Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1874, Page 2

o efforls, and overruled events so that this generae Hholinn béoa porinitted (o Dokt tho alaves mado Ercemen, nud our country redosmod, It will consist B adlilroas0s from personn wio wora formorly promis Bent as Apenkers or writars for tio cnso of {hio nlnvo; Miieal notlees of porsons - who- swere dis~ {inianed in tuat ol of lsbary of who lizva become thin mow of the nation, aiid aro ow dead : i tho rociinl ‘of rendinircouces nna istorienl alotehes of tha pusts and {n singing tho nongs of Jiborty which wero onco MTeetivo b this reforn; by tnombers of tlio chofrs, oF Tioso who moy Joits with_thom {n tho nnslo af the o Lihety Minwirel ; ind prolnbly in a concort of, diks singaihed wingers upprouria ta ths occulol, Neetings will bo Lield fn {hio foronuony, afternoons st oviailogn ; and progrummen will bo. publisied fn advanco of cadlt dy’s provecilinge, "L liinond—lig iakiny of 1his gathertug togother o tho frionds of. thoro wlio woro olico slaves but now free, both fuleresting nnd protitablo, we sollcit tho co- Shoration of all the peopls, knd invito them o foln St va 1 1o comeratilallons of o National Jubiice, of hlogru Drnicrson,Chalrman, JONN JONES, }" Sin hen 0. B, Warzr, ALLANY . L, 1AsaoND, DAV L, i, CATYIN Dit WoLl, 0. DAVIDEOS, d. B TeMpLE, - GRonak ANDENSON, W, D, Banvrer, 8, M, Boosm, 2, EAsTtax, Becrotary of. tho Gommilteo of ltounton, TOE PRAYER, Prayor was Lhien offored by thoe venerable Dr. Hascom, of Ottawa, who sald ¢ Our Father in Hoaven, wo moet {o-day. undor cir- cumatanced of thrilling intorest, Tho memories of tho part crowd npon our minds, and the ciroum- stances of the provont eall for thankfulness and joy, 1t boronics s, O Lord, to scknowledgo Thee, nud io worship 'Chee, aud to el Upou Thy name in tho boe fouing of thiso services, which wo uow inaugurate, (or Thy presence and Thy blessing on thia occusion, Wo worship Thee, O Lord, a8 tho God of eaven pud enrih—as our Qudyund Fuflior, snd Yedeenior ; aud wo give tlauks to Thee in romembranto of * Thy miercios that aro past, and in view of tho mercles that now surraund us, O Lord, wo thauk Thico for tho ac- casion tnt hos ealled us togethier; wo thank Theo that wo mny louk upon the faces of %0 Tunuy with whom in Jayn sty i yeors long sitco gano, wo took cottuol in rogard 10 tho {nferests of frocdom and {ho walfaro of tho slovo; we thank Theo, O God, thatso many of Aheeo doar brothron aurvive, and nre permiited to como npliero o recount tho Way in which Thou hnst led tliem, nud to glvo thanks fo Thes for that kind and elous fntorposition, We remombor, O Lord, when, i days past, wo waro met_to pray for the alavo, and when all scemed dark_sud forbliding except a8 we Tooked up to Theo, Wo knew ‘Thou wort tho friend of upptesscd humunity, and that thou hadst the power and wisdon by which’ Thou couldst aocomplish thut ‘which was imposaiblo for us 3 aud in' those . days- of darknow, Lord, Thou kuowent Low we cast our cares on Theo and sought Thino aid, Thunke bo to God for 1lia iuterponition | Thunks Lo to God for tho victory that Ho gavo to the causo of tho freo, Thou hast wrought out tho liberation of the blavos Thoun hust froed our conutry from tho shacklos sud from tlo dis- -aca of slavory it ways that wo know not—In waya nt wero not of our devislugs but, 0.Lord, we ro- joice that Thou hast nccomplished’ it. * And" now, O rd, Thou hast douo it fu o way in which nouo of u8 can take glory to curselves, and say s+ Seo what wo pavo wrought # bt Thou bt compioilod us, and wo Toss Tlics for t, L ivo b tho glory of this muivation whom unta God, to Volongs, Aud now, Lord, bioks thls meeling, We pray thal wo mny not morely enjoy our muiual oongratiilations, and tho reminiscences of things that are [nteresting ; but may our communicationa .ouo to suothor be edifylug, and inrpire us with the sphit of Iiborty und the lovo of humunity; o that wo iy be rapared for tho further duties flut dovolvo upou us, B "8od, wo yray Thca'to bless cur conntry 3 guido i all its wifairs ; yive wisdom to {hone who rulo over ns and who adopt the policy of our Administration, Wil God givo thein wisdom from nboye, ahd pavo our land froni dogonoracy aud corruption, Wo pray for tho omnneipnted uillions. O God, may wo not feol that wo linyo dono all our dnty uutil wo havo given thom 1he blessings of education so_long withliald—nntil wo iava prepared thow fully to appreciate ond_enjoy oll tho blosstugs of Chriatian civilization, Wo_ pray that they. sy be enlightoned, - and- eldvated, sud prepared to not well their purt as frocmen in thia great Ropublie, Wo commit all theso interests to Theo; sad, wilh theukful, hunblo hearts, wo implore Thy ‘blcesing upon us and upon all the _rervices of this oo~ caslon, And we pray ‘Thy wirdom and controlled Ly Thy providence, g0 thut they sholl resnlt in our edification, und i tho Dromo~ tlon of tho boat iuterests of huinunily, aud of tho King- dom of God ; and the praise shall all'be Thive, through Jesus Ohriat, Amen, S PENMANENT OROANIZATION, Mr. James Bisrnoy, of Michigan—I move that a committeo bo appointed to report a plau of permanent organization. i ‘The motion preyailed, and the Chafrman nn- mounced a8 tho Cominittee, James Birney, of Michigan, D: L. Faugh, of Illinaws, Joln Mor- au, of Ohio, Hiram I'oote, 'of Wiscousin, 'and Willlam Loslio; of Iowa, : 2 The Tam‘lmmry Chuirman—Goy. Bevorldge will now addreas n fow words of welconio to ho delogates on belinlt of tho Committos’ of ‘Ar- rongemeonts. Wa nro all tomperate in ~habit, feoling, and priuciple, yet we all love our Bover- idgo, [Applause and langhter.) —_— ADDRESS OF WELCOME. . The address of wolcoma was then’ delivered by His Excellency Gov. Boveridge. s follows.: Thirty odd years ago there camo o wan acioss the prairics, withoul compaoa or lovel, lay out a railroad, That man was Owen Lovojoy— & map hating slavery, loving liberty, and honor~ ingbis God, That road was ono line of the un; dergrouud tailrond—chartered not by law, but in moral convictions ; engineered not by acience, but through charity ; constructed not with mon- ey, but out of lovey freighted not with com- merce, but with down-Lrodden humanity ; opor~ nted not for the beneflt of atockholders, but for tho escape of the fugitive flelng from the hand of his opprossor. Withont magnificont depots, the home of overy despised ALolitionist in thie land was o station, whero the wedry travolor found reet apd refroshments, weloomo, and & ¢ God speed you.” Ono terminus was in tho land of tha slave; and with the fixed polarsiar as the unerring beadlight, the tram ran onamid darkness sud storm, by devious and divereo routes, through valley aud forest, along swamp and stronm, by rock and onvo, pest canebrake and thicket, in lane and by-way, across mountain and plain, over prairle, hill, and Inke, into that land yonder, beyond the confines of the great Republie,~the shortest, quickest, and safest routo from slayery to freouom, i TIE TIATN IAX OK. amid tho donunciations of the Northand the malignant curses of tho South. It ran on, through divided churches and disrupted political organizations, It ran on in spite of the infamous Fugitive-Blave Inw, the more infemons *Drod Beott decision,” and the military interferouco of- the Exeoutive. . Greater the diMoultios encountorad, gronter the dangers throstened, louder and florcer the whistlo kounded, and fastor and faster the traiu :{;?;‘ ]l:l’l. Cld‘h(‘a]puopla ntnold aghast M} l&mfiun‘lhlo ok, and tho vory nation trombled bou: the thunderings of u)\'o wheels, . i) NO ONE BUFPOSED 4,000,000 of slaves could bo transported from tho Bonth into” Cauada, No ono supposod that tho. delivorance of Isrnel from Fyvptian' boudage would bo rapeated on American moil, There was no Moucs to load the enslaved host— 1o plaguc to torrify—no angal of death to aypal —no0 eloud by day—no pillar of fire by night—no Johovnh to dividethesea, Yot the underground railrond wos an instramont in the handn of o %\:‘::qul for the fultiilmont of Ifis grand pux- The flying fugitive, pursued, bunted, snd cap- tured, seneuad, nidden and Mtriod sa ic the ohy of roluyo, was o conhtunt Yomindor of the- i’ Lumauity'and berbarity of African siavery, Tho atory of Lis wrougs from bis own Lipe, tha sears of shacklos on Lis ankics, of mangeles on his wrists, of the fron collar ou his neck, of thie Jush on_hi buck, oxeitod sympathy, swakyyed moral sentiment, aroused tlio public cousdlonco, and- brought agitation,—such agitation of ' tho gocial, mental, moral, roligicus and politicul forces ug wore nover bofoys witnessed in Ly or any othier country, > THE CONTEST broadened and deepencd. The Bouth in its [ronzy and dgsperation invoked war. 