Litchfield Enquirer

What human pride to boast! Even I myself too plainly detect to own alike befalls.

This is truth confirmed by innumerable examples.—

Will not like causes now produce like effects? Sheridan in his invective against Hastings, says, "Man was never made to be the property of man." God made one man needful to another, but surely he never made him to be a slave, that being out of the order of things; and he who wickedly perverts that order may reasonably fear the wrath of Heaven. "If thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they."—Eccl. v. 8.

A man confined by severe sickness, upon observing his image in a looking-glass, is often startled at the ghastliness and languor of his countenance, and sometimes on that account judges his recovery impossible. The slave-holding states may desire to see their aspect :— if so, they may find set in the cerulean waves of the Atlantic a mirror which possesses the wonderful properties of showing them not only what they are, but what they shall be. If they will look into it, they will see some white inhabitants, luxurious, rich, polite, accomplished, strangers to hardship, who may sometimes dream of troubles or violent deaths; yet they fix the date when either shall happen, so far in futurity as to render it doubtful to them whether time ever will extend its course to that period. They will be seen exercising unlimited authority over a race dark in skin, and darker still in heart with gloom, longing for the common privilege of man to lie at ease, to eat, to walk out and in, or labor, as pleasure or utility shall urge.

This image tells the slave-holders what they are. If they will look again, they will see none but the negro race, not melancholy as before, but cheerful and industrious, surrounded with necessaries and luxuries. and with no restraint but the laws which their own uncultivated wisdom has led them to choose. They rest on the beds of their masters and sit at their tables.— Groups will be seen pointing to where the bones of the white man lie. The young black maiden, dazzling in the sun with the rich dresses, and sparkling with the diamonds and jewels of her former young mistress, will be seen recounting to her lover how she assassinated the owner of them, who was beautiful in form. and sweet in disposition, who was always kind to her. and whom she always attended; but that she being white, must die, as well as they being black, must serve.

This image will show the outline of what they shall be, or may be. The mirror is St. Domingo.

Fellow-citizens of the South—When we speak against slavery, we do it out of affection to you. We wish to hold you in our warmest embraces. We see your danger and warn you of it. We reproach you not for having slaves with you when you were born. We know by experience that no man is perfect; and we know you may suffer a little inconvenience in a few years but what is that compared with advantages? The slaves are rapidly in numbers, and the evil daily becoming more alarming In case of war in your states, the slaves would be your deadliest foes; your enemies would have only to put arms in their hands, and you die of every age and sex. It is wisdom on your part to foresee the evil and escape it peaceably, gloriously and forever!

CONNECTICUT CIVIS.