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24. BEFPQE OF OPPRESSION. From the St. Louis Bulletin. GARRISON'S LAST.

Tb anniversary week in New York has fur-tahed Mr. Win. Lloyd Garrison and hid confreres tUi a fresh opportunity of indulging in their ac-customed luxury of cursing and swearing at the Constitution and the Union. Their execrations on tba occasion were rather more piquant and undilu-tti thin usual. Garrison was in fine feather, and ptsd and howled with a ferocious vehemence, resinning all hid oft repeated blasphemies with added rigor of foelinjr, and expression.

Ilia speech comes to as repotted in full in the Boston Liberator, and forms rather instructive reading in its way. Mr. garrison is a firm believer in social and political development and progress. In his magnanimity he ku soma pardon to bestow upon the 1 ram era of the Constitution, and the ancient devotees to the Union, i because tney uvea in uays oi ignorance, lhe 6un of Black Republicanism had not then flooded creation with its splendors. It had not then been discovered, as a law of political ethics, that solemn compromises made on a basis of equal justice, and from which during nearly a century the whole country had derived its amazing prosperity, were leagues 'wd covenants with the devil.

On the contrary, Mr. Garrison thinks that not only the Constitution, tut the star-spangled banner, is to be 4 He gnashes his teeth furiously at this symbol of our Mtiooal glory, tells us that it is 4 clotted with and gives us the remarkable and interesting information that it has been 4 torn a fact which will be new to most readers, who will be apt to imagine that the experiment of tearing it down would task the collective intrepidity of the whole tribe of Yankee Abolitionists. He tells us that it ii in the power of the North to emancipate the dives in the South in a single hour, and that without the shedding of a 6ingle drop of blood, though he does not enlighten us as to the particular method bf which this singular social phenomenon could be effected. We have no space nor disposition to ana-Ijie Mr. Garrison's loud plea for treason, but it is certainly remarkable as a logical development of the ikmous Rochester speech of Senator Seward.

As loch it will take its place in the Abolition literature and acta of the times, as an expression of Northern fanaticism and hatred to the South, which the lead-: en of the crusade against Southern rights might not think altogether politic perhaps, but which does not nry much from what they think and hope. 1 i THE ANNUAL HOWt 1 1 Hell is all the devils are Tempest. Tes, reader, they are all here, and the howl-igs'. began in the regular way-r-on Tuesday. We mer, of course, to the annual meeting of the Ameri-.

an Anti-Slavery Society, the main objects of which seen to be, to come, together once a year, to deify Sambo, to anathematize the Church, to execrate the Union, and to denounce the Constitution as a league with death and a covenant with the wicked one. These fanatics do not choose Gotham as their place ef rendezvous because of. any peculiar affinity of the KDtimencs of. our people with their own; on the eontrary, it is well understood that the opinions of fee great mass of this community are adverse to the thrieking fanaticism of such men as Parker, Garri-, sw, and Phillips; but New York is selected for the yearly howl mainly for the purpose of getting gra-tattoue advertisements in the widely-circulated me-' bopolitan journals, and of having, the movements of tint howlers thus kept prominently before the people. We have hitherto been wont to look upon these fanatical people with some degree of allowance, con-idering that in the ravings of their leading spirits, were only blowing off a superfluity of long pent op malignity, and that their wild rhetoric was but the precursor of the year's docility which was to follow.

But at this time the doings of this Conven-, tionof the 4 out-and-outs ought not to be under-. Rimated, intimately connected as it is in sentiment, if not in action, with the Sectional party which is to meet in conclave at Chicago. Under guise of religion, these 4 shriekers for freedom are endeavoring, as usual, to push along the car of radical Abolitionism. It cannot be pushed much further, artainlj, without touching, and getting Republi-aniio to harmonize with it. Indeed, we can have better proof of the Abolition tendencies of the Republican party than will probably be afforded by Reaction of these anniversary folk.

