The condition of the slaveholding States at this period was most prosperous.

When Mr. Calhoun saw that protectionist duties were an injury to the slaveholding States he reversed entirely his former opinions.

But when the Abolitionists announced that all slaveholding was a sin, and when public opinion at the North was evidently drifting to this doctrine, then the planters grew indignant and enraged.

He saw no way to stop the continually increasing attacks of the antislavery agitators except by adopting an entirely new position,a position which should unite all the slaveholding States in the strongest ties of interest.

It was probably his design, not so much to strengthen the slaveholding interests of South Carolina, as to increase the political power of the South.

Every slaveholding member of Congress from the States of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, voted for the celebrated ordinance of 1787, which abolished the slavery then existing in the Northwest Territory.

The south knew also that the sixth article in the ordinance prohibiting slavery was first proposed by the largest slaveholding state in the confederacythat the chairman of the committee that reported the ordinance was a slaveholderthat

the ordinance was enacted by Congress during the session of the convention that formed the United States Constitutionthat the provisions of the ordinance were, both while in prospect, and when under discussion, matters of universal notoriety and approval with all parties, and when finally passed, received the vote of every member of Congress from each of the slaveholding states.

Walker, of Mi.)further, that it was advocated by the southern senators generally as an expression of their views, and as setting the question of slavery in the District on its true groundthat finally when the question was taken, every slaveholding senator, including Mr. Calhoun himself, voted for the resolution.

Every slaveholding member of Congress from the States of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, voted for the celebrated ordinance of 1787, which abolished the slavery then existing in the Northwest Territory.

DISTINGUISHED STATESMEN AND JURISTS IN THE SLAVEHOLDING STATES, HAVE CONCEDED THIS POWER.

He said the peace and prosperity of these colonies is a matter of great moment in itself considered, but it was only when viewed as an example to the rest of the slaveholding world that its real magnitude and importance was perceived.

Fifteen years ago he travelled in the United States, and passed through several of the slaveholding states, where he was shocked with the abominations of slavery.

Indolence and inefficiency among the whites, was another prominent feature in slaveholding Barbadoes.

From this and another of his letters just now received, it seems, that the Slaveholding Representatives in Congress, after conferring together, appointed a committee, of their own number, to obtain authentic information of the intentions and progress of the Anti-Slavery associations,and that Mr. Elmore was selected, as the South Carolina member of the Committee.

Do your or similar societies exist in the Colleges and other Literary institutions of the non-slaveholding States, and to what extent? 5.

What proportion do they bear in the population of the Northern states, and what in the Middle non-slaveholding states?

In Great Britain there are numerous Anti-slavery Societies, whose particular object, of late, has been, to bring about the abolition of the Apprentice-system, as established by the emancipation act in her slaveholding colonies.

"4. Do your or similar societies exist in the Colleges and other Literary institutions of the non-slaveholding states, and to what extent?" ANSWER.Strenuous efforts have been made, and they are still being made, by those who have the direction of most of the literary and theological institutions in the free states, to bar out our principles and doctrines, and prevent the formation of societies among the students.

What proportion do they bear in the population of the northern states, and what in the middle non-slaveholding states?

I am not possessed of sufficient data for stating, with precision, what proportion the abolitionists bear in the population of the Northern and Middle non-slaveholding states respectively.

About the year 1809 or 10, I became a student of Rev. George Bourne; he was the first abolitionist I had ever seen, and the first I had ever heard pray or plead for the oppressed, which gave me the first misgivings about the innocence of slaveholding.

I solemnly believe this to be a true picture of slaveholding religion.

I repeat it, no one who has not been an integral part of a slaveholding community, can have any idea of its abominations.

The utter disregard of the comfort of the slaves, in little things, can scarcely be conceived by those who have not been a component part of slaveholding communities.