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OF THE 
 
 FIRST ANNUAL, REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 AMERICAN AIVTI-SL AVERT SOCIETY, 
 
 BY DAVID M. REESE, M. D. 
 Of New York. 
 
 BY MARTIN MAR QUACK, M. D. L. L. D. M. a L. H. 
 
 S . G. S. M. F. M. P. S. &c. &c. 
 
 OF THAT ILK. 
 
 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. 
 
 SOLOMON. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY CALVIN KNOX. 
 
 1834. 
 
TJ the Members of the New England Jlnti-Slavery Society, 
 And all other Fanatics ! 
 
 GENTLEMEN ! 
 
 As the Veather has been too hot and "combustible" for me 
 to pursue my usual chemical experiments, and also my surgical examina 
 tions among dead subjects ; I have turned my attention to a lighter job, 
 the dissection of a living biped, the strange qualities of which I recom 
 mend to your investigation. As it is not probable, that another such a 
 subject for anatomical science will again speedily be presented for your 
 study, I trust you will duly estimate these accurate drawings and care 
 fully preserved cuttings of a new anomaly, by 
 
 MARTIN MAR QUACK, M. D. L. L. D. &c. &c. 
 
 Dissecting Room, ]6th August, 1834. 
 
DR. REESE S REVIEW 
 
 OF THE 
 
 AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, 
 
 DISSECTED BY MARTIN MAR QUACK, M. D. 
 
 WHEN the Jews could not crucify the Lord of glory, either by 
 perverting their own law, or by suborning false witnesses, they 
 charged the meek and lowly PRINCE OF PEACE with treason against 
 Cassar ; and by the agreement between Herod and Pilate, they ac 
 complished their hellish design. The martyrs of the first three 
 centuries, the witnesses of subsequent periods, and the Reformers 
 and Confessors of more recent times, all suffered and were tortur 
 ed upon the same groundless and malicious pretext. This base 
 but mischievous allegation is still vociferated by every sinner against 
 Christians, expressly to impede the progress of truth, freedom and 
 religion. It is not less rife and pernicious now, and in this coun 
 try, than in the dark ages and under European tyrants. 
 
 This deduction flows from the perusal of a late pamphlet, enti 
 tled, "A brief Review of the first Annual Report of the American 
 Anti-Slavery Society, &c. by DAVID M. REESE," than which a more 
 malignant tissue of calumny has never been issued from the Ameri 
 can press. This overflowing corruption of an unfeeling slanderer 
 is masked under the garb of religion, which renders the hypocrisy 
 of the author equally loathsome as his impudence. 
 
 This pamphlet by Dr. Reese, like all his other writings, would 
 be totally unworthy of notice, did not the sanction given to it by 
 persons, who claim respect, add to it an imposing character which 
 conceals its innate turpitude. This farrago of untruth and spite 
 combines all the insolence, recklessness and knavery of a Charla 
 tan, who, provided that he can pocket his money for his murderous 
 nostrums, laughs at the credulity of those whom he gulls with his 
 death-dealing imposture. David M. Reese s sole object is to write 
 himself into notoriety, that he may enlarge the amount of his pro 
 fessional fees ; and as all his friends know, he would become an 
 anti-slavery partisan, or any thing else, provided he could have his 
 price. In fact, this pretended review is the furious tirade of a man 
 raving in the paroxysms of an incurable fever, brought on by the 
 brimstone materials with which he has long been surfeited : it is one 
 continually repeated allegation that the American friends of human 
 liberty are traitors to the United States, and friends of the sexual 
 intercourse between the different races of mankind ; and therefore 
 thy ought to be exterminated. Expunge those parts of Dr. Reese s 
 
pamphlet which contain this deadly malevolence, and also erase 
 that which is notoriously false, and the remainder would not be 
 worth a pill of sawdust and paste ! 
 
 We proceed to examine some of the principal topics contained 
 in this review of the American Anti-Slavery Society, by David 
 M. Reese. 
 
 I. Dr. Reese justifies the personal injuries inflicted upon Chris 
 tian citizens by lawless mobs. In the preface, he thus writes : 
 " We would be early in our remonstrance, lest they," the Anti- 
 Slavery Society, " should mistake the opposition deeply felt in this 
 whole community for a mere irrational effervescence among the ig 
 norant and depraved." This sentence fully admits, that the New 
 York rioters were not the condemned parties who have been pun 
 ished. The wretches at the Penitentiary are ignorant and deprav 
 ed ; but Dr. Reese, and no man probably is better acquainted with 
 the facts in the case, declares that the men who contrived and ex 
 ecuted the New York riots, those guilty depredators, were not igno 
 rant, and, in his meaning of the term, were not depraved. No ! 
 It was the enlightened, and according to the code of Dr. Reese 
 and his brethren, the moral, so called, (and no man can be higher 
 testimony,) who excited and maintained the riots, until they them 
 selves became alarmed for their own guilty heads. 
 
 After this sentence, follows a slanderous threat of the same fero 
 cious character, as those by which some of the New York newspa 
 pers have " let loose the dogs of war." " If these bewildered men 
 should attempt a renewal of their meetings in this city, or any 
 where else, they would involve themselves and their fellow-citizens 
 in still greater calamities." Thus David M. Reese, this great phi 
 lanthropist, denies the liberty of speech, and of peaceful assembla 
 ges of citizens and conscientious Christians, and denounces against 
 them pillage and death; because turbulent profligates, not "igno 
 rant and depraved," wantonly and lawlessly molest, belie and per 
 secute our best citizens. 
 
 The wicked and guileful perversion of the Holy Scriptures, and 
 the blasphemous indignity attached to the Lord Jesus Christ, in 
 Dr. Reese s preface, would be consistent in an irreligious scoffer ; 
 but in a boastful religionist, they only exhibit a melancholy speci 
 men of that deceitfulness, which " casts up mire and dirt." Of 
 the contradictions which are found in David M. Reese s reviews, 
 the following specimens are very edifying. On the fourth of July, 
 he says, pages 40, 41 : " Could it be expected, that an American au 
 dience would restrain their indignation ? All that was done there 
 was, to prevent the delivery of the oration in the most peaceable 
 and effectual manner." This is a defence of the riotous proceed 
 ings; or, rather, a eulogy of that daring and base infringement of 
 civic liberty and of the laws. David M. Reese thus proceeds : 
 " Still, however, no inconsiderable violence was done to persons or 
 property, although the meetings and speeches and publications 
 were continued in defiance of remonstrance and rebuke, which be 
 came louder and louder." Thus the wickedness of the rioters is 
 
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 palliated ; and the various infuriating and combustible paragraphs 
 published in the newspapers, of some of which Dr. Reese himself 
 was the author, are called " remonstrance and rebuke ;" as if the 
 remonstrances and rebukes of men who uphold Slavery, and com 
 promise with Slaveholders, merited from honest men, and con 
 sistent Christians, any other notice than profound contempt and 
 utter execration. 
 
 It is an old and correct saying, " Liars should have a good 
 memory." In the preface, it is stated, that the rioters are not ig 
 norant and depraved; but page 41, those same wise and incorrupt 
 persons are denominated an " infuriated populace, driven to mad 
 ness." Notwithstanding their fury and mania, Dr. Reese admin 
 isters not any loud rebuke to> those furious madmen, for pelting 
 brick-bats against churches, and for burning sofas, and beds, and 
 chairs. Fearing, however, that this soft mode of censuring the 
 "infuriated populace, driven to madness," might not be acceptable 
 even to them who " go with the South !" the Doctor says in his 
 next paragraph, " the liberty of speech and of the press belongs to 
 every citizen" This cannot be true, not only as is proved by 
 the New York riots, but even by the testimony of Dr. Reese, 
 who, in the preface to his review of the Anti-Slavery Society, very 
 plainly tells his readers that if they use their right of speaking and 
 printing their opinions, they " will involve themselves in greater 
 calamities." 
 
 With this most peaceful menace, Dr. Reese connects the follow 
 ing veracious assertion. " The perpetrators of those deeds of vio 
 lence have been subjected to the penalties of the law." Who are 
 they? Some few "ignorant and depraved" creatures have been 
 punished ; but, according to Dr. Reese s avowal, the true authors, 
 contrivers, and ringleaders of the riots, those men who are not " ig 
 norant and depraved," have escaped. Will Dr. Reese answer this 
 question : Who are they ? And we appeal to him expressly, because 
 no person in New York more accurately could recount their names, 
 than the chief artificer of that doleful iniquity. 
 
