Morning Star

A number of the citizens of the several counties of Virginia have memorialized the Legislature of that state, on the subject of slavery. They tell a sad tale indeed! A tale of wo! In recounting their situation, among other things, they say

"Your memorialists are slave holders; this is the country of their birth, and, attached to it by every tie which can bind a people to their native land, and that of their ancestors, they have every thing of interest or of feeling at stake in this appeal to you. Humanity must weep over a continuance of our present condition, while patriotism, self interest, and our own happiness, and that of our offspring, call equally strong for the application of some remedy to remove this appalling and increasing evil. Relying with the most ample confidence on the wisdom, patriotism, and known discretion and elevated spirit of the General Assembly, we most earnestly entreat its attention to the subject of this memorial, and that it would adopt such measures in relation thereto, as may seem best calculated to advance the happiness, the greatness and peace of the State."

Here follows a statement of the increase of the blacks, and a net gain over the whites, in forty years, which shows in the sequel the alarming fact that their net gain over the whites is 106,176, and the increase of blacks in Virginia, in forty years, is about 170,000. No wonder Virginia is alarmed at such a state of things as this; who would not be alarmed? To see a people growing up in the midst, with all the rancorous enmity that insulted and injured and abused innocence can induce, will create alarm, especially, when the effects of their long smothered abuse has already broken out and flamed in insurrection, slaughter and death.—Bos. Chr. Herald.