re can be no doubt, but the federal government is not so
powerful as many of the societies formed in America, and especially the
Abolition Society, which every day adds to its members. The interests
of the North are certainly at variance with the measures of the society,
yet still it gains strength. The last proceedings in congress show that
the federal government is aware of its rapid extension, and are
determined to do all in its power to suppress it. The following are a
portion of the resolutions which were passed last year by an
overwhelming majority.

The first resolution was; "That the government is of limited powers, and
that by the constitution of the United States, congress has no
jurisdiction whatever over the institution of slavery in the several
states of the confederacy;" the last was as follows: "Resolved,
therefore, that all attempts on the part of congress to _abolish
slavery_ in the district of Columbia, or the territories, or to prohibit
the removal of the slaves from state to state; or to discriminate
between the constitution of one portions of the confederacy and another,
with the views aforesaid, are in _violation_ of the constitutional
principles on which the _union_ of these States rests, and beyond the
jurisdiction of congress; and that every petition, memorial, resolution,
proposition, or paper touching or relating in any way or to any extent
whatever to slavery as aforesaid, or the abolition thereof, shall
without any farther action thereon, be laid on the table, without
_printing, reading, debate, or reference_." Question put, "Shall the
resolutions pass?" Yeas, 198; Noes, 6--_Examiner_.

These resolutions are very firm and decided, but in England people have
no idea of the fanaticism displayed and excitement created in these
societies, which are a peculiar feature in the states, and arising from
the nature of their institutions. Their strength and perseverance are
such that they bear down all before them, and, regardless of all
consequences, they may eventually control the government.

As to the question which portion of the States will be the losers by a
separation, I myself think that it will be the northern slates which
will suffer. But as I always refer to American authority when I can, I
had better give the reader a portion of a letter written by one of the
southern gentlemen on this subject. In a letter to the editor of the
_National Gazette_, Mr Cooper, after referring to a p