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142 Christianity or humanity It may have been the dictation of slavery and wo fully believe it was Neither freedom or love of freedom ever made such a suggestion Such rules may favors party but never can promote human progress Caste that subtle foe of human happiness can only be promot ed by them Revelation in setting forth the broth erhood of man in harmony with the spirit of the ago in which we live cries out Equality The rule says Nay not for the color ed man Against all such proscription we enterour solemn protest therefore i Resolved That this subordinate division re gards such action of the National Division as un authorized and an encroachment upon the rights of subordinate Divisions 2 Resolved That as freemen we know our rights and will defend them nor stiffer them to be trampled upon by any class of men claiming to be represen tatives either politically religiously or in any social capacity that as American citizens we recognize the rights of all men and we will not countenance this cowardly effort to proscribe this down trodden and helpless portion of our race 3 Resolved That in view of this action of the National Division of the of we cannot con sistently maintain our connection with the order 4 That we hereby return the charter of Southport Division No 53 of to the Grand Division of the State of Wisconsin and declare this Division dissolved nnd that a copy of the above be sent to the of the to the of the National Division also to the National Era the Old Oaken Bucket and the Kenosha Tel egraph for publication in Division of Hall July 13 1850 RH DEMING John Noble rom the Salem (N J) National Standard ELECTIVE RANCHISE CONVENTION Pursuant to the call the colored delegates as sembled in Convention in Bethel Church at 3 clock! Ishmael Locke was chosen President and John Rock Recording Secretary The fol lowing resolutions were subsequently reported for discussion by the business committee Whereas We have seen with deep regret the in justice done us in this our native State and in the United States generally we do solemnly protest against every species of wrong and injustice among which the following are the most prominent the institution of slavery the scheme of expatripation as announced by colonizationists no suffrage and general exclusion from public privileges on account of color Therefore Resolved That we will use every lawful and right eous means for the extirpation and overthrow of the institution of slavery in this country believing it to be the great and chief cause of the general wrong inflicted upon us and the principal source of the scorn and degradation in which we arc held by our white opposor Resolved That the scheme of the colonization ists in the attempt to remove us from this our native country is one no less wicked in principle than the African slave trade knowing as we do that it em anates from nothing less than an antipathy to color since all men else (no mattter how degraded) having a white skin are received with a legal welcome from every foreign country Resolved That we regard the Colonization Socie ty as the strong hold of the slaveholder and the en emy of the colored man Resolved That we will have no fellowship with colonizationists while they continue to urge the de portation of colored men and as we are born free and we will never under any pretences be removed by these tools of the slaveholder from the land of our nativity but will maintain our individu al rights even at the expense of our lives Resolved That we regard ugitive Slave as the most infamous attack ever made in this country on the rights and liberties of colored a direct violation of the principles of the ed eral Constitution nnd at variance with the spirit of freedom and equality which pervades the age Resolved 'lint depriving us of the right of suf frage on account of color is an intolerable outrage and cannot be looked upon by us with a spirit of complacency or conciliation Resolved That we regard the possession of the Right of Suffrage as a subject worthy our highest consideretion and we will agitate and petition for this object until rewarded by our full enfranchise ment Resolved That from the aspect of things in this country in reference to our political rights we en treat our people by all that is sacred and holy in our history to stand shoulder to shoulder and brave the storm like those who are willing to perish in a just cause PERECTLY NATURAL In a discussion in Congress recently Mr Butler contended that a colored man is not a citizen of the United States and not entitled under the Constitu tion to the complete rights of citizenship Is it not then perfectly natural that they should not have any particular love for our government or should not corisider themselves under any obligation to support it And how foolish it is to call Mr Douglass (the eloquent editor of the North Star) a traitor to that government which refuses to recognize him and three or four millions of his brethren as men entitled to all the rights of men Let the government do justice to all and it will receive the support of all right minded and honorable men We will here mention a significant fact While the fugitive slave bill was under discussion and the slaveholders were attempting to increase the means by which they could perpetuate an institu tion which subjects every American to the oblo quy and reproach of the whole civilized world the attempt to insert into this bill a provision by which colored citizens of the North should be guaranteed their rights when in Southern ports was repudiated with scorn Thus is the North again insulted! How long will she bear it? Pathfinder MR SPEECH Yesterday Mr Giddings contemptuously eschew ing the miserable mama for dogmatizing on the Con stitution