the Colored people from Emigration which we believe would be for their benefit; but from one which we are well assured would be a change greatly for the worse. And we denounce the principles and measures of the Colonization Society precisely as we should a line of policy on the part of the despotic governments of Europe to compel emigration by a systematic course of oppressive measures, devised and carried out for the purpose of driving their poorer subjects from their native country to this. The Colonization Society has ever been one of the most formidable, because one of the most insidious, enemies of the Colored Race. It approaches it under the guise of friendship, and asks it to perpetuate the servitude of the Bond, by the exile of the Free. Its principle is inherently vicious, lying, and wicked. It must be ever watched without rest and exposed without mercy.

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN AND THE WHITE SLAVE.

Our recapitulation of the Anti-Slavery influences which have been brought to bear on the public mind during the past year, would be very imperfect if we neglected to notice the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a Romance full of Facts, narrated with wit, pathos, and discrimination of character of a very high order. This work which appeared originally in the columns of the National Era, was published early in the year and soon created a most extraordinary excitement, first on this and afterwards on the other side of the Atlantic. Its success, indeed, has not only been without parallel in literary history, but has far outstripped the most brilliant successes of former authors. No book ever passed through so many editions, in the same space of time, either in this country or in Europe, and we believe that so large a number of copies has never been sold of any book, in any space of time, unless it may be the Pilgrim's Progress. It has been translated in most of the continental languages, and placed upon the stage, in a dramatic form, in almost every city. So that, whilst our wise Legislators at Washington were fulminating their anathemas against agitation, and solemnly resolving and re-resolving that it should be discountenanced, in every form and in every place, Mrs. STOWE was preparing a firebrand which was to make it blaze with a new fury. So impotent are Legislative attempts to stop the discussion of any question. Difficult in any country, it is impossible in this.

About the same time Mr. HILDRETH recast and concluded his Ro

mance of Archy Moore, under the new title of The White Slave. Though the success of this work has not been comparable to that of Uncle Tom's Cabin, it has exceeded that of most American or English publications, considering the short space of time since it appeared in its new shape. It has passed through several editions, both in this country and in England, and has helped to make Slavery, still, the one topic of thought and of conversation. Its mode of treatment of the subject differs from that of Mrs. STOWE's work, but it is impressed with a vigor of thought and an energy of description that will give it a permanent place among standard works. The fact of the greater degree of success which has attended the re-appearance of Mr. HILDRETH'S work than that which met it when first given to the world, we think is to be accounted for on the same grounds that, in some degree, account for the unprecedented success of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Had the latter work been published fifteen years ago, we believe it would have attained a much more moderate measure of celebrity than that which has now so justly crowned it. And for the reason that, in this country at least, there did not then exist a public prepared to welcome such a work. Its American reputation would have been confined to a very narrow circle compared to that which now includes within its circumference all the Free States, and many of the best minds in the Slave States themselves. For twenty years and more, the Anti-Slavery Movement has been at work creating a public for Mrs. STOWE and Mr. HILDRETH, which has now given them the reception their genius deserves. We have foreseen and foretold that this would be the natural course of events, that Romance and the Drama would in due time come to our help by availing themselves of the help we had afforded them in the special preparation of the general mind, and we welcome joyfully these new auxiliaries to the Cause of Freedom.

Mrs. STOWE's novel, and its success, produced a world of replies, many of them taking the same narrative form, showing how delightful a condition Slavery is, while others took the shape of argumentative discourses to convince mankind of their mistake that it was better for a man to own himself than to belong to another, and to show that it was not the fault of anybody (except, possibly, the English) that Slavery now exists in this country. These works were, generally, of the most trashy and ephemeral character possible, and, for the most part, have already passed into oblivion. But they all helped to maintain and swell still higher that chorus of agitation which forbade any eye to be shut, or any ear deaf, to the refractory facts of Slavery. The news

papers, too, especially the more rabid of the Pro-Slavery political and ecclesiastical papers, from the New York Herald down to the New York Observer, have contributed their proportion to this wholesome result, in the very fullness of their zeal to counteract it. Thus does the God of Freedom make the wrath and wickedness of man to praise him.

THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

There was perhaps never a year, since West Indian Emancipation, when the public mind of Great Britain and Ireland has been so deeply stirred on the subject of Slavery, as the last. This has been in a measure owing to the vast popularity and infinite circulation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. But, still, the main assistance which the Anti-Slavery cause has received from the mother country has been from those old, steadfast, long-tried friends whose sympathies needed no stimulus from Fiction, and whose persistent labors rest on an enduring foundation of solid principles. Many meetings have been held in various parts of that kingdom, in Bristol, in Glasgow, in Belfast, and various other cities, called forth by the general demand of the Slave on their human sympathies, or by some specific occasion for a public expression of feeling. Latterly, these have been frequently in honor of Mrs. STOWE and her work, and substantial testimonials have been collected, in minute sums, as a solid expression of respect and gratitude. All these things have in a very satisfactory manner kept the subject before the British mind, and caused a continual discussion of it, very painful to the sensibilities of pious and patriotic Americans on their travels.

