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    CHANNING ON SLAVERY.'*

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    It is a glorious joy to see a great mind grappling with a great question . There is no sublimity like that of genius putting forth its power for the deliverance of humanity . Months of our present existence would be a cheap purchase , could they be given in exchange , for having lived the day when Milton s Defensio was published . Such gladness is to the soul what the Vatican Apollo is to the sense ; and so cognate are the

    emotions , that the one suggests , and is a beautiful type or symbol of the other . Thankful were we to hear that the dart of Channing was levelled at the Python of slavery . That it has slain the dragon is much more than we dare to prognosticate . The modern world has bred serpents less vulnerable than those of antiquity , even to the dart of a deity . But it is aimed at the heart ; and fitting was it that the moust ^ r-caischief of America should be encountered bv the master mind of

    America . Justice will scarcely be done in this country to the courage which this publication implies in its author . Fhe time is long gone by , and few remember it , when the merchants of Liverpool attempted to jostle Clarkson into the 9 ea . Generally , the cause of abolition was popular ; and especially after the planters provoked the Methodists by interfering with the missionaries . We can have no notion of the feelino * of the

    Americans on this subject ; and , perhaps , a full conceptioti of it is only to be attained by actual observation during the recent period of excitement . We have no parallel to their fury , unless it be in that of Orangemen and Catholics . But the Orangemen are dunghill compared with the slavers . Nor is there such a re-action as in Ireland against oppression . The Catholics are competent to their own defence ; the poor

    negroes are hors de combat ; they have only philanthropy in their favour . Moreover they , and all their friends , are continually endangered by the impou-nt fanaticism of p hilanthropy . Dr . Channing deems it necessary to disclaim the

    Abolitionists , and deprecate their proceedings . The cowardice of the quiet people , whose unprincipled pusillanimity is so predominant a power in all wealthy and commercial states , te opposed even to any discussion of the subject . The cockfr of the south have crowed over the cravens of the north mrtrt they have terrified them into their service , and made them an * Slavery , bv \ V . K . ( 'hnmiini ; - . London Hunter , reprinted I ' mm the Bostou ( l . S . ) edition .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/1/