Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 12, 1874, Page 9

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JUNE 12; 1874: e e e e e e e e ———————y THE ABOLITIONISTS. : (Continued trom tho Fourth Prye.) porate deed, an account in tho Cincinuali Gazelte slateat : 'A gooil-looking man, past the morldinn of 1 Il somgwhat gruy, floo, soto up o suld nume s Lirnoy. Moy I bo heard? Tho Apponred confoundod by such n’roquost coming from Wicl 8 naurco, - Tecovering from thelr murpriac, at Lo calm fuariossicos of tio man who dured stand - arined, sava i tho panogly of right, fu tho midst hinenemies, Ono eried **Down with Lim," of erfod “ Kill bini,” othiors cried # Tt and fentlir Lim, Tor & timo thoro ‘svas confusion_worso_coufoundsd, Mr, Birnoy, witl ntiro solf posscssion, remarkod thaé Tio fould BOE procoed i¢ lio ould ot Bava tho eat of tlio assombly, To go ou undur such clrounislanicos would justify tho charia of oballuacy, that lisd Decu 1ald at tho door of Abolitfonlats, At this stogo, Gon, Lytlo, "who had will: tho mob, ose, Atid nt tho top of - lll\‘ll! }:v foro you striko,” Tho '“if,“. X}fi'no';.,rfhnnmng {bem far thounoxpected favor, said flint hin besitiments hud heon misindorstood, I¢ ¥aa 0 pat of tio desfun of tho Aolitioutsis fo ntor fere with tho Coustitution of tho country, The: Mhed 10 mnko thelr apneals to thélr Tello Wholield slavos, ond ondeavor o pars {hint 4t was wrowy in this way to troat holr fol Finattolpation waka work that could bo earriod on oud Tonsumumatod without touching tho Constitution of uutry. O vtk fndiforent to the pafoty of lfs follow- citizens of tho Houth, 1fa was born i tho Sonth,—he Tiad apont his lifatlioro,—~1ie had,n uumorous beloved Aitdeed who bold slaves, To hcir #afety Lio e uob Indifferent, and ho cartainly eliould pursito 1o conme Siich o’ thought lkoly to put thom in pesil, Tio ' conmdlerod - that tho ' wltimsto safoly of {hio Houth was moro Ju dangor from parpotunl slavery, Ahan from its abolition, Bee how the blacks fncresss 11pon tho whites, ‘This dispropartionnto increaro of hucka Wil inaly, bring thie Yory catantzopho. whioh fs now drcadod, . 1t may_ba alow, but it will come if slavery I8 porpotuated, ~ Ho desired 10 savo Lis follows Citizos of tnb Bonth, and his countzy from tho hor- Tors of that day. 3fo had xennon {o bellors, that sueh apnosls to fellow-citizens on thie sub would not bLs in ‘Huch appoals bad renohed ils wn conacionce and fn- fluenced his conduat, Wien Ar. Lirney concluded ho mingled_among tho crowd, and retired upon adjournment witliout further moleatation, . 1lis conduct Lud disarmed tho madness of tho multitude, X' Yot tho offect of the oxcltomant was to colleck an ungovorngble mob, who proccded Lo lho oflleo of tho Philantiropist, destroyed its cou= touty and draggod ite Iarget pross thraugh tho streofs and sunk it ot tho~ bottom of tho Ohio River, They thon proccedad to tho house of Mr, Birnoy for the purpose of doing bim porsonal damogo, Ho, fortunatoly, happencd to~ bo oub of thacity, ond oscaped the wrath of tho ine furinted mob. Ho had gono to Hillsborough, aud was In the act of dolivoring an Anti-Slavory Jecture to tho pooplo of that placo whilo th Cincinnatinns woro ongaged in demolishivg his printing ofiico, THE FOLLOWING ,ENTRACTS from Jottors of Jlx, Birmoy, Wwritton at that time, ehow the spirit with wiuch he reccived this treat- ment: 5 1o cnemies of Inw will adopt & mew eourso—they will hercafter operate’ privaloly—their afm will by ‘ogainst to peraous of Abolitionists, courso. 3o fenr it not, _Clirent to ourselt eapoclaily,—of Befzu a8 common aa tho alr wo breathe ‘withbeld, which contomplated s 6till more disgraceful, 11 not 1n0ro fatalfviolenco, o . . . Dt lew bos ‘been prostrated ; violence exults over its downfall; the Coustitution lies in dishonorablo dust whilst bloody treason lourishes over 1t, on aro struck dumb, and #paech 18 uselews for thio roformation of abuscs’ that Threuten 10 load with tho fotters of (ho alive thome sulves and thelr ehildren, All'this Ia Lioro, almot upon un aow, aud elall t bo gald fife, aud fortunie, nud honor shonld not be hazanded, that the Coustitution and law nud Uberty may be rostorud to thelr lost thrones, and Siway thots muild scoptro without a rival? Noj thiafnust 18 dono by thogo who would ratlice themgelvea dio freoe shen thau v slaven, of our couutry, glorious a8 Las been Lir hope, is gotio forever,. All this oppositivn did not detor 3Ir. Birnoy, or induco him to relax his efforts in tho causo fa which bo had dovoted Limsolf, It was not long boforo ho xe-ostablishod tho Philanthropist. Tts ciroulation was groator thun betoto, Ho ongaged tho nssistance of Dr. Qamnlicl Bailoy, and the apor prospored, aud was bforo” ou fsuod s & dail at infinence ‘olee, cried Lug tlion To- e This {3 now tho personal vialoneo, and deportation, aro nor binve thoy been " Thia. “chiof mob In Cincinnati ocourred in tho year 1836, Not long aftor this, Mr. Bimoy was salectodl as ono of tho Secroluries of tho Awmoricau Anti Blavory Socioty, and REIOVED TO NEW YOUK. Ho eu%ued nctively in the dutice dovolved upon him. 1o delivered many lecturos in New Line gluud oud Northorn Stutes, and wrote much for the prous, beside conducting tho cvrrespondenco of tho Bocioty. o Ths not of violance was the ocension of vory able lettor, writton by Williom Iliery Chouning, dated Noy. 1, 1836, and addrossed fo James Gu Birnoy. In that lottor, Mr, Chauning said ¢ X earncstly desire, my doar sir, that you and yonr nesociates will hold fust tho right of freo divcussion by Bpocch nud tuo press, and ot the same time that you SWill exerciuo 1t us CLilxtians and sy frieuds of sour ymee. That you sir will not fuil iu these duties I ro- Joles to beliévo, Accept my humblo tritmto of respict and admiiration for your disintoresledness, for your faltbfuluess to your conyictions under tilo peciliar Sacrlficas o which you lgvo been called, It my pruyer that Ly calm, fearicss porseverauco in well- Qotiry you may guide hud oxcita many o ke virtus, Tn tho same yoar Mr. Birnoy wrote a lottor en- 4itled “ Vindicntion of Abolitfonists.” 1t had wido circulation, sud did much to mollify asperlty of feoliug ngalnst abolitionists. 1t was qceasionod by pracoudings of alave-holdors in Alabamg, in which bo with othiors was assniled ng Bowing tho seed of discord, rapine sud wuder awoug tho slaves of tho South. 'BECOND MANUMIBSION OF KLAVES, Tu tho yeur 183), Mr, Birnoy’s fathor deconsed, Lo loft & largo ostate, unincumbered, consishyg of lund, mouvy, nud elaves. Mrs. John J. Marshall and himsel? wore the only Liirs, %o was summoncd o Kentucky, to bo presont at tho division of the estato of hiy father. 1o o onco requested that all of the negroes might bo computed ot thoir markok vol- uation, 240 part of his shase, This was nssont- ol to, 1fe immediatoly wroto the following deod: Know all men Ly theso prescaty, that I, James G, Liruey, lato of Kentucky, butnow huvisg wy res~ donce ju the City of New York, Lelloving thut ‘slaves holdivg is fuconsistont with nafural fustioc, witl the precepts and spirit of tho Ohristion roliglon, and with lio Declaration of Amerlean Tudypendetice, and wis- dug to testify in favor of them all; do Lheroby emanci. puio, and forever sct freo, tho following numed siyves, Which Davo como nto my poeseasion, uu ouo of tho Tivire of my falbier, James G Blrnoy, deceasud, ot thio o of Lis death, Then follow their names and description, and tho deed concludes In testimony of tho abovo, T Tinve herounto set my namo aud aflixed my sel {his third day of Soptembor, 4u tho year of our Lord, ono thousand eight nndre and thirty-ning, 3AMES G, BRWNEY, (8eal] Mr, Birnoy, after discovering that Bastern Anti-Blavory pupors wero disposed to spenk highly of this aot of emancipation, Wwrota ta the ditor of the Emancipaior, wud mado it & spocial request that he would give him o commenda- tion, for tho rousou that bo Lad done oniy an ok of justice, for whioh ho desorved no praise. Ou sceount of thus nccapting tho slaves aa hig #haro, o received 1o pecuniary aid from tho oututo, TIA VISIT 70 ENGLAND, In tho yenr 1840 Mr. Biruey visited Tngland, and was received with tho utmost cordiality by thefrionds of freodom. Tlo was oue of thio Vioe-Prosidents of tho World's Convontion, 1fa spont Bovoral months in dolivoring addrosses at ifforont placos. Lho estimation In which ho was hold in that country muy bo inferrod from tho followiug tostimouy of thie commitioo of the British and Foreign Auti-Blavery Socloty, Tiat this Gommitteo nre decply sensiblo of tha servi- cen rovdered to ho Anti-Slavery causw by thelr os Toemed friond and