Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 11, 1874, Page 10

10 — e . THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1874, freoly to forgive thoso who havo o groatly injurd me s 41 to pray for thoir temporal and oturnal happinoss s if #till 10 wiah for tho Drosperty of your clly nod 8talo, notwithstauding all the Indfyuitien T sy suffered in 18311 thin bo tho compromiso futended, thon do I will- ingly malo {t. My rights live beon shamefully, wickodly outrajred; this I know and fecl, nnd eat nover farget. JCTcan sud do freoly forglve thosa wlio havo tona it “BUtic by o compromieo f motnt tht T shonld ceaso from dofng that which my duty roquires of me, Tenonok makolt, And tho rewnoui¥, that I fear Go noro than 1 fese man, Thiuk not tliat 1 would Hghtly g0 caulrnl?' to public sentimont uround me. who good oplulon of my fellow.men s donr to mo, and I watld sncrifico anytilng bt principle to_obthin tholx _good wishes ; but when thoy ask mo to wurrendor thia, * enon in tho history of this Unl ihoy axk for moro than T enn—than 1 daro—gtvo, Ttof- oreiico i mado to the fuct that I offerod & fow days since to givo up tho oditorahip of tho Obeereer Into othior handa, This {s fruo; I dil so,—becatno It was thougit o sald by somo that perhays'thip paber would Do botter patronizod in_othiet houds, Thoy doclined sccepting my offer, lowovor, nnd eince tlon we Lavo heard roin tlo frieds il mijporlers of the paper iy all parte of the fitate, ‘Thiero Waa but ono sontimont among them, And this was (hnt the paper could bo sustatned 1 no other hauds thau mine, 1t fsnlsos Yory different quostion whether I shsll voluntarily, or ot tho request of friends, yleld up my part, or whéther X shnll forunke it at the demnnd of & tiob, "The former T um at all tines ready to do, When circumstances oc~ cur o requiro it ua © will fuover it any. persoval wikhies or interests in compotition with the causo of that Muster whose minfster Law, But the ltter, bo wawurad, 1 will never do, God 0 bis provilence—so gay oll sy brethren, and 0 I tnk—hos devolved upon 1m0 the rewpousibility of maintninlng my grouud hero ; aud, Mr. Chiafrthon, T am determiued (0 do it, A yoles contes o me from Suine, from Massachuseits, from Connectleut, from New York, from Iennsylva- in,~yen, from Kunl\m\({, from Missis- Bipi,from Missourl,—callitg upon me, in 110 nama of all that I dear 1 heaven and oarth, to stand fust; and by tho hielp of God I will staud, I Tiow 1 an but ouie, and you are many, My atrength would avail but litlo ngalust you all, You cun_crin 30048 you will; but L nholl dio at my pust, for I cau- ot and will not foranko it “Why should I fleo from Alton? Ts not this o freo Btate? When usaailod by o mob ot Bt Louls T camo Tither as to thio homio of frecdom and of thelsws, Th mob lias priruued me hore, and why should T rotreat. wgnin? \Whero can I bo eafe, If uot hdro? Have ol I aright tocnim tho protectlon of the laws? Whnt inore can I hiavo u atiy othor placo? Nir, the very act of retrenting will_cmbolden the mob to follow mo wherever I g0, No, sir s thoro 18 110 woy (0 oseapio tho suob but to abandon th path of duty ; sud that, God Dclping me, I will never do. 41t lina Loen satd hiero that my hand 18 ngalnst overy ‘man, and every man's hund 44 upainst e, ‘Che Lt purtof the declaration in patufully trite, I do tndeed find imoat every hand Jifted ngalust me s bnk ajgninat whom in this placo bas my beon talscd 7 1 appeal to every fudividul pre Whom of you ave I In- Jured? Whose character have I traduced, and wl Tumlly havo I molested 7 Whose business havo In died with? 1f nny, .Jot bim riss lero and tostify against mo,—No o1 mumwers, “ And do not your resolutions say tliat you 0nd noth- fng agaiuat my privato or persounl chiractor? Aud docs uny ouo Eel(u\'u lat if thero was anything to by Tound, it would not ba found aud brought forth? 1 in unything I bave ofonded agalnat the Taw, 1 aim not &0 popular in this community as that it would be dil. cult {o cousict me, You kiave courts, and judges and Jurlen s they Aind notuing agatuat me. And now, you ‘ome togetlier for {he purpose of driviug out a con- Tewscdly funocent ma, for 0o canse but that Lo dures to think md speal’ 38 bls consclouca and his God_ dictate, WL conduct liko this stand fho weruting of your conutry? of posterity 7 abovoall of tho judgment day? Forroe member, the Judge of that day’ 14 00 respecter of per- sons, Tanse, T beseoch you, and reffect, ‘o present excitemont will soon Lo over ; the voics of connclence will, at lnat, be heard. And fu gome soafon of houcst thought, even in this world, as you roview the weenes of this Hour, you will be compellod to say: “Ho was right; he was Tight.” isut you huve been extiorted to b Ienfent and com- passionnte; and in driving mo away.to atlix no unuce- exsary disgrace upoh me, “8ir, I Tezrot uli such com. paesion, You caunot dfsgrace me, = Scaudul, aud Taleehuod, end ealumny hnvo dono their worst, My shiwulders Lnve borso tho bitrdon 11l 1t sits’ensy upors them, Yo mny Lung me up 8 tho mob bung up tho Individunls of Vicksburg! You uay bur mo ut fhe steko sy they did Mclutosh i St, Lonix ; or you muy tar aud feather me, or throw 206 10 the Mixsissippl, A8 you havo often threateued fodo ; but you cannot disirace nie, 1, and I alone, ean disgrace nigself ; and tho deepest 'of ul Uisgrave would be, at o time like this, to deny my Master by forunking this cause. Hodiod for mo, and I were most uwortliy (0 hear his namo, should 1 refuse, if need Le, to dio forhim, ¥ Agaiy, you buva beon told that T have o family who aro dependent upon o ; and this has boen given w6 a reason why 1 sliould be’ driven oft as gently s posslble, Itin truc, Mr, Chatrman, Tum a busband and n fatber ; and thnt it s that added tho bittereat ingrediont ta'tho cup of sorrow I am called to drink, 1 i mads to feel the wisdom of tho_Apostlo's advice, “1b f8 butter mot to marry) 1 know, sir, that fn ths contost I siuke mot ' my life ouly, but that of others alao, 1 donot oxpoctmy wife will over recover from the shock rocelvod at fhe awful recncs through whicl elio was_called to pass ot S, Churles, And low was it the othicr night on my re- turn to¥my howse? I found her driven to tho gircot through fear of the mob who were prowling round my Tionew? and _scarcely had 1 entered the houso cre my winduivs were Lroken in by tho brickbats of the mob, und #lio 50 nlarnied that it wos jmposeiblo for hior t6 sico or rest thot night, I sm hunted an a pariridyo upon the mounining, Tam pursued as o folon through your strects, snd to the guardianpower of (he luw I fook in vain for that protection uyainst vilenco which evon tho vilent crimiual sy clnfm, “Yot, thuk ot that I nm unbappy. Think not that 1 regref the cholco that T have made, Whilo all nround mo is_violenco and tumult, ull iu peace within, An approving conscionce,aud tis rowarding umile of God, i5 full recompense for all that T forego wud all thnt 1 endure, Yos, peuco which nothing cun dostray, 1 sleop sweetly, sud undisturbod, exeopt when awaked by tho brickbats oifthe mob, “No, #ir, T um not unuappy. I huve connted tho cost, aril ataud fully yrepured freely to ofior up my all in the nervice of God, Yes, air, Lums fully uwato of thosacrifico T make fn hiore pluduing mysolf io continue 1his contest to the last. (Forgivo theso tears, I hnd not intended fo shed they tlow not for yself, but But T am commended to foruake fathor and inothier and wifn and children for Jesus' enko; and, s his professed duiciple, [ staud prepsred to doft, Tho time for ful- $illing (hin plodge i my caso, it uecms to me, lias como, Bir, L darcuat tlvo away from Altou, Shonkd I attcipt it, 1 should feel thnt the angul of the Lord, with bis flawilug sword, was pursuing me wherovor I wout, It I8 heeaure I fear God that I sm not afraid of ali who oppose mo in this city, No, air, the contest has com. need here, and hero it mmat be fiulshed. lefora iod nud you all, 1 bere pledgo myself to continue it, if need be, tf doath, 1€ 1 fall, my grave shull b made in Allon,” I liave been affected oftentimes with the power of intellect and eloquence, but nover was 1 so avercomo s at thiv hour, e nindo o display; thero wan 1o rhetorieal decoration, 1o violenes of nction, Al was naitve truth, and deep, pure, and tender feoling, Many w hiard face did Trce Wet with tears a8 ho strick tho chords of feeling to which God mado the soul to re- rpoud, Even lils bitter enemies wept, As_for mo T could not endure t, I laid down my hiead and gave ny feclings without control, Whon lia had losed 1 could not doubt that the whole audience wa d that be wa rigits uud that {f tho uuthors of the veport would liave kald ¥o, and_ oxhorted to dem