FURTHER NOTICE.

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routes that lead to it from different parts of the United States. It will cost but 25 cents.

It was my intention to have said much more

limits are so narrow that it must be deferred to the next number.

GREAT ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING IN

It having pleased the Ruler of nations, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid, "and of whom the whole family of Heaven and earth are call-upon this subject, at the present time, but my ed," and who has made of one blood all nations of the earth to dwell thereon, to make use of me, his humble instrument, to bring this matter before the publick-to God be all the praise. Gentlemen willing to assist in this great work, will please make any contribution they may see right, and lodge the same in any of the Banks of the city, specifying that it is A file of the "Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter" for the above use of purchasing female free-has been received at this office, together with dom, and notify the subscriber through the post office. Any gentleman wishing a personal interview, shall be waited on, and the views and hopes of the subseriber given, arising from this entering wedge against human slavery.

Baltimore 30th Aug. 1830.

THOMAS CRUSE.

COLONY IN CANADA.

ENGLAND.

various interesting tracts, pamphlets &c. by a late arrival from Liverpool. From the June number of the "Reporter" we learn that a numerous meeting of the friends of African emancipation was held at the Fremason's Hall, on the 15th of May. It is stated that it was one of the most numerous ever held at that place, upon any occasion. Many went away without being able to obtain admission. The venerable and patriotic Wilberforce was called to the

The subject of emigrating to Canada still occupies the attention of great numbers of the colored people in the middle and northern states. James Deaver, a respectable and intel-chair, and the meeting was addressed by Lords Milton and Calthorpe, Messrs. Buxton, Broughligent colored man of this city, has recently

returned from a visit to that country, and gives

a favourable account of it. It is believed that the emigration thither has not yet been as great as represented in the various newspapers that have noticed the subject; but from the stir at present, in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, &c. where large societies have been organized, funds raised, and agents despatched to view the land, there is no doubt that a very extensive emigration will very soon take place. The most intelligent and wealthy among the people of color are decidedly favorable to the measure, and will encourage it, not only by word, but also with pecuniary means. And it is a serious consideration, for philanthropists of every class and condition, whether it would not become all to aid and assist this important undertaking. There is now no doubt that they will be admitted to the full enjoy ment of their civil and religious privileges in that colony; and if they should be encouraged to remove at all, let them have choice of country and clime.

am, Denham, Pownal, O'Connell, Drummond,

and other distinguished characters,

"A resolution was adopted, to Petition Par liament to proceed with such measures as might be necessary for abolishing slavery, and praying that an early day might be fixed, the children born after which to be deemed free."

The following brief account of the object of this meeting &c. is given in a letter from the sage philanthropist, Thomas Clarkson, to a gentleman in Philadelphia, and published in the "Friend." The period is drawing near when the Demon, Slavery, will assuredly receive his death-blow in every portion of the British Empire.

The

"My kind love to Friends in Philadelphia; 15th of the present month, a large meeting of tell them that there was held in this city on the the Friends of the Anti-Slavery cause. This meeting was attended by 2000 persons, and so great was the interest evinced by the public on the occasion, that 1000 persons are supposed to have been disappointed in their hopes of gaining admittance, through want of room. proceedings of this meeting were of an interHezekiah Grice, a very intelligent colored esting character, and its resolutions indicated. the prevailing and unopposed sentiment that man, a resident of Baltimore, is about publish- the time was at length arrived, when the Briting a Map, embracing the most of Upper Cana-ish public could not any longer be satisfied da and some parts of the adjacent country. It with vague promises or indefinite prospects of the removal of the grievous evils implied in is expected to be ready for sale early in next the slavery of hundreds of thousands of British month. I have seen a draft of it; and have no subjects; and that it was now become abso› doubt that it will be correctly and handsomely lutely necessary to fix with precision, the peexecuted. It will distinctly mark the location riod at which slavery in our colonies should cease, at least in so far as it may regard the and particular boundaries of the extensive persons of those children who shall be born tract which is offered for the settlement of the after a day to be named." colored people, and also designate the various

In addition to the foregoing we also learn

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"Our friends in the slave holding States must beware how they introduce this work. It may prove to them the precursor of ruin.”

