We have no candidates to recommend to your favor--we ask not your support for any political party; but we do ask you to give your suffrages hereafter only to such men as you have reason to believe will not sacrifice your rights, and their own obligations, and the claims of mercy and the commands of God, to an iniquitous and mercenary COMPACT. If we cannot have northern Presidents and other officers of the general government except in exchange for freedom of conscience, of speech, of the press and of legislation, then let all the appointments at Washington be given to the South. If slaveholders will not trade with us, unless we consent to be slaves ourselves, then let us leave their money, and their sugar, and their cotton, to perish with them. Fellow countrymen! we wish, we recommend no action whatever, inconsistent with the laws and constitutions of our country, or the precepts of our common religion, but we beseech you to join with us in resolving, that while we will respect the rights of others, we will at every hazard maintain our own. _In behalf of the American Anti-Slavery Society._ ARTHUR TAPPAN, \ WM. JAY, \ JNO. RANKIN, \ LEWIS TAPPAN, \ S.S. JOCELYN, \ S.E. CORNISH, | _Executive Committee_. JOSHUA LEAVITT, / ABRAHAM L. COX, / AMOS A. PHELPS, / LA ROY SUNDERLAND, / THEO. S. WRIGHT, / ELIZUR WRIGHT, JR. / * * * * * Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, corner of Spruce and Nassau Streets. THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER. VOL. I. SEPTEMBER 1836. No. 2. APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF THE SOUTH, BY A.E. GRIMKÉ. "Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not within thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place: but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this. And Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer:--and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and _if I perish, I perish._" Esther IV. 13-16. RESPECTED FRIENDS,