The Slaveholder Confounded

The Lynn Washingtonian contains an inleresting account of á meeting held recently 'm Portland. A young man named Tilghman of Maryland undertook to reply to Garrison's remarks upon the imprisonment of C. T. Torrey. . The editor who was present says: "Garrison discussed maffers wifh him in fne most coo], dignified and powerful marnier. One by one his sentiments and sophistries were taken up and examinocl by the light of anti-lavery truth. and in the most thorongh and eonvincing manner, and 1 think the young man "went away sorrouing." By the way, he didn't likc the term Uáj as applied tü íhe slaVeholder, at and at one time bc asked in a most triumphant tone, "WiH you teil me when the last act of theft was commiiled by the Southern slavcholder?" "The theft isgoiugon every hour nnd every minute," said Garrison. Gen. Fessenden here rose; and I sliall never forget the eíFect liis mnjestic mien and words had upon me, as he turned his noble form upan. the young man nnd said, "S7r, ihelast theft was committed when the Jast duld was bom of ihe dave ?noJicr, and ap])ropriatedas a chati cl." Poor Tilghman! he was utterly confounded". The trulí) seemed'to be comino jown upon his poor bead like an Alpine xvalanche. I doubt if it had ever oecurred o him with much fbrce beforc, that it wasas much an act of theft to steal a human jeing as it was to steal á sheep. - The proposition seemed to stagger hkn. [t was beyondthe rcachof his ethics, and ris theology had nót provided for it! 'He really believèd the lie of Henry Clay, hat í:vvhat the law makcs property is M-operty," and was quite astonished, cven n New England, to hear that "you miglit as well attempt to convert God himself nto a chattelj as any one of his-chilIren."