 Here is a pamphlet blazoned forth to the world, as containing 
 the oracular dogmas of the boasted David M. Reese, M. D. the 
 New York pro-slavery " Magnus Apollo /" This same oracular 
 authority assures us, that if the friends of human liberty attempt a 
 renewal of their meetings and addresses any where in the United 
 States, even "from views of Christian duty," they shall not only 
 have their churches destroyed, their houses dilapidated, and their 
 personal safety endangered, but that they " will involve themselves 
 in still greater calamities." \Ve call upon Dr. Reese plainly to tell 
 us, what calamities he means ? The Anti-Slavery citizens have ex 
 perienced the gripe of the house-breaker, and have been tried by 
 fire : are they to be dosed with Prussic acid 1 
 
 II. Calumny. David M. Reese, M. D. supplies us with two 
 kinds of this pestilential drug. One species applies to individuals; 
 the other refers to the opinions and acts of the American Anti- 
 Slavery Society. 
 
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 The following list comprises a part only of the labels which Dr. 
 Reese has applied to his medicines ; all of which, sold for 12^ 
 cents per package, are certified to be genuine by the sole manufac 
 turer himself. Dr. Reese thus proves the truth of the apostles 
 words, James iii. 6, &,c. " The tongue boasteth great things." 
 
 Dr. Reese s anti-fanatical nomenclature. The following labels 
 are extracted from Dr. Reese s chemical vocabulary of pro-slavery 
 nostrums, which he vends as genuine prescriptions from the evan 
 gelical materia medica to cure the frenzy of the Fanatics for the 
 abolition of American Slavery. 
 
 Rash impetuosity ; 
 
 Moral obliquities ; 
 
 Fanaticism ; 
 
 Declamation ; 
 
 Presumptuous effrontery ; 
 
 Raw recruits of emancipation ; 
 
 Kindred stupidity ; 
 
 Absurdity ; 
 
 Derision of the universe ; 
 
 Political "heresies ; 
 Delusion ; 
 Dogmatism ; 
 Imposture ; 
 
 Novices in philanthropy ; 
 Insignificance ; 
 Folly ; 
 Untruth ; 
 
 Consummate arrogance ; 
 Brazen untruths ; 
 Obliquity of mental vision ; 
 Insanity of development ; 
 Nation of mulattoes and mon 
 grels ; 
 
 Criminal amalgamation; 
 Foreign zealots ; 
 Imported demagogues ; 
 Unsophisticated nullification ; 
 Poetry ; 
 Infatuation ; 
 Malignity; 
 Extravagance ; 
 Hyperbole ; 
 Excess of bitterness ; 
 Indiscretion ; 
 Exaggeration ; 
 Foreign emissary ; 
 Fiery zeal ; 
 Obscurity ; 
 Audacity; 
 
 Perpetuity of infamy ; 
 Stereotyped malignity ; 
 Ravings of a madman ; 
 Alarmino- and treasonable sen- 
 
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 timents ; 
 Foul slander ; 
 Traitors ; 
 Stupid Calumny ; 
 Outrageous recklessness of 
 
 truth ; 
 
 Shameless extravagance ; 
 
 Insanity ; 
 
 Obtusity of moral feeling; 
 
 Visionary enthusiasts; 
 
 Unnatural and offensive amal 
 gamation ; 
 
 Infamy ; 
 
 Foreign incendiary ; 
 
 Abstract wickedness; 
 
 Rhapsody ; 
 
 Incendiary press; 
 
 Weakness ; 
 
 Rant ; 
 
 Fiction ; 
 
 Calumny ; 
 
 Puerility ; 
 
 Falsehood ; 
 
 Ignorant Americans; 
 
 Vulgarity ; 
 
 Hardihood ; 
 
 Wholesale slander; 
 
 Disgusting exhibition ; 
 
 Treason ; 
 
 Kindred Gall ; 
 
 Combustibility ; 
 
 Calumniator ; 
 
 Stereotyped calumny ; 
 
 Inflammatory harangue; 
 
 Didactic and dogmatical aver 
 ments ; 
 
 Intemperate declamation ; 
 
With about an equal number of varieties in lighter and less po 
 tent and pungent alteratives for the Anti-Slavery fanatics. 
 
 Dr. Reese seems to have acted upon the old rule ; " throw dirt 
 enough, and some of it may stick :" for the above are only a part 
 of the labels with which that sapient M. D. hopes to gull the sim 
 ple. All these patent pills, boluses and draughts, with as many 
 more, quant, suff. are put up in packages, and sold for ten dollars 
 per hundred, certified to be genuine by the Inventor. 
 
 We shall now examine his direct and intended personal calumny 
 respecting individuals. In the note, pages 22 and 23, it is said, 
 " A foreigner who professes to be a minister of the gospel, has been 
 lately figuring to the East. The records of the General Assembly 
 of the Presbyterian Church show that this same foreign incendia 
 ry, a few years ago, received the highest ecclesiastical censure of 
 that body, for cruelty and inhumanity to his own servants, in one 
 of our slave States. He is yet peregrinating through the North 
 and East, declaiming against the cruelties of slaveholding, which 
 he knows by experience, and in conjunction with another foreign 
 emissary, instructing the ignorant Americans in the laws and in 
 stitutions of their own country ! Patriotism and Christianity alike 
 forbid our citizens to listen to such officious intermeddling in our 
 country s affairs by these imported demagogues." All this is the 
 pure fiction of the lying spirit ! No such foreign minister of the 
 gospel exists. No such censure can be found in the records of the 
 Presbyterian church. No such person is now or ever has been pere 
 grinating at the North and East ! 
 
 Dr. Reese affirms, that Mr. Breckinridge has burned the brand 
 of calumniator in Mr. Thome s forehead. The brand was so light 
 ly impressed, that it is not legible : for Mr. Thome s statements are 
 "truth, and nothing but the truth." How ought the fabricator of 
 the above wilful and malicious falsehood and calumny to be brand 
 ed 1 for although that gross fiction was published expressly to dis 
 grace the Presbyterians, yet Dr. Reese knew, that no person was 
 ever so censured and employed ; and, consequently, he is like the 
 master whom he serves, and whom the Judge described, John viii. 
 44. This is David M. Reese s character, testified by his own rela 
 tives, and avowed by all the Methodists of Baltimore both of the 
 old side and of the reformers, exclusive of other female witnesses 
 who could be cited in confirmation. 
 
 The first gentleman who is honored with Dr. Reese s critical 
 castigation, is the Rev. Amos A. Phelps, whose irrefutable argu 
 ment at the Anti-Slavery meeting in May, is very summarily dis 
 posed of as "folly, extravagance, vanity, hyperbole, fiction, and 
 the excess of bitterness of a newly fledged agent, and his itinerant 
 declamation." This is too bad ! Here is a man whose pretensions 
 to medical science were the ridicule of all Baltimore, crying down 
 Mr. Phelps self-evident momentous truths as a sort of half hatched 
 creatures of no more value, than the nostrums which a Charlatan 
 crams down the throats of his credulous female patients. Verily, 
 if Christian doctrine and invulnerable morals and logic are thus 
 
flippantly to be scouted out of the world by impudence and base 
 epithets, we may at once discard all the blessings of liberty, wis 
 dom and religion. 
 
 Then follows Mr. Thome in the gallery of caricatures, distorted 
 by this dauber. He is sneeringly portrayed as " a boy who may 
 sometime or other be a man." He is also tenderly rebuked as " a 
 fool, a calumniator with windy eloquence, arid a falsifier, vulgar, ob 
 scene and disgusting." This is a very compendious mode of blot 
 ting out those vivid and accurate delineations which vice seeks to 
 conceal ; but this besmearing process does not destroy the reality, 
 any more than the sight of fifty members of Dr. Reese s " nation 
 of mulattoes and mongrels," in a slave quarter, disproves the prac 
 tice of " criminal amalgamation." Mr. Thome s statements are 
 true, as all persons know who have ever been at the South ; but the 
 most melancholy connected fact is this, that his descriptions are 
 greatly defective. 
 
