"Let us declare through the public journals of our country, that the question of slavery is not and shall not be open to discussion; that the system is too deep-rooted among us, and must remain for ever; that the very moment any private individual attempts to lecture us upon its evils and immorality, and the necessity of putting means in operation to secure us from them, in the same moment his tongue shall be cut out and cast upon the dunghill."--_Columbia (S.C.) Telescope._ This, it will be noticed, is a threat addressed, not to the Northern abolitionists, but to _you_, fellow-citizens, to the great majority of the white inhabitants of the South; and _you_ are warned not to express _an opinion_ offensive to your aristocracy. "AWFUL BUT JUST PUNISHMENT.--We learn, by the arrival of the steamboat Kentucky last evening from Richmond, that Robinson, the Englishman mentioned in the _Beacon_ of Saturday, as being in the vicinity of Lynchburg, was taken about fifteen miles from that town, and HANGED on the spot, for exciting the slaves to insurrection."--_Norfolk (Va.) Beacon, 10th August, 1835._ "We can assure the Bostonians, one and all, who have embarked in the nefarious scheme of abolishing slavery at the South, that lashes will hereafter be spared the backs of their emissaries. Let them send out their men to Louisiana; they will never return to tell their sufferings, but they shall expiate the crime of interfering with our domestic institutions, by being BURNED AT THE STAKE."--_New-Orleans True American._ "Abolition editors in slave States will not dare to avow their opinions. It would be instant DEATH to them."--_Missouri Argus._ Here, again, is a threat directed against any of _you_, who may happen to have the command of types and printer's ink. Now, we ask what must be the state of society, where the public journals thus justify and stimulate the public thirst for blood? The very idea of _trial_ is scouted, and the mob, or rather the slaveholders themselves, are acknowledged to be the arbiters of life and death. The question we put to you as to the _state of society_, has been already answered by the official declarations of the Governors of Kentucky and Alabama, and of Judge Lansuque, of New Orleans; as well as by the extracts we have given you from some of the southern journals, relative to the frequency of murders among them. We could farther answer it, by filling sheets with accounts of fearful atrocities. But we purposely refrain from referring to assassinations and private crimes; for such, as already remarked, occur in a greater or less degree in every community, and do not necessarily form a test of the standard of morals. But we ask your attention to a test which cannot be questioned. We will present for your consideration a series of atrocities, perpetrated, not by individuals in secret, but in open day by the _slaveholding populace_.