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cpaton and out of aeason, that can create such a WMiblic sentiment as neod; and we never could Bttied it, if uccees iiad -attended the Union I was tkankful for cade's disaster; at it is Ucd withdrawal. I ehould be sorry to have too much 8c; want just JUUe eoougn to keep up (be North to tins sticking powit, until UmU be obliged (to slavery us ownwiwy. friend May says that lie can ceuwt upon his fin th that think the reissieu tlw Anti-SIa- err Society is finished. I cannot do that. 1 know that owe State Anti-Slavery Society was disbanded, ostensibly Ar titer reason, hut from private conver sation I know that uww inteievy was anaixiont-d, and heir Anti-Slavery rapcr was put down because their leading arv4 most sell sacntKing nn-n tftougnt tliat we sjnd done or work in tlie anti-slavery cause.

At the time that Fort Sumter was attacked, they declared tlirit the mission the anti-slavery cause was fulfilled, and that South Carolina was now doing live work we had formerly done- Count on my fingers This house would not cowtain the numbers. Many of tf tern have laid down their lives upon tbe battle-field. They thought tin? army was doing fVie work of to Anti-Slavcry Society. From Pennsylvania feustdrcds of young men have gone to the battle-field with that conviction. And I know tliere are eld men and elderly womea, wJk have labored for thirty years in the anti-slavery cause, who have that com vicrion, and tltcrcfore have laid down their arms.

Let us not, therefore, be too confident. Do not let ns dwell too much on what has been done. Napoleon spoke a great truth, when, receiving the congratulations of his generals on their success in Russia, he said, I want you to remember that nothing is done while anything remains to be done." St. Helena witnessed the truth of that sentiment. Nothing is done while anything remains to be done, so far as the death of American Slavery is concerned.

Not that I believe that one iota of moral truth that has ever been uttered, any more than one atom of physical matter that has ever been created, can be lost. But so far as the accomplishment of tin? overthrow of slavery is concerned, were success to attend the Federal arms to-day, I feel confident that slavery would linger, God knows how long and I am willing, therefore, to wait another ten years, if need be, in order to insure its destruction. Garrisott. It seems to me that it is not at all our province to undertake to determine the motives by which the people are animated who have recently come into sympathy and co-operation with us for the abolition of slavery that it is not our province to accuse them of being hollow and hypocritical. Thank God that a general change has taken place, a most miraculous change Whoever will come up now, and speak a word for freedom, I will hail as a friend and a brother, and will leave his motives to God, to whom alone be is responsible.

The meeting will now be addressed by Susan B. Anthony, Secretary of the Women's Loyal League. SPEECH OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Susan B.

Anthont said Among the early lessons which I learned upon the abolition platform was this That it was our distinctive work to educate the heart of the people of this nation into a full recognition of the humanity of the black man that we were to so educate the people of the North that they would refuse to aid the government in holding the black man in chains and I suppose that is precisely our work today. I remember that I had thought fugitive-slave work was very important and really anti-slavery but 2 remember that one of the first lessons I had to learn was, that the fugitive slave would be aided by common philanthropy and benevolence, and that we, who called ourselves Radical Abolitionists, should give ur attention, our thought, our efforts to the removal of the cause which compelled the fugitive, with bleeding feet, to cross the free States of the North to the British domain. It seems to me that the Sanitary Commission work, the Freedmen's Association, the Freed men's Educational work, are to-day common charity, common benevolence, and the world will look after it. Here, in this third decade of the American Anti-Slavery Society, are assembled, from different parts of the free States, the representatives of a little handful of men and women over the country, who have for these thirty years been working to undermine the law of the nation which allows the holding of property in man. Precisely this is the work which I think we should abide by at this hour, leaving to the grand masses of the world, whose attention is now called to the question of liberty, to the question of javing this nation, to the question of emancipation ven leaving it to them to take care of the sick and wounded upon the battle-field.

Let us go on with our primitive and fundamental work of removing the laws which allow of the existence of slavery. That is the specific work to which the association of which I have been a member for the last six months (the Women's Loyal League,) has specially devoted itself. We aim to circulate throughout the entire North a petition, to be presented to the next Congress, Asking that body to enact a law of Universal Emanci pation. As women, we felt tliat it was especially fitting for us to work in this way, because as women we could have no voice as to what should be the basis of reconstruction of this government, save through the one right which the nation has left to us, the right of petition. Women can neither take the ballot nor the bullet to settle this question.

Therefore, to us, the right to petition is the one sacred right which we ought not to neglect. I appeal to women here to-day to set themselves about this work when they shall re turn to their homes to circulate this emancipation pe tition, themselves, and to urgo upon their neighbors and friends to engage in the work. There are women here who would like to know something of the progress of this petition movement. I am sorry not tob able to make an enthusiastic and encouraging report but the fact is, that wherever our petitions have been sent, from vastly too many places the responses have come back, What do yon mean by asking us to circulate a petition for emancipation Is not the work already done Has not the Presi dent proclaimed freedom Is he not doing the work as fast as he can This has been the one great ob stacle, the one great discouragement, which we have had to meet. Those who have occupied he highest places in our estimation have seemed the most indif ferent, ana to ieel as it tma wa reaiiy an unnecessary work.

