The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-11
THE ANTWERP ARIES.
American Anti-slavery Society.
THIRD DAY.

American Anti-Slavery Society.
THIRD DAY.
Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, this body az ain
met, pursuant to adjournment at the Minerva Rooms
Broadway The meeting was organized by calling Mr.
w. Lloyd Garrison to the chair.
Mr.. SAMUEL MAY opened the proceedings by reading
the following teegraphic despatch, which hal app,
ed in the Herald that morning -
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necessary eonryances to sustain them the trip the
dercksburg where Smith and taken back to
trial. " '"'' W ""A'' "A cary
1t such this that even the friends Of
the unfortunate negroes were compelled to adopt to
save them from the fangs Of their master with
immortal souls, made after the image of God uncou-
victed Of crime, cofned alive, and sent part of
freight Of notwithstanding their lives for the
chance of being delivered from the horrors of bondage
under which they groaned. This fact would go Eu-
rope upon the wings Of the press to the eternal dis
Mr.. WEsr then addressed the meeting. He said the
destruction of the Union had been threatened The
Union he held to be sheer fction-a piece of parch
ment The constitution was beyond the Union, and it
too was proslavery He did not if both des
troyed together What was the liberty under the
stitution? II a colored man made his escape even
into free State, he pursued by two-legged aud
ment and greater degradation. And then what was
the liberty white men enjoyed under the constitution
who worked them to death for any they thought
proper to give them. For his part, he differ
enec between the chattle slaves and wages slaves
denied right to portion of the SOIL it was
vain to talk Of liberty. Men enjoy liberty, in
water and earth They might as well hold a man
In mid air by the breeches and tell him he had free
The CHAIRMAN said he did not like to restrict the
freedom Of discussion but he wished to say that the
did think it either fair courteous to occupy
their time with topic that took away from their pro-
had been just addressing then was different one from
what they had met to discuss.
same objection applied to hmself-that he had in
trOduced old wOmens rights and all manner of things,
to promote the common object He had advocated the
abolition Of the Union for the purpose.
MIR. S. MAY-No; this is what the Shareholders aavo-
cate.
Mr. WEsr-Yes, and Garrison too advocated It. But
the dissolution of the Union could deliver the
slaves from their thraldom nor could they ever strike
the letters from the chatel slaves till they had first
struck them from the wages slaves The chairman had
said that time limited and that therefore, he
ought not to be heard Now he had endeavored to OBJ
tain hearing yesterday and was chaliensedw in.
kind Of jury there TO try the merits Of the case
As sample he might instance old lady, who came
forward TO deprecate the idea of his getting audi
ence, upon the plea that he mad ILaughter)
Mr.. JACOBS, coored man, of Massachusetts,, next
addressed the meeting. He said he dis unionst.
When the chairman first advocated the separation Of
the North and South the quickest way overthrow
slavery, that not then to him. for he dis
unionist since j. c. Calhoun first preached it, He
wanted to the abolition Of slavery carried without
the shedding of blood and he wished for justice to the
they send him back to the South if they were required
to do SO? They would answer no But If they did not
60 with their mukets and blow out the brains Of every
slave who refused to return he held they in point
Of fact, dis unonists. He would now tell them some
thing of reverend gentleman. STAKEHOLDER, named
Skinner, who skinner in every of the word,
in the habit Of coming every year to visit his bro
ther. Rev Dr. Skinner Who if he mstook not, lived at
16O Green street and yet the baby -steaing women
whipping tyrant received rebuke from his
rend brother at whose table he sat He he speaker)
from him. and rather than 30 back she lived for years
in place four feet high Skinner offered 800 reward
for her that he wanted her for his services
but that he might make an example Of her. So
anxious the old doctor the subject that he had
free arrested and put in Jail in her stead and
sent to his brother that he had secured the
runaway. But it was found, on inquiry, that he
mistaken and the woman was released from prison
There a time when the fugitive slave could not
stand upon any spot Of American SOIL and be Free but
thank God that was no longer the case and they had
now many cities OF refuge he had always felt that II
age would be put end to- for If the STAKEHOLDER only
that he would not be supported by those opposed
to his traffic in flesh and blood, he would have to give
up He had feeling against shareholders, for his
grandmother had taught him to love them we'll as
any other of Gods creatures but he did not love their
cruelty and injustice. If any asked him what
must be done to abolish slavery his was, that
disreputable, and then the saveholders would be
ashamed oft. In reference to the church question:
his opinion that they had too much religion in this
country. If they had less Of religion, and more
of Christianity, it would be all for the be tier
What did the board of missions say in Massachusetts,!
Why that they would preserve strict neutrality all
exciting subjects, and that they could not NEEDLE with
any civil institution. When they made that state.
ment they knew it false for when they preached
against idols not that to produce excite
ment What the hypocratesreally meant, though they
NJ ufa rfpr will md we'll
they privately accused Christ and his apostles Of
toning that institution. In this, they guilty Of
never seen anything there to equal the wickedness
practised in the United States. On that coast they
they Christ himself in the SHAMELESS In returning
from convention in Springfield, he heard clergyman
Dr. Cox, that the Bible sanctioned slavery He the
spesker had not been before that Dr. Cox held
those sentiments. He took an opportunity Of address
ing the clergyman, and said to him. Sir may be per-
mitted to ask you question:" He Uhe clergyman
did reply, but looked if he would condescend to
listen. The question he put to him was, Did he be-
eve there any meaning in the passage of Scripture
in which Christ said Forasmuch we have done it to
the least OF these little ones have done it unto
nue. 80 The clergyman said of course, there was
meaning in it. He (Mr. Jacobs then asked him
chattels of those for whom Christ died' His answer
was that that depended the amount Of light they
possessed Then said he, Uacobs) in reply, If they
want light why you send Of your missionaries
to them u (iear, hear) He now asked that assem-
bly, why these clegymen ought not to be designated by
their true names, rs hypocrites knaVes anu roppcrs
CHEERS
Mrs LucRErA Morn, an aged lady of the Society OF
Friends (philadelpha) then assembled the platform,
amidst loud cheers She said she wished to propose
an amendment to the nth resolution which pledged
them to hold communion. political or religious, with
slaychoders she wished add the word commercial
At this advanced stage Of the proceedings, she would
not occupy the time to state the reasons
why abolitionsts ought to take this ground, even
they might be prepared to carry out the prnci
Die not very imperecty detail 1t appeared to her
to be essential to their consistency to affirm the prin
ciple They just much involved in the guilt OF
the Shareholders by partakng Of the sweets that came
from the slaves unpaid labor as they would by mold
ing church fcllowship with them. They in fact,
using their neighbours labor without paying him for 1t,
and that neither honest nor just IL had been
urged that this, principle could not be adopted,
inasmuch could not be carried out to its full ex
tent so might 1t be said of relations in politics
and religion She had however. wish to make her
view of the matter too prominent They all per-
baps too apt have hobbies of their which they
pressed to the exclusion Of the main question. Let