Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 11, 1874, Page 9

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIMUNE: TIHURSDAY,, JUNE 1 1, 1874, THE ‘ABOLITIONISTS. (Contlitued from tho Vonrth Pago.) protedtivo fRrlft for roventio ou the otlior,” Buch wero 1ho womentous political jusiles that hud to be encoun- Diored and conguered to msko way for tho conshitern: tion of Aluyery that waa alrcady aucking tho Life-blood of the natlon, Tn the last weok of July, 1819, X wan with_Me, Cod- . Qg at a great neetig of o Pooplo in Lake County; and wroto i tho Citizen as follows © “ 3, Qoddiing addresséd tho pooplo for abont fivo hours umnal eloqucut and_ forclblo ,miatiucr, - Tho mows of - facts which ho prescuted 40 roforence o tho _encroachmgnts af tho Blavo Powor, and tho cost of elavory to the fros Taborors of tha Narb, wlto huvo nothing o do with (b wolually, astonislicd thio hearers, aud sot inuny persons on o courso of rulloction aud study whicli Wil lead * them out of the fog east uround {hein by o ehief mon and rulers of tho nintion_tliat hins vitunlly ropudiated tho fret of tlo riglla of mian—porgonnl liLorly,” 110 wag wvon uftor fu TaSalle, Pattun, and Mureaw Gountics, in cotupany with Henderson tud Lovoloy, 1 He held mgotingy in the middlo aud southorn parts of i Blato, whera no Abolition lucturer hiad over beon, . —whinre thoy were Woked upon aa traltors to the couna iy and_plotlers sgulust tbg putlfc peace, ns ontlas mid violators of the crimfual codo, Velngf ranked it counlorfoitors and horso-thioven, 110 waa mobbed ut Teorin, at MeDouough, Spring0eld, and t ofhor places, Cerving i o causg that brougld nelther theuks nor ollary, but gatued batrod snd scorn fusteud, TAE GINCIINATE OONVINTION, Tn'tho spring of 1814, Mr. Codding oticrided with mo (o great. Wostern *Ldborty Convontion at Cineiu- Totl, We made tho trip * ovorland ¥ with o iors and Drigay, for thin was boforo tho daya of raflroads, Wo wero almost {ho. ouly porsons thero Who came from west of Tudiana, It was at tlis Convention that Ohlof- Justice Ghiase delivered Lis grent spucch on {ho politic gulnepecly of Uigblavo, question, that Dad s powortul Jufluenco in_ molding tho futuro nction of the party, su fn drawing lucso uuibors to ite support nid swhich placed Alr, Chuso fairly on tho line whick car- riod bim {0 success an o politiolan ou e sldoof tha uegro. ; “Fiao Conveution was ield fn & Millerité tont, ‘There proolous companton, Thero was no litieneas, no ‘meatuions, I Ll natiiro, and his_great, magnanimotn woul deagived tho contractod nud” old ‘fogy fdens tint mindo tho greatest of all wrongs o lolerafed systen in ouir uation, No man Iaboved moro for mublic good With foas hopo of reward, and, indeed, with less coni~ pousatlon, ‘Thero ix 1o’ i with whom I ossocinted o (ke good work to whony Liag heon abown more fully 1o intenaifled eauness of Lwinan natues, wht oy by formed publis ingratitudo. Cadding nov bod his just due, .1l revor lad tho meed of ap. yreciution that, progiorly bolonged to_him ns a great oratar ot o good and homest mon. I have utlervd flicso words us niy hnmlila {os{inony {o hiw worth, 4 ho momory of the Just 18 bleored.” Ho much wé quotb from Mr, astman’s parson. al reeolloctions, Mri' Codding went to Wircon- ‘sin in 1840, Whoro hé remmiued tliroo yonrs, sorv- fng tho “caned of human’ freedom in all his activities. Ho nided in tho establishmont of tho first Anli*Bliwvery ‘pper In that Kiate, ho- et nequiainted with overy conuty as n locturor, and is” still remomberod ny' a gnorsl power by mauy of tho bout citizons in Wisconsin, ‘HE RETUNNED TO ILLISOIA in 1849, . rotravorsed this Binte, and mndo Eho tour of overy county :(n Towa, spenking inovers county kdnt aud in all the larger towns to nudi- oticas which in semo placns wore numbered by thousands, It mny traly bo enid of him that Lo, did floncer work In thie cause of the slave in Vermout, Maino, Conricotiout, Wicconsin, Towa, and Ninoly. Wa Lo not:yet spoleon of Lls Inbors as A CORISTIAN MIMISTEN, aproncher of tho Gospel, yob to his othor ardu- ons labors o ndded this, nnd sustaliicd the roln- tion of pastor and tenchor for moro than twenty ‘yénrs in vnrious places fu tho Northwest, and rarely in ‘all that timo fsiled to preach on tho Sabbath avhercver ho might rest, It was in this rolation thet ho drow out most decply ond warmly tho nffectious of ls poople, Wo know many, vory many, who count his nc- unintanco ns an ofs in their lives, srousing thom to an intellestunl and spiritual’ hfo thoy were many thousauds present—men and wonien of nterling lugr, from Indians aud Obio malnly 3 soma from Veuitsylvania, aud o fow from Kentucky, aud oven Virguia, | Thero wero multoriogy’ of mob violenco upon this _ nssemblago, mado upargoly of women_nnd Quakors, and_thore was fectg Wit abl—lardly oo caenpod from fi—that it was bst to bo prudent in oxpréssion, and give no oc. casfon to fnvite the uurcasoning rabblo down upon tho tilorite tout. Thiera was, howover, no_keeplug back tho nsnal topies of discussion among Alolitionists—ry 1 the slnfuincns of sinvery, aud tho necessity of carry- .ing the question o tho Vallot-box, A very oxcits uestion then was o8 to the duty of addressing U elaves, sud advising tiem how td muko thelr escay and fo ke from {helr mastérs whotover 'wea neceseary {o make thels escape, whotlier it Lo clothing lworso, oF bost. The -teacliing of the Cincinuai Abolitlon press, and tho feoling of most of tha Aboli- tionista then was that the atenling question, s jt wus called, had beat not be neddled “with, Me; Codding ‘was Dirdiy Jowown in Cluclunail by fng even. Tho causo at tho East whero Mr, Codding had lived had o ! glory of itn own—Olo had snotber ‘lustre, and tho SVest about Chleogo bnd no roputation atall. For o ‘person Mko Mr, Codding to hail from Chieago at Ciu- clnnati was like Lolng witiont credentlals, Our prac- tice when we mot uny of thio great luininaries of that reglon, wos to introdute eacl other ; and, some way or othér wo mindo It known' between uy thn o bnd & right to coma.to the great’ Liberty ‘Conveniion nad (l“(u #oino part in {te'duliberations,” One of the topics which it was gonorally admitted would not Do discussod thers wos - this Sxight to steal’ The Alolillonsts of Clnginnall, living 6o niar tho line, and baviug o’ many fugitives from Just across thio border, had, it 18 trug, many Leasy burdens o Liear, and it §s not strange they did ot desire to Tind senrcely dronmod of'. Thoso who Juow him best loved bim most; loved bim as n friond, compnnion, aud toacher ; thoy chorish his w: and tho hatmony of tho liours thoy yagsod \with Lim as most precious. . In lis ronding of Scripturo, the very light of Toavon soomed to beaza through and #hing upon tho Word ; #o it stood in light, and camo to the mind full of spirit and 1ifo, Eis oxpositions of Neripture wero clonr and praclical, and yn prayor .ho led. bhis uudience to ronliza tho dopths of Divine Love, aud the goocl of o life of obedionce to Ils blesscd “influencen, o taught thnt yoligion is alifo rather than g, craed, aud in judgiog of othors was guided by -the stahdard given by our Lord, ** By thoir fruita ye sball know them.” Mr., Coddiug recogtilzed as of the Oburch and Kingdom of the Lod every heartfolt prayor to Him, ovory kind thought for othors given Ly Oim, and every faithful step in obe- dionco ' to His_ commands, wherayer, in whétever nominal church ; or in' no church it mey be found. Misetrong commonsense, his uttor sinconty, his lofty moral courago, and his faith, mndo him porfoctly fenrless In the investi- gation of truth. "1 Joved it in sl its” applicas tious to human life and dostiny, for ho belieyed in its etétnol adaptation to sccomplish all tho purposes of benovoleiico. Honca ho enriched his mind with a_reversut ntutlf' of tho sacred Beriptures; o wido and caroful reading of tho take ou any otbier that might grow out of o moral quess tlou gobtew up b Yoterboro’ by Goert Buwilh, Dub thore wiil in. every nesembly - of 3,000 ot Toagt ona or o fmpritdent “ond tlioughticss porsons, Thero wns one such juprudont porson In this Liberty Convention at Cincinnatl, And this one applied the miatel fo tho tratn, A resolution was introduced bear- ingupon tho rightto communfcnte with the slave upon_ tbe plantation, and Lis duty to takio his mus- {ur'a ioeso, or his nolghbor’s Liorse, witbout losve, to enable him to. escape from bondage to frecdom, Thera was somo shrinking from the issue—the fntro. duction of the resolution deprecated at that particular Ume, Mr; Codding found an opportunity to utter bt a few, sentences from his seat “in tho sudience, i voire rang out clear as o 'bell, 1o wus called to tho platform amid cries, * Who is ho 7" and the Chairman dnformed tho. nudfeuco that it wza Mr, Coddlng, ‘front Tliinols, Mr, Chaso waa upon the platforni, holding the ponderons manuscript of bis groat ads drews, ond with Lim wero Samuol Lowis, Edward Bmith, John G, Foe, Dr, Balloy, editor of tho Nutionat Era, und other promiucnt persons, £omo from Ken-- tueky sud somo from Virginla, 3. CODDING SAID 110 hadl & fow.worils to utter {n belialf of & claes of pos ple suffering great. afiction in_bondage, und subject 1o ull the cruelties and