within the reach of the people. At the same time the annu al savings which reformed labor will realize from its disuse of alcohol and tobacco, from its abandonment of circuses, horseraces, gambling halls and nocturnal haunts, and also from a worthy repudiation of expensive style in slavish imitation of "the upper crust" will constitute a fund sufficient for all educational purposes, sufficient to procure a substantial family library, and to furnish the fireside with the best agricultu ral, mechanical, literary, political, moral and religious periodicals of the day. Mechanic's Institutes, Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, and courses of scientific and practical lectures will not as now be confined to the cities and chief centres of learning. The industrial interests will demand and secure their establishment throughout the country.

Again, labor being free, enlightened and honored, we shall cease to see such a rush of talent and enterprise into the professions, into trade and speculation, into the army and navy. Our staid old farmers will not have such occasion to complain that they have nourished and brought up sons, who in spite of substantial inducements, have broken away from them, one after another, to seek their fortunes in the remote city or adjacent town, where in hope of future preferment they submit to be bar-tenders, store-sweeps, hangers on at the county court-houses, party politicians, or petty office-seekers. The over-crowded professions will be relieved. The marts of business, now thronged with sellers, will be thronged with buyers. The bowling grounds, nine-pin alleys, faro tables, billiard saloons and other resorts of profligate idleness will be forsaken. The towns will give back the exhausting conscriptions of youth which they have been so long drawing from the country. Labor will be justified of her children!

Again, parents will no more be doomed, by the decree of infatuated customs to wear out their own strength in accumu lating fortunes for their children, whereby they may be placed above the necessity of labor. Few things have caused more evil than this senseless, slavish practice. It has multiplied sots, it has filled our states' prisons with precocious felons, it has given a premium to idleness, it has pampered the spirit of caste, it has been labor's seal and signature to its own degradation. And in what has this practice originated? Not in the fact that labor is toilsome, but in the fact that it is disreputable, unfashionable.

Again, Labor will no longer employ its energies in fabricating and furbishing the weapons of war-only to see them

belch ruin amid the abodes which its hands have reared, and desolation over plains which its hands have tilled. War cannot subsist without the. co-operation of labor: this has been well understood. It must now be understood that labor cannot thrive without the abolition of war! Even now labor stands waiting impatient for the promised era, when the sword and the spear shall be laid upon his anvil-and with a right good heart and a strong right arm will he beat them into the ploughshare and the pruning hook. Labor thenceforth will be clothed with the authority of Commander in Chief of all forces "raised or to be raised"-and with such a host as never echoed the shout of battle, will labor wage such a war as has never illuminated with its records the page of history; it will be a war of extermination upon all forests, a war of conquest over all stone-quarries, coal and ore mines, a war of desolation upon all mountains which intercept the march of rail-roads from the Atlantic to the Pacific, a war of subjugation of soil, water, steam and lightning to the uses of mankind.

Lastly, labor enfranchised, enlightened and respected, will give to an admiring world new proofs and prodigies of its gigantic power. The vessel that labors in the gale, or welters in the surgeless calm, acknowledges the favoring breeze with twanging cordage and bellying sails, and as she darts ahead dashing from her prow the sparkling waves, and kindling a waste of fire in her wake, we exclaim, behold the wondrous difference between adverse and friendly winds. Labor has weathered a thousand storms, and weltered in a thousand calms of cold neglect-now give it free winds and approving smiles, and if it does not set old Ocean on fire, it will only be because it needs his future services. But figures and facetiousness aside, labor must be indefinitely invigorated and stimulated by the proposed improvement in its condition, and the schemes which it will project and execute will be ona proportionably magnificent scale.

The subjective efficiency of labor depends, as we have shown in a former part of this discussion, not so much upon physical force, as upon mental energy. We would now add that its objective efficiency, as exhibited in what it really accomplishes, will depend not so much upon its actual mental energy as upon the degree of it, which is, for the time being, in exercise, and this will be in part determined by the surrounding influences, whether they are favorable or unfavorable, whether they stimulate or depress.