which possesses many of the members of this House as of the other when positive action is required delivered one of the best speeches if not quite the best which has been heard in the lower House this session on the boundary question He was opposed upon principle to the bill from the Sen ate for paying Texas ten millions and taking a ces t)ion of a part of a territory claimed by her but be lieved by a vast majority of the people of the United Suites already to belong to us Adopt means said Mr Giddings for ascertaining and running and marking the true boundary giving to Texas all the land that belongs to her but tax the people of the other States not one cent to purchase what either she does or does not own He showed a more re markable familiarity with the geography of the coun try and the facia of the dispute than I supposed any body but Col Benton possessed In reference to the threats of Texas he stated that he would vote million for defence but not a dime for tribute and informed Mr Howard that he and his State were here only by sufferance and that he would cheerfully vote fifteen' or twenty millions to get them both out Washington corr of the Tribune SLAVE CATCHING fugitive slave bill now before the Senate provides that all the proof nr c'sarv for taking a person into slavery is on the oaih of the master and his description of the slave with the identification! of the person claimed The question is to be decid ed by commissioners without a jury and their decision is to be final without appeal and without the benefit of the writ of Habeas Corpus! The bill further pro vides that it any slave is rescued from a claimant after beirm delivered to tn by the commissioners the haH bn PAID (5R OUT THE TREASURY THE UNITED ST A I Eb Let such a bill pass and it will not be long before the United States will have to pay the value of ad the slaves within the limits of the Union and it many of them do not have to be paid Jor two or three times over it will bo lucky for us 1 he escape identification and rescue of slaves ill become a regular systematized business and Uncle bam will have to fool the bills It will beat California gold digging two to one The slave by special arrange ment will only bave to escape to an adjoining coun ty and the whole process of identification restoration and rescue may be the work of but two or three days to establish a claim against the National treasury Tlien within a single week and before there has en time for tint claim to be paid another may be established for the self same slave and so thd process may go on ad Worcester Spy rom Christian Citizen UGITIVE SLAVE BILL With a cold blooded tenacity that neither liberty nor pity could melt the South has claimed and exer cised the most despotic rule towards all who dared to question her right to buy and sell men upon the pretext that she was maintaining her and now with an audacity and effrontery that is un paralleled in the history of legislation she has re pudiated this principle of State individuality and has insolently invaded every free State in the Union with her ugitive responsibility bill Wc have no hesitation in declaring this bill to be an invasion and violation of the rights of the North It sweeps away al) those moral distinctions that separated us from South Carolina It imposes upon every man woman and child in this Union a partici pation in slavery It completely changes the present character of that institution and modifies the present relations of master and slave The planter by the provisions of this enactment censes to be a slave owner this paramount position of moral turpitude and of pecuniary responsibility he concedes to his feudal superior the ederal Government and he contents himself with being a slaveholder so long as he can be so conveniently This is a re enactment of rhe old feudal law which actually prevailed with our British ancestors and which is still the theory of British landlordism The sovereign is the only legitimate landowner the landed aristocracy of Eng land content themselves with being landholders By this catching the United States assumes the ownership of three millions of slaves and leaves the gentlemen of the South to hold them with the assurance that if those slaves should take to flight and if circumstances should prevent their restoration to bonds and shackles then shall their price be paid in golden coins from the treasury of the Union on the Phrygian caps of which are stamped the ironic word This legislation however will not settle the ques tion of slavery nor will it restore the fugitive to his bonds There is not enough of moral force behind this law of Southern dictation to counterpoise the anti slavery sentiment of the North The true men who hold the plough upon our sterile but free hills of New England and who breathe her Northern airs know the name of slave only as a Southern abstraction not as a fact and they will never consent to the invasion of their sacred homes nnd the desecration of the sod beneath which their free sires are sleeping upon a pretence which they repudiate as a falsehood uttered in the face of the God of Liberty The South may dictate this law butthereisno sympathy in the North to support such dictation The South may impose this slave paying responsibility bill but there is not the shadow of a disposition in the North to assume it A moral necessity wars against the attempt to generalize slavery in this Union In spite of the unhallowed endeavors of its patrons to extend this moral gangrene of slavery over the whole dominion of the 'States it rrmst nnd shall be Coiiatraincd to remain a peculiar institution CONGRESS Washington Aug 30 The House took up the Texas Boundary Bill Mr Clark of New York (Jefferson County) said that the Wilmot Proviso was with him and his con stituents a