Christianity. The ancient temples of slavery, rendered venerable
alone by their antiquity, are crumbling into dust. Ancient
prejudices are flying before the light of truth--are dissipated
by its rays, as the idle vapor by the bright sun. The noble
sentiment of Burns:

'Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a' that,
That man to man, the warld o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that'--

is rapidly spreading. The day-star of human liberty has risen
above the dark horizon of slavery, and will continue its bright
career, until it smiles alike on all men."

Mr. C. J. Faulkner said:--

"Sir, I am gratified that no gentleman has yet risen in this
hall, the advocate of slavery. * * * Let me compare the condition
of the slave-holding portion of this commonwealth, barren,
desolate, and scarred, as it were, by the avenging hand of
Heaven, with the descriptions which we have of this same country
from those who first broke its virgin soil. To what is this
change ascribable? Alone to the withering, blasting effects of
slavery. If this does not satisfy him, let me request him to
extend his travels to the Northern States of this Union, and beg
him to contrast the happiness and contentment which prevail
throughout that country--the busy and cheerful sound of industry,
the rapid and swelling growth of their population, their means
and institutions of education, their skill and proficiency in the
useful arts, their enterprise and public spirit, the monuments of
their commercial and manufacturing industry, and, above all,
their devoted attachment to the government from which they derive
their protection, with the division, discontent, indolence, and
poverty of the Southern country. To what, sir, is all this
ascribable? 'T is to that _vice_ in the organization of society
by which one half of its inhabitants are arrayed in interest and
feeling against the other half; to that unfortunate state of
society in which free men regard labor as disgraceful, and slaves
shrink from it as a burden tyrannically imposed upon them. _'To
that condition of things in which half a million of your
population can feel no sympathy with the society in the
prosperity of which they are forbidden to participate, and no
attachment t