wrongs whicl: l 'npllvnnimupln sutler, And we kuow what tho judgn of all hu- uanity In towards suchi a class, aud what our foellugs’ o conscence altow for ihent, when they attempt to csenpe,—tbat tlicy ovail themvelvea of cvery means withis'their reach, aven to the taling of proporty snd life, *I bavea brothor,” eaid he, *captured b{' the Indians of the Wostern plaius, Ifo is mnde subject o that barburous raco, Lslf starved, ernedy troated, his lifo oven 1o perl), and. cut off’ forever from o compuuforiship of ‘b friends and’ relatives,—from * father and mothoer, aud wife aud childrer,—what ehall 1y brother do? sud what shall I do for Llm 1’ Shall I £chd him o word of advice or sympathy? Sholl he, Tiecauto lis 8 & captivo, be placed beyoud my sympas thy or. aid, or even iny vojce, if 1can by ony jueaus reacieliin? You ll udy, Noi' Speak to your brother it he can bear you; call o bum to fleo for big life, o)l him {hat you aud all his follow-kind will not onty aeaist and ehelter hitm when he shall tlee to you, but sou will evou ly to hin resoue. Send him a lottor or o word in uy way that will reaclt him ; seud it by a car- rlor-pigeon, or by a spy, or Ly. a savage,of {ho sume tribo thot hos captured "him; tell bim of tho routo Lo ehould inko; tell him what points be shoull make fn iy fight—at what fort be muy tind protection—aud whers he will flud friends that ore waiting {0 recelvo im, Tell him not to “stand upon the order of Lis golng, but to “1ice ab once,? Aud you say to him, ¢ Take the ritle of tho Indinn, to defend yourself with,—shoot or Bmile down tho rst eavage, or the first mau of any grade, who will kttempt toarrest your flight, Tuke yaur captor's pony and dow't stop to ask questions, or Doy ferit aven IF st aro charged, with, sleling.” 1¢ Yourr borss drops dead under you, take’ the uext one Juu can capture, 1f you comoto o river you must ross ; if you can boat takio it, ateut {t, if you must, 1o et away, ‘Coke auything, do umyl.nlugiv to most profound wrlterti on philasophy and ‘vo- ligion, und thus was femiliar with tho most ad- vouced minds of his thue. But it wns his gingle-hearted affeotion for truth, bis genuine love of guod, without o seltish thought of roward, which was TIE SEORE) OF I8 POWER to win the heart aud. convinco the understands ing, It was the eccrot’ of his oratory, which ‘it s impossible to describe. Diinng tho wholo perfod of tho War, ko tway, 1f oesible; mord intougoly active than ever before. ‘No_man watchod it shifting drama with moro salicitudo, or did moro in privata life to give'it n successful-fssuo. In Wisconsin, Iowa, and Il- linois, ho'addresséd thie poople in rll'tho larger towns; ‘ofton speaking six successiva ovonings, on tho great prineiples involved i tho War, and stimulating tho sgllrit of patriotic leroism. In the opening of his specch on July 4, 1863, ho 8Oy 3 . e [tho ‘American pedple] havo Lad a great editea- tional history. ' Wo nro now pussiug the graduating degree ; o foirful ordeal,—# Laptismn of tre and blood, 1f wo stand this test, wo' make liberty orgamic snd pormanont on this contient. Wo shall *lay the foundotions of many generstions; sball be buflders of Eu,‘old waste places, tho restorers of puths to diwell This_{hought is algnificant of tho truth that tho Dulon - purty—the War party—is *ihe party of 776, and has eviuced {ho snclent faith, and now, that o ‘constitutionnl way i open, Wwe proposs io mako berty orgonie sud perpotual. » . . Ourua- tional Judgment dny ias come | 'Thio grand assize is sck. From the four quartors.of tho earth men sra looking ou, Trom tho Lattlemenls of Huaven a mighty host, aziong whom stand ju ferrlcd raiks our Tovalittionaty’ wires, “hendiug thelr unxious gaze ‘upon our confilet, The Judge of quick and dead holkds aloft In our midst th mauncied Negro, and, 1u voice which reverherates through the eferal ages, * Luna- much a8 ye did it uot to one of the Jeast of these, yo did it not unto Me," The Divine spirit of oternal Jus- tied and love eems almost ready to depart, but, from the loynl hoart of this great people, goes up ous ‘mighty ' prayer: Blay, ‘o stuy, yo beautiful representativey of . the Divine Love, the Divine Justico, tho Divine Humanity, for we Pledgo onr lives, our fortunes, aud our sacred houor, to give to our, nativo kwd justico, Lo plant under the bending leayens ono Republicun Governmeut! Bo help’ us God o lived to ace this, tho objeet of his lflfl-‘o:‘lfi Iabor and sacrifice, ronlized. * \Whén he deparic ho loft 10 slave behind him, THE HON. PRANCI GILLETTE, of Hartford, Conn. (in a porsaunl tributo to the momory of Mr. Codding, published in the Au(i- Slavery Standard, July, 1860,), snys ; escupe from your coptivity “willi il savaies, Tho world Justifis you—for lberty {8 worlh more to you thian oven life lisclt,’ “Who would mob glve just such advico a8 {Lls to o Lrother in captivily to'tho Indlaus? Who 18 there hicre. who would not give just such adyice to any person, hrotlier or not, Liekl a prisoner by 1o In- didnp? Who would not glory iu {lie nct of alding snch au one o escape, if e could, aud protecting, aud feed- fug, and shcktering, and defending bim {rom tho sav= agon that would follow to capture him 7 You knovw, it you aid not do if; the eivilized publis would spurn you,” and your fullow-creatures would say you were us bad or woro thim tho kavuges thomselves, Now, 6ro you not bound, to do thie s thing 1o a Liselr bisn &3 to any oflier-~white_or vellow? You would oven protect anil ehelter ono Indian_fleeing from phother, Would you' ot do this, snd give tho samo advice o3 black. Blavo jist across tho river, in Kentucky, ‘an you would 136 O your own race, o cuptivo on tho Western plalus? 4 Iygemuch us ye bave not don §t unto ouo of the least of theso! just over tho Ohlo vor, Clirlst will eay unto you, ¢ Ye liave not done it unto me.!” "Thin is but a feeblo outline of a spcech’ of Aifteon ‘miuutes hat ho poured ont in torrent of ologuenca wWhen g firat. ascended tho platform, without prefuce; without allusion (o tho resulution ‘or’ question in_de Dato. Tho audionce was held epoll-bound 7 thora wus, roughont tho thousands sealed upon fhe- closelys sged beuchics and standing ou evary foot of open’ space, prossiug back upon the' yleldiug sides of (e font, {ho - sflence almost of death, Al cyes wero fized upon | tho ‘speakur, and every ' mind - open = to ' catchi overy word or thouglt that was uttorod ; Lis voico waa clear: aud musieal, and could bo heard even at its lowest toucs totho ‘mostdistaut psrt of tho tent, and be epoko with thnt oucrgy oud telling gestiro, that gave npw forco to overy sentiment, 1t was a sceio of fube lims futorest, Tlicro was, after tho delivery of that sliort s, bitt ous opialon, ~tio rovero of Lo oue Reld whethe begun : thiad ut whalovor cost or poril th Dluck fugitive from slavery should be sldud and sh fered, 18wy otlice eaplive sleelng from oppresslon, "liu wes ono of tho most muguificont trlwnphe of orutory I ever hiad the privilege of listeulng to, TUE LATE CHNIEP JUSTIOR CIASE, ' #omo years ufter, iu speaking to mo of Mr, Conding, iz X havo hoard ' Webiter, Clay, aud wmost of, ths great orators of this 'countly, Lut mone of then counld cqual Codding, When I_sny greatest_orator, I wish to qualify'imy vxprossion, Many. msy bo romked higher DLy (ho umif etaudards, © but b standard which, Wfter ull, sbould mensuro the power of ' orstory, thiat of effect produced upon a lirge snd promiscuony audionce—Coildiug surpasted any apeskor I evor Leard.® Ho thew lluded Lo this specch at tho great Livorty Couvention at Cinciunati, 1la sated *the attect produced, snd tho traunformstion of apluion aud fecling whioh followad, was_far boyond any con- coption 1 averlind of oratory, Buba partof tho kucs coss, doubtleus, was becutiss 1o was rigt, nnd lind the Teavon and coneclence of ho. people with him.' 1 buvo giyen ulmost literally Blr, Ginso's words, Mr, Codding was very . GONDIALLY WEOEIVED 2 Dy tho men of Oliv, who engaged hlin to remain & fow montby, und lechire in The larger towns, Ho wes st Dayton, tho homo of tmi famoue Domocrsé of pust thne, whore Dis speeclios produced much cominotion and exprese sion of the molksupromacy over - law, After hid ro- turn Illinois, bo loctured through the State, and thare aro faw people who wore liviug liuro boforo 1818 but have heard Limwpesk on the great subject of Luman freedom, . Iu Janusry, 1640, n Convention of tho Liberty party, for the Fourth Cougromfonal Diatrict, was held ‘ot 8t Charles, Kune Colinty, Jumes 11, Collius Wam sl -nominsted for Congroms, Ilu pauitivoly dealined, "o Conventlon fhen favared the nomination of Mr, Uodding, but some of s (slewds strenuonsiy opposed it, belicving (hob s a caudilato his weefuless oy o lecturer would bo restricted—that hia vocation wau that of an orator to fustruct ho people na to thelr moral_aud: politieal dutles, Mr. Lovejoy was then ‘most cordlally nominated, On tha declxion of that Lonr turned tho currout of thie thde of £wb of tys moal talentad nud cloguent men in- tho Auti-Slavery reform 1n the Northwest . 