Fiat Justitia Ruat Cœlum. to your petitions; patronize according to your ability, works of utility in diffusing the principles of freedom; and, in a word, do for your suffering colored brethren, Extract of a letter from Jacob W. Prout, of Monrovia, Africa, to the editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation, dated Sept. 22, 1830. "I am happy to state that Capt. W. F. Martin, of the schr. Zembuca, of Balti-that which you would wish them to do morė, burthen about one hundred tons, for you, upon a change of circumstances. recently ascended the St. Pauls River, as To such of you, fellow helpers, as are far up as the extremity of Bushrod Island, yet alive, I can only say, endeavor to bewhich is between the St. P. and the come still more lively; and I would by all Stockton. It is said by the natives that means further advise you, not to be disthey have not seen a vessel of this size, heartened at the imaginary gloomy prosin that river, before. I think the dis. pects which seem to hover around you: covery will be of considerable benefit to for the cause which you have espoused our colony; and Capt. M. deserves ap- is the cause of Heaven, and the combined plause for the same. I was an eye wit-powers of earth and hell cannot prevail ness to the performanee, as I was on against it. board. "I have sent for my good friend a few limes, of which, if they arrive I shall be enabled to ship any quantity Our Trees hang as full here, as the Apple Trees do in America, and they are more abundant” to you. From the Greensborough Patriot. AN ADDRESS Let me now call your attention back to the first formation of your humane instisafe,tution, and ask you what was then the appearance, and the prospect? A few "earthern pitchers and their lamps," assaying to contend with almost a whole nation of inveterate slaveholders! The prospect, to mortal eyes, was gloomy indeed; and the appearance not less contemptible to the surrounding hosts of slaveholders, than the stripling David was to the mail-coated Goliah of Gath. Delivered at a meeting of the Jefferson Branch || of the Manumission Society of Tennesse, on But let us mirk the revolving rounds the 1st of May, 1830, by Thomas Doan. of only fourteen years, and test the changes FELLOW HELPERS IN PLEADING THE which have taken place within that period. CAUSE OF THE POOR AND NEEDY :-In The principle which you then advocated, compliance with your request, I now might be compared to the "little cloud solicit your attention to what I have thrown of the size of a man's hand;" or perhaps, together in your requested essay, upon more fitly, to the "little leaven, hid in the the almost worn-out subject of African meal;" but what now is its appearance? slavery. Indeed! were it not for the too Why, that same "little leaven"-that general apathy which prevails over a same principle of freedom which you conlarge number of the professed advocates tended for, has extended its influence, for African freedom, I should despair of not only over this large continent, but bringing forward a single idea that was over Spanish America also, and has even new, or of casting the least glimmer of found its way into the British Parundiscovered light upon the subject-so liament; nor do I believe that its salutanearly has it been exhausted by the nu- ry effects will cease, till the "whole lump merous speakers and writers that have is leavened," and the curse of slavery from time to time treated upon it. But eradicated from the civilized world.on account of the general apathy, of which Thousands, fellow helpers, who were the I have been speaking, I have made the avowed enemies of African emancipation venture, not knowing but old subjects, fourteen short years ago, have been conlong forgotten, might, when revived, be vinced, and are now among the warmest to such characters entirely new and inter- advocates for freedom. Your numbers, esting. In addressing you at this time, as friends to the rights of man, have inI must beg of such of you, if such there creased beyond your most sanguine antibe, that are almost "twice dead and pluck-cipations. In the infancy of your insti. ed up by the roots," to awake from your tution, your enemies viewed you with sleep of stupefaction, and arise from your contempt-they neither loved nor feared graves of insensibility, and exercise a either you or your efforts; but many, little more energy in attending your meet- who then considered you as almost beings for promoting the object of the in-neath their notice, to them you now have stitution of which you are members-ex- a formidable appearance, and they dread ert yourselves in procuring new signers" the effects of your exertions and influ Fiat Justitia Ruat Cœlnm. subject, and I would willingly have left it unnoticed, did I not believe that duty urged to the contrary. Shall I thus publickly venture to tell my fears, and not be ence. Manumissionists, at this stage of existence, appear terrible as an "army with banners" to the votaries of oppression; and though they endeavor to intimidate you, and to weaken your hands by honor-in danger of being called an infidel? To ing you with the genteel appellations of avoid this, let me first state without hyfools, fanatics, enthusiasts, or whatever pocrisy, that I am a believer in the Chrisother evil epithets they may think propertian Religion, and some sort of an unto confer upon you, yet they fear your worthy professor of it. Having thus prepowers, and, as if in despair of holding mised, I proceed: I fear, fellow belpers, long their sable human prey with tiger that a majority, perhaps, of the Christian grasp, growl defiance to every effort to professing societies in our country, are wrest it from