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side, will be, most certainly, productive of a retaliation 

 greatly to be deplored. 



The anomaly which is found in some of the United Stales 

 of America, where the Negro is still bought, sold, and 

 treated as a Slave by the white Proprietor, who, at the 

 same lime, is loud in his demands of Liberty for himself, 

 furnishes a lesson that will, it is to be hoped, have, in time, 

 a proper influence on the manners and councils of that 

 otherwise highly favoured and happy country. 



The existence of Slavery, however, in the United States 

 of America, it is evident, is tolerated, not encouraged, by the 

 intelligent portion of their social community. From some 

 efforts which have been lately made by those states where 

 Slavery is not tolerated, we learn that the state of 

 Mississipi, where, of course, Slavery is tolerated, has 

 transmitted a report and resolution in which the proposal 

 of the state of Ohio relative to the emancipation of Slaves is 

 disapproved ; and in which, also, complaint is made of the 

 interference of non-slaveholding states. The report, in 

 effect, declares that the right of property in Slaves is as 

 sacred and inviolable as that of any other personal property ; 

 that, however great the national evil of Slavery may be, 

 and however much it may be regretted, circumstances have 

 rendered it inevitable, and placed it without the pale of 

 legislative authority ; that the state cannot concur in any 

 arrangement for emancipating Slaves; that any interference 

 by non-slaveholding states on subjects of this nature may 

 produce deplorable consequences, excite prejudices, and 

 weaken the union of the states ; and, instead of ameliorating 

 the condition, can only aggravate the misfortunes of the 

 Slaves; that, by a gradual emancipation, the hopes of those 

 who remained in slavery would be excited to insurrection, 

 and the lives of the citizens endangered; the state, for 



