Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-08-28

Mr.. Editor have just returned from an Abolition
meeting, and as 1t may not be disagreenble TO you and some
of your readers to know how such meetings are conducted
in these parts, you may insert the following in your columns
# deemed worthy. But few Abolition papers are cxchang-
ed with Southern prints, aud therefore il Is, that we in the
Sou,b. mr., unaequainted with the proceedings OF these Nor
,hern fanatics: for if we hear any thing OF them through
their papers, tits very incorrect, II the meeting | attended
tins evening be n fair specimen, and presume 1t to be such,
NJ II was the beginning Of a Convention TO be held for Sc
yoral days. III could remain tomorrow, would postpone
my remarks and give YOU a more full account, AS one OF
their most distinguished men and jealous advocates, Judge
Jay, is to address them.
The meeting was assembled in their Capitol Square;
their speakers, MossIs. Parker and Cole, stood upon the
steps OF the State House and addressed the meeting
which was composed Of men, women and children, black
and white, indiscriminaiely mingled: thus, n ragged, dirty
negro man was seated by the side of a welLdroSsed white
woman; n black woman was engaged IN close conversation
with u white man; an lushman was HOurishing his club;
and Immediately under the speaker was seated an old qua
ker with his broad-bTim hat, which, luckily for the orator,
prevented the volume of smoke, curling from his pipe, from
ascending directly to his oliactory region, which must have
produced sutlocaion. The whole assembly, amounting 10
four OF five hundred persons, presented a scene OF disorder,
ianatcism and ignorance, unsurpassed by any ever witness
I'd ia this country. The first speaker Parked was fluent,
and seemed to be a sensible man; but he spoke only tosuit
the occasion, without any reference 10 truth or pTetenSlon
to reason lac acclaimed loudly against the South, but parti-
cularly Virginia, calling her the Another Of Slaves and
Slayery,-the enemy OF Liberty that she had had too
many Presidents;-and urged the Northern men, that as
the North had gwen Presidents bui Tor ItTfsrc wears, u Nole
iur a Northern man, MIR. Van Buren,, ! supp1SeO and To
consent to no Southern mans ruling. Parker said but lit
Tie, when rose the aforesaid Mr.. Cole, amid the bursts of
applause from AN audience after his own order. He spoke
some length OF time, being often interrupted by cries OF
"lleat, Good, Yes! Rcpeat!' &c. nc. During his
speech, he proved conclusively To the crowd, that the
slaves OF the South would impovcrjsh the Union, and that
abolition was the only remedy; that millions OF dollars had
been already lostto the North, because OF tic inability ot the
Shareholders To- pay their Northern debts. lie also told them
that Texas would be admitted into the Union Os n slavehOld-
my State, unless they elected their man; and gave them a
history OF the Florida War, the origin OF which he atui-
buied In slavery, thus: that a woman, the slave OF a Missls-
sippi planter, ran away from her master, He'd to the woods
of Florida, where she married Oceola; that the woman was
afterwards recovered by her master. who in a short time
was shot through his window at night;-thiS, he said, was
supposed to have been done by the cnraged Indians, and
was the commencement OF Il war, which had cost the
North forty millions OF dollars, and the lives Of thousands OF
her citizens. This was some thing new To me, and pre-
sumo it was Ia them, as il took well, not like a story told 4
second time. Such were his historical facts, as he called
them, and such his arguments.
An invitation was given 10 any gentlemen 10 reply 10
these remarks, and particularly to any man from the South,
as they knew that nothing could be done which would so
much advance the cause as tohave an anti-Aboiuon speech.
! thought that this might DC verified If | attempted to re-
ply; 50, for the sake OF the views that | entertained, | said
nothing;-but more especially was | silent, for the sake OF
my own person, which | did not like to subject to the plea
sure OF SO immodcute and ignorant a crowd who might
fancy Il suit OF tar and feathers the most becoming dress for
uNirginian alone at the meeting. There was no necessity
for a reply-they could not have been changed in their
views for
"A man convinced against his VIII,
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