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'i i I 3 Hi iv 1 i I Mr i if? i a i i it i vl5 il 1 A 'in ah 186 tAs TWitme. TUB EXPULSION OP MR. HOYT FR031" CIIABLE3TOWN. Sin: In order that the conduct of the people and authorities of the Town of Charlestown, in re cently ex pellinjr Mr. Jewctt, of I rank Leslie 8 paper, and myself from that locality, may be perfectly ex-pMod and understood, I deem it proper to make a brief stAteiueut of the facta in the case, i My return from Boston to that town was heralded By the press, and the ohject ol my visit announcea, days before I reached there.

My business was known t. liitimat. I wont haok tn di what was Pos sible to rescue and recover the scattered effects of Capt. Brown, in order that the avails of the same might bo secured to his destitute and heart-stricken family. My business also related to the copies of the records in tho other cases, intending to obtain and transmit them seasonably to counsel who were argue the exceptions in the Court of Appeals.

-Becausa I was regularlyassociatcd in the trial, and known to bo actively engaged in the defence ot Brown and Coppic, no man had a right to accuse me, upon bare suspicion, without a particle of evidence to confirm it, of being an agent of Boston Abolitionist. I could not fail to observe, immediately upon my return, that, where I had formerly been treated with studious civility, 1 had now to meet the inhospitable frown and where before I at least was permitted to pass without insult, I must expect offensive and opprobrious epithets, and denunciations not the least vulgar. I cannot say that I did not expect this, for, when first a sojourner in the town, I had concluded it was no genuine, "but a forced civility, which allowed tiie counsel of John Brown to perform their sad duties unmolested. I saw a deep under-current of feeling smothered, for the time, by a desire to bo rated fair, all ready, at the slightest breath, to burst into consuming madness. But, so long as their victim lay in his prison-cell, waiting his last-approaching doom, and tho decision of the higher Court, I felt certain the4 chivalry of the Old Dominion' would attempt no bodily violence to his counsel.

I had expected the copies of the record would be ready for ma to bear to Washington Saturday morning, but I failed to obtain them, and had concluded to wait a later train, when the singular 4 proclamation ot Mayor Green, (who, it will be remembered, was Mr. Brown's counsel in the first instance,) fell into my hands. My surprise was great when a gentleman intimated that my case was referred to in that document, and that my friend, Mr. Jewett, was also included. I sought Mr.

Jewett, and found him pondering over the extraordinary production. I informed him what I had heard, and after a debate as to whether two individuals, whose business was so well known, and whose characters were privileged, had any right to take this notice to Mr. J. sought Col. Davis, Chairman' of the body constituted and authorized by this curious paper to act in the premises, and demanded to know if it had any reference to us.

Col. Davis accompanied him to my presence, and in answer to a direct interrogatory, plainly said it did. lie further informed us, that, although aid-de-camp to Gov. Wise, and under instructions to preserve the peace, he had no force at his command upon which he could rely to protect us from the mob, which would certainly assemble the next day (Sunday), lie was willing to lay down his life in our defence, but it could be of no avail, and conjured us, for our own sakes, and for the sake of the honor of the State of Virginia, and in consideration of the trifling personal incon-venicucs such a sacrifica would be to bim, to leave that afternoon. Although I had seen considerable excitement in the place during the first days of the trial and afterward, I confess I never bad seen anything like the wild foment in which the town was this afternoon thrown.

Soma spiteful enemy had set fire to a Mr. Tate's stable, and the over-zealous, fire-eating chivalry who, from the time ot our first advent in the place, bad striven to make our visit uncomfortable, and our efforts futile, and who bad never ceased their causeless and ridiculous denunciations, eagerly took bold ot the occasion to spread the report that they were Abolition emissaries' acting under my directions, ho had set the torch to the wheat stacks and barns. What I most feared was an attack on the jail, in loo'i6. JiBlHJil EfeKeasa fcand of organized desperadoes who, at one time, determined to force the jail, and lynch tho prisoners. This was seasonably discovered, and prevented, by an officer in command.

Now, if a mob, composed of a drunken and infuriate people, should assemble to drive obnoxious people out of the town with the genteel incidents of 4 tar and feathers, and not over fresh eggs, each a mob would bo more than likely to make an attempt on that little prison-house and, by way of parenthesis, let me say, I think the gallows a pleasanter instrument of torture and death 'than the torments of a Virginia mob. Deeming it no valor, but sheer foolhardiness to brave the populace, Mr. Jewett and I packed our bags, and quitted the municipality of Charlestown, tha County of Jeffjrson, and tho gallant old Commonwealth of Virginia. At this time I do not know whether my associate, Mr. Sjnnott, survived the Sabbath which ensued upon our departure, or not.

Being an avowed political friend of the South, he was not so unpopular as the undersigned, who never knew how to 4 cotton. It is to be hoped that those who remain or go to Berve John Brown in a legal capacity, may not meet the same sort of 4 hospitality' and 4 courteous' treatment which the 4 chivalry' be stowed upon Yours truly, GEO. II. IIOYT. National House, Washington, Nov.

