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454 DOUGLASS' MONTHLY. MAY, 1861 [[line]] [[3 columns]] [[column 1]] that he will, at at all hazards, enforce the laws. Let the South understand that he is President of the American Republic, and come weal, or come woe, he will, as such, exercise his authority. Then, and not till then, will there be an end to their pugnacious developments. But let hi,. BUCHANAN-like, tamper with the rapacious rebels, or show them any quarter, and he will eventually be driven by them from Washington, his inglorious Cabinet bearing him 'faithful company'. We earnestly desire to see the South humbled. The 'high looks' of the lordly Assyrians must be 'brought low.' The Both has all things to hope for, and nothing to fear from such humility. We know something by experience of the character of slaveholders. To use a trite maxim, 'give them and inch and they will take an ell.'Refuse the ell and they will rant, and bluster, and swear, in order to obtain it. So long as they can frighten an opponent, they act very frightfully. But let them understand that 'no one's afraid,' and they'll soon see the status quo! For example: the 'confederate' authorities have hitherto declared that ANDERSON should not be supplied with previous carried to Fort Sumter in the vessels of the United States. They had reason to believe that the attempt would not be made. They thus interpreted the Delphie utterances of the distinguished Premier. But now, when JEFF Davis, the President of the new Confederacy, ascertains that the Administration is determined to re-enforce the forts, then, presto! Change! he telegraphs, in gear haste to Charleston, 'not to fire on vessels carrying supplies to Fort Sumter.' This must have been humiliating, and from this letting down, Mr. LINCOLN should learn a lesson, if he has not done so already, and inflict upon the enemy such a chastisement as will give all to understand that there is a Government, and that we have at last a President who belongs to 'a healthy organization.' The policy which Messrs, DAVIS and STEPHENS propose to execute, can be consummated, if at all, only by the assistance which it could derive from the want of unanimity of sediment and action by which the North has been characterized. From the numerical strength of the South we have nothing to fear. Their vert strength is weakness. Both one thousand united and determined men can at any time defeat five thousand who are distracted and vacillating. The South has triumphed hither, not because of its inherent vitality or its recuperative energy; much less has it been successful because of the justice of its policy; but because it has been one and indivisible. When the institution of slavery has been assailed from any quarter, whatever diversity of opinion may have previously existed upon other questions, each and all of its supporters have flung their banner to the breeze, with the motto thereon blazing, 'NEGROS AND SLAVERY-ONE AND INSEPARABLE-NOW And FOEVER!' PILATE and HEROd friends! Singing the same song, indulging in the same hopes and fears, living the same life, and dying the same death! Let the Administration, then, it its well distracted efforts to humble the South, receive the cordial sympathy and co-operation of every well-wisher of his country, and of the world at large. The crisis has come, and it must be met manfully. [[short line]] *We must own that the rebels have been as good as their word, after all. [[/column 1]] [[column 2]] One Word more. However timid men at the juncture may alternate between hope and fear, one thing is certain-slavery is a doomed institution. The traitors themselves have accelerated its rapid decline, and precipitated its disastrous doom. Perhaps, they now remember that the gallows erected for MORDECAI was the identical instrument upon which HAMAN himself swung into eternity. A like fate attends them. The land may yet be drenched in human blood. The now slumbering and paralyzed arm of our stable millions may yet awake, instinct with superhuman energy.-Their smothered aspirations may yet burst through the startling gloom; and driven to desperation, they may settle with the weight of doom upon their hear-hearted oppressors. Heaven prevent the dire catastrophe, unless there can be no other way opened for the redemption of the now crushed millions! If this be the alternative demanded by the exigency of their condition, then let the worst be upon his, and that right speedily. Meanwhile, let us lift our hearts and voices far above the noise and stride of battle; far above where the storm-cloud crashes the tall pines upon the mountain cliffs; and look unto Him who is 'might to save, and strong to deliver; remembering that 'He who is for is, is more than all that are against us.' Let u act well out part; for 'Oppression Shall not always reign, There comes a brighter day.' [[line]] OBITUARY [[short line]] Died--March 4th, 1861, in the Penitentiary at Frankfort, Ky., ELIJAH ANDERSON, of Cleveland, Ohio, aged 51 and 9 months. The deceased was a very peculiar victim of the hatred and persecution from which we of his class see little promise of escape. He was born in Buckingham Co., Va., of free parents, who being anxious to lesson their disabilities, removed to Ohio, which State became his home from youth. Here he became an efficient , though unpretending worker, in behalf of the bondman, so exciting the animosity of the