'Tho ques- tion was s Blnll the couutry bo all sluve or all fron,—shall the blnck flag “or the flag of our futliers wave ovor the land? The CGovernmont, Vefora on tho side of slavery, for its own honor and presovvation, docluroll for freeqom, s aralnst alavory, Phen ths Undorground Rullvond Company, with all 1ts obligationt cancoled, dis- golved. “Tho trnlft’ slooa still ; tho tiros of tho enigino wenl out s and ju i day tho proclamation of tho immortal Lincoln, buoked by the War powor, nerfected the owmanciyntion, * Tujue ] do yeur of Jubllos haemme e e U NEN who had part In this great o, ~tho men fa ‘| Bombled horeto rovivo tho meniories of Lho past, ‘hco that all may bo direcied by | DAILY “TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, L1874, P L D B T e JUNE 10, Aholr orowns, to.ivave thelr palms, and.to sing thelr songe of-everlasting Joy. - o« ¥ From tholy high abodes, thoy look down upon acunnlr{ all freo ; upon & pooplo ali equnl bo- foro tholaw 3 uyon one flag,—tho flq} our fath- ors unfurlod,—in trinmph waving from overy hill-top, nnd streaming out upon overy son. ‘Lhoy lovk down upon us this day, and, smilo tholr Nienvonly honedictions upon tho living ss- tonarrato the doeds and tocommemorntothovir- tues of the old Alglitionints, Carpenter, Dyor, Derlekson, Pinkorton, DoWolt, Iroor, astman, . ‘Allen, Farnsworth, Preston, anchnrd, Boot 3 Joues, Vau Dorn, Foll, L. M. Mutlock, Hnatings; and thoso whoso *homes nro not 8o near, bu whoso pames aro ax familinr,~Goodel], Gnrrison, Baoelior, Bryaut, Whittior, Longfotlow, l’hul!lm, Fred Douglass, Hoar, Curtis, Wado, -Burritt, Bmith, Wilson, Terotin Mott, Jano G, Bwiss? ‘helmy, Lydia Marin Childs, Harrlet Beachor Stows, ‘Mys. "Cutlor, Dorolhea Dix, and many othors, .| atillingor on thia ehore. * Bomo arostanding on tho'vory beach, looking with wistful oyes noross tho river to tho hills of otornal EIBNI beyond., Bomo, by ronson of {hiolr wtrength, avo boaring tho responnibilltios of life, and are working for God and bumanity, > it i o, OF TIE LIVING, it you, votorans, ara gathored Loro. — After yonrs +of coufliot, with rich experionces, conscious of a grand triumph, you come in the autumn of life, ito look into onch’ uthera’ face, ‘to grasp unch others’ haud, to renow the friondships of formor - days, to nwalen hioly momorles in tho heart, to recount tho buttlos fought nnd victories won, £ sing your eonys of gladness, sudshout your wild- eBt joys. _A{; one who for the first timo saw Owen Lova« Joy-whon luying out' his railvond ; e one who a8 ‘a conductor on that road ; as one whoso fathor'a cabin gave sboltor aud rest to the run-.| Ding slave ; ae one who lenrned to hato slavery from tho bold, thrilling uttorances of. Cm]('lllvfi and Lovojoy: ns oue whoro carlysympathies an Iabora were with the libortv of men of othor, days o8 one.wha railied to tho dofonse of the | flag agalust tho aesanltaof thntunholy, damnable, treasonablo institution ; and aa a citizon and tho Chief Excoutivo of the great State of Illinois, it. (lincomun my hionored priviloge and wy ploasant duty > O .WELGOME YOU § oy to weleomo you, agitators; to wolcome you, negro:thieves ; to .welcomo you, Old-Lino Ab-, olitionists; to welcomo you, votorans, nearred, all ovor . with the baitlo of yenrs; to woleemo you to this groat Btate and to, this magnificent; city. You. lisve veen wolcomed with brigk-baty, | nticks, nud'rotton eggs ; with- jibos, and joor, and ribald - Jaugh ;. with - toureats, and in-, sults, and oursos ;. . with ..indictment, trial, ond conviotion ; with.. nrrest, and flno, aud imprisoument, I offer you no suoh weleomo, . but, in the namo sud in behalf of tho good poo- plo of this city and Stuto, Textond to you a rvight: royal-welcome. I extond to you their great big Land, with thofr grout bix boart n it, Lopen to you their houses to roceive their’ hospitalities. Iopon to you thelr Learta, to re-. coitve their Iove, Iopen to you.tbeir souls to receive thoir honor and venoration, And may ' tho divino Mastor opon the windows of hesven that ¥o may roceive tho beoedictions of Lho Most High, and at lust, when. vour labora nro; ' done,.uny Ho apen tho gates—iho aternal gatea | —that y may onter in with tho King of Glory, and, with tha redeomed of nll lands, of all nges, of all races, of evory kindred, tfibe, and tonguo, bo forover with tho Lord. *s 3 \. + ;- THE BONG OF TIK ABOLITIONIISTS. The audionce then united in singing to the tune of Auld Lang Byne, the *Bony of the Abo- litioniuts,” by \_\'ill{qm:Lioyd Qnrrison 1 1 am an Abolltionfst | .1 glory.in the namoy Though fow by Slavery’s minlans hissed, Aud covered o'er witlh shume, - 1t 48 a wpell of light and power— ho watchword of thio free— < -+ Who spurus it [n the trlal Lour, " Acravensouljshol | Tmn an Abolltiontst]. . e Tlien urgo mo not to pause, - - For joyfully do Lenllst . Tu Frecdony’s Facred coure, A nobler strifo tho world no'cr saw LIy enalaved to dlkenthral § < Tamt o goldier for tho war, : Whotever may befalll . * Taman Abolitiondet | Feq Oppresslon’s doadly foes. "+ : In God's great strenutls will I roalst, And lay the monster low, .. . Tn God's great namo do I domand,, + To all Lo frocdom given, . Riat penco and joy mas All tholond. % And songs goup to heavenl- - . | . PERMANINT OFFICENS. : . Tho, Committes to nominate officers, throughi D:'Li, Hough roported ny follows :* |, =" President—1Tenry Wilson, of Massachuactls, $ Vice-Lresiacnia—A, L. Chutluiy, Illinols; James Biruey, Michigan; J. B, Griunall, towa : Lov Coltin, Olio; John G, Fee, ‘Kentuckys 8. D, Iantings, Wis- convini Auatin Willey, Minnosoing T, Lo~ DMoyne, Ponusylvanin; L, W. Hitclicck, Nobraskn; 0, O, Burleigh, Massachusctts: Stophen Codding, Now York; L Wotuoro, ;Jull.:mxlc‘llcu%l 5 ereluries—TLo Rov.J, E, Noy, Wm. B. 3 1ando Davidson, e iy Duainess Commiltee—R, P, Derickson, Chairma Philo Carpenter, Atlan Pinkerton, David L. Hougl 0, Davidsou; Ged, Auderson, John Joues, O, 1; Wat . L, Hutmnot:d, Galvin DoWolt, J, 1% Temyle, W, Babbitt, 7. Eastsuan, Secretary, y The ropor. was accepted, .and_ thie numed to 8l the ofiices indiontad, Ar. Birnoy—It will bo seon that wo hiave nom- inated Vico-President Wilson,. I undorstand he has not yet arrived, but that he will ba Liore at 8 o'clock this ovening. g - The teniporary Chairman appointod_Messrs. Birnoy and Heath to condnet Gen. A, L. Chet- lain to the chair, QEN. .QUETLAIN, Ag he akconded the platform ho was grootod with applause, sud when it had subsided he enid: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FErrLow-Crurerys: In takiug this choiwr, pormit me to #ay & word, I thank you for tho honor you have vonferred upon mo in solecting mo 8s ano of the Viee- sidonts of your pormanent organization. I very much regrot that the ‘pro- grammo . connot bo carried out with - that noblo and large-hearted patriot, Vico-Dresidont ‘Wilson, in tho chair, [Appiause.] My improse #ion is that Mr. Wilson will be hero this even- ing. If bo loft Boston Monday morning, a8 we supposed be would, o will be here. In that event, to-morrow we shall bavo tho plossuro of #seelug bim in tho clair, and hoaring him speak. I am vory much gratifid to so 8o many of my follow-citizone of Chicago—though the weathor i8 vory faclement—horo this afternoon, and more Plonned to s0o hore #o many of our disfinguishiod ollow-citizons from all pnrts of our grewt coun- gentlomon r{t a8 o wise and admirable idea on the partof Mr, Doriclson, Ar. Pinkerton, Mr, Eustman, Mr. Hough, and Mr., Carpontor to. got up this Tounion,—~thin love-foast of -thp great old Abolition oclemont of tho coun- try. Boldiers, after n campaign, mock togothior, and talk about their buttles and thovr victories, Why shounld wot this great, glorious' army of mon “and women who contonded so valisnily in doys past—in thoso dark days that triod mon's souls—for liberty and right, snd ‘ngainst oppression and slavery, Why should thoynot meat in couvention—have a rouniou znd tallc,of tho past # Wo will talk of tha past, wa will raviow i¢, wo will sponk of thowo groat and «good men and truo patrioty, who wore our land- ory in days gono by—men aronnd whom wo clus- tored, with whom We prayed and lubored. Many ‘of tham have puased nway frowm oarth, . Othors, thank God, aro alive and hero with u& to-day. Wo know that thoy sympathize with us, we iknow that, with - us, ~ they thenk God for What. hos boou domo, , Wo will fulle of the past, of our trinls aud our conteuts, nud of ‘the dln'um\rs(;nm citcumstancos’ that surronnded U8, Wo will talk too of of the great rounlt that will over marl an opoch in the World's_history— o result that gnvo 4,000,000 of wlavos their free- dmuli [:\é)]nmmu.l], .1 do nat ramembor tho time when I was abolitionist, 1 did, In my eavlior hl‘n.fli?l?ltt‘“i hz:::!;ll l«:' :.:1].: ztllm gront, ‘I{nk ulong. During tho i 1 tho numy, 16 w 56 to raceive from the Iy A ol futio an order to aup:\v?