Why should we, who have been at work for these long years, endeavoring to move slavery out of the way, when it has been the cause of all the national disasters and strifes and discords which we have had, be afraid, in this last struggle, of doing I. 4 The petitions to-day are being returned rapidly. Day before yesterday, our mail brought four or five thousand signatures. I only hope that the pecple, at this hour, wilt begin to feel that there is need of a public expression. There is an important question to come before the next Congress the question of reconstruction.

I have no doubt that Senator Wilson himself would say to you this morning, if he were to speak, that the signatures of a million of men and women of the North, poured in upon Congress, will do much to encourage the members to stand fast by their principles. The Congress needs to know that the people, their constituencies, stand by them, and will demand of them the strictest faithfulness to free dom and will not abide the slightest compromise of principle. It is for us to make them feel this. Tiie PjtKSioeKT. We shall now hear from one who represents a phase of this struggle most significant of the success of our movement.

We have burned the bridge behind us, and there is no more going backward. We have passed the Kubicon and we are going on, conquering and to conquer. You may read the utter overthrow of slavery in the arming of such a mighty h( of the colored population of our country at the present time. I have the pleasure of introducing 7 CoL Wagner, of Camp William Pcnn. SPEECH OF COL.

WAGNER. Mu Chahu-ax, ahd Ladies ahd Gextlemrx uyii a received, at the hands of the Chairman of your Business Committee, an invitation to attend your meeting, I feared that my duties at the camp would not per mit to ue present. In coming here this morning, I did not expect to make a speech, and for two reasons I am not able to make you a speech and if I were, I would oat assume to come here, and preach abolition doctrines to those who learned them many years ago. I not a member of this Anti-Slavery Society, unless saay be permitted to stylo myself a believing member one who has never joined your association, bat who has, in some little measure, contributed towards the abolition of slavery. I have graduated in that school where those who study become most thoroughgoing and emphatic Abolitionists.

My Abolitionism is but recent growth. When I entered the army, I determined to do what I could to crush this rebellion. I believed with hundreds of thousands of others, that it could be done without interfering with slavery. But I had been but a short time in the army when I saw that to crush this rebellion, it was necessary to eradicate slavery. I had been there but a little while before I met our erring brethren on the field of battle, and, falling into their hands wounded and a prisoner, I was able to obtain information which I never possessed before.

It was then and there that the conviction forced itself upon me, that slavery must be abolished; and. friends and fellow-citizens, I tell you it will be abolished. (Applause.) I am sorry that some of your members are quarreling with the means for accomplishing the ends for which you have labored so long and so faithfully. For my part, I am willing to accept the assistance and receive the help of all who are willing to accomplish this great end of freeing our country from what has been a curse to it, and has stained and defaced our escutcheon. I hope none of the members of this Society will think of laying down their armor; butif they do, I am sure there are those who are ready and anxious to work until not a slave remains on our soil.

I do not suppose, for a moment, that one who has been a member of this association for thirty years will think now, when the work is so nearly accomplished, of withdrawing while yet so much remains to be done. A great deal remains to be done in the army, and a great deal by you who are at home. It is for to uphold the hands of those who are administering the law at our Capital. Faithfully have you performed it in years past. I am confident that faithfully you will perform it, until the work for which you are associated shall be ended, and the rebellion shall be crushed.

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, Jthat one of the great means adopted by the government of this country, in crushing this rebellion, is the arming of the negro race. I believe that the arming of that class of our citizens will be the means of administering the last and crushing blow to slavery. At the South, we are arming those who have been made free by the Emancipation Proclamation of our President. We also arm those who are still held in bondage.

In Maryland, in Delaware, in Kentucky, and in Tennessee, we are receiving those who are not included in that Proclamation into the armies of the United States, and thereby giving them freedom. I am not one of those who hope without reason, but I am confident that this war is drawing to a close. I am equally confident that it will never end until the last slave is made free. There was a time when I imagined that the colored man was not equal to the white man in intelligence. But if he is not I do not say that he is not give him for a few generations the opportunities that you enjoy, and he will make himself what it was intended by God that he should be, a man, in all respects, such as we are.

(Applause.) I look at this matter from a military stand point. I look upon the soldiers of our own color, and upon those of a darker complexion. I have had some little experience with both and my dispassionate opinion is, that the one is equal in every way to the other. The colored man makes as good a soldier as the white man. He obeys orders as promptly and as intelligently he acquires the drill as perfectly, if not more so, than the white soldier.