10. WHAT 13 THE CHIVALBY OF THE SOUTH? Charlestown Va.J correspondence of the Xew fork Tribune. 1 think you will be able to understand it when I tell you of the manner in which a lady, to whom I have before referred, once or twice, has been received in this hall-civilized town. She came with no purpose beside that of imparting that comfort and sym- Sathy which a woman ran best give, to the prisoner rown. Her visit was induced by a belief that Mrs.

M. Child would be in Charlestown before she could arrive, and that she would be able in many ways to assist that lady in whatever duties might have been confided to her. But Mrs. Child did not wine at all, in consequence, probably, of Brown's unwillingness to receive visitors from the North, who are sure to bo looked upon with excessive suspicion, uj this lady found herself alona. For two days she was subjected to rudeness which I could not have supposed it possible for any decent community to inibct.

The community of Charlestown, Virginia, however, is not decent. Her coming was the signal for renewed flashes of indignation on tho part of the street strollers. An editor of one of the weekly rints urged the organization of a committee to warn ler and all her party away, with threats of lynch ing, in case hesitation should be shown. When, quietly, very quietly, triumphing overall difficulties, she gained access to the prison, there was talk of a mob, and I am confident that 6he herself was unaware of tho dangerous position she was in. Independent Democrat made its weekly appearance, jand wreaked its little wrath in two articles, thus: A woman by the name of Mrs.

It. B. Spring, ae-tompaniel br her ton, hailing from Jagles-ood. 2. arrived here on Saturday last, and requested the privilege of beinjr.

allowed to act the nurse to Brown and his confederates in nrison. The request was very properly denied by the Sheriff, he being of me opinion utat wie ncajm ol Jjroun tJo. wits suta-1 tiently cared fc-r at the present, for all practical purposes. We are sorry, rry, that the kind intentions and self-sacrificing devotion of Mts. Spring has been unceremoniously frustrated by a cruel denial, but we hope he will be able to survive the disappoint-nent, and that no damage by land or sea will overtake htr, but that she will return safely to her home, ntirely convinced that Brown Co.

are safe in the hands of tii fc'heiifT. and alt the convenience extend-. to them which the nature of the ease, and the fa-. tality attending their dUeasea, will permit. Injustice to ourselves, all Yankees, of either sex, who cannot show a clean record, should be at once driven Jrom our mitUt.

Will we suffer ourselves to be insulted by their insolent presence? Our conscious security from the further machinations of these pusillanimous wrctche. both male and female, should not induce us tolerate their presence for a moment. For ourselves, we would rather meet a band of (Jo-' manchea, at any time, and trust ourselves to their honor and protection, than we would any of the lone-faced, Pharisaical Abolitionists of the North. We confess to a supreme hatred for he whole of them, male and I am happy to say that these contemptible exhibitions at last moved udge Parker to a sort of tacit rebuke of them. He proposed to Mrs.

Spring that she should visit the jail, escorted and introduced by him, in order that the capers of the populace might be checked. was veil ol the Judge, but It did not appear to assuajre in any degree the a ngerof the crowd, whoso coarse insolence was as freely displayed as before. Mrs. Spring does not stand alone. A lady who preceded her was likewise treated, and, ycrV fortunately, showed an equal disregard fpr all that was said or done during her yisit.

Here is her benediction, pronounced after her departure The wife of Judge Russell, of Boston, accompanied him here for the purpose of paying her respects to the marauder Brown. She was permitted to visit him his cell, and we are informed that the meeting was of an affecting character she embraced him as a martyr in the cause which she had deeply at heart, and her deep commiseration and sympathy for his fate quite overcame her ladyship, and she burst forth into avrnnafH-v this. a llOOU. Ul nwinui for a scoundrel whose purpose was to place those or rX tho tmhridled ner own sex in nnim in uiv pasions of cut-throats and villains I Her presence here upon such a million was doing riolence to the feelings of our mothers, wives and sisters, and we are glad she made her stay but a short one." From the Sew York Independent, Nov. 16.

INTERVIEW WITH MRS. BROWN. I write this morning, on board a Bteamboat, a hasty account of a personal interview last evening with Mrs. Mary Brown, wire of Capt. John Brown, now under sentence of death in Virginia, for having bravely failed in a brave deed.

1 conversed with her during the entire evening. But only ten minutes' acquaintance is enough to show that she is a woman worthy to be the wife of such a man. She is tall, large, and muscular, giving the impression at first sight of a frame capable of great strength and long endurance. Her. face is grave and thoughtful, wearing even in this hour of her trial an expression of soberness rather than of sadness, as if, like her husband, she had long since learned how to suffer, and be calm.

Hermanner is singularly quiet and retiring, although her natural simplicity and modesty cannot hide the evident force of her character, and strength of will and judgment which Lave fitted her so long to be a counselor to her husband's enterprises, and a supporter iu his trials. She is a native of Whitehall, near Lake Champlain, and has been the mother of thirteen children but, notwithstanding the cares of her numerous family, and her many privations and struggles independent of household'burdens, she still appears as fresh and hale as if she were only now in the primo and vigor of life. A NEWSPAPER The conversation of course, was of the scenes at Harper's Ferry both those which have already been enacted, and those which are shortly to follow. She alluded, with subdued though evident emotion, to the wounds of her husband, and to the loss of her two sons, Watson and Oliver, who fell in the strug gle. But she made no such remark as that recently attributed to her in a New-England newspaper, 4 that four of her sons had already been slain, and 6he would be willing that all the rest of her family should be made a sacrifice, if necessary, to the cause of These words, she said to me, could never possibly have fallen from her lips for she had already felt too many griefs to court any fresh sacrifices and she could not think, without pain, of any new death-stroke to her family.

