“Our readers will gather from the statements made in the different extracts in our paper, and especially from the Address of the Executive Committee of the State Anti-Slavery Society, the leading facts of the outrage.  Of the course pursued by the civil authorities, we leave the community to judge.  Our own reliance for protection has been upon that Providence whose mercy is over all,—­in the justice of our cause, and in our conscious innocence of heart and integrity of purpose.  We rejoice, and in so doing, the abolitionists of Pennsylvania unite with us, that human life was not sacrificed in defence of our Hall, our persons, and our property.  We know, indeed, that had the attack been made upon the United States Bank, or any similar institution in this city, the civil authorities would have met its fury, not as now, with a speech only, but with loaded firelocks and fixed bayonets.  We know, it is true, that the mob were in a great measure left free to work their mischievous will upon us.  But if those in authority have, upon their own principles, treated us with neglect in the hour of our peril, upon them let the responsibility rest.  We have thus far survived the onset.  Under God, for to him alone are we indebted for protection, we are still left to bear our testimony to the truth.  Our consciences are in this matter void of offence.  In cheerful serenity of spirit, and not in the tone of menace or boasting, we declare our faith in the principles of emancipation unfaltering—­our zeal undiminished—­our determination to persevere unaltered.  Our confidence in the triumphant and glorious issue of the present struggle remains firm.

      ’Truth smote to Earth revives again;
      The eternal years of God are hers—­
      But error wounded, shrieks with pain,
      And dies among her worshippers.’

“From this time henceforward, Pennsylvania must become the great battle-field of opinion on the subject of slavery.  The light of that evening’s sacrifice has reached already every portion of our State.  Men are every where inquiring why the sacrifice was made?  Why a mighty city was convulsed with violence?  Why a noble hall was burned by incendiaries in the view of gazing thousands?  Why the ‘shelter for orphan children’ was set on fire, and why the houses of our citizens were surrounded by a ruffian mob?  They may be told now by the perpetrators of these outrages, that all has been occasioned by the conduct of the abolitionists.  But the delusion cannot last.  Truth will make its way to the abused ear of the community; and it will be known that the scenes which have disgraced our city, are directly attributable to the influence of southern slavery.  The spirit of free inquiry, now fairly awakened, will never again slumber in this state.  Like the Greek fire, it will blaze with fiercer intensity for every