We may expect them the highest laudation of Lovejoy in Con-P, and Old Brown in Virginia, with the custom-. rj maledictions and anathemas upon everything everybody that does not come up to the spirit letter of their infatuation. N. V. Express.

the Fayetieville (2V. Presbyterian. DANIEL WORTH. The conduct of this deluded fanatic, since his re-tora to the North, fully establishes the truth of the ete on which he was arraigned before the Courts of Jorth Carolina, and the justice of the treatment be received for violating the laws. His guilt most clearly proved at his trial, but if any pJttnd existed for a reasonable "doubt, it has been Joved by his acts and acknowledgments since his kpwture.

He came here as an Abolition emissary, the tnciPt unrtov whiwt mistiioes he was sent elected him for the mission on account of his fitness for the work. Great leniency was jMifested towards him during the trial, and the aviest part of the penalty which he had incurred remitted in consideration of bis age and the calling which he had assumed, and which be so Jmefully dishonored. The punishment prescribed the offence is imprisonment for not lees than yette months, and it is left to the discretion of the to sentence the culprit to the pillory and the Pping-post. Worth was convicted after an impartial trial before a jury, a large majority of whom eon-alavebolders, and alter an able defence by i "oof the first lawyers in the State. The Judge "Hwinimously remitted the most ignominious and part of the punishment, and the reverend in-Ifdiary sentenced merely to imprisonment, this sentence he was released on bail, and the bond was given by two slaveholders.

A "fi slaveholder conducted him in safety from the and in ail possible haste he fled to his friends slliea at the North. The first Sabbath aftw bis r.lTl in New York, he is exhibited in Cheever's a hero and a martyr, and on the next night ooday of last week) the citizens of New York, W0le and black, old and young, men and women, embled at the City Assembly Rooms to hear the fctemeot of Rev. D. Worth, of North TOO MUCH NIOGEB." Toe Newburyport Herald, a Republican paper, feelir.glj Ttae are 18,000,000 people in the free States, have interests of their own to look after they commerce and fisheries, agriculture and man- SjrTxLOYD GARRISON. i Our Country is the World, our Countrymen are all Mankind.

SLPjl.T''' th.t th. p.i taming the their having skunks to play with in their parlor, 4 concession was grammatically made, sleep in their beds, to flavor their broth but when even tlicn the Parties cou not band themselves and -ofiuwenaren or political caucuses with them, we do have objections to their being carried there. So they may have their neirro nt him hnt lave liiinfc ruAtt s. JL Z. uyn wanl I .11 oiucs in in ere wnen we have a n- tariff bill, -we don't want a negro's wool there- tU1 to-day he had resolved to when we go to church, we don't want to have a lit TOte for Lincoln and Ilamlin, but he had to-day re-tle negro to worship at the door before we can bow ceived the Tribune, which contained an extract from at the altar.

We have had negro administrations Mr. Lincoln, and he said it with inexpressible sorrow. d. i (Lincoln is not in favor of the unconditional November, he will i 00,10 get na ot the everlasting nurzer. the! Herald would place the Government in thehands of negro-worshippers on the principle of homoeopa- I thy we snp'pose.

That is to say. if vou are suffer ing under an excess of neroism take mnn of it 1 Y. Y. Journal of Commerce. E2T Massachusetts, through her representatives, is inflicting nothing on the country but evil.

In both branches she is arraigning the local institutions of fifteen sovereign sister States, the people of which are as competent, in every way, to determine what is best for them, as the people of Massachusetts are to determine what is best for her. flow long will the people continue to endorse such folly? Will they follow Sumner into still deeper Abolitionism or, will they resolve to return to the spirit of the Union of the Fathers Boston Post. THE LIBERATOR. POLITICAL ANTI-SLAVEBY CONVENTION. Presuming that our readers would like to know something of what was said and done at the Political Anti-Slavery Convention held at Boston on the 29th in response to a call issued by Stephen S.

Foster, Kev. John Pierpont, J. H. Stephenson and others, we have condensed the following from the reports in the Boston papers. The reader will know how to make allowance for the prejudices as well as the haste of the reporters.

At 10 o'clock, A. Tuesday, May 29th, some fifty persons assembled in Mercantile Hall, pursuant to a call for a new political' oreanizatioo. very. J. H.

