State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-06-07

mon Law whether IN the messages OF
our Governors, the pages of orr Theologi-
cal Reviews or the reports of Legislative
Committces,-come what may, gag law or
Lynch law, we will never cease from its
exercise - full, free, aud undiminishcd-
until the last tetter shall he broken, and
slavery aud prejudice shall be buried in one
common grave.
The convention continued through the
third day, with unabated interest. Boston
is rcdecmng herself Not the least violence
was manifested
GEORGE TnoMPsoN. In the Anti-Slavc-
ry Convention, now sitting in this city, Il
letter from Geo. Thompson, the celebrated
aboliionst, was rcad.-It was dated, Glas-
gov, April ID, 1886, giving AN account of
his proceedings the week previous. He
had recently lcctured at Newcastle on Tyne,
to an immense audience in the Wesleyan
Chapel on American Slavery. The Christ
ians of Great Britain united with him as the
prosecuted advocate Of liberty, driven from
the boosted land of freedom for preaching
up our own Declaration Of Independence.
In his address, he did no tspcak i'll of A mer-
lea. One of the Newcastle papers says,
that he spoke of the United States in terms
which, if transferred TO his own country.
Great Britain,) would have been the high
est eulogum.
AT Newcastle, the ladies gave MrThomp-
son splendid tea party, in the public Hall.
Six hundred persons were present, among
them James Montgomery, the poet, who
delivered an address against Slavery. Taste
full refreshments were provided by the
ladies, and the use of the Hall gratuitously
given. The Tickets went TO the education
of the colorcd people of the West Indies.
/ May 3lst Mr. Thompson attended great
meeting of the Anti Slavery Society, in
Newcastle. This Society is established to
abolish Slavery throughout the world.
April 4, Mr. II. delivered lecture on Tenn
perance, in the Friends Meeting House.
All who came could not get in. The 18th,
two meetings of the Wesleyan Missionary
Society. 9th addressed the ladies' of Glas-
gov, on the subject of Female Anti Slavery
Societies in America. He did not forget
the Boston mob of October 81, nor the
heroic females who were exposed to its
ruthless violence. The ladies of Glasgow
formed an Universal Emancipation Society
to aid their sisters in the cause in America
9TH, Mr. II. addressed the Peace Society.
Sth, an address in Sunderland, and on the
9th returned to his family, at Glasgow. He
is overwhelmed with invitations to visit all
parts of England and Scotland, to hear the
details of his adventures in America. lie
had met DR.. Cox in public meeting, and
there accused him, as he did in New York,
with deserving the Anti Slavery cause in
America. The Doctor was hunbled and
Ia1 do IS
duet in the United States was unqualifiedly
condemned Ivy the British Abolitionists, and
he would not long remain Il member of the
Committee. MIR II. had interviews with
three hundred clergymen. Various
movements were in contemplation, touch
ing American Slavery. When he described
! people on the subject of Slavery, and read
/ the histories of the mobs and outrages he
had witnessed, from American newspapers,
4 the British Christians woke as from trance
and were shocked beyond measure, to hear
such things of their brethren in the United
States. Efforts were making to abolish
the apprentice system in the West Indies
They had got Committee Of lnvestiga-
ton appointed in the House of Commons.
When the evidence was got direct effort
would he made. In the space Of ten days
only, the signatures of thirty thousand per-
SONS had been obtained, in and about Glas-
Cow, for abolshng the apprentice slavery
system, and decreeing immediate enanci-
patton.
We give these facts, that those who drove
Mr. Thompson from this country may see
how little is gained 10y it. lie is now rous-
ing worse crusade against slavery in all
Europe, than Peter the Hermit preached
against the pagans. - Boston Press.
There are some notions of Il free pres,
left in Congress, as will be seen by the fol
lowing:-
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
The House proceeded to the further eX
ecuIion of The special order, aud on motor
of Mr. Conner, resolved itself into II Com
niilteG OF the Whole on the state of tht
Union, Mr. Sutherland in the Chair, aud re
slmed the consideration or the bill "tc
change and to provide more eflcctually 70
+ the settlement Of the accounts thereof"
T The question pending was the follown!
amendment OF Mr. Shields:
"Be IL further enacled, That whosoeve
shall knowingly and wliulIy deposile, o
cause to be deposited, or offer to deposit,
in any post office in the United States, O
any Of the Territories thereof, any incen
diary hand bill almanac, newspaper, pamph
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