ing of them, he could not help thinking what sort ofa reception the agent of the Edinburgh ladies, (MR. THOMPSON,) would meet on his return to his constituents,* and what sort of a report he would probably make on the subject of his mission. He could not but picture to himself the fair lady President inquiring

'And pray MR. THOMPSON, what did you do in America?'

To this he thought he heard the Agent responding, Why, ladies, I made speeches there for which one part of my audience loudly applauded me, and another part as loudly hissed me.'

And pray, where did you make speeches, MR. THOMPSON? Did you go to that part of the country where slavery prevailed, and tell them how wrong it was?'

'Oh no! if I had, they would have hanged me! But I went to the Northern States, ladies, and I told them what wicked people they were at the South.'

But, MR. THOMPSON, had the people of the North any power to emancipate the slaves of the southern holders?

*The London Christain Advocate of Feb. 1st, informs us what sort of a reception the constituents of MR. THOMPSON gave him in Glasgow on his return :-on Monday he met the Emancipation Committees, male and female, in the Friend's Meeting-house, when, after he had briefly recited his adventures, a unanimous vote of thanks, congratulation and confidence was passed and presented to him. The meeting likewise pledged itself anew to the cause of universal emancipation. On Tuesday evening, and again on Friday evening, MR. THOMPSON addressed large assemblies of the members and friends of the Emancipation Society in DR. WARDlaw's Chapel. Rev. Dr. HEUGH took the chair, and opened the proceedings in a short speech, highly commendatory of MR. THOMPSON. Mr. T. made a very lengthy address. On Monday night, (says the Glasgow Journal of Thursday,) the soiree in honor of MR. GEORGE THOMPSON was given in the large and splendid hall of the Montieth Rooms, Buchanan street. The usual refreshments provided on such occasions-tea, coffee, fruits conserves, &c. &c. were amply and tastefully distributed. A series of resolutions was moved and carried by acclamation, in the course of the evening, and the movers and seconders of these addressed the assembly in excellent speeches. MR. CUNNINGHAM's band in the gallery filled up the intervals between the addresses, with alternately gay and solemn strains. It was 12 o'clock ere the assembly broke up. MR. THOMPSON, who was the last to address them, was warmly cheered and encouraged to go on in his last speech. Rev. Drs. KIDSTON and HEUGH officiated as chaplains.'

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Oh no! No more, ladies, than you have yourselves.'

Indeed! and then, MR. THOMPSON, why did you not stay at home, and make your speeches to us?'

[These queries and replies were constantly interrupted with bursts of enthusiastic applause, mingled with long and uncontrolable laughter.}

The foregoing miserable attempt at wit is a specimen of the colonization spirit in this country. The schoolboy sophistry of MR. BETHUNE is based upon a glaring falsehood, which, when overthrown, buries its author in the ruins of his own folly. MR. THOMPSON did not, and could not, go to any part of our nation in which slavery does not virtually exist. A very large amount of capital, belonging to the northern States is vested in plantations and slaves at the South. There is not a State in the Union in which slaveholders do not reside. There is not an inch of territory in the United States which affords the least protection to a runaway slave-the people of every state regarding themselves as obligated by the Constitution to return him to his tyrannical master, and to suppress every insurrection for liberty among the slaves. Slaveholders are allowed a large slave representation in Congress. The intercourse between the North and the South is as intimate as between members of the same family, and their inhabitants are constantly marrying or giving in marriage with each other. The existence of southern slavery puts in jeopardy the liberty of every free colored citizen in the non-slaveholding States. It has destroyed the freedom of speech and of the press, and the right of peaceably assembling together to consult upon the public good, and the liberty of locomotion, i. e. to the citizens of the free states, (all guarantied by the Constitu

tion,) in that portion of the Union in which it principally obtains, and threatens to subjugate to a servile condition the white citizens of the North. Its blighting influence spreads over the whole country. Besides, slavery is sustained in a national capacity at the Seat of Government, in the District of Columbia, and in the several Territories belonging to the Union, and under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. Again: When MR. THOMPSON visited us, the moral power of the free states was almost wholly enlisted on the side of southern slavery, either by palliation or direct support. It was essentially necessary, therefore, that that lost moral power should be recovered, and turned against the slavesystem-for, enlightened, consolidated, and skilfully directed, it is adequate to its overthrow. Let the public sentiment in the free states become thoroughly abolitionised, and slavery will speedily be crushed by its mighty pressure. Hence it is that such desperate efforts are made, on the part of southern states, to suppress the freedom of speech at the North, by mobocratic violence; hence the offer of large rewards for the abduction of anti-slavery editors and lecturers; and hence the demand of the South, that the liberty of the press, on the subject of slavery, shall be put down at the North by penal enactments. These items of intelligence serve to show the wisdom of MR. THOMPSON, and the folly of MR. BETHUNE. The latter assumes, most falsely, as has been proved, that it is as useless, and as much out of place, to assail southern slavery, in New England, as it would be in Old England; and that the people of the North have no more connection with southern slavery, and can no more effect its overthrow,

than the ladies of Edinburgh! Mark what MR BETHUNE says respecting the murderous spirit of the southern slaveholders! The question is supposed to be propounded to MR. THOMPSON-' Did you go to that part of the country where slavery prevailed, and tell them how wrong it was?' MR. BETHUNE makes the following reply for Mr. T.-'Oh no! if I had they would have hanged me!' i. e. for simply being told that slavery was wrong, they would have lynched' MR. THOMPSON, without judge or jury, and in defiance. of every just law, whether human or divine. What proud and blood-thirsty oppressors, according to the representation of the Rev. GEORGE W. BETHUNE! And yet MR. THOMPSON was taunted as a coward, for not rushing needlessly and rashly into the jaws of these human tigers, although he had a mighty and all-important work first to perform in the Northern states, even if he、 could have lectured with safety at the South! But I dismiss the reverend jeerer, who trembled while he affected to laugh at the powerful speeches of Mr. T.

With regard to the other charge that was sometimes brought against MR. THOMPSON-that he was an emissary of the British Government—as it was never very seriously urged, and is too ridiculous to require refutation, I shall let it pass without comment. There is a third allegation which is more plausible, but not less falsethat he was sent out to this country, to do a work of mischief, by the enemies of our republic-by those who desire to see our Union dashed into atoms! Since the world was made, whoever heard of foes attempting to bring a nation to repentance for its sins, in order to destroy it? Do they not always assail that which is good

and precious, and aim to extend licentiousness and crime? The truth is, the abolitionists of England, as a body, constitute the republican, the genuine reform party of that country. They are the sincere, disinterested, ardent friends of American liberty and union; they wish to see our country purged from every stain of blood; they desire her prosperity and improvement ; they love and cherish those civil and religious institutions which we value most highly; they admire the theory of our government; they are in truth our countrymen, our brethren, our neighbors, in feeling, in purpose, in christian love and sympathy. They will ultimately abolish the unholy union of Church and State in England. The extortionate tithe-system—the House of Lords-landed monopolies, &c. &c.-But they are retarded in their noble efforts at reform, by the inconsistency and oppression of this republic. All our divisions and tumults are seized upon with avidity by the tories, and ascribed to our form of government*whereas, that form is the most rational, and therefore the most substantial, of all human governments, and whereas it is well known among ourselves that the divisions and tumults alluded to are the fruits of slavery, exclusively and comprehensively. They are freedom clashing with oppression, light with darkness, free labor with slave labor. If our slave system were abolished, the union of our great nation would be perfect. If it be not speedily removed, strong as we are, it will overcome and destroy us. The tories in Europe do not desire its re

* See the speech of Sir Robert Peel, at Farnworth.