them. The spirit of phi- amongst the greatest props, supporters, lanthropy is progressing with such rapidi- and upholders of the system of slavery, ty, that the slave proprietors are alarmed of any other class of citizens whatever. at its march, and even daringly threaten The most, if not all of them, acknowledge a dissolution of the Union, whenever the slavery to be wrong, and pronounce it to slave question is ever so slightly agitated.be both a national sin and a moral evil, The nabobs of the slave states are exand yet keep slave-holders in church comceedingly jealous of their rights—their munion, and some of them have slaveprivileges their property; and are afraid holding preachers, and authorise them to that Congress, in conjunction with the be instructors of others in the mysteries free States, and the abolitionists in the of Christianity! There is something a several States, may, some day or other, little mysterious in this:-pronounce a put their heads together, and bring about slave-holder to be a moral sinner, and a universal emancipation of all the slaves then authorise the same moral sinner to in the nation; and hence the general preach the pure gospel of the redeemer! hue and cry, which we so often hear Pronounce the slave-holding lay-member sounded by our little and big politicians to be a moral sinner, and then unite with about State Rights-which is nothing him in full Christian fellowship, in permore nor less than a new fashioned argu-forming the most sacred acts of Christian ment in support of the slave system. devotion, by communing together at the From the general outcry which is raised by our State-Right politicians about State Rights, no other conclusion can be fairly drawn, I apprehend, then that they wish to divest the national government of all its powers or dissolve it altogether, so that every State may act independent of the rest, or of any higher council than its How do you feel,fellow manumissionists, own, either to direct or protect it; and when you join with slave-holders in any, all this and more, from a fear of losing or all of the above described emblems of their slaves. But touch upon slavery, Christian fellowship? or when you sit and you touch the apple of their eye- under the "droppings of the sanctuary" and no wonder-having so long lived in of a slave-holding preacher? Do you idleness and upon the gain of oppression, feel no revoltings of mind upon such octhey are too lazy to work, too proud to casions? Reflect, if you please, and think beg, and they well know what their next upon it. I am fully persuaded, that if alternative would be. But a word to all the Christian Churches in America you, fellow manumissionists: What would excommunicate every slave-holdthink you of the consistency of men, pro-ing member, who should refuse to manufessing to be the friends of African freedom, and at the same time lending a heavy hand in promoting one, or more, of these state-right, slavery-protecting politicians, to a seat in the national legislature? It might be well enough to take this matter into serious consideration. One other case, and I have done. This is the most delicate part of my general eucharist board, and in the full fellowship denoting love feast; or the flesh-purifying operation of washing feet! There appears to me to be either a very great inconsistency in these things, or a most in|| tolerable "daubing with untempered mor tar." mit his or her slaves, and finally exclude all such from becoming members in future, that it would do more in "breaking every yoke, undoing the heavy burdens, and letting the oppressed go free," than any means that ever have been, or can be, used without it. All of which 1 submit to your serious consideration. LADIES Fiat Justitia Ruat Colum REPO Philanthropy and Literature. PRINCIPALLY CONDUCTED BY A LADY. anguish? Shall we smother the convictions of conscience, and silence the promptings of humanity, rather than intrude a disagreeable theme upon your ear? And turning to the helpless beings, whose cause our God and our religion commands us to plead as earnestly as if it were our own, shall we tell them, as the dim eye is lifted towards us in passionate supplication, that we are conscious our united efforts would release them from their soul destroying bonds, but that you are wearied of the subject, It appears to be considered no small grievance and we like not to press it upon your attentio by some of our gentle sisters, that the subject of Would you not condemn as a heartless wretch, slavery should so frequently be forced before their the individual who could act thus by one single attention by the friends of emancipation. They sufferer? How much less then may we so betrey complain that it is but little short of persecution the cause of thousands! "Strike me," said the or slavery in itself, to be so frequently obliged Athenian orator, "if you will but hear me!" to endure remonstrances on their inactivity, to and shall we desist to press upon your attention be so perpetually called upon for their aid and a subject of far greater moment than any meresympathy, or so often reminded of what, theyly political one that was ever agitated, because are told, is their duty. IMPORTUNITY. you have grown impatient of the often repeated To us, this extreme sensitiveness seems not to topic? No! we must still again and again prebelong to consciences so wholly untouched by sent it before you. We must not cease to assail the subject as they would be willing to appear. you with our importunity till weariness is changPersons are not usually disturbed at the ap-ed into interested and active compassion. If proach of what is totally indifferent to them. We should rather