The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-08 00:00:00

that he would; be excused from attempting to made a
speech.—(Hear.) He had declined coming forward or.
any former occasion from the fear that he might possibly
be misunderstood. The Learned Speaker thee, after
lamenting the slow progress which the temperance
cause had made in Pennsylvania, concluded by saying
that only personal and individual efforts could effect a
real reformation in that or any other country, and there-
fore he urged all the friends of the temperance move-
ment to follow a maxim current in America, and suf.
ficiently plain to Anglo-Saxon ears, "It they were sure
they were right, let them go-a-head."—(Cheers.)
Dr. Patton, from New YOrk, Ricbard Allen, Esq.,
from Dublin and John Andrews, Esq., Scarborough,
addressed the meeting in support of the general principle.
Dr. BEAUMONT, from Bradford, Yorkshire, then said,
the mere circumstance of his being connected with the
medical profession might furnish an apology for his ad-
dressing them. The object which brought them toge-
ther was one of grandeur and sublimity, for it was their
wish to elevate in every way the human being. The
great difficulty which the friends of the temperance
cause had to encounter was, the prevailing ignorance of
the people an to the nature and qualitto of intoxicating
liquors. All were not aware that all liquors, whether
wine, ale, beer, or spirits, were necessarily unwholesome,
and he would rest the fact that they were so, on the cir-
cumstance that no medical man who had ever examined
the subject, as he ought to do, had come to a different
conclusion.—(Cheers.) So long as alcohol was an in-
gredient in liquors, so long must these liquors be
of necessity unwholesome, and only so soon as
medical men on the one hand, and Christian ministers
on the other, came forward, would be introduced a per-
fect system of total abstinence.
Mr. HENRY CLAPP, jun., from Massachusetts, hoped
that his friends around him - would in future show as
much regard for a man in the flames of strung drink as
they would do if they saw a house in flames.
FREDERICK DoUGLASS,! who was formerly a slave in
Virginia, next came forward, and was received with
great applause. He said he experienced great pleasure
in bearing his testimony to the benefits of teetotalism.
He was not a delegate from America, for those who
would be anxious to send him there in such capacity
were themselves slaves.—(Load cries of " Shame,
shame.") He was sorry to say that there were 3,000,000
of his brethren kept down in a state of slavery.—(Shouts
of disapprobation.) He loved the Americans, but they
had neglected their duties towards their f.llow-creatures,
because they had " a skin not coloured like their own."
In 1842, when the temperance movement was making
such immense progress among the white men, a great
number of the black men had the wisdom and the courage
(though the white men denied them the credit of possess-
ing any of these virtues) to declare in favour of the
movement. They walked in procession through Phila-
delphia on the Ist of August, and how were they treated?
Why, the Anglo-Saxons met them with shouts of con-
tempt, and hurled brickbats and other missiles upon them.
—(Shame.) He (lit not mention this fact with a view of
insulting his American friends here, but he wished that
when they went home to America they would exert
themselves, while advocating the cause of their white
brethren, also to rescue the black man from the pit of
slavery into which he was thrown.—(Great cheering.)
(Here the chairman whispered something into the
speak.er's ear, when a voice from the gallery cried out,
"Don't interrupt him—don't dictate to him." This
caused the most tremendous cheering, which lasted for
several minutes.) The speaker begged to assure his
kind friends that the chairman had not in the slightest
degree sought to alter any sentiment that he was anxious
to give expression to ; he was simply reminded by him
that the time to which he was limited in his address
had expired. He concluded by cslling upon the minis-
ters of religion in this country to aid in effecting that
progress in the movement which it had through the in-
strumentality of the American clergy already attained
in the New World.

The Rev. Mr. KIRK wished to say that Frederick
Douglass had made an unintentional misrepresentation.
From his observations be was afraid that an impression
had been left upon tile public mind that the temperance
advocates in Arn,Jrica bad supported slavery.—(Cries of
"No, no.") Vaen if such were not the impression pro-
duced, ho W. nothing more to say.
Mr. J. S., BUCKINGHAM, in a brief address, wound up
the preeedieg,s of the meeting.
Mr. MEREDITH then moved -a
vote of thanks to the
chairman, which having been duly acknowledged, the
meeting separated.