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Under these impressions, they cannot go
to the slaveholder with a protest against his
unholy calling, or to the slave, and affect
sympathy for him, and then turn round and
falseify it all by becoming accomplices in the
guilt. They are willing to hope that their
"society is quietly doing its work;" but a
part of the work it undertakes, is by no
means agreeable, however necessary it may
be; it is not agreeable to show,
that to go before the world, with well writ-
ten addresses, setting forth what some hon-
est, thorough-going anti-slavery people did
some years ago, at great personal sacrifice,
and trying to make anti-slavery capital out
of it, while the speakers are, at the same
time, justifying themselves in purchasing
stolen cotton, to run their mills upon, or fill
up their stores, or ornament their person
with, is mere twaddle, and can no more aid
in the abolition of slavery than the beating
the wind with a fan, can drive back the tem-
pest.

They have long converts to the doc-
trine to well exposed in thy paper of the
30th ult, viz: "Christianity does not modify
or regulate iniquity. It seeks to abolish it.
It is a gross reflection upon its iniquity, to
even insinuate that it tampers in the least
degree, "with any species of iniquity." Hence,
they believe it to be the duty of the church
to take the anti slavery [illegable] hand,
and to see if the members of each of its
branches are acting up to the principles it
has--after mature deliberation--adopted, re-
gardless of the plea set up by custom or con-
[illegable]. Bring willing to be tested them-
selves in this way, they see no impropriety
in testing the anti-slavery of the day in the
same manner, whatever it proclaims itself.

We frequently meet with persons who,
when we [illegable][illegable] to set before them the
claims of the free labor movement, reply.
Of the connectors of your principles, there
can be no doubt, I admit it fully; and
if you will come and open a Free Labor
store in the place, I will give you my patron-
age; and I have no doubt you would be well
sustianed, if you could sell your goods as
low as other goods are selling; there are a
great many anti-slavery people in this place
so said the people to Robert Fulton, when
he made his first attempt with his "tiny
bark" on the Hudson. There can be no doubt
but it would be a great accommodation to
the public to travel in that way. We shall
keep an eye upon you, and if you succeed,
you may rely upon our patronage. But, says
Fulton no thanks to you for such patornage;