NEW JERSEY has, as yet, no State Society, and the number of avowed abolitionists is small.  In some of the most populous and influential parts of the state, great solicitude exists on the subject; and the call for lecturers is beginning to be earnest, if not importunate.

PENNSYLVANIA has advanced to our principles just in proportion to the labor that has been bestowed, by means of lectures and publications in enlightening her population as to our objects, and the evils and dangers impending over the whole country, from southern slavery.  The act of her late Convention, in depriving a large number of their own constituents (the colored people) of the elective franchise, heretofore possessed by them without any allegation of its abuse on their part, would seem to prove an unpropitious state of public sentiment.  We would neither deny, nor elude, the force of such evidence.  But when this measure of the convention is brought out and unfolded in its true light—­shown to be a party measure to bring succor from the south—­a mere following in the wake of North Carolina and Tennessee, who led the way, in their new constitutions, to this violation of the rights of their colored citizens, that they might the more firmly compact the wrongs of the enslaved—­a pernicious, a profitless violation of great principles—­a vulgar defiance of the advancing spirit of humanity and justice—­a relapse into the by-gone darkness of a barbarous age—­we apprehend from it no serious detriment to our cause.

OHIO has been well advanced.  In a short time, she will be found among the most prominent of the states on the right side in the contest now going on between the spirit of liberty embodied in the free institutions of the north, and the spirit of slavery pervading the south.  Her Constitution publishes the most honorable reprobation of slavery of any other in the Union.  In providing for its own revision or amendment, it declares, that no alteration of it shall ever take place, so as to introduce slavery or involuntary servitude into the state.  Her Supreme court is intelligent and firm.  It has lately decided, virtually, against the constitutionality of an act of the Legislature, made, in effect, to favor southern slavery by the persecution of the colored people within her bounds.  She has, already, abolitionists enough to turn the scale in her elections, and an abundance of excellent material for augmenting the number.

In INDIANA but little has been done, except by the diffusion of our publications.  But even with these appliances, several auxiliary societies have been organized.[A]

[Footnote A:  The first Legislative movement against the annexation of Texas to the Union, was made, it is believed, in Indiana.  So early as December, 1836, a joint resolution passed its second reading in one or both branches of the Legislature.  How it was ultimately disposed of, is not known.]

In MICHIGAN, the leaven of abolitionists pervades the whole population.  The cause is well sustained by a high order of talent; and we trust soon to see the influence of it in all her public acts.