Morning Star

ANTI-SLAVERY PAPER IN VIRGINIA.

The progress of the anti-slavery sentiment in the frontier slave States is much more rapid than is supposed. Now that they can speak out their thoughts without danger of violence, opponents of slavery are assuming a boldness which will soon tell upon the public sentiment, and add greatly to the volume of opposition which is bearing down upon the hated system from all quarters. In Virginia an anti-slavery paper has been started (at Wheeling) which takes high and manly ground on the subject. If a paper true to principles like those avowed in the first number, can be sustained in that State, the hold which slavery has cannot be very strong. The editor's creed is as follows: N. Y. Evan.

1. We are anti-slavery, soul and body, now and forever. We go against enslaving the body, enslaving the mind, the tongue, the press.

2. If the question were to be decided between perpetual bondage and immediate emancipation, we would choose the latter without hesitancy.

3. We go for the abolition of slavery on the best plan for the slave's own benefit. That plan we could propose if necessary.

4. We believe that it is a national evil and an individual curse, and that in the aggregate the whites would be greater gainers than the slaves.

Finally, if we are to be proscribed for sentiments like these, the sooner we get out of this commonwealth the better. But we have formed no such idea of the people of Western Virginia. A few of the selfish and contracted may condemn for opinion's sake, but the most of them are too liberal to permit their minds to be thus biased.