Hia valor he has proved on many a bloody field his courage he has shown on the battlefield and in the hospital. And the day will come when he will show those who now look down upon him with contempt and reproach, that he is a man, willing to do and to dare all that other men do and dare, in striking for freedom and for the right. Mrs. Mott inquired what had been the character of Camp William Penn, as to depredations upon property, as compared with camps of white soldiers. Col.

Wagner. I am pleased to be able to say, that no depredations of any kind have been committed by the soldiers of Camp William Penn. The friends of the colored soldiers have been pleasantly and agreeably surprised to find them, in this respect, far superior to white soldiers in a similar position. I have never yet seen a camp of white soldiers, where depredations were not committed but at Camp William Penn there have been no depredations. It is not owing to a more rigid discipline there; we have no other rules than those that govern white camps.

But the men seem to feel the dignity and responsibility of their position. (Applause.) They seem to realize that the world is looking at them, and watching the progress of their camps, and of those of their color who have taken upon themselves the duty of fighting for the country and the flag. They coaie to the camp, many of them ragged and dirty but when they put on the uniform, they feel that they are men, and that they can hold up their heads among men. They are glad to see that even they have now an opportunity of doing something for our flag and for our nation. Say what you please about the degradation of the negro, it is all nonsense.

Give him an opportunity of showing what he is, and he will show himself a man. The President. I can bear the same testimony with regard to the conduct of the colored regiments at Readville, in Massachusetts, where the 54th and 55th regiments were stationed. It is the universal testimony of the neighborhood and the whole region roundabout, that never before was there a regiment stationed in that neighborhood without depredations being committed but since the colored regiments have been there, there have been no depredations. (To be continued.) GEOEGE THOMPSON.

The following extract of a letter from Mr. Thompson to Mr. James N. BuflTum, of Lynn, dated London, Dec. 10th, will interest our readers generally The policy of our government is decided there will be no intervention.

Copperheadisra now can do but little harm. Even the Times now acknowledges that the abolition movement in the United States is a great and that the radical party, who have gained immense ground since the late elections, are carrying all before them, and that every day, every hour, tolls the knell of the peculiar institution. I shall, therefore, leave England in the belief that through my absence no injury will result to the anti-slavery cause. My sole business during the last three years has been to rekindle the anti slavery feeling of this country, to bring out the true character of the anti-slave-ly movement, to unmask the designs of the rebels, to vindicate, as far as I could, the policy of the U. S.

Government, to expose and denounce ray own countrymen who gave aid and comfort to Southern traitors, and to bring public sentiment to act upon the Government of this country. We have now a vigilant, active, and energetic organization in almost every great town and city; and I may, therefore, be spared to mingle once more with my American fellow-laborers in the scene of their great conflict. I shall be delighted, as of yore, to take my place time and circumstances permitting by the side of the veterans who still live to carry on and complete the glorious work of Universal Emancipation. Yours most cordially, GEO. THOMPSON." THE LI A JEl THE THIRTIETH NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVEKY The Managers of the Thirtietii National Anti-Slaveet Subscription Anniversary hereby announce to its numerous friends and patrons, and to the friends of liberty and emancipation universally, that it will be held, as hitherto, in Music Hall, Boston, on Wednesday evening, January 27, 1864 and they confidently anticipate not only the same liberal patronage and thronged attendance that have hitherto been extended to it, but a cheering increase of both, in view of the wonderful change which has been wrought in public opinion, on the subject of slavery, since the rebellion broke out, adverse to the longer continuance of that "sum of all viltanies." The special object of this Anniversary has been, from year to year, to replenish the treasury of the American Anti-Slavert Societt, and thus enable it to keep in operation those potent instrumentalities whereby the public conscience has been aroused, the public understanding enlightened, and the public heart softened, in regard to the pitiable condition of the millions of bondmen and bondwomen whose deliverance, though manifestly approaching, yet remains to be con summated.

To that Society is the whole country roost deeply indebted for its unfaltering, courageous and inflexible opposition to slavery as a system, and to the slave power as inimical to every element of Democracy and Christianity, through a long period of years and it is now widely and magnanimously conceded that, if its solemn warnings, powerful appeals, and pro phetic asseverations had been duly heeded, the present awful tragedy of rebellion and civil war might have been averted, and the abolition of slavery secured without violence or blood. The American Anti-Slavery Society has recently celebrated, at Philadelphia, its tuibd decade, or thir tieth anniversary since its formation. The occasion was one of thrilling interest and stirring remembrance, calling, in the retrospect of the past, for devout thanksgiving to the God of the oppressed for what had been effected by the power of His truth, and in spiring to new labors to secure the liberation of every slave in the land. While the great concourse of the tried and true," who were present, were made jnbilant by all the signs of the times, and while they expressed the confident hope that the monster Slavery had received its death-wound, through its treasonable revolt against the General Government, still, there was entire unanimity in the conviction that the Society should not think, for one moment, of retiring from the conflict until liberty is proclaimed throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof." Judge Conway, of Kansas, in a letter read on the occasion, regretting his absence, said I recognize in the American Anti-Slavery Society the primal agent in the regeneration of the American nation which is now in progress. The ultimate triumph of liberty is assured.

