—but if we did, it would be to aid in tarring and feathering the impudent foreign pretenders, who have thus dared to present themselves among us, to sow the seeds of discord and disunion. Let them beware of the experi ment they have attempted.'—[Idem.]

'Thompson the Scotchman.-This most impudent of itinerant mountebanks, represents Miss Lucretia M' Tabb and a bevy of old maids at Glasgow, who pay him board, wages and travelling expenses, to lecture the citizens of the United States on their domestic duties; one of the most urgent of which is, to lodge him in Bridewell, until he give security to keep the peace-after which, he ought to be packed up like a quintal of cod-fish and sent back to the Caledonian damsels who exported this vagabondizing interloper.'-[Idem.]

'What renders the conduct of these instigators of treason, robbery and massacre, still more outrageous and indefensible, is the fact of their having imported more than one organ of mischief from England, to assist in sowing the live coals of ruin and desolation over a large portion of this prosperous land. Not content with the agency of the wretched libeller of his country, the exclusive friend of all the human race,' they have associated in their righteous race, an imported incendiary, who left his country for his country's good.' That this apostle of the old pussy cats of Glasgow, this tool of Tappanism, has hitherto escaped the Bridewell, transportation, or some other species of modern martyrdom, is a proof either that our laws are defective, our magistrates neglectful, or our people the best natured in the world. We hope and trust that his next attempt in this city will end in a transfer to the Penitentiary, as a common disturber and enemy to society, and would earnestly recommend to the superintendent of that society, a solitary probation, lest he might corrupt the morals of his pupils.'-[Idem.]

Occasionally, the bevy of old maids at Glasgow' would be made to give place to the British Government, which was charged with having sent MR. THOMPSON to this country for the express purpose of destroying the American Union! The same individuals, almost in the same breath, would bring these ridiculous and contradictory allegations. Occasionally, the ridicule of contempt would be followed by the toscin of alarm, thus:

'Sir, these doctrines and that language, to which I have felt it my duty to advert, tending as they do to the disruption of the Union, the prostration of Gov.

ernment, and to all the horrors of a civil and servile war, have attained their greatest prevalence and intensity within the past year. Since a certain notorious foreign agent first landed upon our shores, who comes here not to unite his fate with ours, not as other foreigners who would make this their home, and whom we cordially receive to the participation of all the immeasurable blessings of free institutions; but he comes here as an avowed emissary, sustained by foreign funds, a professed agitator upon questions deeply, profoundly political, which lay at the very foundation of our Union, and in which the very existence of this nation is involved. He comes here from the dark and corrupt institutions of Europe, to enlighten us upon the rights of man and the moral duties of our own condition. Received by our hospitality, (!!) he stands here upon our soil, protected by our laws, (!!) and hurls fire-brands, arrows and death' into the habitations of our neighbors, and friends, and brothers ;—and when he shall have kindled a conflagration which is sweeping desolation over our land, he has only to embark for his own country, and there look securely back, with indifference or exultation, upon the wide spread ruin by which our cities are wrapt in flames, and our garments rolled in blood'!!*-Speech of Hon. Peleg Sprague, at the pro-slavery meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, August 21, 1835.

* Circumstances combine to give to this extraordinary phillippic, the malignancy of the spirit of murder. Its author has a large reputation as a statesman; his assault upon MR. THOMPSON was made at a time when the public mind was absolutely in a state of phrenzy, and an infatuated populace stood ready to abduct, or tar and feather, or assassinate, as opportunity might offer, this noble philanthropist; it was a powerful stimulus to lawless violence,-administered, too, in the Old Cradle of Liberty,-which operated on the 21st of October, by exciting a lawless mob of five thousand gentlemen of property and standing 'in Boston, who endeavored' to snake out and lynch' MR. THOMPSON, according to the most approved mode of torture and murder at the South. This philippic was not less cowardly than sanguinary, inasmuch as it was uttered at a time, and under circumstances, and in a place, which rendered it impossible either for MR. THOMPSON or any of his friends to be heard in reply.

Our English brethren may feel curious to see those doctrines and that language' of the abolitionists, which MR. SPRAGUE declares tend to the disruption of the Union, the prostration of Government, and to all the horrors of a civil and servile war.' Mr. Sprague represents them to be these: -Tell the abolitionists this; present to them in full array the terrific consequences of their attempts at immediate emancipation, and they meet all by a cold abstraction (!) They answer,-We must do right regardless of consequences.''They insist that it is right that they should urge their

If it were true, that the ladies of Glasgow or Edinburgh deputed MR. THOMPSON to this country, and wholly defrayed the expenses of his mission among us, the fact would be disgraceful, neither to them nor to

doctrines for the conviction of the South.' [What a dangerous heresy!] They insist upon immediate, instantaneous emancipation. By thus insisting that the continuance of slavery, under any circumstances, is necessarily of the same moral character as its original, voluntary introduction, that it is equally criminal, they come to the conclusion, that no laws that sanction or uphold it can have any moral obligation.' Friends of humanity in England, behold the head and front of the offending of American abolitionists! Are not their doctrines your doctrines? Yet it is alleged that they tend to all the horrors of a civil and servile war'!!