Tend Lim, 1t would hiave carvied tho wholo audivuca with eluetrie power, ! thelr wholo influence was agatn to ho thrown 1o law nud ght 3 sud & mludstor of the Gos- 1 was 1o leud the way, maturdny and Sunday passed witliout uny ad- divonal developments, At lnst, on Mondny, THE YRESS ARRIVED, nd was stored, as beforo reluted, in a stons etore, On_the uext night it was axsniled by o mob, tho press destroyed, and Lovejoy sliot, Thus dicd the tirst martyr for the freedom of :ho press and universal Tiberty, Dut he did not Jie in vain, By his death ho accomplislied moro for liberty Ui bo could Lave recomplished by sho lengest lite, as we can carily see aftor thirty~ 2 yenra buve passod aw . VY IUS DESTI 4o avonsed tho nation, To use tha words of that crent. stutestuan, John Quincy Adams, *'That an American citizon, in & State Whose Constitution repudiates all vlavory, should dio a martyr in de- fenso of the freedom of the \)mnu is o phonom- on, It turios oo wrn in the hinlur}' of wunhkind towards universnl omuncipation, Lhe incidonts which preceded, and accompanied, und followed tho cumntmfrhu of Lovojoy's death point it oul as au epoeh in the annwis of human' liborty, They have given ashock ns of an_enrthquake throughout this continent which will be folt in tho most distunt regous of the carth,” Accordingly, S RGOS WERE CALLED thronghout the Uuion. ‘The National Bociety prepuved and circuluted o mieworiad of his lito Jud dearl, 1o bogan at onee to prosch from u bigher pulpit, aud with incrensing powor,to a nns tion and & world of henrors, And his spivip has ever winco heon marching on. . Not mevoly did ic aroune uttontion, 1t revoulod in intense light the tendencies of the gront conflicting systotoy of tluvery vand liberty and the apbroaching erivis of the nutlon, ITiw death was so ordered ws Lo stvip of ull tho disguises of wlayory, and to compol it to lift itnolf up as did Lucifer, louched Dy the spear of Lhurie), wnd 10 tower before the nition iu ity teno form ns the troushorous, erual, and bioody dowon that it was, Theve truths whiv recogmzed in tho groat meutng (o IN PAREUIL HALT, called by Dr, Chenning and othors, in which that Ameriean orator, Wendell Paillips, way Tirat eslled out in she eradlo of Hborty by an ut- tempt to censure Lovejoy nnd to defend the 1ioters of Alton by the Attornoy-General of the Btute of Massachanctts, Tho robuke and com- sto mimilitution of that recreant Amorican by s binning claquoence of Ut resistless orator, and tho vintication of Lovejoy us thio bonefactor of tho untton by hisdouth, is ono of the sublimest ps=iges i tho bintory of huma cloguenco, 1fs puys, 10 elowng s e, Clinivman, from the bot- tom of my heart T thank that fictle band for ro- wirbing i *Thoy suw tho nocosslty of rosiuting, Public opinion, Tust hustening on” the downwurd courso, tust bo arrented, Doos vot the ovont Whiow thel thoy judied rightly? Absorbed in o housand triftes, how hay tho natlon ut vnca come towstand! Men boginas ju 1776 und 1040 to discuss principler, to weigh characters, wl Lo ind out where they aro, Haply we muy airuke Defaro we are born over the procipico.” T'ne disclosuros nynde by hly death were notb mero thoorotioal ravelations, Thoy wrought with prodigions popular and Eullt(cnl power, And 8 uarter of a contury had bardiy ia'uuuud away bo- fora, in Lhs very State, in which Lovojoydied, we nuln}"dnvulupnd o new and wondroun stylo of polltics, ‘Wo henr Abrahpm Lincoln. who aftorwards bo- cnmo tho jfrl!flb lendor in tho war for liborty and tho emancipator of the slaves, declaring a8 tho Dasla of his groal political campnign, “A bouse divided ngainst {tuoll cunnot stand, ' This nation cnunot oxist pormanently half slave and half {reo, It must bo ail one or tho othor, I donbt !!Ic]lov'o that it 18 to bo divided, or to become all alnvo,” 5 1low strango such words wonld have sounded to us ab Alton. Wo should not have dared to utter thon, muoh loss to have dreamed of the 1inal consummution,—tho costruction of slavery —ns A0 nesr, Clouds covored our futuro, But in tho donth of Lovejoy & rov- clation wng mado which this natlon nover forgol. Ono such sight of the bloudy flond, one such rovelntion of his principlos, wns onough, and from that hour, this uation reacted towntds the position on which wo now stand,—a united nntlon, sud all froo, Honor to tho glorifled spirlt of Lovojoy. ITe Tooks down ou us ovon now, aud soos the fulfill- mont of his own words ns to tho causoof liborty: 1 will sucoped, it will triumph, and that much sooner I think than oven its frionds gonorally anticipntod.” Ho did not foroseo tho tima or modo of his own doath, but Lo was ready for it, Ho livod a lito of prayor, of noarncss to God, of faith, Nover was their a epirit more kind, more pure, moro forgiving, more Chriatlike, than was his In Dis deepost trials, Like Ilim who for the joy sst_bofors him cudared tho crows and do- #pised tho whame, ho hasascended Lo a throve of Tonor and of viclory, aud with us rojoicos that Lo did not dio in vain. ——— GENERAL BUSINESS. Ar, Clarko followed with a song commonelng : For the truth then lot s battle, Whntsoover fate betlo ; Lony the boast thut wo hre freomon We bavemado and published wide, DR. WALDRON, of Cincinnatl, was introduced, and gave somo rominisconces of Johu Brown, with whom he lind onco ‘slopt, which he considored a groat honor. [Applauso.] e rojoicod that tho Four- toenth aud Fiftoonth Amendmonts to the Con- stitution had beon ndoptsd, and assertod that the Sixteonth Amendment would bo vindicated DLy the peoplo of (hie country. DB, LORD, of Brooklyn, au onthusiastic octogonarinn, mado u vory funny speech. Ho said it was asked what wau tho uso of coming togother, ** Youold follows cnn afford todie witlout having any such reunion or ovon withont having any rojoiclng.” But why should thoy die, wheu thoy could havo s little fun? [Applanse.] If- anybody was ontitled to it thoy wore. [Laughtor,] Ilanco ho had como all tho way from Brooklyn o tuke part; and ho would have como from China or from Heaven. [Taughtor] Thora woro men prosont, whom b iud nover oxpectod to sco again, aud whon he shook hands with Brother Sincluir ho thought ho bad hold of & ghont [luughtor], since he had boen told that o wasdend. Ho thanked God that ho &Sinclnlr) was a * tough old fellow,” and 1ie hopod, twonty years houce, wlen thoy canio togothier again, his oxporionce would bo the same, Ho would never bollovo any ono was dend npain, becauso he might be disappoluted. [Graat Inughter.] It wns necessnry that thoy should coms togathor thut they might undersiand onean- othier, aiid bring out thio old principles, that thair work ' might go out_ authoritativoly and their children’s’ childron know 1t. [Applause.] 1f their futhers had known their duty as well as they, thoy wonld never hnve had the work to do. Thoy should nover compromius with sin or vice or ovil or wrong [spplnuse], and the place to Kill it was in tho beginniug. ' If thoy swaited, it would grow strougar than tlioy woro. ‘Was their work done? [Crios of “No,"] Was slavery tho only great wrong upon earth? Tho Lattlo'was a fierce one, but they had conquered. The rum Jm\vur was becoming as dollunt ag slavery, and thut should be attacked, Our conniry bices we all, Louk arounid, lovk around ;' Thougl rum'snd slavery horo are found, Freedom and tempurance Bhall yet sbound, shull yet abound, Whon that power was crushed, ko wonld sny, ““What noxt 2" and when upon bis dyiug bed lio would suy, ** 0 Lord, wait & littlo lougor; lsn't thore something else 2" [Applause.] LEVI COFFIN, o Quaker, who was “ President of the Undor- ground Ruilrosd,” Roxt wpoke, 1o was thankfal that e hud had the opportunity to aid elnves to moke their oscape from tho lwd of whips and chuing to a laud of liberty—Cunads, Whors bo fived, in _ Wayna County, Ind, in 1836, (uroe branches of the rond contored; and bho bad taken tho fugitivey in and clothed and fed them, Ho went to Ciuciunati in 1847, and thore had as high as 189 in his house in ye 1o was ofteu threat- coned, but lis dwelling was nover soarched, During thirty-five yoars ho had sided ovor 3,300 slaves ou thoir iway to frcedom, The Anti- Stavery Society of Women met at his houso and made ‘clothing, and ho colieeted monoy some- timnes to holp the negroes nlong, but ofientimos lind to take outof Lis own pocket enough to supply the deficiency, Tho lndies wors: their muin dependence thon, and thoy wero now in tho temperanco causo, [Applause.] After the War the Aid Society was organized, and much dono for tho froedmen. A the sponker descended from tho platform he romarked that the audicnco wonld probubly like to soo his wife, ** AUNT KATIE,” a8 the fugitives called hor, "Thero was a geuoral clapping of hands as Mrs. Eun‘i]u came forward aud stoud boside her hus- and, A delegate—TITow old are you ? Mr, Cotlin—I wus born in 1798, and sho witl bo 1 in Septomber, Dr. Waldron—If anyof you lnve over rend #Uuncle Tom's Cabin," tho living pictures are before you. [Applause.