EGYPTIAN COTTON CULTURE. Let the cotton planting slave-holders-the Now what sort of a "teacher of religion" "nullification" gentry of the South-look out! can we suppose this man to be? He can "look A rival in business is presenting himself in the with composure" (if not "on blood and car "Land of Egypt"!!! The following is important. nage") on the corporal punishment, the mental Egypt was once a land of SLAVERY; but the in- debasement, the general ignorance, degradation human system was abolished there, and the de- and distress of the African race, without mascendants of the slave-holders in that region king, perhaps, or even approving of, a solitary are about to teach our Southern State-right effort to better their condition! If ever one men and general Law "nullifiers" a lesson in the class of persons were calculated to do infinitely science of economy, that may be of essential more harm than another, in leading the people service to them. I shall, ere long, take a re- || astray, and inviting the awful judgments of view of the ground occupied by these furious Heaven upon a guilty land, it is those who, unmonocrats and oligarchs. I have long believed der the sanctity of religion, practise the arts of that all the frothy ebullitions respecting the oppression, and delay the administration of jusTariff, &c. &c. may be traced to the grand sink tice. Charity hath little in store for them; and of corruption, SLAVERY. condemnation should direct its most pointed shafts towards their oppressive conduct.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

From the Charleston Courier of July 23. EGYPTIAN COTTON.-A mercantile friend has left at our office, a sample of Egyptian Cotton, produced from American Sea Island seed. This sample was received yesterday, from a merchant the insertion of several communications, which Again I am under the necessity of postponing of this city, now in Liverpool, where the lot of which it was a part, was sold at 9 1-2d per lb. are designed for this work. The well written equal to 14 1-2 cents net in this city, and yield- other articles from the pens of various advocates essay of "Consistency," together with several ing a fair profit to the shipper at that price. of the good cause, will appear in the next We are informed that this description of Cot-number. My friends must excuse the delay in ton is lessening the consumption of low quality attending to their requests, in this respect, as it Sea Islands, as the spinners will not give the is impossible to crowd the twentieth part in this prices at which the latter is held. This circum-work that it were desirable to insert. Editorial stance taken in connexion with the reduced consumption of fine Sea Island Cotton, owing to fancy silk goods nearly altogether taking place of fine muslins, offers but little encouragement to our Sea Island planters.

THE COLUMBIAN STAR.

number of long articles, and short ones too, are matter shares the same fate with the rest. A laid on the table.

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS.

A meeting of the First Branch of the AntiSchool Room of Mr. G. W. Steen, over the of Slavery Society of Maryland, will be held at the fice of the Genius of Universal Emancipation, on Friday evening, September 3d, 1830, at 7

1-2 o'clock.

This is a professedly religious paper, issued weekly, in the city of Philadelphia. It is conducted by W. T. Brantly, an officiating Baptist preacher. I have nothing to do with his religious tenets. There are, to my knowledge, ma- The members of the Eastern Branch of the ny, of his profession, who are zealously enga-Anti-Slavery Society of Maryland, will meet ged in promoting our cause. But when I meet at the School Room of Reese, Exeter with a "wolf in sheep's clothing”—an unblushing evening, the 4th of September next. Street, O. T. at half past 7 o'clock, on Saturday opponent of African emancipation, and supporter of Indian oppression, in the guise of a follower of Jesus-I care not what he professes, as to matters of religious faith;-he is a fit object for

censure.

In a late number of the Star, the editor quotes from the prospectus of a paper, issued by another Baptist preacher, the following paragraph, allu ling to one particular subject upon which the work is designed to treat:

Correspondence.

[The suggestions contained in the following communication should command immediate attention. It is to be hoped that the friends of our cause will be "up and doing" in season. ED.] For the Genius of Universal Emancipation.

MR. EDITOR: I wish to call the attention of our citizens to the subject of renewing their petitions to the Legislature

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mode of eradicating slavery from the State. Emigration, whether by means of the domestic slave trade (a horrible and disgraceful traffic) or colonization in Af

of this state at the ensuing session, for the gradual abolition of slavery. The following form of a memorial has been printed, and circulated in a few places. I would suggest the propriety of paying immedi-rica, never has diminished, and probably ate attention to this subject, as the season for active labor in this important undertaking is advancing. JEFFERSON.

Baltimore, August, 1830.

MEMORIAL

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Maryland. The memorial of the undersigned, citizens of Baltimore, respectfully represents: That in the opinion of your memorialists, negro slavery, as it at present exists, is the greatest political and moral evil that affects our State; and your memorialists also believe that the time has arrived when it is incumbent on the Legislature of the State to adopt measures with a view to its prospective and gradual extermination.

That slavery is a violation of natural rights, is admitted by all-its pernicious influence on the public welfare is too apparent to need illustration. The only questions, therefore, upon which there can be a divided opinion, are the time and the mode of applying a remedy. In the opinion of your memorialists, the present has already been, and will ever be, the best time to commence the business of remedy and reform. If a system of remedy and reform had been commenced fifty years ago, the evil of slavery at this time would have been nearly cured-and the longer it shall now be procrastinated, the longer will the State of Maryland be cursed with slavery.

