The Liberator

COMMUNICATIONS.

[For the Liberator.]

BEWARE OF KIDNAPPERS!

In the New-York Commercial Advertiser of April 9, is a letter to W. L. Stone, from which I extract, and to which I superadd some expository notes.

1. Mr. Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization are thus flamingly described:

A work in which the most disgusting egotism is scarcely hidden in the folds of the grossest misrepresentation; and the wretched penury of argument attempted to be concealed by a cataract of abuse. It is a labored concoction of the mass of volcanic matter, which for two or three years past has been belched forth from that Vesuvius of the press, the Liberator.'

Note 1. This was written by J. N. Danforth, Agent, &c.; who says that the members of our Anti-Slavery Society have more blood than brains.' Excellent! but the above paragraph contains nothing human: it is the 'blood and brains' only of diabolism!

2. Hear this champion of gradual justice and mercy:

Garrison, whose pen is so venomous, that the laws have actually confined him in jail, as they would a lunatic. A disturber of the tranquillity of Southern society. Ten thousand dollars have been offered to me for his person, that he should be given up to justice! Who is at this moment in danger of being surrendered to the civil authorities of some one of the Southern States.

Note 2. The above contains a mass of atrocious slander and wilful falsehoods, exactly characteristic of an Agent for the colored people trading company. Mr. Garrison has broken no peace, violated no law, and exhibited no lunacy; but proclaimed common sense, and, like Paul and Silas, for turning the sinful world upside down, was cast into prison by the coadjutors of human flesh-traders. A Christian might as rationally expect mercy in Satan's hall of law, as an honest man hope for justice from slave drivers.

Mark you!' Mr. Danforth; it is far more honorable to be an enemy of slavery in a jail, and a missionary in the Georgia Penitentiary, than to be a land-stealing slaveholder in a jury box, or a perjured man-thief on a court bench.

It seems that the publication of truth in Boston disturbs the tranquillity of men-stealers in Carolina and Georgia. This is gloriously cheering intelligence.

Much inquiry was recently made about the cause of Mr. Danforth leaving Washington. The secret is out; for, according to his own impudent confession, one may reasonably suppose that he went to Boston, altogether or partly to obtain $10,000 for kidnapping Mr. Garrison. This is one of the most shameless gratuitous avowals of daring felony upon record. Why has he not fulfilled the commission, and, Judas-like, received 'the price of blood?' The sole reason is this—he knew that he would be shut up in the Massachusetts prison for life; and therefore he prefers a large salary for promulging calumny, and inventing fictions, and imposing upon the public by his quack nostrums, to the salutary lessons which he would learn in that castle of repentance. Mark you!' A Preacher of the gospel avows that he has been offered 10,000 dollars to kidnap Mr. Garrison, that he may be murdered by Georgia Persecutors.

Mr. Danforth also states that Wm. Lloyd Garrison is in momentary danger of being delivered up to the ruffian gripe of the slave drivers. A large reward has also been offered for me; and it may also be presumed, that I am also in danger of being given up by Mr. Danforth to what he calls justice! Betray a citizen who denounces felony into the hands of lawless pirates! If this is justice, what is unrighteousness? Therefore I hereby inform Mr. Danforth, that the first time he and I are in the same vicinity, if that fact is ascertained, he shall be transferred to the civil authorities, that he may be forced to give ample security not to kidnap peaceable christian citizens.

Mark you!' Mr. Danforth; and take care of yourself. You are watched. Take my advice. Quit your calumny, your falsehoods, and the kidnapping for which you can obtain such large rewards. Fulfil your commission, and seize Wm. Lloyd Garrison, if you dare; and then clandestinely transport him to the Catalines of Carolina and the Neros of Georgia: the outrage would be of no avail to extinguish the light upon slavery, and to nullify the laws of God, of Christ, and of conscience. There are twelve left behind, of whom you and your ungodly employers should acknowledge, and for once we would coerce the truth from your man-stealing confederacy—'Wm. Lloyd Garrison chastised us with whips, but his avengers lash us with scorpions.'

3. Once more, hear this Agent of the American citizen exporting company, J. N. Danforth:

'Those agents' of the Anti-Slavery Society 'have traversed the country, not the Southern portion: mark you! they are too discreet for that. They will meet no hindrances from me but such as truth and argument may create.'

Note 3. 'Truth and argument' by Mr. Danforth. Bravo! What next? The anti-slavery men are very greedy for both those precious commodities; and as that Agent for the slave drivers professes to have a large, superfluous quantity of 'brains,' some of the overflowings of that treasury would be extremely acceptable. It is but candid, however, to declare—'mark you!' Mr. Danforth, that nearly a score of recent letters signed Joshua N. Danforth, recently published in the N. Y. Observer, the Boston Recorder, and by the other partizans of gradual abolition, and especially that famous letter to W. L. Stone, contain no truth and less argument.

To use the appropriate style of the Preacher who boasts that he has been offered 10,000 dollars for kidnapping a talented citizen and philanthropist; those letters are edifying samples of 'a wretched penury' of 'truth and argument,' not even 'concealed by the cataract of abuse' and deceptions that characterize the loathsome treachery and malignity, which are 'scarcely hidden in the folds of the grossest misrepresentation.' The letter to W. L. Stone is exactly described by its author: 'it is a labored concoction of volcanic matter, belched forth from the Vesuvius' of kidnapping.

Mr. Danforth assures us that the anti-slavery men shall have no hindrances to their measures but 'truth and argument.' How merciful! We shall be pleased to receive a small portion of both in the next letter to W. L. Stone; for upon the slavery question there is a most woful deficiency in those points. However, it is very desirable that he should not mention any thing about 10,000 dollars for kidnapping Christians; because that mass of silver combines so many weighty attractions, that time-serving politicians always wish to join partnership in handling such truth, and in feeling such 'knock down arguments.'

'Mark you!' Mr. Danforth observes that 'the Agents of the Anti-Slavery Society are too discreet to traverse the Southern portion of our country.' That is another fiction: for some anti-man-stealing missionaries, or as Messrs. Stone, Finley, Danforth, Gurley, and id genus omne, call them, 'Incendiaries, Firebrands, Lunatics, and Fanatics,' are willing to make a tour from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi, and from the Potomac and the Ohio to the gulf of Mexico, and preach the gospel in its purity, grandeur and amplitude; with all fidelity proclaiming retribution for the man-stealers and emancipation to the oppressed; and urging upon the Canaanites and the Egyptians the gracious Saviour's doctrine—'Repent, O ye generation of vipers! flee from the wrath to come.'

'Mark you!' Mr. Danforth, and behave modestly. There is 'a rod for the fool's back' in a 'cataract' of pickle, to teach W. L. Stone's correspondent good manners, to make him speak truth and avoid slander; and especially that he may meet a hindrance to his kidnapping Mr. Garrison for 10,000 dollars. We hope that by timely reformation, the application of the rod may be superseded.

'Mark you!' and copy the discretion of them who do not choose to rush uncalled into the midst of hindrances, which, like Mr. Danforth's letters, are void of 'truth and argument.' Write no more letters to W. L. Stone, 'belching forth' falsehood, calumny and kidnapping. And the Agent of the Colonization Society in Boston is cautioned to keep aloof from the volcanic crater of

VESUVIUS.