The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 2

7T bounty on perjury and the blackest treason that speaks it on the soul that breathes it It is resignation of Mr Webster gives nffiir a Tn a terrible ix Some of the Southern jour nals which feel very sore in relation to the slavery agitation are advising the Southern aristocracy not to visit Newport and other Northern watering plaeps thii summer nor in any way put money in the hands of the Yankees We can assure the slavocrats that they might have spared Newport from their list of places of non interconrse for she has some of the most Cringing sycophants to their beck of any place between the boundaries of Tophet and Orleans declare against your friends gentlemen Woonsocket 11 1) Patriot addi esses are to be delivered in the spirit of the occa sion I then rela A late letter from Washington to the Cleveland True Democrat iys 1 learn from a citizen of Georgetown that within the ist three weeks some thirty human have taken for a land of freedom This results in part from the fact that slave dealers have been quite busy of late in purchasing up large from the District and surrounding country and those who are left are fearful that their turn will soon come and hence some of them trust rather to their locomotive powers than to the handcuffs and chains for DISCOURSE OR THE TIMES BY AN INIDEL i At soft answer' turnethl away wrath but grievous words stir up Solomon It'bas been remarked by a modern writer that Jesus! of Nazareth did not escape the superstition of his I would say rather that the superstition of his tirnedidt not escape him: seized jit Daniel AVebster at tempted to seize the ree Soil thunder of his lags: But unlike Daniel he grasped if with a fl rip apl manly hand 5 wielded it successfully with A mighty power and turned it to the best possible account He caused even temporal errors to serve as illustra tions of eternal truths Whatever may have been thej nature brextent of his superstition certainly bis flg ures of were" not of a character calculated to detract aught from the life and of his abiding words soft answer turnqth away wrath' True but did soft ever cast out devils or in this enlightened age humanity is stiff sorely afflicted with" foul fiendsof error and junbelief Some of these may not be exorcised but by casting down Land mightily the unhappy victims of their powcr A pen ny whistle will scarcely serve even for the music of the Church The trumpet of of must sometimes shake the earth To wake the al full grown: voice is needed and error good nod evil are often strangely mingled Nothing short of a moral whirlwind can in some cases winnow thechaff from the good grain Often a heat' is indis 1 pensable to melt the moral elements in order to separ ate therdross the tfine gold' Now as of oldj inn are sometimes saved as by Is alarming? Troth hasr nothings to fear In name agitate Let the fiery trial come tl 7 1 Grievous words stir up anger' "Very well I The truth is always grievous to the votaries of error "What then? Shall the truth bo suppressed I noTn Proclaim the truth boldly 'and fearlessly however griev ous it may seem! Whether men will hear or'n6 pro claim it If any closo their eyes and cars theirs 'be the fault Let not the champions of truth then be charged with 'darkening the 7 light because forsooth men may choose to shut their eyes aghinst it When the truth makes men angry we who have faith as a grain of mustard seed should thank God and take Then may wc know the is working Who fears the result Devils may and but the righteous arc bold as a The wrath' of man may be made to praise God is a divinity that shapes our Take heed how ye 1 God speed the truth I Amen! Abolition Convention Parker Pillsbury writes to the Liberator that the Old Colony meeting last Sunday in Hingham came near being a failure Not a person was present from any of the Bridge waters Hanover Hanson nor even Plymouth ami but very few indeed from Abington (the banner town) or any where else from Courier This is very petty knavery on the part of the Courier but since that paper has given itself to the foul and despicable work of glorifying Daniel Web ster for his great apostacy it is capable of any mean ness and ought to be published in Charleston Itchuckles over the partial failure of the anti slavery convention at Hingham as though its editors had every thing staked upon the perpetuity of slaver' but it basely omits giving the reason for the small attendance on the occasion which was as Mr Pills bury stated in consequence of some mistake and con fusion in giving notice of the meeting It was almost universally supposed that the Convention was to be ield a week later The most contradictory b'mders is to the time were made in our paper and hence the lack of a more general ateadance WENDELL PHILLIPS A clergyman by the name of Corliss having ex pressed his fears that some of the advocates of the slaves were lacking in a duc'nppreciation ofthc Bible and were therefore tending to infidelity Mr Phillips rose and said "I to ay one word in regard to the remarks which have been addressed to us in order that the anti slavery enterprise may stand aright before this audience i It might be judged from the tone of the last speaker that the abolitionists see an enemy and amobstacle in the Bible He has been entreating us to have greatcrircgard for the Bible lie has been endeavoring to impress upon us reverence for that book 'i You might draw lhe inference that we needed such entreaties Now in behalf of the abolitionists lot me say wc have nothing to do with the Bible in regard to its merits or its