She would not shrink from any necessary trial or struggle when the hour came for it, but she could not look forward with composure to any further lessening of her family, already too padly broken. She regretted that such a remark should have been put in her mouth, 4 as she observed, 4 they were unmotherly She said that she had been so long accustomed to sorrows that she had been trained to bear them. While living in Ohio, four of her children died from dysentery, within eleven days, three of whom were carried to the grave together on the same day She mentioned in this connection that her husband had always been a watchful nurse, and the chief caretaker of the children and of herself, during periods of sickness. CAPTAIN BROWN'S RELIGIOUS CHARACTER. I adverted, in alluding to Capt.

Brown's religious opinions, to the common report that he was an Old School Presbyterian. She replied that he had been i i united, when 16 years of age, with a Congregational Church in Hudson, Ohio and that on removing to Pennsylvania, thirty years ago, he transferred his membership to the Presbyterian Church, with which he had since remained connected. She said that the religious element of his character had always been the ruling motive of his life, lie had always observed religious exercises in his house with exemplary regularity. It had been for many years the custom of the family to read the Bible every morning, in regular course of chapters, each member reading in turn verse. She said that her husband's familiarity with texts of Scripture was so great that he could detect almost the slightest misquotation of any passage, and that if a portion of a verse, in almost any part of the Bible, was read or repeated to him, he could immediately repeat the remainder.

HU conversation frequently abounded with Scripture texts, and his letters were always filled with them. I asked if she knew what were his favorite passages, to which she replied 4 He had a great many but one was, Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them. How nobly his life has proved his deep-hearted sympathy for the slave In his habits of living, his wife testified that he was always singularly self-denying. As an example, he never suffered himself or his fan-ily to wear expensive clothing. His standing admonition was, 4 Let us save the money, and give to the Day before yesterday, when some clothes were sent from New York to go in a box to her husband, among the articles was a new coat of fine, brown cloth, which, when it was shown to her, 6he immediately pronounced too gay for her husband to wear.

It was accordingly sent back and last evening there came in return a coarser coat, which would better suit his taste, and which the brave old Puritan might not think too good for him to put on He never in his life has used tobacco or ardent spirits, and nev er, until within the last few years, has taken- tea or coffee. IIi3 mode of living has been so rigidly temperate that, in Kansas, he would sometimes go for days with scarcely a mouthful of food, andTsuffer no faintness or exiiaustion. HIS LONG-MEDITATED DESIGN. I referred incidentally to the design upon Harper's Ferry as having been premeditated for two years, to which she indignantly replied 4 Not fob two years, but for twenty -He had been waiting for twenty years for some opportunity to free the slaves we had all been waiting, with him, the proper time when he should put his resolve into action and when, at last, the enterprise of Harper's Ferry was planned, we all thought that the time bad now come. Mr.

Brown was sanguine of success we all were equally confident he had no idea, nor had any of the family, that the experiment would result in defeat we all looked to it as fulfilling the hopes of many years As I listened to this, I could not help half exclaiming, 4 What heroic words! What a man What a woman I wrote down these sentences a few moments after they were uttered, and as I repeated them to her, she added 4 For he has borne the yoke of the oppressed as if upon his own neck for these thirty years She made several and repeated references to various newspaper accounts, in which her husband's character had been misrepresented. She bad been pained to see him descrioeu as cruel, lor, as she 6aid, rso man ever had a kinder heart. He is generous by nature, lla has always aiineu to impress his family with a spirit of benevolence, lie has always taught his children to be unselfish tact always for others before acting for themselves, llis sympathies for the poor and the oppressed have always been too easily I inquired as to his habit of carrying firearms about his person. She 6aid that since the many threats upon his life during and since bis efforts in Kansas, he had carried a revolver; but never before. IS BS INSANE? I then put the question which I had been chiefly solicitous to ask 4 It is the common talk of the newspapers that Capt.

Brown is insane. What do you say to that I never inew, she replied, of his insanity, until I read it in the newspapers. He is a clear-headed man. He has always been, and is now entirely in his right mind. He is always cool, deliberate, and never over-hasty; but be has always considered that bis first perceptions of duty, and his first impulses to action were the best, and the safest to be followed, lie had almost always acted upon his first suggce.

THE I tions. No, he is not insane. His Teason is clear. His lost act was the result, as all his other acts have been, of his truest and strongest conscientious Theodore Tilton. AID FOR THE FAMILY OF JOHN" BROWN.

In his letter to Mrs. L. Maria Child, John Brown says: I hare at home a wife and three younjf daughters, the youngest but little over fire years old, the oldest nearly sixteen. I have also two daughters-in-law, whose husbands have both fallen near me here. There is also another widow, Mrs.

