A party in New York have been endeavouring to organize
so- cieties to effect the immediate abolition of slavery in the United States. The Southerners are exerting themselves in opposition to the project, and have Succeeded in preventing a meeting of the Abolitionists which was to have taken place on the 2d of Octo- ber. The latter, however, will not be discouraged by opposition ; and we foresee that a grand contest is about to commence between them and the slavebolders. The zeal and perseverance of the opponents of slavery in this country, are fully equalled by a nume- rous and influential body of men in the United States. They who recollect the fierce contention which arose on the discussion of the Missouri question, and had an opportunity of observing the almost fanatical spirit by which the inhabitants of the non-slavelweliter States were then influenced, will agree with us in this estimate. It were to be wished that copies of the new book England and America could be distributed from Maine to Florida, from the Atlantic to the Missouri : men on both sides would find therein some new ideas on the subject of slavery, which they would do well to ponder.
The Globe of last night, in commenting upon this "movement in New York on the slavery question,- says- " This fury is the more remarkable, since New York is not a Slave State; so that few (Idle assembled crowd, except the mere strangers in the city from the Southern States, could have been per sonally interested in opposing the libera- tion of their Negro brethren."
New York is the first commercial city in the New World : the cotton, rice, sugar, and tobacco trades, are the mainstays of her prosperity ; and any project which would endanger the continu- ance of the present system of slavery in the Southern States must be viewed by her merchants with the greatest personal interest : for they are well aware, that in a country like America, abounding in excellent land to be obtained by all except slaves at a very cheap rate, none but slaves can be found to raise their staple ar- ticles of trade.
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