l them, by force or intimidation,
to emancipate their slaves, we at once deny any such
pretension. We are utterly opposed to any force on the
subject, but that of conscience and reason, which are
"mighty, through God, to the pulling down of strongholds." We
fully acknowledge that no change in the slave-laws of the
southern States can be made, unless by the southern
Legislatures. Neither Congress nor the Legislatures of the
free States have authority to change the condition of a
single slave in the slave States. But, if by "interference"
be intended the exercise of the right of freely discussing
this subject, and, by speech, and through the press, creating
a public sentiment, which will reach the conscience, and
blend with the convictions of the slave-holder, and thus
ultimately work the complete extinction of slavery, this is a
species of interference which we can never consent to
relinquish."

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"We respectfully ask our fellow-citizens, whether we are to
be deprived of these sacred privileges,--and, if so, whether
the sacrifice of our rights will not involve consequences
dangerous to all mental and even personal freedom. We have
violated, we mean to violate, no law. We have acted, we
shall continue to act, under the sanction of the Constitution
of the United States. Nothing that we propose to do can be
prevented by our opposers, without violating the Charter of
our rights. To the Law and to the Constitution we appeal."

Such were the sentiments of the abolitionists of the United States of
America.

He (Mr. T.) would embrace the present opportunity of saying a few
words respecting his own mission to the United States. It had been
much denounced as an impertinent foreign interference; but he thought
the charge had neither grace nor honesty when it came from those who
were engaged, and, as he believed, most conscientiously and
praiseworthily, in seeking, by their missionaries and agents, to
overturn the institutions, social, political, and religious, of every
other quarter of the globe. Mr. Breckinridge had said that it would be
as just on his part to inveigh against England on account of Roman
Catholicism in the west of Ireland, or Idolatry in India, as it was on
his (Mr. T's.) to condemn America for the slavery existing in that
country. The cases were not quite parallel. Befo