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repeated in American Slave-masters. Truths as simple as the great discovery of Galileo are openly denied, and all who declare them are driven to recant. We condemn the Index Expurgatorius of the Roman Church; but American Slave-masters have an Index on which are inscribed all the generous books of the age. There is one book, the marvel of recent literature, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which has been thus treated both by the Church and by the Slave-masters, so that it is honored by the same suppression at the Vatican and at Charleston.

Not to dwell on these instances, there is one which has a most instructive ridiculousness. A religious discourse of the late Dr. Channing on West-India Emancipation — the last effort of his beautiful career — was offered for sale by a book agent at Charleston. A prosecution by the South-Carolina Association ensued, and the agent was held to bail in the sum of one thousand dollars. Shortly afterward, the same agent. received for sale a work by Dickens, freshly published, “American Notes;" but, determined not to expose himself again to the tyrannical Inquisition, he gave notice through the newspapers that the book “ would be submitted to highly intelligent members of the South-Carolina Association for inspection, and if the sale is approved by them, it will be for sale — if not, not."

Listen also to another recent instance, as recounted in the Montgomery Mail, a newspaper of Alabama:

“Last Saturday we devoted to the flames a large number of copies of Spurgeon's Sermons, and the pile was graced at the top with a copy of ‘ Graves's Great Iron Wheel,' which a Baptist friend presented for the purpose. We trust that the works of the greasy cockney vociferator may receive the same treatment throughout the South. And if the Pharisaical author should ever show himself in these parts, we trust that a stout cord may speedily find its way around his eloquent throat. He has proved himself a dirty, low-bred slanderer, and ought to be treated accordingly."

And very recently we have read in the journals, that the trustees of a College in Alabama have resolved that Dr. Wayland's admirable work on Moral Science “contains abolition doctrine of the deepest dye;" and they proceeded to denounce “the said book, and forbid its further use in the Institute."

The speeches of Wilberforce in the British Parliament, and especially those magnificent efforts of Brougham, where he exposed “the wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man," were insanely denounced by the British planters in the West-Indies; but our Slave-masters go further. Speeches