———1 ' ———— ———— • w 306 T HELI B B R -A, T O E, . DECEMBER 25. C j of the tree, are also conservative. They membered the movement was in its incipiency. The upon Mr. Roberts Vaux, an aged and highly respected Samuel J. May.—There be root were others who were the children of colored persons, and such others as fore Mr. Tappan But jjavBeriah Green. A better man could not have as active members of the Convention; and A. BATTLES. I desire of the United States, who was her principal persecu- Nevertheless, I saw that it was Charles Burleigh, remember the piece: been selected. Though of plain exterior and unim- that th^y should be remembered as having and taken an tor, to try that question from the lowest Court in Can- I told him what I wanted. He engaged to be with posing presence, Mr. Green was a man of learning and active and important part with us. " Championof those who groan beneath terbury, to the highest Court in the United States. me the next Monday morning, and he was; lie did band, superior ability; in every way above the average of Mary Oppression's iron Grew.—Why were their names not signed 1 He said tauntingly to me, V Ho ! ho ! Do you know good service in the cause. He wrote himself into ®he z§xbtKHtttx. In view of penury, hate and death, so called men of eminence. a Mr. May. what you undertake ? " " Perhaps reputation that has been, I believe, increasing I see thee fearless stand. Mr. Tappan, who sat at his right, Because we had no conception of the I don't," was my ever * was a jaunty, reply. No Union with SlaveholdersI ####** rights of women. Because it would then have been "Itwill cost you money—a vast deal of mon- since, as a writer and as a speaker. man-of-tlie-world looking person; well dressed and " " love thee with a brother's love ; thought an impropriety, ey." It may," said I. I had not consulted an in- You see, Mr. President, you tapped rather a full I handsome; with a fine voice and taking appearance. a thought at which we all I feel my pulses thrill laugh now. dividual, excepting only my friend, that most excel- cask. That is a reminiscence I had no thought of BOSTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1863 thy spirit soar above Whittier, who sat at his left, was quite as 25, To mark fine looking, lent man, George The cloud of human ill." though in a Benson, the father of Mrs. Garrison. bringing up. But now, to come back to the Conven- different way. He wore a dark frock coat Mr. Garrison.—To show the spirit which pre- " Said I, So sure am I that the aim of this movement tion, where you wanted me to begin. I said to my THIRD DECADE OF THE Lewis Tappan arose and delivered a with standing collar, which, with his thin hair, dark vailed in that Convention, of unusual liberality cer- After the poem, and will be justly appreciated by philanthropists through- brother Johnson, while brother McKim was speaking, sometimes flashing eyes, and black tainly for those times, let me read two resolutions AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. glowing eulogy upon Mr. Garrison. He related two whiskers—not out our country, that large, but in therein adopted : I shall have all the money I that I thought his introduction was a little too long; very striking anecdotes, which, though 1 remember noticeable those unhirsute days gave want." Henry I confess, however, to a little trembling after mine has been longer, so he must forgive me. And [PhonographicallyReported by M. Parkuurst.] them distinctly, I shall not, in this presence, repeat. him, to my then unpractised eye, quite as much of a Resolved, That the cause of Abolition eminently de- a time, when not an individual offered me a dollar to now I will give you a reminiscence about him. He by saying that it had not been his pur- serves the countenance and support of American He concluded military as a Quaker aspect. His broad, square fore- sustain me in that trial. came all the way from Andover to the Convention— SPEECH OF J. MILLER McKIM. pose to eulogize Mr. Garrison ; that what he said was head, and well cut features, aided 'by his incipient women, inasmuch as one million of their colored sis- ters are pining in abject servitude—as their example A few days brought me a letter from Arthur Tap- I comply cheerfully with your request, Mr. Chair- said in no spirit of panegyric, but as a matter of fidel- reputation as a poet, made him quite a noticeable fea- and influence operate Mr. McKim—No,I came from Carlisle ; I was only measurably as laws to society pan.The story had got into the newspapers, and was man, though the task it assigns me is not in ail respects ity to truth and to the cause. Mr. Garrison had been ture in the Convention. —and as the exertions*of the females of Great Brit- six weeks at Andover. ain have been noised abroad. Arthur Tappan I had known in my an easy one. To look back upon the origin of this So- struck at as a representative of the cause. It was our These were the officers of the meeting; the rest signally instrumental in liberating eight Mr, May—At any rate, he was a simon pure, blue hundred thousand slaves in the Colonies. childhood, but had not seen him for many years. He ciety, and run the eye down its course to the present duty, he said, to repel these assaults ; to vindicate our were all upon a dead level of equality. There were Presbyterian, I suppose. But his heart was moved in Resolved, That we hail the establishment of Ladies' had then become a very wealthy man, wielding, it was time, and then submit the -reminiscences suggested ; faithful pioneer from the calumnies and misrepresen- no distinctionstolerated among the members. At an Anti-Slavery Societies as the cause of humanity, and that turned the sourest of the harbinger of a brighter said, something like $1,700,000. It was a very cor- " early stage of day, and that we feel great and to do it all in the space of a single short speech, is tations of the enemy, and to stand by him through the proceedings, it was determined that confidence in the efficiency " his dogmas to sweet. After we had been in session of their exertions ; dial letter, saying in substance, I have heard of a task requiring powers of condensation beyond my evil report and through good report." no titles should be given or received; no Honorables, and that those ladies who have two days together, and were coming out of the Con- promptly come forth in this great work are deserving what you have undertaken ; I heartily approve of it. pretensions. This was the first specimen I had had Doctors, or Esquires. Men were to be recognized vention evening, of what has as the thanks of those who are ready to perish. If I am not mistaken, you have not the means to spare in the I felt a grip on my arm, and There is another difficulty about it. To give an since been called " mutual admiration." And here let men, and all factitiousdistinctions discarded. It was heard brother McKim ask—" Brother May, are you a You remember that in 1840, our then to carry on the trial that you have invoked. I there- " account of a movement with which one's own personal me say that the charge implied a levelling Convention, in friend, Miss " in the use made of this the best sense of that word. Abby Kelley, fore beg you to consider me as your banker, who Unitarian ?" Yes," said I, I am as much of a Uni- was placed on our Business Committee, " history—at least in his own mind—is inseparably iden- phrase is without just foundation. When Abolition- It is impossible, Mr. Chairman, to look hack upon tarian as I am an Abolitionist." Well, I never ex- and the American Anti-Slavery Society was broken will honor all your drafts." (Applause.) I confess, tified, without violating one of the first rules of good ists praise their representative men, it is for the reason those days without noticing that Time, with his re- pected to feeWtowards a Unitarian as I do towards asunder, and almost entirely shipwrecked. But we Mr. President, I could hardly keep on my feet, walk- taste in a speaker, demands a degree of phraseological suggested by Mr. Tappan. It is to defend them against morseless scythe, has been at his inevitable work. you" (laughter). I believe the hearts of all present have got bravely over it; and now there is no ques- ing with $1,700,000 in my bank. But I will not go on skill which but few possess. The word I is perhaps the shafts of pro-slavery malice and calumny. It is Death has thinned our numbers. Some of the best at that meeting were drawn together with an affection tion in any part of our county that is free, in regard with the story, it is very long. I will merely say that the ugliest as well as the shortest in the English lan- from a sacred regard to truth and the interests and members of that Convention have gone to their rest. that can never die out so long as we live. The coun- to the right of woman to speak as freely as man after two years of controversy that cost over $600, guage. It is a word which careful parents teach their Among these was good Thomas Shipley, whose de- tenances of the friends that were there then cheer my honor of the cause; and in no spirit of adulation, " mu- speaks, and to be as freely heard. which was readily paid by Mr. Tappan, the result of children never to use—either in the nominative, pos- tual" or otherwise. parture Whittier has so beautifully commemorated: heart as no other countenances in this world could. objective compulsion. Lucretia Mott.—I deem it but just to state, that that controversy was in favor of Miss Crandall. (Ap- sessive or case—except on And And—if you will allow me still further " They bring back to my recollection that meeting in to digress— Gone to thy Heavenly Father's rest, although plause.) yet it is a word without which I cannot possibly get on I will add that the charge against us of using needless- The flowers of Eden roufld thee blowing, we were not recognized as a part of the Con- the midst of the most malignant opposition. When I vention by signing the Mr. Garrison—Ihappen to have here a ®n the duty you have assigned me. ly hard and denunciatory language is equally without And on thine ear the murmurs blest document, yet every courtesy volume read the Press this morning, speaking so kindly, cor- Of Siloa's waters gently flowing. was shown to us, every from which I will read a paragraph :— But having accepted my part, I accept also its con- foundation. Why, sir, last night, while Mr. Garrison encouragement to speak, or dially, admiringly of Mr. Garrison, I could not help *###**» to ditions. And this I do all the more readily from cer- was speaking, several gentlemen—new converts to the make any suggestions of alterations in the docu- "The Black Law or Connecticut. We ne- thinking of the announcement in the papers on the " 0, loved of thousands ! to thy grave, ment, or any others. I do glected, in our last, to mention that Miss tain advantages likely to accrue from it. "From one cause—left the house because the speaker was not think it occurred to Crandall, for morning of the day that our Convention commenced too Sorrowing of heart, thy brethren bore thee; any a violation of the notorious statute of Connecticut, in learn all," the adage says. The history of one Aboli- tame ! Their hate of slavery and slaveholders, and all The poor man and the rescued slave one of us at Jhat time, that there would be a pro- thirty years ago. We were spoken of singly, some Wept priety in our signing the document. continuing to instruct colored children, had been ar- tionist, howsoever humble, even though it be for a day, that belongs to the system, is so intense, that Mr. Gar- as the broken earth closed o'er thee." In the evening, rested and carried before a Justice of the Peace, by half dozen or more of us, and to each name was ap- at our house, I remember a whom she was is the history, to that extent, of every other Abolition- rison's terms of condemnation were not strong enough Evan Lewis, another of the Philadelphia delegates, conversation