1IN WIGCONAIN, “T7 1840 Lia becama a* rezddent of Wisconeln, was con- octed with tho Fres Demaorat, tho Taberty’ puper of Hht Btate, and spent el of ' his (o I3 prenching and loctueinyg whilo weithug for bis huper.” Siice i $ine § bove been lusé futalliar with i€ esreur, und Tewve the pomatoing years of his life ta Lo rocalléd by athers who know It Lotter Unn &, 1l I must_say of ftan Godding that I alwuys ‘Javed him, Novera ntd of dlecord ppasod botweon v, 1o bk a yrat knd loviag Lyarly sud & goulsl spirlt thas miade biia x: Mo possessed o logles] power, and’ a megnetic forcs Farely equaled, Voth East aisd West muuy who heard Lifs most musterly offorts thoughit Lo hud o superior. Ho possessed, In 2 surpussing metsure, that power which procotds - from deop);and strong convictions, 1t wan linpossiblo for an nudiouce {0 liston o biui without belug mpressed that Lo Uelioved all he sald, and believed it with with'all his might, When ho syoie Lis cyes glowed with thia fire of unquenchabla “tyuth, Possessing u yortly and commanding person, ‘an oy through which the soul flasked 'iu beautiful 1ight, & volce rich atd musical, it was 3 oy, an exhila~ ratlon to 6o Lim riso to the gruudent of bis great ‘themes aud Nstou to Lils entranciug cloquence, 1u bis Dighest moods, hia conntensuce glowed with a trang. fguring rudince. Jlo seemicd tho persouation”of "ruth battling Falsehood, of Justics rebuling wrong, of Honor chastising meanness, of Liberty frowniug ox oppression, of Muniaully Lerself invoking Huaven uud earth to her renicue, " He swopt the “chords of. the hu- man beart with' a master lLand; judiguation or pily,, Joy ar gt lnughter or teurs, altornated’ ot s will, IMis ‘pover lay in’ Jinks of logle wolded together with {lo fires of {ho heart, 1My paramount ahi was to convines the undorstand- ing, und {nform the judgnent, e wak alwuys “enter-: talning,—yvit’ played along Lis brillinnt track, anoe- dute enlivened the more sorubre pnrts of s discOurse, and satire cwitted his lightniug shaft, Over tho churacter of (he atern pod fnfloxiblo re- former, u ohild-lke shuplicity and onthusiasm threw o softenihg grace nnd beauty,' Howaa “but nchild of a largor growih,” buoyant, Ingenuous, siucore, hoarty, trostful. * Ho dellghted most of alt *in the roclety of children; entered futo thelr sports -and jollitios, with tho keencat zest, sud was alwuys welcomed to their pastiucs as o moat loved and gental playtuate, Like the sword .of Orlando, hls"trenchant blade, . winich cleaved glants, bacame sott na silkon streamer when it touched o'child, This charming elmplicity and fresiness chutacterized the 1o everywhore,—on {lio platform, in the pulpit, and the sociul circls, They .wura tho coustant outtinws of his large, loviny beart, 1o thought lightly of suonoey, aud of the littlo thut fell ‘nifo hix hands Lo gnve freely. 1o had no vulgar - billon, chioosiug ‘Tather to bo o falthful laborer in thie AMaster's vineynrd than to bind upon his brow the fad. ing wrealhi of fame, When urgoi ropeatedly to {ule 5 seat in Congressin districts whera he could have been ulected almost by ncoluustion, Llw quiel answor wus, that he felt ho could battor' serve (Lo peoplo as o teactier al homo thun s (iefr ropreseatutivo abroad, Trulya wighty {wonhol Lugs fullen § 1 bravo, grand; pure saul hay roturned fo the bosom of the Luther, An_was enldof Wilbrfored, ho hus gono upto (hg iternal’ Throno, with s willion of brolken' chafns in Dis hauds,, Phus’ one iter. snother tho plonser ro- formern pf o protont wite, who fuught o.guod Dghty through storaus of persccuifon and obluguy, yass from curtlioud cuter into In 1800, a'short #ime befora Lo was callod away, in o convorsation with his sister, Mvs, 1.8, Mason, of Lockport, Wis.,, o said, in referring to his lifo, labors, and experiencos; . Yeu, I£ 1 could have put my consclence in my pooket my worldly standing.would be quito diffrent, 1t 1 would not liaye it ofherwlse, I kuow I huvo dano sowo good, I 1 travel by raliroad or uttend public athiriuge; luvariably RONO Stratigur comes (o e, angd takes my hand, saylng, * You don't me, but words of truth from your Hps—noniing thnenu placo—changed tho" whole coursu of my life, and I must express m ratitude,” Yos it puys, Bavo sows the seod, 1t wi ring forin frult, . AB A WORKER, Mr. Codding wns indefatigabio, preaching to hla arish on Bunday moing and eveniug, Jeotur- ing more or loss durlng tho woul; witing oconsionally for tho press; *'ever doing, over working,” hia enorpies ‘of body and miud were goveroly taxed, Durng the last llve yoars os- peoislly of national convulsion, Lo was moro furvun{ln his activitlos thun over bofore, Un- der #o groat & strain of anxioties and labors, in tho ripo maturity of his manhood, full of hopey, fears, ontreatios, warnings, prayors, his flne physical powera gavo way under acuto"diseaso, and ho passed serenoly from tho joys, aud labors, Rut woarinoss of eartly, into that rost whioh re- nainoth for tho just. His last worda wero in Denutiful harmony with hig great and noble lifor “dod rolgng; i6 I8 sl right; thoro can bo no ‘tallure!? And soon after, ralsin his lande fth ' gront offort, ho lai thom, 1w blezing, upou tho heads of his four littly otuildrtn, bado his domly-bolovad wifa faxewall § and, wilh thu comluy glory alieudy shining in Lis'cyes, whispored, ** All aweat, ali | 'thint scomed s 1F it tworo an imprognalio fort, Dlegsod.” THR FOLLOWING ELEGY o waa sung ab his futormont in Lockport, 11, ¢ amx{. calmly, lay bim down ; 50 lian fouglit o noblo gt 150 lins Uattled for tho Right's 1la bus won a fadeleas crowt, Meiubries all {00 bright for fears ‘Crowil upon us {rom tha past ; 10 wns falthtul Lo the lant— ' Faithful throngh long lolling senrs, Al that maken for hisinan aood, Fracdom, righteoueness, st iruihee ‘I'hicad, tho objcet of his youtls, Unto ago ho stfll pursued, » ¢ Kind and gentfo wan his goul, . Yot it lad o glorioun might s Clondod minds it Alled with gy, Wounded spirits it mado wholv, Tiuls whoro podt men sat dfstressod, Homes wioro doatlihind darkly paéesd, Tleds whore Aufforing broathed Ita 1iat— These lio sought, and soothed, sud biessed, Itoping, trusiing, Jay him down ; 31y in tho realnia abova * Took for bind with éyou of Jove, Wrenthing his fmmortal crowi, ; Tho Cliairman added s {estimony 'to the ox- traordinnry eloquence of Tehabod Cddding. A gentloman requested thoso who votad for JAMES G, BIRNEY . for Presidont In 1840 Lo riso, aud about ffty got up. * Considernblo 'confusion ensucd, half-u- dozon porsons trying to talk at tho samo time, and tell why they so voled. *[-truc anid radical answor to ‘these " Ouo remarked that ho" did not vote for Birnoy . Docause ho wah tho agout ot tho torminus of tho Undergrouhd Iailway in Canadn, nud was unablo to doihio homo, * e s ‘ Adother gaid Dr. Dyer was tho only man in Olifeago who voted for Bitnoy. Jobn Jones said ha was not allowed to'voto in., 1840, but he had always put in an Anti-Slavery. ballot after ho was eufranchised. Aftor singln| adjourncd until 2 p. m. N —— AFTERNOON SESSION: ‘Thoe Convontlon met pursuant to adjournment, Gon. Chotlain in the chair, ¢ Thoe Rov. Mr, Ilammond read tho following tologram: JOINN X, FARNSWORTH. Col. Allmé T‘l’lh'[rm 3 & tiat ; in: 1 sicorely rogrot that ¥ sm prevented Dy {llucss from meoting with (ha opostles of Uberty— tlio Abolitiontsts who gave both juaplration and tone to the Darty of the Union and of the war in jta earlior and bottor days, 1t used’to bo said that Abolitionists could not bo lateamen; that they hud but one ldea s tlint they bind not tho_broadth ond grasp necessary to ‘managoaffairs, ote. Thoro nover Was o greater ftlie fake. ~ Who framod and matnged our fludtcial system. during 'tho war, and_aftorwards, na Chiuf-Justico of tho doxology, tho Convention’ {ho Supremo Court of tha Unlted States, illuatrated the” highest Judiclal learning and dignity 7—an Abolitionist, 8, I Chase, tho mau whoro argumont ngainat tho olkd Fuyitive Slave act of 1793 Ko staggerod pro-slavery courluaud 60 clicered the friexds of freedom, Upoi whose ' council (il Mr, Lincolu rely in the conduct of- our forsign affaira during the most oritical ¥fllnl of. Listory '—tho Chiafrman of the Committea on Foreign Aifairs ot tho United States Henate, Charles Sumner, an Abolitionist, Who secured tho lamestead Law,give ing homow upon the pubiie domatn to tho industtious pour 7—Abclitlon statesmen,Gludings and Julian chiof 1y ; and thets. there was Lovejoy, forcniont n establisli 1ug thio Depattnient of Agriculiira s & depariment of tho Governmunt, For practical stateamanship, I bave nover known 8 superior to Joshua IR, Glddfigs, Asa Sonntarlal debntof upon all reat practical queations, oo Jobn P, Halo bns bad few equals I tuat body 10y ncqunintsnco, with Congressionnl affair, sua Blovens extablished thy Common Scliool system In Ponnaylvani, and was Chafrun ‘of tho Fuanielal Commiltce of {lis Moitee of Representativen for many yemw. And, indead, men who Linvo {he Lrains to per. Celve, and tho courago to pursue in untrodden political pathways, righloous” but Tinpopular, may always ba irnsted with, or in, s1ty omergoncy. Anallior mlostgedttying reiloticn to even old Abo- Titiongsts 6 aud ever will bo (st thera i no smireh of larceny upon thelr memorica, Thu frauds and cor ruptions and lorcenles of mon in ofico Lve been commlited by