 The Rev. Beriah Green is next dosed with a decanter of Dr. 
 Reese s wormwood and gall. However, as the prescription has not 
 yet operated so as to change Mr. Green s moral taste, it may be 
 presumed that the sapient Baltimore M. D. will either send him 
 to the lunatic asylum, or to that hospital of incurables, the State 
 prison, or the gallows. Dr. Reese pronounces that Mr. Green is 
 raving inad, and a malignant traitor. Assuredly, the Christians at 
 Whitestown must be a most extraordinary society of people, to ap 
 point, as the President of a Seminary for the preparatory education 
 of young men for the gospel ministry, and even to permit a citizen 
 to go at large, a raving madman and a malignant traitor. We do 
 not believe that the Whitestown Instructer is either a Judas or a 
 lunatic; and, certainly, the moral and physical characteristics of a 
 malignant traitor and raving madman, cannot be deduced from the 
 speech which he delivered at the Anti-Slavery meeting in May. 
 Dr. Reese s brief review contains too much and too lengthened de 
 liberate corruption and malice to permit us charitably to believe 
 that he is deranged, except by " obtusity of moral feeling ;" but 
 that he is guilty of " stereotyped malignity and calumny," is evi 
 dent from his pamphlet ; and that he is equally chargeable with the 
 turpitude of treason in reference to his friends and associates, is no 
 torious among all the Methodists in Baltimore and New York. 
 
 This renowned Chemist had mixed up so much " kindred gall 
 and combustibility" in the dose which he prepared for Mr. Green, 
 that his stock of those articles being temporarily exhausted, Mr. 
 Ludlow is drugged with merely a mild drench of sour milk, flavour 
 ed with wormwood and asafoetida. 
 
 It could not be expected that William Lloyd Garrison, whom 
 Dr. Reese has belied and slandered until he laughs at his own de 
 ceptions, could pass without notice ; much less that Charles Stuart, 
 who so fearlessly attested to the authenticity of the certificate given 
 by Wilberforce, and the other chiefs of the Anti-Slavery cause in 
 Britain, would escape the filth which Dr. Reese throws about. But 
 as even he had not the hardihood to abuse speeches which were not 
 
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 made, those two champions are only bespattered with a small sprink 
 ling of the Doctor s boiling hot blister water. 
 
 Then follows the maiming of Mr. Jocelyn. Dr. Reese comforts 
 him with a phial of " gall which can never be sweetened." Ac 
 cording to Dr. Reese, Mr. Jocelyn is " so good a man," and has 
 told his lies so often, that he now believes his own lies to be true. 
 The Doctor also laments that Mr. Jocelyn should be " found in 
 such employment," telling lies for truth, and " in such company" 
 as he keeps; whom he also most sagaciously describes as "good 
 men deceiving others, while themselves are deceived." We have 
 some acquaintance with Mr. Jocelyn s associates, and can assure 
 the Chemical Lecturer from Baltimore, that the worst company we 
 ever saw him in, was when he condescended to meet R. S. Finley 
 at Clinton Hall, and quietly take his " stereotyped calumny and 
 malignity" without retort. Dr. Reese s pill, which is nothing but 
 the " excess of bitterness" sugared over with " folly and fiction," 
 is so extremely nauseating, that Mr. Jocelyn will not swallow it. 
 
 As the Doctor proceeds with the subjects of his chemical analy 
 sis, he handles them more roughly; and as he had felt a momen 
 tary qualm respecting the putting of Mr. Jocelyn in his air ex 
 hauster, he resolved to apply his machinery in all its power to tor 
 ture the next subject, Mr. May, who, according to Dr. Reese s ac 
 count of his disease, is a most alarming traitor, that ought to be 
 consigned instantly to universal reprobation. The Doctor s poison 
 has not yet killed him. * suppose, that the gospel which Mr. May 
 habitually takes is so potent, that all the deadly nostrums which 
 quackery furnishes cannot, alas! destroy him. This Mr. May, ac 
 cording to Dr. Reese s description of his morbid symptoms, must 
 be the eighth wonder of the world. He is a tnost impious prophet, 
 full of combustibility and foul slander, who, as a calumniator and 
 traitor, merits general indignation. 
 
 In writing thus of peaceful and inoffensive citizens, decorated 
 with some of the most valuable and brilliant ornaments of humanity, 
 Dr. Reese declares that he is actuated only by good will to those 
 persons ; and that the moderation, which, kind-hearted soul ! he dis 
 plays, is the concentrated essence of patriotism, philanthropy and 
 religion. Undeniable facts as narrated by Mr. Jocelyn and Mr. 
 May, are "stereotyped falsehood," and their infallible arguments, 
 according to this superlative M. D., are the combustibility of hell ; 
 but his own perversions and slanders, according to his own esti 
 mate, by " insanity of development," are vital and refined Chris 
 tianity. Admit the claim but what kind of Christianity is it? 
 The only reply which can be given is this : Dr. Reese s Chris 
 tianity, as thus described, is no more like the requisition of the 
 gospels, than a Judas-like betrayment of friends, and the flagrant 
 transgressions of the seventh commandment. 
 
 Mr. Pomeroy next experiences the ingenuity, with which a 
 Maryland M. D. can dissect a poor wight from New England. 
 That gentleman is described by Dr. Reese as a highly inflamma 
 tory Jesuit haranguer of palpable falsehoods, signalized by an out- 
 
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 rageous recklessness of truth. If the Doctor from the South ad 
 ministers medicines of this exciting nature to his patients in a burn 
 ing fever, his professional skill must pass undisputed, for dead men 
 tell nu talcs ! It happens, however, that the very passages which 
 Dr. Reese quotes as specimens of slander, misrepresentation and 
 exaggeration, are merely a development of the laws of the Southern 
 States in reference to the cases cited. So that it admits of no dis 
 pute which of the parties, the M. D. who was the laughing stock 
 of Baltimore for his impudent ignorance, and who absconded from 
 that city on account of his " moral obliquities," as he calls them ; 
 or the upright Christian minister of Bangor, acts out the unhallow 
 ed sentiment, that " the end justifies the means." If that has 
 not been the only or the chief rule of action of one M. D. in New 
 York ibr the last ten or twelve years, then his father and cousin 
 are not acquainted with their relations, and all the Methodists, 
 "every where in the land," are egregiously mistaken. 
 
 Dr. Reese wishes to obtain practice by any means. Fees are all 
 to him. Notoriety gathers fees. "Audacity and calumny" insure 
 notoriety ; because they interest not only the impaled and abused 
 victim, but also all his irritated friends. Therefore, the more ex 
 tensively and virulently Dr. Reese scatters his " firebrands, arrows 
 and deadly poison," the more widely will he be known. This is 
 the only source of Dr. Reese s pamphlet. Not one word does he 
 believe of all that he has written. He knows that the Anti-Slave 
 ry men are sons of peace. They will nrt disturb public meetings, 
 they will not horsewhip, or tar and feather him, or gut his house, 
 or pelt bricks and stones against churches; and therefore he thinks, 
 " 1 may calumniate and falsify with impunity " All fish are good 
 that arc caught in his net. So having, as he supposes, branded 
 Mr. Pomeroy as an inflamed arid rabid Jesuit, he next lays hold of 
 Mr. Stanton, and having felt his pulse, the sapient M. D. solilo 
 quizes over his disorder in the following learned technology. 
 " Vilification ! Madman ! Stupidity ! Dark characteristics ! False 
 charge! Calumny! Black man! Late farce ! Secundum artem !" 
 From all which we are taught, that Mr. Stanton is a stupid mad 
 man, whose "heart is as black as his skin!" and who must be 
 doctored secundum artem, that is, according to a Charlatan s far 
 cical practice. We are, however, of opinion, that Mr. Stanton s 
 moral and mental system are in too healthful a state to need any of 
 Dr. Reese s "didactic and dogmatical averments," even in the 
 form of a patent nostrum. 
 
 This great M. D. next assails his old friend, Dr. Cor, whose ad 
 herence to the Anti-Slavery Society baffles all his medical profun 
 dity. It is a case so entirely novel and unique, that the symptoms 
 defy nil the Doctor s skill to classify them. Dr. Cox, according to 
 his old friend s account, has exhibited his habitual long-standing 
 malady ; " arrogant declamation ; egotism ; morbid paroxysms ; 
 and his bad eminence." Hence this Baltimore Esculapius, con 
 founded with the strange appearance of this modern antique anom 
 alous disease, unkindly leaves Dr. Cox as a hopeless subject, out of 
 
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 whom no pelf can be extracted, to some other practitioner s care 
 and skill and prescriptions. 
 
