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Celebration of the LIST Of August in Mass.
Cnrrcsnnndencc of The Trlbune

Celebration of the 1-t Of August in Mass.
Correspondence of The Tribune
BosroN, August 2. lsf5.
The First of August the Anniversary Of West
India Emancipation has been celebrated with great
enthusiasm in several places in Massachusetts
Since many readers OF The Tribune must be inter
esed in that great event will try to give them an
idea of the Pie Mic which was held in Waltham to
celebrate il.
The day was serene and beautiful, and the sum
ncr heat moderated by brisk breeze. The beauti
ful grove on the bank of Charles river, which had
been selected for the occasion, was adorned with
banners bearing inscriptions and devices emblematic
of the great event we had met TO celebrate and OF
its parallel in this country to which we longingly
and hopefully look forward Nature had provided
us with an amphitheare admirably suited to the ne
cessities Of both speakers and hearers. stage was
erected for the convenience of the former and semicr
cuIar seats in sufficient numbers for nearly all present
occupied the gentle ascent in front OF IT,
The place of meeting being close to the line of the
Fchburg Railroad, great numbers Of the friends Of hb
ery thronged the in both directions to attend H. and
the interest of the occasion much enhanced by
the fact that Capt Jonathan Walker recently arrived
from Pensacola was to attend it, that many to this
meeting from the immediate vicinity Of other places Of
celebration.
From hafpast nine to eleven, people were arriving
from every quarter and at eleven the meeting organ
ICED by the choice Of FRANCIS JACKSON Esq as Chair
man. who after few Introductory remarks introduced
to the assembly Rev CALEB STErsoN Of Medford.
Mr.. srsrsoy, after abiding to the brilliant aspect
of the day and its correspondence with the light of
truth which Abolitonists are now diiiusng through
out the community, proceeded to say-We wish to
know the results Of West Indian emancipation
Many and contradictory reports of those results are oei-
ing around us but the facts should be mnuiey and &C
curately investigated Is alike our duty and our in
,cres, TO know all these factsa the evil and all the
good Some partial evils must always attend so great
revolution in the laws and customs OF com
muni,y but were those evils hundred fold greater
we may confidently rely upon two things Those evils
connoi be great the curses which slavery has IN
ficied and whatever their amount, they cannot show
a movement founded justice, religion and humanity
ike the immediate abolition Of Slavery to be wrong
one.
But the general Of events since the emansipa-
ton has been Just such could desire About year
ago met DIR. Spading. from Jamaica man of in,ei-
gence and refinement and one the weahest planters
that island VINO bore MS 10
GOOD working OF emancipation Some planters had
been able TO &c, in their whole crops the season when
the creates, amount of labor required and hence
had been asserted that the freedmen would not work
The truth is that they more industrious than they
ever before but they have now lands OF their own
10 cultivate they are surrounding themselves and their
families with the comforts OF life they are independen,
sndholders and are not compelled to sacrifice their
tl...N xhn h,rt i'm.
! portsni than men.
Iasked Dr. Spalding II aecorum and obedience to law
,revsilcd among the emancipsied slaves Yes. be said
no people in the world are more orderly than they
There were ten blacks 10 white al the time OF the
rmancis,on in jamaica And the results Of the Emar
cipation have now fully proceed what philosophy and
common sense testified to before that who have
patiently borne wrong and injury and outrage In all the
relations of their life and ali the departments Of their
being will not rcqute the first good treatment they have
ever received with robbery and murder Their graft
tuds and good will may be thoroughly tested.
do not believe however, tina, the slaves Of Jamaica
wer so in treated as those OF Virginia and Maryland now
arc The deliberate system of breeding slaves Tor sale
~, cons,an, rcndns asunder OF families the violent sep
sration OF husband via and children from each Other
and from their native soil and their deing driven on foot
la..Af N
which the slaves are systematically used and worked
IN desh once in seven yea~, the most profitable sys
all this exceeds the worst horrors of the past bis
tory Of Jamaca No wonder that our land Is scorned ~
/ ,hc civilized world. land which lriumphs in
Inconsistent types
"Ofnbcrty and thirteen stripes
hop,d bc 80 scorncd Thirteen stripes. however. are
small allowance have heard Of hundreds of stripes in
those Southern States not laid upon senseless bunting
/ but ON backs OF living men and women
| Capt. WALAER, from Pensacola, was then intro
duced to the meeting and received with hearty and
prolonged applause. He is perhaps hity years OF
age. robust man. of dark complexion, and frank
honest and pleasing counicnance. He is unaccus
toned to public speaking, and the story which he
tells receives no establishment from language or
gesture, and needs none. He told us that he be
came an Aboli,ionis from conviction in 1881. and hsd
over since that time acted on Anti Slavery principles
lie lived in Florida with his family for five years succeed
inc ss6 and left because he would bring up his
children among the perncious influences Of slavery But
chile he remained there the colorci people whom he
.rnloved were treated BY him as human beinss and
uvsa ON terms of perfect equality with his family much
20 the cbssrin Of the Shareholders Of that region.
In ls44 Capt w. went to Florida sgSin in his own
.. v..se, and when he had finished his business and
a. about 10 return seven II the slaves who had been
his hired worknen and lived in his family, and who
s,e moreover members Of the church with which be