with our committed to jail to take her trial at pended some epithet, intended, doubtless, as it was friend Samuel J. May, in the course of which I re- the ensuing court. She was confined in the same ist—and of the cause. There are people here, doubt- to relieve their minds. They are of a class whom the took his departure soon after the holding of the Con- room which was occupied adapted, to awaken the malignant hatred of the com- marked, that we could not expect that by the murderer Watkins less, who are ignorant of the character of Abolitionism speaker sometimes meets, one of whom on a certain oc- an women should during the last days of munity. The Police gave us to understand that they vention. He was able and faithful friend of the be fully recognized in his life." " such assemblages as that, while and Abolitionists. Let us for once, Mr. Chairman, casion represented himself as belonging to the Five cause, and performed his part well. Though dead, he Mr. May—I could not protect us in the evening, and that our meet- the monopoly of the pulpit existed. . It was with diffi- must confess to a little management give them an inside view. Let us lay aside reserve, Nations." He was a gentlemanly, mild looking per- yet speaketh. She who was the partner of his toils ings must be held during the daylight. So we met in dence, I acknowledge, that I ventured to express what about that. Of course, if any one of us had come for- and speak with a freedom which in other circumstan- son—anything but a savage in appearance—and being while he lived, remains to finish the task which they ward and given the morning at 9, and adjourned at sundown. I very had been near to my heart for so many years, for bonds for Miss Crandall, she would ces would hardly be justifiable. asked what he meant by so styling himself, he explain- and father I well remember that my name was announced as the had jointly undertaken ; the mantle of the knew that we were there by not have been incarcerated. But I went, assisted Thirty-one years ago, this was ed by saying, he was sufferance. It was after " witness a student at for giving the rebel slaveholders has in a good measure fallen upon the shoulders of his by my friend Mr. George Benson, Rev. Dr. May of Connecticut, the leader of the amal- " the Convention had gathered on the second day, that diligently around Andover Theological Seminary. While there, a desire, confiscation, emancipation, ruination, extirpation and children. among my gamationists." That title was assigned me in conse- the invitation was sent out. Thomas Whitson came friends, and instructed them that no one which, for more than a year, had consumed him, cul- damnation." Dr. Edwin Atlee, the younger, another Philadel- should give quence of a discussion which I had had in Connecticut to our house with an invitation to women to come bonds. The law was an expost facto one. minated into a purpose. In the depths of his soul and Parson Brownlow, also a new convert to the cause phia member of the Convention, passed early from It was with Andrew T. Judson, which had been reported in there as spectators or as listeners. I felt such a de- enacted by the Legislature of Connecticut after before God he consecrated himself to the work of a —the same that once persecuted the saints—is of this the scene of conflict. Faithful and true to the cause the papers, and in which he thought, in the presence sire that others than those assembled at our own house the school was commence?!. Nevertheless, they pros- missionary among the heathen. What his precise mo- class. He is represented as saying that he is " for giv- while he lived, he left, in his good name, an inheri- of a large assembly, to put me down by asking, " Sir, ' ' should hear, that I wanted to go here and ecuted her under that law, and I received due infor- tives were, it is not necessary here to inquire. That ing the slaveholding rebels Greek fire in this there, and I want to know whether you world, tance of which his children may well be proud, and mation that the trial was to take place. I said, " are willing that yonr they of mixed partaking and hell notify persons to go; but I was asked not to use up Very were a character, not a little fire in the next." which should ever be a stimulus to them in works of well, you let it go daughter should marry a nigger V' Of course, the au- the whole morning in notifying others, for we must try can on if you will." Presently came of the ardor and romance of youth, subsequent reflec- Now, Mr. Chairman, this is not the language nor is well-doing. dience were as silent as possible to hear my answer. and be there ourselves. When I a messenger, informing me that the Judge had found tion has left no room to doubt. it the spirit of the old Abolitionists. The charge of rose to speak, with Said I, " I am not Of the members of the Convention who remain, I her guilty, and that they wanted some one to give willing that my daughter, my only There was another student at the Seminary, using hard and the knowledge that we were there by sufferance, and whose acrimonious language lies not properly shall not speak. Quite a number are here to speak bonds. " Very daughter, should marry any unfortunate man. I re- it would be only a liberty granted that I should at- well, you can give bonds; there are views and feelings were in harmony with my own, and at our door. , for themselves. Among them I may gard the colored men of our country as most be excused for tempt to express myself, enough of you in Canterbury to do it." Then they unfortu- who joined in this vow of self-consecration. His name But to return from my digression : Mr. such was the readiness with Tappan's mentioning the three' who are respectively the Presi- wanted to know if I would not. " nate men ; and therefore I should not be willing that I speech which that freedom was granted, that it inspired me Certainly not," was Daniel E. Jewett. mention him for reasons was interrupted by the announcement that Mr. dent Yice-Presidents of the Pennsylvania Anti- " she should marry one." There was a chuckling in the and with a little more boldness to speak said I; I have something else to do besides giving which will presently be obvious. Garrison and the rest of the Committee were coming on other subjects. audience and a smile of Slavery Society ; James Mott, Robert Purvis, and bonds." Miss Crandall understood what was to triumph on many faces. Said When this Declaration, that has been read to be " I had been at Andover but a short time—less than in with their report. They had prepared a draft of a Thomas Whitson. us I, Stop; I have given you only half the answer, f here to-day, and that we have so often done. I wanted to let the people know how odious two months—when a severe domestic affliction—the Declaration, and it devolved upon Dr. Edwin P. Atlee I saw him delighted to you wish me to say whether I would Mr. Mott, when at the Adelphi building the law was; and if her bonds had been but a cent, rather my daugh- death of my eldest brother—called me away; and I re- to read it. After the reading, followed criticism of its hear, was under consideration, and we were consider- ter should thirty years ago, was in the prime of manhood. He I should not have given them. They marry a man every way adapted to her, the to my home in Carlisle, in this State, where I contents; or rather criticism of ing our principles and our intended measures of ac- came to me a turned some of its phrases; was tall, and as straight as an arrow; his sandy hair " only objection to whom should be his complexion, or tion ; when our friends felt that they were planting second time ; but I said, It is useless ; I shall give had been born and bred. for, as a whole, the paper commended itself at once to untouched by the frosts of time. Thomas should marry a man whose only recommendation Whitson themselves on the truths of Divine no bonds." Presently the report came that the sher- to For two or three years previous to the period now all who heard it. Thomas Shipley, that good man and the prime of hearty Revelation, and on her should be his complexion, was also in life; tall, and progres- iff was approaching the town where the jail of course I should Bay, referred to, the country-—a very considerable portion " the Declaration of our Independence, as an Everlast- was, with faithful friend of the slave, objected to the word man- sive. His full shock of stubborn brown hair showed ing Miss let her * thousand times rather marry the blackest " Rock, it seemed to me, as I heard it read, that the Crandall. Meanwhile I had had the cell, where of it.—had been in a state of high religious excitement. stealer as applied indiscriminately to the slavehold- that he had not yet reached the climax of his vigor. man that you could find." (Applause.) It was because climax would be better to transpose the sentence, and Watkins had been lately confined, nicely cleaned and Everywhere people's attention was directed with un- ers. To this it was replied that the term was an emi- He was stalwart in body and robust in mind, arid of that answer, which went through the papers at the place the Declaration of Independence first, and the whitewashed, and had a comfortable bed put in it, and usual earnestness to the subject of personal religion. nently proper one ; that it described the exact relation ready for a tussle with any opponent. Mr. Purvis time, that I was trumpeted here as the " leader of the truths of Divine Revelation last, as the Everlasting one of Mrs. Garrison's sisters, Miss Anne Benson, Since the days of Whitfield, it was said, there had been between the master and the slave. It was urged that was in the full bloom of opening manhood; ardent, amalgamationists." That is another reminiscence. no excitement equal to it in depth and intensity, but things should be called by Rock; arid I proposed it. I remember one of the consented to go and spend the night with Miss Cran- their right names ; that impetuous, and overflowing with enthusiasm. Yau dall. I gave so full an account, ten years ago, of my re- " younger members, Daniel E. So the Sheriff brought up Miss Crandall, and toward the latter part of 1833 this excitement began to Luther had said he would call a hoe a hoe, and a speech Jewett, turning to see will remember the he made, Mr. Chairman— what woman I found opportunity to whisper to collections of our meeting at the formation of the So- subside. The "revivals," as they were called, which spade a spade." Besides, it was there was there, who knew what the word her, "Are you added, it was a scrip- so exactly like himself. Impassioned, full of " " " " " ciety, that I am afraid I shall repeat invec- transpose meant. afraid ? No," said she, I am trembling lest they myself if I go on followed this period, and which were got tural phrase, " (Laughter.) up by the and the chapter and verse were quoted in tive, bristling with epithets, denouncing that dia- much longer in this strain. I wish I could remember " " It has should n't put me in." (Applause.) machinery of protracted meetings and other appli- which it was used. This mollified been honestly confessed that there was not Then they camc Shipley, bolical and fiendish system of atrocity, American " one of the brothers who rose in the midst of friend to me again, and said, It is only five miles ; if yoit the Con- ances, were, for the most part, mere imitations—sim - though it did not set his mind entirely at rest. At slavery, and that equally rapacious, and, if possible, at that time a conception of the rights of woman. In- vention, and said, in reply to a suggestion deed, women little knew their will get some one to give bonds, I will go and get the for the soft- ulations ; without depth and without earnestness. length, some one suggested that the term influence, or thfe proper " should be re- still more detestable scheme, the infamous Coloniza- Judge." "My ening of some of our measures, Can you draw out With