coadfutor, James Gillespto Dirnoy, Euil, whilst In thls country, In a_coures of Inborlaus Siforta, in which bis nceurato and extensiva inforuu. Lion, Lis wise oud Sudiclous counscly, aud his pawer of ealin aud couviuctug statcment Lavo beeumo eintuently conspicuous, During tho samo yoar President Kellogg of Himols, visited Lngland, and thus dexcribod tha Impresiion whick was left thero by M. Birnoy's visits 1t wan truly sefeeehing to o whilo In draat Drlle atn, amid tho many compiafuts ayalust my couutry= ‘ch to which I v obliged o listen, to Luar our ox= collont friond, James G, Birney, 20 frequently #poken of, oud ulwayh in terms of unqualified spprolation und respoct, The meutlon of Lis nuo in thiose eirclea 422 which ho was kuows, and thoy wore butk numerous wud exteuutvo, Invariubly imparted plossnre, aud wany “oca tha fuielea Whlciy Weto inadd . Tespect (o Lia ‘welfarv, 1 could not but obserye that Intelligent men, Dotk in England and Beotlind, very highly appreciate Diim for (hat traitin hin cluracler, which I hava alwnys, From my firat acquaintanco with Mr, Dirney, soqardod 08 ¢xhibited by 1o 1n & romarkublo' dogres. You ywill ‘daubtless understund mo s reforring 10 hia caudor, 0 iy publio addresses aud_dlscuselons, which wera ‘uumerous in tist couutry, a8 woll ns Lis prizato cons oreations, by tho sobrioly of his own visws, by tha fulrnesn and Tullnees with which Ly statod the posi~ tions pud arguments of Liv_oppononts, and by the ‘musnliness with which ho met aud sefited thym, ho ver finpreased Lis suditors with a_convletlon of 'tlg soundnens of bis sontimonte, and of tho pucfect ro. Tiauca whioh nuight be placed ipon lis statewents, o viaita of auck men fo forelgn landa aro un Louot o our conutry, and leavo behfud tiow . savor which 1 grateful to an Amerlcan citizon, CONMESPONDENCE WITII CALMOUN AND FLMORE, On tho 16th of Febinary, 1898, the lon, ¥, if, Titmoro, of South Curoling, uddrensed n letter to r, Birnoy, of which the followiug is an oxtracts o daien @, dHirneys Eotui e tor S voni' Yo ta John O, Cathoun, dated antly duutiary, sy (in seferonce to o Abolitianlsls o Antl-savery Houlotles) * o huva nothii {0 cougeal, okl yout deslre ny fnformation a8 {o our prov Sadbigs I il by sLoeFLally Gomalcutod v betui | apptisod of your wislioa Tha frankness of thls une olllted ofror indloatch n fairucss mml huncaty of e Too which lian caued the hreavat caninmatention, End demands the eamo full and frank discloattrs of i Viows with whicl: thosubjolnod inquiries sro proposed. o annexod to ifs lottar somo fourteen intor- vogatories. * Mr, Birnoy, in hin roply,whon sotting forlh the object of Abolitionlsts, ukod the following lnne Budgo s Conding fn tho trath and power of the -Alnilghiy, wo oxpoct to bring our counteymon {0 sco that anat tion to porsiat in fulustice, fa but to Tush on ita own ruln § that4o do justico ia tho highest oxpediouoy ¢ to love morcy, ity noblest ornament, In olier countrics slavery lisn sometimes yiolded 10 fortuitons ciroumn wances, or heen extingiilahed by physlcal forco, Wa Ktrivo 10 win for truth tho victory aver rrar, and on tho Lrokou fegments of slavary {0 xenr fur her & fome ‘plo'tlnt shall reach 10 the Leaveus, wnd toward which all nations nhall woralfp, . Eimora, in maliog Helnquilos, doubiloss did #o fu bebalf of Jobu C. Calhoun® NOMINATED FOR THE PUESIDENOY IN 1840, A Natioual Liberly parly Convention was held al Albany, Aprll 2, 1810, . In order to oone coutrato tho votos of “tho frionds of freedom, James G Bienog, thon of Now Yoilk, was nomis natod for tho l’n!!iflouui. aud Thomas Earlo, of Tonnuylvania, for tho Vico-Presidoncy, In'his lotior “accopting tho nomination, ho thus de- finod tho irroprossiblo confliok in- progress bo- twoon freodon aud slavory : Do conclusion of the wholo matter is that,asn peopls, oo trsing ou exporlment na uupiioioph icol 10 theory us it Lins been, nnd evor will be, fonnd imposaible 0 practice, to ‘make & harmouious whola out of parts that oro in principio s esacnce discurd- aut, Tt fa in vain to think of a aincors wnion between tho Norih and South f tho flrst remain trio to hor Topublican principles aud Lbits and tho latier porsist in Ler slavelolding despotisi. Thoy nro incapablo from their natures of boing mado one. Thoy cau no more Lo welded togother into our body of uniform strength ond conslstency than clsy and sand, “Thoy may, it §a true, be pressed togetler, and mado to cohera by extraucous appliances ; aud tho lne of cone tact may bo daubed over und varnfshed, sud concealod, bt tue first shock will make thom fall nseunder, and disclosa tho fact, tht thro uuvor Was any roal dncor- poration of substauce,” “A Iarqo oligarchy, e the South fs, mads up of a ‘multitndo of petty dempolismin, deting on 1ho prinsiple t men are not creatud equul,—thut 8 fuvored 1oy aro born ready booted aud spurred, to leap iuto tho saddles with which ho_bicks of tile mony aro fur- nished by nature, Such v government I say, whon brought Uy cireumstances into clago uztapositionaud incesyant Intorcourss with republice, netiug on princi~ plea dlametrically opposito, must soon bo Lrought to ‘modify, and ovontually to Folinguish ts principles and practiods, o vica verst, the ropublics must undergo n stfiar chango, aud uskimilato thomselves 1u tho prac- ticea of (o deApotisms, Onoor tho ottier muet fu tho eud gain tho eutiro ascondency, - An early Intiiation of irrepressible contliot. DURING TIE OANVASS Or 1840 Afr, Birnoy was in Sngland. 1o did nob roturn wnti tho middlo of Novembor. Tho vole cast at tus elcction for the Liborly tickot was ovor 7,000, After this eleation, tho plan of political sction seemd fo tako stroug hold upon tho mind of the Lriouds of Lo slavo. . A NATIONAY: CONVENTION was again callod and assombled in 1813 ot Duf- falo. “Lho Liborty party was eariiost in tho flold for the canvass of 1844, and placad ita candidntes in nomiuation long boforo tho other parties. Tio Couvention at Buffelo was Inrger than any of tho kind horotofore held, and wns composod of mauy of tho ablest of tlio Auti-Blavery men of tho country. M. Chaso was o membor of tho Convoution, and manifosted o very strong clesire to have somo such man as John Quincy Adamy placed in nomination, on tho gronud that it would tend to uationalizo and popularizo 1ho party to bave in tho candidate a man who bod beon prominently boforo tho publio a8 o politician, © Bus tho Convention was almost unanimous in favor of tho renomiuation of Mr. Birnoy, ‘e Hon. Thomas Morris, of Olio, was mado the caudidato for the Vico-Prosidenoy, “Lho writor was nb the 4imo in a situntion to Imov that the nomination was to Mr. Birnoy, as & porsoual matter, altogatiior nnncoaptablo ; that his feolings wore avorse Lo the motorioty that such a position gave bhim, and that ho would hnvo greatly proferred to haye beon moro ro- tired, but be submitted to tho wishes of his co- Iaborors, undor the conviction that this was ong of tho modos, and porhsps the most. ofiivient maodo of publisbing tho principlos sud the viows, for th dissemination sud success of which Lo biad beon at such sacriflco and o Jong Iboring, Lo copaidorad that while o way coutanting £0 bo hold up os a targot to bo shot at, ho woul incidontally thus be the means of attracting tlo attention of tho nationsl miud to thio considera~ f10n of tho necossity of divoreing tho Govorn- nont from subserviency to slwyery, and bringing ik back to tho principles on which it was ostab- Jsbod, e could oxpect no advantago to hiw- solf. His sonsitivo mind oortainly could ot ‘havo boon pleased with tho prospoct of. tho abuso, dotraction, and slander that Were iuovit- ably to be bheaped upon, and thrown agaiuat Lita. 110 -possed througli au ordoal thut, fo mon hiavo to try ; and that uudoubtedly shorts anad bis life by ovoral years, "This ticket,at the Presidontial clection of 1844, roceived 62,300 votes, some of which wero cast in sluyoSintos, At this olection Henry Cluy and Jnmen K, Polle wero respoctively candidates of tho Whig and Domacratic partics, 3 THE RESULT OF IS ELECTION Jjasa good dieappointmont o tho Whig party, “I'ho abuso bieaped upon tho Liberty party candi- dnto way, petlups, nover surpnesed iu tho listory of Amoricau partics, Mr. Greoley was tho load- ing Whig editor fu tho United Stales. 