“l m‘a]ran'mnsr 1 rintend tho organization = ored troopd in tho Stnies of 'l'e’l‘musuuu ungrliczgll- tuck, I was engoged in tho worls sor noatiy ono yeny, and, through my subordinntos, was succeu- Tul in xaiging, eyqulpping, disciplining, offlcoring, and putting in thoe field ‘nearly” 17,000 o ‘those men. tAm)hmac.] Many of thom aftorwards mndo n splondid_record on the flold. I alsg, duriug (ho time I was enguged in (his work, took ‘occanion o addross, very frequently, large mul- ttuder of colored poople, giving thom siich ud- 1 Atruggl who itinted and earried on mgx& forward tho euti-nlavory movemont to a glorfons consummas tlon; tha men who hacamo ayitators; wore ne- cursod as Black Abolitionists ;- wore denounced a8 negro-thioves; wore scorned, meoffed, aud snoored at by the populace; wero ol bbod, beaton, and hu{)rluuuud; aud to whoso ears camo tho wild cry, like that uurrlu; over the Jewish l?hblu."‘A\w with them! Away with them| Crucify them! Cruolfy thom!"—tho men who endured i, sufforad all, and, thiough faith and {«l;:t;’.?mumphud—\\-hm aro thoy? Whore aro Lundy, Lovojoy the Martyr, Oolline, Munter, Owon Lovojoy, Iiundm'uun, o, Joulyn, Dr, and - Duvklo, of our own jmiediata sce- and of the nation, ol Birney, Halo, , Tolly vag:,”;.'h T..“v"fil,m"‘“"“' Chanso, Lowls, Sumuor, the two Tappans, Alvan' Blowart, Beriali Groeu, Park . Jenils Groow, Carker, Titabaard, Stovens, Groa: and old Jahn Dirown, Mar- rimko, aud Mys, Higournay, Lave goue—gono to wonp garet Fuilor, Sarnh G snd & hout 0f othery, vioo ns I belioved thoy necded undor the ciroum- #tnucor, Liadion and gontlemen, without taking up moro of your time, I am glad to Boe #o maw af you hore, nnd I hope that this meeting will rosult fu good to every one. [Applause.] g LETTERS. Mr. T, L. anunond then - read the subjoined lottore: the firut Lolug from I. W, ALDEN, who wan conneoted with the Inte Dr. Leavitt In. ; editing nud pablishing the Emancipator at Bose tup, and nlso moro receutly with Dr, Cheaveraud William Goodel! In the Principia, at Now Yorl 1 o the ** Cammtieo of Reunion, Chicago, Ll UxNrLeseN s Your invitation of the 28th of Maroh wus duly receivod, and noihing would givo mo grontor plensure in thiy world than to muetut (Jhiuufio.qu the Oth Inut,, what remains | of the old Anf -Sinyor, d, but | Toaie Foe e 'y guurd, but it will not be 0 to Lo puesent, except fu spaxit, nud |} thonghta rushed. into my mind,s and I must bo contont to nota a fow of thom. s During tho fitty years sucoeoding the birth of this Ropublio in 1776, tho slave syatom mado glow but sure progross, encountoriug but fow obstacles in {ts onward maroli, . In tho fonrth deende of the ninoteenth; cen- tury the” moral forcon boegan to orgrnize” moéro offootive mrasuros by.creating and turning pube lio wontiment against tho sinvo power. The clirchies word appenled to, but divided on tho subjcot and opencd tholr moral battertos, tho minor part against tho wlave systom, buf the major lmré agmnst Abolitionists, **Cast down but not destroyed,” ihe Intter noxt spponled to .the political orgunizations of the country, but iwith no bottor success, . g .. In tho fifth decado thoy organized Anti-Slavery ohurelies, where thoy wero numorous enough to do go, on tho principlo of nori-fellowship with alavoholdors,- and - politically thoy organized n porty of thoir own on the bl of .u‘xrnyor faith 'avd worlts, To pray in the church on. Bundny for goud rulers, and vote in tho Stato on Mouday for bad ones, wns too hypoctitieal {o ho longor itolornted, and henco the nocorsity of o party with lenven enough fn it to toar up slavory by tho Foots. 3 In tho nixth deendo tho old Liborty party had: boen transforred to the Freo-Soil phnrty,' and from that to the Ropublioan party, whioh gavo' ,Gen. T'romont 114 votes in the_olootorul college ‘of 1860, and olocted Abrahom Lincoln in 1860, {8marting undor their dofont, tho slave power ap- apuosled trom tlio bailot to tho butlet, and lost all. The slaveholdors’ rebollioti ended in the tomanoipation of tho slaves, but 1t cost the conn- | try four or five thousand millions of ‘tronsure, and, mnug hundred thoueands of preclous lyos. Beforo tixe war, duringits continuauco, and einco its close, many'of thio men who gavo thomselyes to this glgantio work havo passed away from tho scones of earth to tholr flual roward in Hoavon. . ‘The flret standard-boarers of the old.Liborty .poarty, Jamea G. Birnoy aud Thomas Morrls, nre smoug the doparted. "hd first martyrs to the cnuse, the Rov. Eiljah Parisiy Lovejoy, the Rov. .CObarles T, Tomy aud Oapt. John Brown, whoso. gouls are marching on in s botter world, behold from Heavon, thoir dwelling-plnco, the results of _their Inbors, tho downfall of slavery. Others who wore permilted to tarry longor bave sinco .gone ! “v_rest, and among them wo may ment * Justice Chase; the Rev.’ Joshua Loov.. “', the Hon, John P, Hale, the Rov. ‘BorinL . ‘@ . Lowis Tappan, and, furtbor bncl, 1Benjou! ‘udy,‘Alvan Stowart, Myrou,Holly, . Arthur’ "R :n, Willinm Jackson, Dr. Bailoy, tho 1Ttev. O uvojoy, Tehubod Codding, the Hon. ° Bumidel I .unden, and many otlors who did not Satlivo lavory. e i Of tho fow who still survive wo hopo to weé thoit names enrolled fn your convautlon, includ- ing thoeo Who' could not. join us_in politi- cu? action, and also thoss ~ who joined! .us ot a ‘lotor porlod: - Moro ' or "less’ of iall thosa will, ‘X trust, "yoport ’ themisolves: Yor duty v whatever 'may’ remamn “to: be’ yot done to securo the civil rights of tho froed- mon, and finish up whnt 'thé lamontod “Charles !Bumner had so nearly comploted. Allow mo, in clohing, to'turii-from tho pnst and prosent to tho future for u single mlfgosunn fu regard to the proposed unfon of ‘the-“blue and tlie’ gray.” As rogards tho living aurvivors of (tho robollion, wo would accord to them il that Christianity do-. mands- for' any: einner~"if Iio ropont, forgive! him"—but as to tho dead robols, we would-leave: their momory torot. ~* 'r G b At o placo a dead rebel ‘who fought to destroy. the Ile{mblln upon & lovel - with n logal-lioro wwho! died -that his country miglt live, s ‘to’ offer o' premium: on avother -rebollion, If thore is no’ differengo betweon a'loyal -and & rebel subjoct, wmen will bo earoful hLow Lhoy voluiiteor. their norvices to put down -anothor rebollion. . Ouce cstablish that princivle, and tho assumption of the rebol debb is noxt in ordor, *‘Let us have poace,” 'but lat'us not condone rebollion:: Yours rospeetfully, Jogrrir \WARREN ALDEN, - OAMTTIDGE, Mass,, Juno 1, 1874, <L TipnANGIS OILLETTE. - . ".The néxt lotéer rend was from the Hon. Fran< i “Gillette, ‘thie firsf Liberty parly’ Sonator, elocted from Coonectiout in 1856 to the United Statos Bonato 1. 