Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1874, Page 3

THE ABOLITIONISTS. Clostng Doy of the Reunion, Paper on the Work of the Ameri- can Missionary Sooiety. Letters from Amasa Walker, €. M, HNawley and Others. Bhort Bpeeches and Personal Reminiscences. Resolutions in Relafion to Lovejoy’s Monument. . . The Oivil Rights Bill---Votes of Thanks. Bkotoch of John P. Hale. MORNING SESSION. P GENERAL BUSINESS. The rounion of Abolitiontists roconvenod. at balt-past 8 o'clock, yostordsy morning, in tho TUnlon Park Congrogational Church. Tho first ‘hour was spent in five-minute spooches, n length of timo which caused much grumbling on the park of many of tho members, nlmost all of whom wanted fifteon minutes at loast in which to rolate their oxporionces, Tho liltle misundor- standiog caused quito a warm discussion, and somo sharp sparrlug oceurred, which, howover, tho good sensa and firmness of the Prosidont frowned down, * TERSONAL EXPERIENCES. Mr, Cushing, of Quincy, Ill, related his ox- porienco, when arrested for alding in tho escape of fugitive slaves, Ho drew & vivid picture of histrial at Joliot, Ill,'and his flual triumphal noquittal, 5 M. M. Fronch, & colored man, statod that ho had beon longing for tho present opportunity, o was in the inaurrection in Xansas, where ko nided all ho could. Ho had a little money, nnd ‘bought $4,000 worth of Lis own family. As soon na bis monoy gavo out, he wout to Cincinnati, and nided ranving slaves over the Undorground” Tailway. The lnst payment ho mado was $2,260 for his wifo and childron. Mr, Briags, of Rockford, formerly of Vermont, thought that he was ona of the oldest Abolition- ists present. Ho was one of the Old-Guard Lib- erty men, and Lo cnme to tho mecting to spoak a8 n right. He mentioned the name of Judge Harrington ns ono espoclally worthy of the re- spect of tho moeting, The Judge had told s Blaveowner who offered a bill of sale a8 a proof of his’ownership of n slavo, that he wanted a bill of snlo signod by the God in Hoavon before hip could lay clnim to a human being, R Mr. Butley etated that the namo of Thomas Garrott, of” Wilmington, shoula bo associnted with that of Lovi Coilin, Mr. Garrett at ono time lost the bullke of his proporty by an order of the Court, and the Shoriil in serving tho ox- ccution, told him that he hopea that would bo o Iesson to him not to il in the oseape of slavoy. To bim M. Garrett roplled that if the 8horift could tell bim whero he could su 3‘»1}/ food to, or in any way help a sluve, ho o immediately goand do it, DMr. Taloott stated that ho was born an Abo- Iitionist some soventy-yovon years ugo, Ilo had holped Gov. Beveridge at the underground rail- rond. Ie once tald some lawyers thnt he hnd ‘broken the Fugitive act knowiugly and inton- tlonally, but hie was nover molested nor dis- turbed.’ This was in old Washington County, Now York State, He wanted tho old and young Abolitionists, like John Brown’s soul, to keop mntobing on, Wo wautedto soo thom ail becomo promoters of tomperauco and tho abolishmont of sccret societics. Mr. Clark, of Oberlin, stated that In the days of troublo prayer was the mainetay of tho Abo- . litioniste. Of course thoy kept their powder dry, but at the samo timo thoy nover failed to look to (od for assistanco. The spoaker reforred to an ocension on which ho was inspired of God &t n mooting and was ouabled to o gponk on tho subject of slavory that several slayeholders went honio and got rid of their alaves, Mr. Poolo, of Michigan, stated that ho did not know whother it mado any difference if hio wera the youngest or oldest Abolitionist, It wuy onough for him that he was and always had boon ono. - 3ir. Beocher undortook to make o defonse of Dr. Lyman Decohor and Lone Seminary, Ilo eaid that unjust statements had boen made re- garding bis veuerable {ather, now in lus grnve, and read soveral gelections from a book, which did not seem to Interest Lho audienco. Judge Wailo statod that provious Lo 1844 there ITHE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1874, § Z 3 Mr. Lyman for the use of his room, at No. 101 Doarborn atrootj tho dally pross for thelr full roports of tho procoodings and fair and kind troatmont of tho rouniun editorlally; the broth- ren who c¢amio from n distance to add Intorost to the gnthorim{; thoso who propared blographies, skotchos, and nddrossos Lo bo addod to the his- torloal rocord of the conntry; and Goeorge W. Olarko, tho slngor, Miss Lowis, tho soprano of the church then sang “Tom Misslon” in hor ususl oxcéllont atyle, and was applanded, Mr. Olarko announced that tho Hutohinsona sont grootings of sympnthy, aud wore sorry thoy wore uneble to be present. MR, BOWEN, of New York, dosirod to stato somo reminiscencos of the good done to the oauso by Arthur and Towls Tappan, They both stood by Prudence Crandoll in tho worlc which she hind rindortaken, ‘The rosult waa that mob law wzs onsoted in tho Town of Cantorbury, Conn., and that the colored childron gho #as oducating wwe drivon from hor sohool, ¢ was tho broating up of thissohool which mado tho spoaker an_Abolitionist, aud wado Windam the bannor Republican County of the Blato of Conneotiout. E‘hn sood-sowing of tho Mcssra, Tappan had multiplied sinco, The n{)onkcr roforrad to the porsccutions suffered by the Tappaus, showing how " their dwellings and stores, woro destroyed by DPro-Slavery riotors, When'tho call wna mado for tho Castlo-Gardon moeting thoro was ono flrm in Now York who decided not to sign tho document calling it, and that firm wns Bowen & MoNameo, who stated thit thoy soid their goods to tho Houth and nob their prinoiples, THE NESOLUTIONS, The Committoo on Rosolutions reported as follows : Assombled on an ocoasion 8o rich {n recollections of mutual toll in tho great atrugglo with Ameriesn tyranny, but far richur in the mighiy providences Which gave us victory, Resolved, That we givo thanks to Almighty God for thie muccoss which Ho gave to our offorts, although by torribls things 1 rightcousncas, and that wa livod to #ew ourn n land of fmpartial liborty, Ltesolved, Thnt we express for our old comradea {n the great conflict who have ons to thelr roward onr grateful remembrauco, our admiratton for their herol endeavors, aud_our undying nffoction, as for doparted brothera und sistera; aud wo sond the word of chieer, of congratulation, und affection to those who romain to thank God for tho aucccas of our offorts, and to witness for THm that thoso who daro to mafnfain the right agefust Lostlity and roproach will not loss tholr Tewa Reaolted, Since tho act, of cmancpntion and subso- quent constitutional provisious Luvo placed tho freed- men with all other citizous of this country on snn equallly beforo thie Jaw, that it fa tho Christion duty of this people to conguier 'thelr projudices by which tha frecdman atill re subjoct to tho most scrions and cruol disabilitios, and olso o socuro to tliem, by all proper 1egal as wefl osscssion rights, , Thot cmancipation alone having but brought the slaves witlin the reach of other benefils, the obligations of honoryof gratitude, of humanity, patriotism, and religicn bind not Cliriatlans alone, bt tho peoplo'af the wholo country, to raiso thom up to intelligent, Obristian citizonship, Dy their unpaid toil, their ‘wrongs, and their sufferings, in which tho country was criminally implicatei, by thelr valor in war, {0 which wo appealod in distress, aud_ by com. mand of our common_ Deliverer, wo urg and domand tonfold greater cudeavors for the “oducational and Chiristian olovation of that peoplo, Resolved, Thnt wo call on the redesmed country to cherlsh and tranemit to othier gonerntionn the spirit of 1iberty aud justice which it cost 8o much toll and blood to revive and mako sscendant, as vital almost of ita lifoand future snfety. Rerolved, That Z,” Enstman, tho Rev. H, L, Ham- mond, and Calvin Do Wolf are horeby constitutod o commitice to superintoud the publication of & metno- rial volume of this reunion, to contain a full rocord of ita procecdings, nud such other Antl-Blavery blogra- pbies, incldonty, and bistory ns they moy olituin and deem it advisublo to publish'; and they sre authorized to urrango with tho publislicrs of this book to obtaln aubscrihers ot a prico Dot to exceed $2.50 