"but What Have We, At The North, To Do With Slavery ?"

Peihips I onglit to nprl'gÍ7e tor h vFiv poor eslinmie which ihe quota'ion 'of the above tal" imphrs, of the ïnlel.
'gence and knowledge respe.-ling the fiistory of uur country, of your numeroin rraiers - and i-eitainly, did I siiix-c none !. t Lib Tiy men petase your iiuiil' va;ior, I slioiiH nol now ask wm fur whsl lóllows, I!u', ns dutibtlesu, 'he j i,;il is read bv mnny nthers - nrtd aa rlie abova in;errog:itorv is.yei fieqiifinily propoutrded, even i riumphaaily, by WhigsA Demacráis and do-nnthing Aholilionisls, it deseryes ome arenlion. And how, foro momenl aiimitlmg what is al the "farïherevt possib'e remove froin t;)P truth- ihol tlie North has hitherto Imti in fací, nothii.g Li6gislaüvely. Judt ■ ir ('ivülv dè w;tli slavery : and ntimifling furil.er wlwt seqöally irnt'rïie, that we never have, n lafcf done Ruy thing in fiv.T of the n--cursed institution, cccleEinsticafly, civilïy, r polhicatty : Then ting, aiss all now do admit, lh anti-repübltccn, wicked and barbarntii nnfj.-e und t-r.deiicv of the abotninaMe m, as ft in fict txisis m the Smrth: . ii.orobe a ool, making t'tfleist claim to .11 ira's, pbilanibropy or religión, so b!y mean, sovdiJ, and sellish, as nol to syinrmihize tvith ihöw wbo, by mil . are deprived, du: i g ihéir ntire existóni-e h-Tr, nut only of pefsonnl freorioir. and poütical, civil and social r bul of education science, tbé social nnd fïimily rel'itions, the f.uits of thcir daily t .il. and even tlie „.nowlèdgB nnd teachings nf tbe preciöiis tooriof cUntal lift? I asl; such men.díd Howard, Wilberfnrc-, Clarksot ,. nnd hosfs of other phiiröp-sls in the old and new World, stop to enquire wTiéther they Iwd r.ny tÜiiigtodo withsuffering luimanity, wheti they nubly went forth, fwse in hand, t!ie one tosoarcli out m'sery and wretohed;e-s in the provinces of Europa and America ; nnd relieve ihe nec-ities, and mitigite the sufferings of free men (bo c.ill'' l)- the others, throwing ihomselves (vitli iheir tbousandsof pounds in monoy, nnd all the energics of body and soul, into the cause of nniveJi I iberty for the öjipressed andenslaved ? Did Paul, wben, burning it!i love to G"C, anj benevolence towards iniinonal souls, be went forth amona hi brethren, the Jews, or his reinoter breibren of the genUJe nations (assurrd by the [loly Ghost that bonds and afflictions abided IjimJ mear.ly stop and inquire wliat he liad to do wiih the salvation of the stiflf i d Jfw, or ihe stranger cti' iho gnlile world'? Did the biessei Emimriuel, when looking down on a world of wreiche liiess, wne and ruin. stop, mid cavepr in his rn-and of mercy and redemptjon, ai:'! inquire wli.-n he had to do wilh rebellious, fallen mati's salvntion ? Why, Mr. Bditor, the heipgfor he deservea not the name of man) who cpuld c.oldly look on, unftxivp, wiiile more than 3,000.0(10 of immoi til beiogi (and ihey his nwri rpitive boni UrethrenJ are erttshed and drgraded, without crime, froiu a slatD Iv.t '■ little lowrr than the üi'sels," to n pusiiion prccisIy upon n icvel wilh the brute by luw ; mui to a ailuatton bui ,i ning'e step nbore ilie brute in f, iel, must Le pnssessed nfn soul (fhe have anyj s i ui.'itlera:! , grovl fhg ami selfish, ne lo di-fcrve a placo cniiri'i'ougideoi all 'ho (iner sympaiii+es and sensil..!it ps nf mnii's nature "quite in tiie ie1 jr" of," - pandemonium. " But Ivhnl have we at he Norlll to do i;h 8lavry" - EccïesiasUcaly, civil y a ' polrlically? And here a field, entirely too wirle for any thing like anuii;vers:il suney in a singlo ?etter, open.s upÓn us. Indre'l, were the question revered, and ihe interrogntorv put, " whal ha e i 'il the North done with or for slavery." thfie mrght be much more lioe of essful reply. Bilt I will stitc some thingn i.