The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-18
From the Boston Epening Transcript.
LOnQfclIOW and Garrison.

II will probably be news to vast majority of our
feowcitizens, to learn that the recent anti slavery
convention in Faneuil Hall went through the SOL
emn farce Of passing resolution of censure upon
the poet Longfeilow, on account of the following
spirited and patriotic lines. which occur in his
beautiful poem entitled, "The Building of the
Ship
The whole piece is included in the new volume
"The Seaside and the Firesde"-published by Tick
nor, Reed & Fields:
Thou, too, sail on, 0 ship of State!
Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great!
Humanity, with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fatel
We know what master laid thy keel,
What workman wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, each sail, each rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what forge, and what heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock
lis Of the wave, and not the rock;
IT'S but the Tapping of the sail,
And not n rent made by the gale.
In spite of rock and tempest roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee;
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant DER our fears,
Are all with thee-are all with thee!
The denunciatory resolution was offered by Mr..
Garrison, and passed with much applause mingled
affords fair index the minds of those in our own
community, whose zeal far exceeds their wisdom,
and whose career affords abundant evidence that
they cannot tolerate toleration-who, dissenting
from all christendom, will suffer none 10 dissent
from themselves-who demand freedom Of con-
science, yet refuse to grant itwho execrate perse-
cution, yet persecute as far as their ability ex-
tcnds-and who claim infalhbility at the same
moment they confess that they have passed the
greater part Of their lives in error.
The neglect and GOODNESS with which they are
treated by the public, attest to the truth of the DO
ltical axiom" that freedom is the only certain
cure for the evils of freedom" The monstrous as
sumptions in this resolution are equally ridiculous
satanic, and contemplate:
RESOLVED, That il is with deep regret we perceive
that the Poet Longfellew has prostituted his fine
poetica genius to eulogize the blood stained Amer
lean Union freighted with the hopes and interests
OF humanity-as being noble ship, invulnerable
TO the rock and against the storm, built in the
most skilful and workmanlike manner; whereas
the history ofts creation and its cruise demonstrate
il TO have been
"a perfidious bark,
Built / tn eclipse, and rugged with curses dark,
rotting through all her timbers leaking from stem
TO stern, laboring heavily on a storm tossed sea
surrounded by clouds of disastrous portent, navi
gated by those whose object is a piratical one
(namey, the extension and perpetuity Of slavery.
and destined TO GO down full many fathom deep,
TO the joy and exnltaton Of all who are yearninl
for the deliverance Of groaning world"
We are gratifed 10 learn that the whole poem
from which the above extract ia taken, and which
has called forth the apathemas of this upstart sect
will be read by Mrs. Frances Anne Kemble befor,
the Mercantile Library Association. To- morrov