Stephenson called the meeting to order, and read the call for which see Liberator of May 25th. On his motion, the following officers were chosen President Rev. John Pierpont Secretaries Philemon Stacy, 7. H. Fowler; Business Committee S.

S. Foster, J. Kedpath, G. Allen, C. W.

Eldridge, It. J. Hinton. On taking the chair, Mr. Pierpont declared that he bad always advocated political action in reference to slavery, as well as all other reforms.

He quoted lines of his own, composed twenty years ago, to illus trate his views. He urged eloquently on the men of New England action at the polls. The South asks to be let alone. That is just what the devil asked of Jesus of Nazareth. He proposed to initiate measures that should not let slavery alone.

Mr. J. P. Blanchard, of Boston, announced himself as a Republican voter, for he was willing to get all he could from them, but he could see that the Republicans fall far short of the work to be done, and he was willing to co-operate with this meeting. A letter was then read from Mr.

James Red path; declaring that he. had no faith in conventions, but oniy in in sworu uu but one anti-slavery convention since last December, I IT. h. ottennan and then he saw not the platform for the scanoia oi John Brown. He said he was pledged to the work of inciting an armed insurrection among the slaves of the South, and therefore could have nothing to do with peaceful agitation.

There is no help for slavery in hair-splitting New England, but only in the rail-splitting North-west. closed by declaring that he should vote for Lincoln and Hamlin, believing that their success would benefit the slave. Mr. S. S.

Foster declared himself astounded that such a man as Redpath should declare his willing-nu to vote for a man like Lincoln, who declared his willingness to be a slave-driver general. There is not a particle of difference between the Republicans and Democrats. Here a large number of persons denied Mr. Foster's positions, and he read the fourth resolution of the Chicago Platform, declaring that each State has the i exclusive right to manage us own aomesuc wm.uu-tions. Mr.

Foster continued, and endeavored to show that the Republican party has always sustained slsvery inviolate in the States where it exists. He said the object of this organization is to put the spirit of Gar-risonianism into th forms of law, and have an un compromising political party. He declared the United States Constitution to be eutirely anti-slavery, and that if its provisions were csrried out, slavery would cease in an hour: A gentleman asked Mr, Foster to favor the audience with the new light he had received on the Constitution, Mr. Foster having always ae clued the Constitution to be pro-slavery. Mr.

H. C. Wright rose and declared that he would not discuss slavery as a moral question. He would put his heel on all Constitutions, Bibles, parties and religions that recognize'the right of property in man. Mr.

R. J. Hinton spoke in behalf of Mr. Redpath and his views, and declared that the people of New England cannot appreciate the position of such men Reduath. In New England, men think and de liberate, but the West reduces to practice.

He defended the tnasMS of Republicans as being soundly anti-slavery, but only such men as Mr. Kedpath are ready to reduce anti-slavery principles to practice. Mr. Wright resumed by asking whether the Constitution sanctions slavery. It is purely a political question, and a fair one.

The South have the Con-titution in their favor. If parties, Congress, Legis- lstures and Courts can be relied on, it sanctions slavery. Mr. W. did not see how any roan could escape the position of the slaveholder.

Their position is impregnable, and slavery is constitutional. Mr. Pierpont spoke in behalf of the anti-slavery view of the Constitution, and briefly but clearly defended the Constitution as an anti-slavery dcument. He made a very logical and thorough speech, and con- its to it of of BOSTON. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1860.

successors to sustain slavery, for it is morally wrong, and therefore could not be constitutional. He said the time had come for the North to rise up and insist that the Constitution should be liter.llv rr5l He could not vote frtv man -Vi V. 1 A A 1. TT Mu wak view, ue couia not oe candidate for the Presidency. Mr.

Roberts, of Stockton, was glad to see that Mr. Foster had abandoned his old heresy, and he vvhvbii, it CUVIS, Was LUIS IJUBlLiUIl Ui hoped he would be consistent, and simply endeavor bring the majority ud to the risht "round, and place the government under anti-slavery influences. He recommended the meetingto vote1 the Republican ticket. Here quite a struggle took place for the floor, and was awarded to a stranger, who replied to the legal argument of Mr. Pierpont in a very able and thorough manner.