 Dr. Reese has a peculiar tact of showing how continually he re 
 lapses into his old morbid theory and base practice of grossly ob 
 scuring his expressions, so that they may mean any thing which he 
 pleases. Hence although the "stereotyped malignity, bitterness, 
 falsehood and calumny" of the Doctor s Review are ever promi 
 nent, yet in some places, there is a flat contradiction to what is 
 said in others, so that it may appear after the example of the boast 
 ed suitability of quack medicine* for every case, that the Doctor is 
 always right, while he is evidently wrong. 
 
 The whole of the Doctor s " excess of bitterness and insanity of 
 development" against the Anti-Slavery Society i.s comprized in 
 two parts : Treason and Amalgamation. Not one of all the " in 
 furiated populace," of those who were "driven to madness" by 
 ignorance, depravity and rum, and of their accomplices riot. igno 
 rant and depraved, who were impelled toy the " irrational efferves 
 cence" of the combustible draughts and pills administered in the 
 different newspapers, not one of them all believes that any member 
 of the Anti-Slavery Society is guilty either of treason or amalga 
 mation. Those crimes flourish only in the soil of slavery; where 
 the former is the progenitor of ail evil, and the latter is indigenous 
 and essential to that wicked system. 
 
 Dr. Reese alleges these charges of treason against the Anti- 
 Slavery Societies. " Those who thus conspire against the supreme 
 authorities of the knel, endanger the very existence of our civil 
 institutions, and gap the foundations of the noble edifice of Ameri 
 can freedom." Page 10. As this remark is exactly adapted for 
 the New York rioter?, and no other persons, we should have been 
 glad to have believed, that the Doctor meant it for them ; but alas! 
 through his "obliquity of mental vision, and outrageous reckless 
 ness of truth," he applies this " stereotyped malignity" to the Anti- 
 Slavery Society. Now, it is only necessary to remark, that the 
 Anti-Slavery Society expressly disavow all appeal to physical force ; 
 and declare that Congress men, under the present national com 
 pact, cannot interfere with slavery, except in the District of Colum 
 bia. They aver, that their warfare is only that of purity against 
 corruption, of truth against error, and of love against prejudice; 
 and that they propose to abolish slavery only by exciting the spirit of 
 repentance and good works in slaveholders. Yet this most holy 
 and righteous scheme is denounced by Dr. Reese and his confede 
 rates, as a conspiracy of traitors against the constitution and laws. 
 There is no greater criminality than this base attempt to vilify some 
 of the best Christians in our land. It is the overt act of murder, 
 by exposing defenceless citizens to the ban of proscription, and 
 by encouraging infuriated ruffians to butcher them. The man 
 who writes such a pamphlet as David M. Reese s brief review, 
 is equally guilty of a murderous design, as though he wilfully 
 administered to an unconscious sick man, arsenic instead of 
 magnesia. 
 
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 A most remarkable eridence of the melancholy disposition to 
 falsify, calumniate and inflict "still more grievous calamities," is 
 developed by David M. Reese on page 21 of his review. The 
 Anti-Slavery Society say, that their "zeal and energy, when kin 
 dled up through the country, will sweep away the bulwarks of 
 slavery." All persons know, that the Anti-Slavery Society merely 
 intend by this sentence to affirm, that the influence of evangelical 
 principles, when completely and universally in operation, would de 
 stroy that unrighteousness and prejudice which are the cause of 
 slave-holding, and of its continuance. The Anti-Slavery Society 
 have always, collectively, individually, and most solemnly, dis 
 claimed all physical contention. Their quiet submission to the 
 depredations of the infuriated and irrational, not ignorant and de 
 praved men, who were instigated and driven to madness by the 
 falsehoods and butchering manifestos of Dr. Reese and his part 
 ners in that iniquity, proves that they contend not with the warlike 
 materials of Liberia, rum, guns and gunpowder. All the weapons 
 which the Anti-Slavery Society use are the Bible, the Declaration 
 of Independence, and the Bills of Rights of the different States, 
 illustrated according to the most pacific principles of the purest 
 moral philosophy. To crush these gospel combatants, and to ob 
 tain the inglorious victory of brute force over spiritual energy, Dr. 
 Reese promulges the following placard, which he brags will be 
 " useful at the present crisis, and subserve the interests of patriot 
 ism, philanthropy and religion." Listen to Dr. Reese s descrip 
 tion of the disorders which afflicts the Anti-Slavery men, and of 
 the means of cure which his vaunted chemical and medical skill 
 propounds. " The zeal and energy of this collected band thus open 
 ly arrayed against the laws is no less treasonable, and ought there 
 fore to be detected, exposed, and defeated in its incipient progress, 
 lest the impunity extended to such an avowal may embolden its au 
 thors to some overt act of outrage and treason." That is right, 
 Doctor ! Kill them off; let the traitors be hung, drawn and quar 
 tered. They are very quiet people, those Anti-Slavery men, now ; 
 but if you let them alone a few years, rely upon it, their moral 
 power, their zeal and energy, will overthrow all the bulwarks of 
 slavery in America; all the cupidity, sensuality, tortures, agonies 
 and mischiefs of slavery. To hinder this event so contrary to Dr. 
 Reese s religion ! just raze the churches where the fanatics wor 
 ship Jesus the Prince of Liberators and Emancipators, pull down 
 the houses of the traitors, then put the traitors into the ruins, and 
 set fire to the whole mass. This is Dr. Reese s prescription to cure 
 American Anti-Slavery. We do not, however, believe that it can 
 be so easily administered as useless nostrums and lying reviews. 
 
 Dr. Reese also writes, page 23 : " We appeal whether such a 
 publication is not incendiary in its character, and unsophisticated 
 nullification!" What is this incendiary nullification? Nothing 
 but a quotation from Scripture, Deut. xxiii. 15, 16; which Dr. 
 Reese, or as he is entitled by his abettors, " the Right Reverend 
 Bishop Reese," iu his marvellous biblical knowledge, declares has 
 
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 not the least bearing on American slavery. Mark ye! The law 
 of God has nothing to do with American legislation, so says Dr. 
 Reese; and so say all the slaveholders. "Their schemes and plans," 
 writes Bishop Reese, page 42, " are treasonable in their charac 
 ter; involving the overthrow of our civil institutions, and the dis 
 solution of our national compact; they are at war with the laws of 
 the land, as well as with a repugnance deep, universal and invin 
 cible. The means they employ are calculated to engender civil 
 strife, servile war, insurrection and bloodshed." To use Dr. Reese s 
 own words, this is the " stereotyped malignity and calumny" with 
 which the devil and his slaves in all ages have attempted to silence 
 and destroy the servants of God. Thus Ahab belied Elijah. Thus 
 the courtiers of Zedekiah slandered Jeremiah. Thus the Jews 
 calumniated the Lord Jesus and his apostles. Thus Nero vilified 
 the primitive martyrs. Thus the Monks and Friars reproached the 
 Reformers. Thus the minions of the English government abused 
 the original Puritans, and the Congress of 1776: and thus the 
 West India Slaveholders defamed Clarkson, Wilberforce, and the 
 host of other abolitionists in Britain. 
 
 Dr. Reese can find as much of this "stereotyped malignity and 
 calumny" in all its " insanity of development" ready manufactur 
 ed, as his companions, the rioters, can publish ; but it is all equally 
 untrue when applied to existing Anti-Slavery men, as it was when 
 asserted of their sainted predecessors in the holy warfare. The 
 author of the Review well knew when he was copying that para 
 graph from some of the old sons of Belial, those malignant enemies 
 of God and man, that he was only casting a firebrand among his 
 infuriated associates, afresh to scorch and goad them on to mad 
 ness ; and then he will again blame the Anti-Slavery Society for 
 the storm which their ruthless foes had raised. 
 
