The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-27

upon this subject to thisday
IN January 1885, the Senate. on motion of the senator
from South Carolina. [Mr. CALHoUS.l passed several
very stringent resolutions against the movements OF the
aboitonisis one only Of which will read to the Senate
as fair specimen of the whole
.Rssolpsd. That this government instituted and
adopted by the several states of this Union
agent, order carry into effect the powers which they
posps and ,hai ia fa@ens q his high and sacred
us this s bound SO 20 exercise its power
give a. s - msy Ds " % saS has
pose the Union and that the solemn duty Of the
eminent to resist all attempts by one portion q the Union
Of another. to weaken destroy such institutional
Such sir was the manner in which both parties united
IN The language Of the senator from South Carolina I'm
insisting that the petitions should be received. and that
Congress- should take jurisdiction OF the subject for which
Now sr, want 10 call the attention Of the Senate
the in which this movement was received BY the
people Al the North have st trouble, looked u
the necessary documents to show how they were received
by the people at large.
"Msetngs Of the people have been held in nearly al q
the chief cities and towns in the northern StaIes which
the proceedings Of the abotonss were rejected and dsa
vowed win great ana RssI %usn October 1885,
These meetings. will be seen BY the papers Of the
day. were holden at New York, Boston, Albany, and the
other principal places in the free States OF the character
OF the resolutions passed at Albany the Richmond En-
quirer said:
.sAmdst these proceedings we hail with delight the
meeting and resolutions Albany they to the hub
sacons Of the resolutions Of New York they are free
from all qualifications and equivocaon no idle dcnunci-
alton Of the evils Of slavery, pompous assertions Of the
right Of discussion but they in the unqual
the federal compact exclusively the South they
denounce all discussions upon ia the other States which,
from their very naure calculated TO inhame the public
mind put jeopardy the lives and properly their fel
lowcizens, war with every rule oi moral duty and
every suggestion ofhnmaniy and they reprobae the incen
diaries who will persist in carrying them ON as dsloya 70
the Union"
will MOI weary the Senate by reading reports Of such
meetings holden in the principal cities and towns Of the
North. The papers OF that day contain abundant ey.
dence satisfy the most incredulous But all this did
satisfy the South; they demanded that the abolition
lists should be put down by law in the free States The
(newspaper) Southern Patriot said
Let the declaration that discussions which from their
tend to name the public mind and put in copar
war with every rule Of moral duty and every suggestion
humanity, only imboded in Legislative act with
better security"
A city meeting at New Haven. Connecticut, held
September TO- 1885, called by Dennis Kemberly Mayor OF
New Haven to consider plan for the establishment in
that city Of college for the education Of cooed youths
at which meeting it WAS
Resolped by the Mayor, Aldeymen Commor cosse, and
That we will resist the establishment the proposed col
ege in this place by every lawful means"
"March, 1883 Town meeting at Canterbury, Connecti-
cut reference Miss CandalPs school for females Of
color Resolutions passed expressing the decided
that the school should not be established in
neooas pfohIiting school. ior cooed from Ohe,
s1s sSs sssit oauda wa. imprisoned ia Brook
of color from out Of the State.
September 80 ls33.--An assault made on Mics
meeting thsre Rotten eggs and other missiles thrown
sThs well Of The house another occasion was filed
"a newspaper in Connecticut says, The committee Of
as 20 poSS he .sSOs Miss csnsa school
lrom attending Divine worship in the meetng-house on
Canterbury green
There was no other meeting house within three miles
"May 27-The mayor and aldermen Of Boston rejected
application Of l25 citizens for the OF Faneui Hail.
for the purpose Of holding messng In which 70 plead the
.Augusi 10, iss5-canaan Academy, New Hampshire,
driven of by mob for the crime OF admitting colored
August 10. DIsurbanee a. Worcester Massaohu.
very, some Individual. tore up the lecturers notes, and Of
"sepsemSsr II. is3S "A saow. erected in from. Of
Mr. Garsons in Brighton street. Boston, with this inscrp-
ton, by order OF Judge lynch
S 10 and n ns ,,ss. s,osss
and injured and the dwelling houses Of several abo-
tonis,s mobbed The furniture of was burnt In
the The persons OF abolitoniss threatened
Both political parties joined In the outrage.
"These mobs by the press and pro slavery
proceedings that led to Chancellor walworh tdem
and Chancellor Frenghuysen lwhig) made speeches a,
gymen ridcued the fanatics
During the mobs whole division OF troops under
The mob ruled the city for several days. and was
finally dispersed by the authorities acting efficiently, when
II understood that tired of mobbug abolitionis the
mob turning It's attention TO the banks in Wall street
"An anti-slavery convention held at Utica, New York,
October 2l 1885, in the Baptist meeting house, was mobbed
by of Utica, headed by committee OF twenty
ve posed OF prominent members Of both political
ties, appointed meeting held at the courthouse
nal a.,iSed in express words the gro. Violation Of The law
Charleston, south Carolina These oocasons, said he
will find law for themselves. go for revolution when
aAdyerting to the sending abolition publications to the
South he remarked If other will do, the mai
should be blocked up on that subject
AT public meeting o. me c'zsns resolution wa,
or an abolition asscmbsge being held in public building
The mayor OF the city, the first Judge Of the county
other czen Of both political parties, took par
in the meeting and Of them Of the committees o.
twenty-five, and the Judge, postmaster, go retained theil
of the committee of twenty-five followed by mob OF five
hundred entered the meeng house, interrupted the pro
ceedings demanded that should break up and dsperse
The abolitioniss went through the mud thirty miles
Peerborough where they resumed business In me village
church.
New York, mob of five thousand gentlemen Of property
and standing assembled In Washington street, Boston, Ia
broad daylight, which succeeded in demolishing sigma
and a;sSsins the editor q tho EiSsior Mr. Garrison
The Boston Atlas thus describes this mob;
s.He was found crouched under pile Of boards in sec
ond story ofa carpenters shop and here he surrendered
discretion rope fastened under his and abou
his neck and he let down, by OF ladder Il
ground his countensnce pals and convsed viii
terror and he made no attempt 70 speak resist There
was q very general exclamation OF don't hurt him. anf
individuals seisng him each side by the collar, h,