faults except in one jxiint does is: sustain or rebuke slave) If any tqicaker wanders beyond that lie speaks on his own responsi bility" he speaks that for which this society is iiot amenable Perhaps it may be impossible for him to avoid expressing his private opinions the Bible as to other qiointa in the ourse ol illustrating some anti sla very topic Yet you are to take them as illustrations And when my friend oster introduced some specu lations of his own on other points than slavery he had no right to do it otherwise than as illustrations Now the friend who has just spoken think grant us this thnl no speaker unless it he Mr os ter has wandered beyond the? just limits of anti sla very discussion that our anti slavery speakers have never yet allowed that the Bible sustained slavery that we have lelt no need therefore to throw it over board And although we may put the question like my' fiend What woud you do in certain circumstances let it be remembered that the anti slavery enterprise puts such circumstances as merely fictitious hypothetical and claims the Bible as on its own side Prolonged applause 'Remember that although we loci there is enough inP mere without the Bible to condemn slavery that the verdict against it is so self evident as to destroy the title of any book to be thought in spired which sanctions such a system still wc so bringing any such accusation against the Bible 'have Always claimed it in behalf of justice and liberty is from Moses Stuart it is from Dan iel Webster it is from the church and the politicians that this attack on the Bible comes and not from us Loud cheers I know I am repeating things abund aiitly well known to all our friends but it 'is often the tcsult of such speeches as we have just heard that the audience" go aw ay under a rong impres sion" "I contend that every thing that has been said that the principles of these resolutions that the sub stratum of all that has been spoken all claim the Bi HeWa basis and" that confident the Bible is on our side we will not be forced into any position of seem ing hostility to it We have issues enough with this community 1 Because the clergy of our little day and neighbor hood pervert Scriptures shall that make us dis beieve them? No matter for the texts enough for us to know that on every field where justice has triumphed the Bible has led the van that tyrants in every age have hated it humanity in every step of its progress' has caught watchwords from its pa ges reedom of thought was won by those who would read it spite of Popes freedom of speech bv those who would expound it in defiance of Laud Lnthcr and Savonarola Howard and Oberlin enelon and AV ilbertorcePuritan and Huguenot Covenanter and Quaker all hugged it to their breasts It was to print the Bible that bold men fought for liberty of the precs When the oppressor hurries to place it in ev ery cottage when the slaveholder labors that hisslave may lx able to read it then will we begin to believe that Isaiah struggled to rivet every that Paul was opposed to giving every man that which is just and equal and that the New Testament was written to strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees of tottering iniquities 4 But not till then shall a few petty priests shut is' out from sympathy with and confidence in the noble army of martyrs and the glorious company of the a i optics Not till then shall the Stuarts and Way land with their little black gowns hide from us the burning light of the great Apo tle the Gentiles AY hat though holding up the Books they cry Sec here and look there note these specks on the sun wn know still it is the sun what is dark there to day ill perhaps be brightnes and light to morrow So with the Bible What though hero and there there should be isolat ed texUh which look inconsistent with the great spirit which informs the whole Coming years we know will show them like spots on the sun all bright with the splendid effulgence of infinite love Shall an am biguous line in Timothy cover up the whole sermon on the mount? No! wc stiU claim the Bible and bud as the American Church i it will take all its cunning and craft to make us doubt the purity of Jesus or the humanity of Paul Let those lock up the Bible who fear it our prayer it1 May it find it way into the hovel of every slave and the heart of cveiy legislator in the land 1 Oui original attempt was this to show that the Bible and Cari'tianity repudiate slavery or a long time in one unbroken phalanx the so called Christian Church denounced such a statement as inti lehty and from Atainc io Georgia from the Atlantic to the Mississip pi we had the unbroken siiidony of the Church that was pro slavery Nbw the Church is di vided AV have Henry AVardi Bceeher against Mose fjirt wc have Albert Barnes agiunat Leonard AVoods The time was when the Recorder and the religious press and this whole political press claimed with the New York Observer that until you could mend the Constitution you'inut mind it Ue have urged oui principle until wc have scared up William bew ard and pitted him against Daniel Webster (Great applause VVe have found persons who are willing to bewray not hirt that And it can therefore never often enough be repeated that when thc'tquestiwn comes as to Christianity itself not tv Ameriran Christianity to the Bible itelt not to th Bible in the glass of Mosea Stuart that the abolition ist holds on to the Bible as his with his right hand and with his felt hand And 1 wish you to go away with that conviction jqjite of the remonstrances which 1 think have been 'Soirf ccssurily however sincere jiiadc to Mr Our