oppressor, that the plans were set which but too well succeeded in putting him in his power. In December, 1856, a decoy letter called him from Cleveland, to Madison, Ind. At Cincinnati, he embarked on a steamer from the latter city but upon its arrival at Carrolton, Ky., officers of the latter State who had been wickedly telegraphed to of his being a passenger, boarder the boat and made him and made him their prisoner. Upon three indictments which were immediately Brought against him, he has three trials and was acquitted. A fourth indictment caused his removal to another county, when a failure to convict him there upon two trials, served to exasperate his enemies to renewed persecution. -Upon another indictment which they not hastened to find, his case was referred to the Circuit Court, to be held in the following June, to which he was held to bail in the exorbitant sum of two thousand dollars. Real estate to his value was offered and refused, and as the strenuous efforts which were made by his family and friends in various part of the country to raise the money were unavailing, he had to remain a prisoner to that trial. The Court sat in June, 1857, and he was convicted of violating the laws if the State in which his never having been, made it impossible for him to have been guilt. He was sentence to eight year and eight months of imprisonment.-Untiringly, his family and friends south his reprieve collecting thereto efficient testimony; but in the strength of the prejudice against him, thy found it impossible to get a transcript of the evidence used on the trial, the Judge and lawyers [[/column 2]] [[column 3]] declaring they had forgotten it and that no record was kept of it. Of his sentence, five years remained to be fulfilled, when the decree of Him whose ways are inscrutable, when forth making him one of that company of martyrs who suffered and died for humanity's sake,. It was a sudden termination, causing an inquest, with a verdict of 'Death from heart disease.' With much difficulty his remains were procured bu his family, when the melancholy satisfaction was given them of burying him with THEIR dead. In his death, his widowed and venerable mother, an affection wide, a loving daughter, and a numerous circle of relatives and acquaintances, have lost one whose place can never be filled, however penitent may be those to whose persecution the loss is due; but, bowing in submission to the afflictive dispensation, they have comfort in the assurance that his Death is one of Life. W.P.W. CINCINNATI, April 9th, 1861. [[line]] A SUCCESSFUL MISSION.-A few months ago-says an English correspondent of the New York Tribune-two men of color, Mr. Lewis Smith and the Rev. Tabbs Gross, arrived in this country from American, to solicit the aid of the benevolent for the purpose of redeeming from slavery the four children of Smith, who were slaves in one of the Southern States of America. An appeal was made to the Wesleyan body, and to other religious dissenting denominations of religions and the sum asked for the ransoming the four unfortunate individuals was $5,000 or about €1,000.- Several meetings were held both in the country and the metropolis to promote the object in view, the effect of which has been that instead of €1,000, double that amount has been collected in voluntary contributions, and and which sum has been handed over to Mr. S., who was extremely thankful for the truly Christian gift. The object was sought by this generous British act will not only be accomplished but in addition there will be an ample sum to redeem the sister of Mr. Smith from slavery, and to purchase a small parch of ground in Ohio, where the now happy family intended to 'settle down.' A few days ago, Mr. Smith and the Rev. Tabbs Gross went by a steamship from Liverpool to enjoy their liberty in the state above mentioned. The Rev. Dr, Cheever of New York delivered on the 27th, in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, in the connection with the Sound Men's Christian Association, and lecture 'On the United Stated of America in relation to the prospect of the slaves and the slave Confederacy , and of the Free North, at the present crisis.' Mr. John Farnworth presided, and there was a tolerably large attenace. [[line]] -Two regiments of colored men are now being formed in Philadelphia for the purpose of defending the 'Stars and Stripes' to the death. A.M. Green and Thos. Bower have issued a soul-stirring and patriotic address to the colored people of that city, which we are compelled to omit this month for want of space. Companies are also forming in New York, Boston and Syracuse, It not remains for the Government to accept their services which is very doubtful. -Our friend J.W. LOUGEN of Syracuse requests us to acknowledge the following donations, on aid of fugitive salves, sent to him by Mrs.CROFTS, of Halifax: -From the Liverpool Ladies' A.A. Society £5; Berwickon-Tweed Society, £5; Aberdeen Society, £5. -A few weeks before the Ordinance of Secession passed the Virginia Legislature, the Methodist Conference at Staunton, in that State, adopted a report in favor of withdrawing from the General Conference in consequence of the action of the latter on the subject of slavery. -The Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society is postponed on account of the war excitement. -Five Hundred slaves have escaped from Maryland within the last two weeks. [[/column 3]]