the subsidence of this religious exercise tff their own rights. I remember that it was dear friend," said I, "if the Judge excitement in tained, but that it should be preceded by the words, tion Society." Leviathan with a hook, or the great sea-serpent with a urged upon us, immediately after that was here, and the bonds were a cent, I should not give the country, the feelings of the sincere and enlighten- "according to Scripture." This met the difficulty, adjournments Convention, pin-hook V Of At that Convention there were no for to form them, nor would anybody else if I could prevent course, that settled the question ! ed who had shared in it began to take a new turn. and the paper was a Female Anti-Slavery Society ; and at that it. If amended so as to read: "Every dinner. We sat daily from ten o'clock A. M. till dark, you want to avert But I will not detain you longer. I will only set was called time I had no idea of the meaning of preambles and the imprisonment, you have only to Their attention away from themselves to American citizen who holds a human being in involun- without recess. We had meat to eat which those who myself right on the Woman question. When I first resolutions and votings. Women had never been in give bonds yourselves. Let A. T. Judson, or some- the condition of others. They had made sufficient tary bondage as his property, is, according to Scripture, have never been "caught up into the third heaven of heard that Angelina Grimke was lecturing in New any assemblies of the kind. I had only body else, give bonds for her." But they were too progress in the divine life to understand that cardinal (Exodus 21: 16,) a man-stealer." " attended one York, I was a first principles wot not of. The last hours of the stuffy for that, and foolishly said, "Put her in." ministerin South Scituate,Mass. She injunction: "Let no man seek his own, but every one Among speakers, Convention—a Convention of colored people in this She the while the Declaration was un- Convention were especially impressive. I had never was put in ; and was lecturing to crowded audiences of men and women his neighbor's weal." State—before that; and that was the first time in my when the key was turned, and taken der discussion, were two who interested me particular- before, nor have I ever since, witnessed anything fully indiscriminately, and, of course, I was very much life I had ever heard a vote taken, being out of the lock, the game was in my hands. Of course, About this time I happened one day, in a barber- ly. One was a countryman dressed in the plainest deep religious accustomed shocked. But in connection with equal to it. The spirit which had it was announced in all the papers that, for keeping a the account of her shop, to pick up a newspaper, the columns of which I garb, and in appearance otherwise not particularly cal- to our Quaker way of getting the prevailing senti- large pervaded the meeting from the beginning became still school for colored girls in the audiences, and the composition of her audiences, found filled with discussions of the subject of ment of the meeting. When, a short time after, we State of Connecticut, slavery. culated to excite expectation. His manner was angu- deeper. The evidence of the Divine presence and the were statements of the immense power with which came together to form the Female Anti-Slavery Soci- that boasted itself more than all the States of its large It was a question to which my attention had never be- lar, and his rhetoric not what would be called graceful. Divine approval were palpable. Had we heard a she spoke. I took the two facts with me into my study, ety, which I am rejoiced to say is still extant, still appropriations for the universal education of the peo- fore been directed. The paper interested me exceed- But his matter was solid, and as clear as a bell. It had voice saying, " Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for and sat down and looked them fully in the face. A flourishing, there was not a woman capable of taking ple, a noble young woman had been incarcerated in ingly. Its vigor of style and the boldness of its argu- the ring of the genuine metal, and was, moreover, pat the ground whereon tlrou standest is holy ground," woman was addressing promiscuous audiences with ment were striking. It was The the chair, and organizing that meeting in due order ; the cell of a murderer. You manage a newspaper, Liberator. I took it to the point in question. When he sat down—which our convictions could scarcely have been clearer. immense power. Said I to myself, Whence came that and we had to call on James McCrummell, a colored brother, and you know how such things sound. The home with me, read it carefully, and came back the he did after a very brief speech—the question was who were there power 1 Is a God-given power Those will never forget the address man, to give tale went the country over. in woman, any more next day to talk about it. An argument arose between asked: "Who is that?" and the answer us aid in the work. You know that at than came; with which President Green closed the Convention. The next day we let Miss Crandall in man, to be unused ? Does He give her talents " that time, and even to the present day, negroes, idiots out; and I took me and the barber, in which that gentleman had great- Thomas Whitson of Lancaster County, in this State." The concluding part of that address was somewhat as to be wrapped in a napkin or buried in the ground, any and women were in legal documents classed together; my horse and chaise, and my wife and children, and ly the advantage. He gave me a book to take home The other speaker was a woman. I had never be- more than to man 1 Certainly not; follows: so went off and refreshed myself with a little journey, and the difficulty with me ; it was a thick pamphlet, of about the size fore heard a woman speak at a public meeting. She that we were very glad to get one of our own class " was dispelled from my mind. So I sat down Brethren, it has been good (laughter) to come and aid us informing that knowing that the matter would work exactly as I in- and wrote and appearance of The Atlantic Monthly, and was enti- said but a few words, but these were spoken so modest- to be here. In this Society. her a letter: tled '* Thoughts hallowed atmosphere, I have been revived and re- tended it should. on Colonization." Its author was Wm. ly, in such sweet tones, and yet withal so decisively, m " freshed. This brief interview has more than repaid That is a reminiscence. I am thirty years older Lloyd Garrison. I read it at one sitting. The scales that no one could fail to be pleased. And no for all that I have SPEECH OF REV. SAMUEL J. MAY. Dear Miss Grimke : I hear you have been ad- one did me ever suffered. I have here met than thirty dressing promiscuous audiences. I ajn astonished- fell from my eyes. The whole congenial I I was years ago, and getting a little into truth was revealed to fail to be pleased. She apologized for what might be minds; have rejoiced in sympathies de- Rev. Samuel J. May said :—I have also been ask- it is in such utter violation of all that we have consid- lightful to the soul. Heart has beat responsive to that period of life when we are apt to become garru- ered proper and decorous me. The evil of slavery, the vulgar cruelty of preju- regarded as an intrusion ; but she was assured by the ed for reminiscences. May I be permitted and becoming in your sex. heart, and the holy work of seeking to benefit the to com- lous ; so you must stop me if I say too much. But I Nevertheless, I am satisfied that dice against color, the duty of the country and of every Chairman and others that what she had said was very it is a prejudice, and outraged and depised has proved the most blessed em- mence a little further back than the formation of this wished to do this justice to Arthur Tappan. I beg you to come to my home, and assist me man in it toward the black man, were as plain " I do as soon as if acceptable. The Chairman added his hope that the ploy m en t. Society ? The greatest event in my moral or spirit- as possible to trample it under my feet." " " not know that the part he took in it was ever an- they had been written out before me in letters of fire. lady would not hesitate to give expression to any- But now we must retire from these balmy influ- and ual life occurred on the evening when I first heard our nounced before. Think of it! He sent From that time to this, I have been an Abolitionist. thing that might occur to her during ences, breathe another atmosphere. The chill me word to She came. Meanwhile I had given notice in dif- the course of the hoar frost will be upon friend William Lloyd Garrison, in Boston, in the Fall employ ferent parts of the From that time to this, I have regarded my us. The storm and tempest the best counsel; and so I did. William W. town where I lived, that she would friend proceedings. will rise, and the of of 1830. I was so impressed by his words, wav^s persecution will dash that a res- Ellsworth, afterwards Governor, of the State, was one address a meeting in my meeting-house first, and in John Peck, the colored barber, as one of my best bene- This debate on the Declaration took place in Com- against our souls. Let us be prepared for the worst. olution was formed in my soul from that moment to of my counsel; and Calvin Goddard, formerly one of another meeting-houseafterwards,and factors. mittee of the Whole. After or two slight Let us fasten ourselves to the throne of God as with so through the one verbal dedicate myself to the cause of the slave. I was called the Judges of the Supreme county. I took In the latter part of 1833,1 hooks of steel. If we cling not to Him, our names Court, was another. They her and her sister all through the learned that there was changes, the Committee, arose and reported the docu- on to preach in the city of Boston on to that document will be but as dust. the following were among the most distinguished lawyers of the county, lecturing wherever a meeting-house could be to be a Convention in Philadelphia, for the purpose of ment to the Convention. It was adopted unanimously, " Let us court no applause ; indulge Sunday. I am ashamed to say in no spirit of that I had nothing at State. They were very generous. They did not found in which she could be heard ; and an impression forming a National Anti-Slavery Society. This infor- and ordered to be engrossed. The next morning, be- Tiain boasting. Let us be assured that our only hope all, in any of the sermons I had taken with me, bear- charge me what they might have done. Neverthe- was made in that county which I mation I derived from my Andover friend, Daniel E. ing the last session of the Convention, it was brought in grappling with the bony monster is in an Arm that trust is susceptible is stronger than ours. Let us fix our gaze ing in the least on this great subject. But, fortunate- less, the expenses on the whole amounted to over Jewett. He wrote to me, begging that I would come in engrossed and ready for signature. Before the work on God, to this day. Is there a county in the State of Mas- and walk in the light of His countenance. If our ly, I had a sermon on Prejudice. So I appended to $600, all of which were paid by Mr. Tappan. to the meeting. He dwelt feelingly upon the condi- signing began, it was agreed sachusetts that is more truly anti-slavery than Ply- of that it should be read cause be just—and we know it is—His omnipotence is that hastily, in pencil, an application of the doctrine mouth tion of the pledged to its triumph. Let this Nor is that all. The papers of the county all re- county ? If there is, I know it not. I re- two and a quarter million (that was the fig- once more. The task was assigned to our friend, cause be entwined of the sermon to the condition of the colored people in ure around the very fibres of our hearts. Let our fused, although filled with the most egregious