Tbank God, the future is ours But this assurance should in no wise inspire us with indifference to the progress of events. We must not suppose that our part of the work is finished. The American Anti-Slavery Society must not think of retiring from the field for many a long day. The future is ours but we must do the work necessary to perfect the results." On the same occasion, Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, in the course of an eloquent speech, said By years, by epochs alone, can we measure the progressive advancement of a movement so grand and comprehensive as the anti-slavery movement in America.

What mighty changes have been wrought in the condition of the anti-slavery cause in the United States since the American Anti-Slavery Society was organized by representatives of ten States in 1833 Then a few unknown and nameless men were its apostles now the most accomplished intellects in America are its champions. Then a few proscribed and hunted followers rallied around its banners; now it has laid its grasp upon the conscience of the nation, and millions rally around the folds of its flag. Then not a statesman in America accepted its doctrines or advocated its measures now it controls more than twenty States, has a majority in both houses of Congress, and the Chief Magistrate of the republic decrees the emancipation of three millions of men. Then every free State was against it now Western Virginia, Pelaware, Maryland and Missouri pronounce for the emancipation of their bondmen. Then the public press covered it with ridicule and contempt now the most powerful journals in America are its organs, scattering its truths broadcast over all the land.

Then the religious, benevolent and literary institutions of the land rebuked its doctrines and proscribed its advocates now it shapes, moulds and fashions them at its pleasure. Then political organizations trampled disdainfully upon it; now it looks down in the pride of conscious power upon the wrecked political fragments Uiat float at its feet. Then it was impotent and powerless now it holds public men and political organizations in the hollow of its hand. Then the public voice sneered at and defied it now it is master of America, and has only to be true to itself to bury slavery so deep that the hand of no returning despotism can reach it. "Nevertheless, I say to you, and to the anti-slavery men of the United States, who have rejected the subtle policy of concession and compromise, who have repudiated the guilty delusion that the sin of slavery belongs to past generations and repentance to posterity, who have perpetually sounded into the ear of the nation the sin of oppression and-the duty of repentance, go not home with the conviction that your work is done, but go home cheered by the assurance that the battle is going on for you; that you have stormed battery alter battery, carried position after position that you have only to be as true in the future as you have been in the past, to secure a permanent and enduring triumph.

If the nation had ao cepted your doctrine of peaceful, legal, Christian action, this bloody war would never have come upon us. The crimes of two centuries have brought this terrible war upon us; but if this generation, upon whom God has laid His chastisements, will yet be true to liberty and humanity, peace will return again to bless this land, now rent and torn by civil strife. Then we shall heal the wounds of war, enlighten the dark intellect of the emancipated bondmen, and make our country the model Republic to which the Christian world shall turn with respect and admiration." When such are the convictions and assurances of distinguished public men, not connected with the American Anti-Slavery Society, in regard to the value and magnitude of the work it has accomplished, and the further need and importance of the Society in perfecting what remains to be done, surejy it is no time to think of disbanding, or of cherishing the pleasing illusion that the victory is and therefore we may safely trust to events to shape our national destiny. Ever since the rebellion broke out, this Society has been thoroughly in earnest in sustaining the Government, and all those measures of emancipation which President Lincoln and Congress have deemed it necessary to adopt to suppress the rebellion, and to give unity and stability to republican ideas, institutions and interests, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf. The Managers of the Subscription Anniversary, therefore, feel that they may properly call upon all loyal men and women as well as upon all those who reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy that man can hold property in man," in every part of the land, to contribute liberally to its funds on this occasion, and, as far as practicable, to be present at its commemoration at the place and time designated.

Where personal attendance is impracticable or inconvenient, donations may be sent to either of the undersigned, or to William I. Bowditch, 18 Railroad Exchange, Boston, Treasurer of the American Anti-Slavery Society. These will be gratefully received, duly acknowledged, and faithfully expended. Mary May, Ann Rebecca Bramhall, Ann Greene Phillips, Sarah H. South wick, Lydia D.Parker, Caroline R.

Putnam, Louisa Loring, Mary Willey, Henrietta Sargent, Ably II. Stephenson, Sarah Shaw Russell, Sarah J. Nowell, Sarah Russell May, Elizabeth Vm Arnim, Helen E. Garriton, Eliti Apthorp, Anna Shaw Greene, Sarah Cowing, Sarah Iilake Shaw, Abby Kelley foster, Caroline C. Thayer, Mary E.