Thompson, whose husband fell here. Whether she is a mother or not, I cannot ay. All these, my wife included, lire at North Elba, Essex county, New York. I have a middle-aged son, who has been, in some degree, a cripple from his childhood, who would have as much as he could do to earn a lirinjr. He was a most dreadful sufferer in Kansas, and Iott all he had laid up.

lie has not enough to clothe himself for the winter comfortably. I have no living son, or son-in-law, who did not suffer terribly in Kansas. Now, dear friend, would you not as soon contribute fifty cents now, and a like sum yearly, for the relief of those ycry poor and deeply-afflicted persons To enable them to supply themselves and their children with bread and very plain clothing, and to enable the children to receive a common English education Will you also devote your own energies to induce others to join you in giving a like amount, or any other amount, to constitute a little fund for the purpose Friends of Freedom at the North, to these simple and touching words, nothing more effective and affecting can be added. The story is here in its simplest and saddest form. Widows and fatherless children and all for liberty Slain for a principle Tho heads of the entire family slain All the male members cutoff! And this in the Nineteenth Century, and this amid a free people! If there be any braver man in tho country than John Brown, let him criticise John Brown at Harper's Ferry.

If not, let another generation pass upon the fact and its author. Our duties now are with and for the living. God and history will have a care for the dead. Friends at the North, what will you do for John Brown's family? I have a photograph of the old man presented to me by his own hands, an admirable likeness. Let all who sympathize in the purpose send each a dollar, and I will forward for each such sum an exact copy of the original, and with it, if possible, John Brown's autograph.

The proceeds from ten thousand such copies will produce a fund of eight thousand dollars for the benefit of the helpless and afflicted ones, whom the Kansas hero so touch ingly commends to our sympathies and care. Suitable acknowledgment of funds received and applied will be made from time to time through the columns of The New York Tribcne. The photographs can be sent by mail, as music is sent, at the expense of a 6tamp, which may be inclosed with the order. Address me at New York. Thaddecs Hyatt.

New York, Nov. 14, 1859. THE JOHN BROWHT FUND. To the Editor of the New York Tribune Sir: Thirty-five dollars have been sent in to-day on the first short notice that a practical way was opened to relieve John Brown's family. This hearty and instantaneous response satisfies me that there will be no difficulty in disposing of 10,000 copies of the old man's photographs the moment the news spreads through the country.

A correspondent asks the following questions First: 4 Mr. Hyatt, how can you get so many autographs? Is old John Brown busy writing them now Second: How goon will you commence delivering the picture, and will they all be actual photographs or engravings Third! How will you deliver the pictures I reply The autographs will be photographic copies of the old man's signature, taken at tho same time with the likeness. The pictures will te ready to commence delivery on the nrst ot Uecem- Kni PHw en Vcr! Knria xvill Viiwiitra Kiiiro 6uivc. xiiey will all be photographs, and not engravings. Subscribers through the country will receive theirs by mail, unless otherwise ordered The pictures will bo delivered on the principle of 4 first come, nrst 6erve the earliest orders will be first filled.

Ihaddets Hyatt. A'cw York, Nov. 5, 1859. Snt Julr-cnttim BOSTON, NOVEMBER 25, 1859. EXECUTION' OF CAPT.

JOHN BROWN. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Auti-Slavery Society, held in Boston, Nov. 1st, the following Resolution was adopted Kesolved, That it is recommended to the friends of impartial freedom throughout the Free States, in case of the execution of Capt. John Brown, now on trial for his life in Virginia, to observe that tragical event, on the day of its occcrrence, in such man ner as by them may be deemed most appropriate in their various localities whether by public meetings and addresses, the adoption of resolutions, private conferences, or any other justifiable mode of action for the furtherance of the Anti-Slavery cause, and renewedly to consecrate themselves to the patriotic and Christion work of effecting the abolition of that most dangerous, unnatural, cruel and impious system of slavery, which is the fruitful source of all our sectional heart-burnings and conflicts, which powerJ fully and increasingly tends to promote servile insurrection and civil war, which ennnot be more truly or more comprehensively described than as the of ail. villaniel, which a burning disgrace and fear ful curse to the whole country, and by the speedy ex tinction of which, alone, can the land be saved from violence, blood, and utter demoralization.

This recommendation lias been widely copied the press, and is favorably regarded in all directions. The Committee leave the mode and hour of observ ance to local choice. It will be observed that their appeal is not to abolitionists in special, but to all who profess to deplore the existence of slavery, the great source of all our national troubles, perils, and threat ening judgments. The object of it is to make a strong moral demonstration that shall powerfully impress the South, and to gather up and concentrate the feel ings and sympathies engendered by the occasion into a live thunderbolt, to be hurled with divine assist ance at the head of the Colossal Iniquity of the land. It is probable that a public meeting will be held in Boston on the evening of Dec.

2d, with reference to the ttragic event of the day. Vghould the necessary arrangements be made, due notice will be given in the daily' papers of the city. In whatever form that event may be observed, it is suggested that contributions should then be taken up for the benefit of the suffering family of Capt. Brown and those of his slaughtered sous and associates, un less previously made. CP The meeting held at the Tremont Temple, in Boston, on Saturday evening Inst, in aid of the suf fering families of John Brown and his associates, was a most significant and cheering indication of the won derful change going on in public sentiment at the North, favorable to the cause of universal emancipation.

