extensively injurious. Who could calculate the injury that might be done to any laboring district, if all the laborers in it, who had uniformly felt it a duty to perform the work assigned them, without even the mental effort of planning it, were by a sudden change of circumstances, lett to plan and execute at their own pleasure to do any thing or nothing, as inclination might direct? The results of such a transformation may be easily imagined.

That there will be no immediate change, therefore, in the organization of society at the South, may be considered as absolutely certain; but that there is a meliorating influence pervading the whole system of slavery, need not be doubted. To what changes this may eventually lead, cannot now be determined; but whatever these may be, they must be brought about by the slave owners themselves, without any foreign interference. And any legislative action on the subject, must be through the legislative authority of the States where slavery prevails, under special instructions from the citizens of those States. The exclusive control of this subject having been "reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people thereof," no power over it has ever been delegated by them to any other authority whatever.

As relates to the evil of slavery of which much has been said, I will take the liberty to remark, that we are so limited in our capacities, so incapable of taking into view the whole system of things, that we cannot at all times be certain, that what we would call evil, may not be necessary in the arrangements of Providence for the accomplishment of his purposes. Poverty, for instance, is usually deemed an evil, and such it no doubt is to many who experience its inconveniencies. But it is an evil which has always existed, and always must, because we have the highest authority for saying it always will exist in our world. Our Saviour said to his disciples and others, "the poor you have always with you," intimating that there would ever be a class of poor persons, towards whom acts of benevolence might be extended. Providence, however, could so have directed, as to the capacities or prosperity of individuals in life, that there should not have been any poor in the land; but it was otherwise ordered, and the poor will always make an interesting part of the society of men. But the condition of poverty often calls into exercise the most exemplary virtues, and prepares those who experience its privations for the most durable riches and never ending joys. From the most abject poverty and suffering, Lazarus was transported to those realms of bliss, from which the wealthy individual was excluded-at whose gate he had lain, little regarded except by dogs. And none can be at a loss to determine whose condition was most desirable when both had made an exchange of worldsAn intermixture of good and evil is allotted to every mortal here below, and it is only those in whose favor the good is found to preponderate, that are esteemed fortunate. Good and evil were so combined in that Tree of Knowledge of whose fruit our first parents were forbidden to eat, that the bitter evidence of the admixture they wofully experienced, when in disobeying the divine command, they found the evil they did not seek, and lost the good they had previously possessed; and from that period to the present day, none of their descendants have been exempt from a share of these two qualities, and it is to infinite wisdom we are to look, so to overrule the one, as to secure to us a higher degree

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the other." In every condition of life there is evil, because in every condition there is sin, and no one condition need to be considered as exclusively evil. Solomon says, "all the days of the afflicted are evil," but true as this may be, we know from higher authority, that afflictions are often made "to work together for good to those who are exercised thereby."

As all the circumstances connected with our earthly existence are under the direction of infinite wisdom, who can say that such a condition of slavery might not have been deemed necessary to the complete organization of society, and may not therefore be classed amongst those blessings of the social state from which important good is ultimately to result? Such a condition, under different modifications we know has existed in every age of the world, and we do not know that it will not continue even through the millenial period; for it will be the moral change in the characters of men, and not their change of civil condition, which will constitute the happiness of that period, and continually increase it. It must be left to the retributions of a future state to produce equality in the conditions of men. In this probationary state inequalities will and must exist, the necessities of the social state demand and require them. But however various the conditions of men, all situations have their appropriate enjoyments; and of these enjoy. ments we may rest assured that servants are not without their share. And why then should any efforts be made to excite discontent amongst those who feel possessed of comforts suited to their stations, and who are in no respect desirous of change? Why labor to make those restless and uneasy, who, if not interfered with, would quietly perform their duties and be contented? What can excuse the insolence that would intrude upon the domestic concerns of another, for the purpose of creating discord, where all would otherwise be quietness and peace? The condition of the colored population in the Southern States, is better, far better, than the condition of thousands, and tens of thousands of individuals to be found in various nations of Europe, and better than that of millions in the "celestial Empire" of China, who may imagine themselves to be highly privileged. 1 saw, not long since, an account of a number of Turkish youths, who were chained two and two together, and marched into one of the towns of their master, to be there enrolled in the lists of the army. They had been unceremoniously forced from their families and friends, and were compelled to join the ranks of those who were destined to be shot at; and they will never probably return to the embraces of those relatives and friends from whom they have thus been separated-but will either be killed in battle, or kept in military vassalage during the remainder of their lives. And how many events strongly resembling this, may be found in the occurrences of other Foreign nations? And are not the slaves here far better off than these individuals? Have they not more domestic comfort, and far more safety and ease than thousands of individuals abroad, whose laborious lives procure for them but a scanty and precarious subsistence? Let our Abolitionists then, turn their attention to the white sufferers abroad, and avoid all intermeddling with the colored people of our own country. There will be no difficulty in finding more actual distress and degradation in Foreign lands, than they will ever be able to discover in all the slave holding States of the Union.