Stearns, Mattie Griffith, Mary Elizabeth Sargent, Mary Jackson, Sarah C. Atkinson, Evelina A. Smith, Abby Francis, Caroline M. Severance, Georgina Otis, Elisabeth Gay, Kathtrine Earle Farnnm BE JUST, AND FEAB NOT. A letter from Port Hndson to the New York Times gives a very interesting statement respecting the col ored troops stationed in that vicinity, in substance as follows The Corps d'Afriqne was organized at Brashear City, a boat nine months ago.

At that time, both officers and soldiers who came from the North to join that body were met with every sort of contempt and ridicule. So much has public opinion altered in re gard to these that the Examining Board, of which Col. James C. Clark is President, has now ap- on its roll nine hundred applications for commissions in the thirty colored regiments now at Tort Hudson. And some of the applicants are converted Democrats.

In nearly every regiment of this corps is a success ful school in operation, with an extra staff officer with the rank of Lieutenant, as instructor. In the 7th reg-ment, all the non-commissioned officers, and nearly all the men are reading, and some are writing: this too, after only three weeks trial. Never were persons more eager to learn, and their good will is heartily encouraged by their officers. It is intended by General George L. Andrews, the commander of this corps, that every colored soldier in it shall know how to read, and every non-commissioned officer how to write, in the course of the coming spring.

Nothing could be better work than this.whether for the elevation of the col ored man, or for the overthrow of slavery and the re bellion. Another letter from the same place and the same source gives a description of The First Free Christmas kept by these soldiers at Port Hudson. At a meeting of the soldiers of the 7th regiment on that occasion, the following speech was made by one of the non-commissioned officers. He said "Fellow Soldiers of the Sebenth Regiment I Is mighty glad to enjoy dis portunity for enjoying dis fust free Christmas in dis world what we live in. A year ago, where was we? We was down in do dark land ob slavery.

And now, where are we We are free men and soldiers of de Unite States. And what have we to do! We have to fight de rebels, so dat we never more be slaves. When de day ob battle come, what will we do I speak for me, and I say for myself, I go and fight de rebels till de last man die. res, under de nags what was presented to us from New York, we fight till de last man die and if I be de last man, what will I do? I hold up de flags, and if I die, den I go to my grave consified for doing my duty. De President ob de United States is one great man what has done more good dan any odcr man what ever was borned.

I bless de Lord we fight for so good commander. I have no more to say now and evermore Amen." Several speeches were made, and the above is a fair sample of them all. When the non-commissioned officers had all spoken, the following resolutions were offered and passed with a shouting Yes peculiar to these people Resolved, That this being our first free Christmas, we, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Seventh regiment, Corps d'Afrique, do hereby express our deep sense of gratitude to that Divine Providence through whom we have been delivered from our cruel bondage, and brought to enjoy this liberty. Kesolved, that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Government of the United States which time and la bor can never repay. Resolved, That we cannot express in words our love for the President of the United States, as language is too weak to convey that estimation in which we hold Aim who has been to us what Moses was to Israel of old, and to justice and humanity so true and faithful a friend.

Resolved, That, as soldiers of the United States, we desire to be ever true, always ready to fight our enemies, and never willing to give up till they are Resolved, That as soldiers of the Seventh regiment we will always strive to do honor to the flags presented to us by kind friends in New York. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the President of the United States, after being presented to the Colonel for approval. This report agrees with the reports made from North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, by th ose having military or civil supervision over the freed-men, respecting the good use these colored people are disposed to make of the opportunities which freedom offers them, and the right position they take, as far as they are allowed to choose, towards all the various classes with whom they come in contact. The military officers who have charge of the fighting portion of them declare these ex-slaves to equal the white troops in bravery in the field, in good discipline in the camp, in order and decorum everywhere. Those who have charge of the laboring portion of them affirm their readiness to do good service for fair wages, and their entire competence to take care of themselves when once they have a habitation, and the title to a bit of ground upon which they can raise food.

All agree in- testifying that they are eager to gain the power of reading and writing for themselves and their children, and that they already understand arithmetic enough for their small business transactions. Moreover, the whole current testimony agrees that they view their release from bondage primarily as the gift of God, and that, next after Him, they show a sense of grateful affection to the President of the United States, as the author of theirdeliverance. Finally, in stead of showing that spirit of revenge against their old masters which the oppressions they have suffered would naturally excite, they desire no retaliation, and seek no conflict with them except in the capacity of soldiers against armed rebels. Their rights once restored, they seem perfectly willing to let bygones be bygones. These things being so, -will it be any less than contemptible and infamous for our Government to seek to perpetuate and legalize the stigma which slaveholders and their allies have brought against the race of colored Americans, whether the claim be that they have no rights that white men are bound to respect, or that their position under the laws of the land should differ at all from that of white men We live in the period of "The Great Transition." While so many things are changing, and while such unwonted opportunities exist to put down the wrong and put up the right, let every man demand that the true ground of justice be taken towards our dark fellow-countrymen.