cach volunie, under such contract as thoy may be abla to make, MD. WEBSTER stated that the mattor of the resolutions lay very noar his own hoart. Ilo folt that, 1n tho mntter of the groat roform, they had not yet perfected tho work, 1lo reforrad ospacially “to tho third soction of the regolution, which related to the procuring of civil rights for our colored brethron. Another tl\hli{ waa that offort should bo made to porpotuata this organization in ordor to co- opornte with worliors in England and olsowhore, —iu order to blot out slavery in all parts of the world. Tho lotter from England containod n propor rebuke when it reforred to the existonce of slavery, and tho moeoling was called upon to work fortho outiro abolition of slnvery through- out the world. He bad been associatod with thoso noble-hearted British Abolitionists in tho ‘work, and be hoped that tho Amarican Abolition- ists would not allow thomsolves to bo surpatsed by Lllxm Evglish Abolitiobists in tho extont of tho work, 3, 3. W FEE thought that the worlk of the reunfon would not bo complete until tho shackle was shaken from the foot of the Ingt slave. Tho slaves wantod not only thashackles shaken from thom, but also to be froe to bo treated as oquals, ‘Thoy,should imitate Christ in this mntter. Tho colorod mon should be allowed to do everything which thoir worth and_ virtuo fitted them for. He hoped thoy would ot censo until overy traco of pro- scription of tho colored man was removed. ‘'he Humpden students’ choir hero sang two pieces. [Applauso,] Q1ONGE OLARKE, the Abolition singer, addressed tho meetiog, statiog that he had employed his power of soug in the canses of temporanco and abolition for the last forty years, He concluded by singing D'urgnl .\vull~knu\vn song A man's a’ man for o' that.” 1 a5 moral monne, the_complote ent of all their civil and s R, WILLY thought that it was nat just for the American Nation to free tho States and then let them hunt for themsolves. Tho roliglous sociolivs ought to work for tho elovation of the newly eufian- was no Auti-Slavery movement in Illinois, At that timoDr, Eads thnughl that the law concorn- ing Larboring and secrot lufi alaves should have o very liberal construction. Ur. Bads, in harboring slaves, got iuto many difficulties. Ile way in- dicted, tricd, convicied, and senteucod to n fino of §400. Ile appenled the caso and died bofore o finnl decision was reached, A roquisition was got for Eads’ arrcet and removal to Missouri, &nd ho bad to {ly for his life, The Chairman annouuced that the subscrip. tion in aid of Jonntbun Walkor, tho mau with the brauded band, amounted to $05.90, and, on motion, the snum was ordered to be forwarded to bim. Mr. Edward Turner, of Quinoy, 111, an account of his intorview with Dr. Ead heatatod, was not a public man. nover succeedod in saving o slave, ‘The only time ho attempted to save one ho ran, accident- ally, into the hands of tho slave-catchors. "This catned bis arreat, conviotion, and fine of $600, whick wan paid by his Abolition frionds. THE FIRST ANTI-SLAVENY CHURCII, A lotter wa sent by O, H. Holden, of this city, fo show that the Socond Baptist Church (or the Tabornaclo) wus the first Anti-Slavery church in Chicago, 'I'he I'nbernaclo, he hold, was organ- ized Aug, 13, 1848; tho Iirst Congregational in May, 1851, In the declaration of the principles of tho Tabornacle Church at its organization, Art. 5 was as [ollows ; 4 Wealth, position, or color ahall not projudice our minds and feolings in our estimation, or troatment of oach otlior as brothers and uisters,” . InDMny, 1844, thochurchsont its letter of appli- oation for membership the Fox River Ausucia- tion, and in it thoy said : In presouting ouraelves we wish the Association to understand our ssutiments iu full upon that quention which now agitates the Oliurch, ani in purstianco of wlich the church bas unanimously udopted tho follow- lng: 3 Sasolved, That slavory 1a s great ain 1n the aight of God, and whilo wa viow it as siich we whll not Invite to our pulplt or communion thoso who advocate or jus- lify, from civil polioy or the Lilble, tho principlés or practice of slavery, LOVEJOY'H JONUMENT, ‘I'ie Commiltco recommondod the erection of 2 monument to the momory of Llijak I, Love- Joy, und the following resolution was adopted : LResolved, Tuut this Neunton recommend the ercce tlon of a’ monument to the memory of Elijsh P, Lovejoy, tho first martyr to the cause of liberty in ita couteat with wlavery, auid that whereas ho died mors espocially fu defenso of {he great sight of a freo conne try, the freedom of the press, wo boliovo tint this duty should bo commiitod Into the hnnde of the «printers aud profossional Journalint of this country, ud that thoy see to it that such » monument, {n mng~ nitudo and size as bofits the man ond the occasion and thoir own rlghte, be ercoted, Belleving that whut the press undertuke to do will bo done, we confidently Fupose o teust in thelr hunda; tuat fo tha carcying out of this object this Reunion do ppoint tho follow~ ing ‘commiltéo: Horaco While, of THE ON10AGO TRIBUNE, Ohnirman ; F, W, Paliner, Audre Matte- #on, Audrow Bhumnan, Mr, “Willard, ‘Hermon Raster, Ilenry t, Boas, Z, Baslman, 11, L, Howard, uil of Ohi cagol A L nl’*-rk-.#luéu . I dueelndn, Bonton ; ver U, Juhnson, W, O, ‘Dryan, o dteld, H, O, Tiowed, ali of Now York, >4 Whtolayr Tteld, BENJAMIN LUNDY, ‘The Committee also 1ecommended the erection of & monument to the memory of Ben jamin Lun- dy, and the following resolution was ndopted; “Reaolved, 'Thnt this Rouuton recommend tho sroction of a monument to tbe memory of Lunjamin Lundy, thia ploneer of tlie Anti-Blavery cause, belloving thab thalr testimoniai {a demandod ta tho’ cause and our own seuso of duty, and the necassity of estublivking & roper precedant of gratitude, as well as tho morits of 0 man, aud to that end we' apnoint the followiuyg committoo: %, Lustman, Allan Piukerton, R, I, Der- rickson, H, L. Fulton, Wililum Droas, Ohitugo ; Bume el It, Lowle, Ottawa § J, M, Beyant, Priuceton ; Moo ses Pettiugill) Peords 7 Goorga W, Jultan, Indisun; L, X, Tire, Ohlo’; 8, D, lfastings, Wisconeiu. GENENAL RESOLUTIONS, Mr, Eastman offored rosolutions thanking the peaple of ahle?{o for their hospitality d the Soc- ond Baptist, Iirst and Union Park Congregae tlonsl Boolofies for the use of (hoir churches i chired race. Ifthey werotobo raised to the level of their white brethron it would require wark on the part of all their woll-wishors. Mr. Grovor thought thnt all should work to- gother to attain this result, Ho nuggostod that another Convention be hold in Philadelphin, at which the doings of the prosent Couvention mightbe presonted iu printed form, JORE RESOLUTIONS, Mr. Willard, of Now York, stated that the Tendor of tho Abolitionusta in Bpain had stated to him thac that body had to complain of the apathy of their American brothren ; whioch was strikingly in contrast with the deep sympathy thoy reccived from Lheir brathren in Gront Brit- ain. & ‘Illa offered the following, which was od ¢ Lesolved, That wo recommend the Abolitionists in their various localities throughont the country to ar- range for holding local reunfous st such times and places as mny be foundt advisable, Mr. Willy presonted tho following, which woro ngreed to: Jlesolved, That we recommeond the approaching cone tounfal Declaration of Tudependence s an appropriato oceasion for colebrating extenaivuly the great contlict and triumph in behalf of ts impotiant principles, LReaolred, Thut wa sinceroly thunk the Conunittes wito Invited this rounion for the indefatigable efforta which thoy Lave made in preparing aud conduoting it 1o such successful and gratifying results, The following wan also adoptod : Jesolved, Thot thin reunion ot Chicago in June, 1874, recommend the holdjug of annual nutional reunions of Abolitionists in somu contrul ¢lly of (he country so long on Abolitioniats of the past shall he nlive, M. Eastman moved that a committee of throo be appointed to propare & proper memorial reso. Iution of Charles Bumnor. The motion was agroed to, and W. T. Allen, Mr. Clarko, and Dr. Bianchard wore selacted a8 the comnuittoo, i LETTERS. ‘The Becretary rond the following lettora: JOUN 0ROSE. To_the President of the