2 ginden BEER s T To the Commitles of ‘the- Anti-Slavery Rewnion: B - GENTLEMEN ¢’ ‘Accopt. ‘my. thunks for. your spocial invitation to attend'the ‘‘Reunion of the Abolitionists-of tho Nortiwest.” :'Cha . cell thrills mo with' the old enthusiasm. It wakons stirring *momorios of. the gient conflict with: American slavery.: It falls: upon.’'my ‘enrs: like a trumpot-voice from' tho .akies.: -1t marahala before.mo. in Lright ‘orruy the grand army.of autl-slavery: Licroes. who fought ' good fight, kept tho faith, and moat of whom' have finished their courso,’and receivediheir crowns, ... It would, indood, b joyous to lookiuta the timoworn~ faces of -tha survivors—tha living Abulitionists of tho:Northwest—nud clasp their fratornal handa in ‘memory of the labors aud ersccutions, which mado us all- o band-of rothors. -‘How furiously tho storm - did- bent upon us: from all quariers) The Obuvch, the Btato, privst and peopla, saints and sinners, ail united in throwing stouos ut ws; and trying to orush us. Oommorcs filled lior oave with cotton, and refused. to honr tho erles of. tho'bondman, whoso swent and stripes produced er chief staplo. DMonufacturors shonted, groat ia this Diann of the: Amerieaus; do notondanger: our eratts. Labor riveted the elave’s ohnina with all his Lammors, lost Lo should. come North and roduco ' his. wagos. ‘Avarice:hugged slavery as the talisman of his woatth. , Politics.: frawned upon the agitation of . slavory,lest it should da- stroy. the Union, .Legislatures iubibited tho discussion of the subjoct .uuder paing and pon- ulties. Piojudico rolled: up.bor Hightless oya- balla_alike at- the nogro-and hig frivudy. - Tho Runch docraed that. tho . negro had'no righta worthy of the respect of white.men. Pavtyism bowad down Lo sluvery, that ** thrift might’ fol- low fawning.,” Theology mumbled’ implous prayers over what was claimed fo bo & proe slavery Bibla, und ““bolted Lard tho caplive's door." Beience clssed the nogro with the apo, or graciously. admitted Lim to tho ughor ranlk of tho conuccting link between mau and the monkoy, The: vopulace, by-a'strange fronzy driven, rushod madly, upon’ ug, hurled its mis- silos, Dbroke up our .mootings, pillaged our Lrouses, burned churches ' and public halls, do- stroved prosscs, nnd oxilod or slob thojr de- fouders, ‘I'he whole nation was drunkon with the Circonn cup of sluvory, and tranaformed into its minjons and pandors, . : When we awoke to .tho erimo and curso of slovory, and oried aloud to wako & dying uation, wa found, to our dismay, that tho arch-fond hnd gogy rendy for our months, chains for - our preéses, woorn.for our petitions, and mobs for pur Juries, Tho four great bulwarks. or pillars of Niberty . had. been overthrown, zud the frecdoy of specch, tho ' liborty of the press, .tho . right of.- peti- tiou, and _ of " trial by jury, lny prostrate, and our firat fusk, proparatory to our groatwork, was to raise those fallen [nlllnrs and rostoro thom to thelr own pedostalsin the tomplo of liberty.. ‘Chis labor ywo pertormed amid showers of mob-missites, and flerce exocrations filling sheair. 1f, as history records, an ancleut battle “was fought and won :under {he shade -of the euemy's arrows, our battles were waged and achiovad with tho substunco of tho enomy's mis- siles desconding nupon our tlosh. The good socd was sown amid storm and tompest, \Wherover it took root and flourishod tho soil had baen burned over and mollowed by . tho fires.of pro- slavery wratl, 5 o insongiblo was the nation of ite” uttor subjugation to the slave power! The nomiually free-States wero so muany conquerod provinoes of tho slnve-lolding oligarchy. Its odicts com- manded tbe most prompt and” abject obedience, aven to tho oanine service of chasing and cap- turing its absconding fugitivos. Bo true is the saying of an anciont .statosman, that & nation may lous ita libortios in & dav atd not mins them for yonrs, But for tho timeiv elarm aud rally- ing cry of the Abolitionists, tho servile slumbers of thonation would have deepencd into the sloap of doath, and made it sn easy proy for Dayis nnd his rebel hordo. Wao varily thought to_overthrow tho gigantio ourse by nioral meaus, by Thioso mild arms of tiuth and love; Mado mighty through tho living-God, Vain hLopol .Tho onso was dosperale #eionco wug menrcd; ehame lost; Lionor dead: equity had - fallen in tho. streetd; the nation's micnouro of iniquity was full, sud nothing less tertiblo than: tho” thundosbolts of war conld srouse the country and breale the chain of slavery, In thet Dmbarous wer muny of our denr song and Lrothers fell, and tholr muto pic- tures on our domestio wulls ramind “us duily of our poronal logs and added sacrifies on tho altar of freedom, It wonld seom as it the pity- ing Fathor might hove spared s loyal ehitdrin thiu groat sorrow, mlflmmldud to ‘their many tride, and lot this ‘Tast bittor enp pass_from uss but o, deink it wo must, for so, Fathor, it soemed good in Thy sight, Nothing leas saored than thoir preclous blcad could oxpinte tho grent sin of the nation and propitlate “tho forfeited favor of Heaven, 1t would fudeed bo jovous to gather with yon at the antloipatad rounfon, thore to recount our tolh:j oxulk auow over our victories, and honor the dour memories of our doparied comrados, -Aud thia allusion to our decsnsed nesoolates uu¥« y eata tho thoughit that the rounjon will be on! n part, andnot wholly oyful, Tears will Llend with smiles, and sighw” with jo; 4, 84 you find your ranke 80 broken and w;ustmi How mourn- Tully you will miss from your gathermg tho gal- daut and fearless Lovojoy, who foll on the On recelviug your circular s wultitydo of |, nutional hoights, just at” tho closo of (Lo War, with his. gilttoring sword finshing in tle faco of tho " fool "And Codding, too, that rr‘nuoly man and mighty hero, the Whil- lold of fro edom's ehampions, whose logleal elo- quonce aud mngnelic powor disarinod u‘xpanllluu &1d oleotrified the multitudos_with tlo love o lborty. And many othor grand horoos of hu-'|- manily, whose deac ‘memories aro onshrined In out hienrts and {n tho aoctions of mankind, yon will not #eo in your nssombly. Although unscon by mortal oves, It will bo plossant to think of them aa spiritually presout, and participating with you in nll the sontiments aud songs, tho ‘reminisconces and plensuro of the oceasion, In this Northonstorn seotion of our country but fow of tho pionoers of tho anti-slavory cause ‘|'yot lingor on thia side of tho grave. Iferoand thoro I'maot with o white-laired volaran who kindloa with youthful ardor at the moution of 'tho conflict, and * fights his-battlos o'er again,” ‘But, one aftor anothor, thoy are fast passing into tho honvens. 'The writer horeof, hiaving enlistod ‘into tho grand avmy of frecdom oarly in lifo, is atill spared in porfeot hoalth to labor in othor great roforma for {ho olovation of man and the advancomont of doofoty. “But my. old comrades, —where aroe thoy? Ilook around for thom in vain, I8eonnow gonerationof reformors, good and trno mon to Lo suro, whom I bighly estcom, but thoy cannot aome quita o closo to my henrt 88 my oldor, hssoolntos, with whom I battlud’ whon Jifo was young aud hopes buoyant. If, a8 a Lativ poot says, 1t is swout and glori- .oua to din for one's country, how much rwoeoter ‘and more glorlous s it to live for ono's country and all mankindl "L'o be Burmlued thus to livo aud labor i one of God's boest boons to fls chil- dron. May tho members of the Convention and ovorv surviving Abolitiouist find this verified by sweot oxporience, Full of faith and hope, of couragé and onthusiasm, may tho{ prosa on to that imm victory which overcometh the world. With cordinl snlutations and brotliorly groot- inga to tho mombors of tho Convontion, and wishing them a happy reunion Lere and boroaf- ter, I am, doar sir, vory fraternally yours, f FRANCIS GILLETTE. j Hanzsonn, Conn,, May 25, 1874, B OITARLES FRANCIS ADANS, + Tho next lottor read was frowm tho ITon. Charlos Francis Adams, late U, 8. Ministor nt tho Court of Lor Majesty.nt Toudon, and tho candidato of tho Free Hoil parly for tho Vigo- Presidency in 1848 in connection with 3Martin Van Buren for tho Presidoncy : Zebing Fastman, Kaq,, Chicano, 111, : « MyDranBin: Ihave redcived your friendly lotior, fogothor with tho more forinl one.in- iviting-mo to-bo prosent and to take part in n roposerl’ reunion. of. tho old anti-glavery men, I£0 take placo at Chicago on tho 9th of Juno. * . Ttianow moro than thirty yenrs siuco I wag called to take an humble partinthe support of that causo, sud tho reminisconcos of the lmrlm] romain .stlil froah fn my. mind, But solong a torm of time caunot hnve passod without inato- rinl raduotion vof vital onorgy. I find I begin to “court tho ahady ‘sido of the way, nnd to clitg to ‘homo rather than wander.into distant parte. Ilenco T.am afraid I could not bo depondded upon, eitlior for n journey to your city or for the ‘pmlnnrnuun of any materinl worthy ‘'of thoe oc- caslon, -+ : ! Novortheless I shall talo * great intoroat in j watching tho progro:s_of vour undortaking, and | in sympathizing with all our surviving ussociatos inremembrstce of tho, ocitical days, =~ “With many: thauks for your kindness, I prav. you to cousidor this ns.n reply as woll to tho moro-formnl note of iuvitation ‘addressod to mo | by tho Committee ns to your own, aud beliove me, vory traly your friond, ARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, DosTox, April 20, 1874, i i A - " . WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. « Tho noxt lotter rend way from Willism Lioyd Garrisou, * LX) Lo the President and Membersof tho Anti-Stavery Re- waion Convention in Chycuyjo s ! DuersneN AXD Conationens: To meot you faca to faco on tho "occasion of your coming tos gotlier wonld afford mo tho higheut satisfaction . but, us that is-to bo deniod g, ‘nccopk niy most reapoctful salutations, my best wishes, iy warm- st copgi_l‘.