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 46 repeated in American Slave-masters. Truths as simple as the great discovery of Galileo are openly denied, and all who declare

We condemn

the Index Expurgabut American Slave-masters have an Index on which are inscribed all the generous books of the There is one book, the marvel of recent literature, Uncle age. Tom's Cabin, which has been thus treated both by the Church and by the Slave-masters, so that it is honored by the same sup-

them

are driven to recant.

torius of the

Eoman Church



pression at the Vatican and at Charleston.

Not

to dwell

on these instances, there

instructive ridiculousness.

is

one which has a most

A religious discourse of the late Dr.

—

Channing on West-India Emancipation the last effort of his was offered for sale by a book agent at

beautiful career

Charleston.

—

A prosecution

by

the South-Carolina Association

ensued, and the agent was held to bail in the

sand

dollars.

sale a

work by

sum

of one thou-

Shortly afterward, the same agent- received for Dickens, freshly published, "American Notes;"

but, determined not to expose himself again to the tyrannical

Inquisition, he gave notice through the newspapers that the book " would be submitted to highly intelligent members of the

South- Carolina Association for inspection, and if the sale

proved by them,

is

ap-

—

be for sale if not, not." Listen also to another recent instance, as recounted in the Montgomery Mail, a newspaper of Alabama it

will

" Last Saturday we devoted to the flames a large number of copies of Spurgeon's Sermons, and the pile was graced at the top with a copy of Graves's Great Iron Wheel,' which a Baptist friend presented for the purpose. We trust that the works of the greasy cockney vociferator may receive the same treatment throughout the And if the Pharisaical author should ever show himself in these parts, we South. He trust that a stout cord may speedily find its way around his eloquent throat. has proved himself a dirty, low-bred slanderer, and ought to be treated accord'

ingly."

And

we have read in the journals, that the Alabama have resolved that Dr. Wayadmirable work on Moral Science " contains abolition very recently

trustees of a College in

land's

doctrine of the deepest dye ;" and they proceeded to denounce " the said book, and forbid its further use in the Institute."

The

speeches of Wilberforce in the British Parliament, and

especially those magnificent efforts of Brougham, where he exposed " the wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property

in man," were insanely denounced

the West-Indies



by the

British j^lanters in

but our Slave-masters go further.

Speeches