PhilHpaha said nearly all I wished' to ay but one thing mor 1 desire to East Bridgewater July 29 1850 5" riend Garrison 1 The case of Jordan arid Snell to which I referred in my letter was settled according to: arrangement and thqy were let free gratis for nothing as' we" ex pccted after considering the matter over AVe at first thought they miglft be fined one and cost but we might have known bettef after the decision in the riot case I understand they were let off4 on the' ground of the abominable object foy which the eitizen met together This discussion about human? rights is all moonshine and? mustbe Thank Godfwe are in the midst of a revival here the wisdom of Solomon cannot stay the march of truth in East Bridgewater for 4 Though the cause of evil prosper yet the Truth alone is strong And albeit she wander outcast how I sec around her throng Troops of beautiful till angelr to her from 'all No Union i with Slaveholders BOSTON AUGUST 2 1850 IRST AUGUST As our paper goes to press a day cailicr this week han usual may happen to tendance at the the Nineteenth i A 1 A special meeting ofhis Societywa holden in the Unitarian South Hingham on Sunday July 21st John Cushing a Xiccr evident of ihe the Chair In' of a mistake occurring in givhfg th tffiotW in the Liberator which wc very much regret' the nttcndanccTrom thi bounty was small fThc meeting however was well attend ed by thc citizens of Hingham and passed offquitej satisfactpri)y fe i 1 A Able remarks were made by Nathaniel Whit irig of Marshfield and "Parker Pillsbury Remarks of an earnest and practical were rriade by Lewis Robert Edmond and' Elias Richards "Weymouth eMr Richards' Waa allcd up by obaer 4 rations of a very severe slanderous and coarse char 1 made by a gentleman present of the ree Soil school by the name of of Quaker prpfes sion as we arc informedHis abusive invective lan guage and his assertion that hewould return into bondage tho panting fugitive and quell at the points 1 qfthe bayonet nn attempt on the part of the to obtain th eiy freedom by imitating the cedsof oujLa fathers proved him to be devoid of humanity and moral principle and an enemy of the slave and of to in very gentlemanlyTnan ncr by Mr Richards and to the very quick by the iron chnincd logic and sarcasm of Pillsbury John Cushing and Dyer were chosen a Commit tee on inance i The meeting was also addressed by "two other in dividual ofethe ree Soil party "and very satisfacto rily replied to by Pillsbury and AVhiting Of tho remarks made at this meeting by Mr Whit ing we cannot speak too highly'1 TbejMweref very i feelingly and sincerely made and" proved him to bC thoroughly acquainted with every ropo in slavery ship 'bile is too honest wise and good a man and his abilities of too high an order for him to live guita so retired from the moral enterprises of the day AVe can assure him that his counsels and advice will always be acceptable and pleasing to the friends of the A "Society gand we trust wes shall often have the of listening to his voice in future meetings of the Society i Our thanks to Mr Cushing for his co operation in making arrangements for this meeting "and'also for his very generous hospitality BOURNE SPOONER President: II II Brioham Secretary South" Abington July 22 1850 would once more urge upon all who receive it in season to give their at celebration of the Greatest Event of the abolition of British cry at Worcester on the 1st inst lhe number ol able speakers pledged to be present the facilities for teaching the heart of the Common wealth the occasion itself thrilling sublime glori ous all should ensure a mighty gathering of the true hearted The ears leave the depot in Albany i stiect Boston at 8 A returning leave Worcester at 5 o'clock 1 Tickets for the entiic cM uiMon $1 00 each less than half price i 1 he day is also to be celebrated at Salem ithout regard to sect or party It is likewise to be celebrated by the Providence 1 Anti Slavery Socfety by a procession of cavalcade citizens and strangers forming at 8 A in I front ol Rev Dr Church Benefit street and marching through several streets to a grove where An Incident of Slavery The infant child of Mr MorUtrer residing in Washington was put death hist week by a slave girl aged 1(5 Mrs Mortimer whipped the girl fur some offence Leav ing the room shortly after where the child was asleep in its cradle she heard it make a noise as if strangling and running in perceived a strong oinell of lamlamim The child died soon after und tin belief is that the girl poured a quautily of the lauda num do vti its throat from phial of the drug which in a cupboard She has been committed for trial on a charge of murder rom the New York Tribune NEW 'MEXICO REPULSED ROM THE HOUSE! THE NORTH BETRAYED! The most disastrous vote for reedom and the most unjust vote in itself which has disgraced the present Session of Congress was given on 'riday last on the question (indirectly presented) of admitting Hugh Smith td thc floor as a Delegate NewMexico (with power merely to explain and defend the local wants and needs of his constituents butwithout the right to vote) Congress having neglect ed for two Sessions to provide a Civil Government for New Mexico ns we are bound by Treaty with Mexico to do the People last season held a Conven tion and chose Mr Smith their Delegate to the House with a view mainly to the presentment of their rights and wishes 'respect to the claim of Texas to absorb their territory and subjugate them to her dominion Their Delegate has now been waiting at the door of the House six months and the Loco oco majority of Speaker Committee