1o idol. iz Xr, Clay. 1o wae no doubt sincero jo thwkiug that Ing election was cssential to tho rowpority of tho country, In writing tho fograpliy of DIr. Olay, Mr. Groeloy, in 15%, malios tho following rematk : 2, Polk carried most of the Bouthiern Statcs on tho aswumiption thnt tho acquisition of ‘Toxus would strengihien the power of alavery, and improvo tho anarkot for alaves, whilo Now York and other Atates, houtile to that polics, were lost to DIr, Clay by the anii-Toxes votcs {hrown uwoy on_James . Biruey. Mr, Polk roceivad 170 cloctoral votws, Mr. Clay 103, Now York alono. would layo changed lic resulty aid Lige clectors wwero socured to Yol Ly u plusailty of 6,100, whilo moro than 15,000 votes wero squandered ol tlio Birucy Abolition ticket, s idon, s propagatod by Ir. Grooly, erow and galned stracgth, #o muc eo, that in ulmost overytling writtoh on_1ho snmo point by mom= Dors'of tho sume parky up to 1860, tho iden is ropented. Tho American Eneyolopodia, publishod by Ap- pleton,atNow Yorkn 1865, coniains vt prports b & sloteh of tholifo'of Jawes G. Lirnoy, Do following romarkublo paskago ocours in it : 11is purpose was to build up & political Enrli‘\lmn ho siugle question of I!:A\'v.‘ri'. to act upon {hie Guvern- auent within the formu of ile Constitution ; and ho succeeded in forming un organization in most of tho Northorn States, under the naie of the Liberty party, Durlug his ubsence in England, ho was nominated In 1840 by that party for the l'residency, but muet with Little succees, 1o was ngaln nominated in 1844, when he recelved more vo 1t was charged upon Lis frionds, at (ho tinte, that, by withdrawlug thelr votes from Mr, Clay, aspeclally u” tho Stato of Nuw Yorlk, they ac- complisiied the election of Mr, Yoll, thus aiming the Qeathblow at their own projocts, Tiio anthior of that orticlo was indoed correok in enying that such o chargo Lnd beon mado, But Litatory, that Is now rapidly righting whut hanu been wiong, must find the following faols : Tho Liberty party, ns onrly ay 1839, had an- nounced lieir doclaration of gontimoents, To Yolo for a slaveholdor for any ofllco was cutlroly inconsistont with thoso - soutimonts, 48 much 5o au tho Liolding of slavos would havo beon, 1t was organizod to opposo_#lavery, How, thon, could if support a luvelioldor for ho higlost of: fico in tho and—as woll usle o Obristinn church t0 mako u Blsliop of tho_dovil. o National Convention of tho Liberty perky Tiold iu 1843, a¢ Buffalo, adopted a soxica of Tuso- Intious au thelr platform, of which tho follow- g ws ono : = 'liat wo regara voting, in an eminent degree, na a moral *and gflllgln\lu Il‘lmy, which, whou umlflflud, ‘slould b by voting for thoso who doall i thulr yower for immedlate omancipation, Could it bo snid that n Kentucky slaveholdor, who was recolving tho unpaid toll of siuves, was ono who was doiugg all o could for immodislo omancipstion? Absurd! Tho Liborly party Liad bettor ab ouco have disbauded thiau baso votod forany such mon, And the moro infuon- tiol kol o fan, tho groator tho probability of bis countoraoting tho ontimonts of this nowly- organlzod party, To voto for him would liava boon_uutioing” tho cord that bound such o purty togotlior. ‘o Igudors ot to Whisg prrty wndoratood thia ‘mattor thoroughly, “Thoy ueithor expeotod, nor T thioy right to ‘axpoot, thut tho Liliorty party wonld voto for a slaveholder, In view of this fact, thoy elooted Mr. Clay as their standurd- boutor, “Thoy conjostured thut iy populnsity was 60 grout thab ho could bo claoted without o contemplible a iragmont as iho Liborty party, Did Mr. Birnoy's trionds withdraw their volos ay? What uro tho faots? _Tn 1641, from Mr. Ol on a vole for Blalo ofilcers in Now York, the, Tiborty party oast 10,276 votes, ‘Cheso votaw, thorofare, may be cousiderad a8 commitied to tho Liberty }muy Irrospectivo of the claims of Dlr, Clay. Ifin thonoxt yoar at tho Presiden- tial voto tho numbor had greatly inoreasod, it 1uight possibly bo Inforrod that somo votes wore withdrawn from Mr. Clay, althongt Domoorals, s woll us Whigs, Jolnod tho Lihonl party, Bub T 1844, Instoud) 0F bolng incrensed, tho Lihotal party was, nceordlug to onu ceount, only 16,110, i, auadrding fo wiothon 15,412, T vich o thily fnot, it might, Wil maol moro proprioty, bousid that Dir, Olay’s felonds withdrow from v, Lirney. hin wholo chinrgo lins 1o othor dlgnity thau of mero complaing of disappointod poll- ticinug, Mistory will rejoct 1t ng fulso i facr, nnphilosophient in thoory, nnd ae no foundation for n complaiut, ALTIIOUGIE M7, GREELEY AND OTIIRRS zopontodly mado i compisint whilo wndar the offootu of tho grent disappotntmont, yot Mr. Greoluy, in Intor writings, asoignod the trae onuto of Mr, Olny's dofeat. In 1800, o addrossed # serlos of lottors to Hiram Kotchum, Enq,, of Now York, In which ocours tho following pnssagos You Liiow liow veliemently Daniel Wobstor and you fonght tho Aght of ', niminat the suncxntion of Tozas, gxmremly Lot of‘your Tepugnancy o slxve Censlon, nnd hotn yon Doth exearnied Mir. Olag's A lubae nas lofter as huving unfustifiabip woakencd, 1 not turnd, ot highmoral pesfon ab thas ubject {¥ho can for- get {ho thonder of back Daw's brow nt tuo Whig mes meatings (hiroughant that ancmorably contest, 1n o inde reslstauce to lavery oxtension the koy noto nf that sirugglo, Woro you snid ho thon contonding that “*1kio_ Conntitttlon was' miado, 1ot for Lo whito man but for the negron?" Was it in holulf of tho negroca fud agabust whites that you mdo tist glorlous thouga wnfortumalo. strunglo — unfrtunala as you and thoupht, mainly becanss Mr, Clay {nterposed to deranas our grdecof buttle, and prevent our Jighting it on ths Anti-Slarery ground tre had cloren, " It plainly appoars rom this that, although Mr. Grooloy oxcoratod ‘M, Clny's lottor, ns _having unjustiliably wonkoned Lis high moral position o thio aublct of sluvory, Yot Tio considored imsale justifiod in hsaplog nbuso unon tho ma who porniitiod himnelf o’ bo voted for by thoso pion who, if they did not_exccrato iha lotter, could not porsuade thomselves to givo tho author of it thoir political Bupport. 4 It hls position was wonkonod by such a lotter, whint would have been the offect upon tho posi- tlon of o Liborty Party ity aftor all thoy hnd deetared and aflirmed before the world, they had forsakon Mr. Birnoy, whono leltor above quioted ehoved unqualified objootion to the admiasion of Toxns 28 o slave Stato, and had givon thelr votos to tho author bf ¢his lotter, who thonght that elavery ought not to offect the snbject ono woy or snother? It would undoubtedly havo boon utterly prostrated snd dissolved. Mr. Grooloy designod to tako # bigh moral position on tho subjeot of slavery. Hnd not Mr. Bimey o xight not only to tnko, bk to hold, & Ligh moral position on the same subject ? 1t tho Liborly party bad thon surrendorod, at what timo would the Ropublican patty have tri- uwmphed npon tho question of opposition toslay- OI{’GXNIJE jon ? ut 3lr, Greoloy as ho grows.oldor, also grova moro positive on tho question of Mr. Cloy's do- foat, Intho Tribuno of Jan. 7, 1864, o roplios to mn_asticle of the Rochester Daily Union, in which it ia nssortd that, ¢ Mr. Sownrd and Thur- Tow Weed plotted for Mr. Qlay's dofoat,” and that this was known to Mr, Groolog, He' donica tho chrgo, and snys that jthough Mossra, Sow- srd nnd WWeed aro not his friends, #yot that truth is trath,” and be must uttor it--thnt it # Ja long beon Lis docidod conviction fhat,but sor Aly, Clay’s own unfortunate and sadly per- verled lelters to Alabama, itk regard lo the an- nexation of Texas, his election could not have tcen prevented,” 1In1842 Mr. Birnoy LENOVED To TIIE BTATE OF MICHIGAN, and mado us lrome uvon the Sagiuaw River, first at Saginaw City, thon at Lower Sagiuaw, now ay City. To.181% 1o bocaruo tho Tiberty Party enpdldato for tho offico of Governor of thio Stato of Michi- gan. Ho roceived 8,023 votes for that offico, "Luis pumbor hold tho balance. Tho Whigs of o Stato sovor. goiaod wnotlior clecrlon, hntil compollad, in 1851, to conlesco with tho Liborty Tarty. This_ Union was the founda- tion of {ho Ropublican Party, which bns hold power in thet - Stete sinco, it {s mow very ovidont tho Ropublican party has been indobtad for this success to tho public sentimont that had boon croated by tho discussion of slavory through tho ngonciea of tho Liboral party, and to the ad- ditional votes gained by tho confition, Aud 8o with tho parey {lroughout tho nation. USTODY, WILL CONFIII THE CONGLUSION, tint witliont tho offect of the sacd sown by’ the oarlior ngitators of tho question of slavery, and tho concontration of votes obtained by tho or- gunization of tho Liberty party, tho triumph of tho Ropublican purty would havo been deferred. Tho 7,000 votes cadt in 1810 becamo moro than 1,000,000 [n 1853, and_enough to oleck Abralm Tincoln Prosident in 1860, In18i1, huving been n widowor for soveral voors, Mr. Bimoy was united iu marriago to Miss lizaboth' P, sfitzbugh, of Livingston County, N. Y., nnd sistor of Mrs, Gerrit Smith. By this marringe o bad two childron, ono of Whom sur- vived him, but died in 1865, whilo sorving as Major in tlio Fedoral Army. iy kis first murringo lio hind soven childron, only three of *whom now survive, two gons and ono duughtor. 