excitement,--to utter our abiding testimony, now dearer than
ever to our hearts, not in the language of passion, but firmly
and decidedly.

"Our readers will gather from the statements made in the
different extracts in our paper, and especially from the Address
of the Executive Committee of the State Anti-Slavery Society,
the leading facts of the outrage. Of the course pursued by the
civil authorities, we leave the community to judge. Our own
reliance for protection has been upon that Providence whose
mercy is over all,--in the justice of our cause, and in our
conscious innocence of heart and integrity of purpose. We
rejoice, and in so doing, the abolitionists of Pennsylvania
unite with us, that human life was not sacrificed in defence of
our Hall, our persons, and our property. We know, indeed, that
had the attack been made upon the United States Bank, or any
similar institution in this city, the civil authorities would
have met its fury, not as now, with a speech only, but with
loaded firelocks and fixed bayonets. We know, it is true, that
the mob were in a great measure left free to work their
mischievous will upon us. But if those in authority have, _upon
their own principles_, treated us with neglect in the hour of
our peril, upon them let the responsibility rest. We have thus
far survived the onset. Under God, for to him alone are we
indebted for protection, we are still left to bear our testimony
to the truth. Our consciences are in this matter void of
offence. In cheerful serenity of spirit, and not in the tone of
menace or boasting, we declare our faith in the principles of
emancipation unfaltering--our zeal undiminished--our
determination to persevere unaltered. Our confidence in the