At 2 o'clock the meeting adjourned. ArTERNOox Skssiox. Mr. S. S.

Foster, Chairman the Business Committee, read the following resolutions as the platform of the association 1. Resolved, That the primary object of the movement we have this day met to inaugurate, is the immediate and entire extinction of slavery throughout the whole country, by incorporating into the administration of the Federal Government the broad and comprehensive principles of the Declaration of Independence, upon which the Union- was originally founded. "We hold that it is both the right and duty the slaves, equally with freemen, to defend their own liberty by every means which God and nature have-placed in their power, at whatever cost to the master and his abettors. We also hold it to be the imperative duty of the National Government to protect all the inhabitants of the country in the full en- invment -r tration or party which seeks to evade this duty, under any pretext whatever, we regard as false to the prin ciple of democratic government, false to the Constitution, false to every principle of moral obligation which binds us together as a civil community, a dishonor to the country, and utterly unworthy of the confidence and support of any sincere friend of freedom. 2.

Resolved, That the United States Constitution, fairly interpreted, is -entirely and unequivocally on the 6ide of freedom. It prohibits the existence of slavery in the States, and invests the Federal Government with ample powers to abolish it wherever found, whether under Territorial or State legislation, and we insist upon the immediate application of these powers to the removal of an evil which has already made our country a reproach to the cause of freedom throughout the civilized world. 3. Resolved, That we repudiate the anti-democratic doctrine of the Democratic party, that the Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter in all questions involving the interpretation of the By our theory of government, the people are the only rightful rulers of the country, and the Courts, as well as the Legislature and the Executive, are their agents, uh authority 8im to execute the popular will, of rMartna thrir view, ana tor sumcieni reasons to reverse, ineir ue-cisions and any Court, the Judges of which should refuse to obey the clearly-expressed wishes of a popular majority, would be an intolerable despotism, which should be at once abolished. 4.

Resolved, That the assumption that the Constitution recognizes slavery 4 by tacit 4 by indirect 4 by equivocal 4 by an outside understanding among its drafters, and 4 by the uniform interpretation given it by a corrupt government, composed mostly of slaveholders, when the word slave does not occur therein, nor any words which adequately describe a slave, nor any terms which im ply that there can be property in man, when its ex pressed objects contradict it, and many of its positive provisions forbid it, or are altogether incompatible with it when slavery at the time had not the shadow of positive law for its establishment in the country, but, on the contrary, had been pronounced illegal by the King's Bench in the Somerset decision, and le gally abolished by the Declaration of Independence. To make this assumption, in view of these facts, is to reverse the well-established principle that law should be interpreted to favor justice, and to render a just government among men an impossibility. The Chairman called the attention of the meeting to the presence of Rev. Mr. Worth, of North Carolina, who had been incarcerated for months in a Southern jail for circulating Helper's book, as a proof V.t nnltilol aofSnn fa iiiuKn tn nrnfopt til A flti- HO SSVfMA Vrf Mr.

S. S. Foster said the friends of anti-slavery are destroying each other by their divisions. Union among the friends of anti-6lavery is of the first importance. There ought to be a platform on which all can agree.

There ought to be a political platform on which a Garrisonian can stand, and a Garrisonian platform on which politicians can stand. Mr. Foster defended at length the Constitution as an anti-slavery instrument, giving a historical and logical exposition, and detailing the process of his own change of opinion. The Chairman here exhibited a photograph of Thad- deus Hyatt, which was received with demonstrations of applause. Mr, Foster finished his speech by saying that he believed that a party acting on this platfoitn only lacks numbers to give freedom to every slave.

Mr. Henry C. Wright controverted the positions of Messrs. Pierpont and Foster, and said, the only consistent thing for them to do, is to come out and advocate a Northern Confederacy, and not seek by this new movement to 4 whip the devil round the Mr. Foster made further remarks, and Wendell Phillips took the floor, and said that while he bad respect for the talent of those who held that i-the Constitution is anti-slavery, he had yet to see the smtllest homoeopathic amount of reason in all that had ever been said.