The only effectual mode, in the opinion of your memorialists, of eradicating slavery from the State, is by the passage of a law fixing a period after which all children born of slaves shall be free at a certain age. This remedy will be effectual in from half to three fourths of a century, it 'will also be so gradual as to be scarcely perceptible, and would produce no sudden or violent shock to the body politic-it would do no injustice even to the imaginary rights of slave owners, inasmuch as they have no interest in or right to unborn or uncreated human beings; and the time of their becoming free may be fixed at such an age as will enable them by their labor to compensate their masters for raising them.

Your memorialists believe this to be the most equitable, as well as the only

never will diminish the number of slaves in the State. The only effect of annually removing a small portion of the present stock from the State, is to stimulate their natural increase, by creating a demand for them.

Your memorialists therefore pray, that the Legislature will pass a law, declaring that all children hereafter born of slaves

shall be free, the males at twenty-eight, And females at twenty-five years of age. And as in duty bound, your memorialists will ever pray, &c.

Biographical Sketches.

JAMES JONES.

It will be recollected that some notice was taken of the distinguished philanthropist, whose name stands at the head of this article, in the first number of the present volume of the Genius of Universal Emancipation. It is with pleasure that I now insert the following memoir, from the pen of another pure, ardent, and persevering laborer in the holy "vineyard" of humanity and justice. Perhaps there is not a person now living whose mind is more sincerely devoted to the important subject than his. He was the near neighbor, intimate friend, and able coadjutor of the subject of this biographical notice, through the whole of his benevolent career; and no one is better qualified to speak knowingly of his virtuous labors. As he justly observes, much more might be said in his praise; but our present limits will not permit.

For the Genius of Universal Emancipation.

James Jones, late President of the Manumission society of Tenessee, from the best information I have been able to obtain, was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, about the year 1765. From thence his Father removed to the (now) State of Tennessee, in the early stage of its settlement, and procured a tract of land in Greene County, on which he settled with his young and rising family.

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be not only a moral, but also a political evil-contrary to the dictates of the christian religion, and a deadly enemy to the peace & prosperity of our republican government, for the honor and safety of which, he ever appeared to be anxious.

He made considerable sacrifices, both of time and money, in promoting the cause which he had espoused; and in the infancy of the Institution, especially, met with

After James had arrived at the age of manhood, he married a young woman in the neighborhood, of good character, & respectable family, by whom, however, he had no issue. Soon after settling on a farm of his own, which was a few miles from the paternal residence, his usefulness became conspicuous in the surrounding vicinity, not only as a neighbor in common, but he was often employed, though of very limited literary acquirements, in draw-much opposition, and with many insults, ing the several kinds of instruments of writing needed by his neighbors in their various contracts. To this may be added, that by his industry he had acquired some knowledge of the art of surveying, which enabled him to be eminently useful in ascertaining the boundary lines of his neigh-ly bring it to a happy issue. He did not, bors' lands, and settling differences, which otherwise might have ended in costly suits at law. As a farther proof of his usefulness, the frequency of his being appointed Executor of the last wills and Testaments of deceased persons, show in what high estimation his integrity & skill were held by those who had confided their estates

to his care.

from the votaries of oppression, which, instead of intimidating him, served but to add more vigor to his mind, and stimulated him to pursue his object with greater energy, believing it to be the cause of Heaven, and that the Omnipotent would ultimate

however, live to witness the accomplishment of his wishes; but he had the pleasure to behold the principle of freedom, which he had been laboring to promote, in the course of fourteen years, spread itself

over this extensive continent, with a rapidity unparalleled in the annals of time; and not only in our own country did he behold the germs of liberty progressing towards maturity, but enjoyed the pleasing intelligence of the Abolition of Slavery in Spanish America, and of the exertions which the British government is making to eradicate the same curse from its dominions.

James Jones was not a man of elo

quence; but he was possessed of a strong mind and a penetrating intellect; and next to his own salvation, the freedom of the oppressed, and the happiness of his fellow probationers on earth, lay nearest his heart. He was an approved member of the Society of Friends, and labored to adorn the profession which he made with a corresponding life and conversation.