Though called at scarcely a day's notice, on an evening the most inconvenient to the public generally, and in a very unpropitious state of the weather, more than two thousand persons promptly assembled, at 25 cents a ticket, embodying an amount of intellectual force and moral excellence not to be surpassed and a more united and enthusiastic audience never assembled within the walls of the Temple. A letter was read from Rev. Mr. Hepworth, ignobly retracting his promise to speak at the meeting, and couched in a heartless and condemnatory tone, to the general disgust and contempt of those present. The speech of Key.

Mr. Manning well deserved the warm approbation it received. We copy the report of the proceedings from the Oowier, as the fullest and best. It A MEETING IN AID OF TBS FA MILY OF JO JIN DRO WN. The meeting in Tremont Temple on Saturday evening, gathered in response to the invitation addressed to those sympathizing with the family of John Brown their poverty and large and quite enthusiastic.

The speakers announced to address the meeting were Mr. John A. Andrew, Rev. George H. nepworth, Mr.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rev. Jacob M. Manning, and Mr. Wendell Phillips. They were present, with the exception of Rev.

George II. vHepworth, whose absence was explained by the following card, which appeared in the Transcript on Saturday afternoon, and subsequently in the Gazette: A Card. I wisb to correct a slight error concerning the speech I was to have made at the Temple to-night. i The advertisement does me great injustice. I laid great emphasis, when I was invited to speak, on the fact that my opinions would contradict the spirit of the meeting.

I supposed there would bo speeches on both sides of the subject, and it was understood that I would assume the negative. The advertisement, however, conveys to the public no such impression. I deem this sufficient reason for declining to speak at all. G. H.

HEPWORTH. Saturday, Nov. 10, 1859. Mr. John A.

Andrew, who was chosen to preside at the meeting, came on the platform at 7 o'clock, accompanied by the liev. Rollin H. Neale, Rev. J. M.

Manning, and Mr. Wendell Phillips. At the conclusion of the prayer by Rev. IL II. Neale, Mr.

Ralph Waldo Emerson ascended the platform, leaning on the arm of Mr. Charles W. Slack, and was received with immense applause. A carefully prepared verbatim report of the speeches made on this occasion will he found below. Mr.

John A. Andrew opened the meeting with the following remarks Ladies and Gentlemen, Before proceeding to the other exercises and offices of this meeting, I doubt not that it will be entirely accordant with the feelings of you all, as it certainly is with the proprieties and solemnities of an occasion like this, that the au- dience should first unite in a solemn act of religious worship. To that end, I invite you to join in prayer with Reverend Doctor Neale. pit. xeale's prater.

Let ns unite in prayer. Oh God, we rejoice that thou art ever nigh that though Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, dwelling in light which no man can ap- proach unto, tiiou art yet not far from every one; of us, that we may ask counsel of 'Him whose wisuom 13 lnnnue, wno is reuuy to guiue us in me path of duty, and to prepare us to meet every responsibility that rests upon us. We rejoice that in our weakness, we may lean upon Divine strength, and out of thy fulness receive even grace lor grace. We rejoice that thou art ever present with all those 1 ject of Mr. Hyatt, of New York, by which photograph-that call upon thy name in sincerity and in truth Jc likeneMei of t.

Brown are to be placed on sale that thou art present to guide by thy counsel, lead by thy care, and supply abundantly all our a short profits of which will go to the needs, according to tho riches of thy glory Christ benefit of Mr. Brown's family. I am also requested Jesus. Wo pray. Oh God, that thou wilt be with by a gentleman of this city, to say that he has caused us on the present occasion guide us in the proceed- the address of Capt.

JohnBrown to the Virginia court, ings of the present meeting. We pray especially uyon lhe reCeption of his death sentence, to be printer him who has so extensively excited the public ed in neat form rvalion. sympathy and aporobation. render thanks to thee for the noble spirit of generosity and of fidelity l6 speaker here exhibited a large illuminated and of bravery which he has manifested, and his card, on which the document is printed. It has the deep sympathy for the oppressed.

We thank thee additional attraction of a fac-simile of the signature that he is sustained in the present trying hour by a ef Capt. Brown. This will be for sale at the door at consciousness of havinjr acted in accordance with 1 ,1, 7 the low price of ten eents each. A thousand copies his sense of obligation to God and we pray ho may be sustained to the last. May he enjoy the hnve Btruck off an1 the whole Peed will go light 01 my presence ana my sustaining power, ana a hope lull of immortality, looking forward to a world where there is no sin, no suffering, no op pression of any kind.

We pray fur his family, Oh that in this hour ot meir suffering and sorrow, they may have communion with thee, and we pray that tney may nave a rich experience ot thy goodness, of thy love, of the consolation of thy grace. We pray that thou wilt be with them especially in the scenes of intense suffering which they now anticipate. Oh, De thou their guide, be thou their consolation, thou their support. And we rejoice, Oh God, that the circumstances which aro occurring, all the trying scenes of life, are in thy control. The events which have recently occurred we know are capable of subserving the wisest and most omniscient purposes.