on Elections has reported against his admission Mr McGaugh ey of the Whig minority of the Committee moved as a substitute a counter resolution in favor of his admission which was voted down in Committee of the Whole (where the Yeas and Nays cannot be taken) by 89 to 85 and resolution agreed to by a vote of 92 to 8G The Resolution was thus re ported to the House when Strong immediately mov ed the Previous Question cutting off any opportunity to renew the amendment as well as all debate Hereupon Gorman of Indiana (one more uf the same sort) movl that the resolution do lie on Lhe table carrying the whole subject there and for this coward ly back handed evasion and subterfuge TWENTY IVE Loco ocos from ree States voted with the South and so turned New Mexico out of doors and denied her a hearing on pending questions vital to her very being Some of these twentv five got into Congress by ree Soil professions and are thus doubly traitors to Truth and reedom To send one of these back to the next Congress will be to rrive a GERRIT SMITH President Charles Ray Secretary The North Impartial Cit the Slavery the and all papers disposed to do so will confer a favor by transferring the above call to their columns and keeping it up till the time set for the meeting LECTURE IN PROVIDENCE The lecture on that sum of all Ameri can Slavery delivered in Hall at 6 on Sunday I4th inst by the Editor of the Liberator was listened to by a large and discriminating audi ence even professors of religion church members too many of them who were present have spoken with approbation of the manner and spirit of the lecturer There was a serious and devout attention manifested by the audience during its delivery which occupied about an hour and three quarters Ameri can chattel slavery was well and faithfully depicted and the proofs presented of the wickedness of slave holders their aiders and abettors were overwhelm ing Its thorough antagonism to every rinciple of Christianity was so clearly seen even by those who seldom or never heard the subject discussed before that the senseless as well as wicked cry against the abolitionists as being infidels was hushed to silence and many who never heard Garrison before were as tonished beyond measure that so erroneous an im pression had been made on the minds of professors of religion in regard to him A few such lectures in this city would shako our rotten pro slavery church es in pieces could the mass of professors have cour age to hear and read for themselves A man of some note said to me I neither saw nor heard anything out of the way in the lecture and was surprised that I heard none of that severity ot denunciation which has been charged upon him Did you said I observe the manner in which he made his hearers assent to the fact that slaveholders were ted to him that part of the lecture which presented to them a man who should come out in one of vour principal newspapers and make a proposition to en slave the population of the six New England States to deprive them of the Bible of educ tion of the sa cred institution of marriage in fine of all rights which belong to human beings by making them chattels personal and how he got the assent of his auditors tnat they all would not hesitate to call such a man a villain Do you remember that said I I do said he and it was well done but But what? said I Did he not prove the slaveholder was doing all this and that Northern men were found many of them in high standing in Church and State abetting and upholding all this iniquity He could not say it was not so and he a prominent member in one of our great denominations I felt rejoiced that our old Pioneer was once again with us and that when the cool season comes round again the people of this city may have another opportunity to hear him and oth ers The Pastor of the "Westminster Congregation II Hedge Unitarian after reading the notice for the lecture said that hereafter he should read no notice from the desk but those in connection with the three Unitarian Societies The Episcopal clergy have always refused to read notices for anti slavery meet ings of any Kind Although all the pulpits were supplied with notices many of them were not read though I doubt not they were in a majority of in stances AV DANiELyAVEBSTER Never did radrowning "man catcht a rope with more alaerity Ahan Mr Web ster has jumped by invitation of President ilhnortf' the floor of tho Senate ipto the office of Secretary of State fit" saves him frotn a sure rejection bjtha people of thenext Legislature presented for re election to lhe Sch by theni is: not4 the Iosif' positive Goy Briggs has appointed the Hon Roh to fill the vacancv' occasioned bv tho resignation of Mr a Alia vs uikii iri 1 in vi 1 ok odly hostile to Clay! Omnibus Mr Garrison in a lecture upon anti slavery de livered in Hall last Sunday spoke very kindly wc are told of General Taylor He regarded his death as a national calamity and admitted what we havd often said that the fortunes of freedom had been safely entrusted to a Southern man and a slave Sirrn nr ronm 1 i 1 mu I i ivntmnaHiv Hhtnc uy ujuuy or me press which were loudest in their onnositinn tn Gen eral Taylor and his policy while living They now see what they should hive seen and had they not shut their eyes would have seen when he was living How many there are who will never learn till it is too late Had all the men who from the sincerity of their heaits and the convictions of their honest judgment praise General Taylor dead supported him living the difficulties which tin eaten the country would have disappeared and probably General Taylor