suppose that their irritations proceeded, perhaps truly unconsciously, from a fear that such troublesome interference might dissipate the slumbers, which they have been at some pains to force upon a sense of duties which it might be troublesome to perform. Yet if they were really as indifferent as they would persuade themselves they have a right to be, that would not be a sufficient reason why the voice of remonstrance should be silenced. Were it a subject that concerned only the personal gra-sciousness that yonr brothers blood will never tification of the pleaders, then indeed their lie with a burning weight upon your souls. your hearts turn sickening away from the thought of so much wretchedness, reflect, then, that no exertions, no sacrifices of yours can be too great, that have for their object the alleviation of the lot of those who are actually groaning under its endurance. Even though you may not be certain of success, it is worth while at least to endeavor to do good; and should your efforts fall short of their desired end, you will be amply rewarded for them in the satisfaction of having done what you could, and in the con THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE. It is frequently urged as a plea for indifference and inaction with regard to emancipation, that the mind has never been particularly impressed with the subject, and that the conscience has always remained at rest concerning it. But this we do not conceive to be by any means a friends might justly complain if they were wearied with importunity. But this is not the case. Opposition to slavery is not a theme to be taken up merely in compliance with a prevailing fashion, or an individual taste or inclination. It is a question which concerns the vital interests of millions of human beingsof thousands-of hundreds of thousands of our own sex; and those of us who feel that the in-valid argument, unless we have diligently calfluence of woman must and will be felt in its discussion, have a right to demand that it should be examined patiently. What! are we to behold our fellow creatures suffering and oppress-sometimes walk blindly in a wrong path; but, ed-must we see as it were tears of blood wrung out, drop by drop, from the crushed hearts of our sisters, and yet stifle the indignant agony of our own bosoms, and fear to lift up our voices in their behalf, because you have grown weary of the harrowing tale of their led upon, and carefully attended to the sugges- though we may perhaps be held guiltless, so long as we remain unconsciously slumbering, yet if we obstinately turn away from the hand that would awaken us, and refuse to open our eyes that we may discover whether light or darkuess is around us, surely we are not less culpable Fiat Justitia Ruat Colum. a plain question of christian duty. The simple tions an than if we knowingly persisted in error. There seems to be prevalent, a strange opinion, that it is incumbent upon none to become advocates for the rights of humanity, in the persons of the enslaved Africans, but those who have received an especial intimation of their duty in that respect; that the productions of slavery, which are undeniably its foundation and support, may be freely partaken of by all but those to whom they have been forbidden in a voice that might not be gainsayed. In other excuse for suffering our brethren to remain unaided in their bondage. The rule things we listen to the tones of reason, we seek her guidance to the gate of conscience, and ask upon which we are to act, was long since proher interpretation of the hidden responses of mulgated. It is written upon every page of the the bosom oracle. Shall we not then in like christian religion-it is graven upon a broad manner expect to be enlightened in this matter, scroll of light in words that may be read to the by a patient investigation and search after farthest extremity of the universe. All things knowledge? We know that many persons have || whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, been called from a life of sin and disobedience, even so do ye unto them, and thou shalt love thy by the terrible voice of God, sounding like a neighbor as thyself” clear trumpet-note to the innermost recesses of their bosoms. But who would therefore be so mad, as to suppose that we may with impunity persist in a course of impiety, until an irresista ble summons comes to turn us from our path, as to Saul of Tarsus, at the broad noon-day? So neither have we any reason to believe, that a particular revelation will be vouchsafed to us with regard to our conduct here. If the system is repugnant to the known general laws of religion and morality; if it is contrary to the written commands of God, and those which are whispered, in the heart's silent hour, to the spiritual ear, then we know of a truth it must be wickedness, and it follows as a natural and inevitable consequence that we are called upon to lend our influence to its destruction, and that we connot innocently in any way be partakers therein. We know that the enslaved Negroes are human beings;—our brethren and our sisters; that they are “sick, and an hungered, and in prison," and shall we dare to assert that our duty does not require us to "minister unto them," till we have received a particular command to do so? There are others who seem to fear to enter lightly and with unconsecrated foot upon a field which presents a work of such magnitude, that God's own hand seems only competent to the completion of the task. And if it were only a labor of religious reformationone of those mighty overthrowings which sometimes take place when the finger of the Almighty is at work secretly in the mysterious depths of the