The Lord reigneth, and we will ever rejoice. Bi with us in the proceedings of the present meeting, and prepare us for all the duties of life, and for the enjoyment of life hereafter and to thy great and glorious name shall be the praise forevermore. SPEECH OF MR. ANDREW. At the conclusion of Dr.

Neale's prayer, Mr. Andrew said Ladies and gentlemen Obedient to the commands of the gentlemen who arranged the meeting on this occasion, I am here present to occupy the simple and inarduous duties of chairman. They do not impose upon me the office of speech, and I hardly deem it consistent with the proprieties of the position I hold. It simply is incumbent upon me to say a single word by way of explanation, of the order and arrangement and principles of this meeting, and to present to you the distinguished and eloquent friends who have com plied with the invitation of the committee, and are here preent to address this audience. Many hearts were touched by the words of John Brown, in a recent letter to Lydia Maria Child I have at home a wife and three young daughters, the youngest but little over five years old, the oldest nearly sixteen.

I also have two daughters-in-law, whose husbands have both fallen near me here. There is also another widow, Mrs. Thompson, whose husband fell here. Whether she is a mother or not, I cannot say. I have a middle-aged son, who has been, in some degree, a cripple from his childhood, who would have as much ns he could well do to earn a living, lie has not enough to clothe himself for the winter John Brown and his companions in the conflict at Harper's Terry, those who fell there and those who are to suffer upon the scaffold, are victims or martyrs to an idea.

There is an irresistible conflict (great applause) between Freedom and Slavery, as old and as immortal as the irrepresssible conflict between right and wrong. They are among the martyrs of that conflict. I pause not now to consider, because it is wholly outside of the duty or the thought of this assembly to-night, whether the enterprise of John Brown and his associates in Virginia was wise or foolish, right or wrong I only know that whether the enterprise itself was the one or the other, John Brown himself is right. (Applause.) I sympathize with the man. I sympathize with the idea, because I sympathize with and believe in the eternal right.

They who are de pendent upon him, and his sons and his associates in the battle at Harper's Ferry, have a right to call upon us who have professed to believe, or who have in any manner or measure taught, the doctrine of the rights of man as applied to the colored slaves of the South, to stand by them in their bereavement, whether those husbands and fathers and brothers wero right or wrong. (Applause.) And therefore we ha7e met to take counsel together, and assist each other in the arrangement and apportionment of means for the pur pose of securing to those widowed and bereaved wives and families the necessities of mere mortal existence, which the striking down of husbands and sons and brothers has left them bereft of. The committee for this evening had invited to address you the Rev. Mr. Manuing, Mr.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Mr. Wendell Phillips. Added to these gentlemen was the Rev. George H. Hepworth.

Mr. Manning, Mr. Em-erso-i, and Mr. Phillips are here to speak for themselves. Mr.

Hepworth has addressed to a member of the committee the following note: Bostos, Noy. 19. Dear Sir, I shall not be with you to-night to speak concerning the great question of the day, because I feel that the advertisement in the papers has compromised my position. It does not tell that truth which is of prime importance to me, that both sides of th question were to be discussed. It gives a decided im.

pression that those Who were to spenk favored the whole movement, whereas I am severely opposed to it. Feeling that I should be out of harmony with the meeting, I remain away. Yours, truly, (Signed) George II. Hefwouth. The gentlemen who invited Mr.

Hepworth and the other gentlemen who are present to-night, to occupy this platform, attempted to make themselves explicitly understood, and it is quite misfortune either to them or Mr. Hepworth, or to all, that they did not succeed 1 in that instance. This platform is entirely free from the expression of any sentiment on the part of those who occupy it, touching the subject matter of the meeting. It was not suspected by anybody that there were two sides to the question whether John Brown's wife and children should be left to starve or not. (Long continued applause.) On that issue I expect no considerable acrimony of debate between the gentlemen of extreme orthodoxy and of extreme heterodoxy whom I shall have the honor hereafter to present to you Upon this platform.

Gentlemen, all of them, of marked, of intelligent, of decided opinions, and of entire respect for themselves and for their own individuality, they will each present such aspect of this great cause, and of this most touching and pathetic case, as occurs to them. It will not compromise Mr. Phillips that he sits upon a platform consecrated by the prayer of the Rev. Dr. Neale, and it will not compromise the Rev.

Mr. Manning that he works tonight side by side and hand in hand with Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the cause of God and humanity. (Applause.) Standing in the valley of the shadow of death, looking, each man, from himself toward that infinite and eternal centre of life and love and power, the Infinite Father, all differences between us mortals and men become dwarfed into infinite littleness. We are to-night in the presence of a great and awful sorrow, which has fallen like a pall upon many families, whose hearts fail, whose affections are lacerated, and whose hopes are crushed all of hope left upon earth destroyed by an event which, under the Providence of God, I pray may be overruled for that good which was contemplated and intended by John Brown himself. But this is not my occasion for words.