While we have such general cause of rejoicing in the new hold which the Anti-Slavery Cause seems to have taken upon the British people, we must especially advert to the consistent and intelligent assistance which the true American Movement has received from various Abolitionists, in different parts of the two islands, but especially in Bristol and in Dublin. We have to thank them for taking their place by our side, from their faith in our fidelity to the Slave, in the face of very adverse influences of a sectarian nature. They have defended the principles and the characters of the Abolitionists of the American AntiSlavery Society with a zeal and courage worthy of a warm return of gratitude and affection. Eminent among these true friends are the Bristol and Clifton Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, which was formed in 1840 under the auspices of Captain CHARLES STUART, and by his false

representations induced to coöperate with Mr. LEWIS TAPPAN'S Society at New York, and with Miss BALL'S Society in Boston. But being sincere and earnest Abolitionists, their honesty of purpose in due time opened their eyes and made them perceive the difference between those who made Anti-Slavery a cloak for sectarian bigotry and those to whom it was a living principle and a guide of daily life. This Society, a year and a half ago, November 13th, 1851, having arrived at a knowledge of the true state of the cause here, and of the base conduct of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, withdrew its auxiliaryship from that body for reasons set forth in the following proceedings of the Society:

The members of the Bristol and Clifton Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society have observed, with deep concern, that the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society has taken no steps to redeem itself from the following grave charges, which have been brought against it in the London Morning Advertiser, the Bristol Examiner, and various other papers, both English and American, as well as at several public meetings:

First That the general course of the British and Foreign AntiSlavery Society has been one of unfaithfulness to the interests of three millions of Slaves in the United States of America.

Second-That it omitted to take any action in anticipation of the visits of American Pro-Slavery clergymen to England, until it was compelled to follow the current of popular feeling, which had been created during the previous three months by other less influential associations ; and,

Third-That it subsequently claimed to have originated the AntiSlavery measures taken in this direction by different religious bodies, though many had been adopted before it put forth any recommendation of them.

Fourth - That although thoroughly aware of the real character and merely nominal existence of the "American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society," it has persisted in demanding for that Society, exclusively, the support of British Abolitionists.

Fifth That it has studiously concealed from the public the unceasing exertion and great achievements of the " American Anti-Slavery Society," excluding from the Reporter all notice of its proceedings, and declining to insert, even as advertisements, any resolutions of sympathy with its labors, or any appeals for aid to its annual Bazaar.

Sixth-That it has taken no notice, in the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter, of the most remarkable series of Anti-Slavery meetings ever held in the United States, at which GEORGE THOMPSON, Esq., M. P., recently addressed vast numbers of the American people, with singular eloquence, faithfulness, and success.

Seventh―That it has assiduously kept back from the readers of the

Reporter accounts of interesting and important public meetings, held in different parts of the kingdom, to welcome those able and distinguished representatives of their brethren in bonds, WILLIAM WELLS BROWN and WILLIAM and ELLEN CRAFT; and has neglected and discouraged Fugitive Slaves bearing high testimonials from leading members of the American Anti-Slavery Society, while commending to the sympathy of the British public such as are patronized by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.

Eighth That for the last eleven years, some of its most active members, without rebuke from the Society, have industriously circulated sinister reports, prejudicial to the character and influence of some of the most virtuous, high-minded, and intrepid American Abolitionists, while the Reporter has been closed to all statements calculated to remove such misapprehensions; thus evincing a want of candor and magnanimity utterly unbecoming the professed friends of the Slave.

Wherefore, perceiving that the influence exerted by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society has tended to repress energetic action, to withdraw English sympathy and aid from the true Abolitionists of America; and that by multiplying the obstacles with which these devoted friends of freedom have to contend, it has grievously retarded the AntiSlavery Cause throughout the world · the members of the Bristol and Clifton Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society feel that this body has forfeited the confidence formerly reposed in it, and that their duty to the Slave requires them to dissolve all connection with it.

And it is hereby

Resolved, That this Society be no longer considered as an auxiliary to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, but that it constitute an independent organization to be governed by such regulations as shall hereafter be determined upon.

That the members of this Society consider it incumbent upon them to direct the attention of all other affiliated associations to the grounds of their separation from the parent Society; and that a copy of the above resolutions, and of the printed documents on the subject already in circulation, be sent to the Secretary of each auxiliary.

We have placed these excellent proceedings on our Record, this year, though they would have come more regularly under that of the last, because they have been widely circulated in an able, dispassionate, and well reasoned Report of the Society, adopted last June. We hope they will have the effect of opening the eyes of many sincere but misled Abolitionists, on that side of the water, to the fact that the worst enemies the Cause has to deal with are those that call themselves of its own household.

In consequence, probably, of these proceedings and of the constant fidelity of the London Morning Advertiser, which we cannot too highly commend and which we most cordially appreciate, Mr. LEWIS TAPPAN