He declared that Omnipotence could not have framed a more unanswerable way of settling the fact'that the Constitution was intended to sanction slavery than history records. And such a party as is here contemplated can never accomplish anything. Mr. Phillips gave the principles of the new party a terrible overhauling, that seemed to be responded to by most of the audience. He said he was not sent into this world to free slaves, but to keep his troth with his brother, and then if slaves got free, well and good if not, the consequences rest with God.

-He characterized the government proposed by this movement as a nuisance, and the movement itself as a farce. Rer. Daniel "Worth (out on bail from a North Carolina jail for circulating Helper's book) said that moral action is insufficient to overthrow slavery. We must have political action. He said no vice could ever be controlled without political action, without law to suppress it: He said he was here to collect money to pay his bail, ($3,000.) or he must return and spend his days in a Southern jail.

Meeting adjourned. Evening Sessiox. At 8 o'clock a small audience was called to order, and Mr. J. H.

Stephenson took the floor. He gave to the Garrisonians great credit for the anti-slavery sentiment of the country, but he knew of no way of abolishing slavery but by voting. lie Democratic and Republican parties are not anti- slavery. We must attack slavery where it is, and not, as the Republican party does, where it is not. Even the Republicans condemn insurrection, and thus deny the right that every man possesses the right of revolution they confine their anti-slavery efforts to opposing the extension of slavery.

But we must have a political party based on anti-slavery principles. Mr. J. B. Swazey could not admit the reasoning of the advocates of this new movement, and he must be allowed to suppose that Mr.

Foster was as much mis taken now as he admits he has been for twenty years. The question of all others with the speaker is a practical one. good can such a partv do? It accomplish nnli 5 government and all parties, and protest against the act of our Government in enslaving four millions of men. He thought it was a new and hurt ful attempt at splitting the anti-slavery household. He thought all who desire anti-slavery action had better vote the Republican ticket.

Dr. Mellen here attempted to speak, but it was not pleasant to a portion of the hearers, and after an amusing discussion on the subject, Mr. Mellen spoke five minutes, and subsided with the declaration that he had been incarcerated in an insane hospital be cause the political parties feared that he would mar 1 their plans. Mr. Hinton, from the Committee, then reported the following additional resolution, after paying an eloquent tribute to Thaddeus Hyatt Resolved, As a preparatory means to secure the desired result, we now form ourselves into an association, to be known as Tbs Nrw Exglaxd Political Axti-Slavert Associatiox, and we recommend to the friends of liberty throughout New England, who sympathize with us in these views, to form affiliating associations on these principles, for the purpose of discussing them before the people, and preparing for their practical realization also recommend to our friends throughout the West to organize in the same manner and for the same purposes and we hope soon to see formed a general United States Association of Political Abolitionists, and very soon to see a National Political Anti-Slavery party, organized upon a platform of uncompromising hostility to slavery in every part of the United States, and as determined in their efforts throughout the whole extent of the country as the most rabid Southern State is now determined on its perpetuation.

Another resolution was offered, eulogistic of Thad deus Hyatt and his position. Mr. J. H. Fowler said that the Republican party was not an abolition one at all, and this drove us to form a new party, and he was ready, if need be, to put a dagger, a Sharp's rifle, or anything else in his hand to assist the slave in obtaining his freedom.

He wauld not support the nominees of the Republican party. Mr. Bunting, of Boston, a Republican, defended the Republican party. He said that the Republicans had sorted the right movement, and Mr. Lincoln was ging to carry it out.

Dr. Doy, of Kansas, denounced the Republican party, and spoke in favor of the new movement. An I excited debate ensued between Messrs. Bunting and Doy 1.1 relation to these two parties. Mr.

Foster again took the stand, and said that he was sarprised to hear Mr. Phillips say that men holding such sentiments as he (Foster) and Pierpont held in relation to the Constitution could not be men of common sense. He replied to Mr. Phillips's argument at great length, and at the conclusion of his remark, on motion of Mr. Hinton, the Convention adjourred to meet in Worcester some time during the summer, the time of meeting to be left with the President of the Convention and the Chairman of the Business Committee.