I have only to invite you, friends, to listen with affectionate interest and feeling hearts to what you 6hall bear from hence to-night, and by practical sympathy and material aid, help to assuage those sufferings and those griefs. Among other instrumentalities for the aid of the family of Mr. Brown and those of his immediate associates, in addition to the collection which may be realized by the sale of tickets at the door, there will be a committee appointed this evening, for he Durncse of receivina- subscriDtions and donations. of whatever amount, from whatever friends choose to contribute of their substance; and this committee, having a central position here in Boston, will receive contributions from any part of the neighboring country. I am requested, also, to call attention to the pro- ucuict io ap the gentleman defraying the expenses of printing, himself.

(Applause.) I have now, ladies and gentlemen, the pleasure of the Key. air. Miskwu, or loion speech: of bet. 1. m.

man.viso, of thx old south CHCBCH. I feel greatly indebted to the gentleman who presides over this meeting, for the explanation he has made in regard to the objects which have called us together for if I had understood the objects of the meeting as they seem to have been understood by the gentleman whose note has just been read, I should have been inclined to stay away. The gentleman who called on me, and invited me to speak here this evening, told me, and if I have read tho notice right in tho paper that also tells us, that this is a meeting in which we are to express sympathy for the family of John Brown. (Applause.) And I suppose that if there were a destitute family in Boston, and I should take my little baket of provisions, and go to relieve thnt family, and should there meet the distinguished gentlemen who are on the stage this evening, and who are to speak to you, or if I should meet others of adverse religious sentiments who may be in the audience, I suppose we could each leave the little gifts we had brought, end go away without quarrelling. I cannot see any negative to the question.

It seems to me it is all affirmative, so far as this is concerned, and if there is a negative, there is not an instinct of my humanity but it cries out, and tells me not to be on that side. I suppose, from what I hav honnl. so far as religious sentiment is concerned, I am more nearly in sympathy with that prisoner in Charlestown jail, Virginia, than perhaps others who may address you this evening, and in this respect may number with myself that honored minister of Christ, who has led in our devotions this evening. You have expressed your sympathy wilh the family of John Brown by purchasing tickets; we express our sympathies by declaring our opinions, and it is rather difficult for me to speak without alluding to that outbreak at Harper's Ferry, and giving my judgment upon it; and though in some particulars I may differ from many who are present, probably from some who will speak, I think that in the main we shall agree. The act of John Brown was not one to which I could have advised him.

If he had come to me while he was meditating that undertaking, and asked me whether he should go forward or not, I should have told him to refrain. I should have said to him, You will be performing an unlawful, a fool-hardy, a suicidal And yet, when I make this remark, I remember that we have filibusters who go to Central America to liberate those living under Spanish tyranny, as they call it and it seems to me that if our General Government winks at their iniquity, it has no right to pounce upon John Brown for what he has done, because he is a weak man, alone, and because he has meddled with something which' affects the relations of political parties. I could not have advis ed him to it, and yet, now that the event has taken place, 1 stand before it wondering and admirinjr ap plause.) I remember that it is something which he has been revolving in his mind for years, until his soul has become possessed with the idea. He say he is not insane. I believe he is a good man, and nas oeen doing that which he thought was right; and the only explanation I can now give is, that he has been the instrument of Providence in this.

The distinguished speaker who is to follow me would call a should prefer to call it God. mv enly Father, who has used this man. John own, as His sword, to inflict a wound on the Slave Power. Whatever we may say of it, he has been possessed Power higher than man's. A.

ne is uoa finger coming forth in the halls of the great modern Belsharzar, and writing over against the wall those mysterious, yet appalling words, at which the monarch trembles, and turns Dale on hi tnrone. While we are here thie eveninz. knowing uut wives not present and our little ones. stay safely in our homes, there are mothers in the southern States, whom the Providence of God h. made the wives of slaveholders, innocent of this great sin.

who may say that Providence placed them in their present circumstances and these wives and mothers to-night, as they gather their children a. round them, offer tho prayer that the m. 1- -NOVEMBER 25. protected from the invader. And they willT with weapons under their pillows, knowing ihty streets are patrolled by an armed police.

TP condition of the Southern States verily, tli trembles, and turns pale in the midst of kk tlrtI (Applause.) rn. It has seemed to me that we might, pej a juster view of this transaction by comparing rsrallel case, lying back two or three geitjJl'." history the Boston Massacre of March the fitfTr tt sacrificing his life in behalf of enslaved blc Crispus Attucks, not a citizen of Boston, bat of dlesex County, came to this city nfcen theinUlnJT were full of terror, greatly excited by tlieprew1 two regiments of British soldiers; aBdontkeer of March th, there was an outbreak in King now State street, headed by Ctispus Attacks, resulted in his own death and that of several of hj rades, at the hands of the British soldiery. Xow been living at that time, and Crispua Attncks come to me, and asked my advice in regard to matter, I could not have advised him to onaer it. (Laughter.) I should have said to him, restrain your feeling. I think that Samuel AU and John Adams and John Hancock and Warren one of his eulogists afterwards- woaldksn given him the same advice, had he come to them t.

it oewrenanu inu 1 oeueve mat lew if any histoci-ans have commended that outbreak in Kingstrwrt. I have never seen a full and thorough endorsement it in itself considered. But after the event, they a funeral and the citizens of Boston airth abreast through the streets, the carriage and they carried Crispus Attacks and his fellow vie! tims to the middle burying-gToand, now overlook by the Athenmum, and over their remains erased a 6tone, and on it carved this inscription: Long as in freedom's cause the wise contend Dear to your country, shall your fame extend While to the world the lettered stone shall tell How Caldwell, Attucks, Gray and Maverick And when the anniversary of that tragedy caot round the fifth of March they observed it in tit Old South Church, still standing. (Applaue.) Tknt was an oration, and the wounded survivors of tbi massacre were present on the stage, in tuary of freedom, and a collection was taken in las behalf. And so it grew to a custom.