othors—kose who scrambled ap tho Iadderlof political powar after other shoulders had erected lt—place-men. Without principlos, spolle-men without consoionces, Tho varly Auti-Slavery statos. men veas naver for o parly for thiomoro aako of & party, With Il party was always o meane Lo attain at end, and that end the promotion_ of a pFinciplo, and {here: Tore wo sco Liin'ns_reudy {o-dny to’ mover and shattcr tho parly which® ho mainly holped to creata whion o fiade 1t cormpé and woal past Toforma- tion, itu destiuy accomplished, eud ita olects tho el Joytient of tio salaries andt mpolla of ofiico by it Tisnagers, a8 ho was to'abandon the old Democratic o Whig Dnrtles when they were glven over to the sarvics of thie sluve-powor. Bulwer (Lord_ Lytton) sags that tho intllect of o peoplo is atways on the 8110 of minorities. This 1s ot ouly truo of theutellect, but the manliood, nurve, in. derendonco also,—when that minority attacks o’ ma Sorlty long nsialled fn power, wielding the ime meuso patrouage snd rovenuod of n Goversimont liko ours. 1 {link Nopoleon ouco Raid tuat God'wus on thosido of thustrougest battutions, towhich might o ndded, and 80 arotho bunumers, Abolitioulsts waro not gaod followers, cxcept of Jogio—of thelr. own prin: cigilen ; wherotrer tiat Iod thoy followad, nnd no #et of men of equul numbers ever sucrifived mors of elf, o axpended oo inicliotual 13bor {n belalf of the'vo- public, All lionor to them | And honor espoctail; to the . memory of thoso great mien who rero in the van of " the strugls for liverty, and expended thetr live in the Inbor—Giddings, . ale, Sumnor, 'Lovejoy, wWitli his thrililug oratory’; Coddlng, tho Demostlivnes of Aboli tonlsta; 'Thad Stevens, tho sturdy old Communor, and the reat, J. ¥, FADNSWORTIL, Wastisatox, Juno 0, DR. DRISAIN. The agod Dr. Brisbin aroge'and said: I desire toocoupy but a momont. I was a spectator on ong occagion in tho House of Representatives when o scono of this kind occurred. John Quincy. Adaws sat’ thore [indicating], and Mr. ‘@lddings stood hera [near Mr. Adems] vith his douls before him. Tho Hpeaker sald, “Stato of 'Olio.” 3r. Qiddings suid: *“Mr, Spoaker—I bold in my hand, sir, n petition signed by 800 pe- titioners, aud thoy'desive that elavory ba abol- ishod~" * Mr, Speaker," **r. S8peaker,” ** Mr, Spealor,” camo from all over the House, whon he gob that far; ond sich was tho ‘nolso thab nothing more of what he gaid could be heard. Tinally tho Speuker called the Houeo to order, aud'said that the gentleman from Olio (Gid- dings) lad the floor, He then succooded in stating what the petition wns for—the abolition of slavery iu tho District of Columbia. Several made o motion to disposo of it as usunl, which was to throw it asido, and Mr. Giddings.ngain took up a papor and said, **AIr. Speakor, I hold in _my hand, sir, o petition for the abolition of = wjnvery—aud . then the somo geono occurred 88 before, but 1o succooded in gettmg out *with 1,200 sign- ora.” The same eceno oconrred sevoral timos, until a last the excited stato of foeling wns such that tho Bouthorn cloment came nlmost on mukgo up to Mr. Giddings in u threatening atti- tudo, as though they wero going to tenr him to picees: . But thore ho stopd, a8 anlmly and quietly na though ho were eujoylug the view of a beautiful garden onaMay morning, aud, ‘without tho elightest perturbation of lpinb{ took up another papor: *3Lr. Speaker, I hold In my Land a po- tition for! such . nn object—to ' provent the slave trado between tho Btates, - perhaps it was, Thoro sat oft to tho right Dixon. 1L Lowis, & man who weighed 500 pounds [laughter], and the Goverument had to make o chnir for him to st in, e aroso and approached NMr. Giddiugs, and lqoked into his face as if to intimidato him, 1t. appesred s if it wore only necossury for him to fallupon suyaan in theHouso and crush him, ,EJLuughhyr.] ut Alr, Giddings was taller than ko, and Jooked at him as Le would Jook at a little puppy and as if ho wore of no consequenco; and ho wont on until he had disposod of a groat pils of papers, while I ovary momgnt expocted bim to bo shot or kuacked down, .I never suw ono look more culm or ael Ho quiclly in my life than ho'Qid on hat occacion. And thero sut John Quiney Adums—[applauge]—the byave “old mon clo~ quent,” and tho tears rolled down his aged choeky as bo lookod ot that grost war-horse of froodom, [Applause.) e ELITAH P. LOVEJOY. 4 The Rov. Edward Beecher then read the'fol- lowing paper: 5 i Ou the ovening of Nov, 6, 1837; nevly thirty- soven years ago, I slopt in a small houso in tho csstorn part of Alton, - Elijah P. Lovojoy and it wife woro thoro, ' hiero alao was Owor Liove- Joy andamster, Loaded ninskots” were in tho Lonse, for defenso agninat tho throatoned ns- asults of thoe' mob, which had already nsseilod tho hougo on a provious day, ‘and bad endangor- ‘ed ‘llm‘ by throwing brickbajs through the windowve, Novertheleas, wo slépt sifoly and no agsault was mudo, ‘Iho precoding Lwelvo duys T bad spent in Alton, co-oporating with Brotlior Lovejoy, und with tho doferidors of u froo prosy from all parts of tho Btato, hi an offdr fo reslst tho aggressiony of (ko mob, and ta ostablish the rolgu of Juw and justico in Alton, LARLY I THE, BORNING wo oroso,” and went to {ho storo of Godfrey'& Gilmay, sud found that the steantbout contaln- ing tho priuting-pross Lod arrived, anbd thet no aeganlt Lad been mado, ‘Iho prows lad loon dolivored, and way safo in tho storo, - With ‘grout ‘oxultation we' elded in raléwng it to the fourth story, and deposited it thoro, not doulits jug thet it wus eafo, But it was not wato, though the etoxo wad wutivbg slone buildiog | for it wan nod impregnablo, slico on thoe sldds it hind'nolthor windows nor l\,nn.-holoa. Accord-« inyly, tho ndxt night ‘a mob neeattod {t on tho sldo, oronted Indddrs, nud proceedod to sot fire” to tho roof, hot I, I, Lovojoy, who wentout with others to drive them uway, and-dforced a surronder th Favo tho bullding, and proporty, - and lifd. 'They then, contrary to the t‘nc torms of surrendor, fired’ on the defonders of thio press o8 they lefttho bullding, audthon took the « ross, broko It In plevcs, ahd” threw it fnto thio Migslasippl. ~ Hora was n unfon of savago «tronchoty, robbory, arso, snd murder, in their miost atrocious forma, 3 WIO WERE TIE MEN who dld thoro deads ? * Wiio whs the man whom, thoy thus shot? Why. dil thoy shioot him ? In whado amo_and for whdm woro they acting? A. l]uum.lnnn may il Do tride, sho involvo overity. But It history wi niist Lo goyero ngainit falsolioall, tranchory, and muirdor, The punitive power of truth is ofeen-' tlal' to tho welfaro of mankind, Henco tho higliont authority hog told us, o tliab'anyoth nuto the wicked thou art tightoous, him stiall .the pooplo'hinto, him shall the nationa abhor. Tor whom, thon, wero thoro men néting 2 INEY WERE MOST DIREGTLY AND OBVIODSLY THE NEPRESENTATIVES olnmn{orlty of' thto lending cit{zons of Alton, who had the power to defond tho press, who Lind beon'ealled vnsto do it and hind -refused, | and stdod by and eaw 1t thus destroyed. ‘Lhoy wore, noxt, tho reprosontatives of that slave" #ystom whoso first roots in overy age have booh robbory, arson, anil’mhrder, tund which, cor- timifug to crush all Lunian rights, bas oxistod only by legalized violouce. They-wora ntill fur- thor thio roprescntatives of a'politionl and social ‘systom, deluded, corrupted, and made drunk by tho oupof abomiuations ‘which that great en- fimi(uelm, Blavory, Lad canded this nation to ink. - = OF all thoso conatituencies wero these mon tho reyrosontatives, miil indor thoir influence thoy ncted. Nor wntil wo oo the trath, powoer, and extont of this relatiovship, ean we under- atand the mob at Allon, nor’ tho crisie in which ! Tovejoy lived, nor tho trao import, nor tho sub- liniity of his }ifo nnd s martyr's death, WHY DID THEY DESTROY TIAT YUEsS ? Decauso'it was to bo: a'freo press, and Slavery woll know that her Ihws, and her condtiot undor thoso Iaw, would not'endura the fléry ‘scrutiny nud rebuke of a fros press, Our fatliors, whon thoy mndo the Constltution, know'it, They do- clarod that tha whole. foundation of slavory wns sclf-ovidently falso," and, a8 thoir Consiitution guaranteed & froo pross, -thoy oxpaoctod that slavery would disapposr before'it. So it might linve élm:{)pum"c-], nd it not bisen for tho cotton- gin o the prospect of * botndless wealth, Unlug thoso -appenls to tho love of money, the root of all evil, Slavery said: “@ivo mo moro territory and loss of o free ress.” So tho torritory wis granted, and freo-' lom of tho press, a8 ko slavery, was supprossed in nll tho Slave States. Lk thiis wisnot onougl. #¢Thogo Northorn Lighta of a fres press,” said Blavary, ‘ ara intolerable ; they meke everything’ unenfo ' in my domaing, 'Onght you not to sup- press it, on tho ground of good brotherhood and | tho compromise of tho Constitution? Consider, 100, our cotton, and our political power. Oon- elder, too, that no man who dares to use a freo wross will ovor bo Prosidont of thoso, United! States or hold any higlt oflico in thom, undor tho Ceneral Govornment. Conslder, too, your sons and _daughtors, who have married plantations at: tho South, some of