MR. SPRAGUE is guilty of misrepresentation, in several instances. It is not true, that MR. THOMPSON 'came here as an avowed emissary,' or as 'a professed agitator,' in a pernicious sense. It is not true, that the question of slavery is exclusively or pre-eminently a political one: it is a moral and religious question, which every moral and religious being on earth has a right to examine and discuss, on these shores, and throughout the world. The sncer at 'the dark and corrupt institutions of Europe' manifests a large share of effrontery, in this connexion; for the institution of AMERICAN SLAVERY is incomparably more 'dark and corrupt' than any that exists in Europe. MR. SPRAGUE exhibits, moreover, a superfluity of indignation, because an Englishman comes here to enlighten us, upon the rights of man, and the moral duties of our condition. Surely, the people who make merchandise of more than one-sixth of their whole number, and declare that such brutal conduct is divinely sanctioned, er, at least, is not prohibited by Christianity, need to be enlightened upon the subject of inalienable human rights, and upon moral duties, more than any other people on the face of the globe. Surely, the man who could desecrate FANEUIL HALL by a speech in favor of American tyrants, and by lauding WASHINGTON because he was a slaveholder, (thus converting a damning stain into a badge of honor,) may be taught something on the score of liberty even by a NICHOLAS, much more by a free-born Englishman.

By the British Constitution, no slave can breathe the air of England.— What does MR. SPRAGUE assert of the American Constitution, in approving terms? It recognizes and provides for the continuance of the relation of master and slave. It does sanction, it does UPHOLD, slavery. There

him, but honorable to all parties. It is, unquestionably, the duty of women to seek the universal elevation of their sex from moral and physical degradation, by attempting, for instance, to extirpate the practice of selfimmolation in Hindoostan, or Turkish polygamy, or American slavery. If a million females are held in beastly thraldom in this country, is it unbecoming any portion of the women of England, Scotland or Ireland, to send forth and sustain an eloquent and gifted agent to plead the cause of their down-trodden sex? No.

is no pretence that the provisions of the Constitution, in relation to slavery, were inserted by accident or inadvertence. Few parts of the Constitution were more carefully and deliberately weighed.' Has not every American cause to blush at the contrast?

But MR. THOMPSON was received by OUR hospitality'!! says MR. SPRAGUE. This is sufficiently impudent and false. It was the hospitality of the wolf to the lamb, seeking to devour the victim. Our hospitality' caused MR. THOMPSON, his wife, and little ones, to be thrust out of a hotel in New York city, soon after he landed in this country. • Our hospitality provided for him rotten eggs, brickbats, tar and feathers, halters, daggers, &c. &c. 'Our hospitality' at last compelled him to return hastily to England, in order to save his life. It was the 'hospitality' offered by PELEG SPRAGUE in Faneuil Hall, which prepared the way for the great mobocratic entertainment that was made in October for MR. THOMPSON! 'Protected by our laws'!! says MR. SPRAGUE. When, where, and how? Our laws' do not protect native abolitionists. Our laws,' too, must be singularly defective, if they give protection to a man who guilty of hurling fire-brands, arrows and death' into the habitations of our neighbors, and friends, and brothers.' But this charge of PELEG SPRAGUE against MR. THOMPSON is worthy to go with the accusation against the apostles, that they were pestilent and seditious fellows, turning the world upside down-and with the charge against the Saviour, that he had a devil. It was a charge well calculated, at the time of its utterance, to stimulate a host of assassins against Mr. T's life it was certainly a blow aimed at his reputation, and not only so, but an impeachment of the humanity, patriotism and piety of the whole body of abolitionists who supported MR. THOмPSON, both in this country and in England.

Such an act would be more truly glorious than a thousand victories won upon the 'tented field.' But the reader has been already apprised, that MR. THOMPSON was invited to come to this country by the NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, and to accept an agency in its behalf. He complied with the invitation, but came also under the sanction, and to some extent, under the direction as well as co-operation of the British and Foreign Society for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade throughout the world.' He was also countenanced and supported by other anti-slavery associations in various parts of the United Kingdom. It is true, that in Glasgow and Edinburgh a special interest was taken in the mission of MR. THOMPSON by some of the most estimable and philanthropic ladies in those cities, as well as by ladies in Liverpool, Birmingham, and other places, and that they contributed towards its prosecution-just as pious females in our country assist in sending missionaries to other landshumbly, subordinately, conjunctively. Yet this incidental co-operation (worthy as it is of the admiration of the wise and good in every country) has been made the occasion of much scurrility and falsehood, as preceding quotations abundantly prove. It has been made a subject of ridicule, in a house of worship, before a crowded audience in New York. At a colonization meeting in the Rev. Dr. Spring's church last May, the Rev. GEORGE W. BETHUNE made a frothy and theatrical speech, of which the following is an extract, as reported in the New York Observer :

'MR. BETHUNE observed, that he was sorry not to see some of our English friends present, (i. e. Messrs. Cox and HOBY,)—and while speak,