Grimke Weld, and their sister, Sarah Grimke, who reside on a small farm, a few miles from Newark.  To the great majority of my readers these names need no introduction; yet, for the benefit of the few, I will briefly allude to their past history.  When the American Anti-Slavery Society was formed, in 1833, Theodore D. Weld was at the Lane Seminary, near Cincinnati, Ohio.  He was unable to attend on that occasion, but wrote a letter, declaring his entire sympathy with its object.  Soon after, through the influence and exertions of himself and Henry B. Stanton, a large majority of the students at Lane Seminary, comprising several slave-holders and sons of slave-holders, became members of an Anti-Slavery Society.  The Faculty opposed the formation of this society, and finally expelled its members from the seminary.  For two or three years after, Theodore Weld was engaged in anti-slavery effort, principally in the States of Ohio and New York.  His voice failed at last, and for several years he was unable to address a public assembly.  Angelina Grimke Weld, and her sister, Sarah Grimke, were natives of South Carolina, the daughters of a distinguished Judge of that State; for several years they resided in Philadelphia.  Having long felt a deep interest in the condition of the slaves, in the year 1837 they, in accordance with what they believed to be a sense of religious duty, visited New York and New England, to plead the cause of those, with whose sorrows, degradation, and cruel sufferings, they had been familiar in their native State.  They are evidently women of superior endowments, kind-hearted and energetic, and still retain something of the warmth and fervor of character peculiar to the South.

Few, even of the well informed abolitionists of England, have an adequate idea of the extent, variety, and excellence of the anti-slavery literature of the United States, or of the amount of intellectual power which has been willingly consecrated to this service.  Of the cause itself, with all its exigencies, we may adopt, in a yet more limited sense, the sentiment of the Christian poet, on the transient nature of all sublunary things,

  “These, therefore, are occasional, and pass.”

The time approaches when the shackles of the slave will fall off—­when his suffering and despairing cry will be no more heard.  Slavery itself is a temporary exigency; but its removal has called, and will yet call forth, works bearing the impress of intellectual supremacy, which will be embodied in the permanent literature of the age, and will contribute to raise the character, and to extend the reputation, of that literature.  The names of Channing, Jay, Child, Green, and Pierpont, are already their own passport to fame.  Other names might be mentioned; but, one instance excepted, selection might be invidious.  That exception is Theodore D. Weld, whose palm of superiority few would be disposed to contest.  His principal works are, “The Bible against Slavery;” “Power of Congress over Slavery in the District of Columbia;” and “Slavery as it is.”