This work will be issued on the first days of October, January, April, and July. Its plan comprises, 1. Original Essays on subjects connected with the Abolition of Slavery. 2. Reviews of works bearing on the same subject. 3. Facts pertaining to the System of American Slavery, and our colored population generally. 4. Anti-Slavery Intelligence from abroad. 5. Notices of works which relate to Slavery. 6. Interesting Selections, in prose and verse. 7. A brief summary of the progress of the Abolition Cause. The price is one dollar a year, always in advance. Any individual remitting $5, free of postage, will receive six copies. According to these terms, subscribers will not receive the second number unless payment be made previously to its publication. PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. On the first week of each month is issued a small newspaper, entitled HUMAN RIGHTS; on the second week, the ANTI-SLAVERY RECORD, a duodecimo pamphlet; on the third week, the EMANCIPATOR, on an enlarged sheet; and on the fourth week, the SLAVE'S FRIEND, a small pamphlet for children. It is intended to distribute all these publications, so far as the funds of the Society will allow, gratuitously, to persons not known to be abolitionists. PRICES OF THE PUBLICATIONS. Single copy, 25 cents per annum. Twenty copies to one address, $3 50, or 17 1-2 cents each per annum, Forty copies to do. Eighty copies to do. 85 00, or 12 1-2 cents each per annum. $8 00, or 10 cents each per annum. The Anti-Slavery Record Will be sold at $1 50 per hundred, and will also continue to be issued on the monthly subscription plan.-See cover of the Record. Emancipator. Single copy, 50 cents per annum. Sixteen copies to one address, $5 00, or 31 1-4 cents each per annum. One hundred copies to one address, $20 00, or 20 cents each per annum. Single number, 1 cent. A dozen numbers, 10 cents. Slave's Friend. A hundred numbers, 80 cents. Payment is to be made in all cases in advance, free of postage. The system of giving credit is discontinued. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. Donations should be remitted to Mr. JOHN RANKIN, Treasurer, No. 8 Cedar-St., New-York. All business letters, in regard to the publications or remittances on the monthly subscription plan, should be addressed to Mr. R. G. WILLIAMS, Publishing Agent, 144 Nassau-St., New-York. Other letters, and communications to be inserted in any of the publications, should be addressed to E. WRIGHT, Jr. Secretary for Domestic Correspondence, 144 Nassau-St., New-York. THE Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine. No. II.-For January, 1836. THE right of slavery is the right of the strongest. Human bones, clothed in living muscles, are not bought up as a matter of duty. When the planter sends out his "gang" in the morning, with a whip at their heels, it is to make cotton or tobacco, and not to save them from the vices or woes of idleness. When he buys more "land and negroes," it is upon no nice calculation of its bearing upon the destiny of the human beings concerned. This refined speculation comes afterwards, by way of answer to the natural question, What right have you to make "chattels" of men? Nor is it original with the planter. Conscious that the hope of gain is his motive, he has not the hypocrisy to pretend, that he buys, holds, and drives his slaves for their own good. For this mantle of charity he is indebted to the convenient and ingenious moralists who eat at his table and drink of his wine, or in some other way share his profits. While the moral warfare against slavery is waged with lukewarm and heartless moderation, the proprietor, as he calls himself, is content to be shielded by his obliging friends. But being more hotly pressed, he resorts to his own armor, and with impudent honesty replies, "I HOLD SLAVES BECAUSE I HAVE THE POWER." While we are writing, the slaveholders of this republic are in the act of throwing off the cloak, and their apologists are likely to find themselves in the predicament of a lawyer, who after volunteering a very ingenious and eloquent defence, should hear his client confess and glory in his crime. In thus utterly denying the benevolence of slaveholding, be it observed, we have denied it of the act, and not of the actors. This is not the world in which sin is permitted to work out its tendencies to the entire ruin of what God created in his own image. Hence do we see, and heartily do we rejoice in the sight, much that is good, and praiseworthy, and noble, in men whose slaveholding we are bound to condemn. We see, not seldom, even in the treatment of their slaves, the working of that humanity which is at irreconcileable war with the very tenure by which they hold those slaves. Here is our hope. Our argument is addressed to an element of the soul, which, in thousands of slaveholders, is neither dead nor dormant. And to such, the shameless avowal of a determination to hold slaves forever, on the part of the more hardened of their class, speaks in thunder tones: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." The issue is fast making up between slavery and no slavery. There is to be no neutral ground-no half-way-house. The friends of slavery must henceforth defend it, not as a necessary evil, but as a positive good; and having thus subverted all rational foundation for their own liberties, they must rely upon their naked swords. Slaveholders must live by profession, as they have always done by practice, under the old charter, "Might makes right." And this charter they must teach their slaves. Indeed, they always have taught it. How numerous and impressive the lessons; the ever-present whip-the hand-cuffs--the stocks-the iron collar for the neck-the ball and chain! How apt the preparation for a turn of the tables, and how reasonable the dread of that just retribution! Would to God the masters would substitute for their murderous doctrine, so cruelly taught, the pure, peaceful, elevating truths of the Bible! Strange they should be so jealous of a book from which they profess to read a divine sanction for their conduct! |