sentiment an abiding principle When the Whigs assembled in State Convention with the view of promoting the election of Gen Taylor the gentleman on his left (Mr Brooks) was a distinguish ed member of the Committee and reported resolutions to that body embodying the Wilmot Proviso and strongly enforcing it The fact was spread before the people that the Convention were friends of the Proviso now and forever and were for applying it to all the territory acquired from New Mexico His colleague said yesterday that the proviso was once useful and answered its purpose and that it arrested the progress of the American arms But the progress of the American arms was arrested before the re solutions were reported The gentleman said the proviso was an absolute idea and was adhered to for factious purposes but the gentleman did not do well to arraign those who supported it He (Mr Clark) voted for it because he thought it was right and the reason why he voted to reject the Texas Boundary Bill was this he knew that it would give to Texas at least seventy thousand square miles of territory which never belonged to Texas and ten millions of money would go to no matter who Certainly the money would not go to those brave men who won the battle of San Jacinto or the descendants of those who fell at the Alamo It would go to the bulls anil bears of the stock market He discovered that the bill proposed to vote the freedom of her soil and the treasury its money He did not care as the boy said about the cake but he detested the mode which the bitch cut it Laughter lie knew nothing of the legerdemain of legislation he always voted according to his honest convictions He voted against the Texas Bill and subsequent events had satisfied him that he was right His colleague said that by the providence of God slavery could not go to the territories He (Mr Clark) believed that if there was no law in New York forbidding slavery that there were fifty thousand persons in that State who would own slaves for families experiencing the in convenience of the want of sufficient help would own them 'There was a difference of opinion among doctors While his colleague says that it is in vain to enact Jaws against the decree of God for slavery cannot go to the territories the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr CJmgman) said yesterday that it could Mr Clarke asked Mr Brooks to read the extract from Mr speech for him Mr Brooks did so Mr Clarke said it was read excellently well (Laughter) And he then proceeded to oppose the bill saying that the days of Rome were numbered when Brennus cast his sword in the scale and demand ed its weight in gold Texas throws the bowie knife into the scale His constituents did not send him here to rob the Treasury In the conclusion of his remarks he repudiated the idea of dissolution There was nothing in the disunion cry If there were any danger of it and that it was believed in South Carolina and Texas the women and children would cry themselves blind and the men would run mad He did not believe in paying revolutionary debts (Laughter) He likened Texas to the robber who demands the purse in the name of the Vir gin and he was proposing to give his reasons why he opposed slavery when the hour to which he was limited in debate expired rom the II Independent Democrat NO PANACEA There is no panacea for slavery but its annihila tion And all palliatives are worse than nothing Time which cures many evils but aggravates this and makes it incurable save by violence and blood Such will be the only cure for American slavery if it shall be still longer permitted to wield its insatia ble sceptre and still farther to extend its domain Slavery is itself a state of warnprainst all the highest and holiest rights of man And being such it has no right to ask or expect but that the hand of every true man everywhere shall forever be lifted up against it No true man can sustain any relation to so gigantic a system of wrong but one of eternal uncompromising hostility But how shall this hostility be manifested With what weapons shall the war be carried on? We answer: with every weapon which God and the Constitution have placed in the hands of freemen Grant it no favors make no compromises with it yield not an inch of land to it anywhere upon the green free earth Resist it oppose it at all tunes in all places under nil circumstances Oppose it as all other wrong is opposed We know of nothing which makes slavery sacred from any weapon with which it is lawful to light against even the devil himself We believe in no which require us or any man to tolerate or uphold it As we regard law before all compromises could not up hold it nor be responsible for its crimes against hu manity We should be traitors to our country and our race if we could Politicians who believe in no God above party and party success may compromise nnd bow down to the mightiest wrong of the Ago Yet for all that slavery is doomed and accursed Doomed and ac cursed shall be the memories of those who labor to strengthen and perpetuate it In the hearts of the true and upon the leaf of history shall they stand anathema End tbo present contest as it may there is another day not far distant when new animated with a new spirit will re do the of the nicn now upon the stage And lhen as we trust shall come the last end of whatever curses and crushes the manhood of man tS?" Uncompromising hostility to slavery means No Union with THE LIBERATOR By the following unqualified eulogium on the enslaver of his fellow creatures and the blood hound hunter of the poor Seminole Indians it is quite ap parent that Miss Bremer like ather Mathew has made up het mind to propitiate the Slavocracy of the country Alas for her moral vision rom Sartain's Magazine A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY GEN TAYLOR BY KEDH1KA BREMER I saw him but twice the hero of the Mexican war the chief man in power in the United States late President Zachary Taylor but enough to feel that I saw in him An honest man the noblest work of The first time was a beautiful evening on the green grounds around the White House The Potomac glistened in the setting sun a band of music in tire grounds was playingthe Star spangled Banner and a gay crowd of men and women and children with nurses and negroes were walking about enjoying the evening the music the green grounds and the view of the noble river with the Washington Monument in giant proportions rising on its banks President Taylor was among them not as the kings of Europe when they come down among the people surround ed by guards of star spangled attendants no but unattended alone plain in attire as the plainest of the citizens around him the greatest part of whom were strangers to him Yet he seemed to feel that he was among friends and bis honest face and his unassuming bearing his straight forward friendly manner the firm and cor dial pressure of his hand made a friend even of the stranger who was for the first time introduced to him lie stood there serene smiling to the children who were runnincr about and tumbling in the grass in unconstrained liberty He spoke of the pleasure they gave him It was truly a republican scene one of tjiose we would fain see more of on earth where nil distance between men all difference of rank and fortune arej done away with and life is again an Idyl full of in nocence and beauty in the lap of great nature May the star spangled banner float wider and wider over such scenes such banquets of life! The next time I saw President Taylor it was in one of the splendid rooms of his mansion and with him his beautiful daughter the sister of the Graces Mrs Bliss Political questions to which he was called to attend detained him for some time from us When he came he was cordial and simple in his manner as before on the green grounds Yet he seemed to me not quite well and as if he was trying to cast off from his mind a cloud And so he did as a gallant man and 'a true American gentle man attending to ladies He spoke to us of the In dians among whom he had been much and whom lie knew well And as he spoke he brightened and his speech flowed on so pleasantly and so cheerfully that had we been egotists we would have forgotten how time flowed on as we forgot the storm which gathered without and rattled at the windows It was a few days afterwards that I heard in the Senate the low thrilling tones of Daniel Webster interrupt the discussion going on to announce that great misfortune threatened the that the President of the United States was dying was not expected to outlive that day And that very even ing how changed was the gay scene in the White House! Death was there was laying his heavy hand on the beloved father of the family on the elected head of the Republic of the United States Yet serene was he even now In death he jrrasped the hand of his wife and said dear wife 1 am not afraid to die I have tried to do my And that stern monitor so fearful to many came to him on his death bed as a comforter as a sooth ing angel But he had long long since made of him a friend Duty had been and was the spring of his life and actions His friendsand his foes (and he had such in war and in politics) must join in acknowledging that truthfulness and conscientious ness were the unswerving qualities of his mind In these virtues he was great I saw him but twice and for a little while but as I saw him and with what I have heard of him I can well understand that brave men his companions on the battle field have wept as children at his death and that there is within the White llo ise a heart who after that death never more will feel the jov of life Yet happy is she who can live and glory in such memories! And happy the man who lived and Aw'd as he who on his death bed looking over a life of great military and civil import could serenely say I am not afiaid to die I have tried to do my Washington July 1850 IMPRISONMENT CHAPLIN So William Lawrence Chaplin is in jail in Washington Men can transgress every law of de cency morality and religion and be appointed and elected to high offices in Washington They who rob their fellows of all the rights of human nature are honored and caressed in Washington But the man who shall prove true to the laws of our common brotherhood and act in accordance with the exam ple of the law of Christ and in obedience to the law of love must be imprisoned in a jail built and own ed by the people by the grace of Godiee and The fathers of this country pledged fortune and sacred in defence' of the inalienable rights all men but in the very centre nnd heart of this free country to show a man the way to a place where he may enjoy these rights is to earn a cell Now by the death of Torrey! this is too bad There is not a jot or tittle of Constitutional slave law in the ederal District Congress had no Con stitutional power whatever to make slave laws for that District 'The old slave laws of Maryland re enacted in 1801 for the District by Congress are some of them too barbarous to be endured by a civ ilized to say nothing of an enlightened country! So far are they from being Constitutional that they violate both the letter and the spirit of it But our Southern land pirates may bring their human chat tels to the District and bind and hold them there contrary to the Constitution while if one of the noblemen of nature of whom Chaplin is a most bril liant and godlike specimen shall be true both to the Constitution and to humanity by pointing out the North Star to one of these chattels bonds and imprisonment await him Merciful Heaven! whit a nation is this It makes humanity