couraging insurrection_, and
designed to excite the slaves to break their fetters, the
charge is utterly and unequivocally false. We beg our
fellow-citizens to notice that this charge is made without
proof, and by many who confess that they have never read our
publications, and that those who make it, offer to the public
no evidence from our writings in support of it."

"We have been charged with a design to encourage
intermarriages between the whites and blacks. The charge has
been repeatedly, and is now again denied, while we repeat
that the tendency of our sentiments is to _put an end_ to the
criminal amalgamation that prevails wherever slavery exists."

These were only extracts from the address, which was of considerable
length, and thus concluded:

"Such, fellow-citizens, are our principles. Are they unworthy
of republicans and of Christians? Or are they in truth so
atrocious, that in order to prevent their diffusion you are
yourselves willing to surrender, at the dictation of others,
the invaluable privilege of free discussion, the very
birth-right of Americans? Will you, in order that the
abomination of slavery may be concealed from public view, and
that the capital of your republic may continue to be, as it
now is, under the sanction of Congress, the great slave mart
of the American Continent, consent that the general
government, in acknowledged defiance of the constitution and
laws, shall appoint, throughout the length and breadth of
your land, ten thousand censors of the press, each of whom
shall have the right to inspect every document you may commit
to the Post-Office, and to suppress every pamphlet and
newspaper, whether religious or political, which, in its
sovereign pleasure, he may adjudge to contain an incendiary
article? Surely we need not remind you, that if you submit to
such an encroachment on your liberties, the days of our
Republic are numbered, and that, although abolitionists may
be the first, they will not be the last victims offered at
the shrine of arbitrary power.

ARTHUR TAPPAN, _President_.
JOHN RANKIN, _Treasurer_.
WILLIAM JAY, _Sec. For. Cor._
ELIZUR WRIGHT, Jr.,_ Sec. Dom. Cor._
ABRAHAM L. COX, M. D., _Rec. Sec._