} A letior was,tien road from Lu A, PARES, of tho Alton Telegraph, who regretted bis in- abilicy to attend, und also alluded brietly to Mr, Lovejoy and the Alton riots, Dr. Willurd presented tho body with a rolie the neme of Lovejoy mado np of type in his oftica at the tuno ke was murdered, Tho audience sang THE FOLLOWISG 50X0, led by DIx. Clavio: . .~ Darch to the battlefleld, “Ciiv foe 18 now befure'ua 3 Tuch heurt fu trecdou’s ¥ldold, And heaven is slling o'er u, The woun and pains of slavery's chaing, ‘izt bind threo willous wnder 5 In prowd disdun we'll buret thely'ehon, Aud tear each link asunder, Who for his country brave, Would fiy frons bur fuvader 2 Wi, his Liare lite to suve, Vould, traitor-like, degtnde hor ? our hsllowed canse, Our homen awd e, *Gatust tyrant Losts mistaining, Wl win a erown of bright renown, Or die, mun's rights maimtuiniug, Murch to the battletivkd, &e. Aftor the benediction, * John Drown's Body" was sung, and, subsequent to the udjourmment, Alr Burntt ontertained the audiones by n reci sion, which wan excellently done, uid meritd! thoe applause with which it was greotod, g EVENING SHESSION, Tho Couvention roassombled at the hour named, James Birnoy, 18q., in the chair. Tho attendance was very large, tho anditorium bejug erowded, sud the gullory half full, —e— LETTERS. Tho Rev, Mr, Hummond then read the follow- ing lotters: The first, ho eaid, was *‘froma mau who, yoars ago, was nway down below u good many wtrata of soviety in this couutry, butwas now pratiy near tho lop,— FAEDERIOK DOUALASS," IApplause]. . GenrreveN: The meeting towhich you invito mo s supromely ativactive, It wonld be huid to keop mo from it, If 1 could only got to it; but that, unhapplly for mo, is impossible, Ioan only nond you my briof word of chesr. No cluen of ke Alnerican people can Jook toward the suu-sct of Jife with a lurger moasuro of entisfaction then tho Abolitionists, 1t will e good g see the similoy of joy through their wrinkles at mooting, und Lhe tears of cousolation in theiraged eyos ab parting, ‘Fhoy have dono & great work—the gront work of the century, ‘Choy linve giveu the Amor- ioun - sinvos thoir fracdom, aund the Amorl- ean pooplo tho powsibility of & country, Until they uppearod, the sluve druggod it hoavy ohafun withont pity and without hopo. Tho Cliroh wuw Indiforont, and the pulpits dumb, whilu the Government drifted widly on tho puriloun wjives of comprowmisn among shurp and finty rocks, Tho Abolitionists have doliv- ored buth. You aeo I spoak fu the third porson piural, 1 do not clusw myself with tho surly Aba olitioulsts, The men who Liave a right to that title wore born froo, and woro s noblo an froo. ’l‘hni woro naot nfllgf;llng for thelr own froedom, thi on was 3 bub oy woro poriling evory- thing ~but howor for tho froodom of othors,—tho noblest helght to which mnow oan riso, Ishonld like to moot the Abo- litionisty of tho gront Northwost, and thank thow for all thoy hinve done and enffored in the causo of my rocontly-onsinved poople, to say all linil and farowell! "Yours truly and gratefally, TnEpg. DovoLass, WasiNoToN, D, ., April 3, 1874, Adod DuESSEN, Tho noxt, Mr, flammond enid, was * from mnn who, linlrty yoars ago, In Tonnessoo, know what it was to ba publicly’ whippod for lmvinfi anti-slavory documonts sud papers in his trunl, —Amos Drcssor, now of Linwpud, Nob, Dyn Brotuer EAsToiAN ¢ Your cironlar and noto kindly roquesting o ifteon minutos’ talk ot tho Antl-Slavory Reunion reachod this ofico somo dnys since. Absonce from home and other eugnagements huve proventod an oarlior reply, I am glad to be remomborod with tho ¢ old anti-slavory mon.” I wikh to bo ro- gurdod as oug of the old Abolitionists, I love that namo. I loyed it whou it was londed with odium, whon it implied for more than * anti- slavory," whon it moaut opposition to slavory without a “but ;" and such opposition as uhould abolish it, and 'tho easto and projudico from which it sprung and on which fad, that domandod tho abolition of all institutions and customs which did not rocognizo ani ra- npoct tho image of God, nuda human brothor in every man, of whntovor clime, calor, or con~ dition of humanity: that kind _of abolition which has culininated in tho Civil Rights bill of 1874, It vost somothing to be that kind of an Abolitioniat in thoso days; but it was wortl: all 1t cost, nnd itw bills wore pald at sight, Thon an Abolitlonist could bo known by tho grasp of tho hand, Not that Lhoro was any secrot grip of tho Ordor, but by the Abolition cleotricity that maj notizad overy fibro of the soul, und tho throb- Dbings of the heart of tho colored man woro felt 1in onch wrist. I feol Ibnvo teon highly favored of God in Leing pormittted to live in this nge, and to bo used as an instrumont in_the hauds of God In tho glorious work which Ho has sccomplished. I rojoica in tho way which Ho linslod me, and tho ugo to which Iie lns put me, and that 8o early in tho trugylo, by baring my bnck to tho cowhido, Mo made it easy to * remombor thoso in bonds 8 bound with thom,"” and thus gave me a power for good that I could huve obtained 1n no othor way. Fow, aa to tho fittoon minutos’ talk. To ono who has boen nccustomed to speak throo hours atn time, night alter night, iu an attempt to fathom tho great ocean of iniquity, it is rathor tantalizing to bo_nwkod to touch bottom in fifteon minutes,, But a8 there is no bottom to touch,—ns slavory ls a bottomloss pit, —fifteen minutes might servo as well a8 o many hours to show m y futouse hatrod to tho systor aud all that pertains to it. Amd I muat wait for oternity to oxprous tho joy of its overthrow. And, further, boing lesstlian the loast of tho mighty ngencios which Gpd has used in tho work, I should feel far from monopo- lizing the time which would much moro appro- priatoty bolong othors, and furthermoro I should prefer to hear rather than to be heard, But, oh | it would do my soul good to onca moro, in the flesh, grasp the haud of those old voterans that roman; onco more to stand in tho ring, Land to hand, aud fool the shock from the uhf’hmm-, nnd at' the same lime to oxtend the right haud of followship aud kindship to all tho brothorhood, in the cousinn aud the second- cousins who constitute tho gront family;—black or whito, Dut tho finances of a omo Missionary allow vory littlo_currency outside of his own fleld of labor sud his poculiar work., Mny I therefora doputize you to _use both hands in the mutual nnfimlmiunu, and givoto some one mora worthy than myself tho fitteon minutes which I should Dave folt it such sn homor and privilegoto oceupy. We will thank God that so far as the statuto 18 concerned, slavery is no more, aud tho odious word ** white " iy, or is about to be, erased from bolh the constitutions and the statutes of oach Stuto. DBut thore yot remaius o great work to Lo dono to eradicata tho spirit of slavery and the spirit of cnsto so doeplyrooted in thio heart, o worlcthat ean bo fully_nccomplished only Ly the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, ‘Ihat this Gospel may hiave free course, bo magnified and glorifled througbont the wholo land is the honrty prayor of yours most truly, g Turovors Asros DRussen, Nashville, Tatin. —_— 3 DAVID ROOT. Mr. Horaco White, oditor of Trg OHIoAGO Trinusr, then read the following paper on the Auti-Slavery sorvices of DAVID ROOT. There are probably somo in this assemblago who remember tho name of the Rev. David Ttoot. ‘Lhis venerable man took up the battlo of Anti-Slavery boforo I was born, und although it was ot my fortuno to bacome acquaintod with him until 1853, whon ho had passed his 62dyoar, aud Lind retired from the notive labors of the minis- try, T have heard many of those who knew him in his ourlior dnya reconut THE NOBLE AND E¥FECTIVE RERVICES ho rendered to tho cause which we are hore to colebrate. ‘The late Johu P, Hals, of New Hampshiro, whom we all ko greatly admired, ro- coival hiy onrliest impressions of the barbarism of slavery from tho lips of David Root at the Town of Dovor, whera thoy Loth rosided in tho year 1834, The Hon. Honry Wildon, now Vice-Prosidont of tho Uniled States, was likowiso firet pricked in his howt Ly tho cloquenco of this intropid proncher. Siuce I camno into this room I have loarned that tho Rov, Jonathan Blanclinrd, whose vory able paper, fhowing why tho Abolitionists were not zonerally boloved thirty or forty years ago, yon istoned