10 1855, 118 WEALTI WAVING DECOME TMPAIRED, 1o took up hus abode at tho reeidouce of Theo- doro D, Wold, upon Raritan Dny, ncar Porth Am- Loy, Ilo went to this placa chiefy for the pur- poso of nuperlntonding tho oducation of his younger childron, -sud to bave the saciety of his friond, Mr. Wold, to whom Lo was grostly at- taghed, Ho lnd for soveral yeara provions avoided any publio efforr, on’”account of hls voico being impaired, caused by o fall from Dis Loreo while ridiug out at Lowor Saginow. Dut ho was neyor {dlo. Searooly » dsy passed without Lis writiug an articlo on some subjoct connocled with tho Auti-Siavory roform. Theso wero published auonymously o New York and Toston papora. Ho was for omo hmo o con- tributor to the Nalonal Intelligencer at Wash- ington of articles upon iforary and gonoral po- Litieal toplcs. During thio month of Novombor, 1857, ho bo- enmo woro than_usually unwoll, and during thab wouth doparted this life, His romains wore burted ot Porth Amboy, bt 8ovral yonrs after Lis widow had fhem romovyed to Hampton, hor family ronidenco, noar Clonosce, Livingaton Couuty, whora thoy now lo In tho private como- toryof ' the Titzlugh family. Tho romains of Dis youngost son, Fitzhugh Birnoy, roposo in tho somo cometory. - This rotrospect shows that Tamos G. Birmoy spons a largo portion of Lis 1ifo in o strugglo for irco specch, tho right to disouss topics, o Jmowladgo of which hio deomod casontial to ‘tho Jifo of the nation thnt ho ovinced bis anrnost~ noss by couflrming bis acts to Lis priuciplos, that for Lis fidality 1o was subjocted to an_ un- usual oxtont to abusoand dotraction,—Lhat ho oxpended his estato aud his timo, unrescrvedly, in tho work_of warning his countrymon of tho incompatibility of freodom and siayory and of tho danger foroboding tho Governmont. No mau ovor moro mildly spoke tho words of truth and sobornoss thon ho. He rovilod no man. Arulo which uniformly guided his own conduct, ond which ho Lnbituaily urged upon Dis ows Liousohold, was to “speal ovil of no ‘mian,"—often Lins 1o boon known robuko a dis- parnglug romark concerning Lis bittorast oppo- nents, Mr. Goodoll added that the Tiverty pasty olled more Yotes from tho Domooratio purty L from tho Whig party. Ho had often called Horaco Grooley’s notics to this fact, but ho nover gave it any nttention, Mr. Goorye W. Clarko thon sang tho song writ- ton and sung on tho accasion of tho nomiuation of DIr. Birney to tho Prosidoncy in 1843, Among othor_announcomonts, was ono that portraits of Benjamin Lundy and_John Biown | “Would bo sold in tho altornoon ot §1 apicco, tho Jrosteds of tho salo of tho formor o ba dovotod 0 orecting o monument to Mr. Lund. Aftor another soug, tho Convention adjourned until3 p, m. ke AFTERNOON SISSION. Tho Convention mat at the hour nsmod, Gon,’ Chotlain in tho chair. 0N BROWN, Nr. Burleigh, of Massachusolts, gave s briof account of the life aud oxploits of Johu Brown. 1o fivst bocamo cousplouous at the time of the Kunsas troublos, and bis namo became & terror 10 thoso Who wore oudonvoring to fntroduco slavory into thnt Stato, [Tho sposker here ox- Lhibited & sword which Brown captured during ono of his encountors.] Providence led him on, aud bis own “glowiug Loart” became imputiont of tho slow progross, and found it was neces- sary that deeds should omphosize words, I1lo sathered his trusty companions around him, and hud his dopols in tho Wost, whoro his mon woro drilled, The sponkor did not supposo that ho ospeotod to ovorcome tho slave-power with his little bund, but meunt to strike o blow that should bo felt throughout the Bouth, ‘ha aftuir st Harpor's Ferry and anbsoquont ovouts woro roforrod to, and Drown waa charactorized as 6 onlin, quict, grand, lofty, sublimo, stead- fust, serone, Christiun horo. Mt REVEGCA We MOTT spoko for fivo minutes, snying thint Aadnoss mine gled with ber Jog, hocauso slao fult that tho moot- ing, ko thousunds of othiors, was & mon's mooting particutarly, Bho advoented ihe frooing of womon, and claimed that thoy should stand bo- sido man on evory platform. IsH BADIE DAILRY alao mado o fow romarks, Sho wanbornin o depot of the Undorground Rtailrond, and thanked God forit, [Applange.] Tholr work to-day ws thie comploto eulsmohisoniont of wowan, o o ol woxintly, and poltcally ubo might foad waw to u puter and nObLCT mun- lood, nf\“\lulcgnln romarkod that tho old Abolitionigls woro tho flrst who took thelr wives and daugh~ toms to political monings, [Arpinuse] MMr. Willoy protosted against tho bringing In of oxtranoous maitors; womsn's volug had !.m,i‘ll)llng 1(]0‘ do will'h tho Col:‘v:‘llnll‘::wun.. [Appummu 0 audioncothon enng * Jolw Drown's o Witk considorable unotion. il 2R WILLIAM T, ALLEN, R ono of the alumni of Lana Sominary, spoke for o fow momonts, giving an outline of tho growlh of Abolitfonis in List collogo, aud tho difllonty Totwoon tho studouts and tho ‘Trusteos, wha dae ired to suppross tho dikcusalon of tho lavory quostion, Lo also alluded to tho ‘work douo in uftor yoars by somo of the studouts. Pug Rov. d. D. Too, of Koutucky, dovotod twonty minutes to romlnisconcos of tho pust, whioli, ho said, offorod intrinsio losaons, . BN, JANE GUEY BWISSHELAX was Introducod,and loudly applauded, Bhorelated sovoral ancedotos illustrating tho formor fuvling ot tho ohurches upon tho subjoct of slavery. 8ho wishod, howover, amony otiior things, to corroct o sintomont of Mr. Gloodall. 1o hiad sald that slaves usod to bo hunted by mon In thio North aud by bloodhounds in tho Soutlt, It was in hor exporionco in Indiana County, Ponm, in tho yoar 1851, nino slnveholdors nnd a blood- honnd woro Limting n couplo of fugitive Blavos who had yun away to be marrlod. [Laughtor.] Hor bnlf hour Waa consumed In rolating many ancedotos, and in allusious to the wrongs of woman, TUE DEY, I, IT, KELLOGG told ahont roceiving sovoral colored glrls into his school in 1897, whon pro-slavery _fooling was ab ita helght, bub bio did ot logo a Whito pupil, Ho pald o high complimont to Jumes Gy Bleney, Al- vin Stuart, and Berish Groon, and othors, for thoir nobla work in tho Anti-Siavory cauo, paii iy DR, BAILEY, Dr. Brisbono, of Ciucinuati, rend the follow- ing tributo to tho memory of Dr. Gamalta} Balloy and othor doceused carly Abolittonists of Oin- cinnatl: If 1 wero asked whom I regnrdoad tho wisest of all the distiuguished Abolitlonists wha have paased from us to the spirit world, T should say that man was Dr. Gomaliol Bailey, It was my good fortuno to have wuck asyociation with him for many yoara. Whilo lving in Gineluunti nox door to each othor, we wora atmost daily in con- sultation about the Anti-Slavery interests ; and I could not but admire Lim for his remarkablo rendiness ns o writor, bub moro for Lis carofulnoss not to publish ouything of importunco until copsulting with his cautious wio, or with mysolf, or some ova or moro of othor triends in whom ho had confidence, or whoso Intelligonco could suggest thoughta of what parts might load to evil consequences, o givo full freedom fo Lis foolings, however im- passionad, Lo wrote Lis thoughts aud bis reasons with & rapldly-running pon, ‘sometimes In great Indignation and in the fmpulive lnogungo of passion. Dut bofore it appenrod in print the objectionablo features woro pruncd away, and no reader would suspect that tho original acticlo was tho production of ono whoso miud snd heavt 1had boon burning with Saming thought avd fiory indignation. 5 Dut in 18 MOBT IMPASSIONED MOMENTS he never employed the Inngunge of vitnpera- tion, ovon whon moat distinetly lnying bave the enormity of doctrine, measures, or crime. In this respoct ho was a modol editor, Ho nover abusad those who diffored from bim ; ond al- though lio wrolo vits, grent, forco agaivatalavory Lo novor fo uttored himsolf ns to give personsl oftonso, i was tuls fouturo in his writings that Lrought mo, whilo Yot a siaveholder, into intimate communication with him, aud’T am more indebted to im than £o suy othor man for my ultimatoly g}nn;x«;lpnlmg my elaves and bocoming an Aboli- onist. Thoro was_another fenturo in his character which ndded much {0 Lis effectivouess as o workor. 