Ministers And Slavery

Rev. J.point says, some suppose tlint a minister has uothing to do with poli ics, and ought not io go to the polls . It is not so. I owe t to my country to exercise the political power I possess. ï'gotothe polls and vote ,and will do it. Tt U a moral act,and 1 do it because it is a moral act. If I sec a man starving, and wisli t o relieve him, how shull 1 do it? By moralizing ? No, but by gclting some bread, and raising it with my own hand and carrying ii to him. This is one forrn of moral action. A nother form is to give my moner, nnd employ an agent to give ihe bread to the starving man. So in regard to slavery, it is one form of moral action to vote for men for office who will do all that in them lies to ovorthrow slavery. I would let every man vote in liis own vrny; but my principie is to give slavery, whenever nnd wherever I can find it, a thrust under the fifth rib. CÖThe Madisonian isafraid the nbolitioi:ists are about to umte wilh the Whige. A most egregious blunder! We can say with the Emancipator, that "the enlightencd friend of Liberty have not the least idea of couplii'g their Êflorious cause with tliedestiny of a party which is fnJHng so fast that it has just been defeated in sixlecn States in which it had trirnnphed two years before." We shall invite no John Tylers to come among us. WE HA RATHBR BB DEFKATKD TWB.'ïTr TIMES WITH OUR CANDIDATES, TI1AN OSCR BY OUR CANDIDATES.flTMr. Maffit, the cefebrated orator and Methodist clcrgyman, and late clinplain ir Congress, was once a strong abolitionist.- He is now quite a favorite with the slaveholders. His son has married a plantation of "uiggers," with a woman attached. One of his daugbtors is married to a judge in Gal vestt m, Texas, and another to a planter in Lonisiana. A three fold cord i not casily