would be alive to listen to the eulogies which now only fall upon his tomb Providence Journal I observe the above paragraph is eagerly copied into various Whig journals and that I am thus made to endorse the late Gen Taylor without explanation qualification or limitation as one with whom the fortunes of freedom had been safely entrusted Now the suppression of that which is essential to a correct understanding of a (TeNaration is tanta mount to the utterance of a falsehood if wilfully done and is an act of gross injustice though done unwittingly I have ever scrupulously aimed to be just and magnanimous in dealing with men and par ties giving credit to whom credit is due and caring nothing for sectarian or party names In the course of my lecture at Providence I en deavored to show by a citation of numerous facts that whoever North or South intimates a desire toee slavery abolished before the end of the world or is not ready to go all lengths for the extension and perpetuity of this hideous system is at once suspect ed and denounced as in the case of Ileiry Clay for suggesting a plan for the ultimate abolition of slavery in Kentucky of Thomas II Benton for defending the rights of California as a free State and of Gen Taylor for resolving to protect New Mexico against the rapacity of Texas bullied as he was only a few davs before his death by such desperate meii as Toombs of Alabama and Stephens of Georgia and therefore the pretence so frequently made here at the North that it is the denunciatory language of the abolition ists which inflames the South is very absurd the controversy pertaining to principle not speech Referring to the evident determination of Gen Taylor to resist the invasion of New Mexico by as and to discharge the duties of his office with fidel ity in this emergency I said these circum stances and at this particular juncture paradoxical as it may sound from my lips I regard the death of Gen Taylor as a calamity to the cause of freedom because I believe his successor Millard illmore to be as pliant a piece of dough as was ever handled and there is every reason to apprehend therefore that he will be brow beaten intimidated and conquered by the bullying spirit of the South' This was no en dorsement of the character or career of Gen Taylor but was confined to a particular issue yet the Prov idence Journal represents me as virtually withdrawinr all my objections to his elevation to the Presidency and the paragraph is copied into numerous journals and circulated where this correction will never be al lowed to appear The least thing the Journal can do as an act of justice is to copy this article and allow me the benefit of the explanation 11 I ih to call the attention of the meeting anti tfour friend to this fact that it was the urgent pressure of importunity frotn that very friend him sclG and that alone which4 called out the re mark which he has objected to When our friend bright denounced the Bible if it sanctioned slavery he did what dur friend admits was right when he wiis about to pus on and not give aiiy opinion whelhcr tho Bible doc or doe not sanction slavery our friend urged him to statc his opinion On this point and after that it was natural that speaker should state his views In the light of that fact I want the audience to judge how far it wns right for him to rise and speak in such a way as io leave the imprc SAion which Aiould have been given to the au dience but for the explanation which ha been made approved by those "ho attended those meetings A few of tho lean souls who were not in attendance still persist in raising thetnad dog cry of infidelity against you and your noble coadjutors in this cause Now and then one who did hear you who had not brains 'enough tounderstand a common sense sentence when uttered in a common sense way still persist in their old musty prejudices Still I am quite start! at the fact that almost the universaLvoico ofthe candid' of reflecting applauds the defence of freedom as they heard it from you and your associates! say startled because you have been so extensively hated and abused for your assaults upon the powers whose feet tread in the dust three 'million slaves The bitter spirit of pro slavery hcre sccms in some degree hushed just now So' general has" tho discus sion of human rights bedome that it needs onlya Steady hand and earnest heart pressing right on frith the agitation to secure some general awakening some glorious resurrection of the people to this cause of God and man Gladly would wc see the masses a ro us cd on this subject from their present quiet slum bers though it were by some earthquake powerWhile hearing the earnest pleas of moral truth moral principle reason anT justice urged upon the people op Sunday we thought how few have a heart to com prehend these things how stupendous how God like is the work in which the friends of freedom nre engaged and how vast is the mass of dead and almost putrid mind which this cause has yet to electrify and call into action ere the work of liberty is done But is on the side of right and truth is omnipo tent we hope on for a good time Be assured your visit here has gained the slave new friends and strengthened those already pledged to his cause Another like 'call upon the land of Roger Mrilliams will lie appreciated and meet with a hearty response Yours for the freedom of all reason i because you have faith in truth and confidence in tho voice ofthe omnipotent God It waSj before th at power nnd that alone wlion thi ttyelyp fislicrmcn wont forth commissioncdvith lh salvation of rtho world that Jewish superstition and