1o was BINQULANLY UNAJDITIOUS OF DIATINCTION. Tis hoart was in bis life-worlk, not from any am- bition for place or fame, but simply to "hava slavery abolished, I boliove nothing could have inancod him to bavo loft that work for anything olao, howover lncrativo or oficially houdrable, Nor'did ho soom to curo to bo known as he instigator of any plan or mensures ovou for tho nccomplisbmont of that objcct, Blany & timo lave I known of bis originating importont plans for which othors got the credit. His aud my (riond, tho lato Chiof-Juge tice, dosorvedly dlstingulshod for his great tulonts and groat sorvices in tho caugo of freo- dom 8 woll 5 for his bigh moral worth, not ua froquently got tho cradit of pluns and menasures, and thought himself honestly entitled to ft, when to my cortain Jknowledgo thoy wara cont cocted in Dr. Dailoy's_back sitting.room, with nono pregont but Dr. Dailey, his wifo, and my- wolf in counsol on tho subject. Fhoso of us who in our enrly days woro woll acquaiutod withs Mr, Chago, Lmow that ho hud groat ambltion to load, sud that o8 o londer, ouly codld 'ho work advantageously, Lo was a man directly the opposite of Dr. Balloy in that rospeat, and Dr, Beiley was porfectly willing £o have Mr. Obag enjoy tho honor, if thereby bo could socuro Lis high talonts for earryivg out o important mensurc. 1t would amuso ono who was proviously aware of tho plan to mark with what adroituess Dr. Bailoy would gradually draw Mr, Chaso on to tho point, as My. Chaso supposed, of being Limsolf tho originator of tho monsure ; and then Builoy scomed to fall in with it ny 8 follower of Chaso, and agrooing to give it support n his paper, the Philanthropist. ' thoso oarly dnys it was tho part asslgnod 'mo in our litslo council to got. BENATOR 1I03AS MORRIS into the monsuro proposed, boing coneldorably n his confidence. Dir. Morrit was » mun of groat power ‘his vobemont, impassioned, and stedgo- amor stylo of oratory, His 'indomltablo spirlt, when onco his judgment was coavincad, mado ima grea politioal lender ; but no fealty to party or ambitlon for office could induca him to dovinton hair's breadth from his purposo whon hismind was mado up whet sctjon to talo, 1t was only uccossary for omo to sct boforo him tho reasons for his nction in @'epectal caso, and If ho approved ho would ontor into it with his heart and soul, and without oy concern_a8 to whoso * proposition 1t was, Buch amanI knew how to moot. But it toolt tho cool, quiot, easy, ndroit skill of Gamaliol Bailoy to bring Mr, Cbase into n measuro which Mr, Chngo himeolf did ot originnto. And I mey hora stato what porlupa vory fow kmow, that to Dr. Bolloy shiould 'bo given tho credit for firat snggonl[nq, sud thay #o far buck as thirty years, 0 1den o] MAKING MR, CIARE TIE CHIEF-JUSTICE of tho United Statos, And whon, boing oflitor of the Aational Erg in Washington, he beeame intimuto with thogo who woro maldng thoir pro- grous towards loading stutosmanehip, o lod their minds_imporcoptiply to regard Chase in such a Tt thut It mado 1t oasy whon tho occasion sl lowed 1t to conuect his mamo with that exalted position, Tudeod 1t ia truo that Dr, Batloy 41 vory mich in'shaping tho courao of tho Auil-Slavory causo, Doth among politiolsnsand tho publio at larga, 'L rometnpor on ono occasion hifi bringing out BENATOR THOMAS CORWIN, who hiad beon silont during an important discus- wion in rolation Lo tho war with Moxico, to ox- pres Limsol? In 8 spooch that, aithiough unpop- Tlar, told largoly on tho sido of humauity, and Indifoctly aidod in working out tho slavary roblom: Dr. Daley bad listenod day aftar dny Pn the spocches in’tho Senato Olambor, and at Inst, s lio st in tho gallory, o wroto on & slip of papor & fow Words like thia: “Tu thio Ssnator from tho groat Blute of Ohlo going to ro- main pilont on (his grent question?’ nnd gent it to tho Somator by # pugo, Mr Corwin looked at tho little slip of papor, and ag tho spoech thon making waa closed roso to securo the floor for tho next day, aud ‘when ho did sposls it was iudeed & apecch worthy of (Lo groat Btate of Ohio. AL thio timo whon Dir, Martin Van Buron waa branght out to bo o candidute of what wau thon cnllod tho Trao-Soil party, thero was an abstuolo to Laving him nominated on account of Ly hay- ing pledgzod himuelf, whon ho lad boforo been Troaident, to voto any Iill that Congrews ‘might pous for the ubolition of slavery in tlio Distriot of olumbia, But whiloDr, Bailey was on & visit to o, hio wroto to Mr, Van Buson, inditing tho patagraph which appesred aflerwards in Ir. Von Duren’s lotlor of neceptance, in whiols hie ronouncod the formor plodge he had givon, and sgreed that bo would 1ot ¥6to such a bil, Tn tho molding of publio opinion and feoling In favor of nbolition, niothing over had a wore powerful offect in o litorary way than * UNOLE TOM'S CANIN. - For moving Mrs, Blowa to thut poworful produc- ton tho couutry and tho world is indobted to Dr. Dalloy, Ifaving, I think, €900, ho voquestod “her to writo somotling for iy poper in Yolule of tho Alave’s intorost, That offor was aoceptod, and tho ariloles for the Na- tional Zra wont on until tho 4300 woro oxhaust- ed, and thon coutinned until thoy swellad into & volume, and crented o sensation unuqualed by suything that had precodod it. ¢, Batloy posuossud GREAT BOOIAL QUALITIES, Tiin house was o plossant ono indeed for i frionds to spond an oveuing in. Wion ho wus conductiug the Nafional Kra in Wanbiugton ho adopted thy ptun of holdiog fmalliag wyvint on- tortatnmonts n which mombors of: Congrosa and htorary,Indles nnd, gontiomon. partigipated. . It wan somatimon very nmusing to A0o auch men aw Boward, Giddlngs, Ohaso, Tiuio, and.othors of tholr stamp of mind and chrraoker, playling binds. man's-bull nud othor pastimos spproprinted eually by oblldron fn (haic plessirablo, rompu. Tu ol ways, ns woll ns Dy tho bighor npplinntos ot ntollcatual pawar, ho orariad. 1. roat Iuilue ona in winnlog frlands, soouring & hioariny_for. tho gront. cnuso ho advocatad, nndan shoplug the pollticnt destinion of tho country. 1o was also & man of norvo and of high moral, courago, No mobooratio violonoo could Intimis data him. Doth in Cinolnnati rnd Wasbiugton, Lo had opportunity to-show with what. COOLNESS AND BELF-TONAESSION: i 1o coulil mogt o furious populnce, and: ealmly: proceed in hig work. notwithmtanding. sl the throntanings of an irsatlonal moblod oy -~ itioal. nsplzants fop. placo aud-nowor. ik i doneo, conragoy aud intollectunl sonmen ounblud: Dim t meantain o standing in.Washington o4 oo editor which- witimntoly browght Lis iapor into notico and mads it & powar [n tior Oapitol jisoll, When i proposod to ostablinh. i Autilnsory prass In Washingion, I wau ano of.+thontunbor who was consulted a5 to the porson to’ conduct: it.. Manly thotigit, tliat Jouhna : Lieavitt, should Do tho min, - 1wad - gront: ndmiror of Loavith &g n acholor, o wiitor, n sllliful: dobater, aud a. powerful cditor. ButI didnot think Lim: so prudont and witio a man,as-Bailey, uor_tlintho was go well adaptod to condugt. & papor. in &, Houthern city. In this viow of tho enso so many. conourred. that-tho invitation wan.given to Dr, Dailoy, ond fho rosulls proved that whothor LieavItt ws ndapted-to tho position or not, thove: who reconmouded Bailoy had uo ronson to ro- grobit, Mo was i overy way tho: man. for tho. placd, 1t Ig and to think that X did not llve to witnoss tho trhmnph-of Lis prinoiples and thowondorinl auccous of thoso labors in which ho bore. g0 active sudiao Incgo n whoro, I8 DEVOTEDNESY TO JS WORK. yras too much for bis plysierl. sironitly and. o passed away from'onrth in' the triumphs of . ristisn faith In onrly lifo hio mado o profes- slon ot reliion, end. ho, Lad us tho. futiinto friond_of his youth that dovout nnd Godly Cbristion_minisior aud’great pulpit orator- Thowns H. Stockion: Hls carly training: Lad: g offoct upon ki througllifo, wnd doubiloss addod much to his natural” cudowments to give him thint foreo of charaotor which distinguishod: Bim among Lis diatingatshod coad ntors. In theto rommks wbont Dr, Bailoy T would not. dotraot one iotn from tiio praise duo to lis carly, noblo compaers in Ginolnnetl and ity vi- cinity. And it would havoboen gratifying to mo Lind'my Lieelth nnd: engagomonts poruitied o, uftor the invitation: I find_from {ho-Com- mistao, to propare something - for: thin oceasion in rolation to thoue zoalous co-laborors,—tohava brought forward some IERSONAL REMINISCENCES of dear, daopatted brothren whoso comprnion- Slip T thatod and enfoyed in those dags wiieh fricd mou's gouls, Thoro wan tho fogitive's ablo loyal adyeunie;—tlio pollie, gontlomusly John Jolliffo 3 theta 'wero tho connidornto Lud- low, tho oloquent Ssmuel Lewls, tho Lospitablo Eirnst, tho watchful Jobn Intflold, tho attontivo TFreomnn, aud tho bavo-herted Cornelius Bur- nett, and mang others