Our Enemies

Among the enemies of abolition,there is one class which I have fallen in with, that I believe has never received a name, though it is by no raoans inconsiderabie in point of numbers. lts members are found often loafing in the shops, and hanging around placea of public resort, where they are ready to discuss and settle all knotty points in law, politics, moráis or theology. Thousrh made up of sinners and saints, tradesmen, laborera, and every variety of occupation, and want of occi:pntion, yet there is a oneness of character which speaks all of the same gemis. I am not versed in the science of nomenclature, but we re I to give them a ñamo in my coorse and homely phrase, I&hould set them down, plainly, unequi vocal - ly, JYumbskulls, whose lack of moral sensibility is only equalled by their lack of mental abihty. Here we see the men, with the BibJe in one hand, and thepurse in the other, pilfer perpetualiy from the poor and filch away their sweat-earned pennies, and cali it only a 'good bargnin in a business way;" and a business way it is, for their business is to steal by overrenching the unwary in trade, and yet they deem their Bible a sure passport to hcaven. Others too, of like occupation, are here; men who, caring lessfor the daily show of righteousness, take their Ledger instead of Bible, and six days in the week perpétrate petty robberies upon their neighbors. but when Sunday comes, are as good, exemplary kind of christians, ín appearance, as ever donned a dickey tö 'go to meeting.1 These fear their interest will be harmed, should they seem friendly to abolition, or any unpopular truth, and consequently they are the enemies of onr enterprise. Th en here are the lower orders of mechanics, and farmers, - lower on account not of their condition, hut of their character - who need yet to learn the dignity of manhood, and the nobility ot the honorable callings which they neglect, to herc with the professional lonfers who have no honorable calling to follow. These care no what principies they hold, provided they be not good ones, and are ready to take eeconc hand, their notions from their superior aesociates, the Judge of the conrt, or perhaps the pro-slavery minister, knowing full wel! that they will not be led into any important truth. It is sometimes amueing to enter, a silent spectator, intö their courts when they are gathered for a long evening session. You may find them in their glory, all princes for their logic, and very kings for intelligence. - Such extent of inforwiation, such profundify of reason, one may look farin any other cir cles to find the like of. They can quote yon from the flftieth chaprer of Job, or the sixih book of the Pentateuch; or refer to our national history with a promptitude, that proves them at least to have a Creative genius. Hoiv will the1 Undisturbed by conscicnlious gnalms, Pcrvert the Prophets, and p ttrloin the Psalms.' put the flood before the birth of Noah; kill George Washington at the battle of the Nile; set Lord Nelson on the throne of the Czar, or send him to lead his troops over the desert of Barca to storm the allie.l powers of the Swedes and Tartars, entrcnched on Bunker Hill; or sagely discuss whether CJeopatra was the God of war or the Queen of England; or when the subject tnrns to the question of slavery, enquire, with the positivenesa of assertion, if one Gallison or Garretson, or some 6uch name, hasn't been hung in Baltimore for printing sotnething1 in favor of slaveholding! [Facts prove that there are fools great enough for thi wlio preténdalo intelligence.] How wisely do they debate ihe tnomentous questions vvhich they grapple - their blank stupidity only oulshone by the earnest rivalry of their cool impudence and sufficiency. - To attempt toreaeon with one of them. wotild be like trying to explain Enclid to a baboon, or inecaphysics to a saw-horse. Thcy knnw about as much of righf, as a tabby-cat of abstruse theology. Their most nyghty argument ia 'nigger,' - their most logical conclusión is 'slinking nlgger.' Their discourse begins with 'r.igger,' nnd they end with i.igger and they are stuffed with 'nigger' thro"ghout, Uil one must confesa they are most indisputably niggard of sense or wit. 'Thick skulls' and 'flat noses' and great lip?,' and long heels,' nnd 'curly hair,' with certain delicate allusions to 'tímell,' come in as ornamentsand flourishe3 of rhetoric, as thick ad wasps in May: while the hurrah hoot of amaigamation like a straw man on a wonden horse, lides sublimely through the vvhole. - Teil them of the inalienable' rights of man. and ihey will reply, 'eet a nigger President.' Speak to them of the foul prejudice that weighs the ioul of the black man to the dust, and they will exclaim with a horror most refiend,'ah! marry a nigger.' Proclaim to them the infernal barbarity of that fiendish system which plucks the image of God from the soul of man, and they will muiter something about 'a nio-o-er' ha ving a 'iiarn'ed thick srfiill: - thusniodestly disclaiming any inteiiiional monopoly on their own part. Preach to them of the perfect equahty of man, up comes the thousand times repated cry ofamaigamatton. Just as though they cared for amalagamation; defenders of a syetem, thai annuls inarnage, and has made our soothern land, morally, a perfect heil, reeking in all the loathsome pollutions of the hof.-beds of infamy and corruption, where the indelible shame and disgrace of the oppressor is written on the whitening browa of thousands of his own slaves, and where the law of custom has given a bounty on unbridled licentiousnetss and lust, bying n readier market and higher price to thoi slave trader for hia own bleached sons and daughters. Whenthe advocates of such a 53'stem teil of their abhorrence of amalgation, let Satan don the 'black coat' f he' hasn't already - and go out to preach righteousness; or wnte 'Holiness to the Lord' otf the back doors of the infernal pit, that he tony riot be outdone in brazen hypocrisy by his raeanest servante.