thom ominent divines. Can you endure the thought thatn rude snd unman-' nerly free press shotild call them thioves and rob- bers? In viow of all theso things, is it not plain- that o froo press is entirely in our way, and op- posed to our Nationnl Union, and to the glorious compromisos of tho Constltution? Wny not B‘li)pl'&!ll it? Not, indeod, in general, God for- bid. Butin this particular caso. Why will not! our dear Northern brethren be goncrous, and at tho samo time put money into their own pock- ats, nud 80 présorve our glorions Union 2 Theso suggestions of the enchantress woro ls- toned to in Alton, and the declsive' meoting’ which gavo the reins to the mob, voted that tho orinciples defonded by this free press, ** are sub- voraive of the groat principles of our Union, and: of the peace, harmony, ud prosperiiy- of the cit-’ izens of Alto, and that, therefore, we cannot’ rocommona tho re-ostablishment of that paper, orof any otlicr of n similar character und con- duoted with u like epiric.” WITY WA LOVEJOY SHOT ? o Why did these ropresentatives of slavery shoot Lovejoy? Docuuse it was bin fixed purpose, in conncetion with tho frionds of liherty in Iilinois, aud in’ this greal contrul valley, mid in this nu- tion, to establigh this froe press, and to print a froo'papor'at Allon, in which the'cheractor, pnot cetion, and futuro nims: of glavery ‘should Lo clearly und fully considéred, and a loud and clear voico of warniug againgt impending evils be niged. Thoy insisted that ho sbowld not doit. They dominded the uttor abandonmont of the right of » freo pressin Alton, They' oalled it a compromiso, .mJ' compared it to tho compromiscs of our Constitutlon, forgatting that the surronder of & fros press wos no part of thoyo compromises, but wus to our fathers ‘the _main aud_only ground of ‘bope and belief thict those inconefstent ‘compromizes ould be. transieut, s they wore intended to be. g surronder of the very fouridution of our whole system thoy dignified by the mamo of a compromise, and demanded of birh, and hecange Lio rofused o yield to thelr domands, thoy shot biitn and destroyed his press, Thiis then was nob'an igolated event. ono action of a great mordl catmipaign, It af- facted not this nation alone, but all nations, . Dut, remarknble hs wero these eveiits m them-* Bolves, thoy were still more remarkable in ., THEIR INMEDIATE ANTLCEDENTS, Thefr immadiate antécedonts woro ‘a doliberats resolve Of ameeting of leading citizens of Al- ton and the vieinity, who had the full ‘power. to' arouso the commubity to defend tho pross, that they would not defend it, nor exhort othiers todo it Thoy denboratoly st aside resolutions 1o defend if that had been laid boforo them, ps. * not suited to tho exigonoy that hadcalled thom fogother.” Thoy rosoived instead, **ihat it is indigpousablo to tho peaco and hrmony of this community that the Inborg and influence: of the editor of the Observer be no longer dentified with any npowspaper-cstablishment in this city In this meeting wore mimsters of tho Gpnyu‘l, church-members, Inwyers, physician, loading morchants, mon of property and stand- ing, meuibers of 'tlic ity Govornment, and tha Mayor of Alton, their head. The question before .thom was simply this, whothor they would de-' fond . that froedom of the pross that is funda- .mountal tq oursystem, oud which is recognized ns. an invalitable right in all tne Constitutions alike of Froo and Blave States, THEY RESOLVED that thoy would not dofend it. They did not re- #olve personnlly to assilit, orto aid the mob; with their own hauds in destroying it. But thoy. “did rosolve, aftor n discussion Gf tio days, that. thoy would rigt dofend it, and that it was éxson- tinl'to tho poace of Alton that it should not bo. defended. This thoy did, well knowing thut it Lnd beow repeatadly assailed and destroyed, and- It was | eru o thnt thero wag o fised purposo again to destroy It {8 nlso truo that, when'application was made. to the City Govoniment {6 appolut a speelal po- lica for ita defenso, thoy refused o to do, It Was this course of notion of Lheso leading mou thpt rendered it possible thata stono store should Do assatled for Liours in the night, that lzdders. shotld be raised snd fire n&\pllml to the'rouf, in order to compel the surrender of the press, and that the fira-bolls should be yung for ald in vain, .1t was this that rondered it possible that tho aditor, an eloquent and accomplished clergymun, shouid be shot,aud thopress takon and destroyad, But how was it possible that an intelligent Amorican community conld bo. inducod to take such a couro, und to ronder thomselyes respon- sible to dod and toman for such rosults ? 1T 18 TO DY, EXPLAINED only Dby . the = faob _that the mya- tem ol slavery had Bboen wrought into our natioual politieal constitution, and that from it had. procecded delugive and eeductive orrom, and a consequent political cor-* ruption, acclealastieal apostasy from tho prin-' ciples of lihorty, the foroolous splrit of projudice and of cnste, and the doop, doop delusion that immodiato emanolpation was dungerons, and that to inculeate it endnugored the Union, It is o atriking represontation of the Word of Uod that all moral error fntoxiontes the soul, porverts ihd action of the intellaotual powore, and cawos men to' stagger in nction, and to vomit like diunken mon, Dy this spiritual drunkeuness it doclaros oven priosts and “prophots to'be eome-.| times afrected, so that * they orv In vision, aud: slumblo ‘in judgmont, and All the tablos with' vomit and_ fiithinoss, #o that there iy no place: cloan,”. Lven oue fundamontal orror ean pro-; duco such drunkonnoss, What thon muat “have beon tho intoxicaling power of that oup of alavory which thls nation Lud Qrunk, in’ '\vKluh wara orrors aud projudices somany and #o malig- nant? Tt was of this onp that theso pro-slayory load- ‘Alton—these merchants, rrlnnku, luwyers, phiyslcinus—bad dnink, Undeor ils terrifio power 'thoy were ‘intalloctuatly aud morally 'drunken togother, Henco thoy®orred In vision und alumbled in fudgmont, and fillod all placos with their vomit, o that {herg_wnn no placo cloan, And fu ‘tho closing' seones wd sco the umual fm'aolb{ and cruolty of such drunkonuocss, Yat, a4 I nll auch caéy of drinlonnoss, they did ot Jnow that they wore druink, und chuvged the ouly ‘sober poaplo around ‘them'with botng go. T U NOW NOTIOE OAREFULLY L tho time of thexo eventy;'aud thtle xolations to oxlsting snd precoding wants, th ordor that wo muy aomprohiend thelr full import, Tist bofo oy dekdirred o clenr, direct, inansworable, an orgunlzed assnult lid heen mado on all tho or- xors of this eyp 6f abominatlons, and upon, tho orruption, aposinsy, projudico, and caste that Lind Bprung from tliom, and upon elavery, thoik ront crentor, Tho nystem uxp alavery, and - the orrord, dolusions, and hypoorisy of ity dofondoris Lindd boeu thorouphly exposed, and it wns ‘In n transeondont rage. ~Tho necenaity was upon it defondore, oithor to yleld to unsusworablo argu- mouts, or to suppreai dizcuesfon, or to apostn- Lizo from tho firat pririciples of our, nation, a8 b ‘mohns of defopan, Political aid comimuraial ine torosts added to the Intotnity of tho cnotlon. ‘FhiGso who wéro thua deluded, and controlled by prefudice, ‘and pohtichl, and commorciat,; and sa- cinl selfishnesy wero in tho majorlty, and tho ad- vocatos of the purp, Aimplo, unbnsivorable truth woro i tho minority, and wero rendered incon- colynbly odious, and undor many faldo protoncol aud malignant chiarzos wora hated arid mobbod. 1t was by tho accumulation_ of such dolusions, yrejudicos, and political and commercial intor- osty that tho Madink men of Alton Wera. flrdt made drunk, and thon arrayed against tho do- féngo of a froo rmnu, and rendored responsiblo to dod and to'nll futuro nges for drdon, robbory, aud murder in thio destruction of tliat press. Bt tils wao no limited local dovelopment, It wag,, thio oulmination of influenced that bad been notliig from tho vory foundation of this natlon, Blavery'came to Virginia tho same year that tho Pligeims laniled at Plymouth, "There was o, colonial oppoaition, to it, which Great Britint ro- sisted. T'or this, resistnncd ‘sho was soveraly ‘and_justly censured by ‘Jofferion in the first “draft of tho Declaratioh of Independence. In the Rovolutionary War our decliration of rlghts, nm} tho natfonal Pmmnlgnflflu of thom in tho Dadlration of Indepondenco, ‘offeoted & firent qulokonlitg of Llio public' mind, and o great ovelopment of anti-slavory feeling, Hoplting and the sacond Edwards woro the lénding writora. 'This anti-sluvery focling wns ng'atrong in the Middle Btates and Virgitia ns in tho North. The nml~uluvcr¥ ,works of Ifopkiny wore lionoted and read In' Congross, Ant{- Slavory soclotios wore formed. A potitlon’ of tho Poiinsylvauia Asitl-Blavery Bocloty, slgned by Franklin ns President, was_bhonorably ro- .