Anti- Dear Brethren, in Convention : Being, by proteacted illness of my wife, do- privod of the plensure of mesting you in Oo vontion and pnnlulemg with you in tho fos- tivitios and = thankegiving of the occasiun, purmit mo to addross you o few lines of on- couragement, aud take u briof retrospect of the past by turning back u fow pngos in the latory ot your boautiful prairie State and the wondrous aity in which you are assombled, n oy first yisit to Chicago, T wall recolloct tho fact that tho claims for symputhy and com- passlon of 4,000,000 bloeding victims of tyranny and lust was n subject taboood by all tho Chrigtian churchos in Chicago, aud T wan scoost- od und consured in tho mout publio streot in the city, by an_officeholdar of ono of its principal churches, for huving dared, while a[:aulung from their pulpit, alightly to overstep tho boundary I)munnlmd by tho nousion, iu rememboring thoso bt wore *“in bonds, as bound with them,” I well rocolleot, & fov yoars later, eecing Llins Robinson, forno crime but woariug tho skin which his Croator had. given him, by the decision of & Chicrgo mugistirato, deliverod up, In utter disrogard of God's 'prolilbition, to tho bipod Lloodhounds from Missouri which were howling ou his traok, Memory truces, with the distiuct- noss of, yosterdav's Gvonts, the times when a mob, armed with rifles and pitehforks, with throats and violenco, broke into my house, and in tho preseuce of my unprotocted wite an little children, salzed aud carrled awny two women aud three chlldren, claimed to b hold s slaves 1n fiho Btate of Illlnoiw. The suine mob aftorwarid assaulied mo Ewhlln travol- ing poacefully over the pralrios) wlth rifles and othor doeadly wmrlfonn, and for auch outragos was acqultted urvdl Justiied by doolsions of flinols courty, while "I, on suspiclon merely, of tho enormous crirne * against the peaca and Jlu- nity of the Eupnla of tho Btate of Illinois” of foeding the hung:ry and shelteriug the housoloss, avery Reunion, and waa torn from the bosom of my dopondont fam- ily and shut up like the vilgat ¢riminal in & com. mion prison, Hush was Itnols jurlsprudonce 3 but God has givon tho nation o baptinm of bloor sud Chicago baptism of fita; and, while striol- en and humbled under his torriblo chastinomont, Tob us luknn\vlud{;fl tho justice of his infliction and bring forth fruits moot for ropsniance, Mosb afeotionatoly yours, Jouy Unoss, FARMINGTON, Ia,, Juno 4, 1874, JONN RANKIN. Mr. R, P. Derfekson : Dran 8in: Aftor some delny, your letter of invitution to tho reunion of old Anti-Blavory men roaches mo at this placo, After its racop- tlon I was ttakon suddonly with a dangorous and violent disense, g0 that I waa prostrated in a fow hours so low that I did not oxpeot to recover; but I am now up again, I am so prostrated that I fear will not bo sblo to at- tond your Qonvention, It I bo able to attend,” I will deliver an addréss contain- 1ug skotohos of my Anti-Slavery viows and Iabors, I will sand you somo statomonts that you mny uso a8 you deom bost, in case I be nob able to attond your mooting, My onrlist thoughta on slavery woro againat it. Iviowod it as if oporating on mysolf. 1Ilow should I enduro to bo owned,” bought, and sold, and drivon at tho pleasuro of anothor? Thus, from my boyhood down to over 81 years of 2p0, bave always had within “mo an hldwnlllnF almpnthy for all who suffor wrongfully. "I'he Lord {mplanted that sympn- thetlo principle within me so that I caunot avoid feeling for suffering {nnoconco it I would. No one who thas not felt it, can imagine tho anguish of apirit that I hava suffered in contom- plating tho orucliies inflictod upon slaves. fton, on hoaring of tho capturo of fugitive slavas, I havo falt such a dopth of sadnoss that it scemed as if nothing could cheer me. Tho sympathotio naturo that God gave me, and sauatifled by, bis grace, prompted mo to all my Anti-Slavory actlon during more than sixty yenra. Inmy natlvo State, Tonnessee,X opposod slnvur{. In Koutuoky, I preachied oponly agninst tho sin of holding slaves, Ihad thore a church largo in numbors, aod strongly Auti-Slavery, Lolding tho dootrino of Immodinfe Abolitionism, At that timo, the Presbyterian ministers, with a fow ox- coptions, wore Abolitionlats, n Obio, ot Ripley, I laborod forty-four yoars, during which time I published a sorios of Iottors on slavery both in nfimpnr andbook form, In vt‘rlnuu papors I published maoy artiolos against slavery. I issucd o oall for n Convantion, and proonroed tho formation of tho Western Tract and Book Bociety, for publishing tracts and books against slavory ; and I collocted tho funds to put it In oporation, and through it I published many tracts agninat slavory. In the Anti-8laveryoauso Ispont many yoars of gratuitons labor.” I en- durod many mobs, and passed through many dangors, and sheltered hundreds of fugitive slavos undor my roof. Dy the good provideuco of God I passod all dangers unliurt, JonN RANEIN, Esronu, Kan, Moy, 1874, THE BUDIOINED EXTRACTS from a privato lettor wors also rond : Our school iI-‘iuk University) closed on the 28th of May, with vory pleasnnt and interosting examinations and otherexercises, -Students and teachors aro now seattored in various directions until sn)}:umher, when the noxt school-year opons, ‘Tharo is, howover, o great und universal endnoss and anxioty upon us who aro teachors in rognrd to tho coming your. Very many of our young people dspond upon teaching through tho vacation for moans to go on with their studies, The numhber of those who can teach increnses from year to year, and the demand for them has correapondingly incrensed. . , . . Dut the exciicment over the {)mposofl Clvil- Rights bill has in offeot, for tho prosont, at lonst, closed tho public schools, and very miny who expected to euler wupon the ~ work of teaching at onco have baon informed that thoy willl not bo wantod. County Buperintondeuts, to whom Prof, Spenca Lies applied for schools, write him that theve is very hittlo prospects for schools this year, and that thoy cinnot encouragoe any attompt to opon them, for if tho bilt paunos thoy cannot colioet any of the echool tax, This Is ospecially truo in ‘Tenncaseo ; and Mississippi . . . . gives vory little oncouragoment, tho ovorflow having been vory dissatrous, The bill domands ouly that which is Tight, bnt its passngo will bring sufloring and trial for tho presont ; nevortho- loss, aftorwards, we trust it will work the penco- ablo fruits of righteousness. . . . . DBeforo tho teachora of Fisk scparatod we docided to appeal to the churohea for nid for tha coming year for the more advanced studonts, whom wo cannot bear to lose nfter the offorts Ko long put forth to give them a thorough cducation, . . . Aro thero not_ dificont churches thero (North) which would adapt for the coming year aud raiso §50 to 875 for bis board and othor oxpenses ? Nore—Those willing to contribute are re- quested to send thoir names or funds to tho Rev, Bir. Goodwin, pastor of the Lirst Congregational Churob, Chicago. OTHER LETTERS. Tha Chairman mentioned tho nature of a lot of corrospondence which bad been reccived by the Booiety, The letter sent by the English Antl-Slavery Society, published yostorday, was read by the Bacratary. Totters wero also read from Prudonco Cran~ dall, A, Konyon, and George W. Rowe. e THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASS0- CIATION. The following paper on the work of the Amori- ean Missionnry Association among the freedmon was presented : Thoe foundations of the American Missionary Association sore laid in sroublous timos, whon a hearty recognition of the rights of colorod mon brought contumely and roproach, both in Church ond Siate. ONE INOIDENT may be worthy of presont remembrance. On tho 26th of August, 1830, o mysterious schooner was soon moving about the eastern shore of Long lsland, 8he was boarded by a United States officer, and found to contain forly-two native Africans, and two Spauniards. Tho first hnd boon stolen from their native laud, and transhipped at Havana. They had risen upon their enslavers, and tnken possocseion of tho sobooner. The 8paniards claimed the protection -of tho United Statos Government, sud, the rosto- ration of the blacks as their slaves, A fow ear- nest Abolitionists undertook the dofonse of tho blucks. A docreo of the United Htates District Court in Connecticutdeclarod that these prisonors wore born free, that thoy had boeen kidnapped aud wero now illogally hold In custody. Au ap- poal was takon by the U. 8. District-Attornoy and tho case was carried to Washington, Hero tho **o0ld man cloquent” came to their &id, a8 acuior conneol. After n long and tedions trinl, on the Oth day of March, 1811, Lo tele- graphed to Lowls Tappan, of Now York, *Tho captives are free, . . 