wortliy of ol Lionor for tholy zonlous davotion to tlie canso of the slnvo, Oh, thoy woro suich mon as wero fitted by their variops qualifientious to Uo_ coadjutors with Bni- lay. Cimso, and Morris in tho ublime work which o Lud given thow to do. 1t ddos not become us to speak of thoso who yot livo, but I may add it I8 no disparagemont to thom to uay it was no littlo lionor to_bo nesociated. with such noble- hearted men, in_counsel und labor: It was sublimo caugd in which thoy vera angaged, and o mora thau erouloun work to bo eccomplislicd. Tn tho groat oity umong tho savas nod the clits thioy wora ludlod down upon as ovor-zenlons fa- nnlfcu and disturbers of the poace. But thoy wito wero intmtoly acquniutod with thom knei thoy woro wise aud good non. Thoy themnlyos foli strongz, not m their own might, but in God and they know thab truth and rightconsnoss musk in tho cnd provail, 'Thoy had o mighty onomy to contend with, but a wighty God' in whom they trusted. Tho “ peouliut instisubion,” o it wan callod, way tho idol of ‘tho nation. It was indeod peculinr, bocause thora was nothing like it un- dor tho wido lieavons,—nothing it in the s, moon, or slaré—nothing liko it o thus diversified earth—nothing lko it in_Leavon, aarth, or holl—it was ciplintically poouliar—tho pecullar institution—peoullar [n its own charao- toriutics ; peouliar in its refatious socially, politi- cally, and occlostastically ;. pecutiar in Iy ; po- gauliakin othigw; poctliar in (o world,; pecliax in the Church.’ It Lad no counterpart in tho Tenl or in tho idoal. Wo conld not describo it by- anything that was: wo could not delineato it by the paintor's brush 3 wo conld not reach it in tho lights of pooslo’ fancy. It was truly o po- culiar~ institution, - and peculiar in _this, nmong its numberlcas pecutiaritics, that it had o myslic power over tho minds and bearta of mon t0 strtily tuo one aud to obliterato tho human- ity of the othor, It strotchod its scoptro over thio oad of the miajstor in his pulpit, wud forbid tho frocdom of his thoughts and the'play of his sympathics, Morchants, lawyors, doctors, mo- chonics, farmors, legisiators, Govornors, nd Presidontu,Judgos and jurics, plobeians nnd arid- tacraty, the poor and “the weulthy, States and soveroignties, all fall T‘rnnkmw bofora thiy mighty mouatch, and, n humblo submision, as thongl afraid to hoar thoir own broahings, thoy whisporad In tho mystic prosonce, 7oUQI KOT THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION.' Tqlk nbout the pondorous Car of Juggernant oling its tromondous wheels ovor tho prostrata ‘Dodios of iuol.wouhiflnml 2Why, this was nothing to tho soul-crushing pofvor of tho Car of Blavory. ‘Talc Gbout pAgan revorenco for. the ‘monstor imiges carvod (n Wood and stono! What wWas tbis to tho sbject gonufloxions—yaa, baso prostration—of American iutellect aud American Yoligion boforo tho torrible scawl of this mons- forgod? Our grost statosman, Dunicl Webstor, may hovo bad the hond of Jovo, 50 full of ntal- Toctual thought that fall-grown Minarvas burst thorofrom ; _and our great divine, Mosos Stuart, mny_ bavo boen so mighty in Diblical and thoologieal _ lore that Dis pharaphrades of Holy Writ wero received nlmost as thio inepization of tho Almighty; but our Wob- stors aud our Btuarts brought Ooustitutions, iblos, nod all, and, casting them at tho feot o this 1a0st hidoous of all tho gods of suciont mythology o modorn demonium,—tho concen~ tration of all tho doformitics of carth and boll,— rovorontly nnd mookly, and with thoir hunds'on their mouths, aud thoir mouths in tho dust, prayed: “Tonch ua what intorprotation of thia Constitution and this Biblejthou wilt, and wo ar rondy to write it down ns thon commandest,” ‘And, kisping tho grond toe of thotr hideous god, thoy istouod to oboy with * alucrity,” and ¥ t0 the fullest oxtont,” tho bohosts of thieir torrific liko idol. Yes, such was Its peontiar power that EVEN FATRER MATIEW, tho great Apoutlo of Tomporanco, although shen far ‘awoy in tho Dmorald Islo bo could, with 0'Councll, Lead tho signatures of the address to his countrywen in Americs 0 ubite with Abolitionisis in tho battlo ogoinst the monstor, Yot no tiooner touched our slioros thun tho spoll 3¢ thio domou was cast over him, and bo was led captive ot bis will, iguoring his own principlos and outing his owh words. And tho groat Kos- suth, whoso nanio could niot be utterad without rolundling, or rathor foronsiug, tho blaze of the firo of liborty in our bosoms while In Europe; tho mighty Kossuth, mighty in intelicot, mighty in “loglo, mighfy iu cloquoncs, mighty a8 tholeader of & noblo band of pultiots,—power- ful in argument to convinea tho understanding of mou, wud poworful in pathos to_direct their sympnthios, yos, tho groat, tho noble, tho iiluy- {tious Koxsuth, by sonio unacoountablo, mysti- oul, miraculous fascinntion, stood spoli-bound, and could not utter & word, s wyliable, that gaye tho romotost idow that Lo had evor heard, that Lo had ovar dreamod thoro sould o a sluyb to crouch boforo tho rod of o mastor fn ovy of theso United Slatos, ' Ho was striving to brouk tho shnckios of millious of sorfy in Lungary ; ho could thiore exalt the op- preswod peasint {0 an aquality with tho aristo- Srutlo opprassor s Lo could breal down all casto whoro hod tho souction ' of many centurlos, and ho could_thero speak in thuudor- tonos of tho nntural and inalionablo rights of all 1uon to olvil equality, but, a8 though’ Louud by somo wonderful mesmetlo mognetism, Lis tonguo clowved Lo the roof of his mouth und all Lia power of langusyo fuiled iu tho prosenco of Amorioan slavory. “Flion who ko ruih 0 to sesall tho glgantlo evil ? Ayoung stripling, raised noar tho Cradlo of Lxflmg, soundod’ out_the war cry, *L will bo hoatd," aud Birnoy, und Lailey, and Burnott, and Jolllifo, sud Ludiow, rud_Frooman, and Lowls, oud Morts, zospondod from tho 'valley of La Tiollo Riviero, * Yoy, you shall bo haard.” Theso Toll in tho buitle, but tho Garclion still romaius, und the victory 18 won et J. R. GIDDINGS, The following sketoh of tho lifo of Joshua R, Qiddings, writton by the' Ifon, A, G, Riiddlo, of Washivgton, D. O, Was thon presontod: 1 umy asked b0 furniub a skotch of Joshus Nood Qlddings—whioh Ieball attompt, *Homo phi- lovophiical sualysis of tho man," sald onoe to me. Notabitof It. Tho moment you snalyze auy mun—the grontest—roduce him to tho elemouts of commun humanity—so much virtuo, so wuch {ruth, 50 much courago; &0 much wonkuosy, oto., | Lo censed Lo bo A wan ab all, aud ¢ noither an " el objeobrof -ndmiration, ot reapect, nor even of fn-. torost. « . 1 know n loamod and popular divino, who onco upon » timo, in_ tho pulpit, onumorated and- {analyzed.tho atiributon and naturo of Qod to tho. | ‘odilention.. and. upbuilding - of. tho plops of, i | floclcy and Liov nor- thoy aver.droamod.that tho | {ntadow. hio wosthus wolghivg:and sounding was: in8 God of any sort. Nor will I attompt to oxtrack 1and draw out tho losson, or. auy. moral, proit- ;uble or.other, of. My, Giddinge' lifo, Iwonld {fI might outlino. him: sgainst. the. ibackground -of his timo,and inita light and atmasphoro, that. old friouds would recoguizo, ‘end.vhich straugors might soo something of.tho ‘man 18 1o was :and to whom e would oxpound the moral and:lesson of bis own lifo, + Tt this may bo attomptod, the recent yonrs with thols naw structures must disappear; and’ 5 WE JIUST TURN DACK:=, bagk to that timo when the fosblo States, undor: tho gentlo pressuro of the uow Coustitution, Dogan that wondrouy growth, whoso fruitage In our oiva tima 118 natlon, i THE EOUTHERN LIALY OF OUR UNION had its onc Institution of_ slavery, which gave it {unity nud doveloped miglit, It g the problom ' of yopulut govornmont to-mako Hio.porsounl n- {orest of the.mon who govarn ono. with tho gov- ornad, so thst the lines of fulorest and amintion mn{ draw with tho linos of the.public ntorest, along tho road of advavce, 'The raro ad- vautago of thio,the South, in the infant struggle :of tho. now-born nation, bad, Lt bogan o, ! whilo tho.rest woro many. b i ‘Thls ono thing, lko a hugo Improguated. para- [ ita, fasteucd itsolf, o great gall, upon tho suce 1u\llenz und teuder loaf of tlie Constitution, and i drow la Juico sud ifa to ity own growth sud molntonshice, 1t s anticipated by the fromers of the in- ! strumentthnb tho Bouthorn bouduon would cuuapo to Rorthern frocdoins ond tioy. mada 1t | tho dutyof the Stutos, on demand, o give tham | up, Bix yearu aflor tlio protaulgation of that iu- | sirimont, slavory procured by national leginla- tion_ tha trausfor of this duty and obhigation to Lo Natioual Goverunient, with