| colved and enrnestly discussed. In many Htatde slavery was abolighed, Ita abolltion was ox-' pected {h'nll. In this light only can tho compro- misos of tho Constitutioh bo trily under- stood. It swas 'bolloved that ~ slavory ought to bo and would bo abolfslied, and that the powors granted to sluveholdors dnderit ¥oro but: tiansient concoasion during tho Intorval. Tho dobates of the Convention prove'this, To tho truth of this Vice:Presidont Btéphens, of tho Confoderacy, tostitied, though ho regarded this bollef of the ovil of slavery as an outgrown’ erxor. WITAT ATRESTED THIS CONAUMMATION? It was the cotton-gin, the love of gnin, the ox- tonaion' of ‘the arcn of slitvery, the dolusive and _edrrupting. inflnence of the oxercise of despot- igm, tho love of- politieal Pflfl\egn and power ivon by slavars. and, unlly and éminontly, the' ‘Coloaization Boclety, "professig benevolent almy towdrds ' Africa, but based on n concession of the unconquerable nature of projudice and casto, and “ tonching the delusive doctrine that immodiate abolition was dangerous, and oxciting odium ngninet its advocatos. A sprsmodic and defectivo antl-slavery moye- mont took place et the time of the Nissourl controversy, but wns 'défeated by the admission of that State with !]“mfi' and all that was secnred wis o comgromlm ne oxcluding slavery from'sll north of it A AT LAST, IN 1831, . i oame tho irue radiéal antl-slavery movemont, which, free from all. {llusioh, struck a moxtal Dblow st -slavery. It ‘renounced tho ‘idea tliat imivedinte emavelpation was dane gorots, It renounce the doctrine of,xrejudlca and caste, ‘and demauded ‘the'im- medinte'restoration of thoso rights to the’slave which our Declaration of Independence declared to be inallenable, ‘In 1833 the Nationsl Anti- Slavery Snclutj' wag formed. Its anxieties woro muitiplied, The prees thnndered; lecturors wore emplovod ;, the delusions of tho Coloniza- tion Sogioty waro oxposed; the wide ronch and the immense powor of these principles weore at ouce séen in univeraal exeitoment, ‘alnrm, angor, | rovenge. Tho ern of intonso slauder ‘and’ of mobs wus inaugurated, THE RELIGIOUS CONNUNITY, dolndod by the {llusions of gradualiem and & peryorted “uso of Seripture, was divided and paralyzed. Tho majonty, t\mugb opposed to slavery, wero also opposed to immediate eman- cipation, and to tho Abolitionists, its advocntos. They refused boldly to robuke, and manfully to ranlst, tho mobw. Nay, multitudes, s in Alion, seemed to_ re‘;;nrd thein a8 a providential rebuko of orror and fanaticiem. It was soon after tho opening of this era of mobs that Lovejoy cama to St, Louis nu the editor of ‘s feligious ‘papor. He uy firsb was & radual emancipationisy, and regarded tho Avo- {tionists with disfavor, a8 oxtreme and impru- dent, - Yot ho was truly snd decidedly opposed to slavery, and did not hesitate to make it kpown, Dut this fact at onco arrayed slavery against Lim, for it was Jot imprudence’ that it feared, but s ronl and gen- uine latred of alavery and s purpose to act against it, ro it huntod bim out of Bt.'Louis, and followed him to Alton. Meantime he undorwont o rovolution’ of opinion, and, cnme to the simple. ground of anti-sluvery truth, freed from all illusions, THE CAUSEY OF TIUS ONANGE, s statod ‘to mo by himsolf, wore thess: A cearoful, investigation of the subject, from a doep sensa of his own respouslbility ; & discov~ ory of the atrocious misrepresentations of the vigws of tho Abolitionists, which were univor- sally civculated, and to which he had once given crodit ; a clear conviction of the unworthy rnd sordid motives of the mout violent opposers; o discovery that the party of modorate mon had no plan_for doing anything, and that they did nothing but hindor all who desired to act, and a dintiuct perception of its fatal influenco on tho Presbyterinn "Church, especinlly in recent Gen- eral Assomblies, He informed thoso who bad alded Lim to re-establish hig papor of this change, and they advisod him o follow hLis own convictions, To the citizens of Alton st large he folt under no such obligations, because they had not fulfilled the Ylutl;:o glven. by thom to reimburse kim for his loss of proporty, and had given him no aid in ro-establishing his papor, and because ho had publicly refused to bo bound by any pledge to them, but had cluimed tho perfook freedom of ihe prees. TIUT IN CONSEQUENOE OF TUIS CTANGE tha army of slnvory wau at onca arrayed ngainat him undor the flag "of gradualism and coloniza- tionjum, “The appeals and denunclutions of tho politicnl" press at 8t. Louis urged thom on, Intangnes o to tho danger of the Unlon ox~ citod them. Tho anostacy to slavery, headed by Qaolhoun in the State and by Smiloy in tho Ohureb, oxerted a mulign inflnonce, I'ho lond~ orsof the gommunity wero blinded to duty ; they refusad repeatedly to dofend n fres pross omployoed in thie cause of liborty, and took upon tuomsolves tho responsibility, which they will ovor sustatn, 'of arson, robbory, and murdor. The gradualtuts, the coloulzationists, political partisans, tho worshipors of gain, cherished not merely a doop prejudice againet the Aboli- tionists ; 1t amountod to hatred. They chose rather to see u froe pross struck down, and its oditor murdered, than to defend thom in thé ex- orciso of their rights. ‘Phus were arson, rob- Lory, and murder, renderod possible, THE LIFE OF LOVEIOX wag not & long life, He. died at the early ago of 86. Hebad not beon long in publiclite, Io had complotod no groat andlong-continued work of eavrylng roform to ity flual issuo, Io had not gained ominent distinction in the Chureb, or in political lifo, - o liad not beon evon & profesacd “Abolitionist for a yesr. Why, then, in such a gathering und commemoration of tallon boroes hias ho 80 Ligh a place of honor ? ; It is becnuso whon this nation, undor the power of slavory, was fast becoming hopoless!: corrupt, aud was losiug its intelloctusl, moral, and political liberty, and oven the frcadom of the pross, hio hoard nnd accopted -the aall to aio py o martyr in that great and glorious causo, maintaining the freedom of the pross for ita lighost and noblost ond,~the frecdom of all men, 1t Is also becaugo he had TAY KLUMENTS OF OREATNTHS in bis oharactor {0 au uncommon degres, whioh ight have boon developed 'in a long and illys- trious life, 50 thot it waw no conunon afferiug that Lo fd on tho sitar of liborty. Ifo was ins tolleotnally and morally nt least the equal of his iiluntrioun {oungeg brothor, Owen Lovufloy. who' was with him at Lis death, and ‘upon whom- his uinntlo. fell, and-whoao 1ifa " and iabors 1. ihe cauie of liberty show what his martyrad brother n“fi‘l“thfirn boon, o p 8 futhor waa n Oongrogational clergyman in Albion in the State of Mq\lnu. Hig ngd)\\cutiml way obtained in‘tho family, the district sohool, tho academy, and the ollage at Watervilte. Ho anyly displayed talents of a high ordor i every dopartmont of’ atudy, ' In‘partioular, lis attain~ menty in the languages wore rapid and thor- ough, In tho sciences ho was profound and ag- ourato, ‘Hia imagination was vivid, 'and_in him were all the clemonta of a truo poat, ' His logi- oal powers woro “thoroughly devoloped snd tramed. 'His reading was oxtensive, atid he hud attoulivoly studiod 'the lessous of ' history. s nomory was poworful ‘aud exton- mye. “Ho graduntod ~at the houd of his clags, and fn view of hiu colloge cotirso his Pros- idot #dfd of ‘hith 1 * I scohied “to e’ to'linve dppronclhiedjvory noar to tha rank of thoso dls- tinguished nion whd hiavo booss liondred with tha title of unlveranl oniusen, Daring his colloga courito hio appenred to’ have an' almost oqual adaptation of mind to tho varlona branches of acleiice and Mtoraturo usually *studled in our sominaries of Iunrnlnl:; and, what is more, ho took Liold 'of ecli with gigantio btrongth," AFTER UIS GHADUATION, for somo montbs Lio was'engaged in tonching an .nondomy’in Maine, Thoh, fmpressed - with o Bonso of the mngnitudo of the dostinles of tho Gront Wast, ‘Tio transforred hinself, with the multitudos who wore tuen animatod by similax antidipations to the gotro 'of that vast fiold of notion, and ongngod firat in toaching, and then iia political lifo. “At'this timo, ono of thoe gront political partios thinb dividod the country was -engaged In nn offort to'exalt Honry Clay, the' gront compro-~ misor, to tho Presidentidl chalr. "To this party ho davoted bithself, ‘and bogan his politienl enrcor ns tho oditdr of & papor conscorated Lo its Intorests, ‘Hia oihinont- abilitios wero aoknbwledgod, ahd Xiis prospects of politionl promotion were bright. But, had bo followadl this ooiirse, o would Liave lioen as-aomplotoly sunlt and swampod an thou- .sands of Pomlcal aspirants ind been boforo him in tho boitomldss swatnpa'of Angerican slnvory. NUT 1IE WAS NESERVED FOR A NOLLER WOIIC :and a noblor destiny, In a rovival of rollgion in which God cliora and called his’ instrumentali- *ties, n’entire rovolution toolk placo In his moral ‘eharactor'nid'alms, ‘and he loft tho flold of poli- "tics and “ednsceratod himaelf to the worl of tho ministry, ‘After (ho study of n yoar ab Princo- ton, he waa licousad, and, for a timo, proackod in Hrrlug Btroot Church at* Now York, and in other places, . EDITORIAL WORK, By the_invitation and cotmenl of frionds, he Bsoon rotiirned to tho West to take up ence moro _Alio worl of an editor, but now of & religlous paper, to_be looated in Bt. Louls, and to Lo do- yoted to tho intercats of tho Kingdom of Gad. Nothing {a moro sublime than