misrep- member at one of the meetings some gentlemen liv- then) of our unoffending fellow-men held in bond- Samuel J. May, who performed it with much feeling. hearts our country. I delivered the sermon. I will not stop grow to it, so that nothing but death can sunder the resentations of Miss Crandall, of the purposes of her ing in Hingham had said very hard things about me. age, and urged me not to be insensible to their claims. At times his emotion was such as to prevent him for to you the effect " bond." now to describe that it had upon the school, and of the intentions of patrons " her and friends, They appeared at the door, and presently they came How do you know, my brother," he said, that this awhile from proceeding. The same feeling pervaded The reminiscence is called audience. to my mind to allow me a line for explanation. Even one of the further in. I watched them. Very soon their atten- may not be the work to which you have, unconscious- the audience. Then followed informally the ceremony As Mr. Green finished, he lifted up his voice in merely by what has been said this afternoon respect- papers whose editor I had assisted in getting up his tion was arrested, They ly, dedicated yourself? How do you know that this signing. Each one, as he came up to put prayer ; and such a prayer is rarely heard. Its fer- enchained. drew nearer and of his name ing the early influence of woman. The excitement paper, told me that he could not; that it is not the vency and faith seemed to illustrate what the would be the nearer, and I saw their countenances lighted up with very field which your yearnings have been to the instrument, showed by his manner, and, in some speaker was very great. The minister of the Church was ex- about " taking hold destruction of his paper to admit anything upon the emotion ; and I was satisfied that they had felt the foreshadowing. instances, by his words, that he was doing a very sol- had said of the throne as with " ceedingly angry, and spoke to me in terms of stern re- subject excepting what our opponents might power of I laid hooks of steel," and gazing upon the very face of send. Of the speakers. When the meeting was over, what he said to heart, and determined to at- emn thing. proof, and said I should never enter his pulpit again. " tend the God." course, I was somewhat disturbed at this. I wrote a let- they came bristling up to me : What are you going Convention. The little band of pronounced By this time I had come to be tolerably well ac- As I passed out of the house, I saw on all hands that ter to Mr. Tappan, saying Abolitionists But, Mr. Chairman,I have been speaking for that I would see him if I about the country with these women for, setting at in Carlisle—all of whom we're black, ex- quainted with the Convention, both as a whole and in three an unusual emotion had been awakend throughout the could escape from my engagements cept myself—appointed quarters of an hour, and have as yet scarcely long enough, but naught all the usages and proprieties of society ? me a delegate, and I set off its individual members. My part in the proceedings touched congregation. When I arrived at the vestibule of the the pressure on me was very for the the threshold of my subject. heavy. Two days after, But we wish you to bring them to Hingham as soon city. It was in the day of stage-coaches, be- had been, and was to the end, a silent one. The only Reminiscences! They church, I found it well-nigh filled with persons talking fore the new come upon nfe sothick and fast that the whole who should enter my study but Arthur Tappan, leav- as you please ;" and so a meeting was held in Hing- era of railroads, and I was two days in distinction I enjoyed was that of being the youngest time busily together about the strange utterance to which ing his immense business, coming. I his large monetary concerns ham, the most important town in the County except- stopped at the." Indian Queen," in 4th member of the body. of this Convention would not suffice to give them ex- they had listened. A woman, pressing through the in New York, pression. Here I have been lingering to come and see me because I could not ing Plymouth ; and there Miss Grimke made one of street, then considered one of our Looking back upon this interesting occasion, the over a few of crowd, stepped up to me, her countenance best hotels. The suffused go to see him ! After I had laid the matter her grandest speeches ; which, however, I am sorry to style of " " the incidents of the first three days of the great before caravansera known as the first class hotel whole thing comes up before me with the distinctness with emotion, the tears trickling down her cheeks, him, " of anti-slavery epoch; what shall I say of he said to me, Start another paper." It so hap- say, caused her a long fit sickness and obliged her was not then known—out of " just the whole the courage to stretch forth her Boston. Your Tremont of a picture. I see the Convention as it sat in and had hand to me, pened that there were types and an to suspend her invaluable labors. House," I thirty years which have followed, every day of " unused press in believe, was at that time in the full tide of that little hall of the Adelphi Building. I see the and say, Mr. May, I thank you. What a shame it town , and I went has been made to-night to which has been freighted with an event; every as soon as he had left, and engaged An allusion the mob of successful experiment. I lost no time the next morn- President, Beriah Green, of Oneida Institute, sitting is that I, who have now been for nearly forty years it 1835, in Boston. It is a with some striking incident! for a year, and started my paper, called The Union- Oct. 21, fact that you may ing after my arrival in presenting myself, according to on an eminence in the west end of the hall; at either hour attending meeting in what are called Christian ist. I must now stop, and give place to others. I not all be aware of, showing the almost complete uni- directions, at the house of Friend Evan Lewis in 5th side of him the two Secretaries, Lewis Tappan and have churches, have never before heard an earnest appeal And my here comes another reminiscence. I had been versality of the feeling which permeated the people street, above Cherry. Mr. Lewis was editor of a Qua- already consumed more than fair share of the of the wronged and outraged colored John G. Whittier. on behalf people so happy as once to hear our friend Charles C. Bur- of our country in regard to the Abolitionists as the ker anti-slavery journal called The Advocate Truth. Mr. time. We have more than a score of able speakers country." I shall never forget that of Green, though as it proved one of the best men of our woman. It leigh speak in a public meeting, and to hear him once enemies of the public, that, on that very day, Beriah He was a faithful friend of the cause, as well as one of that could have here, every one of whom has a prescriptive right to been had for the office, was not the was an event that sent deep into my soul that rever- was enough to know there was something in him. I Green, Gerrit Smith, and several others of the lead- the most prominent at that time in Philadelphia. With person originally contemplated be heard. So, without further words, I abruptly which I now feel for woman. for Chairman. The ence (Applause.) was not only then in charge of a parish which requir- ing Abolitionists of New York, were undergoing at friend Lewis I went to the Convention. It met at the Abolitionists at that 2lose. first letter that you read this time, like other people, had an The morning brought ed the full exercise of the little ability that I had, but Utica the same treatment almost that Mr. Garrison Adelphic Building in 5th street, below Walnut. Its idea that a Convention would my mind another reminiscencewhich not be a Convention At the request of Mr. Garrison, the signers of the o antedates the I was also conductinga religious paper, in which, un- received. And on that same day I was myself mob- proceedings were not secret, though they were, nev- without a man with a great name to serve neeting which formed this Society. Early as Chairman. Declaration of Sentiments arose, and the following in the fortunately, in the prospectus, not foreseeing what bed, my person attacked, and my life threatened, in ertheless, not thrown open by advertisement to the pub- Therefore when the delegates came to Philadelphia, vere found to be present: Isaac Winslow, Orson S. ipring of that year, a noble woman, Prudence Cran- would occur, I had pledged myself that there should the village of Montpelier, the Capital of Vermont- lic. There were some sixty or seventy delegates the first thing they did was to cast about for lall, in the town of Canterbury, Conn., in some man Hurray, William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel Joseph the simplest be nothing of personal or local controversy admit- On one and the same day, in three different States present, and a few spectators, who had been especially of distinction to preside. They called of ofi Thomas Hay, Robert Purvis, Bartholomew Fussell, Enoch ind roost unostentatiousmanner, led to it by an event was editing a paper, the Union, at the North, invited. A small number, it will be said, for a Na- ted. So that, although I I Abolitionists were being Wistar, a venerable and wealthy member of the Socie- Hack, James Miller McKim, Thomas Whitson, James rhich she neither courted nor sought to avoid, proffer- lould not defend myself in it against these assaults of mobbed, simply for proclaiming the glorious tional Convention. But at.that time it must be re. I ty of Friends; but he declined. They then waited id her school, which had attained truths of ilott, James McCrummell. i some reputation, to ny enemies, consistently with my prospectus. There- the Declaration, and insisting upon their application <0 25. DECEMBER ~ T H E LIB K It A TO II. —-^ An(' to all men- th'8 reminds me of one more remi- through the gloom of the present the rays of ravish- came to blows, the battle would be fought on Northern energy and altogether niscence, with which I will close. 'ng light steadfastness of pupose unlike varied tribes of mankind, as well as enriching MIDDLESEX COUNTY.