'They arc to he[dis- chiarged from the custody of the Mavahal, froo." ' Not unto us—not untous, . . Bue l’hnuku| thauks in the name of humanity, to you.," 'I'o roturn these Africans to their native land, with missionuries, no part of whose snpport came from tho products of unrequited toil, the Union Missionary Boclety was formed, ' This was morged in the American Missionary Assosiation at its formation. 'I'he Westorn Ivaugolical Miwsionary Bocioty, formed in 1848, and the Comumitteo for the West India Mission bocamo in like manuor & part of the American Mission- ary Associntion, An Boptombor 1846, A FEW OHINKTIAN ABOLITIONISTS, wearlod with the astompt to _roform oxistlug or- gouizations, met at Albuny, N. Y., and organized tho Amorican Missionary Awwocintion, Iiw dise tinguishing fonture 18 seen in tho docloration that ©* in collocting funds, in sppointing ofticers, agonts, and missfonarios, and in scleoting flolds of labor, and conducting tho missionary worle (it would), endeavor purticularly to discounton- anco slavery, by refusing to rocolve tho known fruits of unroquited labor, or to welcome to its employment thoso who Loid their fellow-boiugs au slaves,” ‘That this atatement of principlea aud mode of action should huve created an anlagonism bo- tvoon the new Bociety nud almost all older mis- sionnry and benevolont organizations marks tho Prnvml.lnz sontiment of the time, oven in Chris- ian bodios, on the subjeot of whivery, and om- pliasizes tho victory uince nccomplished, OF THE NOULE NEN 2 who aided in the new organizations, or camo at ones Lo its aid, many have alrendy gone Lo their rownrd, Amos A, Pholps, William Juckson, Ldward Weed, Thoodora \llrluht, Charlos Aver; aud a fow others saw the trinmph only from but died in Faith, David Thurston, Arthur Tap- au,Oharles D, Clovoland, and many others lived 0 hear the death-knell of American slavery, and then joiued in tongs of praiso in tho “upper sanctuary, Homo, among whom wore Lawrouce Drumerd, Lowis Lappan, J, I’ Williston, Josiah Tirower, Bamuel Mckurland, and Jostua Loavitt, livad to roudor efficlent aid in work for the Frood- mon, and & fow vonerabia mon, such as Willium uom‘nll. Bimoon J, Jocolyn, Williama £, Whiting, Juliug I, LeMoyne, and Corrit Bumlth, yet ro- aln $o oounsol and ald u the work of littug up tho ox-slnyes from the dogradation nnd lgnor- anco entailod on thout by opp-ession, 'Lho Amorican Misslohnry Axsucintion though distinctivoly an Anti-Blavorv organization, wis not oxclusivoly such, It sunght to strike tho fotters from tho limbs of the slave, not au its ultimate object, not sololy for thoe prosont good of tho colored man, the country, or tho Chureh, but ns & daty to tho slave, o tribute to Garis: tinnity, nnd amoans Lo wn end—tho honor of God, and tho highest good of the race, both for timo and oternity. TO TIIS DROADER SCOPE: 1a probably duoe ths fuct that it alono of all the oarlior Autl-Slavery orgauizations rotnins a vigs orous_oxistence, and I8 doiug a grent work, It embodics much of[tho old Abolitlon facling, now happily turnod toward thointollootual and moral oulture of the froodman, AB AN INDEX 4 of tho times, and tho obstacles against which the novw Boctoby had to contoud, it niay not bo im- rropur to stato that that excollent organization hie Amorlean Bible Socloty, which hus dono so much to supply tho world with the word of God, and Inttorly scnnorlnf( it amoug the frocdmon, a8 lenves for the heallng of the natlon, thon re- fused an offer of 6,000 to i In supplying the slave population of the United States with the Beriptures, and rejooted a rosolution to entront its nuxiliaries iu tio slaye-lolding Btates to sup- rly ovory dontitute porson, bond and freo, \Vl{’ll Lo Biblo ; and tho American U'ract Socioty, aftor publishing promlum tracts on temperapco, de- olined to tnko mensures to publish anything on tho iniquity of slavery: and that thoue excolfont socletios, and the lnndlnu misslonnry bodios of the country, solicited and recoived funds from slavo-holdors, rocognized them as Chriatians in good stavding, olectod thom to offices in the So- cloty, and troatods professing Christinng, wha livod'on tho unpald toil of cho slavos, ns thoy did thoso whono characters wore spotless. The incomo of - the Aussociation for tho.firat your, 1840-7, wan $13,000, and the number of missionnriod at howno and shroad was thirty-fivo, o small but valiant band, wiclding the sword of thoe Bpirit against slavoholding, as against any othor sin. THE WOIK OF THE BQOIETY In tha slaveholding Statos begnn in tho fall of 1848 by the appuintment of the Rov. Joln G. Teo, n Kentuclinn by birth, and the son of a slavelioldor, ns a homo missionary, and the em- loyment of an oldor in his church as a colpor- our to distributo Biblos aud tricts among white and black, bond an freo, Behools wore com. menced, 1n tho success of which lay the hogin- nings of what hns aince bocoms Boron Collego. In 1861, tho Association commenced to proach an Anti-8iavory Gospol in North Carolins, and, in 1856, had soven missionnrics eogaged in tho crisls contoat of Kansns, Thua did the Association endesvor to preach the Guurnl in the South nt every accessiblo poiut, pencefully when it could, under persocution if it must. Amidot mobs, imprisonment, scourgings, tho misslonarios continued to labor In tho Btates noamed, until in 1859, inmedtately succeeding tho John Brown ruid, all its missionarion word ox- !mllad {from Kentucky and . North Caroliun, .In ho Inttor Stato tho Rey. Daniol Worth was in- ;}lrnled, imprisoned, and baroly escaped with s 0. In 1860 the incomo of tho Association was 04,000, and its numbor of Home Missionaries and Colportours 116, mostly concontrated on the bordors of tho alavoholding States. Thon fol- lowed tho war, and chaplaing and Christinn sol- diors become to a limited extont tho tenohers of tho nogroos, who munifeated a surprising thirat for knowladge. TIHE TINST SYSTEMATIO EFFORT for thoir reliof and instruction was made by tha American Missionary Association. Its ‘Irensur~ er, the veteran Lewis Tappan, began the move- moent by a corrospondence with Gon. Butler, whoso colobrated proclamntion, Moy 27, 1861, declariug the oseaping fugitives contrabaud of war, gavo thom safety at Iortress Mouroo, and praparod tho way for roliof aud schools. Up to this timo no oncourngomeont was offorod to the colored poople who tlod to our army lincs, Many of tho ofticers of the army sout thom back to their maaters ; tho policy of the Government was avowedly that of non-interferenco, Gen, Tromont's proclamntion of emancipation had boon virtually sunulled ; but now tho fugitives found rofugo under tho flag of tho United Statos. TLargo numbers of them wero gthored at l'orbe ress Monrao and Hempton, homeloss and dosti- tute. Theso facts becoming known, Mr. Tap- pan wroto to Gen. Butler, who welcomed any effort in thoir bohalf, Missionaries and supplics of clothing wore sont from Now York, SBunday- sehools aud religions services were commonced du tho house of an ox-Prosident of tho United States, and on the 17th of Soptembor, 1861, tho firat day school for the I'roedmon was opencd, taught by Mrs. Mary B. Peske, a Cbristian woman of color. Horo, thon, on the const whore 241 years be- foro the firat slave-ghip enterod American wa- tors, introducing an ovil so fruitful of woe and blood to both races, 8 woman of tho despisod race, undor tho nusplces of tho American Mis- sionary Association, and, under the protection of tho national guus, throw open the doors of tho sehool-houso to the hungering contraband, and 1natituted an orn of civilization in marked con- trast to tho ora of barbarlsm then so socon to torminato. BINCE THAT TIMP. r tho work of tho Ausociation has boon mninly