most high God! This is slavery as it is daily exhibited
in every slave state.

Here, continued Mr. T., is slavery acknowledged to be clear robbery,
and yet it is not to be instantly abolished! Universal concubinage and
prostitution, which must not immediately be put an end to! Oh, these
wicked abolitionists, who seek to put an immediate close to such a
state of things. What an immensity of good have the emancipationists
of the South, as they wish to be called, of the colonizationists as
they ought to be called, done during their fifty years labor, when
this is yet left for the Rev. R. J. Breckinridge to say. Dear,
delightful, energetic men! Truly, if this is all they have been able
to effect it is time that the work were committed to abler hands. Mr.
Thompson then read an extract from the Philadelphia declaration. Mr.
Breckinridge had called it a declaration of independence, but it was
only a declaration of sentiments;--

We have met together for the achievement of an enterprise,
without which, that of our fathers is incomplete, and which,
for its magnitude, solemnity, and probable results upon the
destiny of the world, as far as transcends theirs, as moral
truth does physical force.

In purity of motive, in earnestness of zeal, in decision of
purpose, in intrepidity of action, in steadfastness of faith,
in sincerity of spirit, we would not be inferior to them.

Their principles led them to wage war against their
oppressors, and to spill human blood like water, in order to
be free. Ours forbid the doing of evil that good may come,
and lead us to reject, and entreat the oppressed to reject
the use of all carnal weapons, for deliverance from
bondage--relying solely upon those which are spiritual, and
mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.

Their measures were physical resistance--the marshalling in
arms--the hostile array--the mortal encounter. Ours shall
be such only as the opposition of moral purity to moral
corruption--the destruction of error by the potency of
truth--the overthrow of prejudice by the power of love--and
the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance.

Their grievances, great as they were, were trifling in
comparison with the wrongs and sufferings of those for whom
we plead. Our fathers were never slaves--never bought and
sold like cattle--never shut out from the light o