—There will be a meeting and glory." They echoed the hopeful words soil with doubtful results. Timid, nerveless conser- their former apathetic of 1ST For several years after I became acquainted with of one of modes j>f administration in ourselves. of the MiddlesexCo. A. S. Society in Lowell, on Sunday, " freedom's poets— vatism implored us to accept that wicked proposition— matters " relating to commerce. Dee. to and those pestilent men who have turned the world up- aye, sir, jhe the Hitherto, however, the money we have paid for 27, commence at 10 o'olock in the forenoon, "The few shall not forever sway, most wicked proposition ever made in The countries I have named possess peculiar ad- Hey- eide down, so that it now stands right side up, I devot- The the staple of our great manufactures has gone almost continue through the day and evening. Kev. W. H. many toil in sorrow; Congress of the United States—the Crittenden com- vantages, oi soil, of ed the greater partof my time to lecturing; and there The powers of hell are strong to day, climate, of supply of labor, and exclusively to a class of ward, (late of Hopedale,) Parker Pillsbcry and E. H. promise. But amid these scenes of treason we calmly of facility of men who were the enemies a fact I should like to have you all But Christ shall rise to-morrow." access to our market. They are also and oppressors Heywood will address the Convention. is remember, to sat in the Congress of bided our able to of the human race, and to whom our how the United States, and compete with the Southern States, not only samuel Barrett, show you naughty we were in the outset of our Confident of the future, sir, they reechoed your de- escape in money was a premium on the maintenance and ex- time. The President stole into Washington to quality, but in cost of production. I do not think President Middlesex Co. A. S. Society. movement. More than a dozen times, as I approached fiant words: "We are in earnest; we will not equiv- tension of their infernal system. This will be so no the steel of the assassin. We took possession of the am over-sanguine when I express a village to lecture, I would meet ocate ; we will not excuse ; we will not retreat a sin- my belief, as well longer. Our money will go to some prominent Government. Slavery, in the pride of its power, open- as m\ hope, that pay the cultivator of man, or after I got gle inch ; and we will be heard I " (Applause.) Few in a few years our supply of cotton the A GENERAL EMANCIPATION ACT—Aaron there he would call upon me at the ed its batteries upon Sumter, brought down the old from the soil, and will furnish a legitimate profit to the hon- " shores of the Mediterranean alone will be M. Powell and Wendell P. Garrison will speak at hotel and saj*; Mr. May, you have come to give a lec- in numbers, strong only in their principles and the po- est employer. flag, ran up the banner of rebellion, and proclaimed equal to two of bales " tency of millions of cotton a year. Philmont, N. Y., Tuesday, Dec. 29. ture on slavery in our village?" Yes, sir, I propose their measures, they began that conflict with the and a half These are cheering fac^s.and may lead the friends dismemberment of the Republic. Two During the last six " " " the years, a body of gentlemen in of Wednesday, 30. do so." Do you know that this question of slave- advancing hosts of the legions of slavery, which years humanity on both sides of the water to rejoice Martindale, have passed away, and there stands a proclama- Manchester, acting under the " has stirred the name of "The Cotton that Cotton longer Canaan, Sunday, Jan. 3. ry was considered by the framers of the Constitution country to its profoundest depths for modified—making 3,300,- Supply is no Kino. tion—never to be recalled or Association," have been directing their atten- " Wednesday, " 6. of our country, and that they adjusted it 1" " Sir, I thirty years. Honored then, forever honored, be the Ever steadfastly yours in the cause of the en- W. Winfield, 000 men in the rebel States free forevermore—(ap- tion to the acquisition of information, from all " men who, in the days of perilled liberty, when the parts of s,aved> GEO. Bridgewater, Tnursday, " 7. replied, did you ever read the Constitution of the plause)—there stands an act forever prohibiting slave- the world, on the subject THOMPSON. shadows of slavery were darkening all the land, "cast of an increased supply of W. L. Garrison. Rome, Friday, " 8. United States?" "You don't pretend to deny, Mr. ry in the vast territories of the United States—(ap- cotton art arch," in the words of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, for the English market. During the same pe- May ""Did you ever read the Constitution of plause)—there stands an act abolishing slavery in the riod, they "upon the horizon like a semi-circle of polar lights, have sent to a great number of places assort- 2®°° This letter of Mr. Thompson is full of inter- OT PARKER FRATERNITY LECTURE.—The ninth the United States'?" "Why, sir, everybody " District of Columbia, and I thank God that he gave ments of ' the best descriptions of seed, together with Lecture in the Fraternity Course will delivered Tuesday " and upon it bent the motto, Immediate Emancipa- est and importance, and gives strong additional evi- be Did you ever read the Constitution of the United me the privilege of introducing the bill that abolished machines for tion !' glorious cleaning the cotton. The result of their dence that the evening, Dec. 29, at Tremont Temple, by Mrs. Elizabeth States ?" And certainly more than a dozen times I as the rainbow." (Applause.) country. labors death-warrant of American slavery is Cady the cleaving curse in the capital of my has been, that they have not only obtained a irrevocably Stanton, of New York. Subject, "The Future of found men, holding high positions in society, who ac- Great movements, affecting the relations of the peo- by large sealed. (Three cheers for Henry Wilson were proposed amount of most valuable information, and form- In a private the Republic." knowledged had never read the Constitu- ple and of the nations, cannot be measured by the note, dated Dec. 4th, Mr. Thompson that they Fred. Douglass, and given by the audience.) There ed a cotton museum filled " hours. By years, by epochs can measure with specimens of cotton says In a month from the present time, I hope to tion! I reported it to the managers of our Society, alone, we stands an act annulling the slave codes and black laws from all CAPE COD.—Therewill be a Convention in Ex- the cotton-growing countries, but have received be on my way to Boston in Boston, and one of the naughty things that we did progressive advancement of a movement so grand man "—so that it is probable he changeHall, at Harwich,on Sunday,Jan. 3, commencing of the District of Columbia, making the black cotton in various quantities from fifty new places, and may arrive and comprehensive as the anti-slavery movement in in season for the Anti-Slavery Festival, at 10 o'clock, and.continuing through at that time was to publish a cheap edition of the amenable to-the same laws, to be tried in the same have been able, through their committees and corre- the day and evening. of the United States, and circulate it as America. What mighty changes have been wrought spondents and the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti- E. H. Heywood and Parker Pillsbury are engaged as Constitution manner, and to be subjected to the same punish- abroad, to render great service during the Slavery in the condition of the anti slavery cause in the United Society, to be held in this city the last week a portion of the speakers. The people of the Cape never one of our anti-slavery tracts. Do we not deserve ment as white men, and I am thankful that it was my late crisis. It was fortunate that States since the American Anti-Slavery Society was such a Society was in January. need urging to attend this annual meeting. ali the harsh epithets with which we have been Vis- privilege to introduce that measure of justice and hu- in existence and in efficient operation when that crisis It will be seen by " " ited? (Laughter and applause.) organized by representatives of ten States in 1833 ! our Refuge department, that manity. (Applause.) There, too, stands an act, cloth- came upon us. the at Then a few unknown and nameless men were its contemplated visit of this eloquent advocate of ^ ANTI-SLAVRY TRACTS. The invaluable Tract, The Society adjourned, to meet the next day, ing the President with authority to place the sword, True it is that our operatives in " j the North have freedom, and devoted by Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, entitled "The Right Way apostles; now the most accomplished intellects in friend of republican institutions, 10 A.M. the rifle, the bayonet, and the flag, in the hands of been called to pass through a America are its champions. Then a season of deep distress, to this country, is already eliciting the venomous hiss- the Safe Way," can be had at the Liberator office, whole- few proscribed black men to fight the battles of the Republic. There in and consequence of the closing of the mills, and the ings of the copperhead spirit; an sale or retail. Price—$6 per hundred ; ten cents, single. SPEECH OF HON. HENRY WILSON, hunted followers rallied around its banners ; now is additional stimulus the recognition of the black Republic ofHayti and stagnation of all branches of the cotton manufacture. being given The name of the writer Delivered in Concert Hall, Philadelphia, Qn the Thirtieth it has laid its grasp upon the conscience of the nation, in consequence of the hearty and efficient is a sufficient guaranty of the book, Liberia—the treaty for the suppression of the African But this distress has been greatly Anniversary the American Anti~Slavery Society, and millions rally around the folds of its flag. Then alleviated by the support given in England, by Mr. Thompson, to the both as to style and argument. of slave trade—the opinion of the Attorney-General that spontaneous benevolence of all classes of the commu- Friday livening, December 4, 1863. not a statesman in America acceptetf its doctrines or side of the Federal Government, and in determined the black man is a citizen of the United States—and nity ; also, by the parochial rates, advocated its measures; now it controls more than which, although opposition to Southern treason and rebellion. But COMMONWEALTH OF Me. President :—I came here to look into the the passport of the Secretary of State, the evidence to they have fallen very heavily upon MASSACHUSETTS. twenty States; has a majority in both houses of the rate-payers, this is impotent malice as well as dirty blackguard- faces and to hear the voices of the honored men who, Con- the nations of the citizenship of men of the African gress, and the Chief Magistrate of the republic decrees have been borne uncomplainingly ; also by a Parlia- ism ; and the source from which it emanates is in the Head-Quarters, Boston, December 8, 1863. thirty years ago, laid the foundations of the anti-sla- race. (Applause.) Western Virginia has already pro- mentary appropriation the of £},500,000 sterling, for the highest degree complimentary alike GENERAL ORDER, No. 42. very movement in America, upon the rights of hu- emancipation of three millions of men. (Applause.) to the patriotism nounced the doom of her slavery. Little Delaware employment of the able-bodied men in works of public and In reply Passing Then every free State was against it; now Western Vir- the philanthropy of Mr. Thompson. to many inquiries, the following Order is pro- m^n nature, and the laws of the living God. sends an Emancipationist to the House of Representa- and permanent utility. mulgated, being condensed from previous Proclamations ginia, Delaware, Maryland and Missouri pronounce for We have copied the scurrilous article from the on to the post of duty assigned me in the councils of tives. Maryland, under the lead of Henry Winter Though, doubtless, our working and Orders :— the emancipation of their bondmen. Then the public classes have suf- Bloomsburg Democrat, with all its bad spelling, gram- I. Veteran soldiers (that is, dischargedsoldiers who have the Republic, I gladly pause to-day to pay the tribute Davis—honored be his name—(cheers)—in utterances fered great privations, (which they press covered it with ridicule and contempt—now the have borne with matical blunders, &c. Thus—" George Thomson"— served at least nine months) will receive from the United of my sincere respect, gratitude, and admiration, to as clear and distinct as were ever pronounced, speaks heroic fortitude States Government the veteran bounty powerful journals and resignation,) there has been no "FanuelHall"—"his bold treason and sedition was of $402,whether they the men, and the Women too, of the American Anti- ^most in America are its organs, for enlist in any regiment or company now in the field,or in eith- emancipation. Missouri, in spite of malign coun- increase of mortality in the distressed districts, and too outrageous "—" Slavery Society, for a generation, have vindicat- scattering its truths broadcast over all the land. Then the aspect of affairs have indeed er of the following organizations, viz :—2d Regt. of Heavy who, sels, votes for immediate emancipation, " the religious, (applause,) even less disease than in other parts of the country. changed —" the terrible effects of the carnage of Artillery, Colonel Franklin ; the 56th Regt. of Infantry, ed the proscribed cause of the bondmen of Christian benevolent and literary institutions of and Tennessee, under