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According to accounts front tile United States, the excite- ment

on the slave question was rather on the increase in many parts of the country. The inhabitants of the Eastern States, planters,

seemed rather inclined to conciliate the Southeru A " A !,:eat meeting was held at Boston in the Fe/null-ha% on the 21st ef f.""..;ust, which was attended by upwards Of. Oilt thousaa4 five hundred persons. Several resolutions were passed, condemningin sttottg terms the conduct of the IAbolitionists, and stating their reprobation uf all attempts to coerce any of the United States to abolish slavety by appeal!! to the terrors of the master or the passions of the slave. Simil.,;; meetings have been held in various othat4owns."

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