That our plan for the abolition of slavery, is the best that can be devised, we have not the vanity to contend; but that it is a good one, and will do to act upon until a better shall have been suggested, we do firmly and conscientiously believe. Though but little skilled in the delicate art of surgery, we have pretty thoroughly probed slavery, the frightful tumor on the body politic, and have, we think, ascertained the precise remedies requisite for a speedy and perfect cure. Possibly the less ardent friends of freedom may object to our prescription, on the ground that some of its ingredients are too griping, and that it will cost the patient a deal of most excruciating pain. But let them remember that the patient is exceedingly refractory, that the case is a desperate one, and that drastic remedies are indispensably necessary. When they shall have invented milder yet equally efficacious ones, it will be time enough to discontinue the use of ours--then no one will be readier than we to discard the infallible strong recipe for the infallible mild. Not at the persecution of a few thousand slaveholders, but at the restitution of natural rights and prerogatives to several millions of non-slaveholders, do we aim. Inscribed on the banner, which we herewith unfurl to the world, with the full and fixed determination to stand by it or die by it, unless one of more virtuous efficacy shall be presented, are the mottoes which, in substance, embody the principles, as we conceive, that should govern us in our patriotic warfare against the most subtle and insidious foe that ever menaced the inalienable rights and liberties and dearest interests of America: 1st. Thorough Organization and Independent Political Action on the part of the Non-Slaveholding whites of the South. 2nd. Ineligibility of Slaveholders--Never another vote to the Trafficker in Human Flesh. 3rd. No Co-operation with Slaveholders in Politics--No Fellowship with them in Religion--No Affiliation with them in Society. 4th. No Patronage to Slaveholding Merchants--No Guestship in Slave-waiting Hotels--No Fees to Slaveholding Lawyers--No Employment of Slaveholding Physicians--No Audience to Slaveholding Parsons. 5th. No Recognition of Pro-slavery Men, except as Ruffians, Outlaws, and Criminals. 6th. Abrupt Discontinuance of Subscription to Pro-slavery Newspapers. 7th. The Greatest Possible Encouragement to Free White Labor. 8. No more Hiring of Slaves by Non-slaveholders. 9th. Immediate Death to Slavery, or if not immediate, unqualified Proscription of its Advocates during the Period of its Existence.