to lust evening, likowisotook bis first leswon in Anti-Slavery from David Root. Very likely ho could tell you more than I cun of tho untiring zeal, tho iutollectual m.ron{:th, aud the gelf-forgotting bravery of that old upostle, I only know from others,—for he was not given to reconnting Liis own_exploits,—that he encount- ered mauy dangora in thomoss civilized pacts of New Lnglund while prenching the causie of tho approsscd—that Lo was more than ouca BUDJECTED TO FERSONAL VIOLENCE— and that as be would not munister to auy congre- gation unless ho could prosch aud pray for the boud #s woll us tho [ree, ho was kopt moving from pluce $0 pluco until ho succeoded establishing at Guilford, Conu., an_Anti-Slavery churcl of his own—at which place it was my sad duty, less than ono year since, to inter his re- wains by tho ide of tho donr ones who bad pre- couded i to & better world, 1o had prssod his 82d yenr. 1o had hved to soo liberty proclaim- ed throughout all the land to all the “inbabitauts thoreof, and he might well havosuid : Lord, now Tottest “Chou Thy sorvant dopart in paace, since mine oyes huveo soou ‘Lhy salvalion, 1t would uot become me to oneroach npon your time with s minute account of the lifo of avid Loot, even If I wore possossed of tho materinls for such a discourse, us unfortunately [ am not. + I first met bim in the yenr 1863, und o fow yoars Intor his daughter became my wifo, Although advaucod ju yours, ko was still '8 man of remurkablo oratorical power, A large and portly frumo surmoumed with a Webstorinn heud, and furninhod with an almost Wobsturian Drain, he gave living ovidence of the kind of battle ke bad fought in the Olznlpinll days whon George ‘Lhompron, Bonjamin Lundy, Lloyd Garrison, L1ijul Lovejoy, and Arthur Tappan st entored the lists ugainyt the overwholming odds of slavor, JORN TN PIERMONT, NEW HAMPHIIRE, Juno 17, 1791, lio graduated at Middlobury Col. loyo, Vormuont, nud, aftor studying for tho mins- tey, bu dommonce his Jabors as n_clorgyman in the State of Georgia. It wad hore thut ho ao- «quired tho intimsto knowledgo of slavery, and the righteous indignation agaiust it, whioh mado him o olfective and uncompromising s assuil- aut of thut intitution, Iintertainiug tho viows ho did, Lio could not long rewain iu u slave-hold- ing State. 1o raturnod to the North aud bocamo pastor of the Bucond Prosbytorian Chureh of Gin- cunatl, This was about the year 1822, 1le re- mained in Cinolunati ten years, and romoved thenco to Dover, N, I where i commoucod AN AGURESSIVE WAR AGAINST BLAVERY and ity afibuted intorosts, Like most of tho moral boroes of that duy sud that oause, he meb obloquy and mob violenes in ail directions, But lio wan one of those who never stopped to connt the cost of u duly, That tho Abolition esuso wat right, and that it wies nccessary somebody shontd spond aud bo spont in promotjug it, was all thut ho required to kuow, e gavo ail tho time that conld bu spred from his purachial la- Liots ta tho orgumzation of Auti-Hiavory sociotios in Now Uampbhive und other parts of New Ln- glaud, and 1o public loctures {u thoir bohalf, Ho mude ous or two journeys to the West at o, vory early duy, “sud thore nro probably womo still living who heard his voico among the new sottloments ON THK FOX UIVER in 1887, or theroubouty, ealling on the peoplo Lo remembor tholr brothors in bonds ax bound with thom, From Dover hio way ealled to the vharge of a Congrogational ohuvel in Watorbury, Conn., —n town nuted, down to tho lutent period, for its intimato sommercial rolutions with tho Soutl. Of course Mr, Koot o not loug in gotting e broiled with the réligioud doughtacos of thut - this moment a8 wido = flold pro-slavery community, Consonuently his st ry waa shiort. o romoved to uuflmm, na nirend y atated, whore Lo foundod an Anti-Slavory chureti, from whono pulpit ho contlnued to pronch tho Rgospol of froodom, Although no politiclan, hio ontorod into AGTIVE BERVIOE AS A BPEAKEL whorover ho could ses an opportunily to pro- moto the cause Lio loved at the ballot-box, In this way ho Inbored for Jamos G. Blruey, John I Halo, Gon. Fromont, and Abrakam Lincoln, during their rospeotive eampaigns-for tho Prosi- donoy, bosidas taking an notivo part in seouring thio eloction of Francis Gillotto to the Unitod Btateu Honato from Connaetiout. e was one of those who hold that tho United Staten Constitu. tion wns o oharter of froedom, not on instru- mout of slavory, Ofton hava & honrd him ox- Flnin that & dosument ordainoed and ostablishod 0 ''goenro tho blossings of Liborty " could not, without grous falsehood and hypoorisy, Do in- torprotod as & warrant for man-stonling. I oon- foss I was not able to agreo with himon this tnlut‘ I thought then, and I think still, that tho Constitution was n covonnnt with death and n Ieaguo with hetl—only I was not inclined to blawe tho Houth oxclusively for tho terms of tive oontraot, for whon Irocntl how our Pilgrim tathers, not boing ablo to gat slaves fast onongh from tho const of Africa, onslaved tho rude Indian by thalr sido, by way of fitting him to rovolve tho tonclunga of Ohrist Josus, I nm willing to walk backward with Honry A. Wise or Aloxander Stophens to cover the nakednoss of our common aucestor. ENTERTAINING THE VIEWS 0E DID, Mr. oot had no diflloulty in laboving in the po- litical flold with whatovor party ssomod mout likely to strilo off the shaakies of the biack man, or to muke them a littlo enslor’ on his limkw, And during all this time ho was Indofatigablo in his_ondonvors to bring the Ohirfatian Chureh wp to his own Anti-Slavery position, In tho Mi- slouary Society, in the Tract Booloty, and In tho roligious convention, ho was nconnul»u&nululur. To theso slow-moving bodicy, waging God's wne bohiud cotton bales, ho was a hunven-sont gad - 1ly, glving thom 10 rost, over rominding thew o £ sholr sin of omission, ever tolling them of thate onslaved brother, ovoer pricking thom forward 6> their duty. Finnlly, aftor winyory had bocin abolished, hio made & donation of some 320,109 to Yalo Collogo, the nnnual intorest of whicly was to be applied to tha EDUUATION OF YOUNG OLERGTMEN . of fixod anti-slnvory principlos, ‘Chis way sovoral Y’fillu bolore is dentl, and I was puzaled to know why he should 2Mlix such a condition to tho endowmant of theso scholarships, whoa thero wos no longor mny slavory in this country to bo opposed to, Darhaps, howovor, thero wns eomothing prophotio in Liiis donatlon, Wa all all kuow that slavery oxiste in the island of Cubn in a vory ernel and rovolting form, It is my hopo that somatlung may be donie by this country, iu a friondly and etvilizod man- nor, to " " NELD MID THE ISLAND OF OUDA of its horrid curse. Amnexation I am opposcil to, either in the way of conquest, purchnse, or free gift. Wo want no outlying provincos to be goveried by pro-consuls. Wo want no moro in- congruous, frivolous, and superstitious popula- tions to balp govern us—wo lava hnrd enough work to kecp the intolligence and virtue. of the nation uppermost mnow. Yet somechow do I desire—strougly desirc—that we who havo at so great cost” shuflled off tho cotl of slavery, mey bo instrumontal in niding Cuba to o lens bloody deliverance. Ierbaps the donntion of my docoasod fathor-in-law muy thus b esiTec- tive, In grontor or loss degree, fu_ promoting tho onds ho bind in view whew ho limited his bonofae- ulou to young mon of fixed auti-elavery prinai- o8, 3 This ia an imperfect and hasty outline of thiy suti-slavery work of David Root. I loved that old man, and 1 could not allow this gathoring o £ his surviving allios and co-laborera to pass 'y without mentioning Lis namo aud putting it whera it will bo proserved as it desorves to be,-— putling it in_tho placo of all othors whors f1a would most desire it to be,—for tho Master li o sorved is the (lod of the lowly, tho doswntrodden , the oppressed, David Root died in tho City of Chicago, Auguz;t 879, ¢ y MR, W. 0. BRADLEY. I want to supploment the statement that ha s boon made by one of a fact which mysalf an d tho Hon. Nr. Hustings do not like to have lel't out. David Root was our pnstorin Ihilado!l- phia. We woro both ofticors in his church, [ did not hear any mantion of that part c.f his lifo—a vory {mporlant part. 1o was the pastor of tho first Anti-Slavory church organized in Philudolphin—the first Cougrogs .