human bosom, then might we indeed justly dread to lay unhallowed hands upon the "Ark of the Covenant." But this is For the Genius of Universal Emancipation. MALE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA, The Committee who have in charge An order from Kennet-Square, requesting an assortment of the different articles on hand, has been attended to. It would be desirable if our members would as much as practicable encourage the use of such articles as are the productions of free labour, in preference to those produced by slaves, as we think much depends upon individual faithfulness, and by disposing speedily of the goods now on hand, it would thereby encourage the manufacturers, and still continue to increase the demand for free cotton-and also to endeavour to bear the little sacrifices, as to the quality of the goods, which is necessary in bringing into operation this noble cause. 9th month, 13, 1830. Report for Tenth Month. The committee in virtue of their appointment, have duly attended to the va rious concerns which have come within their notice during the past month,—and inform the Association, that the increased demand for our goods has rendered Fiat Jnstitia Ruat Colum it necessary to bespeak a new supply from the factories-there being yet a considerable quantity of cotton yarn on hand. Therefore, five hundred yards of Bed-ticking and five hundred of sheetings have been ordered. A considerable quantity of coarse shirtings have been received since last report, but not a sufficiency to meet the applications. The person who has undertaken the manufacturing of dimity, informs: that owing to the cotton not being of a suitable quality, he is obliged to abandon the making of furniture dimity. An order received from Westchester, Pennsylvania, for a supply of nearly all the varieties of the remaining lots of goods now in the store room, has been attended to, and the articles furnished accordingly. LITERARY. For the Genius of Universal Emancipation. SLAVERY. pleasure? What may he know, amidst his degradation, of the high acquirements of mind-of the delicate enjoyments of the taste and the imagination? What is hope to him? What is memory-delicious memory! that kind bestower of a two-fold life? that skilful limner, who, if she cannot preserve to us in an enduring existence, the vanishing moments of delight, sketches with a rapid hand their brightest features, and shadows out a picture which we may gaze upon long after the reality has passed away! Her pencil may indeed be wielded for him—she may call back to his view a vivid picturing of former years and former scenes—but what are the images that crowd upon her easel? Friends, loved friends, from whom he is forever parted--gentle eyes and soft cheeks that have rested in fondness upon his bosom, but are now to be beheld never again, terrible scenes of violent separation, and that dear home under whose shadowing trees lie the ashes of his mother, where he grew from childhood to youth, where he loved and was wedded, If there is one cup administered to the and from which in an evil hour he was lips of man, more deeply than all others torn forever. She has none for him of drugged with bitterness, it is that which the blessed recollections, brighter it may to its very dregs is drained by the Negro be, but not less dear than the more strikslave. It is vain to speak of the coming circumstances of life,--of happy hours forts of his situation;-to contrast his certainty of food and raiment, with the anxious care of the indigent freeman, wearing away his days under heart-sickening discouragements and unremitted toil, to provide for the helpless beings who look to him, and to him only, for the means of subsistence. The highest enjoyment in the first case, the mere exemption from physical want, is one in which the favorite steed and the house-than only the printed characters,--some hold dog, fellow servants with the slave, partake of a more generous portion than himself. In the other, though the toils of the free laborer should be severe and more lengthened, though his means of providing for the wants of life were more scanty, yet the high swelling of the free spirit, the consciousness of duty well performed, and the grateful affection which rewards his toil, impart even to his dark-ate tears. est hours, a happiness which would be ill exchanged for all the blessings which slavery ever bestowed upon a child of Africa. The slave! is it not a heartless mock ing of his fate, to couple his name in the same breath with that of happiness! What is to him the refinement of intellectual passed in the society of well loved friends, with whom, though you may perhaps, and not unreluctantly, have parted, your intercourse may at some future day be yet renewed,-the moonlight walks, when kind voices sounded even sweeter and softer than their wont, of which all after moon's are the remembrancer,—the volume, read aloud under the shadow of the hill-vine, whose pages contain far more to your eye, added mental acquirement, not so valued for its own sake, as for the thought of the friendly circle where it was gathered up,— moments of glad mirth, the deeper passages of more serious and the thousand remembered kindnesses of years,-most delicious are all these to the heart that can turn back and gaze upon them through no darker medium than a few affection But to the slave--he whose partings are forever, and his past hung over with a blood-red cloud of desolation, what can such memoirs bring but added misery-what but to forget can be a bles sedness? The few bright spots that may rise to blossom around him in the desert of his life, are like the vine surrounded cottage of the peasant, on the side of |