amonys the froedmon of the South. During tho War lh! labors woro welcomed by nenily all the commaudants of tho military posts. The Freod- mon's Bureau, created by an act of Congross, March, 1865, and placed under tho commaud of Gen. Q. 0, Howard, gave a vigorous and sus- tained support to tho oducational work of the Association, and the Assaciation, thus aided, bad at ono time over 500 persons, mule sud female, in its worl for tho ox-slaves, 1t hins occupied parts of all the Ilato slavoliold- ing States, sevking tho physical comfort of the colorod man, promoting industry, establishing common and Lhzhur schools, and now hns soven chartored institutious, located in Kentucky, Vir- ginia, Goorgia, Tenncsseo, Alabamn, Mississippi, aud Loulsisan, proparing iissionarlos and toach® ors for guides and educators of their ¥aco, In ita work for the freedmen, aud under its divaction, thero Lins bacn oxponded an aggrogato of more than $2,250,000, made up of benovolent contributions, grants from the Government, and the contributlons of tho peoplo themsolves. Tho Association has sccured for tiie work of impar- tial education in the South proporty worth more thau £408,000, bovides $150,000 or $200,000 sur- rendored to Trustecs of institutions of individu- 8l schools, Btimulated by the success of their oducationnl offorts, the State of Virginin bas sob BF““ for Tiampton Normal and Agricultural Tustitute the income of nbout $100,000. Miesis~ #ippl hoa given to Tougaloo 310,000, and the Btato of Georgin Lo Atlanta, $21,000. Congidoring the disadvantages under which the colored peoplo of the South have labored, too much can lhardly be snid of thoir roadiness to receive iustruction.and co-oporute witlithe offorty of their Northorn friouds to gel for thom~ solves, and seoure for their fellows tho advan- tagen of education in lotters, A notable exam- lo of this iu tho successful entorpriso of the. Fubilos Bingers of Fiskt Univoraity; undor thoie teacher, Prof, G Y., Whito. Moro than 876,000 has beon earned by them for tho erection of Ju- biloe 1iall, which, though primarily for the bon- ofit of the eolored peoplo, will throw open its doors to ull, without respact of race or color, who saok its advantages. "TIE ULTIMATE OBJEOT ) of the educational work of the American Mis- sionary Association is to raiwe up, from then solvos, missionaries and teachers for tho culored cople bLoth of this country und of Afrioa. In Yhn United States many hundredu have alrondy gono out from our iustitutions, and are now en- gugod in teaching or prenching, and hundrods go forth for this work aunually. A fow, some of whom are in (heological classos, are beginning to turn their eyos upon Afiien, with n viow or careying thora all tho blessings of o Ghristinn, civilizntion, THE EDUCATIONAL WORI of the Assaclution nmuni; tho Froodmen, aa {t. st yonr, muy be tabu-- stood at the closo of tho lated thus: Chartored tustitutions, Normal schools, Comtnon Achools, Thoological elnss Number of missionnries and teacher: Tiigheat munbor of eachiors (1470). Lupila eurolied (187 Sebioud und ohurel property Sonth. Property trannforred or sécured (o chiurt ANHULULIONN o evns soainenans o "'ho work of the Assosiation in the South s di- roctly religious, ou well ns physical and educa- tional, This i8 nocessarlly of slow growth, The organization of pure ohurchos implios the ox- Istence of enlightoned Chrlstinnity. This had first to be dovoloped, Religion thora was iu- deud, but tho warm gushiug suscoptiblo.natute of tho black, under lfin rogimo of sluvery and de- prived of ull truo cultur, hud fallen nalurally under the influence of sumo of tho most degrud- iug suporatitions and practices, Then, too, tho lmpoverishod condition of the ox-slave laft him poworlens to ‘n’o\'ldc chureh bulldings, so neces- sary for religious_utorosts of any poopls, and expecially of the bluoks, Thus in the ignorance, auperstition and pov- erly of tho ex-uluves, the Association hns boon compellod to do for them the work which tho Cullnfin Boviety, the Chutoh Building Saclety and the Home Missiouary Booloty are Lrying to do for the destitutions of tho Northwest, this threo-fold work Is now prossing uponit, The: wust bo educated, If wo would savo the Soutl from berbariem aud the control of the dowma- gogue, They muet ko Cbristlanized, or their | ticipated. odreation will only put weapank In thair hands which moy bo used for avil. Tv do tlieso thinga they must have teachiers and mivaionurios, nelivol-honeos and churol Luildinga, oll tho ap- pliancon of Chlotian education. TITE ONUNCIE WORK ia just now npeclally demanding attontion. An intolligent Chrlstinnity is 5o far dovolopoi as to muko the péople dissatisllod with their old cor- tiupt churchos, and fo reudor continuance in them umponsiblo, ‘Tho pressure in this diraction i1 immonse, demnnding the sympnthy and aid of all truo friouds of tha ex-stave, The nlternativo seoms to bo purer churchen and moroe intalligont wlnigters, or blank infidelity. In timos that triod mou's souls, tho old Abo- Hitlonista of the United Btates Isborad, and prayed, nnd sufforod for tho onslaved, ‘Thoir prayors wore honrd, their Iabors blessed, and in & way thoy nnflolpl\ind not, and at a cost too tor- riblo to contemplato, tho fottora wers siricken from 4,000,000 of slaves, and they roso up froo- mion, T'his was not done, howevyoer, until an im- poriled Government was compolled to imploro their ald, and thoir emancipation became & noceasity for tho lifo of the nation. But omancipation was not a roparation for the wronga of tho slave. It only made reparation posaibla, It left him, though free, yot inhoriting the enforcad poverty, ignorance, and degrada- tion of alavery. To whom, then, shail we look for thnt oloyation which eprings from solf- directod industry, ecducation, and enlightonad Christinnity ? Not cortainly to tho men from whoso §I‘Mp hio has bean wrenched by the strong bLinnd of war; not to thoso to whom iie cried un- heodod undor tho iron yoke of slavery; mot to {ho caroloes nnd indifforent; but to tioss who amid sufforiug nnd loss plonded hiscnuse,who en- dured joyfully tho spoiling of their goods for his snko, whoso plon in his bohalf wae honrd shove tho thuudor of battlo and amid tho carnngo of war—n short, to tho old Abolitlonists, and thoso who now partake of their spirit and inheyit their Dblessings. As o represontative of this epirit, a8 n Togiti- mato succession of tholr old organizations, the Amorican Mission Associntion I lnhurinl; to-day to carry out to its full and ronndod completencas tho work 80 nobly inauguratod by thom, and for which_multitudes will slse up snd call thom blessod. Tho Convention thon adjourned until2 o’olock, e i) AYTERNOON SESSION. The dologatos met agaln at the hour named, Gon. Chietlnin iu tho chair. The attendance was loss than at any provious snsston, e iy SHORT SPEECHES. On motion, it waudocided to hoar ten-minute spocchica. Mr. "Taloott, of Rookton, eald seven votes wera originally cast for Birngy in Winnebago County, but at the first olection of Lincoln 88 per cent of the ballots woro for him. Ho belioved political associntions essontinl in addition to the work of tho churches, to sccure emancipation. MRS, BWIBSIELM suggostod that Mr, Babbitt be allowed to give on account of tho clrcumetances attanding tho attack of a mob on him up in Miunesota. A delogato asked if tho people wero hot up thoro? Mra. Swissholm sald thoy wero; thoy broke her pross and threw her type into the wator, and threatoned her with the samo fate if she did nat behave. . . 