CHURCH ANTI-SLAVERY 8 This society held its anniversary by two public meetings at the Tremont Temple on Tuesday, May 29th. The speakers were Rev. J. It- W. Sloane, of the Reformed Presbyterian church, New York Rev.

A. W. Ide, Congregational church, Stafford, Rev. Jhn Duncan, Baptist church, Boston Rev. Daniel Worth, North Carolina; Rev.

Dunn, Free Will Btptist church, Boston Rev. J. S. Green, Sandwich Idanda Rer. Dr.

Cheever, New York. The Secretary, Rer. Henry T. Cheever, of Connecticut, submitiednhe following resolutions at the morning meetin, which were adopted 1. Resolved, That when the politicians of the most advanctd political school or party in bur country are coolly isserting that the only solution which the question of slavery admits of, among us, is the 4 confessedly cruel and unchristian process of driving them cat 'it is time for the friends of God and man, J.

B. who are opposed on grounds of eternal justice, to any solution of this question, thst is cruel and unchristian, to make themselves heard against such a policy and so much the more, because it is gravely argued, that, although the philanthropy and mercy of sensitive hearts may wail out their protests against its sin and its miseries, yet the fast-footed system of American slavery so laughs to scorn all the notions of humanity, and so threatens, if slavery be touched, 4 ta pull down the pillars of the political communities associated together, under a common government, that it will not do to entertain the question of the immediate, emancipation of the servile race, where they are found. 2. Resolved, Further, that when it is seriously maintained 4 that the separation of the white and black races ia all-important as a means of promoting national harmony and progress and when the idea of 4 negro and of a common participation, by the black man, in the protection and privileges of a free government, is ignored or scouted by political speculators and 'journalists, as belonging only to dreamers and enthusiasts, it is time for men of principle and. men of prayer, who believe that God hath made of one blood oil nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and that the rights of man, as man, are sacred and inalienable, without distinction' of blood or races, it is time for such Christian men, of all sects and denominations, to protest unitedly against these infidel views, in the name of our common Christianity, as being a practical denial of the fatherhood of God, and the common brotherhood of man.

3. Resolved, That it is for the Church Anti-Slavery Society, in the name of Christ, and as acting in behalf of the great company ot fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of Cod, everywhere to erect a breakwater against the infidel views, in regard to 4 negroes, and the descendants of which are becoming alarmingly prevalent in Church and State. 4. Resolved, That in the judgment of this meeting, there is grave reason to fear that the decisions of our judiciary, respecting 4 negroes and the descendants of which have contravened, not only the first principles of Natural Justice, but the jrery slurs in the United States Senate, at the protest and plea of a Christian conscience against usurpation, (a plea, by reason of which we are a Republic, to-day, because, in the language of Senator Hale, 4 men were found in the olden times who set up their consciences against the law of the existing there is grave reason to fear that these, and other alarming strides of despotism, will bring Christianity and the government into conflict, and, if not arrested, will ultimately array Christian churches, and Christian ministers, against the unchristian laws and policy of the land. 5.

Resolved, That we therefore deem it to be a le gitimate work of the Church Anti-Slavery Society, to rouse, and give expression to the Christian con science of the nation against slavery, and against whatever legislative or judicial Acta or Decisions are contrary to God's law and to natural justice, and by so doing, to make the christian zleuext or thb COUXTRT MORS POTENTIAL IX PUBLIC AFFAIRS, AXD TO PERVADE, IF POSSIBLE, TUB REALM OP POLITICS WITH THB PRINCIPLES OP RELIGION. At the evening meeting, the Secretary offered a se- ries of resolutions, respecting the imprisonment of Thaddeus. Hyatt, in Washington jail. He also read a' very eloquent letter from the prisoner. The follow-.

