The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-05 00:00:00

MR. W. LLOYD GARRISON IN MANCHESTER.

Last evening a complimentary banquet was given
• to Mr. Lloyd Garrison, the well-known advocate of segro
emancipation in America, at the Trevelyan (Tempera*
Hotel, Manchester. Mr.T. BAZLIY, M. P. , occupied the chair;
and the company, which numbered about 100 Wise and pen-
men, included Mr. George Thompson, Mr. Jacob Bright,
Mrs. Jacob Bright, Dr. J. Watts, Mr. F. Garrison, Mee
Valard, the Rev. Steinthell, Mrs. Moore, Mr. Alder-
men It. Heywood (Bolton), Mr. Alderman Harvey (Sal.
ford), Professor Jack, Professor Ward, Dr. Borchardt,
Mr. and Mrs. A. Ireland, Mr. It. D. Webb (Dublin), Mr.
John F. Fester (Boston Maas.), Mr. John Pattiaon (Lives
pool), Mr. It. HilditehAhe Rev. T. G. Lee, Mr. W.
Roberts, Mr. W. Moms Mr. Alderman Barlow (Bolton),
Mr. Councillor Williams, Mr. J. B. SPlCerrow, Mr,
Councillor Murray, &c.
The adoption of an address of welcome and congratula.
tics to Mr. Garrison was moved by the Rev. S. S.
STEINTUAL, seconded by Dr. J. WAIN, supported by lie
JACOB BRIGHT, and, the motion having been unanimouslyI passed, the address was Assented by the Chairman.
Mr. °cameos, on rising, was received with loud theme
In the course of his speech he said :—Something bad been
said of the mobs which rose against him and his smociates.
They were multitudinous in every part of the land ; his
meetings were constantly invaded by brutal men, and, in-
j stead of meeting him with arguments and facts, the slam-
] holders assailed him with brickbats and rotten egge, and
by attemptingto inflict Lynch law upon him. These things
' dud not trouble him at all • the severest trial that be bad
I was are ligious trial. He Lad been taught to look upon
I the church with great veneration, and to regard those who
ministered in the ulpit as those who stood nearest to the
i throne of God. C rtainly he never desired or designed to
have any issue with the American church or the American
clergy ; but, to his grief of heart and horror of mind,
he saw in them s purpose to keep the slave doe%
in his chains, and to crush out every effort, if possible,
for his deliverance. It was an awful revelation of the
corrupting power of slavery throughout the length and
breadth of the land. The Bible wan resorted to continual)y
to prove that God sanctioned slavery ; that in the Old
' Testament, under Knees and the prophets, and in the New
Testament, with Jesus and the apostles, the clearest
evidence was to be found that slavery was compatible with
true religion and vital Christianity. He had, therefor%
• to do one or two things—either to abandon the slave or to
denounce that form of Christianity which would keep
I him in his chains. (Hear, hear.) To him the choice ins
I very easily made. (Cheers.) And then what followed?
I In attacking the religion of America, of course he was se
infidel. The religion of any country being attacked would
I subject any man to the same charge. He certainly was sa
ibnuatdriel towasthenAno infidel tositteP°l4illg' tyvoefddrivthesesga"
(hear, hear)—who had given Whim and all men this blessed
rule, " Whatever ye would that men should do unto co,
do you even so unto them. (Cheers.) Using the term , re-
ligion" in its highest and noblest sense, there sever had
been a movement more truly religious than that of anti.
slavery in the United States. (Hear, hear.) The abele
tionista were eminently religious and deeply coneeientious,
. willing to suffer the loss of all things rather than
;be false to God and false to man. But the mad
dog cry of "infidel and infidelity !" If it only
meant that they could not bow the knee to
Beal and turn their backs upon righteousness, they might
call them infidels or whatsoever they pleased. "The Lord
knoweth them that are his." (" Hear, hear," and cheers.)
His land had been fearfully scourged from one end to the
other, and it well deserved to be scourged. When the
judgments of God came upon • guilty people, he might
lament that their sin had insured the judgment, but he
would never arraign the wisdom or the goodness of God
in sanding those judgments. For the sake of peace,
falsely so called, in their idolations, regard for the
preservation of the union, a bargain was entered
Into at the formation of the constitution of the
United States, whereby certain compromises were
made with slavery, and the whole country become
responsible for its existence. But that which they
took into the constitution in order to make the union,
God had caused to dash the union in pieces, teaching the
great and solemn leluion that all compromise with sin would
in the end work destruction, and i hat nothing but right-
eousneas could exalt • nation. (Cheers.) While in Aw-
-1 rim there was a general disposition on the part of loyal
men to consider England hostile to the Americin govern-
' meat and willing to see it overthrown, and while on this
side there were manifestations by no means favourable, yet
I he never doubted for one moment that the heart of the
English people, as such, beat in the right ilirectioit.
(Cheers.) lie expected that the tory element would by
the law of gravitation go southward—(laught, sal—but
the people, the bone and muscle of the nation, lie felt sure
I would be found in the trial hour all right ; and they proved
! themselves so in the end. (Cheers.) It redounded to
the credit of England that the Southerns on this side
I of the Atlantic never dared to make their appeal to •
free and open popular meeting, whereas on the other
I side hundreds of meetings were held with open_. jdeon
land the people by an overwhelming verdict su
Abraham Lincoln. (Loud cheers.) He saw are
him those who had been faithful when it required
some courage to be so. Unquestionably, the Lincashire
' people had by their demonstration, saved England and
I America from a bloody struggle, for if thesemanifestations
had not been made, and to the extent that they were made,
he was quite sure that war would have been declared by
1 America at all hazards, rind they would have engaged in the
, work of mutual destruction. The Lancashire people had,
; therefore, been peacemakers indeed; they had been friends
I of America, friends of liberty, friends of their own
, country, and friends of all mankind. He desired to
return his thanks to the press of England that stood by
them—to the London Daily News, the Morning Star, the
Sprrlator, the Nonernsferweist, and the Manchester
Examiner sad Tinges. And then, to that peer of the
realm who was one not simply by virtue of hie title, but
because of his manly and upright character, the
Duke of Argyll—to the shade of the lamented
Cobden—to John Bright—(cheers)—to Goldwin Smith
—to J. S. Mill—to Forster, Stansfeld, Hughes, Taylor,
I and Mihres —to all these he would say, one sad
all, " Stuid back • give place to the working men
cot Lancashire ;" bemuse in trials peculiar to their cos&
, tion, trials which were inconceivable to those who bad
' not gone through them—with starvation looking ties
in the face, with no cotton sad no employment, and
tempted by the devil on the right hand, and on the
left to cry out for the independence of the South. a
order to get cotton, they resolved to perish rather
than that their influence should be thrown into the scale
of the diabolical slave power of the South. lie stood le-
fore such • people with the profoundest reverence for the
nature that was in them. He came to them with tears of
gratitude, and he threw his nrms lovingly around their
necks and invoked the benediction of Almighty God upon
their heads. If they had gone with the South, they would
have had no cotton, or it would have been stained through
and through with blood. They would belie had war,
they would have had their national debt frightfully Aug-
mented, and they would have had blond, and tears, and
suffering. But they chose wisely ; and now they were
going to get plenty of cotton—any amount of cotton—
(cheers)—and, above all, free cotton, with no stain of blond
upon it ; and where they had got one bale by slavery, Goa
would give them ten or twenty hales by free labour.