Under disheartening influences, a large amount of energy is sacrificed by being as it were paralyzed, another share is withdrawn from direct service to combat the circumstances; and what remains for the appropriate objects of labor must be small compared with the aggregate. The last Governor of Jamaica prior to the abolition of Slavery in the West Indies, in his farewell Address to the Colonial Assembly, who were almost in arms against the measure, made this memora ble declaration, "Not one tithe of the resources of this Island have ever yet been developed under the influence of slavery, and it is reserved for freedom to develop the whole." It would be difficult to say just what proportion of the resour ces of labor have been yet developed; but we have no hesita tion in saying that it is reserved for labor fully emancipated to astonish the world with the grandeur of its enterprises and the splendor of its achievements.

All things are conspiring to usher in a new Age. Light and Love are wedding, Liberty and Labor are wedding, Despotisms are waning, Slavery is dying, War is cutting its last antics. The true idea of Christianity as a union of piety and philanthropy has been promulged, the doctrine of the Human Brotherhood has been proclaimed, the policy of Free Trade is beginning to prevail. What does all this betoken? This simultaneous decadence of old principles, and this upspringing about us of new and potent elements? Lo, these be the dawnings of a new Age! An Age whose presiding genii shall be LIGHT AND LOVE, LIBERTY AND LABOR.

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Notices of New Works.

Review of Lysander Spooner on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery. By WENDELL PHILIPS. pp. 93.

This pamphlet is intended as a refutation of the arguments of Mr. Spooner. Its authorship and gentlemanly tone entitle it to a candid perusal. We do not believe that the author has invalidated the conclusions at which Mr. Spooner has arrived. But let each one read and judge for himself. An article on the subject of both these essays may appear in some future number of this Review.

Slavery condemned by Christianity By ANDREW THOMSON, D.D. Edinburgh. pp. 138.

The lamented author of this valuable little volume is no longer living. But "being dead he yet speaketh." We wish all the ministers in America would read this book, and catch its noble and manly spirit. Were the pulpits of this country to thunder forth such sentiments as these, slavery in our land would soon totter to its fall.

Grosvenor's Review of Fuller and Wayland's Correspondence on Slavery.

In the "Correspondence" of which the above is a Review, the half-hearted defence of man's inalienable rights to liberty, put forth by Dr. Wayland, and the assurance-almost insolence-only half hidden beneath the cloak of professed politeness, betrayed by Dr. Fuller, could hardly fail of striking the attention of most reflective readers. In the "Review" both are subjected to severe scrutiny. Good will be effected by it. We wish its tone were more elevated, but as it is, we deem it more than equal in truth and vigor to the work which called it forth.

Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke among the Slaveholders of Kentucky. pp. 144.

A truthful story of suffering, letting the light down into the dungeons of oppression. None who buy and read it will probably regret their purchase.

Life, Travels, and Opinims of Benjamin Lundy. Philadel phia, 1847.

The philanthropist never works in vain. He may live unknown or despised; he may labor in gloom and die in want and distress. But if he has been true to himself and to his race, some one will rear his monument and embalm his memory. And what is of more consequence than memory or monuments, his principles will be the watchword of myriads, and the realization of his plans the struggle and glory of a whole generation. The life of Lundy proves this. A poor, obscure, and comparatively unlearned man, he was the father of the present anti-slavery movement in the U. S. He traversed the country, lectured, conversed, and published his paper at different times as his means permitted. He visited Hayti and Texas in the prosecution of his work. Time, money, reputation, family joys, and at last life, were freely sacrificed, almost without the thought that they were sacrifices, in the cause of the slave The "Life" sets forth substantially in his own language, these labors and perils. We heartily commend its perusal to all who take an interest in the liberation of our enslaved brethren.

Remonstrance against the course pursued by the "Evangelical Alliance on the subject of American Slavery, by the Executive Committee of the American and For. Anti-Slavery Society.

We are glad to see this able and timely protest in pamphlet form. Published originally in the news papers, it might be glanced at and forgotten as a mere trifle. But it is the voice of thousands who love Christianity, and who for that very reason detest its perversions and counterfeits.

Quite a number of other new anti-slavery publications have been laid on our table. Among the rest are Nos. 1 and 2 of the tracts published by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery "Shall we give the Bible to the slave?"Hague's Review of Wayland and Fuller-Eulogium on Clarkson-Picture of Slavery for the young-Facts for the People. by Loring Moody-Annual Report of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, May, 1847-Letter to Bishop Ives of North Carolina, by a Protestant Episcopalian.

We rejoice in the appearance of these works. They are evidence that the public mind is awakening to the subject of slavery. When the nation is once awake, we have unfalter ing hope that emancipation will be achieved.