3R, GEORGE 0SSITT, a blind man, rolated his oxpericnces in Chicago at meetings in which Collins nud Pinkorton par- Ho was sent to prison for kooping o dopot of the Underground Railway, having had sovonty-four men and women thero at one time. At Oltawn ho saw o manncled elavo in_chargoe of his ownor. A meoting was held at Dr., Stoul's office, and Mr. Warrcn eaid no joil in LaSallo County was strong onough to hold a nogro. It was decided to roscue the elayo, as they lind no faith in Jmlg}u Caton, &_pro-glavery man, and it war dono, Ho and others wero arrestod and taken to Chicago, and after boing locked up fivo months woro sentencod to ten days moro impris- onment and to pay o fine_of 200, John Went- worth proved a good friond to thom, but only one Congrogationalist visited them, MAINE. Tho first State called was that of Maino., Tts mpwwutuivo siated that ho bogan the work in 1836, and whon ho got into it ha found thero was no gotting out. Ho nt once saw that tho truth ought not to bo, under n“i clronmstances, dis- rogarded. Sixteen yenrs' hard toil in tho State of Mrino resulted in 1ts complote organization, with n rajority of 80,000 votes for the Repub- licnn party, which bos stood there ovor siuco, When they began work, the old Domocracy Lad o mujority of several thousands, and the work lay bofore them of roducing this, and of futro- ducing tho great principles of tomporance aud 1iborty, the two great 'planks of the State of Muine Republican platform. The work in Maine bad not the exciting influence of the fugitive slavo busincss which othor States nenrer to the South folt. The whole coast of Maiue was peo- pled with thoso who dopended upon Southern tradoe for their livelihood, was dotted with Cus- tom-Houses : but, in spito of all these difii- cultios, the Ropublicans gained tho ascendancy. ‘The noxt Statos wora NEW HAMPSUIRE AND VERMONT, which wero roprosented by Mr, Honry L. Slaton, of thicago, who for two years minco the firo had boen ongaged in educating the freedmen in Toxns, o alluded to James Slaton, of Houth Woodstock, Vt., o8 one of the sioutost Aboli- tionints who over_lived. _Although he was Shoriff of Windsor County, Vt., he took colored people to ehurch with him_ and seated thom in bis pew. Ho spent forty-five years of hia lifo and a large foriunc in the cauke, The spenker stated that the education of the colored pcoplo down Bouth was a question whbich required im- megliato attontion, ~What wns wantod was n sys- tom of compuleory educntion, To-day thore was 1o frea school in_ Toxay worthy of the namo, and there wera there over 110,000 people who could noithor rond nor write, nud this In face of the fact that Toxas was admitted into the Union on the understanding that a froe-school eyatom ghould be guaranteod. MAHSACHUBETTH, The next State was Massachusetts, and an- other Chicngo man appesred. A gentlemnn stated that ho did not beliove in Eastorn States boing represented by Western men. e bolioved that Chicago had enough speakers to run tho Convention to tho ground. On motion, the pravious resolution was recon- aidered, and it was nleo decided to Lmip tho apocelion to five minutes onch, ; Dr. tianson, of Milwaukeo, stated that tho most eventfnl timo of his lifo wau nino montha bo spont in working with tho Vigilanco Commit- teo of Boston, and four yenrs and a hnlf passed in the war of the Itobellion. He looked upon the Convention with great satisfuction. Iio hoped they would fight on whenever they saw good to be doue and wrong to ho resisted. THE KEV, M}, FOLTZ, of Rockford, rolated an incident of tho lifo of Xorink Groon, who at the conclusion of an ora- tion folt weary and hungry. Ilo said to the poo- plo, **Friends, lot us go into the grove and rawso,” Men in thoso dnys tool such an {n- terestin the work of Abolition thnt thoy never thought of enting, Tather Runkin, now 81 years of ago, was of thoirnumbor. Rankin was # ymall mun, but ho never wont without n huge bickory club, with which he was dotormined to protect himsolf against dengor, should it arise, Whon ho looked baok at tho fight, he conld noc hwlp thinking that if man.was weak, God was strong. N, T. 8. A POPE, of Missourl, rend n shott_nddross, in which ho stated that ho had boen & Black Abolitionist since 1843, e hud stiuck sovers blows againet plave~ ri' both 1 the Unitod Btates and 1o Jamuicn, 1o was a roliglous philosopher, aud he thought that Heavon's angelic agency und spiritunl guid- ance would socure the accomplislimeut of ‘worle yot to bo done, 1le would whispor tho messago of the angels in _thoir oar: “Why did slavery ever oxist?" Ko would answor: “Man s & tyrant,” Tho spaaker sconsed man of - belng a slave. Our daughtors, sistors, mothers, wives ars virwnally galloy slaves, Horo the flvo mluntos expired, aud, on motfon, furthor time was nov grauted Lo the speuker, MRH, FRANCIS HARPLR stated that the first timo sho saw freo land way not ju Virginis, whero she flrut saw the light. It was not in- Pounsylvunia even. In Massuachu- #otts, whore Dunkor Hitl's granite maws reared itwolf on high, sbe sought for it {n vain. Tho firsb tine sho suw frep land was from Luke Outatlo, whenca she saw the land of Canndu, Bhe roturnod to her native Blate, al- though she was in danger by 8o doing. Siuce thon honest fresdom hud dawned upon the loud, and frce sohools, like wells, had sprung up In its midst, The speaker returnod totho early ntrug- telos of Mr. Lurner, a glave In his youth, who now fills a soat in Congress, CIFARLES RUNKNER, I'he Committeo sppoiuted to propare!memo- rial resclutions on the late Oharles Bumner sub- mitted the following, which was adopted by a rising votes Jtesolved, That this Natlonal Autl-Blavory Rennfon cannot adjourn without gylig & niemorial oxpreasion of roverence wud love for aur distinguisliod Souator, tho 1fon, Oliurlcs Bumupr ¢ that du bis death the catse of umin Tigchis bus ol on of itu ubleat, (ruest braveat udvocwtes, our country ono of it puest and mokt patidoslo statenmen, the povs aud needy & Worie ] hienrfed und tondor friod § the negro race n champlon a0 gond aucl {rie, no patient, porsistenl, and foarioss a8 (o doly {ha ifrit of hatred und murdor fhat led to his untmely deaths, antintiog in_thele bohialt without atint or rent o the Inst mowmont of 1ie 1o wil th stronglls of Bin grand physical nud mental sivieiure, slifning out ke nn electrln apark in thoen faat words to his friend, ' Take caro of my Clvil-Rights bill," Andl above' ail, Mioro Routticen moen who enesed atd nbsod him, nid plungad tho uatfun fy th Red fHoa of Dbload for itk overthrow, havo lost friond o genuing an to toll them tho trnth, Yot with o apirit ao large nitd Jofty, 50 tender and forgiving, that lin ealled nll the people, North nmgimllh, both black and while, to Iny astile the feclings of Latred ani nirifa engendorod b‘y tho War, and dwall together in the bonds of rocon= clilation nni peaco, Mr, Wilson, of New York, an Auolitionist of twenty yoars' work, Atatod that tho young Abo- lttionisis hnd deoldod that, notwithstsuding the fmportanco of the work dona by the old Abolt- tlonists, thoy conld surpass it. MRY, LAURA B, IIAVILAXD, of Adrian, Mich,, said sho was grateful to tha Almighty Father for upboaring and leading tho vetorans along snch an frrepressible conflict to victory. Whon #ho looked over the meating sho folt o thousand-fold ropaid for her journey, When she looked into tho faco of "Brother Goodall and Brothor OClarke sho folt moro than ropoid, but she rogrotied that her sistors hnd so %ourly responded to thoe call for the Convention. ho spealier roforrad to Mrs, Elizaboth Marga- rot Chandlor ag the formor of tho flrat Anti- Blavory Bocioty in Michigan. L'he women of theso days paddled their own canoe, and thoy intondod to go on Imddllng it ns long ay thero 'was any necossity, T'ho aponker told of hor dress- ing up » wombling fugitivo in her aunt's clothes, flouriog hor blnok faco, and taking hor through tho stroets of Cincitmnti whore thors \vore crowds of people on the hunt for tho girl, DBy dint of a woll-assumed limp, the fugi- tivo got to what hor conductor thought Lo bo o wafe place, but which sho found subsognently wan noxt door to tho rosidence of tho Chiof. of Police. ~ Aftor keoping herin a garret for two weoks thoy woro obliged to remove her. Siio gavo a long nccount of tho adventures which finally culminated with tho escapo of tho slave Maria to Uannda, where sho aaw hor four years subsequontly. Mr. Weibert, of Chicngo, advocated tho pns- sago of n resolition moro strongly iudorsing the Inbors of tho ladies, which Lo thought had beon overlooked. Mr. Clarko sang tho song ** Olear the way " in his usunl offoctive \way. It was announcod thal thero wonld hoa tempor- ance mooting in tho Fitst Daplist Chnrch Sunday aftornoon, Goorge A. Blorts will prasido, and addresses will bo doliverod by Mrs. Fraucos C. Harpor, Dr, Feo, and others, 2 DR, LORD bolioved in abolition, Ha thought that tho col- orod raco should bo elovated,_ and wanted to know bow it should bo dons, Somc thought 1t waa to bo nccomplishod by churches, In the United Statos thore were ninety salaons for overy churel, and one liquor saloon would demornlizo moro than ten churchos would moralize, Bomo belloved in schools, ‘Thora wore 116 anloons to evory school, aud tho hell-tenching of one sn~ loon counted ngainst tho good influenco of a dozen schaols, 'Tho spoaker averred that tho proportion of drunkenness smong tho nogroos was much grenter than amony the whites, What was wanted was solf-reformation. No more timo should be spent In looking bohind. 