Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-03-23
Nnssnehnsetls Free StI! Convention.

% BosToN, March 2nd, 1850.
| TnE Free Soil Convention, OF which |
| told you in my lust letter, came off Ia Fan
euil lI0ll, last "Wednesday. 1t was, on the
whole, a successful affair. That Is, did all
that it proposed doing in Meeting very re-
! spectacle for numbers, addressed by speak
ers of acknowledged ability. II was proof
| that there is strong spice of Anti-Slayery
feeling qualifying tho mind of the people Of
| Massachusetts,, which may yet spread SO ms
! TO give it snyour of lite unto life. The
Convention was very well attended in the
morning, and most OF the Notabilties OF the
party were on the GROUND. DIR. Palirey ac-
| cepted the Chair, which was very Christian
ly of him after the firm and determined
manner in which his friends have left him
ulOnc in hrs District, and made very good
speech on taking il. After he was done,
through some negligence in the Preordina-
ton oil the Spontaneity of the Occasion,
there was fearful hiatus, a yawnlug gulf
into which no one but Mrs. Abigail Folsom
was Cur,us enough 10 plunge. She propo-
sed TO add AN equal number of ironeH to tie
Officers of the Meeting, which tell to the
ground TOR the lack OF Soconder and at
forwards took the platform with her hunds
full Of ammunition sufficient TO have enabled
her to fire into the ranks OF lier enemies for
the rest of the week. She was, however,
removed from tho platform and not suffered
To tuke IL again, IN u planner which showed
thar it is not the Massachusetts a. ). Society
alone that is the enemy of Free Speech
The paws OF Wendell Phillips" OF which
she once complained, are not the only
ones that intcrposc between her and the ear
of the People.
Our old friend, Nathaniel II. Whiting, of
Morshfield, offered series Of resolutions
ton for making the soil Of Massachusetts
free from the pursuit OF the Slaye-hunter,
and refuge for the oppressed black Amcri-
eau as well as for the white European. lie
supported his proposition III short speech
marked 10y that clearness of reasoning and
transparent accuracy OF language which
used TO delight us in the days when hc was
one of the leaders of our host. Ills reasOn-
ing was clear and denonstrutive, proceeding
from the prem ses he chose OF the natural
right OF escape on the one hand and the
civil duty OF protection. on the other; but
then there cainc along behind IL that swag-
gering bravo, the Constitution, and sinote II
under the fifth rib with one oil the Colnpio-
misses with which it goes armed, SO that it
gave up the ghost. The principal men OF
Tue Convention. looked very grave upon tllis
extrinsic Interpolation, aud II was ioithwitli
communicate 10 the silent tomb of the Commit
tee OH Resolutions, where il lay without the
hope OF joyful Resurrection. ] sec that
the Official Report does not give MIR. WIFI
tings Resolutions, and only says that Inc
made briet address full of sentiments of
Liberty and Humanity" OF course, the
Free Soil party, standing OH the Constitu-
ton and content TO abide by its Coinpro-
misses, has no business to pass such kind OF
resolutions. But, then, their introduction
serves to slow how hopeless and Inefficient
II must needs be willie il plants itself on
that quicksand, and should warn it to get up |
OH solid ground as soon as possible.
1t was very observable that all the
patriotic illusions TO the Union and COnsti- |
iuiion, with which some of the speeches |
were garnished, tel as Hat as founders and
as dead us Julius Caesar, on tie ear of tie !
Meeting; willie the oEly things that brought T,
down the House were assertions OF tue duty !
OF standing by the Right, whatever might be !
the Consequence. Mr.. Park, in particular,
laid two or three well devised clap-trnps, |
| baitcd with the rotten cheese OF Constltu-
tioHal allegiance, bur ho caught no small
deer, at all, at all. | sec that the Republi- /
cans report parenthesises "(cheers)" after |
declaration OF his 10 the effect that ii he had |
any Dissolution Blood in his veins lie would |
drain il all out; but the cars of the Report
er must have been much better than mine,
or those OF the people about me, ii any were
given. 1t seemed 10 lis that the distressing
possibility OF tliis patriotic depletion was re-
ceiyed by the audience with tire most heart |
less and cold-bloodsd indifference.
The impression made on my mind by
this demonstration was two-ioid. First, that
the Wings lost all their officers in the Free
Soil Apostacy; and, secondly, that the rank
& file OF the Fresolers are in advance 0i their
leaders aud ready Tor more decided action
than any they arc urged 10 TAXED. u
MAJ. n. S. Standard.