The facts we have now exhibited, abundantly prove the extreme cruelty and sinfulness of that prejudice against color which we are impiously told is an ORDINATION OF PROVIDENCE.  Colonizationists, assuming the prejudice to be natural and invincible, propose to remove its victims beyond its influence.  Abolitionists, on the contrary, remembering with the Psalmist, that “It is HE that hath made us, and not we ourselves,” believe that the benevolent Father of us all requires us to treat with justice and kindness every portion of the human family, notwithstanding any particular organization he has been pleased to impress upon them.  Instead, therefore, of gratifying and fostering this prejudice, by continually banishing from our country those against whom it is directed, Abolitionists are anxious to destroy the prejudice itself; feeling, to use the language of another, that—­“It is time to recognize in the humblest portions of society, partakers of our nature with all its high prerogatives and awful destinies—­time to remember that our distinctions are exterior and evanescent, our resemblance real and permanent—­that all is transient but what is moral and spiritual—­that the only graces we can carry with us into another world, are graces of divine implantation, and that amid the rude incrustations of poverty and ignorance there lurks an imperishable jewel—­a SOUL, susceptible of the highest spiritual beauty, destined, perhaps, to adorn the celestial abodes, and to shine for ever in the mediatorial diadem of the Son of God—­Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones.”

No. 13.

THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER.

* * * * * CAN ABOLITIONISTS VOTE OR TAKE OFFICE UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION?

“The preservation, propagation, and perpetuation of slavery is the vital and animating spirit of the National Government.”

NEW YORK: 
AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,
142 NASSAU STREET

1815.

INTRODUCTION.

The American Anti-Slavery Society, at its Annual Meeting in May, 1844, adopted the following Resolution: 

Resolved, That secession from the present United States government is the duty of every abolitionist; since no one can take office, or throw a vote for another to hold office, under the United States Constitution, without violating his anti-slavery principles, and rendering himself an abettor of the slaveholder in his sin.

The passage of this Resolution has caused two charges to be brought against the Society:  First, that it is a no-government body, and that the whole doctrine of non-resistance is endorsed by this vote:—­and secondly, that the Society transcended its proper sphere and constitutional powers by taking such a step.

The logic which infers that because a man thinks the Federal Government bad, he must necessarily think all government so, has at least, the merit and the charm of novelty.  There is a spice of arrogance just perceptible, in the conclusion that the Constitution of these United States is so perfect, that one who dislikes it could never be satisfied with any form of government whatever!