\mlntious.‘ Aity 'the Diviue' bonedics tlon rest upon your assembly, and may your pro- cecdings bo markod by thoso emotiona of ;fml(—' tudog and thunkgiving . which the unparalialed chango it hns- been our. privilego to withoss in this lnnd is so well caloulated to awalton, Au Inborors togotlier for the abolition of.the miost crucl sytom of opprassion that ever cursed apy poople—long ago 8o, justly eharaclérized by Jolin’ Woalay, a8 **the sum of all villainy," In comparison Wil which Egyptian’ boudake was only. burdengome—it. would bo atraage indeed it wa dia not. find, in -tho marvellous trinmph vouchsnfed to us, ocension aud opportunity to sing, nu Mirinin did of old, and to extol, nat-onr- solvas or our_offorts ‘vinglorionsly, but that Divine Power which, “with i mizhty hand and thorough mexited jullgniotit, brought four wil- Jious of victims out of >tho houso of :Landago into.the un{qyll\qqt of civil and mlimuun.lihunr. In lookivg back, many relections are nuturally. snggoeted. Among thesc aro : ot 1. That we did not exuggorato the wickedness nor . mieapprokend - tho Workings of tlio’ slave system, nor denounce it too seyorely, norarreign too sharply.its upholdera and abettors, whether at tho Bouth or the Nortli, | i e o 2: That wo dld not orr in'demanding immedi- dto aud unconilitionnl emaneipation - a8 the'right of tha slave;and tha duty of tho mastor; fox'tha dociring of gradual abolttion, in tho, immadiato futuro, wus simply a snare and o delusion, con- coding; airit did, tho rogtitudo of * slaveholding until a moro convenient sonspn, and 8o mpking thotight to **Iifo, liborty, and ' tha pursult of Liappineas” dopendent upon circumatances. 8, That.we did not ovorstate the guilt "o the nation, nor call too londly ‘for repeuntauce; nor exaggerato that complicity of Church hnd, Stato 1n lougthoniig the cords and* Gtrongtlioning ' the stakes of the slave system, nor lay tho.ax too fn- exorubly at the root of the hohon-upas tree, the polsunous intluencen of which' porvaded overy part of our Innd.: . i . 4.”"t'hat none - of tho predictione of our opon- eutd, 0s'to the horrors that-would folloy the act of ‘“turning tho'slavos loose,” Linve proved tino, and none of ours, respeeting its " snfoty ‘and ad- vautago, have proved fatso,” Bub the happyire: sults would have boeh' incomparably greator, if the transformation had beon met in a'different 8spirit by those who formorly exercised dominion [ ltlml outh. DBut this was scarcely to bo ox- pected. 3 ¢ And, now that liborty hns hoon ‘proclaimed to all the inhnbitants of the land, lot uy bewnro* of tho siron-cry of *¢conciliation " when it means humeriug tho old diagon’ Apirit of elavory, and porpotunting casto diktinotions by law, cherish. ing nothing but geod will towards the South, and onrnostly ‘deosiring hor wolfaro and' prospority, wo ahall atiil" show - ourdolves to ba tho trucht frionds by refusing to compromigo any of tho priuciples of justico as portaining to her colored population, nnd tho giatifiertion of o malignant projudico based upen nothing but goqtcmpt of ace, In the_Auti-Biavory struggle many porsona made themsolves conspiouots for thelr zeul, de- votlan, and solf-gncrifico i ita bohulf 3 It hono oxcollod in thoso traits the noblo women who wont, forward in tho midst of popular dorision und flory, persoeution to doliver tho oppressed out of tho ‘hands of their umpressors, Of these, I trust honorable wmontion will be mude in Lhe course of tho aulogies that may be deliverod ut your gathering. . Yot wo shall be disposod.to ox~ Clnim, in unfoigood Lumility, *“Nob unto us, bub uuto Thy nuwme, 0 Lord, bo the glory foroverl™ Fraterpally yours, - - ¢ ¥ ¢ Wirrrax Lroyp Ganmson. LosroN, June 5, 1874, e 3, CLARKE, Mr. Clarko~I cannot uxprees the faslings with which 1 am controllod on neeonnt of being liora In Chicago, tud beforo such un nudionco oud on_such au oecpsion. Lt iw' momily thirty ears aince I came to Chicago first, I attouded {ho great and glorlons conyentiou, which is ro- membered by somoa who aro horo, of 1846. The songs I thew sung_woro Ymphade.' They have now become historie. ' ‘hey predicted what we bellovad, whnt wa expocted, but we’ wore told— T used to b told 8o yory_oftan—Iif I livod to be a4 old ws Metbusclahi I shonld novor seo - the abolition of sluvory take place in this country, Phank God we havo lved to wseo that doy. "I usad to sing & song, whick I will repoat horo, to unoourago our friends, Lhut, stop by ‘stap, the Tong march could be dovo. Ho thon waug tho following o ' _HONG. ' which was loudly npgluuuml: "Thio world fh ot the move 3 ook about, lovk ubout, - 'Phere {a anuch we tay luiprove i Ti0 not donbt; du not doubt, B Aud to all who undersiand Thare's & wirnlng volec at hund Ttinglug out, Huglog out, Though yloomy hearts despond At tho kg, ot th uky Thiora's wu fo shine boyond Ly und by, by uud by, Erothis vorgol that we lrga - Bhull bonesth (e surlics mergs A beagon ou the Yarifu , Bunil Lo uigh, shull Lu fifgh, Stop by atep, the longout mnrch, o o, cun o dori - Bhyglo stones Wil form uu ech, 0o by onie, oue by oo § And, with union, what wo will AMay'Do ull mocompliaied uilli; Drgpe of wator burn a il , ~ Bigle nons, slugle none, Lot uu onward thea for right, Nothing 1ore, nothing more, Andlot Justico bo t1io t Wa adore, wo atloro, -, Build no hopea upon tlie sound § For o poopln, lieart and hand Gan miko thls o hottar Jnud "Thian befaro, than beforo, fodbranodxoudor + THE INTRODUCOTORY ADDRESS. 7., Eastman, Lsq., Becrotary of. the Commit- {tao, thon dolivered the introductory nddress, a8 Hollows 3 M, PRERIDRNT AND- ANTI-SLAVERY TRIENDA! Having hoard the eall which hns brought you ‘together, baving asked our Heavonly Fathor for .His blossing, baving, sung n song of & past con- acoration, Laving been'welcomod hero in this ro- unlou by the Chiof Maglatrato of tho Biate, wo aro propared for . 4 ‘ " THE WORK BEFORE US, Tho circumstonces undor which wo aro as- sembled give us accasion for Joy and gratitude, ‘Tho Governor of our Btato bias honored us with- hia prosence, snd lias cordially consonted to ut- ter tho firat words of wolcomo'and congratula- tion. Te 8 gind to meat us hore, sud glnd that you lave mot together. -Wo appraciato tho {favor, and at tho samo time Lo tells us that this rolation is rociprocal, and that ho csteems it an honor to bo invited hero. Now, this wou)d not bovo boen 80 In yoara that aro pnet; any Gov- ornor o0f this - Btate, somo years go, would ‘have counted it n disgraco to havo given countennnco to an- assomblago of much mon and womon a8 wo dro,-—wo could then haye shed no lustre upon a Gubornatorial crown. ,,. Bo, also, wo nead not disguiac to ourselvos what the public will-accord . to us, that wo -are highly: houored In_having ‘for our ‘Ohnirman, Henry- Wilson, of Massaclmsotts, Vico-President of tho United'States, un -Abolitionist of_old dato and radical tondencles, a colleaguo of Sumnoer, & sub- wtituto for Daniet Wobster,—and who hns loft the Senntorinl soat for one {l“ » Btop highor 3 and ‘who, when he arrives, will sing witli“us, in spitftifnotinwords * - T 1 am an Abolitionfat, © . Yglory i thomamo ,and this, too, Is.ou honor to onr triumphant canso. .