~ tional Church established up to tbat time thero), and the only ono uulil witlin a few years past ; nud be stood thero tho only rogularly-inatalia i prstor of a churoh who was the opon champio i of Anti-Slavery. [Applauso,] 4 MMr, Whito—X & very glad_to hear that re— mnrk mado, As I obscrved, I did not becom o aequainted with him untit Jafo in lfe, and had not tho matorials for a biography. Mr. Bradioy—He weut from Philadelphia .0 Waterbury, DR. DRISDIN, I was about to rise to mention the faot my- gell, I wish to sey that I must ever rememonr brothor David Root. At tho timo whon the world turned against mo; whon the OChuroh turned apuingt mo ; whon my miustorial brothren, with whom I ‘had labored for yenrs. turned ngainst me, I visitod Pluladelpliin, and, outering tho Anti-Slavery _room, was introduced to n gontloman who did not undor-~ stand my name, as from Cinciunnti. Snid ba," Do ou kuow o gontleman there by the nameof Bris- {lu #" ] kuow somothing of him," snid I, **it being mysolf.”” Ho grasped mo by the land, iu- sisted upon my going to hia houna; and Lo took | care of mo for gevernl days, snd his name ig blossed in my memory, I'met a brothor whom I loved at once, [Applanse.] —_— THE LESSONS OF THE ANTI-SLAVE. RY CONFLICT. Tho Hon. George W. Julian, of Tndians, ther, made the following address : ALr, Chairmnan, Ladies and Gentlemen : - No evont could be more timely, or more fitl y commemorate A sublimo achiovenment for humein walfare, than this rounion of surviving soldiors of tho Jato thirty yours' war agaitst American slavery. It was not waged for the mogro, hut for humanity and the Golden Rule.. It was not & utruggle for mero nationslity or politienl rigl its, but the grandost battle the world hes seen for Lbe Righta of Man. It was & war of idens, with moral woapous only ag the chosen instrumo nts of triumph ; aud ity aim was nothiug less thian the practicn!l vindication of .the Christian re- ligion among mon. Tho nppesal of tho Aboli- tionisty was to tho moral meuse of jnankind and the law of God, and Lhey finally oreated a public opinion wlich nerved the people for tho shock of civil war, to strike tho shacklos from four millions of bendmon, and thus fo:make cortuin tho ultimnte oxtinction of slavery throughout tho ecarth, Such a conflict demanded a higher courage ‘‘than banttle evor knew,” nnd crowned its heroos with a far bright- er and more ecnduring famo than ecan bo awarded to the stutesmen a'nd Gencrals through whose Immodiate agenoy tha abolition of slnvery wan finally nccomplishied. Lot us ro- joice, thorafore, in this coming toge ther of faith~ tul mon to oxcliango grootings and. congrutulu- tions, to cherish precious memories, and o ionor once more by thelr prosence and th aiv gray hairs tho most glorious moral contlict of the agos. THI LESSONS OF THE STRLIGGLE, But tho Anti-Slavery votoruns rmsemblod here to-day have n graver task to perfonm than that of reheereing the deods of oth or days and ine dulging in grateful recollectionsr. Alvican slay- ery haw boon abolished, und se, far the pas is #eours; but othor vital questio ns are to bo met, and other great voforms ure to b accomplished, American putriotism and phil anthropy have at 1oor thoir oporations aunb any provious time in o' ar hintory, and tho promise of s rich o Linrvest f resuilby to those who labor in faith, What ave the lessons of the Anti-Sluvery conflict? Whrit moral do thoy point, in faciug tho solemn. dutivs and respon- wibllities of the prosent and the futuro? What light do they throw upou U e pathway of prog- rous, and what resolves iihould thoy liudle iu tho hesris of mon who bave Lorme the Daunor of roform to & world-famous vie- tory, ond are soon to hund it over to thoir childron? My frionds, wo shall fail in n great duty If wa are not prompted by this occasion soriounly to ponder theno ques- tious, TIE ATAUGHTINESS OF TRUTIL The most impartunt wad improssivo gonoral leswon of the Abohtion movemeut Is the al mightiness of truth, No man ean overeslimate tho vatue of thiy losson as u poronnisl fountain of courago and juepiration in evory lield of ro- form, 'The Autl-Slavery causo was sown in weakuens, * Not mouy wiss mon after tho {losh, not mauy miglaly, not many noble,” gave it their countonnno, -1ty eurly chiumpions wera gunorally obueure, simpls-minded, single-heart- ed mou and women, whosa love of juktico was o paseion B0 unquenchablo, and whoso hearts worn 80 moved Ly tho great eurrenty of humun sympathy, thuat the world brauded thum ass funutics, I wucavooly know hiow Lo uvold ropeat- ing what [ waid yeurs ugo, that in nnwgoof | vriotioal ntholsn énd wammon-worshlp, when tho Ohurcl - und the Htwte, Jolned liauds with 4 b slavory n tho'now trinfty of tho natlon's fatth, thoy ronlly bolioved in God, in juatico, in tho ra- alstloss might of tho truth,” They bolloved, with thelr whola honrts, in tho Doclaration of Indo- pondenco, and thoy accopted ity toachings as coineldou with tho Gakpol of Ohrlat, vy Wora branded a4 infidols, and oncountorod overy- Wwhore tho hootings of ' tho multitude niid tho mcorn of pollticing and prionts ; bub I know of no clans of men who woro ovo- moro far-gightoed, whono convictions restod on 60 broad o bagls of Ohrintian mornls and logic, and whoso religious trust was 80 Alrong ang £londfast, For thom thoro wan 1o oclipso of faith, Just as tho natlon bogan to Inpao from tho grand idens of our ravnfutlmmry ora thoy bogan to “cry aloud and sparo not,” nnd Lhoy hevor acased or slackenod their Inborn. Placiug their onrs to the ground in tho infancy and wenknens of thelr movomont, thoy eauglit tho t“mhlhlfi thundora of clvil war In fho distanco, waruod the country of ity dangor, s prenchied rapontance an tho choson and ouly meaus of osenpo. Thoy wero compolled Lo faco mobs, violence, purscenttion, and donth, and wore al- wnys misnndorstood or misroprosonted ; but they novor. faltored, Hoputation, honors, prop- orty, worldly easo, woro all frooly lald lll_llm\ the altar, in thelr resolve to vindieato tho rights of man and tho froodom: of spocoh, To follow thouo apontlon _and anartyrs was to foranko all 450 prizen of lifo whioh worldly prudence or am- Liition could value or conrt. 1t was to take up “tho heavient crous yob_fanhionod by thin contury as tho tost of Christinn chmeactor nuil Dorofsm, Aod yob thoy muccoored. They wero the ecducalora of ilo” nation, the prophets of ita dolivoranco. "Thoy succoeded, be- auso the failuro of mon Lhus,dovoted Lo o gront and holy cnitso wns morally fnmossiblo, Thoy Droke in piccos groat political and ecolostanticnl orgauizations. Thoy compolied tho boktor typo of mon of all parties to Join thom, or dofer to their wishies, “Fhoy forced the slaveholdor him- solf to bucomo o powartul ally, by driving him {nto extromo measuen of dnfouno or aggresslon, "hoy gradunlly lifted tho Churoh out of tha foul slough of polltics and compromiso, and pnt it on its good boliavior, Tivon doughfncos wero some- Limos hnruensed Lo the eur of F'reodom and com- pollod to do sorvics. When civil war came theso itioniuta utterly rofused to allow tho con- Koionco of tho quarrel to b put outof sight, T'hoy dumnnuded tho abrogntion of all lnws which gavo slavery support. hoy domanded tho arin- ing of tho Liogrocs as Auldiors, and that wlavery, a8 tho guilty canso of the War and the g obumclulosmu. should bo the constaut pomt nf atinck, Aud the morul power which they wieldad compellod the Governmont to comply with thes demands, and thus to swoop Lho uirdo forover from tho)Jund, What ‘a prognant losson for tho reformer in the gonerukions Lo comol ilow it rebukos tho cow- ard and timo-sorvor, and plonds with our young mon to plant thoir fect on the rogk of principle! Wiiero, niow, aro the heups of lowor-law ser- morw aud ghastly metaphysics that loaded down tho mails twonty odd years ago? 