-i which the North havp Imd, and s'ill have, a very decidrd and deply 1 tv eonnexion wit'i Southern Slavery. Firt - Ecclesinstically. The foulserpnn4 ha, through ihe goadings of avarice, iim-iition and lusi, obtained so entireal ■ ■ 'n.l osvr the pa.isions and acHons oi' ncirly all ihe Iading men in ll)p Mmisfry at the South - nnd through iheir conc.ion with the various eets Kers, bas a!so obtained sueli n deoiu'ed infiuence nt ihe North, that or many years pa-t, the M'an-slealer - ihe Wnt)an-whipper - the Ci-dle-iMhher, nnd the suslainer of le".- :."d nduliery and concubmngo, have not only boen received ar.d accepted as cirristians, but welcmird to the commtin'on nnd pulpits of aknosl the entire Norihfrn Clinici), until quité recently - riny, it is not tiio much to say, that slaTeiv nfiiiences hnve been potenlial ini-.haping the conduct and irineiptea of Gener:il Asserublie, Ceneval Conferences Trienníá), and other rcclésiastioal Convcntioi'js ; and even National Sible, Mis!-: rjinry and Tract Societies. Wliat, but this lion-id inbtilution, has prevented lbo eirculation of the Bihlc, and the free proclamation of the Gospel of pcace on carth and good will to man, amorig more than 3,000,000 of immortal and therefbre accounlable beings in uur midst, nnd bound, witk ux to the game final Jmlgment 'f - while .Miliionsof mon y have been expended is tending the füiile and Missionary to forcign lands. - U'hat bui slavery, has p,roduced thutsia'e of moral approacliing to barbaritcn, over one lialf of thiü union, in which forced flduliery, coccubinnge '.nd rape are sus luit -Cii, in the (so callee!) Chuirch. by the orofensd disdplsa nf .íesiis, es pari ol'the legal instituiions of the land ? What bui i-lavery produced the neceseity for that i"p]nrt of a cnmmhlre of ilio Prcbvterv of New Orleans a short linie since, (niul wliii'li u Imt nnc ei' iiuvhcl of similar cases uhieli inight be mentioned) which states '; tbnt teil hn the hounds of tkal Presbyl.rnj there me ONE HÜNDfiED T110USAND human being-, who oever wl heard ihe sound of the preached gosBut I imisl. linden from lliis fruilful io[)ic to considVr, Sccondly - the Civil, Mili'nry nnrl Niwal connexion of ihe Xorih wiih Slaverv. And in order inntly 10 oppreciaie tho full fwrea of that cnnnexion, it must bc rpmpmlipred ihat i'or many yens [vis', the Norlh, in poinl of numbere, bas been ns moro Iban iwo lo one agninsl r e South as n whole, and more than 05 to 1, as ngninst the SJnveholders : and in point of weahh, 'om, end genetdl hitelligpnc.p, tne N'orili havo beenand nrr, at an immeasurable di-t-mrc beyond the South. Il must nlso, b. kc;t in conslant view, tli.it we live nnder n professedty fre.c republienn governmont. uliere all thenreiically I at lenst, ure rntitlpcl to the fams rights, privileges and immuniiies ; and conseqnently, nre etllitted lo an equ.ility of "fiicial pouer, l)onoi-,patronagi and profil, in projiortion io numbers anJ inielÜgence al least, if not in proportion to wealth, and consequent taxation, With these and-marksbfrforr us, let usbricfly nllude I to the history of the pnst. lst. As to nui" Judioiary. There has nol bepn a moment since the late war with Great Britain, in wlilch tbere lias not beenaclear dpcidecl mnjority of the Bnch nf the U. I S. Supre ie Court in the hands nf Slavpholders - which at once accnunti Cor that spries