It is here proposed, that "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this,"

ADDITIONAL AMENDMENT TO THE U. S. CONSTITUTION.

Article XIII. § 1. The public lands of the United States shall be pledged and appropriated as a fund on the part of the United States towards remunerating the slave states for the release of their slaves.

§ 2. Slavery is utterly and forever abolished throughout the United States, their territories, and domains; in all of which there shall be no disfranchisement or privilege on account of color or race, and any thing and every thing in any constitution or statute to the contrary is forever null and void.

§ 3. The United States will hold no intercourse by treaty, alliance, or commerce, with any nation, state, or people, that tolerates human slavery within its jurisdiction.

The words in the constitution, art. I, § 2, "three-fifths of all other persons," and the 3d clause, sect. 2, Art. IV, will thus become a dead letter. Any slave state unwilling to unite in this amendment and become free, can of course secede; it will leave a larger share of the land fund for the others.

As to the 3d section, We certainly have a right to say with whom we will associate, trade, or form alliances; and after we have done justice ourselves, to ask others to do likewise. The United States law of 1820, declares, not only that every citizen, but every person found engaged in the foreign slave trade shall be adjudged a pirate and shall suffer death. Besides, we should have to decline but few acquaintances, Spain and Portugal, Brazil & Co.

If the united North would only say one word, "Ay!" would but hold up its hand in token of assent, would deposit its ballot in token of its decision, such an amendment might be adopted; the flaming fire-brand of discord which threatens general conflagration and chaos, be converted into the beaming torch of amity and unity. By this retrograde stride, the patriot and the philanthropist, the friends of justice and humanity would be set at liberty to attempt, in some degree, to repair the evils, the errors, and the crimes accumulated for more than half a century by the bloody dynasty of slavery.

Then might be realized, as is yet reversed, the aspiration of La Fayette in his farewell address to Congress, after he had achieved our emancipation, "May this great monument raised to Liberty, serve as a lesson to the oppressor, and an example to the oppressed;" then instead of being a warning beacon, we might become a guiding luminary to the nations of the earth; then no longer would the lines of Byron on Napoleon's failure, be ap plicable to the United States of America:

"A single step into the right had made

This Land' the Washington of worlds betrayed;
A single step into wrong has given

It's name a scoff to all the winds of heaven!"

J. R. A.

We'll search the earth, the air, the sea, To cull a gallant WREATH for THEE!

And every field for freedom fought,

And vale, and shore, and mount, where aught,

Of Liberty could ere be found,

Shall be our blooming harvest ground

From victor's arch, from martyr's pall,

Triumphal or funereal,

In garlands, Laurels hang upon
Thermopyla and Marathon;
And on Philippi's fatal field,

The Cypress mourns thy broken shield;
On Runimede the fragrant Rose,
On Bannockburn the Thistle grows;
And on the banks of Boyne, its leaves
Green Erin's Shamrock wildly weaves;
Though prostrate now, brave Poland's Oak,
To tyrants bent not till it broke ;

In France, in sunny France, we'll get
The Fleur-de-lis and Violet,

From consecrated mound and vale
Of Huguenot and Liberal.

Old Bunker-Hill and Yorktown's shore
Will yield green Bays till time's no more;
And Sea-Grass and the Corals grow
Below Atlantic Seas, below

The waves of Erie and Champlain,
In rostral trophies round the slain.
Tobacco's pungent leaves proclaim
Of martyred men a continent,

That Indians nought but death could tame,
Stern Freedom's mighty monument.
The Cactus thrives in Mexico;
Colombia bears the Cacao;

Swarth Hayti's stubborn isle supplies
Its Palm-tree towering tow'rd the skies,
From which to pluck to fill thy crown,
Some branches worthy thy renown;
On sad Bengal's ensanguined plains
The ancient Banyan yet remain ;
In Italy and Hungary,

The Vine in air spread clusters free;
O'er all uprears the 'ncrested Dove,
Her Olive, pledge of Peace and Love.
The Level, Shield and Jewel fair,
Badge of Equality you wear;

The tri-colored band, red, white, and blue,
Combines the fervent, pure, and true.

Aye may the CHAPLET flourish bright,
Reflecting like the heavens thy light;
With glory, aye thy brow be bound,
With glory, aye thy head be crown'd,
While Earth, and Air, and Sky, and Sea,
Yield up their glorious WREATH to THEE.

all men are created equal

Tretterson

Si Monumentum quæris, circumspice.
H13 COUNTRY IS HIS MONUMENI

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. A PART OF THE ORIGINAL AS DRAFTED BY JEFFERSON, AND SUPPRES SED BY SOUTHERN INFLUENCE.

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty, in the persons of a distant people who never offended him; capturing and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their trans. portation thither. This piratical warfare-the opprobrium of infidel powers is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us,* and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them; thus pay. ing off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.

[* This society will never, in any way, countenance the oppressed, in vindicating their rights by resorting to physical force.-Constitu. tion of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Art. III.]