the lead of Andrew Johnson, is To give you some idea of the diminution in the dis- war (1st Veterans,)ColonelGriswold ; the 57th, (2d Veterans,) fidelity unsurpassed in any age or the land rebuked its doctrines and proscribed its advo- has been felt "—&c., &c. This scribbler should America, with a preparing to take her place in the lists of free Com- tress prevailing in the cotton I Colonel Bartlett ; the 58th, (3d Veterans,) Colonel Rich- cates—now it shapes, moulds and fashions them at districts, may refer to go to a primary school. His democracy smells of the mond ; the 59th, (4th Veterans,) Colonel Gould ; or in the nation. (Applause.) I came here too, sir, to catch its monwealths. Kentucky, alone, bears the banner of the last report on the subject. The number receiving grog-shop and the gutter. When he says that he new Battalion of Cavalry now forming at Readville, to bo something of that spirit of self-sacrificing devotion to pleasure. Then political organizations trampled dis- slavery proudly and defiantly attached to the 1st Regiment of Mass. Cavalry dainfully upon ; her leading influences parochial aid, in the siiape of out-door relief, was, in has no expectation that Mr. Thompson will have " the Volunteers, the cause of liberty and humanity that has animated it—now it looks down in the pride of Colonel Sargent ; or in the other new Battalion now re- are against emancipation, but the people are fast ri- the third week of November, 1862, 249,336, while in brazen hardihood to again dishonor the British, crown (!) cruitingat Readville, to form part of the you and the devoted friends who have gathered around conscious power upon the wrecked political fragments 4th Mass. Caval- pening for it. They need only bold, earnest and de- the corresponding week of 1863, it was 111,298 ; be- by his presence on our soil," he is evidently " half ry Volunteers,Lieutenant-ColonelArnold A. Rand. Such you in the struggles of these thirty years. The Pres- that float at its feet. Then it was impotent and pow- termined veterans will receive the bounty of leaders and organs to place her by the side ing a diminution of 138,538. The money paid in the seas over." $402 from the United day erless—now it holds public men and political organi- States, and the full State bounty of Massachusetts, in the ident of the United States, as he stood the other of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, ere former week was £17,773, while in the latter week zations in the hollow of its hand. (Applause.) Then George Thompson Coming. manner set forth in the Proclamationof the Governor, of among the graves of the fallen brave on the immortal another year shall pass away. it was £8,216 ; being a decrease of £9,557. To meet It is announced that November 18th ult the public voice sneered at and defied it—now it is George Thompson, the eminent English statesman, field of Gettysburg, said that the lesson there taught The armies of the Republic have in the recent elec- the distress of the approaching winter months, IE. All raw recruits (i. e. those no.t veterans)will receive master of America, and has only there the life-long champion of Freedom, and the true friend the full be an inspiration to greater efforts in the future, to be true to itself to tions proclaimed their undying State bounty who enlist in either of the organiza- shoulj} love of freedom, and is remaining of the fund in the hands of the Central of our Government and Country in the pending strug- tions, new or old, now in the bury slavery so deep that the hand of no returning gle field, or now being raised. in the cause of our periled country. This anniversary their utter detestation of copperhead democracy. The Relief Committee about £250,000; of another fund, with Slavery, is about to visit America once more. Such new recruits will not receive $302 from the United despotism can reach it. (Great applause.) Let him come. He will glad festival, sacred to the memories of past struggles, is to armies are the most potent emancipation societies in called the Bridgewater House Fund, receive a and cordial States, but instead thereof, $100 only from the United £80,000; of the welcome from all loyal men. Hewillnot.be mobbed us an inspiration and a hope. I leave you to night to Mr. President, you and some others who founded America. Our soldiers, in face of Liverpool Fund, States. If they join one of the old regiments or compa- rebel leaders, are £60,000; and in the hands of the in Concord, we opine.—Concord (N. H.) Democrat. nies now in the field ; or one of the Cavalry Battalions named go to* the theatre of public duty, where anti-slavery the Society whose thirtieth anniversary you this day fighting for liberty, speaking for liberty, and voting Parochial Boards above, 'they will receive $302 from £100.000—total, £490,000, to which Some copperheads have crazy the United States. By celebrate, have lived to see the sentiments embodied for liberty. gone over the Special Order of the Secretary of War, these two Cavalry men are to be tried as perhaps they were never tried The Government of the United States is add £1,500,000 for employment on public works, and announcement that George Thompson is coming to in your declaration of principles disseminated all Battalions are parts of old regiments now in the field. before, inspired with the determination to do all that over indebted to our soldiers in the field for the recent vic- you will see that, exclusive of the ordinary parochial this country. They fear that he will say something New recruits however, right the have, the to join any regi- I can to break the last fetter of the last slave in the land, and accepted by the American people. A tories of the ballot-box, which have fallen with crush- rates, we have nearly £2,000,000 to be applied to the that may tend to hurt the feelings of those charming ment or company not already full, whether new or old, if creatures, " our United States. (Long continued applause.) few months ago, this beautiful city of Philadelphia ing weight upon the rebellion, and its sympathizing relief of distress, pending the Southern brethren," who strive so hard they choose to do so, and to accept the smaller United arrival of our expected to cane us, but haven't been able to do it as yet.—Bos- kind enough to say was believed to be one of the most pro-slavery of the friends States bounty instead of the larger one. You, Mr. President, were that, in the loyal States. Sir, I saw the other day Supplies of cotton, and the resumption of work at our ton Traveller. III. To recapitulate. The United States does not pay in political life, I did not wait for public opinion before cities of the loyal States; now, Philadelphia is the a letter from General Grant, who has fought so many mills. recruits who are not Veterans of nine months' service any and most loyal, is the most anti-slavery city of the bounty exceeding $100, unless they join one of the old or- committing myself to the sacred cause of equal free battles for the Republic, and won them all, (enthusi- The value of the works which are being carried SElf^The proceedings of the highly interesting De- States. But a few years ago, an anti-slavery ganizations already in the field, including in the term impartial liberty. On this occasion, when we may re- man astic applause)—the hero who hurled his legions up on in the various townships most severely visited by cade Celebration at Philadelphia unavoidably exclude "old organizations,"&c., the two Cavalry Battalions above could hardly utter an anti-slavery sentiment in a polit- cur to the recollections and reminiscences of the past, the mountains before Chattanooga, and fought a battle the distress, will far exceed the amount in money ex- much other matter which we should like to lay be- mentioned. ical canvass without harm to his political It pays nine months' Veterans joining any I may be pardoned in saying that I was an anti-slave- friends. In for the Union above the clouds. (Applause.) The he- pended upon them. The result in the improvement fore our readers; and will continue to do so for two organization, political aspira- the last canvass in this Commonwealth of Pennsylva- new or old, $402 bounty. ry man years before I entertained any ro of Vicksbufg says'" I have never been an anti- both of the public property and the pubjic health will more numbers of the Liberator. But we are sure they It pays raw recruits $302, who go into old organizations, nia, in every portion of the State, the champions of tions, or formed any political associations. In the slavery man, but I try to judge justly of what I see. be immense. Miles upon miles of streets will be will be perused with high satisfaction by our readers. including the two Cavairy Battalions aforesaid. The Commonwealth pays her full bounty to all classes of spring of 1836, I visited the Capital of my country. the Government clearly and distinctly denounced sla- 1 made up my mind when this war commenced that sewered and paved ; parks for the people will be laid Correspondents must exercise the grace of patience; I very, and sustained the proclamation of Abraham Lin- the North and recruits, allowingthem to join any regiment or company Passing in the cars from Baltimore to Washington, South could only live together in peace out and planted; waste lands will be drained and their favors are on file for the earliest insertion practi- they please, if there is room to receive them. Turn, coln, emancipating more than three millions of men. as saw several slave women toiling in the fields. one nation, and they could only be one nation by brought into cultivation ; and all who are employed on cable. IV. The United States officers do not offer any bounty (Applause.) Sir, it has been my during to men color, nor do they pay them the full wages ing to a gentleman sitting by me, I expressed an opin- fortune^ the being a free nation. (Applause.) Slavery, the corner- these and similar undertakings, having their physical of of a last three months, to address my fellow-citizens in sev- stone of the so-called EMANCIPATION soldier. They pay $10 per month, of which $3 may be in ion that slavery was an evil and a dishonor, and was confederacy, is knocked out, and wants provided for while so engaged, will be more DAY.