'Thoy have Laen hissed from_tho civilized world, Whore aro the Doctors of Divinity who gaye thomeolves "ip to tho gracoloss work of defanding slavery ns ndiviva fnstitation? ‘Phoy ure mereifully for- gotten, or remombored ouly to be dospiscd. Wlhoro are the public mon who in years gouo by bout their eravon bucks under tho alaveholdor’s lush, and flourished for o soason us ringlendors of tho tribo of donghfaces? Thay have gono to judgwont, and their names are nob fit to bo #pokion. And Willam Lloyd Garrison, who in 1831 had & prico soy upon his boad by the Siato of Georgin, nud 1 1885, with & rope aronnd Lis neek, was chasod through tho atroots of Boston by n mob of * 5,000 gontlemon of proporty and stauding,” is now honored by the world ns the fluest #pocimen of a sturdy, moral hero which tho century has proditced ; while no namoe in onr history, not oven that of the Futhorof s Country, will b 8o honored in the agos to como, or 8o rovercutly spoken, ns that of Charles Sumnorl Thank God for tho legney of such lives, They lond a now edge and gilding to vir- tue, Thoy give usn now baptism of faith in Lumanity. They pour a fresh tide of lifo into tho moral dreariness of our polities, and urge us to moro constant and couragoous ondosvors in the worl of reform. ‘I'igy are the Loantiful om- broidory of truth, courngd, and manliness, Thoy teach us to espouse the rght, no matter how many may opposo, or how few may help us. They perpetualiy preach to us that ‘Chen to side wifh truth is noble, when we share her wrelched erust, Ero hor eauso bring famo and profit, and *lis prosper~ ousto bu justy Then it fn the brave man chooses, while the coward ‘atands anlde, Doubting in Lis alject spirit 11 lns Tord 18 crucified. THE SLAVERY QUESTION IN OTHER FORMS, But tho powor of the truth when espoused by faithinl and couragoons men s not the only log- 801 of tho Anti-Slivory strugglo, Tho spirit of human brotherhood which mudo such sncrifices for the alave should devote itsell with tho wame unsolfish zeal to the rodress of other and kind- red wrongs to our fellow-mon. African slavery was simply one form of the domination of capi- talover the poor. Cupidity and tho love of power appropriatod the uegro as property he- cauee ho was ignorant and helpless. Tho system of Southern sluvery wns {he naturel outgrowth of that gomerally sccopled political philosopby which mukes the pro- tection of property the chisf ond = of Government, "It was only tho strougly-cmpha- elzed exwrossion of the maxim thav ** eapint should own labor.” Wealth is power, and there- fore an cloment of slave-holding, just ns pove- erty is weakuess, and thorofora nn olement of submi ggion, T'he labor queation, ns I haveso often nid, is tho natural successor and logical sequonco . of tho slavery question. It is tho 8lar, ory question, ronewed in other forms and Tho abolition of poverty is tho n order after converting tho” African ¢lanttol into s man, and tho Abolitionist who doow not soo this fails to grusp the logic of tho Aunti-Slavery movement, aud culls n haltin the wmevitablo march of prograss, I'mo old sluvo codes used to toll ue, In their vigorous and start- ling Bnglish, that *“aslave is one doomed to live withont knowlodge, and without the capueity to make anytlung his’ own, and to toil, that au- other muy roap the fruits.” You rememlier how it used to moke your blood boil to read this dotinition, and what atext it was for your hottest indignation when you arraigned tho ‘slaveholder at the bar of justice; but is not this almost an exuct definition of the extremo povorty aud helplossness which so largely afilict bumanity to-day? Havo we iudnufi abolished slavery? Have we dono more thau aboliuh ono peouliar form of slavery, involving tho wolfare of o par- ticular raco of men, and leaving even thom in tho gonoral bondage from which all races are yot to be frecd? Liberty is born under conditions, It moans equal lnws. It implios opportunity, To tho millions deepoiled and debumanizod Dy povarty thronghont tho earth, it monuy & lioimo, and broad, aud education, and fuir play in the race of life, Look ut the Euglish ngri- cultural Iaborer, as ho trudges through his weary toil for tho miserable pittance on which ne strugglos to support himself and his tarving fumily,—robbod of his natural right to u homo on tho koil ho tille, and holding his life at the morey of tho land-owner, who is the mastor in Euglund, ns ho is the master everwhore, Do you tell mo ho is o freo man bocsuso he can go into the market und soll his lahor for the vout Erina lio can got? Wil you insult him aud mock umanity by pleading the principlo of uul)ply aud demand in ?lm;lllcn(inu of atrooious luws and & rotten civilizetion? Iask you to apply tho old slaveholders dofinition, and tell me il this man s uwot pracuically “doomed to livo without Lnowledge, aud without the ca- prlty to mako nuything his own, and to toil thut aunother may roap the fruits.” To all snubstantisl intonts and pur- posus o is o sluve, and o are multitudes of his follow-victims of Linglish misrulo, LFoudnl in~ wtitutions on the one land, and concontrated capital in nlliance with labor-saving mnohinery on the ~ther, count their slaven in the Old World by mitlous, while the samo form of slavery 1 rupidly takivg root in our awn land, through tho muchinory of gront corporations, tho fearful strides of land-monapoly, und tho stoadily - orensiug ygrogution of woalth in tho hands of the fow, Awm Inob right? Must n mun woar tho collar of n paatioular mnster bofore he cun he counted n sluve? Is mot the principle of slavery involved in all conditionn of extrome do- pondonce?. Tho #lavo of soviely, of bad laws, and inhuman customs, muy huve no bottor mnstor than the sluve of tho plaulation, I trust 1 noed not argtio this Rgim bofore an nudionco of Auti-Binvery mon, You know that our lawsof proporty wore origiunlly founded on conquont nnd violoneo, and that they still bear the murks of tholr beginning. You know that the true misgion of governmont is tho protection of tho wonk agmmnet the powertnl, and that instend of taking paine to tomper the inequalitios which oxist in Lho couditions of mon it Ly taken paing to uggravalo them. You know that instesd of favoring tho diffusion of wonlth it hins conetautly favored ita concontrntion, Youknow that, Instond of taking caro of tho wouk, it lins all the tine given l]tu holp to the slrong, And you know that, in somo form und Dy towio mothiads, tho onrrent of our loglulntion must be rovorsad, 1f the principle of sluvery in to bo expelled by the prmelple of demooraay, To this hierouloan tank we aro summoned by the louson of nogro omancipation ; and inthis grand atrugglo fortha liboration of labor tho Aboli- tionies are tho natuval leadors, They fought Southorn slavery whiloit lasted on Mr. Lincolu's polioy of *ono warabatimo ;" butin the be- . the first to o8poust {he homeston ginning thoy were tho avowed cnomios of overy form of iuéquality aud oppression, They wore polioy. ~ Thoy saw thnt froodom must havo fta roots In the soll, and that o Government which ntlows tho Jand to hocomo the patriniony of tho fow cannotbo domooratlo, T'hny saw that tho syntom of ohattel alovory rostod on groat ontatos, and that, 1f tho Now Eogland_systom of Jand-holding had pro- vallod in tho Houtl, Blavory would nave hoon impousihlo, Thoy rogarded “tand monopoly a8 tho vary citadol of slavery, nnd they donounced the whole mlw{ of speonlution fin tho public Innds ns the legalizad plundor of the poor, Lot thom agaln unfurl the old banner of Lund Toform ; for, although tho Iomestond bill mmllly boenmo & 1aw, yobt simultnnoously with its onnctment, and, as it to nullily its pro- vintonn, tho policy of Innd-granta to rallronds wna rovived fu such oxtravagant and unguardoed formy that ovor 200,000,000 of acros of the pub- lis domnin have fallon into tho grasp of groat worporatioos, 4 whila the rhflnu of nettlors fizvu beon till furfhor nlwhl(mxl y Indinn tronties, by military Iaud hountion, by swamp-land _swindio, sl by the stiil unforbiddon eurso of land spoce ufation, In full partnorship with thoeso evils in tho grent railwny power of tho conntry, tne nue- comsor of tho olil Wlavo powor, wiolditig 1 come binard cnl)llnl of 84,000,i100,000, threatoning tho indopondonca of Congrons, Siato Logislaturos, aud courty, and invitug s popular romstance commonsurate with it despotic domands, Tho intolligont._organlzntion of tho working claswos for the overtlirow of this fonrful wyttom of come niorcial and ndunteial sorfdom aould bo o wial and_the ondeavor of ovory tnan who would #nye tho Jopublie, THE TANMFF QUENTION shiould also ho met and sotiied on - the gronnd of principlo. ANl compromisen will fail m the - Liire, as thoy have douo in tho past. They aro A unmanly a4 thoy nre unprofltus blo. 