the love of man and Christianity obedience to and the follow ing of Christ high crimes and misdemeanors And this a Christian country! Ay as Christian as the lawk it makes and no more so As Christian as the Jews who murdered Jesus As Christian as the lust loving blood spilling author of the Koran As Christian as the officers and crews of any pirate ship which infests high seas As Christian indeed ns nethermost hell itself May God of Hts infinite grace save me and mine from the decep tions Jobisinnq and diabolisms uf ook CRritialli ty Amen and Amen! Impartial Citizen TtVfiTTETffENT ABOUT UGITIVE SLAVES Correspondent of the Tribune Baltimore Aug 23 The recent abduction of slaves from Virginia and Maryland has caused more feeling among slave holders in this State than I have ever noticed before The affair of Chaplin first raised the excitement and this was followed by the departure of those from Prince George County Md and other sections of the State and now the Harrisburg affair has added new fuel to the indignation of the flesh and owners and traders The result of this will be the most active measures to protect slave property and to secure it when abducted The passage of the Slave will do no good as stringent as its provisions are and Southerners know it They only look upon it as a medium by which the of the ree States as they term it can be effectually tested The recent proceedings at Har risburg will lead to collisions hereafterof a dangerous character I am very fearful It is openly avowed here that in case another body of slaves abscond and can be successfully pursued that it shall be done with an armed band of fifty or an hundred men if necessary and in regaining their property to op pose force to force and not to rely on any court in a free State Should this be done we shall have an open border warfare at once for the ree States will not quietly submit to have their territory invaded by armed posses Collisions of this kind will do more to shake the stability of the Union than any thing else under the heavens yet with this knowledge there are thousands in this State and Virginia who will dare the issue let the consequences be what they may No Union with Slaveholders BOSTON SEPT 1850 RIGHTS WOMAN Therehas been any quantity of declamation about the rights of man while very little has been heard re specting the rights of woman yet they are identical and equally inalienable In every country to this day whether Christian or Pagan woman has not been recognized or treated as the equal of her brother man but has been subjected to his tyrannical will more or less absolutely The time has come for systematic and vigorous efforts to remove' this usurpation It gives us much gratification: therefore to publish the following Call for a Convention to be held in Wor cester in October next (without distinction of sex) for the purpose of considering this immensely import ant question Any number of signatures of the en lightened friends of progress could easilyhave been procuredwfor it but those which are appended to it are sufficient to indicate how sincere earnest and wide spread is the feeling awakened in regard to the contemplated Convention the proceedings of which we have no doubt will be characterised by great dig nity and ability A CONVENTION Will be held at WORCESTER Mass on the 23d and 24th of October next (agreeably to the appoint ment of a preliminary meeting held at Boston on the 30th of May last) to consider the question of Wo Rights Duties and Relations and the Men and Women of our country who feel sufficient inter est in the great subject to give an earnest thought and effective effort to its rightful adjustment are invited to meet each other in free conference at the time and place appointed The upward tending spirit of the age busy in a hundred forms of effort for the redemption from the sins and sufferings which oppress it has brought this one which yields to none in importance aid urgency into distinguished prominence One half of the race are its immediate objects and the other half are as deeply involved by that absolute unity of interest and destiny which nature has estab lished between them The neighbor is near enough to involve every hu man being in a general equality of rights and com munity of interests but Men and Women in their reciprocities of love and duty are one flesh and one blood mother wife sister and daughter come so near the heart and mind of every man that they must be cither his blessing or his bane Where there is such mutuality of interests such an interlinking of life there can be no real antagonism of position and action The sexes should not for any reason or by any cJiance take hostile attitudes toward each other either in the apprehension or amendment of the wrongs which exist in their necessary relations but they should harmonise in opinion and co operate in effort for the reason that they must unite in the ultimate achievement of the desired reformation Of the many points now under discussion and de manding a just settlement the general question of Woman's Rights and Relations comprehends such as Iler Education Literary Scientific and Artistic Iler Avocations Industrial' Commercial and Profes sional Her Interests Pecuniary Civil and Polit ical in a her Hights as an Individual and her unctions as a Citizen No one will pretend that all these interests em bracing as thev do all that is not merely animal in a human life are rightly understood or justly pro vided for in the existing social order Nor is it any more true that the constitutional differences of the sexes which should determine define and limit the resulting differences of office and duty are adequate ly comprehended and practically observed Woninn has been condemned from her greater del icacy of physical organization to