—Rev. L. A. Grimes, Wm. clothing. " eral of the States, and I am proud to say F. told rather sharply, that I could not be permitted to to you that it will take more men to keep black men slaves, than likely to enjoy robust health than they would be Butler, G. A. Rue, E. Grisom, and H. If. White, call- This Commonwealthpays the full bounty of $325 in hand the supporters of the government have spoken on being musteredinto the United States service express such an opinion in the State of Maryland." as dis- to put down the rebellion. Much as I desire peace, if immured within the heated rooms of a cotton fac- ed a public meeting of the citizens of fioston, which as- as a Mas tinctly and clearly in favor of the extinction of slave- I am opposed to any peace until this question sembled in the 12th Baptist Church, Southac street, the sachusetts volunteer, to all soldiers, irrespective of color or That was, perhaps, my first utterance against slavery, of sla- tory. . on extraction; or the soldier may, if he prefers it, receive 20th inst., which call $50 and the first rebuke I ever received for such an utter- ry in America as do the men who surround me upon very is forever settled." That is the position of the was responded to. The object was to in advance, and monthly State pay, by way of bounty, $20 After a sober and thoughtful review of our do- make Capital of my country. I saw this platform. The people see with clear vision that leading general of our armies. The votes of our sol- proper arrangements for a Grand Celebration of the per month. ance. I went on to the mestic condition during the last three years, and an V. By Act of slavery is the rebellion ; that slavery has dug diers, in the States permitting President s Proclamation of Emancipation. The house was November 16, 1863, this Commonwealth, slavery beneath the shadow of the flag that waved more them to Vote, are more out of its own Treasury, makes up to the 54th and 55th equally deliberate estimate of our prospects for the fu- called to order by Rev. L. A. Grimes. Rev. W. F. over the Capitol. I saw the slave-pen, and men and than a hundred thousand graves of loyal men ; that than nine to one for the prosecution of the war, and Butler Massachusetts Volunteers the deficiency in their pay, and ture, I have arrived at the conclusion that the failure was chosen President. The meeting for the market of the far slavery hates the country and its republican institu- the enforcement of the emancipation proclamation of was opened, first, by a paymaster has already gone to those regiments for the women, and children herded of our supply of cotton from the Southern States has singing; and second, prayer purpose of their payment. tions, and that mercy to slavery is a crime against our Abraham Lincoln. by Rev. E. Grisom; after South ; and at the table at which sat Senator Morris, done us no serious injury, and that in its results to us which it was voted VI. Volunteersnow in the field, authorized under orders country. (Great applause.) I say to you, and unanimously that we celebrate the first of Ohio, then the only avowed champion of freedom sir, to the anti-slavery men of the day from the War Department to re-enlist as Veteran Volun- it will be one of the most fortunate events that could of January, 1864, in Tremont Temple, and that we teers, and who do re-enlist in Massachusetts the United States, X expressed my I am, Mr. President, filled with hope and confidence United States, who have rejected the subtle policy of Volunteers, in the Senate of have occurred. hold three sessions, morning, afternoon and evening. It (see General Orders, Nos. 33 and 34, from these Head- of slavery and the slave traffic in the Cap- in the future of my country. I belong not to that concession and compromise, who have repudiated the was quarters,) receive the full bounty offered by abhorrence The spell by which we were once bound is broken— voted, that Rev. L. A. Grimes bo the President for the the United ital of this democratic and Christian Republic. I was class of men who are wont to claim a victory before guilty delusion that the sin of slavery belongs to past day, States, and also the full bounty of Massachusetts,of $325 the enchantment is dissolved. England no longer and the following named gentlemen invited as speak- in advance, or of $50 in advance, and $20 per promptly told that " Senator Morris might be protect- they have won it. I believe that victory is never generations and repentance to posterity, you who have month, at bows her neck to the yoke of slavery. Her cotton ers : His Excellency,John A. Andrew, Frederick Doug- their own election, (see Governor's Proclamation of Novem- against slavery in the Senate, but I sure, so long as there is anything left undone to win perpetually sounded into the ear of the nation the sin lass, W. L. C. ber 18, 1863, and General Orders, Nos. 33 ed in speaking Garrison, L. Remond, Rev. E. N. Kirk, D. D., 32, and 34.) v» ' of oppression and is no longer stained with blood. VII. Such would not be protected in uttering such sentiments." it; and I say to the anti-slavery men, and women too, the duty of repentance, go not home Rev. H. H. White, Wendell Phillips, Esq., John S. Rock, Volunteers re-enlisting will be credited to their with the conviction that your Previous to the breaking out of that wicked re- towns against present quotas under the last call. I left the Capital of my country with the unalterable that, while you have a clear right to be hopeful and work is done, but go Esq., Rev. Wm. Hague, D. D., Robert Morris, Esq., Rev. all that I hoped confident of the future, you have a duty to perform home cheered by the assurance that the battle is going bellion, which at this moment is alike convulsing and A. L. Stone, D. D., Rev. G. Haven, Edward Walker, By order of His Excellency John A. Andrew, Governor resolution to give all that I had, and Esq., and Commander-in-Ghief. emancipation in that will test all your devotion, all your firmness, all on for you ; that you have stormed battery after bat- regenerating your country, so prolific were the plan- J. M. Langston, Revs. W. F. Butler, C. W. Waterston, J. M. to have of power, to the cause of WILLIAM SCIIOULER, Adjutant-General. tery, carried position after position; that you tations of the South, so excellent was the quality of Manning, A. A. Miner, D. D., and F. T. your Boas. __ America, and I have tried to make that resolution a wisdom. We are to be tried—the Government have | only to be as true in the the fibre grown, so comparatively near was the field For Vice living faith from that day to this. (Applause.) My is to be tried. It was suggested to-day that, should future as you have been in Presidents—Thomas Dalton, John C. Coburn, COMMONWEALTH OF the past, to of production, and so established were the trade ex- William Logan, Rev. G. A. Rev. MASSACHUSETTS. political associations, from that hour to the present, the rebels surrender, they would continue to hold their secure a permanent and enduring triumph. Rue, E. Grisom, Lewis If the nation had changes and correspondence between England and have always been guided by my opposition to slavery, slaves as bondmen. I do not believe it—for I have accepted your doctrine of peaceful, Haydpn, John B. Smith, Robert Johnson, J. T. Sydney, El- Head-Quarters, Boston, December, 1863. legal, Christian action, America, that eighty-five per cent, of all the cotton der Thompson,Rev. P. Randolph,and Jonn J. Smith. in every form, and they always will be so guided. In faith in the American people, and I know they will this bloody war would never I GENERAL ORDER, No. U. have upon we consumed came from your slave-cursed shores. For Secretaries—EdwardN. Bannister, Frederick John* twenty years of public life, I may have committed er- never permit it. (Great enthusiasm.) But should come us. (Applause.) The crimes of two & Pursuant to authority received from the United States " centuries have brought this While this was the state of things, there was not the son, FrederickT. Boas, Lewis Douglass, F. Lewis, and G. H; Departmentof War, a regiment of Cavalry Volunteers,to rors of judgment, but I have ever striven to write my Jeff. Davis and his compeers in treason lay down terrible war upon us ; but slightest possible encouragement to other countries W. Steward. be composed of men of color, enlisted for three years, un- name," in the words of William Leggett, "in inefface- their arms, you would see the Peace Democracy that, if this generation, upon whom God has laid His chas- less sooner discharged, is now in process of recruitment in tisements, will yet be true to liberty to grow cotton in competition with the produce of Finance Committee—Philip Lee, William Johnson, Thos. able letters on the Abolition record." Standing here, during the last thirty years, has committed every and humanity, this Commonwealth. It is known as the Fifth Regiment of peace will return again to bless the Southern States. Hence our bondage to the S. Stephenbourgh, and C. Pitts. Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers. to-night, in the presence of veteran anti-slavery men, I crime slavery bade it commit—you would see that De- this land now rent and seemed complete and A collection, afternoon and evening, to defray expenses; II. Lieut.-Col. HenryS. Russell, of the Second Massa- conviction, that would mocracy whose life is bound up in the existence of torn by civil strife. Then we shall heal the wounds slaveholders inexorable. By Cavalry can say, in all the sincerity of I the surplus goes to the benefit of the freed people South. chusetts Volunteers, is designated its Colonel. slavery, everywhere demand that slavery should live, of war, enlighten the dark intellect of the emancipated their own act we have been emancipated, and shall III. The United States pays no bounty to the recruits rather have it written upon the humble stone that The Sabbath Schools will conduct the singing in the af- bondman, and make our country the model Republic never again be enthralled. The cunning have been for this regiment under existing regulations, nor wages spot where I shall repose when life's and the slave-masters come back again to govern the " shall mark the their own ternoon. It was also voted to invite The Hutchinson exceeding $10 per month, including $3 per month for " to which the Christian world shall turn taken in craftiness. Vaulting ambition labors are done, He did what he could to break the Republic. And we should see timid men with us, but with respect family" in tho evening; clothing. hath o'erleaped itself. to sing after which, the meeting it recorded that he hardly of us, cowardly shrinking back, consenting to and admiration. IV. But this Conmonwealth offers precisely the same boun- fetters of the slave," than to have adjourned. ty to all other viz : bounty, make an inglorious peace, and leave slavery The speaker retired amid the deafening plaudits of How marvellously have events, evil in offered volunteers, $325 paid in filled the highest stations of honor in the gift of his to redden, themselves, Revs. L. A. GRIMES, Massachusetts after the volunteer is mustered into his countrymen. (Loud applause.) in another age, as it has in this, the fields of America the audience. worked towards the furtherance of ends beneficent " WM. F. BUTLER, regiment; or, if he shall so elect, then $50 bounty paya- I " As I have listened, Mr. President, here to-day to with the blood of patriotism. Yet, while we are to and good G. A RUE, ble as aforesaid, and $20 monthly bounty or pay, in addi- " tion to the pay now or hereafter received by him from the the reminiscences of the past, I have endeavored to be tried, I believe we shall remain firm, true, and From England I turn to America. Instead of ELIJAH GRISOM, States. COTTON NOT KING. " United realize the condition of the anti-slavery cause in Amer- faithful, and that we shall triumph. The way to tri- peace, industry and union, the dogs of war have been H. H. WHITE, V. Communications concerning the regiment may be made to Colonel Henry Russell, No. 21 School ica, when you, sir, and your associates, thirty years umph is to assume that the proclamation of Abraham London, Dec. 4, 1863. let loose, and twice five hundred thousand men have for the citizens. §. Street, three, My Boston. The regiment will rendezvous at Camp Meigs, ago, founded here, in this city of Philadelphia, the Lincoln, emancipating millions three hundred Dear Garrison—I have made several speeches been summoned to the battle-field. AYar has brought Readville, Brig.-Gen. Pierce Commandant. OLD COLONY ANTI-SLAVERY American Anti-Slavery Society. When our fathers thousand slaves in the ten rebel States, is the irrepeal- lately; for the purpose of showing how completely the with it its invariable incidents—derangement of trade, ftW SOCIETY—A VI. The following is the organization of a regiment and they able law of this land; that this Christian nation is sceptre has departed Special Meeting of the Old Colony Anti-Slavery Society of a company of cavalry into the Volunteer Army of the Came out of thSHery trials of the Revolution, be- from King Cotton. the substitution of destructive for peaceful and pro- existing viz :— country, will be held at PLYMOUTH, on FRIDAY, January 1st, United States, under laws, lieved that slavery would pass away under our repub- pledged to every slave, to the to the world, Great Britain is at this moment absolutely indepen- ductive arts, waste of money, time and energy, ex- Cavalry—Twelve 1864, which all friends of the Society and all friends of Regiment of Companies of Troops. lican institutions and Christian civilization ; but the and to Almighty God, to see that every one of these denti of the Southern States for the supply of the raw cesses, crimes and blood, bereavement, mourning and Freedom and of the Country are requested to attend. 