tho pladga of all . ibwpowor to its porformatice. ¢ seoued stipulations vith all tho bordering ) tribes of Tudians forn capturo and rolura of o | its childron _who sbiould flde to their forosts nud | fantnossos for cover; aud fought with the nation- ol armios_tie Mtorniinablo war of almust scoro of yoars in_the Lvorglades of Florida to on- forco thom, It purchased Louisiana, it conquorod. Yexay, and fnlly Now Moxico ‘and California, for the flelds in. which to extend it- eolt. 1t toois possousion of-partioy inupired policies, olocted Presideuts snd appointed thote Cabntets, It distributed patronage, and took cmomand of the sxioy and-navy to ftself, Early it entored Congrans, aud woll-bigh, openly ulad from the tist, = It elocted tho Sponicors of the ouso, appoiited standing committees, sud dictated and fashiouod its logislation. Li abol- iuiod tho right of potition, tho liborty of spcach, and_excluded Anti-Slavery papers, from the mails, It nttemptoed to interpolute itscit into | tho toxt of intornational lus, sud moro than ono Socrotary of Stato domand ed pay for slnves whom tho-breath of God wafted over tho sous from the vauuied shoras of the ouly howmo of Inmian frecdom. Tho Coustitation was formed to protect and chiorish the {nstitutions of tho Statos; slnvory s the ono institution,of the South, and liouce iy oherixhed nud protected HIl it bocamo na- tional, and no longor local, sod_all tho atzongth | of tho Umon funcul it aboit. To oppoeo it wos a violation of tho Coustitution; to war ngainst it was a threat to distolvo tho Union. It became tho Qoustitution, way tho Union, s tho Na- ion. “Che disbolism with which ¢ Inapirod Its voto- rios aud propaganda, and by, which it por- verlod private conyiction, until publie opin- ion becama whotly diseased and darkened, will remaln & wonderful mouumont of men's power to gonerato cud propagate n disonao of morals aud a pestilence of the mind. Froman ablorrent wrongonly to be tomporarily ondured, it socured . toleration, thon favor, thon protoction, and finally love and voueration. l'com a crimo to bo_punished with doat, it was trnsformad. to tho sum of human good, and deeroud otornal, It fostoncd fiself upon tho American Church, and_was_sanctified by tho laging on of Loly hnnds, Warpad Seriptures woro callod to fts wupport, and dsmiuod oF blessod in s own name, untl to quostion iis divinity was o Xéluup(mmu. Aud o eluvery bocame Church and tute, £ TUE IULLNESS OF TIMR afowmen of the North arooin an atmosphoro o thick and poisoned that ot firat thoy might not bohonrd, sud dofouncad it, ~ ‘Pliey denouced it gs Luthor and Molancthon denouunced the Tapnoy, Thoy found it tho enthroncd rulor ot the nation, audmon cbarged thom with treason, Thoy found it oumoshed 1n tha Conatitution, and mo: donounced thom as violators of it. ‘Iloy fouud it foncod about and hedged in by the Union, nnd wers chorged with ecoking to dissolve thak bond, Norwero thoso clisrges witiiont founda- tion, Moy etruck ab alevory wherever tho found it, and they atrucls full, armod, vengoful, sud pondorous blows at overything liat atgod bo™ twoon thom and it,—rightoous blowe, God-di- rected blows,—biows which, resounding througi all tho lond, finally awolo tho heavy-oyod peopls from tho poisoned lethargy of death. Ono form there was, and ig, that comos o me, T closo my eyes and I seo 'WILLIAM LLOYD OGANRISON, in mal of proof, assaling the frowning fortross of slnvory us did the Black Knight with bis pon= derons battlo-ax tho postorn of the Castlo of Front do Baut, standing alono unmoved amid dosconding fx6, rulnfug sionog, and falling beams, whilo high over tho din and carnival of Dattlo ' thoso awful blows woro hoard, carryiug toszor to tho dofondors on tio battlomonta, Not in this direot assault, wounded and bruised a8 it was, was slavory to fall. Somothing thero wag of good aud_precious in ¢he natiou, Which had grown, and fn the Constitution which men Lind mado, that was to bo saved. Allies within tho Union lincs, within tho Constitution, who Jovod and sorved both, zorlous dofondors of tho nation, called into_action perhaps by thoso out~ sido assailants of all, wore to arise, Who wero to Join arms in on essault upon slavery, and who Mero at tho aame timo_defandors of tho Consti- fution and Union against them, Straugo allics wora theso hatiug frionds, theeo loving enemios, and memorable was tho threc-coruered war whioh followed. During oll the oarly yours of thoso times, THE SIAR WAS GROWING UP, folling tho troos, sud living m tho shndows of tho ‘wondrous’ wnple forcsts of ~Northora Obloy who in God's good tino would, without wounding a fibra of the notion's organio law, putiontly dissolve and_disentangle slavory from Tilo. Conetitation ; snd ao clonrly sprate thom that no man should mistake wint wae slavory for what was tho Constitution; and eo that ail who would might 800 thay slavory could derive o hoip rom hat Inatrument, could ind noroste ing-plnce even in 1ts shadow. §itoad-browd, broad-shouiderod, and lofty of staturo he ves, with s domo-like' haad, raomy and nmplo, In which to soarch out, tarn dver, in- vostigato, ‘Goparato, and analyzo’ doop, subtle, sud difficalt_probloms, and oarry forward long and groat traine of continuous thought to ultie mato conclusions 3 With & power to compol others ta adopt them p8 convictions and to ombody thoso_convictions in actlons and lives, Oue of o Kioga of Mn, in & priwitive xaco e was, Not conquering by a strikiug power, and blind- ing with & dazzliog_ brillaney; but orenting, forming, molding, and loading, With & far-sovings, doop-renching, politio engcity’s baoked nud wust tamod with & massive physical power, undor & caol, wary courago, which, in its sorono reposo on God, nover blxnched in tha faco of mortals. BIRTH AND EDUCATION. Born wo yenrs after the st Fugitive Slavo Inw, ut Athons, Bradford Co,, Pa,; bis father's nanie wagJoshits,andhie had i Unofe Elishs,and I Jmow not what ofd Beriptural rolations bosido. A Turitan jn bis ancostry on both sides, Do- seondod from mon and Wowon who cats ovor {n the first half contury aftor Plymouth. Nomed- io, at ouo or Lwo points in_Mnssachusotts, and stopping at Conucoticut ; and then to Pounsy ~vauin; and in Joshus Junlor's infenoy ta Cuu- andaigua, and whon bo was 10, to Wuyno. Town- ship, in Asbtabul County. Lila {n 1805, throo Yoars atter Olio, with her nitio immouso outlino Sonntion,—slio was but an unknows outline hor- wolf,—beoamo o Btato in contemplation of the Constitution. Whis was the Gonesls of THAT REMABKABLE COLONIZATION of tho Wosl from New Ingland, 'Tho planting of thio Connoctiout Wostorn Iteservo was #o much of Nassuchusotts and Conneotiout vemoved to tho broador, froor, and moro fertila Oblo wroods, \ihoro some of tho Yaukeo cluractoriatles werd Qdostined o furthor dovelopmont, und may. gur- Vivo tholr disapposrance in older ©* Down Oouns {y." ‘Ihey brought tho Subbath, Ohureh, sehool, soncd ontoolilsm with them, with frugality and in< Qustry, tholr lova of God, lova of lnw, lova of! odueation, and yesruing for & bottor condicion. Al thoso toro plantod dsop d grow up Liick and havdy 3 aud tholr {nfluenico aud flavor weat out und posicssod tho whole Btato, iu fbs iu- funoy, A ioro, n this thln, puro, anol, braclug ot smosphore, on is now wraund, ricl and [ragranb from the hand of Nawurs, il wnconscious of his mielon, etehing only fuiut ockooy of the far-of waild boyoud the wooday. dveaming, hia boy drosms, thinking his boy thoughts, the young Joalua grov up. Chays | g dow oo, grubblig atuwps, loggliie aud ugiiing,. break{ug stoars, milking cots, oot poatoos, saylni, iho ontetliom, Faemiug. grids dtono, and Suiforing ol the visltatlovs of o Ynnkeo _boy, . fu. that , old timo on tha osoryo, with pastimos .of hunting, sishing, raising log cabing, golug to mootlug, apoliing-schoul, nu(l millitia’ muntor, stalwart, ‘hardy, brave, docllo,” and sbrong, tha-bully of tho ripg at square-tiold, aud tho floctost runtior at o foot-raca n hisrange,, “lhen, como, tho War of 1813, ominously pro- codod u tho Oblo woods by the suddan aud myu- terlous. disspronrangd of Bl tho Indin. it tho. duy bofpre i tholr canps uud wigwamy, comlog aud golig at Lho eablug with tliolk Aquaw and. papoosos ; and ' to-dny wigwap, emnp, and forest woro ompty and.ailout, and to-morrow camo.the lorum of, war. + At tho news, of Iull'a surrendor, probably, TUB FIRST WAVE OF ALARM took avory fumily, with bastily gatherod gaods, ono; day's. toritied flight_cnst. Aud_tho firyl tght ench;lodgoed in the abandored cabln of ans ollior to. raturn moro _lolsuroly on tho morrow, Young Giddings, then undor, m(litary ngo proc