Andthekt public address that Joseph Warren ever made, a few weeks before the battle of Bunker Hill, was on that on casion, when he was surrounded by British soldiery, some of them standing in the pulpit with him, tilling him to desist. But he spoke on like a man, (apjjUuw,) and they did not dare to touch a hair of his hei -And when the Declaration of Independence was pro. mulgnted, they changed that celebration, in honor of the event, from the fifth of March to the founk of Juljf (Applause.) Thus it is that we have com to have our annual oration on the fourth ot Julj.vhid has given us so many excellent orations, Cnioo-saying, which of latter years have made our City Fathers so much pleasant work, all growing pt of that same Boston massacre, to which I could not hire advised the leader, if he had come to me beforehand. (Laughter.) Even Daniel Webster has said that 'frcrn that moment, the moment when the blood of tio men stained the pavement of King street, we tny date the severance of the British empire. And sol say, in regard to my brother John Brown if kt dies, as it seems he must, for the Virginian are between two fears an immediate fear that 1 volcano will explode under them, and a mora distant fear that they shall not reap tie fruit of political success and I am afraid that the immediate fear, as is apt to th will overpower that which is moro remote, and therefore that JohnBrown will suffer the sentence which ha be ro curarwl upon him and if he does, and if that event should be observed next year, when it comes round and 10 on from year to year and if, half a century knee, ear children should be rid of this great national curt tt slavery, then no one will refer, except with pride and exultation, to the bat tie of Harper's Ferry.

(Applause.) And there will come forth some other Daniel Webster, who, standing at a safe distance from the CTent, (laughter and cheers) will say that from tie tin ktt John Brown swung between heaven and earth, we may date the beginning of the end of American slavery. There is another parallel ia these tw cases. It is amusing to read the journals of that early day, especially those in the interest of the English Government, about the year 1770, and ta see the curious explanations which they gie of the outbreak ia King street. They say that it was attributable to the influence of certain hot-headed ministers ad ethers in Boston some of them are named, names that we love and honor now. It was said.that these hid "produced an excitement in the country, and encouraged a fanatical spirit, which had resulted in ths nob and massacre.

But what said the people of Eostcar The selectmen called a town meeting, and they vent to Faneuil llalL It was sot large enough to kold them and again they went to the Old Soatk Churek, And they appointed a committee of which, if I aj-take not, Samuel Adams was the chairman to is tercede with the Governor, that tlose two resident of British soldiers might be removed front tte tityi for, said they, in aubstance, we deplore thi outbreak we regret that it has taken place we fear that ther will be other ootrages of the same kind, if ths ineil ment is not takea oat cf the Our people very much excited, end their conidsacea are wake ia this matter; and if you would not thU afiaix repeated naay times, you must rrooT tbs soldiers. And, after a great deal of chaffering unhesitating, the Governor complied with the request, and thus the inhabitants were pacified. Kow 1 lieve that they located the responsibility where it belonged. We believe that it was the presence those regiments of British eoldies and aol fc hot-hended ministers, who were' chorgabfe with tnt outbreak on King street. And juat so we wi regard to this affair at II arper'a Ferry.

The 'nala in the interest of the Slave Power ascribe it a few Northern fanatics, who have roused vp tha baser passions of men and they say that tee arefPa sible for the bloody acts -of John Brown and hias ciates. "But we say no, the rtyimenl are to Mara. The Slave Power itself, standing' up there ia K'" deformity and wickedness in the sight of Ki0 consciences, that is the cause, (applause,) sad th the responsibility belongs. The wise omon what does he say of oppression? He MJ that it 'maketh a wise man It if i it will make others like John Brown, if it i ken out of the way. It stand there continu" provocative.

We cannot resist auch a while we have humane instincts, and concience us. We may become men of distinct8 "like John Brown of Cawatomie, and Providene will use us to write ominous inscription in presence of this tyrant. And now it occurs to me, before I st dowa to Jir way to thoso whom I know you are waiting to hearr-. inasmuch as I have alluded to the removal tf the gre primal cause of these outbreaks, to speak of the sprit -in which we should endeavor to remove the 0 American slavery out of the I do not y'3 speak unkindly of any who have labored in rious cause of freedom, and I will not. But i thfX not room to suppose, my friends, that we have manifested enough of that spirit of love powerful in all lefonnatoty undertakings? not take back my words I would not have any a less faithful and plain-spoken, but more so.

up the wickedness and violence of this cannot we be loving at the same time-that we are t35" ful? ltuabe careful that the element of maliiP" does not mingle in our philanthropy. If we our fellow-men, wo must hate some things; bat.