“I have just had assigned to me, by the Executive Committee of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society, as my field of labor for several months to come, Niagara, Erie, Chetauque, and Cataraugus Counties. The first object to which I am bending all my energies, is the holding of County meetings _before the coming election, with a view especially of preparing and exciting Abolitionists to carry their principles to the polls, and wield all their_ POLITICAL, _as well as moral and religious power_ for the redemption, &c. ... Can you not create a _tremendous reaction_ at this time, &c.? ... The only way in which we can move the proslavery and dough-faced politicians, is by showing them our _political strength_, &c.... Now, will you call together your Executive Committee, and fix on a time and place for a Convention? Let me know immediately, and write letters all over the County,--_have notices given out in the_ CHURCHES, &c. ... and have town Abolition Meetings held before the County Convention. “Yours for the crushed slave, “T. M. BLAKESLEY.” These extracts may serve to indicate the zeal and activity of the Secretaries and numerous Agents of this society, _clerical_ and other, previous to the New York elections, and the modes adopted to secure their ends. The interrogation of “candidates for the National and State Legislatures,” and for other civil and political stations, as resolved upon and recommended by the parent Society, has been scrupulously carried out. The correspondence between Messrs. Seward and Bradish on the one side, and the official organs of the Society on the other, while these two gentlemen stood before the people of the State of New York as candidates, the first for Governor, and the second for Lieutenant Governor, has been laid before the public--all tending to the same point. Not being exactly satisfied with the result of the election in New York, so far as it demonstrated the influence of the Anti-Slavery Society, it has been suggested by Gerritt Smith, Esq., who seems to be a sort of Dictator General in these matters, that the Abolition societies should undergo a new organization, with a view to the expurgation of the baser and unsound materials, by requiring the despotic test of binding the conscience in the use of the elective franchise. How this will go down, we are unable to say; though it seems to us to be carrying matters with a high hand. Doubtless, the business, in one form or another, will go ahead, in despite of the imprudence of individuals, until the people of this country can be made to see the real character and tendency of the movement. Suffice it to say, as is sufficiently evident, that the American Anti-Slavery Society is now a _grand political organization_, aiming, by the use of political agencies and powers, at a radical and