as occupied
by Mr. Phelps, in exposing the janus-faced monster, the
American Colonization Society, which he did in so masterly a
manner, that we are quite sure none of his auditors, save
those who are willfully blinded, will hereafter doubt of its
being 'a fraud upon the ignorance, and an outrage upon the
intelligence of the community.'"

"Thursday evening Mr. Thompson vindicated himself against the
aspersions heaped upon him for denouncing Dr. Cox. I would
that all Mr. Thompson's friends had been present, and his
enemies too, for I am sure that unless encased in a shield of
prejudice more impenetrable than steel, they would have been
compelled to acknowledge that his denunciation of Dr. Cox was
just, and not such an instance of tiger-like malice as some
have represented it to be." "Friday evening (the evening to
which the extract read by Mr. Breckinridge referred) he spoke
of the 'armed neutrality' of the seminary and the course
which had been taken in the Academical Institutions of
Andover. He is accused of wantonly abusing our Professors and
Teachers--of making personal attacks upon them. No personal
attacks however were made; no man's motives were impeached.
He attacked PRINCIPLES and not MEN for while he would render
to the guardians of the seminary and academies all that
respect which their station and learning and piety demands,
he would at the same time condemn the course that had been
pursued, as having a tendency to retard the progress of
emancipation. Let the public judge as to the propriety of his
remarks.

It would be recollected that the same question had been put to him
here in Glasgow, as that which he had answered at Andover. "Why don't
you go to the South?" He would tell his opponent on the present
occasion, that even he could not advocate abolition sentiments in the
South, purely and openly, without endangering his life. The reason he
was able to express his views on slavery and remain unmolested, was
because it was known that he denounced the abolitionists, and
advocated colonization. The experience of Mr. Birney was in point.
That gentleman hated slavery before he joined the abolitionists, and
was in the habit of speaking against it, in connection with the
colonization cause, and was permitted to do so without hindrance; but
when he emancipated his slaves, and called upon others to do like