ourad, his fatlier's copsent amd sérvad ona tour ‘of_duly In tho militis, and. was fn tho vory shiarp uffair near tho Bandusky Fonin« suln,, . Fho vicory of Derry, fn thut old timo " ‘son-fight, foliowed na. {b was by tha ° tolroat and capliiro of I'roctors_srmy, and tho doath of tha moro, formidablo ‘Locuiriaoh, Jert * the Rosorve to tho contests and conquosts of pance, AL 19, wwith bis aool, shrowd, obsorving noigh- bore, yoitug Joshun had nequired tho ropatation of wéliolur,—in that day of Lindloy Murray, Da: botl, tha Thlra-part Columbian Orator, ota. \With 2 young Amorican's hungor for books and loarn- ing, ho lind fouud timo’ iu the littlo crovico of Inbor, and onorgy onough In tho surplus from atl tho domauds upon both,” to ! NEAD AND MASCER EVERYTAING IN PRINT that bis wido-ronching hauuds could grasp. ITis readivg was_chietly st nighit, mostly by tho log firo_of orackling hickory bark (dipped tallow= cnudlos wors a Juxury resorved fof company aud oveuing mootings) : and whon the ovorweariod foraster usually retived with tho fowls that ho might go forth nt_tho orowlug of tho cook the nosb morning, Like many anothor Wastorn Ttcservo boy, he kept scliol sovoral wintors, fitted himsclf aa woll a8 ho could, and 1 1821 E COMMENCED TIE STUDY OF LAY in tho olico of Elisha Whittlcsey, at Canfiold, tho same oflice from which so many ominonb Jayyors and distioguishod men afterwards grad- untod. "Ab thio ond of tho shortost {imo allowod by tho 1wy of Olilo, Lie way ndmittod to the bar,—that soverast Lowt of aman's ouduring mental qunl- lifa prosents. Then bogan with him tho real cducational dovoloplng procoss, which briogs out ond atrougthons, polishes and rendors usoful, sl tho variots facultios which o to malko up oua of Lo highos forms of that muiy-sided map, the nist prius luwyor. Euigontly practical, iucredutous, ungocious, rondy, losrnad, donling always with uan, their actiouy, aud slways soarching out tho sourtos.of motivo, always bafore the world, and lightiug, wnder ifu approviug or condemning ofos, uathing so woll fits o Inrgo-mindad, lacs: (ientted man, for the strugglo of public lifa, 1 ‘Paslinmout nid Congrass, as the thorough disci- Dlino of the courts bafors jurica. s ‘At the ngo of 24 M, Giddings was marrled t6 AMies Lura Wacors. Sho was o faithrul and do- voted wito, Hharing with him the trials aud hard- wbips of life, aud assuming choorfully, during hor husband's froquent nud prolouged absoucy at the National Capital, sud hin constout ou- _grousment in publio affairs, tho entiro oharge o} tho family, thoir training, and education. She survived him only a fow months. “And o, with thia origin, this rearing, this oxpos tones, Uit surcounding, with this capacity und thouo holps, those burdans which wore iuspira- tious_und helps, in this fiold, on tho then frous tier of the young Ropublio, with it traditious and memorles, fis frosh, strong lifo, and ity steugylen, ity ‘sspirations, aud hopos, oll strong iu (ho hoart, soul, aud brain of tho'Youny oiti zon, Inwyer, husband, aud fathor, b weut for: wward, uncouksiously fitting himsole’ for tho groat bavveat growlng sud ripening to his hand. Tn 1823 ho was elootod & momber of tho Ohia Ifouse of Roproscntatives ; doolined ro-eloction in 1827, In 1828 he was dofasted for tho Obig Honato,—tho only {uatanco of & rejootion by the people whoro bis claims ware submitted o thouy 101838 ho was electod o REPRESENTATIVE 1N CONGRESS, whoro he sat continuousty until'the ond of the Tnirty-Aeth Gonfirmm, Marohk -4, 1860, Alr. Gid- dings wns o Whig, fully, asseuting to thoir doginns aud policy, snd continued to' aot with the party until tho nomination of Gon. Taylor in 1848, oxcopt iu instancos in which his convic- tions of duty and right compalled Lim to sopo- rato fromthom. Tu 1843 ho nided to organizo tho Iireo-Sofl party in Ohlo, Msssachusetls, ot aud s tho nominoo of tlio Freo-Soil cauous tho Ohio Logislaturo for United States Souator iu 1848-9, whion Mr. Chaso was oleotod by tho Demoorats sud tho votes of throo Iroo-Soilors, Ho unitod in the formation of tho prosout Ro- publican pazty, wich which ho sotod wntil his donth. “Choodore Wold mado his tour throngh Obis in 1830 or 1837, nnd, with s povwor raroly cqualled, had rovonied tho iniquity of slavery, and mex waomed for tho first tinio to sco it This uue doubtedly did much o quickon und intousily tho sottlad convictions which broadonad and devel- oped in tho mind.of Mr. Giddiugs, and Lo on- torad Congross woll nigh master of tho _subject. Ho joiued Mr. Adams ond DIr. Slado thero, under” tho rulo of tho Houso, which escludod potations and dobate upon tho subjoct of slav- ovy. Tho first wocossion of tho Southorn mem- bors of Covgress from tho Houso had already takon placo undor tho lead of Mr. Wiso,—driven ont_ by the resolutions of ALr. Siado, or, rather, Dy Lis attempt to disouss them, and who re- tilrued alono upou the unconditiont] urronder of tho Democracy, tho rulors of the Youso. Titk' CALHOUN DOGMA was: Slavery was an institution of tho States, protected by tho Constitution, and benco Cous von bud no power agalust it that the Consti- ution was tho law of the torritory of tho United Statos, oud honos slnyery hiad ko zight under it to plant iteolt in il tha tarritory outsid of tha itles which, modern Blates, Mr. Giddings hold that slavory wes urely Tocal, over which, in tho Statos, Coigross T o nowar; that, s it wae o erico agalnng God, Naturo, bnd olvitization, Congross musk logiélata agaihst it wherover it had power, in tho Wgrritories, in tho District of Columbla, uud thio constwlse_and intor-State slave-trade; ' thal, us it was local, tho pooplo of the Froa Statos hud tho right to Do froo from its bure dons and odium, its ein and fts ehawog and, almost singlo-banded, bogan tho gigaus tio 'task of oxpolling it ‘from the National Capitsl, donationnlizing i, baating It down to tho proportion of & moro Stato institution, and thus compolling it 08 such to lauguish,’ aiid Sually dio. All'of Uils groat war Iy matter of history, X ‘may not dwall upon it. I can Luxdly glince at 178 OUTLINE. Among thegirat things that mot tho eye of the young repras¥utativo at tho Foderal city was a ZoMu of Slavos, bought aud collooted in Mary~ laud, and driven through Washington, attonded Dy atmed ruflons, an_thoir way to o Southern Tt was alted a6 tho eastarn froul of tho Capitol, for tho odifeatlon of tho puardisus of human liberty, and saen by br. Giddings wii ‘othors, There woro, also, slave-pon aud prison within sight of tho Cupltol. On- tho 13lh of Tobruary, 1840, & bill came up in tho Houso to appropriato 40,000 to build a bridgo over tho ‘Auizcostia River (oastorn branch of the Polomuo), Whioh Mr, Giddinga sssailod on the grouud thia, Dy ronson of tho siayo-trade aud th oxlstouce o slavory in the District, Washington was au unilb Dlace for tlio Natiousl Oapital, aud, for thnt rens Son, the nation ehould ot build' tho bridge, ‘hia disousslon wns nob within tho rulo of eie fonce, aud tho bill was dofoatod. And from {hub moment Lo waa marked nud doomed aw tho mor= talfoo of slavery, gainst whom was, without 1ulg or lw, and iu violtion of.all domblanco of Doth, was denouncod through sll the Bouth, throligh all tho North, through all tho naiion by tho chupions and mioions of slavory. Tor us, the Whig campaigu of 1810 s withous iutorost. Iu Fobruury, 1811, Mr. Qiddings mado Lis st groat epocch upon THE SEMINOLE WAR, unfalding its objoot, which was tho recapture of Tuvaway eluvos, snd to ouslavo thoir olildren, Lori aud grown to mauhood in frcedom, 1o produced full and completo documontary cvie once, and also wufoldud tho polloy aud practico ot tho Governmont towards thoSouthora trilcg wholly in tho' Interost of slavery. This eerclh was widaly dlssominuted, and Was ono of Nra Giddings"most yaluable,'ay it was Lis Srut cone tribution, to tho odusation of the peoplo upin tho subjdot, 1t cost bim_tho porsonal favor of tho now Prosidont, Gon. Iarrison, who prowsrod toraliovo tho Whig vatly of wll raspousipiviy for tho uttoraucos of this now Tribuno, Door, weak old man, Providonoo soon volleved (G country of hihn. o was ot tho best o sd .angobropjem, it Mr, Ghase, Mr, Giddiugs, sud ‘Juany of the rost of us, did ‘Bupport Lim. ' M. Giddings, who liad given Lim oliclal support, enlled ou'hin ond paid Lis rospeots, aud nover ot hiw agoln. This spocol oallod’ down upon ita autllor tho_donunciation of Waddy Thompe wou, of Sauth Carolins, Alford, of Goorgia, aud other distinguished Bouthern mon, ‘Tho war from that duy wont on, Giddingt ovor an tho ulect ool Intropid, and v 9 ovor presont, aud always toasal 1 ldh. duriuic the vane) | 0o