ing are the resolutions Whereas, at the moment we are assembled to dis- cuss, with unfettered freedom, all the aspects of our great national sin, and its relations to our government, there lies incarcerated in the Washington jail, at the order of' the United States Senate, an eminently worthy citizen of the United States, for the al- leged crime of refusing to acknowledge the right of a Senatorial Committee to compel him to testify, at their bidding, in the interest of slavery therefore we, in behalf of many Christian freemen insulted in his person, would take this occasion to" proffer him our warm sympathy, and our grateful acknowledgments for the integrity and firmness with which he has resisted a most dangerous usurpation of the Senate at the behest of Slavery. Resolved, That while we are justly indignant at the betrayal of liberty in this case by honorable Senators from the North, who took an unworthy and unlooked-for part in procuring the incarceration of our honest fellow-citizen, we have no language left to stigmatize the baseness of others who would turn away the public odium from the authors and abettors of this outrage, by slurring at the position of Mr. Hyatt as that of a mock philanthropist, envious of the glory of martyrdom. Incapable of believing that in the evil days of venality and corruption on which we have fallen, any one can be found to stand and suffer for a principle, they are forced to seek a mo tive for a disinterested act of courage and patriotism in the realm of selfishness and vanity. Resolved, That we congratulate the friends of free dom that there ia found among us a Hampden, who not only refuses to pay ship-money to Charles, but freely offers his own money from the prison-house of tyranny, for the best loyal and popular essay upon the very question for the assertion of which he is in bonds.

And we trust that the motto of the noble Hampden, Nulla Vestigia Retrorsum, will he maintained to the last by our suffering brother, with the uncompromising resolution to linger, and, if need be, die in prison, sooner than to purge himaelf of the alleged crime of contempt of the United States Sen ate by purging himself before in declaring that he believes the self-constituted Court of the Senate to have the constitutional right and authority to compel him to make answer to their HYATT MASS MEETIITO. A crowded and most enthusiastic assembly gathered in the Melodeon on Thursday evening, May 31st. R. J. Hinton, of Kansas, called the meeting to order, and it was organised by the choice of J.

H. Stephenson, as President, and R. J. Hinton, as Secretary. The case of Thaddeus Hyatt, in jail at Washington, was the subject before the meeting.

Samuel NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDZES. The United States Constitution to a oorenant wiife death, and an agreement with bell. The free States are the guardians and essen-i tial supports of slavery. We are the jailers and constable of the institution. There is-some excuse for communities, when, under a generous impulse they espouse the cause of the oppressed in other States, and by force restore their rights but they rt without excuse in aiding other Stale in binding on men ass unrighteous yoke.

On this subject, oca tjl.tb.xbs, VSt PRAXIxa THB CoXSTlTCTIOX, swerved rox TBI udiiT. We their children, at the end cf half a century, sco the path of duty more clearly than they, and must walk in it. To this point the public mind has long been tending, and the time has come for look, ing at it fully, dispassionately, and with manly and Christian resolution. No blessing of the Union' can be a compensation for taking part in the enslaving of our fellow-creatures nor ought this bond to be perpetuated, if experience shall demonstrate that it can only continue through our participation in wrong doing. To this conviction the free States are tending.

WlLLIAM ElLERY ChAXXIXO- YERRINTON SON, Printers. (WHOLE NUMBER, 1538. E. Sewall, the counsel of Mr. Hyatt, was the first speaker, and commenced by presenting resolutions condemning the imprisonment of Mr.

Hyatt in strong terms. Mr. Sewall remarked that all were familiar with the main points in the Hyatt case. A man is in a prison cell for no crime, but for an alleged contempt of the Senate a contempt based upon the fact that Mr. Hyatt wished to present his reasons for not appearing before that body.

The committee appointed to ex amine into the Harper's Ferry affair, summon witnesses, originated in the brain of Mr. Mason, author of the Fugitive Slave Law. The true object of the committee was to stigmatize the leaders of the Republican party the avowed object, to ascertain who had committed crimes called treason by Virginia. But the direct object failed the party is not injured by it, although they have acted meanly in reference to it. Men were sent for to convict themselves of crime! Giddings, Howe, Stearns, Andrew, and Sanborn from your own midst, who was rescued by your noble men, and women, too.

