Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-04-21
WIN. LLOYD GARRISON, Pres',.
Adjourned.

The Boston correspondent Of the STAN
dard gives the following account Of the NEE
ting -
DosToN, April 9TH, 1913.
You should have been here last night at
the Special Meeting Of the American A. S.
Society, to express our Joyful sympathy with
the great act of justice by which the Provis-
ional Government Of France has auspicated
the birth Of the new Republic. The meeting
was held in the Melodeon, which was en-
tirely filled, and with as intelligent and dis
eliminating an audience as Boston could sup
ply. Mr.. Garrison took the chair about half
past seven, briefly stated the occasion Of the
meeting, and read the Decree in virtue Of
which Slavery is to cease forthwith in the
dependencies of France. Unfortunately the
state Of his health prevented him from taking
a more extended part 10 the proceedings Of
the meeting.
After the Resolutions (of which you will
of course receive a copy for publication) had
been read by Mr.. Quincy, with a few re-
marks, Mr.. Wendell Phillips made one of
his veryIbest and most impressive speeches,
full Of thought and emotion ftlv uttered and
adorned. He Swallowed forth the far reach
ing issues of this great act upon the destinies
Of our own Slavery. He recounted the ireach-
cry Of the cunning King to the Republican
idea in the person Of Lafayette; he described
the apparent success and prosperity which
had attended on the ~treason; and then poin-
ted TO the inevitable Nemesis which pursued
and overlook him, at last, when he seemed
10 have established himself forever. He,
then, denounced the treason Of America to
the Republican Idea. and closed with a proph-
ecy that Eternal Justice would yet overtake
her and avenge Lafayette, Kosciusko, and
Steuben for tho faith she had broken with
them.
He was followed by Messrs. Theodore
Parker and William H. Charming, both in
the best mood of their several styles. Mr..
Parker drew a favorable augury Of the per-
manence of the new institutions from the
moderation shown by the populacee in the
hours of the Revolution. He de-
MED that the French people were without a
fitting education for self-government, and
secuted the idea that it was s'foo SOON to re-
ioice in a change, the issues of which were
yet unknown. "When a man-child is born
into a house," said he, ''of fair proportions
Ind goodly promise, that is the time when
we congratulate the event. We do not wait
ill he is grotOn up"
Mr.. Charming opened in a fine vein of
scorn of the ~peddling spirit in which the
news of this great event was received in this
and the approximations of possible
damage to our trade which swallowed up al
generous sympathy. He dwelt emphatical-
ly upon the characteristic feature of this move
ment that it was the Revolution of the labor
ing classes, not Of an Aristocracy against a
Throne, or Of the bourgeoiSie against the Ar
l. I'll Al -. - H.
acter Of the French and the American PEG.
pie, and showed the higher hope which the
infancy of the New Republic gave 10 the ma
tions TO make amends for the disappoint-
ment of our own maturity. He concluded
by bringing before our eyes the gigantic me-
gro who stood upon the scaffold In the Place
de la Revolution in the reign Of Terror, strip
ped TO the waist, his broad black breast fieck-
ed with gore as he shook in the face of the
people, one after another, the convulsed heads
of the victims of the guillotine. "Such an
apparition," he exclaimed, "haunts every
land of slavesl Such a spectre disturbs the
slumbers of the planters of the French sugar
islands! Such a ghostly presence drives
peace far away from our own Southern States.
The French Republic has used the only spell
of power to exercise the dire phantom from
its own borders. And there are no words oil
might enough for our deliverance but the
magic formula of Lnmartine,-0J IMMEDIATE
EMANCIPATION 80
1t was next voted to send an address 10
the Provisional Government of thanks and
congratulation, and a Committee appointed
to prepare and forward the same. The NEE.
ting then adjourned in a state of great salts.
faction. 1t is, certainly, not often that they
have an opportunity of hearing three speech
es Of so high an order in one evening.