The advocates of abolition are no longer consigned to unmitigated contempt and obloquy.  Passing by the various living illustrations of our remark, we appeal for our proofs to the dead.  The late WILLIAM LEGGETT, the editor of a Democratic Journal in the city of New York, was denounced, in 1835, by the “Democratic Republican General Committee,” for his abolition doctrines.  Far from faltering in his course, on account of the censure of his own party, he exclaimed, with a presentiment almost amounting to prophecy, “The stream of public opinion now sets against us, but it is about to turn, and the regurgitation will be tremendous.  Proud in that day may well be the man who can float in triumph on the first refluent wave, swept onward by the deluge which he himself, in advance of his fellows, had largely shared in occasioning.  Such be my fate; and, living or dying, it will in some measure be mine.  I have written my name in ineffaceable letters on the abolition record.”  And he did live to behold the first swelling of the refluent wave.  The denounced abolitionist was honored by a democratic President with a diplomatic mission; and since his death, the resolution condemning him has been EXPUNGED from the minutes of the democratic committee.

Of the many victims of the recent awful calamity in our waters, what name has been most frequently uttered by the pulpit and the press in the accents of lamentation and panegyric?  On whose tomb have freedom, philanthropy, and letters been invoked to strew their funeral wreaths?  All who have heard of the loss of the Lexington are familiar with the name of CHARLES FOLLEN.  And who was he?  One of the men officially denounced by President Jackson as a gang of miscreants, plotting insurrection and murder—­and, recently, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Let us then, fellow citizens, in view of all these things, thank God and take courage.  We are now contending, not merely for the emancipation of our unhappy fellow men, kept in bondage under the authority of our own representatives—­not merely for the overthrow of the human shambles erected by Congress on the national domain—­but also for the preservation of those great constitutional rights which were acquired by our fathers, and are now assailed by the slaveholders and their northern auxiliaries.  That you may remember these auxiliaries and avoid giving them new opportunities of betraying your rights, we annex a list of their dishonored names.

The following twenty-eight members from the Free States voted in the affirmative on the recent GAG RULE.

  MAINE.

  Virgil D. Parris
  Albert Smith

  NEW HAMPSHIRE.

  Charles G. Atherton
  Edmund Burke
  Ira A. Eastman
  Tristram Shaw

  NEW YORK.

  Nehemiah H. Earle
  John Fine
  Nathaniel Jones
  Governeur Kemble
  James de la Montayne
  John H. Prentiss
  Theron R. Strong