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  Chancellor Harper, of South Carolina.- ,,It is the order of
nature. and of GOD, that the being of superior faculties and knowl-
edge, and therefore of superior power, should control and dispose
of those who are inferior. It is as much in the order of nature
that men should enslave each other, as that other animals should
prey upon each other."
  Columebia (S. C.) Telescope -" Let us declare, through the pub-
lic jourinals of our country, that the question of slavery is not, and
shall not be open to discussion; that the system is deep-rooted
amiong us, and must remain forever; that the very moment any
private individual attempts to lecture upon its evils and immoral-
ity, and the necessity of putting means in operation to secure us
from them, in the same moment his tongue shall be cut out and
cast upon a dunghill."
  Augusta (Geo.) Chronicle.-" He [Amos Dresser] should have
been hung up as high as Haman, to rot upon the gibbet, until the
wind whistled through his bones. The cry of the whole South
should be death, INSTANT DEATH, to the abolitionist, wherever
he is caught."
   [Amos Dresser, now a missionary in Jamaica, was a
theological student at Lane Seminary, near Cincinnati.
In the vacation (August, 1835) he undertook to sell Bibles
in the state of Tennessee, with a view to raise means
further to continue his studies. Whilst there, he fell
under suspicion of being an abolitionist, was arrested by
the Vigilance Committee, whilst attending a religious
meeting in the neighborhood of Nashville, the capital of
the state, and after an afternoon and evening's inquisition
condemned to receive twenty lashes on his naked body.
The sentence was executed on him, between eleven and
twelve o'clock on Saturday night, in the presence of most
of the committee, and of an infuriated and blaspheming
mob. The Vigilance Committee (an unlawful association)
consisted of sixty persons. Of these, twenty-seven were
members of churches; one, a religious teacher, another,
the elder, who but a few days before, in the Presbyterian
church, handed Mr. Dresser the bread and wine at the
communion of the Lord's Supper.]
  In the latter part of the summer of 1835, the slave-
holders generally became alarmed at the progress of the
abolitionists. Meetings were held throughout the South
to excite all classes of people to the requisite degree of
exasperation against them.   At one of these meetings,
held at Clinton, Mississippi, it was