‘Fheso aro plansant refloctions with which to comnionco the procoedings of this reunion.” I aale von a moment to consider’tlia groat meaning of the mnrvelous chianges and revolutionary ro- sults which have Buddonly come upon the coun- try, as indicated by tho prosonce of those ofticial POrAONABINONG Mo ~- .. O T e You'will probably “in- the ontaot'wish to- hear somothing from the : Committoe ‘who, acting a8 your représentativen for the Tast four montbs, bavo walched tho growth of .this movement nntilit has erystallized in this assomblage. I'hon it will bo,oureffort- Lo prosent ! n.more: Bumuny of ‘the gredt tople bofore us' that we~hiay liava nfght - it ns an outlio to- guido or. Intousify tho improssion, as’the histories, narratives, aud peraonal recollections will dovelop the istorical drann which this reunion will commomorate. --1t iy woll for ue to bo rominded Lhak thig is the ©*° ' FINHT REUNION OF ATOLITIONISTS that has ovor yol tuken'placo.” This is the firat guthering of Abolitionists, as such, in any part of the country for many years,” Wo Imow of nono #ineo tho Emancipation Proclamation ex-. dopt’tho ono O'I‘dmhnu('lll'lE an *organléation, ‘né~ anming that its work hod boon douo. Rounfons ara ono of the common featiirea 6f tho timoy,— ronnions of doldiors, old-settlora.collogo slumni, ote. Wonced not fmitate theso unless thure 3 some uRo invour rounion. (It Is;ngt mny years luge gulhe;’lim:» of Abolition- al slica thoro ward ints In this city, aud over tho cot try,—political conventions, Christian conven- tons, auniversary - meelingd, mause-meetings, ote.,—and wo now see::that there'wag's ueo for them; that they did good.. Thon the muss of tho_poople, inquired, Wunt uso? . Thoup wha Lol thiem wore deseribed as | DISTURDERS OF TIIR PRACE,— . wero charged © with being dlsérgzanizern,~disor: gauizing porties, combinations, and evew ehurch- e, 'This lattor-chargo was copreet:s We wero doliboiate disorganizers, wo planned:to gotng 6x- tent Lo diwrupt Stitoand Clnrel;’ and Wow afl that-wa'did “has been indorsed ad'tho wiseat pols icy. Our gatheriug fopothor “tomake’ and henr spoeches was desctibed ws o Mutual Admiration Bociotly,—that -a part of gqur:business; was ta praisg each othor for our smuitness,, Well, wo ware not - overmuch praised by tho world; and wo livo yot, not spoiled by flaltery! Aund ko naw 1t lios boow aaked, What use ia this founion?, Do you intond ‘to organize & new party,—~what good willitdo? Now, f £ TH18 CONVOCATION WILL NOT DNE STULTIFIED by, the ighorance of , other chplq[ it will be our own want of comprehending our purpose if thiy moeting, does not_ do -its work, Wa shull _ try to, prove. "by what. is dong Le that (heio ia ;o ume .for .this. re- union. Home have intimated that we aro proud of what We hava’ done,—that we havo gathored togother.to hinve a good time of bmggin - and we aro going to toliud our own trumpot. \Woll, the trumpot must _givo no uncorcain sound; if it must bo blown; i otliers do not do’it, our own Dréath may nob by spont; in vain. Somo of our {rionds hava stated bettor what aro the uses and pirposcs of this gathering. One snys: “Isoo 1iv gued renioin why we muy not all rojoion over the grout delivorance wrought under God with+ out any persounl .inflation whatever, or justly {ing oursolves-to the chargo of ‘egotisti- lowiug our own trumpets,” Anothor says : ' 7hio rounion of the old Anti-Slavery army who eurvivo the groat battlo and viotory just won, was o most happy thought, and. will meet with a hedrty swen ! from the votorans of ; tho 'ald ling,”, It cannoe fail to bo'n rich feadt of soul- atirelig rocollections that will brim ovary Chyrin- tian Linart with gratitude to MMim “whose atar log ihie hunted Mgutive, aud whoae pillar. of firo guided 4,000,000 slaves through the Red "Sea of war to liberty,”. | 5 s =3 ‘'io Committee take pleasnro fn esauring our frionds that the projection of this rennion'is nok the worlt of any ouo mind, of that of the Com- mitteo who hinvo beeu cleotod to take it in chinrge. They feol thnt tey haye hold B e . A REPRESENTATIVE POSITION, and they Lieve been guided by an” oxtensive cor- respondon,e with friends in every"seotiolf “of tho country, ‘whero “thore -were' formérly” Abo- litionists, 1t was ariginally proposed as & local gathering, liko those whick are common, ‘a8 old- sottlors’ Tounions; but s our_cotrewpondonce iwidened, the scope of this reunion” oxpanded to thodimensions of a Stute,” with Ohicazo na a railroad contral point: then ' compassed: tho Northwest, and Dby that lime there rcomed to ho ‘no "good” -roasons’ for & limitation, and ft - thereforo becamo - & ' mation vrnjunn a8 naturally as the sparka fly upwarda, Wo can ansnre you that - this matter” has wn upon our hands and your hande n the complotest barmony with all concerned. ~‘Fhere has yet been struck no note of discord: While wo have rend your lottors of advice, and: heve digoussod our policy, we have come to conclusions with en- tire unanumity. Y " NO REATRIOTIONS. i Tho invitations never coéntemplated a restrio- ton. Tor convonience we have seut speoiul in- vitations_to- all such Abolitionists as we could remembar, or woro recallod to us by others, It 18 not strangeif the lapse of years should -have Placeu somo out of ronoh of postal-vommunican tion, evon' on this ‘side of the' grave, None ought® to fool that. they." have - been lias “boon . ad- slighted 'if no printed aIlY dressod to tholr name. All ha to tho oxtent that wo could avnil ourselvos of tho courtesyof 400 newspapors, to whom we liave sent the publio notice with a vory polite request to roproduce it for the publio good. - * - Ant tho publio at large have been invited. No bars linyo buon put up, bo a publie gathoring, Wo have lm&md to make this tho means of malking aitimpression for good upon the world at largo, while 1t_contributed to {ho entintaction of tho recognized Abolitlonists, ‘Wa havo emphatieally invited tho youug peoplu, ‘We know that thoro hns baen's valnable lesson taught in the diccussions of tho rights of man, ' and iu the munuer in which’ deop impressions wore mado wpon the public ' mind, which ahould not ba lost on the coniing generation, o CONTIIOL OF THE MERTING, : But as Abolitionists wo hnvo sssumod that wo bavo n right to botd in our hand, and control the character of this maoting, "All the ‘vesponsi- bilitios bsve been committed to woll-ktiown ‘mon | end womon of this charnoter. The publio wopld ' notreasonnbly desiro anything ° olse. ¢ All the ‘various schools or olnsses which™ will be detined in tho proceodings which follow: were invited, nnd ure horo in harniony. 8o far a8 - we can now ueo, thin iy tha concontration of pood fooling, | and we can all sing ono of the !lnt(’i;ulnnnn HOngy —We aro n boud of -brothers.,” Moy it'con~ tnue 8o to the end. - Thiy is also . A LINERTY CONVENTION, Ths Committeo ou the Rounlon in the aggre- gate willnot Lo vesponsible for whint may be haro uttorod, No mun ‘noed have his foelings hut, it sometblog mhould be eald with whieh “ho " cannot ngroo. -Wo ramembor the Proolamation of Kmancipation ; if wo wore ouce Islimaehiton, onr hands againsl avory otlier wan, wo aro no longor g0 ; huvin; Imd o sonls anlisfied to the fullost extent o our desires, wo nra atpoace with ourslves and tho rout of mankind, ‘aud looking- back upon tho tad Sea of Blood, l‘mmgh whluqx the nation hag | pasod, wa consldor the offonsa cancoled, ' and we tuin to tho pillar of light to: sing Mirlam's | Hong. Nuvely, the Abolitionists of varlous views might well be at posco omo with another, ve been inviled | whothor wo bolleved In' voling, or non-voling, and in moral sunsion or politienl or church actlon, Erndunllam or immedintism, sinco none of us ad _our own wny oxnctly. ‘I'he porplexing Gordinn-knot has beon ot by the saword. Nono ‘ol us over an\yed, or voted, or dosirod that the ovil should Lo oxtirpated by the sword, and wachod ont in bloud, “If any “man biad the fore- sight to soe n way in which slavory might come to o tegal end without logality, and without ro- pentance, or the voluntary consent of tho hold- ory, thint man waa John Quincy Adams, who, In 15:"”, ankl that in the Conatitution of the United Htatos Government thore lurked a power which war might ovolo, which would dostroy slnvory. AbrahamLincoln sought- that powet, and, a8 ‘tho reprosontative man of tho' matlon and one who hnd tho suthority to sponk the word' of tho ‘people’s will, did Bpeal le word, | that slavery sliould be no more, and mado “tho :yoor of '63 tho Jubileo,” Lincoln became the .groatadt aboltionist thot avor: lived, and,God grant it, that .ovor sball live: for he sot moro men freo from nbject elavery than woro ovor bo- foro_ dolivered from the chinina of bondago by any one mav. - Wondor not that, months .befora the act was done, bo paced the floor of tho na- tional council-room, in solomn meditation, and, in an_anguish that seomod to wring bis proat soul, doclaredt **Ohl {t's o fearful rnuponn‘iblll- ty to havo tha fato of n wholo raco upon oue's hands," - As wo shall proceed, atop by stop, and’ as ono aftor another of tho vonorable men on the plat- form, and on’ theso soats,—men who Legan this work in tho freshiness nnd vigor of youth, whoto- gray hoads, faltering feot, and trnmbllng liands maik tho progross of timo sinco tho work bogan, and the Isbor which thoir bralns have dono— shall tell thair own oxperiotico, or repent tho ar~ gument, or malo the appeal that once wont liko o spear to tho consclouce of the poople, it will bo seen that wo are, horo making A RECOLD FOR IUSTORY, g and the world must nccopt it ay such, It will bo goon- there ara chaptots to be added more im- ortant than havo yot appeared in writing or | print ;. and_that tho subjcet mattorwhich this ' rounion will intonsify will occupy the atten- tion of philosophers, moralists, and hiato~ riana in future ages. In timo yot to como this quostion must be satisfactor{ly answeroq, and {6 has not yot been nnawarod to the intelleo! or tho conscienco of any gonoration yot slive, how camn it that in that nation and governmont that professeid to.draw Jts. vital: powers from tho doctrincu of porfoct poisonal lborty to evory mab'es & natural inheritanco that thoro, bound up‘with it, nud locked withiu its embraco, as Lthe chilldris enfolded in the mother's arus, the mont complefo, abject slavery of tho human being, robbing him o2 all his natural xights, was found to oxist? B N .