We do not urge the claim of reparation for the past, only of justice for the future. As a soldier, as a citizen, as an artisan, as a traveller, as a worshipper, let us see that our laws, at least, in the new order of things, shall oppose no barrier to the colored man's standing on the same level with other men. When the legal disabilities are removed, the matter of social equality will take care of itself. We owe it to justice, to religion, to the realization of free institutions, to gratitude, to honor, yes, even to decency, to allow the black man to stand, henceforth, equal with the rest of ns before the law, both in Massachusetts and throughout the United States. c.

k. w. OLD COLONY ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. Plymouth, (Mass.) Jan. 1, 1864.

At a meeting of the Old Colony (Plymouth county) Anti-Slavery Society, held this day in Plymouth, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted Resolved, That in the opinion of this Society, Congress should immediately abolish slavery throughout the United States, not only as the grand cause of the present rebellion, but as an institution fatal to the existence of Republican Government: and also take measures for so amending the Constitution as forever to prohibit its existence in every part of our common country. Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing Resolution be signed by the President and Secretary of this Society, and transmitted to some member of Congress from this Commonwealth, with a request that it be made known to that body in some fitting way, and at the earliest opportunity. Resolved, That we heartily approve of the Form of Petition to Congress now in circulation, and earnestly entreat those to whom Petitions are entrusted to make every exertion to procure the largest possible signature, and, at as early a period as may be, to for ward them to the Anti-Slavery Office in Boston. BOURNE SPOONER, President. Samuel Dyer, Sec'y.

GAPE COD CONVENTION. The Emancipation Convention for Cape Cod was held in Exchange Hall, at Harwich, commencing on Saturday evening, January 2d, and continuing through the following Sunday, four sessions in all. The Convention was organized by the choice of Ezekiel Thacher, of Barnstable, as President, Zebina H. Small, of Harwich, Vice President, Francis Hinck-ly, of Hyannis, Secretary. Finance Committee, J.

H. Robbint and Ephraim Doane. The principal speakers were Parker Piusbury he of the lion-heart and E. II. Hey wood.

It is not necessary to speak of their performances, because their merits and their eloquence are known wherever freedom is prized, or its noble advocates can be heard. Suffice it to say, that the interest was constantly intensified on this occasion, and nobler aims and purposes on the part of the hearers must be the result. The following resolutions were presented by Mr. Pillsbury, discussed by both speakers, and finally passed by a unanimous vote 1. Resolved, That the present desolating war is the natural and just retribution for the crimes and cruelties of slavery the penalty, like the sin, being shared alike by both North and South.

2. Resolved, That we see no possible end to the war, but in the total abolition of slavery, as an act of justice, of repentance and righteousness and in the total extinction of its grim shadow, "prejudice against color and in the elevation of the proscribed African race, to all the rights, privileges and prerogatives of freemen, under a genuine Republican govern ment. 3. Resolved, That we deprecate the doctrine of Military Necessity," as essentially atheistic, an im pious but vain attempt to compromise away one of the plainest and most positive obligations ever impos ed by the Divine on a human government. 4.

Resolved, That we recommend petitioning Con-. gress to the widest possible extent, to immediately abolish slavery throughout the United States, not only as the main cause of the present rebellion, but as an institution fatal to the existence of Republican government; and also to adopt measures for so amending the Constitution as forever to prohibit it in every part of our common country. The Financial Committee made a collection of fifty dollars in aid of the cause, beyond expenses. The attendance of the Convention was excellent, considering the inclemency of the weather, and the result very gratifying to the tried friends of humanity. FRANCIS HINCKLY, Secretary.

EJf" Our columns are still occupied, to a large ex tent, with the proceedings of the memorable Decade Celebration at Philadelphia, in the report of which all our readers will take a lively interest. Two more numbers of the Liberator (occupying an entire number of each) will be necessary to complete the publication of what remains on hand. The letters on our first page will repay the most thorough perusal. That of John Jay, Esq. is historically valuable.

The spirit of his venerated father still lives by succession. Fortress Monroe, Jan. 1. The colored inhabi tants of Norfolk and vicinity celebrated to-day the first anniversary of their freedom, as given them un der the President's Emancipation Proclamation. our regiments of colored troops, under command of Brig.

Gen. Wild, took part in the exercises. There were present, as invited guests, Maj. Gen. Butler and staff, and Brig.

Generals lleckman, Barnes, Getty' and Ledlie, with their respective staffs. The procession marched through all the principal streets of Norfolk, and upon arriving in the square fronting the cemetery, formed a hollow square, and speaking, music and Masonic exercises were the order of the day. A beautiful flag was presented to the 2J North Carolina colored regiment, being a gift of the ladies of Washington, N. C. Mrs.

Major General Butler has been receiving calls from the officers of thegarrison at this post, and their friends. 5The 1st of January was celebrated by the colored people of Eastern North Carolina with imposing ceremonies at Beaufort. The United Societies of American Freed men were present in full regalia, and the various organizations were largely represented. An eloquent oration was delivered by A. H.

