regretted that a man, as valuably endowed as he is in other respects, should have showed in the insane and criminal effort, to substitute a mobocratic rule, for an enlightened, benevolent, and peaceful sway. When I heard of his escape, I rejoiced in the noble opportunity, which it gave him, of recanting, without suspicion of hypocrisy, his outrageous errors. But when I saw his soul portrayed, as he has portrayed it, in his own Citizen, I perceived at once how conscienceseared he is to liberty, and truth and love; and that he never was, as without a blush he has frankly declared himself; and never can be, without another transformation of mind, one with such men as Henry Ward Beecher, or with the impartial friends (whatever be their characters in other respects), of social and peaceful freedom.

Mr. Mitchel's letters display unquestionable talent and research; but talent as perverse as his research is erroneous. They display decided boldness; but the boldness of a heart seared and dead to all impartial humanity and truth. I need not attempt to establish what the Bible and uncorrupted humanity have established for ever, and which such men as Henry Ward Beecher, and such women as Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe, have attested with a brilliancy of truth, and a pathos of holy love, to which nothing but a slaveholder's or a rebel's religion and morality could be insensible—that is, that the reduction of men (immortal men, as all men are, with regard to condition, character or color) to chattelhood! the slave deprived of every human right, and the master endowed with every human wrong; the slave allowed no country or home, or wife, or child, or Bible, or other refuge, independently of the absolute will of his master—not a moment or season of time—no respite from labor or suffering—no, not the right even to fly, however peaceably, from abuse the most impure and ferocious—no appeal to God, or to the government, or impartial laws of the land of his birth; a state forcibly imposed upon the weak by the strong—upon the ignorant by the learned—upon the comparatively guiltless by the most guilty of all; and all this, not impulsively, under sudden emotion of passion provoked, but deliberately devised, established and mischief-making laws; and by a mighty people, the
most unfettered on earth for good or evil, all the while boasting of liberty and justice: that such a condition, I say, so enacted, so established, and so sustained, is supremely criminal and cruel, and worthy of being depicted in the poet's words, as "the loudest laugh" of hell, needs no evidence beyond the fact itself.

Slavery and injustice may rejoice in having such advocates as Mitchel and the Nebraska Douglas, and in the might of the deadly corruption, which inspirits and supports them. But while He lives, who lives forever—the Holy and Almighty God; and while he preserves such men as Sumner, De Witt, H. W. Beecher, A. and L. Tappan, B. Green, Wm. Goodell, J. McCune Smith, Frederick Douglass, &c., and such women as Mrs. H. B. Stowe, Mrs. Douglass, &c., there will still be hope for the U.S.; and the tenfold storm of midnight guilt and darkness, which now is clapping its tyrant wings over that country, will only render the coming morning more glorious, when it shall be roused from the fearful incubus of hypocrisy and pride, which is now corrupting it, and crushing it, and seeking to exterminate in it all that fundamentally distinguishes earth from hell.