Whatever may be the guilt of the South, the North is still more responsible for the existence, growth and extension of Slavery. In her hand has been the destiny of the Republic from the beginning. She could have emancipated every slave, long ere this, had she been upright in heart and free in spirit. She has given respectability, security, and the means of sustenance and attack to her deadliest foe. She has educated the whole country, and particularly the Southern portion of it, secularly, theologically religiously; and the result is, three millions and a half of slaves, increasing at the appalling rate of one hundred thousand a year, three hundred a day, and one every five minutes--the utter corruption of public sentiment, and general skepticism as to the rights of man--the inauguration of Mammon in the place of the living God--the loss of all self-respect, all manhood, all sense of shame, all regard for justice--the Book styled holy, and claimed to be divinely inspired, everywhere expounded and enforced in extenuation or defence of slaveholding, and against the Anti-Slavery movement--colour-phobia infecting the life-blood of the people--political profligacy unparalleled--the religious and the secular press generally hostile to Abolitionism as either infidel or anarchical in its spirit and purpose--the great mass of the churches with as little vitality as a grave-yard--the pulpits, with rare exceptions, filled with men as careful to consult the popular will as though there were no higher law--synods, presbyteries, general conferences, general assemblies, buttressing the slave power--the Government openly pro-slavery, and the National District the head-quarters of slave speculators--fifteen Slave States--and now, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the consecration of five hundred thousand square miles of free territory forever to the service of the Slave Power!