Galloway, and revolutions were passed in favor of negro suffrage in the reorganization of the State Government in North Carolina. The Emancipation Jubilee. The colored people of Worcester commemorated the first anniversary of the Proclamation at a social gathering in Washburn Hall, Jan. 1st. There was appropriate and congratulatory speaking by Dr.

James F. Brown, Mr. Allen Walker, Rev. Merrill Richardson and others, and the intervals of the evening were satisfactorily varied with singing and refreshments. Young and old entered into the spirit of the occasion with great good feeling, and made it a source of happiness to them all.

The proceeds of the evening were quite liberal from donation and sale, and will be forwarded to the freedmen under the charge of Rev. Superintendent James. OBITUARY. Died In South Danvers, Deo. 22, (killed instantly by the explosion of a steam boiler,) Mr.

John Cutler, of Dan ver sport, aged 50 years and 6 months. And when he was gone, every one who knew him declared he teas an honest man. What more need be said of him for is it not true that of such (also) is the king-don: of And yet, no man was ever farther from the class who, as Dean Swift says, gain a universal reputation by answering yet, yet, to whoever accosts them. His was ever the Party of Freedom and his also the Church of Humanity and bis fellowship was with every member of that church, irrespective of creeds or catechisms, of castes or complexions. His eye and ear were ever alive to suffering and no pang did not touch bis heart which reached his observation.

lie was an Abolitionist more than thirty years, and if he did not patronize the Liberator all that time, the reason has nothing in it of reproach. In feeble health all his life, he yet toiled daily at the hardest part of a most laborious calling working often, doubtless, when a wealthier man, or one less scrupulous, would have kept his room. For intelligence, especially for a knowledge of history and the best poets, he had few superiors none perhaps among the mechanics and work-ingmen in even as well read a neighborhood as was his own. The munificence which endowed the Peabody Institute may feel itself richly rewarded in supplying food to one such hungering and yet appreciating mind while Shaks-peare and Milton, Hume and Maoaulay, Prescott Bancroft may well be proud of such a disciple. He leaves a most devoted and affectionate wife to mourn a loss of its kind, not often equalled in the annals of human woe.

But there is another, an invalid sister, helpless now for twenty-seven years, his constant care by day and charge by night, whose loss can never, never be repaired, below the skies. And yet, would any learn a lesson of true Christian resignation, nay, of holy heroism, of high and divine fortitude, let him go to her bedside. I went and I returned, humbled indeed, but instructed as perhaps never before. Who, with such an example before him. needs other assurance that to the exalted soul, every day's strength is equal to every day's suffering The sudden departure of our noble friend has cast a dark shadow over a large community.

But none doubt that the loss here is, to him, all that is great and glorious in immortality. Com. In Dorchester, Dec 29, Aaron Nixon, aged 81 years and 11 months; an npright man, very much respected. Mr. Nixon took a deep interest in the Temperance and Anti-Slavery movements.

He was an active and efficient member of the Dorchester Anti-Slavery Society nearly thirty years ago. He was one of the first seven voters ia town who left their old parties in 1840, and voted in fa vor of freedom. He lived to see that number increased till Dorchester was represented in the Legislature of this State by decidedly Anti-Slavery and Temperance men. The last vote he cast was for Abraham Lincoln. At that time he was so afflicted with disease and the infirmities of age, that it required the assistance of three men to enable him to get in and oat of the carriage.

Ho lived witlr his wife (who survives him) more than fifty-five hears. B. ty UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION-NEW HAMPSHIRE CAMPAIGN. Stephen S. Foster will leetareia New Hampshire as follows Oilmanton, Friday, Jan.

IS. Hill's Corner, Canterbury, 8unday, 17. Also as abovs A. T. Foas sod W.

A. Jackson, (JsfC Davis's coachman,) will lecture In Charlestoa, FrMa, Jan. 15. SpriagJeW, YL, Batarda, 16. Sunday, Cornish, Monday, 18, Cornish Flat, Tuesday, 1.

Plainfield, Wednesday, 20. Lebanon, Thursday, 21. Enfield, Friday, 22. Canaan, Saturday, 23. Sunday, 24.

Grafton, Monday, 25. IMMEDIATE KM ANCIPATI02J. W. Wells Bbown wiHaddress the people on the above ahjset, as follows Monson, Friday, Jan. 15.

Hanson, Sunday, 17. Pembroke, Monday, 18. llano ver, Tuesday, 1. ry A COURSE OF LECTURES. Several eminent gentlemen are engaged to deliver a Course of Lectures in Joy Street Chapel, during the ensuing weeks.

One lector will be delivered a week consecutively by Rev. A. A. Miner, Rev. Mr.

