The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-09-22
From the n. Y. Express.
AMERICAN NENG-
LAND-FREDERICK DOUGLASS !
AT THE WORLDS TEMPER
ANCE CONVENTION.

AT The WORLDS TEMPEh-
ANCE CONVENTION.
Al tho Worlds Temperance Convention:
the enScapor wns made 10 force discussion
OF the &nti. Slavery question upon the meet
ing, and if,is creature, Douglass, was se'ec-
tod AS the instrument with which 10 accom-
j,Iish the work. He was put forward TO Ut
fer against tile American delegates,-such
men Ms DR.. Cox Of Brooklyn, DR.. Kirk Of
Boston, Mr. Morse, editor oil The New York
Observer; etc.,-the most outrageous sneers
and sarcastic insults, because they were not,
like the Gnrrisons, the WFgIlrs, aud the
Stephen Fosters, ranting and roaring aboli-
tionists, sFs well rs friends of the Temperance
,'iu.e. And the worst of is, thai the plot
or These people awaited, they succeeded in The
effort to create prejudice against those
whom their malignant instrument so ruth
lcssly attacked. Il nratlered nothing, II
would appear FROM the accounts we get,
thai t'resc highly respectable gentlemen had
come 10 England. OH an errand oil the high
esi bcr,cYolencc, 60 long as they were not IA
naiicaT aboirionisis. Such is the upshot of
all the reports we have read Of these pro-
ceedinrs, in The English press; and now, in
the New York Evangelist we fiud letter
from Res. DR.. Cox, which abuadantly cor
roboratcs them. He says that Douglass was
obviously put forward 10 do this by n.en who
woull not themselves venture 70 perpctraie
il: and suggests that the fellow was, doubt
les>ly paid well for the abomination. The
Rev. DIR. then proceeds TO say: -
'On this occasion, Mr. Douglass allowed
himself TO dcnounce America and all it's fem
perance societies together. as n grinding
community of the enemies Of his people
said evil. with no alloy Of good, concerning
The whole of us; wis perfectly indiscrimII-
ntc in his seventies; talked Of The American
delegates, and 10 them. as if he had been our
srh"olmasier. and we his docilc and devoted
pm nls and launched his rcvcngeiul missiles
nj onr Country. without one palliative word,
mn as il moi u Christian or true ahti-slave-
~ man lived in the whole OF the United
States
This COURSE Of condncf Dr. Cox rays, |
wounded and reused the Indignation ofall
the d-lrgatrs from this country, save one,
v.Inn he does not nam~l wso has, The wri- |
ter :nys, no feeling oftrue patriotism or q u ty
within him. The Rev. Dir. says that This
was NOT done in cornrr,' and was inspired
he believes, from b9Dcath, and not from
above lie describes il rs adapted TO re-
kin lie on both sides Of the Atlantic. the
flames ofnatienaf cxaSprratiOn and war;
What follows is too jusi and true. and, al The
same time, too important. jusi At this time, 10
lie shortened, by even so much as a word:
My opinion is Increasing that this ahom-
inI',le spirit must BE- exnrcised out Of Eng
L,n and America, before any substantial
goo can be effected for the cansc OF the
slave. Itis adapted only 10 make bad worse,
arI Ia niame the passions Of indignant mil
lions to an nrurable resentment. None
out an ignora mus or II madman could think
that this way was that OF the inspired apos-
Ties Of The Son Of God. II may CRAFTY The
feelings Of Il sclf-dcccived and malignant
few. hnt it will do m good in any direction
least Of all TO The poor slave llis short
srghi-d impul-ive, partisan. reckless, and
ten ling only IN s1n.uinary ends. None Of
illis-wlh men ofscnse and principle