agan degradation stood aghast and in a very PCfioflj cl the earth and Rome proud mistress of thejiintions seated on her seven hills onnedpin JnimblulMinRsionbefore the cross of stable "bom babe But it was then and there the Church took counsel of the wisdom ''of tfus world and wont'to converting State street' nnd the pockets of men and the resultclcnsion' And the Church ha never recovered from that fatal fall So shall it lx with hs Go and unite your destinies with rinv po litical ptirty and there shall lie joy in the South and glee in hell While the angel shall sit down in sack cloth It is only while youstand firm'to the doc trines'to the noble principles of inflexible justice and unbending right that you are thus almighty It is only thus that ybi shall cover your foes with con fusion and yourselves with a 'glorious immortalityApplause RATERNITY I ugitives from the Prison House of Southern Despotism with their riends and Protectors in Council Such persons as have escaped from slavcrv and those who are resolved to stand by them are invited to meet for mutual counsel and encouragement at Cazenovia Madison County New York on AVednes day 21st of August 1850 The assembling will take place at 10 A in the Independent Church and the meeting will continue through two days The object aimed at on the occasion will not be simply an exchange of congratulations and an ex pression of sympathy but an earnest "consideration of such subjects as are pertinent to the present condition and prpspects of the slave and free colored population of the country and to the relations which good and true men sustain to the cause of impartial freedom and justice friends shall not this be made a grand event? Shall not the channels of former sympathies bc open ed anew Will not they of the delight to look each other in the face once more and renew their vows upon a common altar? Let them come from every free men free women and fugi tives! They are bid a most cordial welcome by the good people of Cazenovia There are friends hospi talities meeting houses and beautiful groves there Let all come who have a heart? and can! In behalf of the New York State Vigilance Com mittee SLAVERY IN A REPUBLIC! BY HOBBS Slavery in a Republic AVhat a contradiction in terms nature reason logic common sense and every thing else good hearty soulful great Christianly AVho would ever have thought hardly who ever dreamed it? Slavery in a liepublic! It is a paradox an anomaly a point nt point swerdism an irreconci lable antagonism a monstrous mistake And yet it is a broad fact a palpable reality a melancholy certainty and that too in this bfir bwn great and glowing in our vaunted ninctcenth of eentury Republic the Republic on which a con tinent across the surging ocean points as the proud gqal it would be more than felicitous to imitate AVe say it is a melancholy fact that slavery exists in this country as it is found nowhere else Here in this boasted land of liberty in the always of and sung of and prcached of and prayed for heart and home of freedom in the land of ourth of Julys and AA ashingtons and ranklins here slavery lifts its frightful form and shakes its bloody arms as it docs in no other land Christian or otherwise Here in America here where the sweet form and divine nature of religion sought a repose from persecution here where conscience braving the perils of the deep the dangers of starvation treachery death joyfully planted its banner and established its realm here this gigantic monster this huge seven headed Satan ism exists flourishes and perpetuates itself A Republic indeed A Republic with nearly four million human beings in chains the devil himself could not strengthen or make closer! A Republic with men and women as good with as large hearts and as capacious souls as you and Ir and yonder surpliccd man bound and ground and driven and tortured and cursed with four million thus degra ded to the earth we shout and sing nnd pray and glorify our Republic as the chosen land of the free and home of the brave as the asylum of the oppress ed abused and down trodden of all nations and climes Slavery in a Republic Slavery in America Sla very in these "United Out upon such appalling enormities And yet here it is here in all its terrible and heart sickening reality here it is growing and strengthening and taking broader and deeper root every hour here it is not only on suf ferance not as an evil resulting from government or social relations or causes beyond mortal ken but hero it is upheld countenanced legalized supported by the law of the land AVe say law of the land taking the sense in which it is interpreted the slavery faction and their supporters Individually wc think it does no such thing that it "can do no such thing Law made to uphold and cherish infamy crime slave ry the sum and substance of them all It can do no such never never! Law never can be made to support wrong of any sort Heaven all good spirits and men almost hell itself forbid it Slavery in a Republic in America 1 Abominable outrageous soul abhorrent Here in a land conse crated to all that is free in thought and speech and act Here where conscience pretends to soar in the untrammelled heights of celestial realms AVe talk of freedom of liberty Rather ought our heads to hang to the earth in crimson shame AVe talk of the glorious mission our land is fulfilling in emancipating the human race from its thraldom and servitude of grey centuries swell and prate of the noble ex ample our is spreading before ad miring nations AVe turning sonorous periods about our heart charity benevolence justice humanity! AVe pointing