murdering all suspected of holding Anti-Slavery views, and
calling with one consent upon the Free States to pass laws,
abridging the freedom of speech and of the press, upon the
subject of slavery. The North promptly responded to the call
of the South, and in every direction through the Free States
the Abolitionists became the victims of persecution,
proscription and outrage. The friends of Negro freedom every
where endured with a patience and spirit of christian
charity, almost unexampled, the multiplied wrongs and
injuries accumulated upon them. They ceased not to labor for
the Holy cause they had espoused, but perseveringly pursued
their course in the use of all means sanctioned by Justice,
Religion, and the Constitution of their country. The result
had been the rapid extension of their principles, and a vast
accession of moral strength. G. T. gave an appalling account
of the condition of the Southern Churches. The Presbyterians,
Baptists, and Episcopal Methodist Churches were the main
pillars of the system of Slavery. Were they to withdraw their
countenance, and cease to participate in its administration
and profit, it would not exist one year. Bishops, presiding
Elders, Travelling Preachers, Local Preachers, Trustees,
Stewards, Class Leaders, private Members, and other
attendants in the Churches of the Episcopal Methodists, with
the preachers and subordinate members of the other
denominations, are, with few exceptions, Slaveholders. Many
of the preachers, not merely possessing domestic Slaves, but
being planters 'on a pretty extensive scale,' and dividing
their time between the duties of the Pastoral Office and the
driving of a gang of Negroes upon a cotton, tobacco, or rice
plantation.

In the great pro-Slavery Meetings at Charleston and Richmond,
the clergy of all denominations attended in a body, and at
the bidding of vigilance Committees suspended their Schools
for the instruction of the colored population, receiving as
their reward a vote of thanks from their lay Slaveholding
Brethren 'for their prudent and patriotic conduct.'

G. T. gave a most encouraging account of the present state of
the Anti-Slavery cause, as nearly as it could be ascertained
by letters recently received. He stated that there were now,
exclusive of the Journals published by the