of unconslilutional, iniquitous, proslavery decjsions, whicb has built up and consolidcle;! an ent'rc syst-m of wrong, outragp, proslaveryism and sectionalism, u pon ihat abused nnd desecratpd antislavkry instrument, the U. S. Constimtion : anrl thistoo, in tho face of the fact. that our numbers, intelligence and wenlth entiilnd u?, as ag-iinst the whule South, to al least two-lhirds of the Judge.e all the lime - and as aga;n-t iho slavcholders ("admittiog which is inadmissable. thal I r (in Is ana nppressors could evpr bequalified or entiiled to (Kat high oflïcej the North we re entitled to more than nine fenths of thr.t great arm of civil power. 2d. Qur Military bas for nearly the same period been in the hands of the Slavphoiders. And I nerd not say it was tbis n-f. and the fiict that the whole governmcnl i:i 1812 was subject to elaveholding auspicps, that fortned tlie on!y sufficient rpasons why Canada was not conquered - nnd is not now part af.oor repubüc. It isl.nrgpiy '' _■ ■; ,.:,'ñ,lvjjx faet, U 0;st tis more than '$")0 000 OoS to drive lesg than 2000 Indians out It is largely if not mair.ly this fact ' 'a! caused the annexation of Tex-is lo this uhion as n Save Slale It is Inrgelv if no4 mainly this fact which -has involved ns in the present murderous, infamous and treas.inable war of invasión and eonquest ogaiosl Mexico. Bui l must not enlarge,although I scarce know wher lostop in tbis terribly uteresting enumeraron. 3 1. The Navy. It may not bo known to your rer-.ders gpnerally, .that not only is this Navy entirely in the hands of ths Slaveholders, and bas been siuce the war of 1812, so faros all ;he officers, even to midshipmen ore poncerned ; but ihat tlie North have ben, more han once, sneerBgly taunted with tlie fict ; and insultingly told, al most in flrordi, that we mav hrlp ourselves if we can. And let us look for a moment, at sume of the doinsfs of thai Navy, which has cost us lmndreds ol tiiüSms of dollar, under such anspicfs. Whilt? lor more than thirty years we btt( e Ir.id on our U. S. Siatute hook, a law declaring the Africn.Ii Slave-trado Piracy - and while, under asimilar ennetment In Eng.'and; the two governments hnve kepi constan) 1 y aíloat fur tho ostensible purpoee of interrijpting and destroying Uiai trade : Tb Briii h Squadron has detected and capiured somn luindreds of these piraten, and liberated tbousands of stolen Africana from the pjrate's grasp. The United Stntes Squadron, profcsedlv engagcel in the sam lau.lable work, have d"tected anti capturad just Ihrec of these pírate vessel.--, the captain of one of vhicli, w&s tried, convictcd and - pardosed, of course, by a Siave.'iolding Presiden. - Nay - it is more tiran iiismuaed in high quarters that the Navyitsei, through'our U. S. Naval oiFu-rrs, is not guütle-B ol' active and prolltable connexion with thiü infamous trafic. But Iet us proceed t i view this subject, thirdlv - Politically. - But as tiiis letter has al rendy assnmed an unwonted lengih, I will, for tlie present, only say, thal upon the floor of Congrese last winter, we hail the fullest possible evidence, ihat pnliticoUi,(iuv government, in all its departments, hns hiiherto bt-en subject to klaveholding inluunces - thai our eleotions, local anrf national - our foreign intercourse - our entire revenue systpoi - have, on their evidence th?msi lves, been enlirely cotitrolled, manngcd and conducted by them, and for tbeir Bpeeia! beneiit. 1 may fecur to ti.is branch of tlie ject lifiieafter - therefure for the present, will relieve your altnritioii. August fi, 1847.