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   Resolved,-
   "That slavery through the South and West is not felt as an
evil, moral or political. but it is recognized in reference to the
actual, and not to any Utopian condition of our slaves, as a bless-
ing, both to master and slave."
   Resolved,-
   ", That it is our decided opinion, that any individual who dares
to circulate, with a view to effectuate the designs of the abolition-
ists, tiny of the incendiary tracts or newspapers now in a course
of transmission to this country, is justly worthy, in the sight of
God and man, of immediate death; and we doubt not that such
would be the punishment of any such offender in any part of the
state of Mississippi where he may be found."
  Resolved,-
  " That we recommend to the citizens of Mississippi, to encour-
age the cause of the American Colonization Society, so long as in
good faith it concentrates its energies alone on the removal of the
free people of color out of the United States."
  Resolved,-
  "I That the clergy of the state of Mississippi be hereby recom-
mended at once to take a stand upon this subject, and that their
further silence in relation thereto, at this crisis, will, in our opin-
ion, be subject to serious censure."
  At Clharleston, South Carolina, the post-office was
forced, the Anti-Slavery publications, which were there
for distribution or fu Gher transmission to masters, taken
out and made a bonfire of in the street, by a mob of
several thousand people.
  A public meeting was appointed to be held a few days
afterward to complete, in the same spirit in which they
were commenced, preparations for excluding Anti-Slavery
publications from circulation, and for ferreting out per-
sons suspected of favoring the doctrines of the abolition-
ists, 'that they might be subjected to lynch law.  At this
assembly the Charleston Courier informs us,-
  " The Clergy of all denominations attended in a body, lending
their sanction to the proceedings, anid adding by their presence
to the impressive character of the scene."
  It was there resolved,-
  " That the thanks of this meeting are due to the Reverend gentle-
men of the clergy in this city, who have so promptly and so effectu-
ally responded to public sentiment, by suspending their schools in
which thefree coloredpopuldtion were taught; and that this meeting