inferiority of intel lectual and moral culture and to the forfeiture of great social civil and religious privileges In the re lation of marriage she has been ideally annihilated and actually enslaved in all that concerns her personal and pecuniary rights and even in widowhood and single life she is oppressed with such limitation and degradation of labor and avocation as clearly and cruelly mark the condition of a disabled caste But bv the inspiration of the Almighty the beneficent spirit of reform is roused to the redress cf those wrongs The tyranny which degrades and crushes wives and mothers sits no longer lightly on the world conscience the heart's home worship feels the stain of stooping at a dishonored altar Manhood begins to feel the shame of muddying the springs from which it drawsits highest life and Womanhood is every where awakening to assert its divinely chartered rights and to fulfil its noblest duties It is the spirit of reviving truth and righteousness which has moved upon the great deep of the public heart and aroused its redressing justice and through it the Providence of God is vindicating the order and appointments of his creation The signs are encouraging the time is opportune Come then to this Convention It is your duty if you are worthy of your age and country Give the help of your best thought to separate the light from the darkness Wisely give the protection of your name and the benefit of your efforts to the great work of settling the principles devising the method and achieving the success of this high and holy movement MASSACHUSETTS Lucy Stone Wm Garrison Wm II Channing Helen Garrison Harriet II Hunt Charles Hovey A Bronson Alcott Sarah Earle Nathaniel Barney Abby oster Eliza Barney Dr Rogers Wendell Phillips Eliza Taft Ann Greene Phillips Dr A Taft Adin Ballou Charles Whipple Anna Parsons Mary Bullard i Mary Cabot Emma Goodwin Treanor Price Mary 31 Brooks Thankful Southwidc RHODE ISLAND Sarah Whitman George Clarke Thomas Davis Mary Adams Paulina Davis George Adams Sarah Brown Joseph A Barker Elizabeth Chase John Clarke Mary Clarke NEW YORK Gerrit Smith Elizabeth Russell Nancy Smith Stephen Smith Elizabeth Stanton Rosa Smith Catharine Wilkinson Joseph Savage Samuel May owler Charlotte May Lydia owler Charlotte Coffin Sarah Smith Mary Taber Charles Miller Elizabeth Miller PENNSYLVANIA William Elder Lucretia Mott Sarah Elder Sarah Pugh Sarah Tyndale Pierce Warner Justice Myra Townsend Huldah Justice Mary Grew Sarah Lewis MARYLAND Mrs Eliza Stewart OHIO Elizabeth Wilson Jane Elizabeth Jones Mary A Johnson Benjamin Jones Oliver Johnson Lucius Hine Sr 4 4 Mary Cowles iC i CIROULAR ROM! THE CHAPLIN UND COMMITTEE Believers in Jesus Lovers of Impartial Humane Men and to you we appeal' Cazenovia Aug 22 1850 "WiiXiam Chaplin a native of Massachusetts long a resident of the State of New the accom plished gentleman the ripe scholar the upright states man the whole souled philanthropist the sincere practical William I Chaplin is impris oned at the city of Washington the Capital of our Republic charged irst With certain enslaved fellow men in their attempt to escape from bondage and SocomiZy With an assault upon those who arrested him) with an intent to kill them or these alleged offences: he is now held in du rance by the police of the District of Columbia and also under a requisition of the Governor of Mary land Now be it known to all men that ho did not com mit the second offence named above At the time of his seizure he had no weapon of violence about his person nor does he ever wear any neither did he know that his companions were armed much lcss did he counsel them to make resistance All this we know and do affirm He was ignorant too of the character of the persons who seized him No warrant for his arrest was announced A band of men like ruffians came upon him in the darkness of night on the highway and the first salutation he re ceived was a savage yell and a blow that felled him senseless to the earth When he recovered from the shock he was in the hands of four stout men and therefore powerless The persons who were with Mr Chaplin made an effort (unhappily without success) to save themselve from the monsters who would return them into sla very But no one of either party was seriously in jured unless it were the self sacrificing Chaplin He was severely bruised by the ruffians who captured him The other charge that he helped men in their attempt to escape from slavery if true should fix upon his good name the stigma of no crime unless it be a crime to act in obedience to the command of Christ to follow the example of the good Samaritan Chaplin has the heart of a man quickened by the spirit of the Son of He was in that bad re gion of our country which is infested by the worst of robbers where men and women are often found strip ped not so much of their raiment as of all the rights of human beings wounded of them in their persons but all of them in their feelings in the ten derest relations of life and left with not indeed so much as half of what constitutes the true life of men Surely if the poor traveller between Jerusa lem and Jericho was to bo pitied and his relief at tempted notwithstanding the dangers of the place much more every Christian must allow should we attempt (at any hazards to ourselves) the rescue of a fellow man who is subjected to the terrible wrongs of American slavery Chaplin if he has done all that the charge alleges has done no more than the good Samaritan would do and for this wc honor we love him To deliver him from confinement therefore as soon as possible that he may renew and redouble his gener ous exertions in the cause of suffering humanity we feel ourselves impelled by the highest sense of duty and the deepest feelings of sympathy with him and brotherly kindness to all