 No stronger and unequivocal proof of the depravity of man, and 
 of the identity of the human character as impelled by sin, can be 
 alleged than David M. Reese s review. Every effort to overthrow 
 long established and deeply rooted iniquity has ever been opposed, 
 in exact proportion to the number of persons interested in the con 
 tinuance of the ungodly system. Thus it is with American slavery. 
 No person expects that the deepest wickedness which has so long 
 been cemented with the whole frame of society in the South, and 
 rendered apparently innocent by legislative enactments, and which 
 has poisoned and corrupted the whole body politic, could be reme 
 died and extirpated without potent medicines. No Christian ever 
 could for a moment anticipate that the moral renovation comprized 
 in the extermination of slavery could be accomplished without a 
 fearful struggle on the part of them who have so long fattened and 
 luxuriated in despotism, indolence and sensuality. The very ar 
 gument which is thus proposed, and the outcries which are made 
 against the Anti-Slavery men being exactly the same which in all 
 ages have been adduced against the preachers and advocates of 
 truth and righteousness, infallibly proclaim that the Anti-Slavery 
 
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 cause is the cause of God, and that it will eventually triumph over 
 all " the works of darkness, and the workers of iniquity." 
 
 II. Amalgamation. No other evidence is requisite to prove that 
 David M. Reese wrote his review by the instigation of the devil 
 than the simple fact, that his false and wicked allegations against 
 the Anti-Slavery men are exactly those which are calculated to 
 drive on the infuriated sons of mischief to madness. The charge 
 of treason supplies combustibles for the fire of revenge in all the 
 pretended patriots who shout for liberty on the fourth of July amid 
 potations of inflammatory punch. And the uproar respecting amal 
 gamation irritates two classes ol persons beyond endurance. The 
 slaveholders cannot bear the mention of that subject because it re 
 minds them of their " nation of mulattoes and mongrels !" That is 
 a lovely title for the illegitimate and incestuous offspring of the 
 slaveholders ! and the ignorant and vicious and degraded among 
 the white population of the large sea-ports rejoice in an excuse to 
 have an affray with the coloured people, as much as Southern plan 
 ters delight to start with their rifles and dogs upon a " negro hunt," 
 to catch, worry, maim or shoot runaway slaves. That all the out 
 cry respecting amalgamation is a flagrant cheat, is indisputable 
 from two facts, both of which are as notorious as the sunshine. 
 One is, that throughout the whole United States, probably not 
 seven men and women can be found of different colours who are 
 united in matrimonial bonds. The second is, that amalgamation 
 is never disowned except when the woman is free. The amalga 
 mation of white men with coloured women, if slaves, is general in 
 all the slave districts. In fact, the exceptions are almost indiscov- 
 erable. You cannot walk through a slave quarter without the pal 
 pable evidence of it. The men and women slaves are black, but 
 the children are of different lighter hues; this is seen in the kitchen, 
 as well as in the field. Not only is the African colour changed, 
 but the African distinctive features are obliterated. No man at 
 the South ever cries out against amalgamation, so long as a female 
 slave is concerned ; it. is a free coloured woman only who is the ob 
 ject of aversion ; and the sole cause is this, because the offspring of 
 the licentious intercourse cannot be grasped and sold as property. 
 
 Upon this loathsome subject Dr. Reese has uttered some " stupid 
 calumny," which shows an "outrageous recklessness of truth :" 
 we select one specimen of that M. D. s extraordinary deceitfulness. 
 " One or more dining parties had been given for whites and blacks 
 promiscuously, and in several churches coloured persons had been 
 introduced into the pews with white people, nolens volens." The 
 fact is this, that one or two coloured ministers of the gospel were 
 invited to dine with other Christians and ministers : and is there 
 any more amalgamation in this intercourse, thau in those ministers 
 being seated in the same conference or presbytery for the transac 
 tion of ecclesiastical business, or in communing together at the table 
 of the Lord? No. The only existing amalgamation in the United 
 States is this : slaveholders purchase likely breeding wenches ; and 
 when they have become the mothers of four or seven " mulattoes 
 
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 and mongrels," to use Dr. Reese s elegant phrase, then they sell 
 the woman and their own offspring at an advanced price for their 
 lighted colour and improved form, the girls for prostitution, and the 
 boys for drudgery. The whole of Dr. Reese s pamphlet is a 
 " tissue of rant, hyperbole and fiction, and is characterized by an 
 excess of bitterness which carries with it its own refutation ;" and 
 especially when his own exemplary and edifying "obtusity of moral 
 feeling," is alleged in corroboration of his "folly and extrava 
 gance." 
 
 III. Perversion and misrepresentation. Although the slander of 
 an individual may be more immediately operative, yet the reproaches 
 heaped upon the cause of religion are more extensively mischiev 
 ous. A private citizen is known but in a small circle compara 
 tively ; his friends despise the calumny and pity the revilers ; or he 
 may live down and survive the stigma and its authors. But what 
 tongue can describe or what imagination conceive the awful effects 
 of destroying the influence of religious truth, and paralyzing the 
 efforts or intimidating the zeal of the advocates of the rights of 
 man and the purity of evangelical principles? Dr. Reese s guilt, 
 in the mass of virtuperative falsehoods concerning individuals 
 which he has concocted, is unspeakably less, than that spirit of ir 
 religious distortion with which his pamphlet is replete. We shall 
 extract but a few examples ; because if all his misrepresentations 
 of the Anti-Slavery Society s fundamental principles, and his false 
 accusations of individuals, and his stereotyped malignant epithets 
 and phrases were expunged from his brief review, the rest of his 
 jargon and malice would be like salt which has lost its savour. 
 Luke xiv. 34, 35. Men would cast it out. 
 
 On page 9, Dr. Reese recommends his review as "the truth, 
 the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." In reply, we assert, 
 that his pamphlet is falsehood, all falsehood, and nothing- but 
 falsehood. His first prominent remark applies to that part of the 
 declaration of the Anti-Slavery Society which asserts, that "scarce 
 ly a rill of pity for the slave" existed at the organization of the 
 New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832. This Dr. Reese calls 
 " brazen untruth." Now we maintain its perfect consonance with 
 fact. A few scattered individuals at various periods, have been 
 alive upon the subject of slavery, but during more than thirty years 
 past, all the Abolition and tfye Manumission Societies have been 
 nearly asleep: and no power could awaken them to reflection, feel 
 ing and activity, in any measure adequate to the claims of the 
 times, or the agonies of the sufferers. 
 
 He proceeds on pages 14, 15 and 16, to falsify the plainest lan 
 guage, that he may disgrace the friends of human freedom by charg 
 ing upon them the offensive practice of sanctioning the matrimonial 
 intercourse between the whites and the coloured people. To this 
 end, the most obvious phrases are distorted ; and motives are im 
 puted, which this M. D. knows never were encouraged. 
 
 He has designedly perverted the claim to the possession of com 
 mon and natural rights of freedom, education, the acquisition of 
 
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 property, the matrimonial covenant, &,c. into an outcry for inter 
 marriage between the different races; and this wilful misrepresen 
 tation he has made expressly to injure the sacred cause of religion 
 and liberty. The Doctor s criminality is aggravated by the con 
 sideration that he knows the wilful baseness which he was perpe 
 trating; and also that he was aware of all the evil consequences 
 which would ensue from this appeal to the worst passions of his 
 ignorant and depraved and infuriated counterparts. From the 14th 
 to the 18th page, the Doctor s review is occupied with this subject, 
 including a phrenological extract from some pro-slavery writer at 
 Edinburgh, who knows nothing at all upon the subject; as is prov 
 ed by one of his statements. " The distinction in the United 
 States is white and black, with little of the intervening shades of 
 colour. The races do not and will not incorporate." In contradic 
 tion to this " tale of a tub," all persons who are acquainted with 
 the slave States know, that in many parts of them, scarcely a sin 
 gle black person can be found ; that one third at least of all the 
 slaves now in America are the progeny of the slaveholders; arid 
 that the increase of the whitewashed people of different hues, the 
 consequence of the continual incorporation of the races, is far 
 more rapid in proportion than that of any other -species of the 
 American population. 
 
