The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

[Stamped, ld. Additional.;

NEGRO EMANCIPATION AND
AKIRICAN WAR.

Lad night a great meeting in favour of the eau,e
d wive emancipation, and to expreme sympathy with its
monweime in Ainarwa, was held in Exeter•hall. The meet•
bur wee convened by the Emancipation Bodily, and proved
to be, *bother la plaint of numbers or eatimahaelle Wise,
ree of the most important demonstrations of pulp
apiriiea kaowa in London wince the days of the
Lewes, For half an hour before the time appointed
forth, meamsocommt of the proceedings the great hall was
crowded, and it beams hammy to bold a second meeting'
in the loiter KII, while a third meeting was held fa the open
air, In izMar-*set. The name of Abraham Lapel* was
received with immemeapplauss, the sodium nein anal
cheering. and aiming their hats sad handkerchiefs.

Dening.the mune of the proosediela the ebaiHM6o iii•
eased telegrams from Bradford end Stroud, emplacing that
enselinp were being bald in those towns, and that mole.
Om hied been pained in favour of negro ansecipation.
Mr. W. Beam, the Chairmen of 'the Emancipation
Society, prodded. Mr wee Imported by Mr. P. A. Taylor,
Y.P. ; Hr. Timm Mahar (author of "Tow Brown") Mr.
li. Ludlow. Her and Rev. Begtiet Neel, Rev. Newman
'Ha, lir. BMW Beelet, Mr. thimesi Lases Mr. F. W.
Cllensee, Rem
AWES Wain, I.thrleille. Bey. J. O. Galloway,
tMu Felfil&tilidt=
ar. ur.:l6. J. Finer Eireleete, .G.
Thiele. Oxford; W. dideummeGrebb, Ozbed ; Mr. BfillisiS
Wweeffit, Mm. Gams Nemeth. Mr. John Genie; Bev.
FThownen Bass, Mr. W. Beetwitik. Mr. /Masa Bun, Mr.
W. Whitish's,. Mr. Ford. Bev. P. W. Williamson, Mr. W.
J. Barlow, Mr. John Stuart, Mr. James Tyler. jan.. Mr.
W. B. Hedge (iron Honduras). Bea. A. C. Thomas, Bev.
Jams Bolton, Mr. James Chalmen (from Canada), Mr. G.
J. Holyoke, Sc. . .
Mr. Cinema, the hon. moretery, read letters from
the cambia, of the Unica end Emancipation Society of
Menthither, signed by the president, Mr. T. B. Potter,
from Gement Thompson, Yr. INMAN'. . M.P.,
Mr. Jcifin S. Mill, Preform NUMMI Professor Canes,
Mr. Wm. limeremes, Colonel Ikiway, Mr. Stem-
bid, ILP., Professor Goldwin Smith, Mr. Edward Well,
Mr. George Thompson, Mr. John Patience, Limped ;
Mr. Charles Robertoon, Liverpool ; M. Edward alamoder,
jun., Glamow ; Mr. Henry Vincent, Dr. Hearne, South.
implon ; Mr. G. Jaen Harvey, Jersey ; Mr. Bided Peek.
Kingsteidge ; Mr. A. Treadmill, Teinholin ; Mr. Handel
Camases, BMW ; Mr. Partridge, Birmingham, sad Rimy
others, remade( their legality to Steed the meting, and
expreseng sympathy with the object it. had in view.
The Has. and Rev. Barton Nest, who ma reesired
with load theme, in the lint resontios, mid the
preeent meting stigmatised ran issignificont
ew, bat they was ally the pickets of Use greet
Lthieoosntey. (Prolonged cheering.) Them
were We maid to the ;many of the sleveleolders ;
no alliance the murder policy of Jefferson Davis ;
DO Alabama top ey apes Amman ammo, is return for
their Geary Griswold sent to feed our starvieg operetiva ;
no war with IS. United Siam far the slevehoiden ; tan pre-
intikee raceme* which Mk to war, end no Milne midi-
;Mee Miele bah to both ; smh • et ell till they
allinitherw;szmosjefo. nomad wish tome the United
volizEntiars
sad rained. Menet-
r... and molested ethers.) Th
IFe idlsllami".irere at that reemeet beldimg • meta:
Oa Ite IS the Melodeon, end he peopeeed that •
inirdesuitt he at onne despolthed to saying," We
_piti: widths tales—whet are your sad
te es eueswer_bi.balt:ebiadtho.
hismesibgasseen,matbeoverr...
wee this—Hem
to Pinsideet Limb
pa perty.aessistVemtiolevesy, men of ell meths, who
are fee agenelpailm' sad the speedy _ pews
through emeosiptica and reennies • the seedistise of
Francis, Bombed, sad Europe to promote emene=st
re-nnias epos the brit of simpeesstion to the
for the km at their slaves ; sad Mtly, Mideed and IS.
Umbel Etna fat ever frigate and albs le =a.set.
glue liberty throughout the world. Is
board to Mme the Int solution, which ate solinleenia,
"That the mob of Oa Seethes, Mese oil
W Felseelpeonmest having mem* ey
deesembeeloo pimply toembetele het
bevies hese famed by the
Me upon the dead at hose rights to the nemenons,._
means iseffenantly reeds the momplion that the English
people syseptbise with, 0 paellas that We SWAM ivory
principle of political justice, or with institutions fumed in
defiance of the moral seer of civilised mankind, and which
are an outrep upon the :algae whom sanction has bees
claimed in their semen."
Mr. THOMAS Humes, of Lineola's.inn, seconded the re-
solution.
Mr. FEUDS wished to move an amendment, but met
with so unfavourable a rooms:dim by the meeting, that, until
rtbad been made in his behalf by the chairmen and by
*. warn Hell, he wee enable to obtain • bearing.
WMen be was permitted to speak. Mr. Falb mid he bad
