There are several thousand Southerners now in the city, and I am afraid there are not seven hundred among them who have the slightest fear of God before their eyes.

Mr.Wright [Elizur] was yesterday barricading his doors and windows with strong bars and planks an inch thick.

Violence in some form seems to be generally expected." Great meetings to put the Abolitionists down afforded vents during this memorable year to the pent-up excitement of the free States.

New York had had its great meeting, and had put the Abolitionists down with pro-slavery resolutions and torrents of pro-slavery eloquence.

Boston, too, had to have her great meeting and her cataracts of pro-slavery oratory to reassure the South of the sympathy and support of "the great body of the people of the Northern States." The toils seemed everywhere closing around the Abolitionists.