 The doctor next quotes the following irrefutable propositions 
 from the Anti-Slavery Society s Report. 1. " The colonization of 
 the free has no tendency to diminish the number of the slaves. 
 2. The free coloured population are opposed to the scheme;" that 
 is, African colonization. 8. "Colonies are not adapted to Chris 
 tianize Africa." These propositions the sapient M. D. declares 
 are "both arithmetically and morally untrue;" and he adds, a 
 " single commentary upon them would prove that he possessed kin 
 dred stupidity with the authors." Let us examine what David M. 
 Reese s denial is worth. The Colonization Society has sent off 
 perhaps, 2000 free coloured persons to Africa, in eighteen years, 
 and the slaves have increased nearly a million : and yet David M. 
 Reese asserts that the colonizing scheme diminishes the number of 
 the slaves ! The free coloured people say they are opposed to be 
 ing transported to the Slaveholders African Botany Bay, and will 
 not go with their own consent. Dr. Reese on the contrary de 
 clares, that this is "arithmetically and morally untrue;" when at 
 the same time neither by bribes nor threats, can the colonizers in 
 duce them to ship themselves off to Liberia; and they are accu 
 mulating in a great geometrical ratio in the United States. The 
 American Anti-Slavery Society affirm, that such colonists as those 
 who have been banished to Liberia, newly emancipated slaves, un 
 educated, undisciplined, ignorant, without morality and religion, 
 who live in Africa by selling to slave-traders, Hum, Guns, Cut 
 lasses, and Gunpowder, with other warlike weapons and combusti 
 bles, cannot evangelize Africa. David M. Reese declares that this 
 proposition is " both arithmetically and morally untrue ;" notwith 
 standing no account exists of native conversions or of the influence 
 
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 of morality and religion among the Africans, through the instru 
 mentality of those traffickers in the articles of war. 
 
 The Anti-Slavery Society say, 4. " That nothing but the preju 
 dice of the whites renders the removal of the blacks at all desira 
 ble!" In reply to this, Dr. Reese adduces Fothegill, Sharp, Wil- 
 berforce, Clarkson and Lafayette, as witnesses, when it is indubi 
 table, that they were of the same opinion as the Anti-Slavery So 
 ciety. The American slaveholders and their confederates whom 
 he alleges as testimony are inadmissible : as they are only witnesses 
 for their own cause. Jt is also overwhelming confutation of David 
 M. Reese s sturdy denial of truth, that the prejudice against the 
 coloured people only exists towards them who are free, and not to 
 the slave. As long as they are merchantable property, and can be 
 kept to multiply the stock of two legged animals for sale, so long 
 they may enjoy every possible familiarity; suckle white children, 
 be forced to amalgamate, sleep in the bedrooms, experience every 
 species of personal intercourse, and be trusted as body servants ; 
 but when they become free and can no longer be defiled or tortur 
 ed with impunity, then up rises all the slaveholder s bile of preju 
 dice, which is just as loathsome and infectious and incurable as 
 Dr. Reese s black vomit that he has "puked up" in this loathsome 
 choleric pamphlet. 
 
 The Anti-Slavery Society also affirm, 5. " This prejudice is 
 conquerable by the moral power of the gospel." To comprehend 
 the excellency of Dr. Reese s reply to this proposition, we must 
 recollect that this M. D. boasts in this pamphlet that he is an 
 American, and declares that all the friends of human liberty are 
 Anti- Americans , that like the Pharisee of old, he brags that he is 
 a Christian, and scouts and vilifies the enemies of slavery as hea 
 then men and publicans, and that he talks loudly of his being a 
 human being, leaving us to draw the inference that the members 
 of the Anti-Slavery Society are unnatural monsters. With these 
 refreshing proofs of modesty in this Baltimore M. D. listen to his 
 exposition of American liberty and the Christian religion! Pages 
 9 and J9. After stating that the physical, intellectual, political, 
 and moral evils of American slavery are utterly incapable of exag 
 geration, he thus proceeds : "Slavery is provided for by the Con 
 stitution. The protection of slave property is provided for by the 
 laws. Our brethren of the South choose to continue slavery, and 
 absolutely prohibit emancipation except upon condition of removal. 
 The liberty of the free is not more amply guarded and fully secur 
 ed by the laws than is the slavery of the enslaved." So much for 
 David M. Reese s American patriotism and philanthropy! 
 
 Now explore his Christianity. "Our Lord Jesus Christ never 
 once uttered a single sentence against slaveholding, that heinous 
 crime which is worse than piracy and murder. He and they," his 
 apostles, "in no one instance bore a testimony against this heinous 
 crime in the sight of God. Is it not passing strange that our Lord 
 did not abrogate that part of the moral law which as much forbids 
 the coveting of a man servant or maid servant as the coveting of any 
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 other species of property? See Luke xvii. 7, 8, for a distinct re 
 cognition of slavery." It would be an insult to the understanding 
 of the reader to Offer a single commentary on this blasphemy and 
 wickedness. It would not be " kindred stupidity ;" for the Balti 
 more Esculapius is too crafty for an idiot, it would be well if he 
 could show that excuse for his " moral obliquities." But to expose 
 this impious scoffing against divine truth and the principles of eter 
 nal rectitude and reciprocal justice, would be to participate in 
 similar wickedness to that which betrays a friend, and similar in 
 fidelity to that which dishonours defenceless females. After such 
 an evangelical exposition we must be convinced that the people 
 who listen to the "Right Reverend Bishop Reese s" discourses 
 upon gospel subjects, must be unspeakably enlightened and ed 
 ified, by his luminous illustrations of the seventh and eighth com 
 mandments. 
 
 It is superfluous to continue our extracts except the summary 
 which the Doctor has given, and as this quotation will contain the 
 concentrated spirit of all his " fury, folly, extravagance, madness, 
 corruption and calumny," we present it in full. 
 
 First lie. " The American Anti-Slavery Society, says this most 
 veracious witness, is both Anti-American and Anti-Christian in its 
 nature and tendency." 
 
 Second lie. " It is wild, visionary and Utopian, in proposing to 
 elevate to equality with the whites a race so long oppressed, de 
 graded and down trodden in the dust." Mem. Witness the Israel 
 ites who were just as long in Egypt, as the African race have been 
 in the American house of bondage. We recommend the " Right 
 Reverend Bishop Reese" at his next preachment, to analyze the 
 similitudes between the descendants of Jacob, and the posterity of 
 the kidnapped people of Congo, and between Pharaoh and his 
 taskmasters and American slaveholders, and between Moses and 
 Aaron and the American Anti-Slarery Society. 
 
 Third lie. " Their schemes and plans are treasonable in their 
 character, involving the overthrow of our civil institutions, and the 
 dissolution of our national compact." A friend to the sapient 
 Doctor, charitably suggests, that this passage has been altered by 
 a trifling mistake of the printer; for it should thus read to be true : 
 " Their schemes and plans, that is of the Anti-Slavery Society, are 
 reasonable in their character, involving the establishment of our 
 civil institutions, and the confirmation of our national compact." 
 Our Methodist friend kindly supposes, that some roguish printer 
 altered the truth, that it might be conformable to the accompany 
 ing falsehoods. 
 
 Fourth lie. " They," that is the plans to exterminate American 
 slavery, " are utterly impracticable, because at war with the laws 
 of the land, as well as with a repugnance deep, universal and in 
 vincible." I should like to know whether Dr. Reese, when he is 
 called upon to visit a man in the insipient stages of a mortal dis 
 ease, and which all the symptoms declare will terminate in death, 
 refuses to cram him with his worthless jalaps and pills, and object 
 
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 to his fees for his useless visits, when he is beforehand convinced 
 that all the articles of the materia medica, and all the skill of the 
 whole body of physicians will net prolong the sick man s life ? 
 But the enforcement by the pulpit, and the press, and by Chris 
 tian discipline of immediate abolition, will speedily induce the 
 Southern States to annul their own wicked laws respecting slave 
 ry, and will conquer their repugnance towards coloured citizens 
 when free, but which is not felt for, " mulattoes and mongrels" 
 when slaves. 
 
 Fifth lie. "The means they," the Anti-Slavery Society, "em 
 ploy are calculated to engender civil strife, servile war, insurrec 
 tion, and bloodshed, and already threaten to desolate the hopes, 
 and blast the rising glory ef our community." There is a second 
 Daniel come to judgment! The rising glory of the United States, 
 with increasing millions of slaves inseparably fettered, as a mill 
 stone round their neck. I guess, it will not soar very high, nor to 
 a great distance, nor any length of time, unless you loose the sink 
 ing disgrace, which forms a striking and melancholy contrast with 
 the rising glory ! 
 
 Sixth lie. "The Society audaciously usurps the supreme legis 
 lative, judicial ami executive authority of this nation." No man 
 in America of any sort or upon any subject, neither Lemuel Gulli 
 ver nor Baron MuHchausen, no lying Sutullus of Greece and Rome, 
 no slaveholders or slave trader, and no fiend either incorporeal or 
 incarnate, ever uttered a more malignant and murderous falsehood 
 than David M. Reese, when he wilfully wrote that atrocious " ma 
 lignant calumny." 
 