lived in the Coked States from 1831 to lira, and he on. of
opinion that only thaw who bed resided for some time is
Americo could understeed the differemee Mama theNeoth
end Beath. It was • terries struggle for &minim on the
one aide, and for neUnniano ea the other. Yeas ego.
Mee he resided in ths 141ent *aka, the MO M& dis-
ruption of the Union was spoken of es • mere emetics of
time; and the interests of the bath end South were die-
metriadly oppceite,_ sod there could be se reesopable doubt
that the came falli se the prevent eteende wee sot • pee-
tion a manaption, bet el Northers predembeam. 11
was the mad ambition of man* the Union of avid ne
pubic et all bawds, with slavery or without. The eresed-
ment be desired to move win:—" That Anthem LieetiM
unomaitatimel embalm— the proolenatioe, baiting to a
war of nom is a diiaabbooltii diabolical sad deeptestely .viedistlee
degree, end this meeting is of opinion that the resegediee
of the Independence and nationality of the Coefedarthe
Sates by England would ultimately secure freedom to the
black."
The missedmeni wee seemided from the gallery.
The Rev. Remus HALL mid there were sere who'
maintained that slavery had nothing whatever to do
with the war; bet it was undoubtedly to maiotein
!Livery that the South had the straggle to get Mimed as
a slave state, •eod it win to maintain slavery that they
notarially reamed Preallents pledged not to interfere I
with it ; and when they got • President who differed with
them, Smith Caroline at once declared that with an abo-
litionist President she would no longer be connected with
the Unice. The Times of am day might be in favour of
seenethiag sad the nest day spool it, end lie fond it
stated ie that Merest of Inman 7, 1861, " The
North is for freedom and the South for slavery. The
North is for freedom of discussion • the South
treats freedom of discussion with the ter
.brush and the
pies faggot," and the chmeter of the whole of the article
was such that it might very well have been adopted es •
tract of the Emancipation Society. (A laugh.) Then, as
regarded the North, what had they done? It was said they
were not sincere. Let them be tried by their sob. The
emanation gave them power to emeocipate in Columbia,
and they had emancipated there. They had recognised the
=rice
of Hayti and Liberia, and they had pro-
compensation to all holders in the Soothers
States who would voluntarily manumit their dace. and
be might tell the meeting that Missouri had accepted the
same. Generally wherever the armies of the North had
gone they had emancipated—:.'oo.ooo nevem were now free
wee were slaves et the beginning of the war. Jefferson
Davis had been oonspeand by one of OW legislators to Geri.
bsldi-(ob, oh)—the man who was fighting to keep in Mod-
est three ads-half millions of slaves was compared with •
men who hated slavery all over the world. And think of
the Tana Meng • leading article to prove that slavery
was sanctioned by Scripture. He wee deeply pained
by the book of Dr. WNW, but he was ready to eodorse
what the Duke of
_Atoll said the other day, that the
Way does be mob boob ea Dr. Colenso's wee not to be
to the injury done to belief in the Christian
red
revelation when the Bible was brought forward to support
slavery. It was said that they were holding that night •
nernivel of cent ; bat eery little attention Deed be given to
mob a phrase, meaning se it did from those who eon-
adored it cant to fescue the druoksrd from the
tyrannyt of drink and the poor woman from the
and who sought to support slavery upon
the authority of the Bible. To be slimed upon such
en authority was oo slight praise, and in spite of such
ebees, it would go forth les the opinion of that meeting
that the trade in human beings wee es theminatioe—that
it was en abomination to offer men and women foe sale like
Mesa by public auction, and that it was an abomination to
log • naked woman, whether she were as Hungarian
mates, or an Airless slave. (Load cheers.) Recogni-
tion of an empire involved the remotion of its ambassador,
but the loyalty of Englishmen loathed the very thought of
such an indignity being dam to the sovereign lady we de-
lighted to venerate es that her pure matronly widowed
hand should be contaminated by the kiss of any repronee-
tative of ao foul a oompirecy against csalieeties, lemanity.
and God se was being carried on is the Souther* States of
America.
The rev. gentleman resumed his seat wal4et SiDUSFOIM
cheering.
The MAHWAH having announced that • telegram holl
Mu received from Bradford stating that then were 4.ffed
poem sesemlded in St. George's-hall, and that hundreds
could and get in, put Mr. Field's amendment, which found
ady • few supporters, while the original resoluta. wee
earls& almost unanimously, and in the midst of bid
chem.

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