Exclusion Of Slaveholders From Office

The State Journal has a sneering article respecting a sentiment advanced by Mr. Birney to this effect: that were the Liberty party in power, Slavery could be speedily extinguished frotn the nation by merel y excluding slavebolders from every office or situation to which they can be appointed by the General Government. Vhen the merritnënt of the gentleman shall have been exhausted, We invite him to give us u few reasons, if he can, why such a course would not be wise, just, conslitutionaí, and effectual, when conjoined with the exercise of such legislation respecting slavery on the part of Congress as is generally conceded by the North to be authorized by the Cotistiiution. ff Sorae of our old Liberty readers well remember the name and ontislavery nrticle of Dr. Nelsorij of Missouri. He is dead! He was originally an infidel, b'ut has subsoqnent. ly writlen an able worlc in refutation of Infidehty. ííe was thefounder ond head of the Miss ion ïnstitute at Quincy, Illinois.