If it were true, that the ladies of Glasgow or Edin-' burgh deputed MR. THOMPSON to this country, and wholly defrayed the expenses of his mission among us, the fact would be disgraceful, neither to them nor to

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doctrines for the conviction of the South.' [What a dangerous heresy !] They insist upon immediate, instantaneous emancipation.' By thus insisting that the continuance of slavery, under any circumstances, is necessarily of the same moral character as its original, voluntary introduction, that it is equally criminal, they come to the conclusion, that no laws that sanction or uphold it can have any moral obligation.' Friends of humanity in England, behold the head and front of the offending of American abolitionists! Are not their doctrines your doctrines? Yet it is alleged that they " tend to all the horrors of a civil and servile war'!!

MR. SPRAGUE is guilty of misrepresentation, in several instances. It is not true, that MR. THOMPSON came here as an avowed emissary,' or as 'a professed agitator,' in a pernicious sense. It is not true, that the question of slavery is exclusively or pre-eminently a political one: it is a moral and religious question, which every moral and religious being on earth has a right to examine and discuss, on these shores, and throughout the world. The sncer at the dark and corrupt institutions of Europe' manifests a large share of effrontery, in this connexion; for the institution of AMERICAN SLAVERY is incomparably more dark and corrupt than any that exists in Europe. MR. SPRAGUE exhibits, moreover, a superfluity of indignation, because an Englishman comes here to enlighten us, upon the rights of man, and the moral duties of our condition. Surely, the people who make merchandise of more than one-sixth of their whole number, and declare that such brutal conduct is divinely sanctioned, or, at least, is not prohibited by Christianity, need to be enlightened upon the subject of inalienable human rights, and upon moral duties, more than any other people on the face of the globe. Surely, the man who could desecrate FANEUIL HALL by a speech in favor of American tyrants, and by lauding WASHINGTON because he was a slaveholder, (thus converting a damning stain into a badge of honor,) may be taught something on the score of liberty even by a NICHOLAS, much more by a free-born Englishman.

By the British Constitution, no slave can breathe the air of England.— What does MR. SPRAGUE assert of the American Constitution, in approving terms? It recognizes and provides for the continuance of the relation of master and slave. It does sanction, it does UPHOLD, slavery. There

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*him, but honorable to all parties. It is, unquestionably, the duty of women to seek the universal elevation of their sex from moral and physical degradation, by attempting, for instance, to extirpate the practice of selfimmolation in Hindoostan, or Turkish polygamy, or American slavery. If a million females are held in beastly thraldom in this country, is it unbecoming any portion of the women of England, Scotland or Ireland, to send forth and sustain an eloquent and gifted agent to plead the cause of their down-trodden sex?

No.

is no pretence that the provisions of the Constitution, in relation to slavery, were inserted by accident or inadvertence. Few parts of the Constitution were more carefully and deliberately weighed.' Has not every American cause to blush at the contrast?

But MR. THOMPSON was received by OUR hospitality'!! says MR. SPRAGUE. This is sufficiently impudent and false. It was the hospitality of the wolf to the lamb, seeking to devour the victim. 'Our hospitality' caused MR. THOMPSON, his wife, and little ones, to be thrust out of a hotel in New York city, soon after he landed in this country. • Our hospitality provided for him rotten eggs, brickbats, tar and feathers, halters, daggers, &c. &c. 'Our hospitality? at last compelled him to return hastily to England, in order to save his life. It was the 'hospitality' offered by PELEG SPRAGUE in Faneuil Hall, which prepared the way for the great mobocratic entertainment that was made in October for MR. THOMPSON! 'Protected by our laws'!! says MR. SPRAGUE. When, where, and how ? 'Our laws' do not protect native abolitionists. Our laws,' too, must be singularly defective, if they give protection to a man who is guilty of hurling fire-brands, arrows and death' into the habitations of our neighbors, and friends, and brothers.' But this charge of PELEG SPRAGUE against MR. THOMPSON is worthy to go with the accusation against the apostles, that they were pestilent and seditious fellows, turning the world upside down-and with the charge against the Saviour, that he had a devil. It was a charge well calculated, at the time of its utterance, to stimulate a host of assassins against Mr. T's life: it was certainly a blow aimed at his reputation, and not only so, but an impeachment of the humanity, patriotism and piety of the whole body of abolitionists who supported MR. THOMP SON, both in this country and in England.