1 Colonel. spirit of the revolutionary era passed away as its bondmen is free forever and forevermore. (Great ap- material of her cotton manufacture. desolation. Through these things I look to the results. 1 Lieutenant-Colonel. To commemoratethe first anniversaryof the President's champions passed from earth. When the American plause.) Let the loyal men of America assume, as the The rebels may bum their cotton, or export it, as A renovated North. The press, the pulpit and the 3 Majors. Proclamation of Freedom to Three Millions of Slaves,—to 1 Surgeon. Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1833, the con- external law of the land, that slavery does not now ex- they please, for mart delivered from the pollution it is not necessary to the present or and chains thrown celebrate the season of the Landing at Forefathers' Rock,— 2 Assistant Surgeons. subjugation of the country by the slave- ist in the disloyal States; that every black Adjutant, (an extra Lieut.) quest and man there future prosperity of our cotton trade that we should around them by the South. The Slave Power- to give new vigor to the purpose, and help make it an un- 1 Regimental who had forgotten the teachings of the fathers is free; that the President of the United States has receive another bale of bloated with success, 1 Regimental Quartermaster, (an extra Lieut.) masters their produce; not only so, arrogant, ambitious, insolent, mistakablyNational purpose, to root out Slavery from our 1 RegimentalCommissary,(an extra Lieut.) was complete. Institutions of learning, of benevo- pledged the physical power of all America to enforce but it would be greatly to the advantage of our dis- intolerant, grasping—filled with dreams of universal soil, and forever banish its hateful presencefrom our coun- 1 Chaplain. lence and religion, political organizations, and public the Proclamation of Freedom; that seven hundred tant dependencies and of the world at large that we dominion—assuming to give laws to the world—con- sels and our country,—are the leading objects of this 1 Veterinary Surgeon. bowed in unresisting submission to the iron thousand loyal bayonets bear that proclamation upon should not. fident of meeting, which 1 Sergeant-Major. men, all the recognition and cooperation of the coun- we trust will be a memorable one to all 1 Quartermaster Sergeant. will of the-slave-masters who ruled the governments their glittering points. (Applause.) The effect of the stoppage of our supply from Amer- tries it had bound in coils of cotton; this haugh- who shall attend it. 1 Commissary Sergeant. the slaveholding States, and shaped the policy of When the people of the United States, in Novem- ica; has been to impart a mighty stimulus to the exer- ty tyrant is to-day prostrate. He may still possess William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Ed- 2 HospitalStewards. of Sergeant. When you, sir, and your comrades or- ber, 1860, thronged to the ballot-boxes, in world, strength, and hope, mund Quincy, Parker Pillsbcry, Samuel May, Jr., 1 Saddler the Republic. and, spite of tions of the inhabitants of other parts of the and malice, and an unsubdued 1 Chief Trumpeter. the American Anti-Slavery Society, and pro- the menaces of the slave-masters, made Abraham Lin- and of adapted to the cul- spirit, but he is powerless for and other advocates of Complete Emancipation, are ex- ganized the climate soils which are further mischief-—the Company or Troop op Cavalry. claimed immediate emancipation to be the duty of the coln President of the United States, slavery cast the tivation of the cotton plant. monster has been brought low. And what of slave- pected to be present. ry, meeting in next 1 Captain. master and the right of the slave, you believed, in the shadows of its power over the land. That towering I have given much attention to this subject recent- the minister to his wealth, the nursery of his lusts, jy Particulars of plaoe and hours of 1 First Lieutenant. bright ardor of that moment,that Christian America fabric of strength and power is now shivered to atoms, lyi ; and upon the most authentic and trustworthy the foundation of his empire ? By the act that has paper. 1 Second Lieutenant. given For the Old Colony Anti-Slavery Society, 1 First Sergeant. appeals, would soon Two questions only i with independence to would respond to your noble were settled by the election of data—much of it official—I am able to state us, he has given death to the 1 QuartermasterSergeant. creature BOURNE SPOONER, President. break every yoke, undo the heavy burdens, and let 1860. The people pronounced against the spread of confidence, that our imports of cotton for the coming of his idolatry. I could almost thank God 1 Commissary Sergeant slavery for the Samuel Dyer, Secretary. 5 Sergeants. the oppressed go free. But the sentinels of the slave- into the territories of the United States, and year (1864) will be at the rate at least of 45,000 bales rebellion. What I had never dared to»hope to that in- against the longer see has come 8 Corporals. masters sounded the alarm. They demanded continuance of the rule of the slave per] week, and will be more than sufficient to give em- to pass—freedom to the slaves of the. 2 Trumpeters. power. Of slavery cotton plantations rgf UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION.—NEW HAMP- stitutions of learning and religion, public men and the in the States we distinctly avowed ployment| to all the hands then available. of the South. The slave of yes- 2 Farriers or Blacksmiths. we had no terday SHIRE CAMPAIGN.—Stephen S. Foster will lecturoin 1 public press, should disown the heresy of immediate constitutional power to touch it. We said, From India we shall receive, about 1,600,000 bales ; the freeman of to-day—a man, a citizen, a pa- Saddler. " Hampshire as follows :— 1 Wagoner. and brand its advocates Slavery is the creature of local law ; we are opposed Ifrom Turkey, ahout 375,000 bales; from China and triot soldier I New emancipation, and mark Contocookville, Monday, Dec, 28. 60 Privates—minimum. freedom of dis- to it; we will use our moral influence against it; it , from Turkey and Greece, How They demanded the suppression of the Japan, 250,000 bales; have I longed to see the day when free labor HennfW, Tuesday, " 29. 78 Privates—maximum. shall not be extended ; we will not be ruled by bales ; cotton cussion and the liberty of the press. Timid, nerve- it; we 220,000: bales ; from South America, 200,000 from other countries would take the place upon Hillsboro', Wednesday, " VII. The destroy its political power, 30. Governor regards with great satisfaction the will and we believe ] Mediterranean, ' less conservatismcowered before the imperious de- that in from Southern Italy, Sicily and the our wharves, and in our mills, and upon our coun- Antrim, Thursday, " 31. progress made since the inauguration of the 54th Massa* or two generations it will gradually slave-masters. The reign of ter- one pass away." 50,000I bales; from the West Indies, Cuba, Africa, ters, of the cotton raised by the forced labor of Amer- Warner, Friday, Jan. chusetts Infantry Volunteers. And he confidently con- mands of Southern 1. templates the accession from this Commonwealth to the The election of 1860 did not directly affect the exist- Australia and other sources, 70,000 bales; add to all ican " ror was inaugurated,law was -prostrated in the dust, slaves I I see it now. It is already here, and the Bradford, Sat. and Sun. 2-3. National Army, of a Cavalry Regiment of Colored Ameri- ence of slavery in the States, where it stood in all its i January—say cry " and the friends of the slave held property, liberty, and this the stock on hand on the 1st of is, Still it comes." It is coming in millions of Sutton, - Monday, « 4, cans, which will illustratetheir capacity for that dashing protected by local legislation. mobs who set at de- strength But the slave- 250,000! bales—and we shall have more than 3,000,000 bales from India, in hundreds of thousands from New London, Tuesday, " and brilliant arm of the military service. In this hour of life itself, at the mercy of lawless 5. hope at a time masters leaped into the rebellion to perpetuate slavery ofi bales of cotton ; from which, deduct 600,000 bales Egypt, and for our common country and for ourselves; fiance the laws of God, and the decencies'of civiliza- Turkey, and South America; in tens of Also as above ; A. T. Foss and W. A. Jackson, (Jeff. when they hold the destiny of their race in their own to continue the rule of slave-masters, and ] of an tion. forever, and for exportation, and we have still the promise thousands from the emancipated islands of the West Davis's coachman,)will lecturein grasp ; and when its certain emancipation from prejudice, revolution they inaugurated are melt- invited to violence, social the fires of the amounti which, if not adequate to the full and con- Indies; from Southern, Northern and Western Afri- as well as slavery, is in the hands of those now But, amid scenes of lawlessness, Fishersville, Tuesday, Dec. 29 which will annihilate the rebel pow- ing the chains of the bondman. I can never forget the stanti employment of all our machinery, will be as ca ; from Sea Islands; unite in the final blow proscription, and official rebuke, the heroic men who Austral-Asia, and the South Boscawen, Wednesday, « er, let no brave and strong man hesitate. One cannot ex- election of 30 inw dark days that followed the Abraham" Lin- much,i and more than as much, as we shall be able to it is blessing him that grows it, and it will bless the aggerate the call sounding in the ears of all men, ose inaugurated the anti-slavery movement did not quail Salisbury, Thursday, « 31 haa bcen was Buchanan, a poor, weak, imbecile find1 hands to work up, and as much as can be brought thousands it. veins flows the blood of Africa, and whose color or shrink from fearful conflicts from which the timid coin. There that will manufacture and consume Franklin, Friday, Jan. with Floyd stealing the public arms; with intoi consumption. I have ever regarded vast manufacturing pow- instinctively recoiled. Their spirits rose and mantled old man, our Andover, Saturday and Sun., " 2 and 3. breaking down the public credit; with Toucey The countries which have evinced the greatest ea- ier—our ability to produce the shape of textile fab- as the storm of denunciation beat upon their devoted Cobb in Wilmot Flat, Monday, « 4. sending the navy to distant seas ; with Thompson in- gerness, to meet our demand for cotton have been :rics what the inhabitants of the whole earth require— Danbury, Tuesday, » heads. They looked danger in the eye—they hurled 5. of Liberty. country ; with Democratic Egypt,j in i all the powers to dismember the Turkey and Italy. The governments Mid our corresponding demand for a raw material " A. Andrew, Governor defiance at arbitrary power. They saw with clear triguing Springfield, Wednesday, e. By order of His Excellency, John North expressing sympathy with theseI countries have in every possible way encour- which every section of the globe can furnish, as a vision that the conflict was not a war of men, but of leaders all over the Croydeu, Thursday, " 7. and Commander-in-Chief. assuring traitors that if the contest I agedf the cultivation of the plant, and have shown an imeans of conferring boundless blessings upon the And in that vioinity, " SCHOULER, Adjutant- General. ideas and institutions. Like John Adams, they saw the rebel chiefs, until Tuesday, 12. WILLIAM Content compilation of the AAS Historical Periodicals Collection copyright 2011 by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved.

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