Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-08-18
Great Gathering In Massachusetts,.
Correspondence Of Tie Bsgle.
BOsrOs, August G, 1919.

and one truly worthy Of that name, and wor-
thy, too, Of the great cause which bro't them
together. should perhaps say the Ne,O
England Abolitionists, for numbers came to
the gathering from New Hampshire, Rhode
Island and Connecticut.
Worcester. lately become a city, was
the place Of our meeting, and the Hospital
Grove the scene Of action. Five RAILROADS
meet here, and each brought it's contribution;
a special train Of fourteen long passenger
cars, well-flled, came up from Boston, bring
ing abolitionists from the city, and from all
parts Of Plymouth, Essex, Norfolk and Mid
dlesex counties. The number Of persons
present was variously estimated from three
to FIVE thousand at any rate, many more
were on the ground than could possibly hear
the speaking, although the crowd was so
dense that it was almost impossible for a per-
son to make his way from the platform to the
outside Of the multitude.
We met TO commemorate, and to turn 10
the best account for freedom, the Anniversary
of British West India Emancipation. We
me, on the third of August, instead of the
first, as it was the National Fast day , and
no true Abolitionist knows how TO keep a
fast in any other way than by efforts to ''loose
the bands of wickedDess, undo the heavy bur-
dens, and let The oppressed 60 Free" GoD
chooses this fast, though Zachary Taylor
does not; and as between these, it was not
for US TO hesitate.
l feel that we kept an acceptable fast. A
multitude Of men and women, who had eman-
cipated themselves from political yokes and
s%ectarian chains, met together, in the spirit Of
freedom, in the love Of truth, and in the firm
resolve that Slavery shall die. and we heard
the glad tidings Of eight hundred thousand
slaves sci free set free without, commotion,
without disorder, without violence; without
the destruction Of a single plantation, or the
loss of a single life. We heard the most I'M
eAceptionable testimony-that Of the Jamaica
planters themselves-io the excellent results
Of Emancipation. We heard that the freed.
men Of the British West Indies were rising
in the scale of intelligence and morals; that
they were become owners of the soil, where
once they toiled like brutes; that they were
enjoying life, it's comforts and its privileges,
where formerly they got but a wre,ched and
coarse subsistence. We heard Of the increase
Of schools for their children, and Of their gen.
erous support of religious and benevolent in
situations. And though it is true that the en-
ports Of sugar have fallen off, we found this
attributed by the planters themselves to the
altered policy Of Great Britain, which now
refuses 10 admit West India sugar 10 any
commercial privileges. but opens its ports on
the same terms 10 the sugar of Brazila and Gu
ba as to that of their own Colonies and it
was only under the protection of duty, that
amounted almost to the prohibition Of other
sugars, that the raising Of sugar in the Brit
ish West Indies was ever made pToftable.-
Bus, said Wendell Phillips, the success of
emancipation does not depend on questions
like these ; if there should never be another
pound of sugar grown in the British West
Indies, emancipation has nevertheless glori-
ously succeeded. The ehattel has become a
man free to think, 10 speak, and TO act; a
system of gross and un'ighteous oppression
has been terminated; the intellectual, the
moral, and the social condition of this vast
population, once in slavery. is steadily impro-
wing. These are the proofs of the success Of
emancipation, and in these we rejoice, and
for these give thanks to God. And, said Mr..
Car,isaH f,ou, u,bonn 10 xxra hoor fho nYy that
emancipation is a %failure1 Do we ever hear
this from those who were once e~nslaved 4
Do they have meetings complaining Of the
bad results of that measure, bemoaning their
losses and sufferings, and signing for a re-
turn to slaveryi Not at all-nothing Of the
kind 4! A few selfish, sordid, soured spirits,
who have suffered by the deprecated trade
on the one hand, and the conductors Of a
authors Of The false which have
gone abroad; false in their suppression OF
important truth, as well as in other respects.
The day was beautiful, and though the
warmth was at times somewhat oppressive,
every thing passed off with the best possible
spirit. Mr.. GARRISON was elected TO preside;
we had speeches from him, from Charles c.
Burleish, Rev. Theodore Parker, Adm Bal
lou, Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, and Others, and we had excellent anti
slavery singing, led by your friends from
Hopedals, who were there in large numbers,
Mrs. Price contributing an original song,
which you will find in the Practical Chris
tian. II was sad 10 reflect, while England
had abolished slavery in her Colonies. France
in hers, Denmark in hers, and even Moham-
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