in ecstaey to our stars and stripes stripes indeed that alone 1 and only 1 float over the watch towers of the free AVe chant these plumy1 graceful sounds chant them with four million souls in abject vassalage under our feet Chant them with the cries and groans and throes and pains and in describable ills of brother men rising with thunder ing tone in our ears Chant them as a paff of moral i darkness fearfully gathers in the heavens uttering its woful lessons! Chant them as those four million 5 Goff stamped men and women lie down at night weary and sick and bleeding and hope fallen and praying that death may kindly end their sorrows and remove them to a land where chains nor whips nor men nor monsters nor butchers may scourge them more Out upon this miserable twaddle this blaspheming folly mc repeat! It is too much for bur patience It rouses and fires our indignation "It "stirs our very blood It is overwhelmingly shocking and abhor rent AVe would gladly turn from its painful con templation and forget that an enormity ever blackened mankind much less our nation arid people our own Republic but that would be cowardt ly contemptible devilish AVe would not only con i template think shift and turn the: giant monster in our mind but speak act throw it out with an energy of purpose which the great theme inspires in every breast which is the seat of a particle of humanity feeling or sense And so would we counsel every MAN thou like the old Apostles Be thou like heroic Paul If a free thought seeks expression Speak it speak it all ace thine enemies accusers Scorn the prison rack and rod And if thou hast truth to utter Speak! anffleave the rest to God? Slavery in a Republic! Ithught not to be it cannot be That country is not a Republic which fosters and countenances it God forbid that isuch ta? country should lyingly be called free! ree say you And with four million of your brethren clanking and toil ing 'and literally bleeding and dying chains! ree! with masters burning beating and brutifying "noble image! ree! Shame on tho tongue MUTES WANTED OR THE TRIBUNE regret that the peculiar construction of but? new cylinder press precludes" the ordinary practice of 1 reversing the column rules in order to dress the Tri buno in mourning Otherwise its appearance would manifest our feelings' at the distressing" dispensation which has fallen upon the United States' yew York Weekly Tribune 3 I too have our regrets "but construction of our press does not stand in the way If our sorrow coulff find vent through the columnar uleswo would keep them reversed(all But our sor row lies somewhat deeper than AVe regret that Zachary Taylor died an unrepentant slaveholder ji: and' we regret that hb manifested no contrition for the par he took that "meanest and most cowardly of all mean 'and the lorida hunt? The Tribune would 'dress itself in mourning 'were it no for something pcculiajr JVcll we excuse qur on onecondition Let him take under his fraternal care the bloodhounds set upon the Seminole Love me love my s'sf' Pkovidence July 15th 1850 Mr Garrison Your late visit to this city and Pawtucket with Messrs Pillsbury nnd Burleigh has done the cause of the slave much good Your faithful dealing with church clergy and politicians is almost universally CONVENTIOr AT ANDO ATER tff" Agreeably to public notice one of tho scries of One Hundred Conventions xwas held in tho Univcri salistjmeeting housc at Andover on Suffdalast On motion Jonas Holt of Andover was elected Chairman James BufTum of Lynn Secretary and AVilliam Jenkins of Andover nnd Benjamin Stevens" of Lawrence financial committee AYmLloyd Garrison then presented the following resolutions for the' consideration of meeting Resolved That tho anti slavery agitation i the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters of public sentiment the cleansing of the land from pollution and irresistible in its progress tire less in its energy and beneficent and gtoribus in its purpose smiting with the lightning of truth a cor rupt time serving sin Ioying Church and upheav? ing from its foundations a 'tyrannical and man enslav ing and establishing on the ruins of both a religion of mercys and a government of justice Resolved That with three millions of stheir own countrymen held by them as goods and chattels the guilt of the American people is mightily aggravated Ibcir damnation rendered all the more certain by pretending to worship God on 'this day and conse crating it to religious rites and ceremonies Resolved That under such circumstances sabbaths the calling of God away with it is iniquity even the solemn meeting and his language to this people is as it was to the Jews of old hen ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you yea when ve make many prayers 1 will not hear: your hands are full of Resolved That the first acceptable religious act that can be performed by us ns a nation is to obey the divine injunction Wash you make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease tp do evil learn to do well sek judgT ment reliovethe oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the Resolved That the chain which binds the slave has been forged nnd riveted in the name of God bv the ological professors by pulpit occupants by those who claim to be the ambassadors ol Christ by the religion ol the land and hence if that chain be ever broken by moral power it can be accomplished only by a di rect impeachment of the piety of such teachers nnd showing them to be wolves in clothing the enemies of God and man Resolved That of all the statesmen in our countryw ho deserve to be held up to