 Seventh lie. "To brand any portion of our fellow citizens with 
 the crime of robbery, piracy and murder for an act recognized as a 
 civil right, is virtual treason before God and man : and must inevi 
 tably tend to disaifcct and alienate Southern Christians from their 
 brethren, unsettle the Union, and involve the nation in civil rebel 
 lion, if not in the bloody tragedy of a servile war." Carry out this 
 sublime doctrine: what follows? To call a man a Judas who be 
 trays his father and relative, alienates the affections of Christian 
 brethren. To denominate a seducer of virgins and a companion 
 of prostitutes when a married man, an adulterer, is to provoke the 
 " irrational effervescence" of the depraved; and to proclaim the 
 word of God which declares that every " slaveholder is a man- 
 stealer, a sinner of the first rank and guilty of the highest kind of 
 theft," is to excite a " bloody tragedy." No doubt ! for David M. 
 Reese and his fellow actors have fulfilled their parts in that renown 
 ed tragedy, the New York riots of 1833 and 1834. 
 
 Eighth lie. " The attempt to propagate such doctrines," those 
 of the Anti-Slavery Society, " in any part of the Union, ought to be 
 steadily and efficiently opposed by every friend of Christianity." 
 When I read this clause, a friend thus annotated : I perceive the 
 mistake there exactly. " The printer, said my friend, unfortunate- 
 ly or designedly omitted the word NOT after ought." 
 
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 Ninth lie. " The abolition of slavery frrfrn this land, by an or 
 ganized body of citizens in any of the free States, is to be depre 
 cated as a public calamity." This is Satan with his cloven foot 
 without concealment. According to this patriotic, philanthropic, 
 and religious dogma, pronounced by the " Right Reverend Bishop 
 Reese," all societies to demolish Paganism, spread the Bible, dis 
 seminate religious tracts, support Sunday schools, and root up 
 11 drunkenness," unless " the will and voluntary action of those 
 transgressors precede, cannot fail to retard, if not utterly prevent 
 the extinguishment of moral evil in the world, and must inflict un 
 utterable mischief upon the sinners themselves." This is what David 
 M. Reese, an instigator of the New York riots, a disturber of the 
 public meetings at the Chatham Street Chapel, an apostate betrayer 
 of both sides of the Methodists, and an expositor of the seventh com 
 mandment, calls a recognition of the " paramount claims and au 
 thority of the divine law, and implicit obedience and unqualified sub 
 mission to its requirements." Away with such brazen hypocrisy ! 
 
 Tenth lie. " The tendencies of the American Anti-Slavery 
 Society inflame the public mind, increase the prejudice which it 
 professes to remove, magnify the evils of slavery, diminish the pros 
 pects of emancipation, and overthrow the hopes of its friends." 
 Here is the old juggling of Satan again exhibited in clear display. 
 Are not these the stereotyped objections of sinners against all the 
 moral reforms which the world has ever witnessed. Truth always 
 receives the same outrageous repulsion. " They are turning the 
 world upside down;" said the calumniators of the apostles. "You 
 are turning the Southern States upside down," vociferates David 
 M. Reese. This very allegation certifies the purity and the truth 
 of the Anti-Slavery cause. The confusion, uproar, and dismay 
 with which the zeal and energy of the Anti-Slavery Society fill all 
 classes of the motley assemblage of " whites and mongrels," who 
 throng the " broad road that leads to destruction," under such blind 
 guides as " the Right Reverend Bishop Reese," as he is entitled 
 by his dearly beloved fellow craftsmen, prove beyond all dispute 
 that the Anti-Slavery cause, as the magicians of Pharaoh declared 
 respecting the vermin with which at the command of Moses they 
 were tormented, and of which they could not divest themselves, 
 " this is the finger of God." The "Right Reverend Bishop 
 Reese," and his juggling confederates, both ecclesiastical arid civil, 
 may go on, Pharaoh like, hardening their hearts, pleading for the 
 " gradual arid ultimate abolition of slavery," at the day of judg 
 ment, but they will be disappointed ; they will either have to repent 
 and obey the command of the Lord, and let the oppressed go free ; 
 or they will realize not the merciful punishment of being drowned 
 in the Red Sea, but that fearful catastrophe, the "judgment and 
 fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries" of the Lord, 
 " when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired 
 in all those who believe." 
 
 IV. Malignity. The ferocious character of the " Brief Review 
 of the Report of the Anti-Slavery Society," and the malicious spirit 
 
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 of its author have already been amply displayed; but it is requi 
 site to gather up a few more disjointed scraps that the adherents of 
 the Anti-Slavery cause may understand the genuine qualities of 
 their ruthless foes, and be encouraged to persevere, trusting in the 
 Lord, who will assuredly destroy all the works of the devil. 
 
 This notice of David M. Reese s boisterous threatening, and 
 calumnious pamphlet is not published because there is any intrinsic 
 merit in his "irrational effervescence;" or because there is any 
 quality in him which could excite any other feeling than unfeigned 
 abhorrence for his sins and compassion for his errors and trans 
 gressions; but in this pamphlet he is the ostensible organ, the 
 " Right Rev. Bishop" of a " motley assemblage of mongrels/ who 
 feel as he feels, only they have not the hardihood to betray it, and 
 who talk in private that which he alone has the impudence to utter 
 in public. David M. Reese s pamphlet is the true expression of 
 the wicked opinions, ungodly principles, and murderous determi 
 nations of all those who revile slaveholcling in the abstract, but de 
 fend it in practice ; and who " go with the South" for the gradual 
 abolition of American slavery. This farrago of calumny and mis 
 representation and impiety has been written at their request, is 
 published with their approbation, has been ratified with their public 
 sanction, and consequently is the manifesto of that ungodly cabal, 
 who evidently govern New York, by the power of a ruffian mob, 
 whom they can always instigate to desolate and murder with impuni 
 ty, whenever the devil instigates them. 
 
 Open, daring, unconcealed malignity often defeats its own deadly 
 purposes. It so shocks the moral sense and the instinctive feelings 
 of mankind, that they instantly circumvent its mischievous designs. 
 Thus David M. Reese s cold blooded malevolence would have fur 
 nished its own antidote, had he not commingled a portion of honey 
 with his gall, and put on a sheep s skin, if possible, to conceal his 
 wolfish ravening. His malignity, therefore, is of precisely the same 
 character as that of Joab and Judas. The poisoner who mingles 
 his potion of death with the cup which he presents you to drink 
 gives you no forewarning of the fatal ingredients which you will 
 swallow. The lurking assassin does not premonish you, that the 
 dagger is about to be struck into your heart. So David M. Reese 
 speaks to you smoothly and peaceably to hide the fell object which 
 he pursues, your total and irremediable destruction. Joab sent for 
 Abner, to speak with him quietly, and then smote him under the 
 fifth rib. So the same Joab offered to kiss Arnasa, asking him, 
 " art thou in health my brother?" and at the same moment run him 
 through with his sword. Thus Judas appeared before the Redeemer : 
 "Hail, Master!" said the traitor, and kissed him; while at the 
 same time he had directed the attending soldiers to hold him fast. 
 
 This stereotyped hypocrisy, treachery and malignity, are the ex 
 act counterparts of David M. Reese s character, as developed in 
 his review. He has deliberately declared that all the members of 
 the Anti-Slavery Society without exception, and several ministers 
 of the gospel and other citizens, are guilty of the following crimes- 
 
This charge is not a solitary overflowing of " irrational efferves 
 cence," but it constitutes the running subject of a pamphlet of 45 
 pages. Expunge the various repetitions of these same epithets and 
 calumnies, and you blot out the whole of his review. He says that 
 the members of the Anti-Slavery Society are " filled with delusion 
 and fanaticism ; and are guilty of political heresies and moral ob 
 liquities." That they are " mistaken and misguided men, radical 
 ly wrong in their practice, who have brought upon themselves and 
 others public calamities." That they are rebels and traitors aiming 
 to involve the United States in civil rebellion and the bloody tragedy 
 of a servile war. That they are so reckless of truth, that they have 
 invented the most " stupid rant, hyperbole and fiction," and have 
 told their outrageous lies so often, that they now believe them to be 
 truth. That they are " foreign zealots, foreign incendiaries, and 
 imported demagogues," who are calumniators and traitors, uttering 
 foul slander with the ravings of madmen." That all their pre 
 tensions to the character of American citizens and Christians are 
 utterly deceptive and untrue, for they are both Anti-American and 
 Anti-Christian!^ And that if those Anti-Slavery men meet to 
 gether and make addresses respecting the abolition of slavery, they 
 ought to be defeated and opposed, and be involved in still greater 
 calamities, than the destruction of churches, the despoiling of do 
 mestic habitations, and the maiming or murder of inoffensive min 
 isters of the gospel, and peaceful, philanthropic citizens. 
 