Refractory witnesses were reported by Mr. Mason a marshal was sent to Boston for Hyatt, and returned with one of his most heinous crimes being the raising of twenty-four hundred dollars for John Brown's family, with no pecuniary profit to himself. Mr. Sewall stated that Mr. Hyatt's refusal to answer the demands of the Senate was on constitutional grounds, that it had no right to act in a judicial capacity; and when two questions were propounded to him by the Senate, (1st, what ex cuse he had for not appearing and 2d, are you now ready to answer questions) he laid his argument before them, and this was called 4 contempt, and he was hurried to jail.

Hyatt is suffering for a great principle, and deserves aid and sympathy. F. B. Sanborn, of Concord fame, was next introduced, and received with most tumultuous applause. He avowed a peculiar interest in the occasion, a personal interest in constitutional rights violated by the Senate.

He spoke modestly of his own experience, and set forth in clear language the constitutional grounds taken by himself and other refractory Northern Senators were notified of the expected summons to Northern men, men who would never be takenaJir-s to thejribunal at Washington sacrifice principle to party. Sanborn said his casewas settled; John Brown, Jr. was settled; the whole United States cannot take him from Ohio. It is pos sible to take a man from Massachusetts it has been -done twice. Mr.

Hyatt's case has peculiar claims, because he threw himself into the jaws of the lion, for the sustaining of the rights of all citizens. Rev. Dr. Cheever, of New York, said the Senate la getting hold of Hyatt had caught a Tartar, and the people have found a Aero. Dr.

Cheever read a spirit- Led, high-toned letter received from Mr. Hyatt, who said he supposed he was to fight slavery in but no! 'twas in the prison, and as he 'understood the lions there, he could stir them up. Give us a Judiciary who have a sense of. right a heart and conscience in the people to take the Constitution, and apply it legally as it ean be done, and slsvery will be abolished. The Constitution can be used as a free instrument, and would that the gifted orator (Phillips) would use his magic eloquence in showing that slavery could claim no protection under the Constitution! The Court is free, if put in the hands of freedom lovers.

Hyatt's argument should be made public, and he has now the leisure to do it. A principle is being urged upon us that people are to obey wicked laws enacted by Congress Chief Justice Hale proclaimed the su- this idea may get into the heart of the American Board in this, their year of Jubilee a Jubilee to pay old debts I Let them make it a real Jubilee by declaring that no slaveholder shall become or remain a mem ber of any church under their charge. This would be a Jubilee. Because Hyatt talked of a conscience, 'twas contempt! "We all have a heartfelt conscientious con tempt of the Senate, but where is the law to punish? A jury trial is guarantied to all by the Constitution, but, in this Hyatt case, every right given us by our laws is violated. The Constitution- gives the Senate no power such as has been exercised; and if the Senate can assume it, as ii Am, what is the im of a Constitution i Where is the article giving any power to the Senate to use compulsory processes in testimony from witnesses forced before a mousing, miserable committee 'Twould be a blessing if our government could be tied up for fifty years, and prevented from enacting any law save one for abolishing slavery.

It is a sad omen that this Hyatt case is received so quietly by the American public I endorse the remark made by an eminent who has spoken in this city this week; who, when going into his prayer-meeting after hearing of the incarceration of Hyatt, said, Brethren, I am 10 mad I can't This is a madness that God will not disapprove of it is a 4 holy indignation People are bound to take Hyatt out of prison I do not say how; let Providence point the way. If the 8enate can use lynch law, why wonder that other mobs do likewise Dr. CheeTer's address was most enthusiastically applauded. James Redpath waa next called but declined being made a human sandwich between Cheever and Phillips. Wendell Phillips was received with tremendous applause, so long continued that the orator said the audience had made the speech for him.

Referring to Dr. Cheever, he asked what he could say when John Knox had spoken. He could not gainsay him let him thunder in God's name against every evil. He went on in his own impassioned style, receiving great applause. While giving Dr.

Cheever the compliment of being the noblest clergyman in the United States, and according him the highest praise as a fearless champion of liberty, yet, he could not agree with him on the constitutional question. Linking Hyatt with the glittering list of the safeguards of liberty, he analyzed the whole Hyatt subject in a masterly style, though in his own radical way. He offered two resolutions, bearing upon the subject before the meeting, which were adopted. The meeting broke up at the late hour of 104..