popular execration for their treachery to the cause of freedom Daniel Web ster stands pre eminent and of all the theologians who have justly subjected themselves to the severest condemnation for making the awful sin of enslaving human beings compatible wilh the Christian faith and profession Moses Stuart is chief Resolved That the great issue before the countrv is not as to the admission of California and New Mex ico as free and slaveStates but in regard to the entirc abolition of slavery on the American soil hence for such men as Henry Clay and Daniel AVcbstcr to argue that the settlement ofthc present conflict in Congress by compromise will give a death blow to the anti slavery movement and restore public tranquillity is to exhibit the acme of infatuation and complete ju dicial blindness Resolved That neither priest nor politician neither the Southern slaveholder nor his Northern abettor neither the religious sects nor the political parties neither ecclesiastical bodies nor legislative assemblies may look for any repose while one slave is left to clank his chains on the soil so long watered by his tears and stained by his blood These resolutions in their various aspects led to an earnest and eloquent dis ussion during the forenoon afternoon and evening sessions in which AVrendell Phillips AV Garrison Parker Pillsbury James Buffum AVm Jenkins and Page of Newbury port participated The friends of the cause were in attendance from the adjoining towns notwfltstanding the threatening state of tho weather and were greatly refreshed in spirit and strengthened in their purpose It is hoped that the anti slavery spirit which has been so long dormant in Andover will be restored to its primitive zeal and activity JONAS HOLT Chairman James Buffum Sec their illegal purpose Immediately after hearing they were assembled at the church" Major Thomas Hill Mr Geo Thomas Rev Cumberland George Rev John Hoyle William Green Esq and other influential citizens met them and tried to persuade them to desist from their purpose They told them they were acting contrary to law that every man engaged cither as actors or as aiders and abettors were in the eye of the law guilty of murder They begged them to consider the disgrace they were bringing upon their county their State and them selves But their persuasions had not the desired effect It did however prevent many from joining in the deed Only about one hundred or one hundred and fifty came into town and as actors or abettors took the prisoner from the jail In the broad light of day these bold violators of law came into our quiet vij lage and halted before our jail The High Sheriff attended by an armed posse and sorry am I to snv that some of the citizens refused or show ed an un willingness to join him stood between them and the door William Green Esq who deserves much credit for his industry and energy in trying to sup press this riot as well as many other gentlemen and who had just returned from Jude snoke to the crowd who after some confusion and cries lis tened to him He told them he had just returned from the and that the Judge would not agree to promise them what they wished him to do that he would not remove the prisoner from the county but he said it was his duty at the next term to listen to motions for change of venue both on the part of the counsel for the prisoner and the commonwealth and he would then decide ns he thought just This did not satisfy the mob They could hang him They caught hold uf the high Sheriff and bis deputy and other citizens who were with him and pulled them away from theiloor nnd then the work of breaking commenced But enough They broke open the jail and then hung the prisoner Will this community up hold these misguided men in this flagrant violation of lhe law A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN IENDISH OUTRAGE A correspondent of the Alexandria Gazette the following statement of this disrraceful The prisoner Grayson who was put to death bv moo in a most unjusiniame anil atrocious manner had twice been convicted by a jury of Culpepper county but in each case the judgment as reversed ami a new trial was granted by the General Court The correspondent savs Wednesday morning about 10 news was received in the village that a large body of men i about two or three hundred was assembling at a i church about three miles distance (an appropriate I place for a meeting for such a purpose) to come on I here to hang Grayson The High Sheriff after con sulting with the most influential men and after find ing it imp ssible to obtain a sufficient quantity of arms as well as men on so short a notice to contend with so large a number of armed men as were ex Scted determined it would be better to remonstrate reason with the rioters than to risk the Jives of so many valuable citizens hich would only have re tarded hut not have prevented them from effectinrr holder Glorying in its Shame The Boston Bee of yesterday boasts that it was the first paper in Boston and astronomy tells that tl) take a decided and unequivocal stand in fin or of ii 4 1 0 1 uie recviii greai Npeecii i iur twister oucn Kina of boasting as this reminds us of the two lads whom we once heard indulging in a game of brag about the travels of their respective fithers says boy No I has been way off to New says boy No 2 has been to the Grand Banks and to the West Indies and came near being ship wrecked two or three retorted boy No 1 who evidently saw the necessity of coming to a climax soon father has been to Stale's prison twice and yours can Boston Republican 4 a or false and false and doubly falsa again.