'The poxt enemy to be vaaquished was rnm. After spoaldng in a humorous strain of the cruando he introduced tho following rosolution, which was adopted : ‘Wizneas, The rum powor 8 nt enmity with the freedmen a8 well as ourselves, and the groal demornl- 1ziug agenoy that rotarda and ina great degreo pree vents thelr roliglous, intellectual, and soctal elovation ; therefore, Zesolue, Thut wo wago mmodlato war ngainat that optgrowth'of uppatita, tlut ovorgrown ko, until thers shall bo no niore drunkeness in tho land, e e -y LETTERS. Tho Secretary then read the following lottoers : 0. M, HAWLEY. Committee of the Anti-Slavery Reunfon : Qexroves : Tho kiod invitation of your Committeo to mect with the old vanguard of the Anti-Slavory hosts of the Northweat, in Chicago, on the 9th of June next, and to ** be propared to malko an address” on the occasion, and tominglo nty congratulations with those whoso labors hase o trlumphantly resulted in the complote eman- cipation of 4,000,000 of our follow-citizens from tho shambloes of chattol slavery, is recoived. It {s fiting that such a rounion bo held to commomorate thoso days of labor, of sncrifice, sud contest ; for a more potent, persistont advor- sary, and o graver encounter, has never been undortaken. It was, indeed, o strugglo wortby of the grent men who distinguishod thomselves therein. Wo could name many huudreds, if not thousands, in Chicago aud tho Northwest who shared tho perils, and have reaped tho honors, of the conflict, Butamong them all, howaever Rallant, none did moro valiant sorvice, or la- bored more hotoically, than yoursolveain connac- tion with the noble mon who conatitute your Committeo. Your lifo-long davotlon to the great e over, the devoted ndvocato and porvant of tho cauno of the universal enfranchisomont of the whola puolalo, and tholr porfoct nquslity of rights aud privileges boforo tho Inw, Hoping that your convoutlon will bo n success, [ kinvo the honor to romain, respeotfully, Lo, .M. Tawrer. Rynacuss, N. Y., May 10, 1674, AMARA WALXER, The Ton. Z, Bastman Dean Hm: Your note Inviting mo to attend » rounion of *the old Anti-Slavery men of the nation," to be hold at Qlilcago on "the Oth inat, enmo duly to hand, and 1t would afford me gmn‘f plonsurs to bo prosont on tho oceaslon and mool the brave old friondu who stood shouldor ta shonldor u the greatost struggle over enrriod on in this or probably eny other country. My one gagemonts, howover, aro such I sall not bo abi to make ono of tho gathoring; but I send, through you, niy most cordial greotings to thost who mny assemble, A was a oltizen of Doston whon tho great con flict bogan, and entered into it with all tha ardos and outhuginom of which I was capable, I wat sura that wlavory was wrong, an uttor abominn- tion, and that it ought to bo abolished at once, ond forovor. I folt roady to say this, in public ns woll s private, aud was ofton enlfed, at tho yory commoucoment of the contost, to speak upon the subject., MP'he fiest lecture I gavo was at Reading, i this Stato,—in that part of it known an “ Woor End." My position was, that ** Emancipation fx tho duby of the mastor and tho right of the slave.” "I cannot now say in what yonr this oce ourred, but it was nt tho -very beginuing of the agitation in bohslf of Froedom. Bo far na consisted with my business, which way then vory large, I attonded tho various meet~ ings and convontions that wore hold in Mnssa. chusolty, and had abundant opfiormnmm; for witnessing the mob violonce whioh often ate tended thom. Ono of theso domonstrations I shall not soon forget. I hud taken my dinuer, as usual, at my house in Montgomory Placo, and was passing thx‘ml]ih Washington stroot to my counting-room, whon I noticod o small colletion of mon an Loys iu what was thon known as Cornhill, They ware opposite n building in which the ladics who had ospoused the cauee of tho opprossed, wora to hold a prayor-meeting that aftornnoon, 1 went to tho place, and found that the Mayor of the city hud just arrived, I expected him to ordor tho assembly, which had nowsomowhat inarensod, to disporse, as it was his duty to do. Had he done Ho, I am sare he would have boon abevyed, for thoro woro then aymptoms of vio- lenco, Instond of this, ho merely romonstratod iu a vory feeblo manner, and * hoped thoy would disporso,” e crowd took encouragenmont from this, cs- pecially the ** gentlemon of proporty and stind- ing,” who led thom, and 1n & fow minutes & num- ber of porsons rushed up tho stairs to tho room in which the mooting was being held, and opon- ing tho windows, wrenchdd tho sign of the *Ie- maloe Anti-Slavery Socioty " from it fadtenings, and it foll upon the pavement, and was splint red into n hundred plocos. I said at ouco to o friond noar mo, ' Now we shall have trouble ; tho mob spirit is aroused.” Tho building was ransacked for Gnrrison, and Thowmpson, the English Abolitionist. The for- mer, n8 all tho frionds of tho causo at that period know, way seized, n rope put around hin necek, and he would probably havo boen hung to tho nearest lamp-post hnd not & faw couragsoun truckmen reecucd him, and, placing him in o curriage. natily divon o ‘Lovorat straot, and placed liim securaly in tho jail, “That night tho niob hooted aronnd my house, and others who were supposed to be in sympathy with tho odious Abolitionisty, Tuls was a specimen of tho treatmont wo ro- coived at tho hands of the public, sud the pro- toction given us by tho oivil authoritios ; but wa faved, if poseiblo, even worse in tho Clurch. I helonged ot this period to tho Bowdoin Btreet Church, thon undor tho churge of Rov Ilubbavd ~ Winslow. 1t, was quito im. possiblo to gob any nolice of Anti-Slavor; meetings road, aud although I offere: 6 an evening for the use of tho vestry for hold- ing an Anti-Slavery prayer-moeting, it could nof{ bo lind. . Indeed, during tha Martyr Age, a8 it has been properly callod, wo could not get any ublic_bull in which to hold au Abolition maat- ng. Tt was thin fact that fed to tho purchaso of tho Marlboro Hotol Istato, and the ercotion of ‘tho DMarlboro Chapel, a8 noble hall, in which many o grand Anti-Slavory meeting was held. That Chapel ot that day was a groat fact, be. eauio it was tho only capncious , ot fn whick the friends of tho slavo could hold public moot- tings in tho City of Doston] ‘ho builds ing was_owned by o corporation, aud in” tho hands of ~ Anti-Slavery Trustces. I lhad the honor of belug Chairman of tho Board and becamo responsible in com- pany with my associntes, for vory large pecuni- ary ougagoments, but all camo out right in the eud, Icannot, however, refrain from saying that tho cause of Anti-Slavery was groatly in- debted to two of my associates, Dr. Willady Sonrs and Dr. John Gulliver, father of the Rev. Dr. Gulliver, for their very ofticient and poraee voring efforts in ity bohalf, Indoed whon I look baok and call to mind tha mon and women of that day who gave thome causo, co-oporating with the labors of others, whoso names could ba a8 worthily written, enlls up fucts nod rominisconces in the history of tho American contest whick, if written, would throw o halo of light nnd glory around the heads and moniorios 6f many, though contrastod with tho lustrons effulgenco of that which surrounds the immortal deods of Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce, and Thomas Clarkson. My humble sexvices in the samo causo wora not as prominent or os distinguishod ns thoso of your Conunittes, and many othors in tho Northiwest ; yot, nllow mo to say, Iyield to none in my devotion to the cause and its methods of work. ‘Whon a boy in my teons in 1833, I onliated in tho grand army for the war, and