for instance, in ihe givat rice-field swarnps of VVnscanmw, Santee, Pon Pon, and Ciimpahee - there, at tlio present time, they are more fully served tlian elsewhere in the country," &c. Be it remeinbored, that sevenleen years s but little over the peiiod of theanti-slavery agita! ion, Dr. Capers might deny tho infere nce ; but he has only furnislied one case out of many that might be ndduced to sustain the poinl which I have niade."_