Selections: James G Birney

Mr. Birney, is a native of Kentucky. IIe wns educnted ni Prínceton Co'Jpgc, N. J. ond studied law at PhiiRtluIphia. Ho has held the office of Solioiior Genera! in the Sime of Alabamu. where lie sioou n the first rank of his profession. Ín lL3lhe becamean abolitioníst: and immediately emancipated all his slaves. In 18S7 he was appointed secretary oí thc American Anti-SIavery Society, and became extensively knnwn for hia eloquent pleadings for humnniíy. The following brief notice of Mr. Birney s copied frotn the Pennsylvanin Freenion. Whon wc first heard of James G. Bimoy, he lived in Alíibama; was a alaveholder, and a vice president of the colonization society. Tha anti- slnvery enterprise was then preuy much in its srerm, and the small handful of men that proclaimetl their failh in it was almost universally deipi8ed and pcrseciited. To avow antislavery sentiments then. even then at tho North, reejuired a moral courage moro than moat men could lay claim to. J. G. Birney, away in the far South. was convinced of antislavery doctrines, r.nd nvowRd his conviction8 He emnncipaied his slavcs: j he repudiated coloniz-ition; he forfeited his reputation; lost caste with hig frionds; cave ud hispraciicc at the bar; stood up n the midst of slaveholders to oppose their system; establislied an nniislavery press in Kentucky, nnd delivered public lectures ín that State; and wfaeri no longer nbie with safcty or success to publish his paper in Kentucky, he moved to Cir.cinnati. Therc, with boldnca and great nbility, he contned hts labora as editor. He enconntered mob after mo.b in that city nd other pnrtsof the State, -lien he went a9 alectnrer, and caine ont of all a more determinecl abolitioniet than before. During; his residence in Cincinnaii, he underwent a persecution fir Imrborin? a feir.aie slnve. whic'under ihe circumstanrcs, and in thc ihen state of public sentiment, wns oneofthe most humiliating ordeals !lmt a high minded man cóuld be called to pass through.