men Wc call upon all who have any love of Christian heroism to help us The last man who should be kept in confinement or sub jected to any disabilities in our country or in our world is the man who is ever read to spend his time his strength his all to break the yoke of the oppressor and set the captive free Such is the man who is imprisoned in the jail of the United States We plead we insist we demand that his prison doors be thrown open not so much for his sake (for we know he counts it joy to suffer in the cause of humanity) as tor our own sakes that we may quick en nnr own nnd each love of liberty by doing honor to his exalted spirit of sclf sacriacliq philan thropy We came to this Cazenovia Convention that wc might congratulate some of the in this region who have escaped from a worse than Egyptian bond age and advise with them and their friends os to the obligations that rest upon us in regard to' the millions of our countrymen who are longing to bo likewise free There have been with us about fifty fugitives but the bravest friend has not been hero and we have almost forgotten the fifty who arc safe in our concern for the one who is left behind in the clutches of those who have no respect for the rights of colored men or of lhe colored man's friend rft The story of capture has been told uS by a devoted fellow laborer and most of the time of the Convention has been given to the consideration of his case We were shown that the expenses already in curred in his behalf the legal processes to which we be obliged to resort and the services of the ablest counsel will demand of his friends an amount not less than twenty thousand dollars But what is that for us to pay if those in our who profess to fove the practical application of the principles of Christi anity will give their due proportion No one would be impoverished nay all would be enriched for whatever is given in such a cause as this is so in vested as to yield an incomparably better interest than any soulless corporations pay Let then the rich men give their hundreds and the poor widows their mites that all may share in the joy of de liverance and that the people of our land and other lands may know that there are many thousands in this Republic who will not bow the knee to Baal but respect and love the Liberator although ho be chained in a dungeon far more than the Oppressor of our fellow men though he walk at large in the palace of our nation What is to be done for Chaplin must be done quick ly A generous contribution and a more generous subscription were made by the Convention just clos ed and a large Committee were appointed to hasten with this appeal to all the good and true and urge you to respond at once to this demand upon your purses Give Give without delay Mea sure your contributions by your abilities and both the amount and the readiness of your gifts by the Golden Rule that there may be1 nothing wanting to show the respect that is due to our brother and to defend him triumphantly against all legal and illegal tyranny The following well known men are the Chaplin und Committee by appointment of the Cazenovia Convention James Jackson of Scott Cortland Co Joseph Hathawav of armington Ontario Co rederick Douglass and George Clark of Rochester Charles A Wheaton and Samuel May of Syracuse George Lawson of Oriskany Oneida Co William Smith of Macedon Wayne Co George Johnson of Buffalo Cyrus Grosvenor of McGrawville William Hamed 61 John street New York" city Joshua Giddings Ashtabula Ohio Chase of Cincinnati Ohio George Julian of Indiana Charles Durkee Southport Wisconsin James IR Collins Chicago Illinois Charles oote Commprce Oakland Co) Michigan rancis Jackson Boston John Whit tier Amesbury Mass Silas Cornell and Thomas Davis Providence I Julius Lemoyne of Washington Penn' Davis and Cleave land of Philadelphia Samuel essenden of Port land Me Rowland Robinson' errisburgh Vt Ednah Thomas Aurora Cayuga Co Bev John Todd DD Pittsfield MaSs To of these persons you may commit your donations or subscription of money and they will 1 ft 1 f'X 'I 4 1 account for themto the Treasurer of this und Through cither of these persons also you may trans mit directly to ourbeloved Chaplin any tokens of your regard James Jackson is the Chairman of this Chaflix und Committee Charles A Wheaton and Sam vel May of Syracuse arc the Secretaries Gerrit Smith is the Treasurer and to them in connection with their colleagues named above the Convention have seen fit to entrust the management of the de i I fcnco of Chaplin and the expenditure of the funds that shall be committed to them for that purpose of all which afullYeport will bo given in due season JAMES JACKSONTAairmen Charles A Wheaton "'li May jSecretames CONVENTION' ON THE CAPE Thus far we think the series of One Hundred Conventions determined upon in May last by the New England Anti Slavery Convention has been characterized by a deeper interest' and a better attend ancc than any that has preceded it The signs of the times arc cheering to every friend of impartial liberty in this Commonwealth We have just retum ed from the largest local gathering we have ever wit nessed in the State (the largest ccica inly (with very few exceptions) at Harwich on the Cape and this too at a season of the year when a very large portion of the male population are away adventurously pur suing on the mighty deep their enterprises andgivingto New England commerce its bone and muscle and world ide scope The Convention was held at the entrance of a very pleasant grove and continued its sessions by regular adjournment from riday afternoon until Sunday evening presenting a most picturesque and cheering iappearancc Leaving our eloquent and efficient coadjutor Charles Bur leigh to bethe principal speaker at the first meeting 1 we proceeded to Qentrevijle