'The "enrly Abolitloniuts waro ganor- nlly tho advoeaton of I'ron Trado. Thoy conidored it o part of tho gospl of Humsit Trothorhood. Whils slavery lnntad, it wai n side iwbno, bubthorels no longer any oxeuso for ovading it. ‘I quontion in o vital onn to every intorost of tho country. Our Lurill nystom for #ho paat Lon or twolvo Yonrs baw been s syatom of organized spollntion, 1T 18 A FORM OF ALAVERY masquorading under tho disguine of protended bonolit to the mnasos whom it rubs, It lioaps grivyonus burdons upon the poor, in order that pampored monopolies may flourisl, 1t taxes tho articles of primo necosuity to tho Inboring clauses, aud placos the luxuries of the rich on tho froe list. It constitutos & most formidablo factor in the logalized slavery of capital which now demands aholition, whila our system of in- tornal twxes Iy nlmontct]nnlly vicious, It should bothoronghly reformedin tho interost of equanty, including thetaxation of church proporty, the ox~ omption of which is aclonr violation of the spirit of our institutions and at wur with the plainost principles of justico, OUR PINANCIAL TOLICY ambodies Jundred elomonts of inequality and opprogsion, Our National Dank mouopoly, with its two thousand fiscal corporations snd noarly five hundred millions ~of capital, cannot bo defended, It not only constitutes n sorious political dangor, but n gront and inoxohsn- ble burden upon the ‘luoplu in the iuterestof a favored fow, ‘I'he policy of the Goveroment in cliuging to an inconvertible paper currcucy is not only n deflance of the exporiencoe of mane kind und tho toachings of political economy, but a pricties] robbery of tho working-clasuoy by withhiolding from them a fair day's wagos for a fair duy's work, which **is ns just a demand ns povorned nion over wade of govorning,” Tho overthrow of this policy, by just aud prudont wethods, must bo sought by every man who would wigo war agaivst tho uow forms of slav- ery which are everywhere insidiously intronch. iug thomselves bohind tho power of combined enpltal, and barring tho door against the prinai- ple of equal rights, Legialation for man primati- ly, and for property secondarily, should bo onr T0Lto and watchword, till capital shall bo con- tont to take its place as tho servant, aud not the master, of tho &umplo. ‘Clis is at onco the tm- pelling demand of Inbor, and the real problem of our coming statosmanship. Buch legislation Wil alto vitally affect other groat causos, It will bo tho strong ally of tho Tomporanco Ro- form. It wilk strike'at intammporance by liftmg humauvity above the thraldom of uutoward con- ditions, 1t is undonbtedly truo, a8 wo uro often told, that a large percent of tho crimesof so- ciety can bo traced to intemperanco; but it is Just as true that o largo per cont of the intom- peranca of socioty ean be traced to povorty, Wo con only destroy n vico by getting down to its roots. ~ Whoovar does most for the bronking up of monopolies, for the curtailmont of tle power of great corporate wealth, for roforming our: Jand policy sud l'nu\llmfiug the acquisition of homoy, and for the comfort and goneral eleva- tion of the poorand friendloss, docs most for tho causo of tomporance. And Ibelievo thobest probibitory logislation now attainabla is that which sball most offoctually strive for thoso euds. Hocioty itself is largoly respousible for the crimes and tho drunkenncess of its membors, aud both will diminish in tho degree in which our lnws and polioy rospect tho kacredncss of humanity by oarucnfli{ sooking tho oqual rights aud true welfaro of all. THUE ¥XFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMAN. Another lesson of tho Auy-Slavery struggle ia the duty of stitl furthor oxtending tho right of suflrage. When we broke thechaius of the slave aud transformed lum into & citizen, we armed bim with tho bellot. ‘' The situation in _ whicl ho was placed obliged us todo this for his own immediato protection; but, indopondent of this* nocossity, ho had the right to a voice in the Government which do- mauded his obedicnce, L'o have denied him this ‘right would have been & wauton iusult to his humanity sod o glaring mockery of political decency. Tho oxporiment of nogro suffrago, I admit, has not beon o vomarkublo success. Tt s disnppointed tho expoctations of its snuguine {rionds, aud given a good doal of comfort to its onomios. But tho triul bas only been partisl, and undor the most unpromising eircumstances, It will fiually succoed ; and, whethor wisely or unwisely couferrod, the negro has the ballot, aud it will not be talken from him. The logic of emnucipation compollod it, and tho vital prin- ciple of domocrucy vindicates it; whilo he is quite a8 fit for sulfraga ns the white raflians and vogabouds with whom he is associated, and whioso weight has dragged him down. Domoc- racy Is tho inevitable destiny of tho Republic, whothor wo individually likeit or dislikeit, It is our only political salvation, because we have goue too far on the road for nny possivlo retreat, Wa aro, it 18 true, only midway in our Journey, but tho momentum scquired in reaching our presont position will carry us to the end, The ballot for womnn is the grand leseon, oy it will be tho ripe fruit of _tho hurdly earned victory for ihe slave, Liko othier groat issucs, it ind to bldo lts time ; but it wns publicly agitated twonty-five years ago by hie mon and womon who were then foremost in tho battle for tho negro, Blavery was then the provious question, but the rights of woman are now in ordor, Hhe ia not only the viotim of an ayistocracy of wealth, but an nristacrncy of sox also. Kho neods omancipation from both, Abolih tha oruel domination of capital which oppressos the working classes of both sexes and Lonry hardost on woninn, and she still needs the ballot to lift her to the common lovel, She touls ¢ s the gateway Lo opportunity &nd the dofcuse of her rights, The bnsost men can use it in furthoring thmr purposos ; the noblast aud purest women uro donted it. An intelligent hu- man hnhu]'| subjoct to thio Covernmont under which Le lives, suswernblo to 1t in his porson and proporty for disobedionce, and yet denled auy political rights, s o slave. *Liberty, or froedom,” says Dr. Franklin, ¢ conaistsin having an aotun! sharo in the appointment of those who framo tho laws, and who ure to bo the guardinng of overy mau's lifo, proporty, and poace:" ond ho doolares that “they who have uo voico nor vote In the wselootiug of rep- rosontativas do not onjoy lborty, but are abso- lutoly ouslaved to thoso who have votes, or to their ropresentatives; for to bo enslnved is to have Govoruors whoni othor mon have sot over us, awl be subjeot to luws made by tho repro- sontatives of othors, without heving had rapro- sontalives of our own to give consent in our bo- holt.” If this i true (and vo Amerloan candony it), it Is just s truo of women us of mon. To deuy cherights of woman is to deny the rights of man. To wrguo the quostion of womnn's rights I8 Lo arguo tho quostion of human rights, It s to reopon tho wliole controvorsy botween monarchy and vepublicanism, botwoen uristoo- raoy and privilogo on tho ono hand nud domoc- oy on thio othor, which wag sottled n contury ago by our fathors in tho forum of argumont and by the ordenl of battle, If the fwmous maxim that **Taxation without represontation is tyranny " bo true at all, it is truo nbeolutely, 1t st bo true of all citlzans 1f truo of any, and wamion uro now citlzous by the cloar and unmis- takable words of the Constitution, A “Gov. orumunt of the paoplo by tho poopla " ‘daos not monn one-half ouly, but the whola poopln, 1t doos wobt moan A Govorumont ~*Lalf alave aud balf free,” but _ wll freo. It doos not moun * a iouso divided ngainst it- solf," but a houso united. An aristooracy found- od on #ox is quite es indofonsiblo snd snti-re- publioan us nn wiistooraoy founded on color or raco. If womon miny bo donied tholr righta on nccount of thoir sox, negroes muy bo donlod their righty on account of thoir golor, forelgnory on sccount of the aceidont of their hlrux',‘ and poor mon on account of their poverly, ‘Thoso arosimplo traisms which no logiv can refuto ; aud thoy should Lo untlinehingly prossod homo upon thio udgmont aud conroldiico of the puo- plon I'hoy ate the rook npou whioh our politi- oal Ghuroli must bo buill, wud from which no l floodn onn moyo ik, Lot It bo made olear and unquostionablo that thoss who oppose tho olalm of womnn to the bnllot are theopponents of tha vory principle of domocracy, and tho natural allios of desputic poer, and hor onfranchise- mont I secured, Chia is tho simplo, naked, and decllvolasito, Thoimprognablo ground of right ow, which tho Abolitionists triumphod is tho all-aufl. olont ground on whioh tho frionds of univoreal suflrngo alionld now plant tholr fact. Political onfranohlsomont iy tho right of woman and tho duty of man, snd, until this_ propoxi- tion is succousfully mot, nll _sido issuos aro mean oand " pitiable, It {8 sald, 1 know, that woman will abuso tho suffrage {f gmuted to her, just on it used to bo said tha negro wonld abuse his frecdom it omancipatod, It 18 snid sho is unfit for tho ballot, just s it usod {0 bo said tho negro was unfit for lborty. It is mald that tho ballot in the hands of woman will dostroy the famlly and **uphenve tho whola woclal aystom,” just as it used to bo prophesied that emancipation would broed bloody insurrao- tious aud lny waato the land. Tu tho light of tho past, theso wrotched attompts Lo oscapo the ronl quostion aro unworthy of notice, Consorvatism always belioyos the hoavena will fall whon justico trimnpha, 1t nlways ignoros the lossons of ox- porionco, It forgots thut all that has beon dona for thohighor oducation of woman, for enlnrging the nphiere of hor activity and uscfulnoss, and 