sons their pleasures.
Their tarring and feathering of good citizens; their
riding them upon rails, and ducking them, in dirty
ponds; their destruction of liberty presses, and the
hanging of John Brown and his friends, to intimidate men
from the advocacy of freedom, will all come tumbling
upon their own heads as a just retribution for their
outrageous brutality. Only let us persevere, and
oppressed humanity, bent in timid silence throughout the
south, will rise and throw off the yoke of Slavery and
rejoice in beholding itself _free_!"

"NEWPORT, August 18.

"I send you three copies of my paper. Since receiving
your letter, I and my family have done all in our power
to get it out, but we had to get old type from the
foundry and sort it, to make the sheet the size you now
see it. We hate to be put down by the influence of
tyranny, and you cannot imagine our sorrow, anxiety,
necessity and determination." * * * "I have received,
since the press was destroyed, 700 dollars in all, which
has been spent in repairing and roofing our
dwelling-house, and repairing the breaches made upon the
office, together with mending the presses and procuring
job type and some little for the paper, but nearly all
the latter is old type. Our kindest thanks to the
liberty-loving people of your country, Scotland, and
Ireland, and tell them I shall never surrender the cause
of freedom. A little money from all my friends, would
soon reinstate me, and when they see my paper I trust it
will cheer their hopes, and cause a new fire for liberty
in Kentucky.

"I cannot but sometimes ask in my closet meditations: O
God of mercy and love, why permittest Thou these things?
But still I hope for a change of mind in my enemies, and
shall press onward to accomplish the great task
seemingly allotted to me upon Kentucky soil."

THE PERSECUTED BEREANS.--There is another call connected with
Kentucky, which we wish to bring before our friends. At a
village in that State, called Berea, (situated in Madison
county), a little band of Christian men and women, had been
pursuing their useful labors for some years past. They avowedly
held Anti-slavery sent