Such an act would be more truly glorious than a thousand victories won upon the tented field.' But the reader has been already apprised, that MR. THOMPSON was invited to come to this country by the NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, and to accept an agency in its behalf. He complied with the invitation, but came also under the sanction, and to some extent, under the direction as well as co-operation of the British and Foreign Society for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade throughout the world.' He was also countenanced and supported by other anti-slavery associations in various parts of the United Kingdom. It is true, that in Glasgow and Edinburgh a special interest was taken in the mission of MR. THOMPSON by some of the most estimable and philanthropic ladies in those cities, as well as by ladies in Liverpool, Birmingham, and other places, and that they contributed towards its prosecution-just as pious females in our country assist in sending missionaries to other landshumbly, subordinately, conjunctively. Yet this incidental co-operation (worthy as it is of the admiration of the wise and good in every country) has been made the occasion of much scurrility and falsehood, as preceding quotations abundantly prove. It has been made a subject of ridicule, in a house of worship, before a crowded audience in New York. At a colonization meeting in the Rev. Dr. Spring's church last May, the Rev. GEORGE W. BETHUNE made a frothy and theatrical speech, of which the following is an extract, as reported in the New York Observer :

'MR. BETHUNE observed, that he was sorry not to see some of our English friends present, (i. e. Messrs. Cox and HOBY,)—and while speak.

ing of them, he could not help thinking what sort of a reception the agent of the Edinburgh ladies, (MR. THOMPSON,) would meet on his return to his constituents,* and what sort of a report he would probably make on the subject of his mission. He could not but picture to himself the fair lady President inquiring

And pray MR. THOMPSON, what did you do in America?'

To this he thought he heard the Agent responding, Why, ladies, I made speeches there for which one part of my audience loudly applauded me, and another part as loudly hissed me.'

'And pray, where did you make speeches, MR. THOMPSON? Did you go to that part of the country where slavery prevailed, and tell them how wrong it was?'

'Oh no! if I had, they would have hanged me! But I went to the Northern States, ladies, and I told them what wicked people they were at the South.'

'But, MR. THOMPSON, had the people of the North any power to emancipate the slaves of the southern holders?

* The London Christain Advocate of Feb. 1st, informs us what sort of a reception the constituents of MR. THOMPSON gave him in Glasgow on his return on Monday he met the Emancipation Committees, male and female, in the Friend's Meeting-house, when, after he had briefly recited his adventures, a unanimous vote of thanks, congratulation and confidence was passed and presented to him. The meeting likewise pledged itself anew to the cause of universal emancipation. On Tuesday evening, and again on Friday evening, MR. THOMPSON addressed large assemblies of the members and friends of the Emancipation Society in DR. WARDLAW'S Chapel. Rev. Dr. HEUGH took the chair, and opened the proceedings in a short speech, highly commendatory of MR. THOMPSON. Mr. T. made a very lengthy address. On Monday night, (says the Glasgow Journal of Thursday,) the soiree in honor of MR. GEORGE THOMPSON was given in the large and splendid hall of the Montieth Rooms, Buchanan street. The usual refreshments provided on such occasions-tea, coffee, fruits conserves, &c. &c. were amply and tastefully distributed. A series of resolutions was moved and carried by acclamation, in the course of the evening, and the movers and seconders of these addressed the assembly in excellent speeches. MR. CUNNINGHAM'S band in the gallery filled up the intervals between the addresses, with alternately gay and solemn strains. It was 12 o'clock ere the assembly broke up. MR. THOMPSON, who was the last to address them, was warmly cheered and encouraged to go on in his last speech. Rev. Drs. KIDSTON and HEUGH officiated as chaplains,'

Oh no! No more, ladies, than you have yourselves.'

'Indeed! and then, MR. THOMPSON, why did you not stay at home, and make your speeches to us?'

[These queries and replies were constantly interrupted with bursts of enthusiastic applause, mingled with long and uncontrolable laughter.j

The foregoing miserable attempt at wit is a specimen of the colonization spirit in this country. The schoolboy sophistry of MR. BETHUNE is based upon a glaring falsehood, which, when overthrown, buries its author in the ruins of his own folly. MR. THOMPSON did not, and could not, go to any part of our nation in which slavery, does not virtually exist. A very large amount of capital, belonging to the northern States is vested in plantations and slaves at the South. There is not a State in the Union in which slaveholders do not reside. There is not an inch of territory in the United States which affords the least protection to a runaway slave-the people of every state regarding themselves as obligated by the Constitution to return him to his tyrannical master, and to suppress every insurrection for liberty among the slaves. Slaveholders are allowed a large slave representation in Congress. The intercourse between the North and the South is as intimate as between members of the same family, and their inhabitants are constantly marrying or giving in marriage with each other. The existence of southern slavery puts in jeopardy the liberty of every free colored citizen in the non-slaveholding States. It has destroyed the freedom of speech and of the press, and the right of peaceably assembling together to consult upon the public good, and the liberty of locomotion, i. e. to the citizens of the free states, (all guarantied by the Constitu