Denunciation

A respectad friend informa ..s thathimsclf and others feel aggrieved at ihe language we U8ed i reférete to Rev. Mr. Smi.h, n o.,r paper of July 17, the article headed "Will not have Lib erty. The speeifications n our oflence are tha wecalledthesaid Mr. Smith a "h.jpocrite;" and Rev. Dr. Ely a "Mantrader." NOw, do not th factejusiify ilie Innguagd This Mr. Smith had a femnle slave wiil, him of whom he said to somc clergymen, "You cannot persuado her to Jeavc me: site is free to go ir she p'cases." Here was a specific ! offer of her freedom. When Rev. Mr. Blanchnrd proposed to apprise her of this ofler, and of ihe fact thnt ehe was Ie gally free, (having been taken by her master into a free State,) he replied, "Isvffer 7io one to converso ichh my serraiits with isipcjnity!" She wa8 converse cTwith, and tots rcry desirousof Liberty; hut her master left her in Virginia for safe keeping, in slarery. We would respectfully ask our friend, if this was not a clear case of hypocrisy- of dissimulation- of ieigning to hold sentiment differing from his real ones? We will submit the matter to our readers. This is ihe first instance in which we remember to have applied the opithet lo an individual since we commenced the Signal. Perhaps some other word would have answered the same purpoee; but we do not yet eee but :hat this was exactly appropriate. Had the female slave been the wife or aaughter of our correspondent, we suspect he would have had more sympathy for her, and less for her enslaver, and would, perhaps, have raised in his own minri, the inquiry as to what the legal definition of kidnapping might be.Secondly. we called Rev. Dr. Ely a 'Mantrader." Well, is he one, or is he not? Has he not informed the General Aesembly how he has traded m mankind, and did he not plead the Bible for his justificaron? Wc say hehas done the very thing he admits he has done. Where then is our offence? If the business of trading in men be a Christian business, as he contends, is it wrong tosay thathe is a "Reverend Mantrader?" If the act be wrong and disgraceful to the Christian character in the estimation of his Northern colleagues, it appears to us it wouH be quite as well in them to rebukc his wicked acts, ns to find fault with us for merely stating that the Reverend gentleman trades in human cattle. Which would be bettcr - to rcbuke hint for his abominable dceds, or to censure us for republishing his shameless dcclarations beiore the General Assembly?