continued in tho field of its operations until victory peychod upon our bannors, I do.not take to myscl{ merit for this : formy sympathios and natural ‘Dont, compellod my judgment to tho sido of univeranl {reodom ~ for all mankind, During this contoat, I cast none other than Auti-Slavery votes, TForthis I was froquontly roprimanded, and made to feel in tho various relations of life, the poywor of alavery und the proscriptions that wore visited upon mo by the' partizans of slay- ery, whetbor in the Church or marshulled undor tho vwo dominnut political parties, then ocou- pying tho political arenwof our country. Lt I llnl uot then, nor do I now regrot the sacrifico, The valuo of my timo, monoy, reputation, and political prospects, wero ofton hold up beforoma by consorvative friouds to induco me to tnke a & moro conservative position, Whon the first warning proolamation of emancipation of President Lincoln was issued, I, in connection with tho Hon, I, 0. Larned, the Hon. Goorgo Mauror, William T, Burgoss, Esq., and others, caused to be published n call for o publio meating in tho City of Chicago to cole- brato 4hie ovont and to make strong the Gov- ernmont purpose iu thet direction ; anda groat aud graud moeting it was, 'I'he poople respondod by thoneands nnd tons of thonsands,—flling Bryan and_Motropalitan alls, tho First Baptist Church odifice, and tho south side of thp Conrt-llonso square. Tho bells of the city rang out their approving notos, Donfires, rockets, nnd fire-works illumined the oty nnd lighted up the the sky; and our cannon oponed thoir iron throats and thundored forth like Jovo for the glorious prospoects. Nover bo- fore, or sinco, was thare such an occasion or such enthusinsm. Tho effect upon the ‘people of tho city, and (hronghout tho Northwent, , was_elootrlent as 1t nows wont forth upon the wires nnd through the pross ; and rospousiva echoes onme back to us from Washington and the groat cities, and as well from towns and hinmlets, - I nover expect to soo another aceasion of such vast magnitude in the moral, rollgious, nnd political offects wupon ihe nation and tho oivilization of the world. Tha lon, Charles G. Humumond was called to preside at the main stund, and was supported by 100 Vigo Presidonts and ton_Beoroturios. Whon the 100 hundred days of probation wero onded (which probation 1 nover did indurse ws a necassity or in prineiple) the accond proclama- tion was dssued by the same Prosident, ou tho 16t day of January followlug, deslaring slavery atunond, ns o nocossary war mensuro; aml thioroupon the same gentlemon called the people togethor for n xml.'nng jubilce aver tho consnm- mution of the August evont, I wiil not attempt, for I cannot deeribe tho wild enthusinsm of the loyal praplo of all clussos and parties; but 1 muy sy that it far oxceedad that of the flvst moeting, Bince then, the great work through the agency of tho Union army thon in the fiell, and the co~ operation of the loynl millions of our conutry, the gront worlk of anisnclpation aud entranchisvo- monli hus boon consumated, And lot o any that the Constitutional enfranchisement of the soople has Jaid doop the foundations of tho na- lhm in the heurts of the people; and from those dopths is now rislug the groat und noble super- strnoture unequalod fu magnitude, in symmetry, and in beanty, commanding the rttention, admit- ntion, sud wondor, aud respoat of the groat na~ tions of the world, May God proservo it, and Imu{; honds of peace, and of nationa ty, and oqunlity before tho law, T much rogret the eivoumstanco of my inabill- t;' to bo persounlly presont at your convention, Tleano accopt my spology, and prosont to tho bravo henrts and colnborers who achieved tho worl of emancipation of 4,000,000 of slaves frcm abattel slavery iu our country my hertiosl con- gratulations, and suy to them that I vm now, s its pooplo in the union, fraterni- eolves to work of emacoipation, Lam fitled with admiration, and feel to thaunk God that I was ermittod to act with thom, and take som¢ Tuzabie part in the gront work. T must bo ailowed to 8oy in conolusion, that, although tho slavos havo boon emancipated, oni work in regard to them {s but half accomplished. I hayo just roturned from n journey through the Inte Slave States ; and my mind is fearfully im: pressed with tho gront necossity of continued efforts in their behalf. Emancipation without enlightonment, without elevation.and Christinx civilization, is no boon to them, and buta ter- riblo enlamity to the nation. Elovate thom we must. It will be a long, difficult, arduona work, but it must bo done, or Auti-Siavory men had botter bave done nothing. All the benevolent onergies of this nation ara required for this work ; undaf wo regard ous own peace and prospority, we must coucontrate our onorgies on this work, z HBucl are my deop convictions, aftor having ‘bocn over the grouud and considerod the faots, Jamsica is rupidly desconding to African bar bariem, with her 490,000 blacks aud 10,004 whites] Of this thore is no doubt, : Now, then, while we rojoico in the achiova ments of tho past, should we not_feol the doey respousibilitios of the present hour, and gira ournelvos for tha groat Btrugglo ? Ioping thnt your reunion will be found dae 1y mteresting, and that good will be.acoomplish. ed by it for tho omancipated slavo, I am sincore ly yours, AMASA WALRER, Nonrin BRoOKFIELD, Mass., June 1, 1874, GILES B. BTEDDINS. To the Committee of the Anti-Slavery Retunion : GENTLEMEN : Your invitation to attond the Anti-Blavery Reunion is racoived. Thauks for- your kindness, bug I am rogrotfully compelled to sy that I cannot be prosout at o mooting of auch signal intorout and valuo as yours must bo. Trom those * martyr days,” when a few faith- ful men and woman spoko, uud wrote, aud prayed for troodom, amidst knecrs aud mobs, and all minnner of #ovinl and secturisu {lruncrlpuuu, and & few mon votod, at the cost of boing ruled out of ail ** hoalthy political organizations,” to the timo when the emancipation proclamation swept ovor the land, borne on by press und pulpit, by sword and 'bayonet, how wonderful the chungel Buroly it is tho Diviue order that, at last, Ever tho rlght comen uppermost, ‘And ever I8 justica done, and the votorans in this moral warfare who will meet ut yonr reunion can well sey, one and all : Mino eyen lavo seen tho glory of thocomingof the i Trom tho timo when William Lloyd Garrison gent oub from lis obsoure garret in Bostan his intonso and solomn words, *'T'ho sins of thia peoplo aro onough to make a murhls statue lon) from its podostal, I must and Iwill bo hoard. Iwill boas harsh ng truth, and as uncompro- mising as justice,” and was hunted in the struots like n folon, to tha timo when Tio lialped raluo the Hinrd nud Stripos—tho sacred pymbol of liberty for all—over Fort Sumter; whnt & spiritunl and political growth| We sro no louger obliged to mix up with so-called fa- natics" to hoar the golden oloquence of Wendell Dhitlips, but the poEulnr plattorm is open for uim all ovor tho tnd. Gerrlt Smith'a uorone later years are not disturbed by the snoora aud riots that once followed him, but hie hus won love in place of fonr, and honor instead of dis- hanor, "mu gonerous kinduoss aud Lis poraiute ouco in right and justico, "The sbolition of slavery has not ushored in tho millenium,—nobody uurpnuml it would,—bu{ it hins wrought bouoflcent chaugos, lifting oft tho woury woight of eruclly nud proscription from the black man, and the degrading burden of pride and projudice from tha whito mun, and tiwe, pationce, and now hublity, fitted to_new occslons, must completo tha work, Muy we bring over to the duties ofonr duy the high {unuomn fidality, justios, sud porsiutont couvags learnod in that memorable Anti-Sluvery sruggle, and upply them to thoenfranchissment of woman nud to ather honefleent movemonts ? 1 nowd not ovon wish that your reunion muy bo full of enjoyment and bonofit, for it cannot be othorwisy, "\Whilo wo tnke vigilant ocare that black und white, poor and rich, man and woman, il ovor our lund, have guarantons .and protection in tholr equal Tights, wo may well necept, in this nh\y of ‘the triumph of An‘i-Slhvery, the uplrit of the closing _words of ' ree warkable addvoss. by Lawnr, of Alvsley.