via Sandwich and in the evening gave an address on slavery in Liberty in that place a neat and convenient building erected by a few unconquerable friends of freedom and dedi catcd to tire cause of Reform in all its branches andr to the freest utterances xf mind and soul so long as it remains in a condition to be used The audience was much larger than the dimensions of tho hall a considerable number remaining attentive listeners on the outside to the end The ride from Sandwich to Centreville about six teen miles was far from being tedious our only passenger companion being a gentleman of well known talents and intelligence whose successful and philan thropic efforts some years ago to deliver the poor Marshpce Indians from a ruinous guardianship im posed upon them by the Commonwealth will ever redound to his credit however censurable his course may since have been through the corruption of party politics The day moreover though warm was clear and brilliant and no annoyance was experienced from the sand which sometimes is excessively troublesome This part of the Cape presents a far less cheerless ap pearance than wc had anticipated there being much sij shrubbery and numerous groves of pine and fields of corn of surprising growth interspersed with here and thcrea noble pond glittering in the distance We were particularly pleased with the location and ap pearance of the little village of Cotuit where we first obtained a commanding view of the ocean Oneof our Boston men of affluence has there selected just such a site for his residence as makes it somewhat difficult for the traveller not to infringe on any partof the tenth commandment: s' After enjoying the hospitality of our friends Aus stin and Olive Bourse on Saturday morning we rode to Harwich where we found a large collection of people listening to: a stirring speech from Mr Burleigh and 6 soon had an opportunity to participate in the proceed ings Ezekiel Thacher) of Yarmouth presided on the The resolutions were submit ted by us to the Convention for discussion Resolved That is the duty of the friends of Christ and Liberty to carry on an open and uncom promising warfare with every'pulpit in the land which is dumb to the wrongs and sufferings of the down trodden slave population Resolved That the church of Christ is against in justice and oppression in every form that to its fel lowship no enslaver of his fellow meh' was ever admitted therefore whatever organization styling i itself a Christian church receives slaveholders or the defendersqf slavery to itscommunion or arrays it self against the anti slavery movement is thereby! convicted of being a spurious body i Resolved That whether the first day1 of the week i be a peculiarly holy day or not no day can be on which to deliverthe oppressed out of the hands of the or to plead the cause of all those who are to destruction' nor can any i worship be more acceptable God than showirig compassion oh him who has fallen among thieves and been left to perish in his own blood Resolved 1 hat the stringent observance of reli gious rites and ceremonies by a people utterly disre gardful of the rights of man is the torch which illu mines their hypocrisy and the vehicle by which'thfey are all the more rapidly propelled to ruin)' Resolved That the act of counterfeiting or highway robbery sinks into insignificance whitens into virtue in comparison with that of smaking man the property of man therefore slaveholders are to be recognised the vilest of Criminals and the most im pious of trangreSsors 4 Resolved That if it be a self evident that 'all men are created free and equal and endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to liberty uis equally self evident that every slave ought to be immediately set free can he be detained one hour in bondage without the crime of man stealing Resolved That the hypocrisy of such men as Lew is Cass Daniel Webster and Henry Clay in claim ing a right to denounce Austrian and Russian des potism and to prbmise shelter and protection to the Hungarian fugitives on the American soil and at the same time combining to give security to the accursed slave system at the South and to'impdse on the North more stringent obligations to catch all fugitive slaves base and monstrous beyond the power of lan describe Resolved That gathered in this temple of Nature with the clear bitie heavens above us and free'' air aroundnswe here give to each others our sacred pledge and proclaim to the country our determina tion to trample beneath bur feet everynet of Con gross imposing upon us the duty of seizing the flying fugitive escaping from the Southern house of bond ageC Resolved That free trade and can neither be exercised nor protected qn: our American coast while the Slave Power is permitted to exist in the our seamen in repeated instances and as a matter of perpetual usage being: seized in South em ports without any charge of crime hurried to pri son compelled to pay for that imprisonment and fre qucntly sold from the auction block into slavery and our shipmasters trading at South being placed under fearful liabilities in case they succor any onboard of their vessels and subjected to imminent'peril if they venture to speak out their free senti ments against the enslavement of any portion of the American people 5 Mr Burleigh 'offered the follbwfng resolutions Resolvedi if the charges brought against us of heretical doctrines wrong measures excessive 1 harshness of language' bitter spirit and bad temper enmity to the the Sabbath' the Christian church the Christian ministryand the Christian reli gion were all as true as they are false and calumni 1 ous that wquld beno justificatiqnto any mkn fbr i fusing) or neglecting to work earnestly in the right way and the right Spirit for' the attainment of the: i I 1 I.