~ * 1T 18 TIVE PURPOBE OF Till8 REUKION to holp-to rolve-this quostion; and-to aid -the fu- turo historians to muke dup a E“’.’;’”' rocord of tho'history of-the timos from - the day when the fitat slave-ship sniled up_the James River, in 1619, till the yoar 1868 (two'and a hulf centuries), whon four- millions, of _slaves went out of bondage .in . tho. . United Btates in & manner pm’ulln‘nd only by thoso who do- patted from. Egypt by.the dopthisof tho Rod Sea., > "Wo will try to grasp this_groat tople, and pho- tograph it for; our ;inspectivn and . uee- on this oconslon, for it must' becoma - the ' key-note of thisrounion...: ... . .o X It is now avout four centuries aince two of tho ‘most imporfant, facts noxt to thut of the coming of Jesus to oarth’ were ‘brought to light, First was the discovery of printing, by which knowl- odge vould ~be- stored up and . porpetunted,” sud within helf o gentury aftorwards was tho discove ory.of o Now World. It scems to us that it wne divine wisdom that lod to the discovery of print~ ing bofore a Now World was discovered, to ro- catve tho light that should o rotiected from it. This New World was talcon posfession of by tha most intollizent ‘portion of "tho Old World,—the tide of cmigration rolling _over to tho westivard, followlug the olimatio lines—emigra- tion and colopization evidently oxecuting an im-" portant'doordo in,thie. procags of the clovation,of tlie Liumian race. The emigration of 'tus white o of Europe, being the influentinl raco nnd eujoying the bonefita of tho now not for tho pro- sorvition of knowledge, was & voluntary one— that of the black raco of “Africa an involuntary ono. Thoy were.forced to lenvs their. sunburnt homes for places that wero :no longer homes, in tho hotregions, and.ovon the tomperate,'of tho Now World-—**forced from Afric's shore '; a8 the poot kays, and to-them songibly, ** over the ragivg billows borno.” 5 ¢ -~ A OARGO-O¥ THEBE STOLEN DLACKS ° and enforead omigrants was lauded on the banks of _ tho. Jawss -Rivar, in.the colouy -of- Virginia, in 1619,—8 yenr bOIvie ¢he Il gron _ fothors ““landod _at * Plymouth, who came on shore with. a compuct that Lound thom to form a governmont recognizing tho dqunl’ rights’of *a}l, men ns the gift of'tha Croator, : Here wag theboginning of slavery in this nation—hora was the plauting nearly at dym 8ame time of o secd thut--was to muko » free nation, a freo govornment; and “freo mon.- T discovery of the New World and its occupnacy mado & new crimo-or. onrth, aud that was negro slavery.. Bay what you will about the truth of history, there never was its parullel in orime amoug men. Thus onme slavery hioro a8_sin came Into Xiden, and to bo a contouting conflicting spiri, struggling for mastory with tho' spirit of liberty, its very op- posite.” Now all thiese facty I-know aro us familinr as household wordw, But thoy bave an important use in theso reunions, as familinr uide-posts to wuut {8 to como “after. doubt whether tho .philosophy of theso familiar fucts 18 as woll “understood . b any of ue a8 it ought tobe, Thereforo it iy beat putiontly to consider 5 % ] OLD) TAIINGR IN A NEW LIGHT, Thig slavory here was on _the ride of gain, the Tust of wealth, The iutelligent conscienco was always oguinet it.. It was olwuys known to those - who “bolieved _in moral eyuity,” that it would ‘sud in rain,- But thoke who got' gatn:by it, eyor put off to (ho tuture tho doy of final ot tlenicnt, ‘the .evil day—thrast it off, and thrust it off, as It exor grew in fearful import, to a fu- tura generation, There wwas always & couscienco and 8 protest against . slvavory, wherever thore wag'a conscienco and & roligion alive. But there was no concentrated effort to put the evll away, 80 Liberty, aud -Blavery--strove togetlier as conflicturg forces, There . were Buch’ mon a8 Ilop‘l‘i os and Emmons, in-'the North, and Wytho " ond Miflin, snd Ly, at the South to keep alive a conscience in unrest, It lived without gainlng mnch uutil cotton be- cnme its produtt, and opprossion Locame moro and more tho source of money. This was & na- tional crime, ‘It is not fair to say that at the Boutlralone rests the responsibility of the origin and continuance of slavery. - Tha irropressiblo confliot on'which o _caveat” has booen takonas a moder thonght, began when the evil began, that o human consciouco waa bound to bo in conflict with, No modern history that I am -ao- fignlme}l yith 'bas dpno full justice to this oon- it of ideas, this contest of the forcos of evil and good in the nation, like tho contest of tho oldand uow man in tho human soul, It docsnot ctop out much in history, butit is noverthelesa e, that tho sympdthy for the enslaved "blacls, mrsed” and- widoly exprossed by mon' of right-dircoted conscionces, as:the Quakers and Huguonots of the south snd middle seotions, and tho storn religionists of the northern, gave civil liborty to the white raco. IT WAD A DEQULAR CURRENT OF SUCCESSION, As’ ono fact, whilo: tho. phulanthropio friends around tho City.of Penn wore engaged iu thoir waik of good-will to the chained negro, Paiuo commenced “his lterary work by writing ossays in behalf of;the pslave's frecdom, nnd, as his wrilings wero cen by theso Quakors and Franlke- lin, and approved, he ‘waa requested to try his sHill'with the' .quill in bohalf of tho clvil liberty and indepondeuco of the white raca in the then Wo hinve desired thia to || aucowing cauee.of_the Ravolution. . From the suggoation camo those wonderful politicnl rov- olutionary papors, through the moaus of which, Paume having propelled it with his pon, Frouklln .. and . tho.. like ° shaping it in their brains, and Washington and his compoera'carving it with the sw nnfi',—\va bad our National Indopeudonce. Tor a sentimont couceived ' in' justico and in sympathy for tho blogk man was turned to the considoration of the relyil &)rlvxlugaa of tho whito, and tho innlienable and nd‘filvun rights of all, to person, property, and the cholce of their own pathin life, ... Tho battlo was won for tho white man,—but tha contlict botwoen those fundamental condi- tions, sluvery or lberty, was still ragmg, Qo the partof those mrsumlly gullty,—conscience more or loas ever belug tho polar ktar of right to .uvat{ huwmon being—thers was aver thoe foarful Jooking forward to judgment and tho inevitable .rotribution, . Oh, this consclenco, this consoionce, it makes us desperate, and at tho samo timo it wmalkes goyards of us all. It fu tho atory of thin raging contlict, tho strifo botween right and wrong, justico and injustice, intorest agansb duty, the Warnings and besoooliings, tha- cous deninntions and the oxposure, on {he oneslde, of a foable fow, whoso lifo of patiencs and work bacame one of hving muwn{am 1 and tha rosist> ance of the many, and the combinstions aud proteations which it sought and found In all goclul, and political, and roligious sympathics, until at last THE FPRANFUL END OAMB. H It {a this atory, both romantic and traglo, that will bo unrolled ‘as » panoramn bofore Uns re- union in the fow coming days, Wa ate, perhnpy, mokt of us familiar with this wondrous talo 1 a national lite, but it may bo ropeated oft with proflt, for it la lamontuble fot thint tho poos plo of this country, though admitted to ho s vory intolligent class, are in tha mamn oulpably iguorant ogflm groat faoty and controlling forcon of thor own nation's marvelous doyolop- mont, Mon thoy lave road of, things thoy have . soen, achiovemonts the; hinve gloriod in ; butthelden at tho bottom,which 18 gronter tlnn all, thoy agom not to havo, ag thoy should, tho oapaoity ‘to comproliend and Prnpurly apply, to the making of thoso mon, hings, and achiovoments: Our young poapla too ofton confean thoir lack of 'knowlodgo of thoss contonts of idens, and personal acts of nggros- alons or resintances which marked, but n ponoras tlon ngo, the strifo of slavery. And far too many monifost no intorost whalover in ropord to it, roposiug in tho blise of ignorance. It ucoms to many of up that “° % TIH8 NATION UANNOT APTORD to liwve this chaptor blottad out, aud tho valua. blo lossons lost 1ipon our childron, who are soon to by followed by other childron. I ro- mombot woll what our estoomed friond 1Codding, who has gono on boforo us, mald in 'such a connoction: **This anti-slavery disous- sloa i of inestimable vnluo in tonohing the poos plo a sonso of pornonnl responsibility, and in the dovelopmont of individuality, and gnlng pooplo & truo knowledge of human rfigma, and tho value of man to himsolf, If not ona elave .shonld. ho Uiboratod, it is worth all that it hns cost in toil and ancrifico, to the coming goneration And go think I; and that American character asoondod bigh durlng sl tho poriod of that ogitation 3 higher far than it has amoo sunk in the turmol and tho smoko and the greed for monoy, which succaoded, quite naturally, aftor tho shotk of bate tlo n which slavery foll,” " Mr. Clarko then sung FREEDON'S GATIERING, as followa: A voleo s gono forth, and tho land is awakel Our frao-mon »hll gathor from ocean to Inko, Our causo is ne pura us thacarth over saw, Aud our faith wo will pladgo in the thrilling huzzs, : ‘" Thon huzzn, then Linzzs, Trufl's glittering falohlon for freedom wo draw. Lot them blacken onr nomes and_pursus us wi Our Licarta shinll be fatthful to ubfll!:,y atill ;. i ‘Then rally 1 thon rally I Como ono snd como all, larnoss woll girded, and echo ko call, +Tho hifl-tops New England sal Tean ak th ‘And tho pratrlo and far-dlstant Soulh shall reply s 1t plaall roll o'or tho Iand till tho farthormost glen’ Gives back tho glsd summons agaln and ogui, Oppreasion shall hoar in {ta'tompla of blood, A read o 3ta wall tio bandwhiling of ‘God 3 Niugara's torrent shull thunder it forth, ° Tt ahiall burn i tho sentinol star of the'North, It shall hlllnzo‘ in tho Lghining, and speak undor, o> Till Slavery’s fottar aro Fiven asundor, Andl Freodom hor rights bns trinmphant's And Freodom her garmonta of boaity pul ‘Chen hzza, thon huazs, Truth's glltle'r_luu falehion for freedom wo draw, . * AN IMPROMPTU FEATURE -, of the exercisca here oconrrod, ,Upon motion of a niomber of tho Convention, s son of Cor- noliu -Burnett,” Alr. "Alf. Burnett,:the world- famod humorist, recltod Whittler's podm n roply to tho assortion thot tho West India slave is bot- ter off thau tho English poasant. Without tinco of his profossional comody characteristics, but yith a world of fire and forca'and fooling, Mr. Burnett delivoied the grand lines of the Quakor: paot, and by his fing, fermd rondition fairly’set the houso ina thrill 'of euthusiam.’ Tha recitation was much’ admired “atid -warmly ap- planded.” » - e ' AR, WILLIAM GOODELL ™ noxt read & portion of his historical paporiwhich will.bo published in fall whon its rending is cun~ cluded, on n fature day. JUDICIAL DEGREES AGATNST BLAVERY, Mr., Chinrics Butlaigh -clalmed that to Massas chusotts_bolonged the honor'of bhaving pro- nounced tha' fitst judicial decros that_slavor was contrary. to .tho common law of Englaud, then—1771—in force in the colony. Mir. David- Hardy put in_Sootlaud's -plea for in the won, on. contrary to:the, common Inw “severnl years provious to tho decision of the Somersot case, [Applanse.] . T Nr, Olarke supplomented another song, “Tha Yanlseo Girl,” with o pleasant story of a visit by the Rov. Natbauiol Colvillo to the houwo of Whittior] and-how the- two' wont -to & Quakos meating together. This anecdote waa 'fotlower b{l-nnunher, by Mr, Burleigh, of Massachugotts, who told of Bteplon 8, Foster’s - doflanco .of a proposition to put him out bosause ho mado su Anti-Slavery speech, - . . J After sovoral announcoments had boen msdq and arrangomonts - comploted for obtaimng tha nnmes of thoso presont, and any doaumonts pore taining to the slavery agitation they may have the doxology was sung, and tho Convontion add Jourued until 7:40 p. m. - J EVENING SESSION." The Convontion renssembled at tho time mens tioned above, Jamos Birnoy, Eaq,, in the clalr, the 'attendancs Volng much larger than at tha proviona mesgion. Mr, Clarke sang a song, tho text of which ma upirg the Abolitioniats,) —_— . .+~ LETTERS. , Tl following lettors wore then read s F ' TEOMAS WENTWORTH TIGGINSON. Newednr, R.1., Juno 1, 1874 ° DEAR 8in i I am sorry to be nnabla to mtand tho Auti-Slevery rounion at Ohicago, It would be pleasant Lo meet once more in council willt the American Abolitionists,—ths noblost and most disinterested body ‘of roformers known to me, ‘To those who hiave taught mo so much, L Liays but ona snggestion to offer. I truat that many others feel, s I do, thatalk the snorifices we aould make for the Anti-Slarory movement wore but a shght return for tho les« sons of strongth and self-denial, taught by tha Auti-Slavory movemont to us. - Tho best oy in tho honor, Hor Judges baviug declared” slnvor% which wo can show our continnod apprecintion of the moral training thus received is “to mani- fest an equal fidelity in the reforms that are stilk ponding. ~ Very truly yours, ‘Tuos, WenTwontn Hiaaixsod. Z. Eastman, Esq., Seoretary A8, Reunion, ' WENDELL, PHILLIPS. 2 4 Mav, 1878 “4Wheéte there ie & will thero is a way,"” which, hd” gaid, was sung. thirty or forty yoars ago toins’ Dear Bir: 1 have rocelved your cirmlaw: touching an Anti-Slavery Rennion. Such a meet- ini; would be s very intoresting one, 1t migh¥ call out reminiscences important to the history of the Republio. I regret that it will be imvossi~ ble for mo to be present and take part in such = pathering, wlsalngvou a fall representation of tho old ranks, and a very gond time, Iam yours, respoctfully, WENDELL PuILLIES. « M, Kastman. I L ’» Eastman, Faq. : - Zm"" et ey T Yewe svering your kind mnote of the Gth, hop ing to vay something better than No. Nothiug dolayed an- would delight mo more than to be presout st tha Anti-Slavery rounion, even if I could do unothing to keep groon tho'memory of our nohla frienda who have gono on. ‘Bat am gorry to say that it is not at all probable that tho health of my family will allow mo to be absont from homs né the time of your meeting. ‘The loss, however, will be mine, not its. truly, “ostox, April 91, 1874, Auatin Willie, of Minnasota, who was ot ona time unt(vnlhy engaged iu the slavery reform i tho Rust, then roud & biographios] slatel of tha Hon. John P, Hale, whicliwill bo published to< morTow morning, - PRESIDENT BLANOHARD. " Presidlont J, Blanchard,of Whoaton College,then road & payior on' * Tho Fall of Amorican Sluvery; the Strugglen (Which Precoded 16, and thu Rusults, Presont and Prospootive,” a8 follows: . " Lapies aNp QeNTLENEN s This {8 4 doy of re= joloing and hope. Our long national agony ia over ; our Red Bes of fratorual Llood crossed ; tho mightest uprising agalust law and jurt gov- ornmout known to Listory has hoen guelievy 4,000,000 of slaves have booomo citizons, and Lus first ten yonra of their froedom have witnowsnd far leos socinl convulsjon and clvil conflict oleven once Sluve States than the flvst ten yoars following the peaco of 1784, 1, of courso, excopt the Ku-Klux, whoss ex- pluits were tiot couflicts .but crimes, and tho Shays', rebolllon in. Massachupotts aud Now Hampsbire about taxes and Coutinental money in 1786, und thewhisky iusnrrectivn in Peonsyle vania egainst tho oxoiso on that articlo'in 1791, cost onr Fodoral Qovernment mors money and moro troublo than Lss tho ontrance of 4,000,000 omaucipatod alaves on tho rights of citizont. Buroly it i fit we should be called by ' THE SILVER TRUMP OF JUBILEE on {hig furthor shore of our nationol delivers anee, to slug with, Iswael of old, in tholw wordy, paraphrased by the poot, *Jehuval Lath triumphed; Iis poople are fionl” And . If thero bo oue apot on oarth more fitting than another for such n gothering, it is hore, in this county, which gavo the firsh +Froo Hoil " mnjorlty in 1848, and m Olcago, tho firat oity on the American centinent, al, so. far an I know, on eartl,—oxeopt, porhupi, in ati= clont Palestino,—whicl, by ordinauco, fubada Erizon Wniair, I have no donbt the_simd will bo every way good and_onjoyablo, Yourg 3