Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-05-13

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Nav Yoax. Nay 1,h. is4s. !
nsvns leisure this afternoon, though, 4, nigh, b.
usetsly employed By dropping you few aes upon the
SUBJECT OF the Anti Slavery anniversary, celebrated yes
'erday In the Broadway Tabernacle. My motive 10 no,
to alarm you. or to excite your Indignation but simply
to furnish you detail Of facts. No doubt The pspers
will have anticipated me. yet probably q sketeh ftvm
cid.sn Of Richmond would DO acceptable.
This bsing the great anniversary week fos the different
benevolent and religious societies have their centres
OF action IN the City Of New York. yesterday morn.
ing the Garrison and Abby Kelly Party, under the
| name OF the American AntiSlavery Society met up
i on their anniversary occasion. After the opening
Garrison In the chair the report of the las, years
i Psoceedinss. &c, read. This ordered 10 be
printed Aher tho report read and disposed o. the
President introduced the assembly gsstissa Of color
when mn speaker commenced notwith>sn dinR his bri
Liant appearance in personal Particular could bu, hang
down my head for him. lie opened in pom pous phr.se
o'osy about fAs rsst ssss6Iy this .ixkfv eenessrss
~e when the assembly before him such create
IN me feeling Of discrepancy, quite war with INV bump
OF htness and adaptstveness But was in his speech
snd % course must come On the whole he spoke WE'LL
lie lett decidedly the beet impression my mind Of any
OF tho speakers This Clifford did not AXE
his sword st that defeneeless Rutland the Union He
dealt pfey much and preuly in sbsraetonshis desisus
Were not asrk He spoke la his, tones Of liberty, and
aSseed encomiams the bravery sound principles per.c
ve"nee Nc. Of our English ances,ory. Of our faith
en OF the Revolution, and Of our srcs who framed
the Declaration OF 1ndepend enee. But not,yhstand
ing this sem~an Of esier is from MassaeAsseffs,
mere Is mere justice in hs OF III ponoun osr than
After this speaker had concluded came forward being
heraded by the President, Phillips OF Boston, as learn
lawyer. This gentleman commenced by reading Re-
solution, opful OF direst treason against the IJoo,
When this man commenced HE TRADE against the Union
'hooght ham the most hateluly ugly ever saw
For the ms, time In my life. l hissed. II some
ming novel and hateful 10 q Virginia whis-
tie spoke some half hour shall moi a,
tempt to follow him through. lie aboauded IN oratorca
nourlshes, good sentiments misapped aud i'm sound r..
marks aud nonsequitors. Il. denounced all existing re
sious organizations and gorcd the prospect of an inn
mediate Acknowledgement OF the Union. This same Phil
hps, who denounees the christian church Is not "b,sin
ming 10 be eAstians &c. capable VI becoming 40 loul
mou'hed as To drive ladies from public assemblies This
have not witnessed, but have IL ON good authority
Next introduced the meeting Mi.s U,feS,a-l of
New York. Would the pte liter than ,be v..r.
toerable. She presented herself with all becoming da
denee and humility OF demeanor and hifehed whore Phil
lips LETT OIL The subject Of her address an enquiry ino
the nature OF our constitutional compact with IA
the position IN which II places Northern
Suffice to Of her. that she acted woman nature
hat Is TO say she went further in bitterness against the
Union and IN acrimony Of denunciaon against trainers
OF our wicked Constitution, than the who preceded
her. hat was OF the times that Fashion beat Boston
As would seem upon the principle II gravitaon women
always surpass men in such When they do shoot
madly from their spheres, there orbit that crcum |
scribes their wandering Ia all radica.m and nj
Las they generally, rs Attorney General Butler says OF
Napoleon, "get the start Of this majestic world They
always get up full head OF and 90 il without any
rudder They must have n pilot aboard. The chorus
OF this womans song was Down with the Union Down
with the union. Down with the Union -. But before
dismssng her should do her the justice TO cav she
dad not hustle She was for advancing forward
with the age and Improving baekrardy M donh,
II the opinion of this learned erpoundress Of the Const
utional compact asked upon subject so ra,f as
modern bustes, she would pronounce then,
in the nineteenth century, certainly 6ehind.
Next came the coadluor Of c. NJ. Clay in that dirty
little affair in Kentucky. felt my face 10 hurt me for bs
lie commenced by exclaning "a" honor the ,niri,
oi that woman" in about u much agony AZ n young
genius OF Thespian pronounced at rehearsal
the stage direction "erii in a rage" He assured her
that many Of the daughters Kentucky were with her
his own daughter Eliza, particularly of whom he spoke |
in terms highly complimentary He had been prari,caI
aoounonst Tor many years. lie once sold negro girl to