Manning, Rev. Haven, Rv. Mr. Waters ton, Ac The next lecture will be given next Wednesday evening, commencing at half-past 1 o'clock, by Rev. A.

A. Miner. Admittance 15 cent. t- AN ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION will be held at the Univerralist meeting-house in Hanson, on Sunday next, 17th commencing at half-past 10 la the forenoon, and continuing through the day and evening. Wm.

Wells Brown and Parker Pillsbury will address the meeting. A general attendance ia desired, especially ia view of the momentous issues soon to be settled by th pen, the tongue, the government and the army of tbt nation. fy AARON M. POWELL will speak at Syracuse, N. Sunday, Jan.

17. Borodino, Monday, 18. Thorn Hill, Tuesday, 19. MARRIED In Plymouth, 7th by Rev. R.

Tom- linson, Mr. William E. B. Ktdeb, to Miss Mart G. Host, both of Charlestown, Mass.

In Rochester, N. Dec 24, by Rev. Mr. Ottaway, Mr. Nathan Sphaovk to Miss Rosa, only daughter of Frederick Douglass, Esq.

In Newport, R. Jan. 6, by Rev. Mr. Maloom, Mr.

Mark Renib DeMortik, to Miss IIakrixt McCabk. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Head-Qcartkrs, Boston, December 8, 1863. GENERAL ORDER, 0. 42.

In reply to many inquiries, the following Order is promulgated, being condensed from previous Proclamations and Ordew I. Veteran soldiers, (that is, discharged soldiers who have served at least nine months,) will receive from the United States Government the veteran bounty of $402, whether they enlist in any regiment or company now in the in eith er of the following organisations, vis 2d Kegt. of Heavy Artillery, Colonel Franklin the 56th Regt. of Infantry, (1st Veterans,) Colonel Griswold the 57th, (2d Veterans,) Colonel Bartlett the 68th, Sd Veterans.) Colonel Richmond the 59th, (4th Veterans,) Colonel Gould or in th new Battalion of Cavalry now forming at Readville, to be attached to the 1st Regiment of Mass. Cavalry Volunteers, Colonel Sargent or in tho other new Battalion now recruiting at Readville, to form part of the 4th Mass.

Cavalry Volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold A. Rand. Such veterans will reoeire the bounty of $40 from the United States, and the full State bounty of Massachusetts, in th manner set forth in the Proclamation of th Governor, of November 18th ult. II. All raw recruits (i.

those not veterans) will receiv the full State bounty, who enlist in either of the organisations, new or old, now in th field, or now being raised. Such new recruits will not receive $302 from the United States, but instead thereof $100 only from th United States. If they join one of the old regiments or companies now in the fields or one of the Cavalry Battalions namad above, they will receive $302 from the United States. By Special Order of the Secretary of War, thos two Cavalry Battalions are parts of old regiments now in th field. New recruits have, however, th right to join, any ityi-ment or company not already whether new er old, if they choose to do so, and to accept th smaller United States bounty instead of the larger one.

III. To recapitulate. The United States does not pay recruits who are not Veterans of nine months service any bounty exceeding $100, unless they Join on of th old organizations already in the field, including in th term old organizations," Ac, the two Cavalry Battalions above mentioned. It pays nine months' Veterans joining any organisation, new or old, $402 bounty. It pays new recruits $302, who go into old organisations, including the two Cavalry Battalions aforesaid.

The Commonwealth pays her full bounty to all classes of recruits, allowing thorn to join any regiment or company they please, if there is room to receive them. IV. The United States officers do not offer any bounty to men of color, nor do they pay them the full wages of a soldier. They pay $10 per month, of which $3 may be in clothing. This Commonwealth pays the full bounty of $325 in band on being mustered into the United States service as a Massachusetts volunteer, to all soldiers, irrespective of color or extraction or the soldier may, if he prefers it, receive $50 in advance, and monthly Stat pay, by way of bounty, $20 per month.

By 'Act of November 16, 1868, this Commonwealth, out of its own Treasury, makes up to the 54th and 65th Massachusetts Volunteers the deficiency in their pay, and a paymaster has already gone to those regiments for th purpose of their payment. VI. Volunteer now in the field, authorized ntader orders from the War Department to re-enlist as Vetera Volunteers, and who do re-enlist in Massachusetts Volunteers, (see General Orders, Nos. S3 and 34, from these Headquarters,) receive the full bounty offered by th United States, and also the full bounty of Massachusetts, of $325 in advance, or of $50 in advance, and $20 per month, at their own election (see Governor's Proclamation of November 18, 1863, and General Orders, Nos. 32, 33 and 34.) VII.

Such Volunteers re-cnhttxng will 6 credited to their towns against present quotas under the last call. By order of His Excellency John A- Andrxw, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. WILLIAM 8CH0ULER, Adjutant-General. JUST PUBLISHED, STEPHENS'S ALBUM VARIETIES. THE SLAVE IN 1863.

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