tho true ideal of such a papor in such & flold. It does'not ignore olitical scionco, ‘but It views human sooioty as neod on the ideals of God, and to bo developed Jnud perfectod by obedionce to His laws sliko in tlio world of ‘matter aud of ‘mind, , If any of thoso laws afe violated in ths organization of so- cioty. fidelity to Him calls for a protest and ado- ninud for reform, With thoso idens, Lo entered ‘upon lis groat work ns a religious editor. | ity pregoding orvoor ss b politial oditor Had oxtended through four yenrs. As editor of a ro- ligions paper it was also four years—rrom Nov. 22, 1843, to Nov, 7, 1887, In theso four yenrs tho intorest of his life centres, In theso, his great work waswrought. He closed theso years by becoming o martyr " for the liborty of . {he proes, not used for auy low or sccondary purpose, but in its noblest and most sncrod vocation, the do- fonso of the great self-avidont trathis of liberty, apon whiol thia uation basn their Daclaration .of Independonce, and the foundations of their national life. THE NECESSITY OF SUCH A MARTTRDOM 1ot us now consider: Thoro was, in fuct, o gon- eral conspiracy being formed to mqipmnn the freedom of the preus, as at war with the gusran- teed politieal rights of slavery. It was tho un- foroseen result of giving peculiar political rights and power to slavoliolderd in the 'formation of our National Constitution, This, it demgned to ba permanent, logically forbade all attacks on glayery, on moral grouude, It enid if o slave- _holder may be ulways an bonorable Senator, Judge, or Prosident, our Constitution indorses bim, and you jave no right to, nesnil bim 8s o great ainner, What was given 28 o tomporary concession, was thus clgimed a8 an eternal com- promise. The prospeet of boundlosy wealth by the culturo of cotton, aud of thoneronsaof polit- ical meer, led to tho extension of . slavery be- yond its original limite. Commeroial conneo- tions, and sockal und domostic sllinuces, the ex- tension of churches oud benevolent sociotics over tho nation, led to au increasing . conceugion of the claimy of slaveholders, aud_slavory soon Dbocame the ruling political powor iu the nation, and clnimed oxemption from assanlt gnd cen- surg on constitutionu! grounds, and had, in fuct, formed ptaus for tho universal anppression of o froe press throughout the nation ns essentinl to its supromacy, ou tho eamo grounds e were tlwowcd for tho' suppression of tho pross ut Al- on, s death, moro fully than over beforo, re- vealed the essontinl ancagonism of the two con- tonding systoms, and that ono or the other must be ‘Bupremo, and that, if slavery was suproms, the freodom of the pross mustbo suppressed, Thig was early seen by the slaveholders, and in vrocoss of timo a plan was formod to oxtend tho rights of slaveholders in full into tho Yroe States, and to enlist tha}gu reme Court of the United Btates againat all At-slavors ogitation na bostilo to the Constitution and the unity of the nation. It would not have boen more won- derful than the dospotism which, in fact, aroso earller in tha Christinn Clurch, bad an Anti- Slayery despotism gained the ascendaucy ovor this _nation, punisting with imprisonmont or death the advocacy of the fundunontal princi- ples of the Daclaration of Indopondence. WIHAT WAS ATMED AT and expected may ba secn in the threat of Toombis, that he ‘would yet calt tho roll of his slaves on Bunkor Hill. The freedom of tho press and the rights of froe Northorn citizens woro loat at the South. The great Domocratic party was corrupted by slavory, and in lcagne Wit it, and nothing was needed but & large sad corrupt_national majority to carry all this futo efTect. Prominent Doniocratic politicians thrent- onad kuch an issue, It was during this great movement towards such rosults, vast and disas- trous boyond coucoption, that, in the providence of @od, Elijah P. Lovejoy was raised up to die n# o martyr in the cause of the frcodom of the press and of universal emancipation. AT BT. LOUIS. Ho began to issuoc tho 8t. Louls Observer on Noy. 22, 1838. In oditingit, Lie ever was hold and fonrless, and opposcd alike the inenrsions of Romanism, slavery, and mob-law. Nevorthe- loss, be was not as yeb an Abolitionist, And yot odium was aroused against him and his paper, ns open to tha discussion of slavery, and in oppo- sition to It. 16 was bis own bolilly-nvowed Lelief that undor this cover ke was assallod also by the Romish Church. Iis narrative of the burning of McIntosh, and his nevere denunciation of the charge of Judgs Lawless, viudicating aund_de- fonding mob-law, added fo the popular odinm againet him, Tho proprietors of the paper, in alarm, tried to obtam from him a pledge of silonce on the subjoct of elavery, and a maoting of citizons volwroided with them. Xis bold and noble reply, clsiming in its full extout the free- dom of the press, bas no superior in power rud in oloquence. At this timo Mo carried tho day, and hid puper, which had been threatened by mob, continuad to bo publshoed, But, atlongth, 1t was judgod best to TRANBFER IT TO ALTON, IIo had not yet sssumed his position ag an Abo- littonist, and for & timo supposed that it would uot bo. nacessary, in n free State, to disouss tho subjoct of Blavory as fully as Le had. e soon found, however, that tho vongo- Iul spirit of slavery wag not to bo propitiated. His purposo toTomove to Alton had been an- nouncoed, and yot, to aveuge hls lostility to slavery aud hig oxposure of the chargo of Judyge Lawless, A MOD TORE DOWN I8 OFFIOR. The press was saved from tho oftice, and was transported to Alton, but on July 21, 1836, was destroyed on the landing by somo miscreants from 8t Louls. Tho citizons of Alton, in o mosting, sesolved to malie good the loss,—n resolution nevcr fulfilled. Thoy also censured tho mob, but dlsapproved of Abolitionism, Then it “‘nfl:l‘-\ll Mr. n\'uja{l discluimed Leing an Abolitiouist, atated that bio, as in o froo Btate, proposed to say loss than proviously bad, on slavery, but he oxprossly reserved the right to follow his own couvictions in tho future, and to tglenk» fraely and fully on all subjocts whatover. n Bopt. 8, 1630, the papor was firat fssuod in Alton, having boen suspended about six weoks. Trom thia time Il Aug, 17, 1837, it was rogu~ larly fesued, It was CONDUGTED WITIT GREAT ADILITY, and {48 anbsoription-lisk bad rsen fraw 1,000 to more than 2,000, But tho courss of avouts sud his own fnveatigntions had lad him to seo that thoro waa no mjddls-ground, and in & woll-con: aldored aud ab]“a articla Lo sot forth the prinel- plon of deoided_Abolitionism. Dlorcovor, in the Daper o pruposition was mado to form s BStato Anti-Slavory Soolety, Tho circulation ‘of poti- tions for the lbflmfimof slavory in tho District of Columbls was slso sdvocafed and rocom- mended, 3 In consequenca of theso things A MEETING WAB HELD of citizona of Alton to protost,mgulnet the toach- ingot Abolitiontam, asat war with his pledge, Ta thik tho vaply was that no plodge was glven, but only the anninciation of an existing purpose ra- surving tho full right to follow Lis own “convic- tions in the future, Alter ho had sssumod this ground, threats of mob violence began to Ld made. ‘I'hese were enoouraged by tho Afissouri lupublican, whiok sald, of Tovojoy, **ITe hug, by hisudhcsion to the odions doctraino of Abalitiohism, of which fro- tion he now avowd himeelf o wmembor, and by his continued offorts to diesomiunto theso odious doctrinoes, forfoited all olaimu to tho protootinn of thatorof eny other community," To whut “doos this amount but 1o & proposition for a uni- yorsal and porpetunl supprossion of a free poo- ple ? Accoritingly, on tho 21t of August, TIE OFFIOE WAS ABSAILED, nad press, type, snd il eleo dusiroyed. The . mob_ slio_ follawod tho oditor, to mob him, ni Lo nitroyly. ocagod their vengaanco, .'Tho friouds” of tho paper {n Alton voted to rt :ostablish at, and sont for anotlhior pross Lo Cii cinnatl on fopt, 2, Thls third, press _arrivod, and wag plnuefl in tho warchouso of Ganrgo I, Weller, Tho Mayor . ongagod Lo proteat it, and ot alloyad it to'bo destroyad by mnslod villians \ n his-own prosonco.. Short)y aftor this, nt 85, Obarlos, Mo, he and hla wifo, i a friond's house, woro bosot by nnothor tob, and cscaped with diffteulty, i “At thiy'timo o onll was lasued for tho friends of liborty and of tho freoltum of the press to moct on Oct. 26, in Alton, to act in tho oxibling crisls, One wook provious Lo this mooting ® meoting of tho Colonizntion Hoclety was held, tho designod and notunl rowult of which was tq fnoranso the odium agrinst tho Abolitionists and to dofant tho appronching Convantion, ; TI1E FINYT MEANS TESONTED TO to offoot thiu was dishouorable frand and falsce hood. The eall was limitod to beliovers in ime anedinto omancipation, In ordor to ontor tha Convontion s largo number of tho malignant op ]mn(mtu of the Abolitionistu professed their bo- iof of tho @octrino of immadiato omancipation, and'thus galned seato, Of thoso was U, I Tons dor, tho Btato's Atlornoy. 