released by the interposition of Captain SMALL, who advanced out of slender means the sum necessary for his discharge. Sufficient funds for this purpose, and for all the expenses of his trial, had been raised in Massachusetts, but being imprudently committed to dishonest hands, they never were applied to their proper use. Captain WALKER arrived in Massachusetts towards the end of July, and addressed public meetings in many towns. He also prepared a narrative of his experiences, which was published at an early period, and met with an extensive sale. The personal presence of this excellent man, and the revelations of his book, were among the most efficient of the Anti-Slavery instrumentalities of the last year.

NORTHERN PRISONERS AT THE SOUTH.

The fortunate deliverance and safe return of Captain WALKER, call forcibly to remembrance the unhappy case of those who are yet wearing out their lives of captivity in Southern penitentiaries for the same humane offence. Messrs. BURR and THOMPSON are still confined in the penitentiary of Missouri, under the sentence passed upon them several years ago. Mr. WORK, their companion in suffering, has been released and restored to his family, in consequence of interest made in his behalf with the Executive of the State. Mr. TORREY remains a prisoner in the penitentiary at Baltimore, and from the latest accounts of his condition, he seems to have but small hopes of deliverance, unless it be by the hand of death. Mr. FAIRBANKS's trial, which had not occurred at the time of our last Report, took place on the 15th of February. He retracted his first plea of "not guilty," and, if the testimony of the Kentucky newspapers is to be believed, endeavored to procure a lenient sentence, by expressing his contrition for his offence, and his conviction that the ef

forts of the abolitionists had been of mischievous effect. Notwithstanding these submissions, he received the severe sentence of fifteen years' imprisonment. Miss WEBSTER received a speedy pardon, and since her return home has published a narrative in which she endeavors to prove that it was no more than she deserved, for her innocence of the humanity laid to her charge. We have seen statements of other recent cases of arrest for this act in the South; but the accounts are not sufficiently authentic to require recapitulation at this time. An occurrence has taken place in Ohio which has caused a strong sensation there. Some months since a party of Virginians from Parkersburgh, crossed to the opposite bank of the Ohio and arrested three individuals charged with assisting in the escape of slaves. They were committed to gaol, tried and convicted, and their sentence suspended to await the decision of the highest judicature, on the point whether the jurisdiction of Virginia extended to the opposite shore of the Ohio, or ceased on her own! Great excitement has prevailed in that region of Ohio. The parties engaged in the arrest have been indicted, and their delivery for trial demanded of the Governor of Virginia, it is needless to add, in vain. It can hardly be believed that the people of Ohio will submit to this insult to their sovereignty; and preparations have been made at Parkersburgh, in apprehension of an attack on the town with a view to the rescue of the prisoners.

The very fact of these attempts for the deliverance of Slaves, proves the great change which has taken place in the popular mind, as to their right to freedom, since the days when not a voice was uplifted, nor a hand stretched forth, to help them. This change we may fairly claim as the result of the Anti-Slavery movement. If that movement never accomplishes any thing else, it has already been the means of the deliverance of thousands from the house of bondage, by opening a way for their escape, and raising up willing friends to assist them. And the very violences and outrages, which

this state of things produces in the South, may well prove to be the means of opening the eyes of the North to the incompatibility of the existence of their own rights with a political union founded on the denial of their equal rights to others.

FIRST OF AUGUST.

This high feast-day of freedom was again celebrated with all due joyfulness and gratitude by the Abolitionists of Massachusetts. Meetings were held at convenient points in various parts of the State, and the number of persons who gathered together to hear the happiness of the British freedmen contrasted with the misery of our Slaves, was probably never exceeded on any former Anniversary. Pic-nics were held in Waltham, Dedham, Danvers, Leicester, Duxbury, Fall River and Westminster, and doubtless in other places. The voice of eloqnence and of song resounded through the natural temples in which they were held, and cheered the hearts and strengthened the spirits of those who thronged them from the fields of Anti-Slavery warfare, as they told that Emancipation, under a vertical sun, is not a dream, but a reality; no longer prophecy, but already history.

The colored citizens of Boston, also, solemnised the day by a procession, with appropriate banners, addresses at the Tremont Temple, and a Soiree in the evening.

THE WEST.

The chief scene of the Anti-Slavery operations of the year was the great West, where a great and good work was ef fected, under the auspices of the American Society. Our eloquent and unwearied friends, STEPHEN S. FOSTER, ABBY KELLEY, ELIZABETH JANE HITCHCOCK, BENJAMIN S. JONES,

and others, have preached the gospel of no fellowship with the works of darkness, the doctrine of NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS, over a wide extent of country, and have met with a degree of success surpassing our most sanguine hopes. Many have received the truths that they have uttered in their ears, and have come out from the churches and the parties to which they formerly belonged. One of the most valuable accessions to our ranks of Disunion, among many, was SAMUEL BROOKE, formerly an active member of the Liberty Party, and who is now the General Agent of the American Society for the Western States. Under his efficient direction we anticipate a series of victorious campaigns, until our warfare is crowned with an illustrious victory.

It is impossible for us to trace the prospects of these devoted friends of the Slave, even in a general sketch They will more properly come within the scope of the Report of the Parent Society. All we can say is, that the West was never in a more healthful or hopeful state, as regards the Anti-Slavery cause, and that this happy condition of things is to be mainly attributed to the disinterested labors of the Abolitionists we have mentioned. From their industry and skill in sowing the rich soil which was so well ploughed up by the Hundred Conventions of 1843, we confidently expect a glorious harvest.

Among the other results of their toils, one that promises extensive and permanent usefulness, is the establishment of a weekly paper, as the organ of the Ohio American Anti-Slavery Society. This paper is now published at Salem, Ohio, and is conducted by Miss HITCHCOCK and Mr. JONES. In their faithful hands we may be sure that "THE BUGLE" will give no uncertain sound, but that its clear tones will resound over the prairies of the West, summoning the people to the battle of liberty, and giving the signal for its bloodless onset on the hosts of Slavery.

THE ANTI-SLAVERY PRESS.

There has been no change during the year in the management or in the character of the Anti-Slavery presses, which form so essential a part of our machinery.

THE LIBERATOR still keeps the love and confidence of the Abolitionists, by the same fearless assertion of the highest Anti-Slavery principle, and the same resolute demand for absolute right, untainted by a selfish expediency, which originally obtained them. The enemies of the cause instinctively recognise the LIBERATOR as the oracle, and its editor as the incarnation, of the most dangerous Anti-Slavery, and they honor both with a hatred proportionably deep and bitter. While they shall continue to deserve this pregnant testimony to their thorough fidelity, let them not fail to receive the answering witness of a cordial and ample support from those who accept their principles and honor their spirit.

The NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD remains in the hands of the same Committee of Editorship that conducted it a year ago; and the burden of labor and responsibility still rests, as it did then, upon Mr. GAY, to whose disinterested and able service we have borne our testimony in another place.

The HERALD OF FREEDOM continues to be published by the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society, and is still in the editorial hands of PARKER PILLSBURY, who has given himself, his long experience and his eminent talents, to the task, with a singleness of heart and an unselfishness of spirit above all praise. The Abolitionists of New Hampshire and of the country are deeply indebted to JACOB H. ELA, the printer of the HERALD, for a generous devotion of himself, his time and his means to its' support, to which we probably owe its continued existence. It is to be hoped that the burden he has