Much more might be advanced upon this head; but I shall pass on to the more prominent parts of his character as a philanthropist, and zealous advocate for the rights of man. Not content with promoting peace & hapiness in the narrow limits of his little neighborhood, his capacious mind extended its energies, and embraced in its commiseration, the degraded and enslaved descendants of Africa, held in bondage in the republican United States of America. Here was a field sufficiently spacious for the exercise of his unbounded philanthropy, one might suppose, but he desired nothing less than the happiness of the whole human race. Although he Of his estate, which however was not wished for the abolition of slavery in every place, yet, the slaves in his own State large, he bequeathed a part to the mandemanded his more particular attention.umission cause, to be applied to the defrayTo promote the gradual, yet final emancipation of these, he labored with an assiduity & zeal, tempered with prudence, not exceeded, perhaps, by any philanthropist

on the continent.

ing of the contingent expenses of the Institution, over which he had long presided.

After an illness of about four weeks, which he bore with resignation to the divine disposal, he quietly departed this life at his own house, early in the morning of Soon after the manumission society of the first day of February 1830, and in a Tennessee was organized, he became about the sixty-fifth year of his age. The member of that Institution; and at the first Convention, held on the 21st. of November, in the year 1815, James Jones was unanimously elected President thereof for one year; which station, by successive re-elections, he continued to fill to the end of his life. He considered slavery to

loss of so useful a member of society will be sensibly felt by the community, and more especially by those interested in his benevolent exertions, who, in him, have lost a friend indeed.

April 22d 1830.

THOMAS DCAN.

It is also questioned whether the plan of proceeding, adopted by the Association, is of a nature to operate beneficially on the condition of the slaves. We should suppose no unprejudiced mind would hesitate for an instant to answer in the affirmative. We are convinced the sys

We are much gratified to find that a spirit, fa- | vorable to the interests of emancipation, seems to be rapidly extending over the western sections of our country. A spinning manufactory has been lately established by C. W. Starr, of Indiana, in which Free Labor Cotton alone is employed.-tem of Free Labor, as it is one of the most quiFor want of suitable machinery, he has not yet been able to convert any of it into the fabric; and until circumstances favor the erection of power looms, we understand he wishes to dispose of his yarn to weavers who would be willing to undertake its manufacture, unmixed with other

cotton.

et, is also one of the most efficient, auxiliaries of Emancipation. And most thoroughly are we persuaded that to give freedom to the slaves would advantage their masters, in a degree inferior only to the benefit derived from the negroes themselves. The superiority of Free Labor does not rest upon unsupported theory-it

Those whose wishes are fr vorable to the sys-bas been tested by fair experiment, and found tem of Free Labor, and the cause of Emancipation, would do well to afford him such encouragement as might secure a permament footing to his establishment, and a wide extention of its usefulness, by the addition of other machinery. It is stated that Free Cotton of a good quality, raised in Illinois and Indiana, may be procured, in large quantities, in the Cincinnati market.We should suppose there would be considerable inducement for weavers to offer their assistance, as an increasing desire to procure the manufactures of Free Cotton is evidently manifest; and no doubt the demand would be much more extensive, could they be obtained withput the additional cost of transportation.

by far the most profitable. The society of which we speak, wishes not to injure the interests of any individual--norca it interfere with the true interests of any one, to hold out inducements for them to return from a path of injustice to || one of rectitude. It is but reasonable to suppose that the persons who are now slaves, would labor as cheerfully and industriously, when disencumbered, if not of the weight of actual fetters yet of the heavy sense of degradation and thrall, which presses upon their hearts and weighs down the energies of their nature with a dull lethargy.

FREE LABOR.

A paragraph, from the "Fredericksburg Are," which has been copied into a number of other papers, in speaking of the Philadelphia

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AMERICAN COURTESY.

We are gravely assured by Cooper, in his "Travelling Bachelor," that "America is the Paradise of women"-that no where else do they meet with the same degree of uniform respectful attention and delicacy as in our own country. This sounds well-but a perusal of the following paragraph has rather a tendency to introduce some strongly incongruous ideas

"Free Cotton Association," expresses some doubt as to “where,” in our free country, cotton could be obtained untouched by the hands of slavery. For the satisfaction of those who may be appre-into the mental picture of a paradise. We have hensive of deception, we subjoin the following copies of certificates, testifying to the purity of the material employed in the late manufactures of the society. That made use of previously,

not usually considered branding, whipping, and imprisonment, either as tokens of peculiar recpect, or very intimately associated with the enjoyment of superlative felicity. If it is so, we may congratulate ourselves that at least a We do hereby certify, that the 80 bales of cot- portion of our sex is so well provided with the ton, sent by us to Morris Longstreth, of Phila-material for happiness; nor can we but admire delphia, marked F, and numbered from 1 to 30, the generous spirit of courtesy and self-denial

was received from the same source.

Certificates.