4hus tosting her rolativo capacity for work, and for toforming our Inwa in respect to hor porsonal and proporty rights, Lias proved to be most salu- tury, 1t forgets that undor the law of socinl ovolution etill furher progross in tho samo di- raction It inovitablo, aid that conkoquencos nro hest * dinposed of by wisely _nocopting thom, und thus ovorting the ugly frigtion that always comos from a stupld and ro- bellious opponition. It forgots that no consoquencos of woman Auflrago conld well ho more dreadful than tho ulticat avilk which L-lay ao_apping tho vory ifo of our lnstitutions, sud causing Hobor mon ovorywhoro to_doubt thto success of our gront oxperimont, and that thoso ovils lnve renched their foarful culmination undor our lopaided de- mocracy aud ouooyed olyilization, 1t forgots tho grand losson of the Anti-Slavory triumpl, that nothing 14 ko safe us tostand by the Doclaras tlon of Iudependence and tho srcrediicss of e mun rights, aud that we cannot fail in followiny the inoxarable logio of ovonts which hay |mllmhe§ tha nation on its providential mission of popu- Iar govornmout, aud will not allow it any stop backward in its grand careor. ‘T'o dectine tho service of o good couso on sccount of imagined couyequonces is us cowardly as it 18 athoisticnl ; but if consequonces aro to be weighed i tha balanco and made the rule of action, L decidedly ochooso to accopt the principlo of do- mogracy in its complote length and breadth, rathor than any form of aristocratio rulo, whaother that of proporty, race, or sox, PANTY DESPOTISL Allow me to refor to ouo further losgon of tho Anti-Slavery conflict, and that is tho duty of re- nouncing the authouty of political parties when thoy coase to stand for a living principlo, and aro banded togethar for mero power or plunder. “Chis losaon is nvalunblo. Btrange us it may apa poor, the omancipation of men from such a bondago is ono of the hardest tasks in tho whole field of roform. The Abolitionists have shown tho world how to porform it, and with whnb magniticent results. Whon they bogan their grand work the country wag dividad, as it it to- duy, into two hostil comps. Tho questions in digpute were not vital, but roluted eimply ta mattors of agministrative policy, while on tha portontous aud ovorshadowing question of slav- ery both ospoused the sido of the_ oppressor, As thoissues which divided them gradually faded away and consed to bo the pivots of controversy, loaving notbing in “disputo but the spoils of oflico, their dovation to wlavory waxed strongor aud strongor, whilo party discipline was kept alive in its wtmost rigor by tho mera forco of Dabit nud the mowmory of pask conlic Agoinat such o poarty devil-worship the Abolitionists waged war. Ihoy dolared their politieal indopondence, and callod on theso organizations, in the name of hutani~ ty, todisband, Ul political partios and tha churches of the Iaud were alike Lrauded ns tha butwarks of slavery, and in return thouo icono- olasts encotntored w torront of rancorous pere soual abuse and politieal dofamation which hag soldom beon_ aquzlod, and never surpnssed, in the auurls of party warfaro, But thoy wore un- duunted. ‘The Abolitionists who bolieved in political action orgnnizod o party. They nomi- nated candidatas, Their following was exceed- Tugly emall, bub o8 they wero suro thoy wera rlighit, thoy novor doubted s to the fioal rosult. They wore thomsolves partisans, but their party was tho sorvant of their causn and not tho master of their own “b(ll;!. ‘When tho famong Anti-Slavery uprising of 184§ opened tho way for large accessions to their numbors, thoy dite bauded thoir littlo organization, surrendored its d fell into line with the Froo-Soil movo~ Phey were tho soul of this now combina~ tion, Lut thoy did uot idolize it. They'did nos confound it with tho gront ond, for tho atiaiument of which thoy employod it simply 88 a means. To thom it was only “n mile-stuo of progross, It was the fororuuner of a larger movement, which thoy confidently predicted ; and wion, thore- fore, the subsoquont repeal of the Missouri rostriction prepared still groater multitudes to rally under the bannor of Irecdom, theso Aboli- tionisty woro rondy to doff the party namo under which they had battlod for years, and merga thomsolyes in a utill moro formidablo combinne tion undor the name of tho Iopublicxn party. Aund thoy wore its spirit aud its life, but thoy novyor were its slnves, Tu peace, and nftorwards in war, thoy stood Dy its tlag and strengthoued its bands in ol tho grand mensures which added roal glory to 1ts careor ; but they nover surrondered tha right of crit\cls{ug its action or condomniug its mistakes, Thoy frequontly differcd with its polioy, bub nevor factiously, nud thoss differoncos alwaya onded in the final advanco of the party to thoir position, Thoy regarded tho Republican ore ganization ns only n grand bolt, or rather as tho product of repeated bolts, from offute par- ties, and thoy Lonored andloved itinso far onlyas itcould be madotha sorvantof liborty. It was an aggregation of men who diffored onall tho ordinary topics of political disoussion, but for the time boing sgreed to stand togetheron thesine glaquestionof_opposing the further dominutiog of slavery, It was the child of the times, nnturally evolved from antocedont causoy whioh mado it ncceysary, just ax other combinas tions are to-dsy beitg~ ovolvad from othor causes. 'The Abolitiovists nevor dreawed of il a8 & political finality, bocause they well know that in sho vory nature of things this was ims possiblo, A political party in ulmlfly a0 expedi= ent, ftisa political mnkoshift. It is got & pore manont inatitution, like a Church, inside of whicl nll noeded roforms mmnst originute, snd outside of which no good thing eau exiet, but o temporary gontrivance, which bocomes itself an organized obstruction to the public good whon it refuses to disbaud aftor the accomplishment of tho work which called it juto existouco, It it not only worthless but misclhiovous, save as it ropreseuts n living idoa which shapes aud anis matos it, Ui 4 tho philosophy of partics, ag filustrated by tho well-known facty ot thoir hise tory in this country, and this is tho losson of Abolitionism, Bhall we not proilt by it in facingg the dutied of the hour? Lot us honestly sud fearlesnly apply it in judging the two parties now contending for tho mastory, What are the liv- ing issnos whick divido them, sinca tho slavery issno nud its related quentions hava booit rotived? Isittho tariff quostion? Lach is di- vided against itsolf on tuus insue, sud neithor bay any defined lpuhcy‘ Both have been tho togls of rings and monopolists, and tho people will continuo to be fleoced just 60 Jong at thoy sllow dead issuos to divert their attoution from live onos. 18 IT THE FINANGE QUESTION ? Both Demoeruts and Hopublicans are divided amony themselves rospeoting our Nutionul Bank monopoly apd the question of epecie payinents, Neithor party uan doine its position, whilo tlo rocont spocohes in tho Bonate of the United Btatoy in favor of further inflating our irre- doomablo ourrenoy domonstrate ot onca the no- censity of a radical roconstruction of parties on this quiostion, aud tho vital importanco of com= pulsory education. Is our Iaud polioy’an issuo 2 Lmh parties for mony yoars past have joined hunds i making that policy a systom of national spoliation and & monstrous cuuup:mu{ againss tho rightsof coming gonoratious. s thore any party lesuo raulmumxg the Civil Servico of tho Govornmont, through which the people aro plunderod 10 tho tuuo of nomrly o hundrod millions annually? Noithor party 18 united on the quostion, while, ‘under the rule of the party in powor, whioh profossos to favor its reform, the Clyil orvico bng degenoratedinto a disgusting systom of ofticial buckstoring and political prostitution, Iy TIE PURTIER EXTENAON OF TIE SUFFRAGE .an tssio 2 Doth partics rofuse to espouso it, and will prove 1ts most formiduble obstaclos ¥o long as they uronllowad in oxist, Are thuso par- ties divided on the quostion of political morality and offivial cortuption ? - Both stand on the sams level, und only vival each othor in the slacnty with whioh thoy entor upon sehemes of pelt and plunder, Am 1 told that the truo panaces for oxistiug political ovils 18 the reform of theso parties, and not thoir destruction ? I answor that, whon purties, whother religious or political, hievo boau thoroughly cortuptod by power, they huvu lost tho sbility to 1’““” thomuolvos, and that reform must como from without, as it came with Fox, and Wosley, aud _Garrivon, and tho boltors of a lutor doy.' Am T scill told that now partion are not uvedud, beonuse it iv tho busluvsa