 Now the mere annunciation of all this " wholesale slander and 
 excess of bitterness," carries with it its own antidote ; and even 
 David M. Reese s confederates, the infuriated men, not " ignorant 
 and depraved," filled with "combustibility" arid "driven to mad 
 ness" by the feverish excitement with which he had inoculated them, 
 would not patiently swallow this hellebore. The Doctor therefore, 
 secundurn artem, has given his pills an exterior attraction by an 
 exhibition of hypocrisy at which Joab would have blushed ; and 
 for which Judas would have given him half of the thirty pieces of 
 silver. Listen to him ! " If they are Christians" what? Rebels, 
 Traitors, Liars, anti-Christian men laden with " moral obliquities," 
 unnatural amalgamators, &c. &,c. Christians! verily, the "Right 
 Reverend Bishop Reese s" ideas of Christianity must have been 
 formed in the Slaveholder s Theological Seminary, where all those 
 and their corresponding crimes are justified by the examples of 
 Abraham, and David, and Paul and Onesimus. However, if they 
 are Christians, says the Right Reverend Bishop Reese, they should 
 remember their divine Master, who said I have many things to say 
 to you, but ye cannot bear them yet; "and when his voice was 
 drowned by a public clamor, he went out from among them, and he 
 charged his disciples even when persecuted in one city, to flee to 
 another. Surely they should take the word as it is, and not as they 
 think it ought to be, if they would be followers of him." Preface 
 to Dr. Reese s review. 
 
 There is Christianity for you! Let us put it in the form of a 
 discourse. Suppose the " Right Reverend Bishop Reese" should 
 
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 go to the Five Points and lecture upon the seventh commandment, 
 He begins and reads his text, but the infuriated, "motley assem 
 blage, mulattpes and mongrels," prevent the delivery of his exposi 
 tion in the " most peaceable and effectual manner ;" or he passes 
 by the whole subject, with a gentle rebuke at which his friendly au 
 ditors smile, and winds up by the Lord s words : " I have many 
 things to say to you," about your licentiousness, " but ye cannot 
 bear them yet, ; how many converts would he make ? Therefore 
 he resolves to take the Five Points as they are, not as they ought to 
 be. This course the " Right Reverend Bishop Reese" has the 
 "presumptuous effrontery" to denominate following Christ. 
 
 After calling upon the infuriated populace to involve the rebels, 
 traitors, liars, and incendiaries in still greater calamities, he says, 
 "for their persons we feel nought, but good will." What insanity ! 
 Among the remarkable exhibitions of human weakness and infatu 
 ation, there is none more glaring than the outcry made about for 
 eigners by a certain class of people in the United States. Men 
 who were born British subjects prior to the revolutionary war talk 
 about foreigners, because they were born subjects of Britain, in 
 another part of their dominions. According to the Constitution 
 and the laws of the land, about which Dr. Reese palavers so much, 
 every citizen is an American, whether he was born upon this globe 
 or in the moon, or even whether he is a member of David M. 
 Reese s lovely, but " wild and visionary nation of mulattoes and 
 mongrels." Although all the inhabitants of the United States are 
 either foreigners or their descendants, yet no combustible subject 
 furnishes more potent materials to inflame hateful and turbulent 
 feelings among the "ignorant and depraved." This same "for 
 eigner," according to David M. Reese, is a marvellous nondescript : 
 for it includes all the white people born out of the United States, 
 and all colored citizens engendered within them. Now if we ex 
 patriate four millions of whites, and three millions of " mulattoes 
 and mongrels," we should completely "desolate the hopes, and 
 blast the rising glory of our common country." If this is not " un 
 sophisticated nullification," then there is no mode to destroy our 
 national prosperity and the federal compact. 
 
 Mark this, " malignity and hypocrisy !" When a foreign wild- 
 man, a leader in all the Jamaica riots, belches forth his " inflamma 
 tory harrangues," and his "outrageous recklessness of truth" 
 against liberty, although but just landed, he is an American and a 
 Christian of Dr. Reese s fraternity ; but if American citizens main 
 tain the authentic standard doctrine of the nation, they are " for 
 eign incendiaries, imported demagogues, and lying traitors, both 
 Anti-American and Anti-Christian !" This is the logic and decen 
 cy of that learned and immaculate M. D. the " Right Reverend 
 Bishop Reese." 
 
 The hypocritical malignity of David M. Reese appears in a two 
 fold view ; he criminates the innocent, and exculpates the guilty. 
 Speaking of amalgamation, he thus clears the slave manufacturers. 
 " Profligate sexual intercourse between the races every where meets 
 
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 with the execration of the respectable arid virtuous among the whites, 
 as the despicable form of licentiousness. Page 16. Criminal amal 
 gamation may and does exist among the most degraded of the spe 
 cies." In reply, it may be observed, that amalgamation is almost 
 universal among slaveholders, and so far from being accounted 
 either criminal or disgraceful, it is their boast and the source of 
 their luxury. Witness John Randolph s mulattoes, and Richard 
 M. Johnson s " mongrels;" besides myriads of others who bear the 
 broad superscription of their fathers, too legible to be mistaken. 
 Yet all this " criminal amalgamation," which scarcely any mem 
 bers of the Anti-Slavery Society ever saw, Dr. Reese, with his 
 " foul slander and stereotyped calumny," endeavors to apply to the 
 Northern Puritans, and thus to exonerate " the most degraded of 
 the species from the most despicable form of licentiousness." 
 
 Having belched forth all his "malignity, vulgarity and bitterness," 
 the Right Reverend Bishop Reese thus gilds his nauseating pills. 
 Page 43. " We acquit the originators and promoters of the Socie 
 ty of any motive to inflict untold evils upon their country, and 
 award them all the disinterestedness they deserve. And if it be 
 comes necessary to encounter them, we do this without using car 
 nal weapons, and without feeling any personal rancor or hostility." 
 That is charming ! Bricks, stones, &/c. are not carnal weapons ac 
 cording to Dr. Reese. To represent the most harmless and peacea 
 ble citizens in America as traitors, rebels, authors of a bloody trag 
 edy, liars, hypocrites, and calumniators; and to urge infuriated men 
 " driven to madness," to destroy their churches, and their houses, 
 and to force them to fly from their habitations to preserve their lives, 
 manifest no rancor and hostility ; and to sanction these lawless des 
 peradoes in their desolating work, the " Right Reverend Bishop 
 Reese" basely alleges the example and daringly perverts the words 
 of the Lord the Judge. The persecuted followers of Christ are 
 only doing as the Lord commanded, " when you are persecuted 
 in one city flee to another." But what did Jesus say concerning 
 such persecutors as Bishop Reese, M. D. and his not ignorant and de 
 praved confederates who conspire against Christians, and drive them 
 from the house and city, and make them flee to another? Hear 
 him : Matt. x. 15. " Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tole 
 rable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, 
 than for that city." The ringleaders of the New York riots as well 
 as their subordinate " infuriated populace," unless they repent, will 
 surely experience the indignation of that righteous God, who will 
 inflict the penalties for his outraged glory and his violated laws. 
 
 We now dismiss this " Right Reverend Bishop Reese, and M. D. 
 of New York" to the pity and contempt of every upright and peacea 
 ble citizen ; assuring him that the Anti-Slavery Society truly com 
 passionate his " stereotyped malignity and calumny," detest his 
 Judas-like character; abhor his " moral obliquities ;" and sincere 
 ly pray O Lord! whenthou shalt make inquisition for blood, lay 
 not the sin of this brief review to his charge ! 
 
iOAN DEPT 
 
 JAN 8 1959 
 
 .General Li 
 
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