1lo, too, on professing theso viows was appointed as one of a committes of three, of which I wos Ohalrman, . to ropork rosolutions for tha Conveution. W . proposed temporato und woll-guarded rosolutions in (avor of immedisto emancipation and the froedom of tho'press, 'Chexo ho rofused to accept; and pro- sonted n minority roport agalnst {mmediata omancipation and the Abolitioniats generally. When reminded that whon ho took his sont ba declarod bis purposa to act a8 a friend of im= modlate nmanol;mflun ho ropliod, **If I could yostorday, I can't to-dsy.” Buch'fa the hovor, such the ' morality ‘of slavery, Dy thia timo tho Convention had becn fllled by such liars, and the majority thus formod voted down the majority roport, and adopted the minority report, and then broko up tho meeting by an adjournmont sino die. A liar roported a gories of lies, and an assombly of linrs adopted it, Buoh'was the triumph of slavery. Threals of mob violonce wero also heard ngainst aiy at« tompt o roorganizo tho Convention. NEVERTHELESS ANOTUER MEETING was hold in the house of T. B, Hurlbut, in which the Illinois Biate ‘Anti-Slavery Socioly wam formad, aud by which an addrass was sont forth to -the inhabitants of tho Btato. It wos aléo voted (thet in such n orisis tho general interests of tho mation roquired that the spirit of mob violonco shonld bo met and defonted at Alton, by the re-ostablishmont and dofenso, of a frea pross. another meeting of tho Colonization Bocisty was held, which, like tho otlior, gave strongth to tho spirit of mob violonco, Dloatings also wero hold to consider tho propricty of using armed forco Iu defonso of & froo press. An or- ganizod company was formad of sixty or seventy, many of them not Abolitionists, but frionds ol n froe proes, ‘Ihis was reported to the Mayor and approyed by Lim, and ho promised to onll on them iu cand of necehsity. * Hnving dono all ‘that I conld in tho crinls, T waa about to roturn to Jacksonvillo, when I wan mot by tho Tev. J. Hogan as I was walking in the street. witkh Winthrop Gilman, tho owner of the store in which tho press was to bo deposited. Ho iuformed us that thero was . A TERGRIDLE STATE OF THINGS, and wished o know if somothing conld not.bo dous to allay the axcitement, Iexprossed it'ns my jopinion that, if certain men would pass cortain rogolutions which I then had, ail would bo quict before sundown. Mr. Gilman then suggested the calling of o meoting of lends ing individuals. Mr, Hogan approved of it, and consented to invite them to meot -in his - etoro, This was tho mocting ol the leading mon of Alton of which I havo bofore spolten with so much omphasis, as -sustaining LRu highest responsibility for the_subsequon deads of violeuce and bloodshed. It was callod oxprossly that T might mfl boforo thom resolus - tions that would bo for tho peace and welfare of the city. TIE RESOLUTIOSS wero these Resolved, 1, That tho freo communication of thiouglits atid opinioris §8 one of {he fnvaluable Hights of man; and thnt every oitizen muy fully wpoak, write, and pribv on uny subject, buing Fusponsible for tho nbuso of that Hberty, . 2, That the abuse of 'l right 18 tuo only legal gronnd for restraining ita uae, 4, Thut the question of abuse must bo declded aolcly by & regular civil court, and In accerdance wilh tio a, and ot bS an irrespousible nud uorganizod por- tion of the conmunity, be it great or gmail.e 4, Tor restraiuivg what the luw will not reach, wa aro to depeud solely on argument aod moral meanz, aided by - the controlling iniiuences of . the spirit of God:.and that thesa means, appropriatcly uscd, firnish au smplo defouss againut Al ulthmate prevajence of falso principles and e Licalthy excitoment, “Chat, swhen discussion §8 free snd unrestrained, and proper means uro wwod, the triumpls of (ruly is cortin, und that, with the friumph of trutl, the re- turn of peace fsdure; bt thnt wll sttempts' to chiecle or prohibit dircursion will cause o duily | increase of cxeltement untll ek ciecks or - probibitions ure” so- moved, 6, ¥t our maintenance of theso principles should e independent of all regard to persous or sentiments, ‘7. That we are more especially called on {o maintain theim in ease of unpopulas ventinents and porsons, a2 in nda «;lhcz case will uny offort to muintaln thews bo needed, 8 Tlint thess nrinciples domand the protection of the editor an of tho press of the Alton Obsercer, on grounds of priuciple solely, and altogethior diwcouuect @l with approbution of Lis'sentiments, personal chiare actor, or cousse 0s editor of. the paper, 9, That on theso grounds alone, and Jrrespectivo of all political, moral, or religlous: differences, but solcly s Awerledn oitizens, from o sacred regard to s great principles of civil soclety, to the welfure of our Country, to the reputation and honor of our city, {0 our owil dearest rights and those of our childryn,’ vio will protect the press, the property, aad the editor of the Alton Obsercer, naid maiutain hint in the free exer- cise of hix rights {o print aud publish whatever lio pleares, in abedienc 10 {hie supreme laws of tho land andunder the guldaucs and direction of the constituted elvil nuthorities, he being respousible for the abuss of this Jiicriy only to the laws of the land, It will bo seen that these are not Anti-Slavory resolutions, but ouly free-press resolutions. Thess I gustained with all my encrgies and powors of porsuasion in nn extonded speech, which was respectfully listened to, Tho fundu® mental principles, us ombodied in our con- stitutions, . they could mot deny; but to enforca them thoy were wmot willing, Accordingly, thoy wore roforred to s Committca of ?ompmnfilua, and tho woeting was adjourn- ed to TIE NEXT DAY, On tho next day the Committeo roported at lIength, Thoy admitted the truth of the fundn- montal principles prevouted, but they declared the raeolutious to enforco them were ‘not suited to the exigency which hag called togothor the citizens of Alton.”” Why woro they not suited? Because thoy put ono party wholly in the wrong, and suggestod no compromise, What compromige did the Committeo sitggest? That Mr, Lovojoy and his supportors should gener- ously give up all their righte, and that he should conse to publish bis paper, nnd concede every- thiug to the demands of tho mob, = By a specics of chivalrous magnanimily worthy of _elavery, thoy excludod me from _tha right to speak, 88 not o citizon of Madiron County, though the mesting Lad been collected Dby citizons of Alton for the ozpress purpose of recolving resolutions that £ was to luy befors thom, aud thoso resolu- tions wero to bo the subjoct of tho report of tha Committee, Moreovor, they related to tho rights of every man in this State aud nation, But they were not willing to have nio scrutinize thelr roport, and so took away from mo tho right of speoch and voting in the meeting. LOVEJOY'S LAST BPELOM. 3 Tt was In this moetiug that Mr. Lovojoy, in view of such o report, made his Iast spuech, Friday, Nov, 8, 18373 ; As Urother Lovojoy rosa to roply to the sprech above mentioned, 1 watched Lis couutenance with deep Interest, nob to say auxioty. 1saw no tokens uf disturbauce, ' With o tranquil, sel{-posscased slr Le went_up to the bar withiu which tho Chafriun sut, any, o & tono of doop, tonder, and subtusd festing, syoke as follows : # 1 fuel, Ar, Ohalrman, that this {a tho most solemn moment I my lfo. Lfeul, I truat, in soo meanurd tlie responsibilitics whick at this hour I sustuin te these, niy fellow cltizons, to the church of which I aum & mivlstar, to my country, and to God, And lot me beg of you, before I proceed furthor, to construe nothing'1 aball sny nas being dlsrespoctful to this av- sewbly, T hove 10 such fesling for from ft, Aud if I do uvt act or spenk according to their wishen at all thimes, it fs Leestine I canuot sousclontivusly do it. 1t 18 prapor T should atate the whole matier ax 1 une derstand it before this uudience, 1 do not stand kero to arguethe question ns proseuled by tho report of the Oummittee, My only wouder Js fat the houorablo gentluman, the Chairmay of that Conunittee, for Whose chioracter 1 entortain groat respect, thatgh I Linve not the pleasure of his personal ncquaintance,— iy only wouder {4 how that_gentlomon could bave brought Litself to submit such s roport, My, Ghutrman, I do not sduit that itta tho buri- neas of thin assombly to deolds whether T not publish a nowspaper In this oi o The gou Huandi havo, aa ‘{ho luwyors sy, mads & Wrong o, T lave tho rizat o do it~ 1 know that I havo tho right Trooly to spoalc and publish my sentineute, subject ouly'to th tawe of tha laud for the abuss of that Hight, "L et was given o Ly duy Maker, and s soleviuly uarantead to e by tho Consiliution 'of -the United Elaton, und of thia Sfate, What T want. 10 know of i i illior you will protett o u tho usorio of i riight § or whether, as burutofore, Tam toba anbe Jorled " to” personal indignity aud ' outrago, Thess Tesottions, and the measures proposed by thom, sro spoken of 0% a compromise,—s ,compromiss belwern two partion, 3r, Olufrmmy, this 1 not g0, Thoro s but ot party hote, It fusfinply a question ~whetlior tho law kbl ba enforved, or whiothor ths mob ahall bo sllowed, we tiey puw do, o cuntipio Lo, (ramplo. 1t unidot tholr fuet by vioiatiug with fmpunity the righte of nn funocent Sudfvidual 1, Olwirman, what bave Xto compromliy 3 If \ \