' FIREWORKS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-llldUald
by the success which has attended the two great PlTa_.
technic fetes already given this season on the Crystal
Palace grounds, a third grand display was held last night.
The salute of aerial maroons was the prelude, as usual, to
the flight of rockets and coloured fires, of which the
beautiful and picturesque combinations are 111111 so fami-
liar. The properties of the electric light were displayed from
two balloons, which carried up its dazzling brilliancy toast,
skies. The comets, which, owing to the improvements is
the arrangements, now never fail to reach the point of des-
tination, flew down from the water towers with imuselleas
velocity, and having reached the temples on the lower ter-
race lit them up at every point until their effulrence was
as profuse as it was brilliant. The floating stars, which
sustain their glittering beauty so long, formed a beg
sparkling constellation, changing their colours at intervals
until they faded into dimness across the horizon. Tile "et
pieces were as elaborate as usual, one of them presenting
the design of an octagonal shield, the outlines fornwd of
brilliants. Within, countless circular works of coloured
fires rapidly revolved, and on the outside a gorgeous firings
was formed by what appeared to the spectators a thick
rich shower of gold. In the other, which was nem ly 201 ft.
in circumference, several ingenious modifications of the
recently invented eidotrope were introduced. the several
portions of it in their revolutions forming ,14,igns of varied
and in many crises exquisite design. The illumination of
the fountains and the grand ifisole of thousand', of coloured
rocket, were, as usual, the last items on the pmgram*.
and were folly as snooeuful as the oorrespondm..* leat
of former displays. One shilling day, Thurelay, July 4.
Admission on payment, 14,000 ; ditto by season tick*
5,886. Total visitors, 19,946.