who were his petitioners
to the number of forty firms. He is an honest, temperate, and
in every respect a worthy man; of an amiable disposition,
muscular frame, and of good address, and every way calculated
for the situation he seeks; besides being a member of the
Society of Friends, a sufficient recommendation of itself;
for the office is now filled in part by swearing, drunken,
quarrelling foreigners, who are daily disturbing the quiet of
our streets by their broils; and endangering the lives of our
citizens by their infuriate conduct.

Wm. S. Hewlett was refused by our Mayor, on the ground of
public opinion! because

"----guilty of a skin
Not colored like his own."

Hewlett owns property in William Street, to the amount of
20,000 dollars; but prefers, unlike many of no more income, a
life of industry and economy, to seeking "otium cum
dignitate."

"What man seeing this,
And having human feelings, does not blush,
And hang his head to own himself a man."

The next is found in a letter written by a Professor Smith, of the
Wesleyan University, Connecticut, who, while vindicating the
University from the charge of having expelled a young man "for the
crime of color," makes the following admission:

"That it would be difficult, in the present state of public
feeling, to preserve a colored individual from inquietude in
any of our collegiate schools, and to render his connection
with them tolerable, is not denied."

I come now, (continued Mr. T.) to the state of the American Churches,
in regard to Slavery; and to attempt a justification of the heavy
charges I have brought against them. If at the close of this address
it shall appear that I have misrepresented the Christians of America;
that I have stated as facts, things which are untrue, I solemnly call
upon those who have hitherto vindicated my reputation, and sustained
me as the truthful advocate of the cause of human rights, to discard
me as utterly disqualified to be their representative in so sacred a
work, because, capable of pleading for JUSTICE at the expense of
TRUTH.

Of slaveholding ministers in America, Mr. Breckinridge has asserted,
that they are as ONE IN A THOUSAND, or at most, as ONE IN FIVE
HUNDRED. The first document I shall quote to disprove this assertion,
will be a letter in the "Southern Religious Telegraph,