Speech of Rev. Wm. H. Brisbane lately a slaveholder in South Carolina; containing an account of the change in his views on the subject of slavery.

              effort to raise from the dust the poor slave whose rights he has so long been trampling beneath his feet. God docs not require impossibilities, but he does require in full according to that which a man hath.  And let no man console himself with the hope that because the laws of this State sustain oppression, he is not individually responsible for tho support of those laws. In this country we are republicans, and not in the condition of those Christians who themselves being subject to the Roman powers, had no power to control the civil institutions of tho Roman Empire. Every free citizen here is a part of tho sovereignty of his State and his influence and his vote help to make and to repeal laws. And let Christians in the Southern States exert that influence against slavery which they now use in its favor, and the days of slavery are numbered. And that they be brought to use this influence, let