Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-15
VOL. 5.

rifccs in behalf of the Anti-Slavery cause at
home. We are happy to know that this excel
lent man has made good use of the short time
of his visit to New England, end has addressed
the people in several of the principal towns with
in reach Of Boston, with excellent effect. Sam
uel Brooke, Of Ohio, was also present, and gave
us his efficient aid in the financial department Of
our affairs. A plan was initiated, and funds
enough raised to set it on foot, for series of at
least Hundred Conventions in Massachusetts
and the other New England States for the pur-
pose of agitating the question of Slavery, in its
present phases, and especially as to the duty Of
the North to refuse to return fugitive slaves
If this plan be sustained by the Abolitonists in
the spirit in which It was started, we think Mr..
Webster will have small cause to congratulate
himself on the success of any conspiracy of his
for the suppression Of the Anti-Slavery Agita-
ton.
The evening sessions were, as usual, the most
thronged and were the occasions of whatever of
disorderly spirit was displayed. The two first
evenings the meetings were held in Cochituate
Hall, room entirely inadequate to the purpose,
and which could contain but portion of those
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dsorderly element present which attempted at
times to obtain the mastery, but was put down
without difficulty. The closely packed audi-
enco seemed well content to endure the pressure
which they had to endure for the sake Of the
good things set before them. The closing meet
ing in Faneuil Hall was one of the largest assem-
blagcs ever collected within its walls. Indeed,
Daniel Webster himself could not have filed it
fuller, for every seat and standing place, in the
galleries and the floor, and far into the vesti-
bulc overfowed with ono "sea Of upturned
faces" OF this vast audience, from four to avo
thousand persons, all but two or threc hundred
were there for the purpose Of hearing what was
to be said; although it is not to be supposed
that all were of one way of thinking. Mr..
Garrison's speech was heard from beginning to
end without material disturbance. The small
body of rioters rallied during the space of time
necessary for Mr. Pillsbury to get the platform,
and they did their best to prevent his having
hearing. In the midst of the turmoil, Mr..
Pillsbury faced them calmly and seriously, and
at every lull gave them home thrust, which
+ often made them wincc. Indeed the greatest
part Of his speech was heard in all parts of the
hall. and his sarcastic rebukes and the keen
causticity with which he set their sins in order
before them, often compelled considerable inter-
walls of silence.
Mr. Phillips, who finished the evening, soon
? obtained the car of the audience, and kept it,
though not without frequent interruption
throughout. The excellent wit of his illustra-
: tions, and the good humor with which he
s elected or noticed the disturbcrs, extoried tho
attention even of the mass of the rioters, who
: were by no means dangerous body, consisting
of tho sweepings of the rum shops, and a few
shop-boys with sprinklng of better dressed
young men, having the appearance of medical
or law students. Whatever comfort Mr.. Web
I stcr could derive from the cheers of these re-
cruits to the ranks of his rctaners, no one would
c be cruel enough to wish to deprive him.. Ger
: tainly, whatever attention Mr.. Phillips had was
C not owing to his keeping back any of the coun-
sci of God. Mr.. Webster and his Retainers
&c relations he illustrated thus Mr.. Webster made
= his Speech, and his Retainers said to him, as
) the tipsy Duke of Norfolk said to an equally
' tipsy boon companion, who had fallen down in
u the gutter. "My friend, cannot help you up
= but will do the next best thing in my power
IL i toiH lie dozen by your side !" Only with this
difference (alluding to Mr.. WIS backing out OF
his unqualified support of Masons bill, after
his Rctainers had endorsed in the gross). that
:" after they had lain down he gets up and sneaks
," away, leaving them in the miro So when he
10 was, ain anticipation of Mr.. Gliddon, unrollina
~ the mummy of the Rev. Mr. Rogers, of Winter
:" Street" Qho same meek and holy man of God
- of whom our Boston Correspondent discourseC
u last week), and alluding to that Reverend gen
III tleman having recently said that the Disunion
VI lists would sit down with Judas in the world L
" come, he spoke of his impr ence, Retaine
~ of Mr.. Webster, in putting such an illustration
in our way, when we had heretofore contcnteC
CT ourselves with Benedict Arnold, and then pro
II ceeded with parallel, after the manner of Plu
" tarch, between those two eminent characters
nc the audience heard every word of it.
=. After Mr.. Phillips had finished, the resolu
~, tions were put and passed, and the Meetin
~ adjourned, with three tremendous cheers 70
-. the Anti-Slavery Cause, which quite put I
"a shame those interpolatcd from time to time, fc
.1 Mr.. Webster. All the members of the Cor
vention, believe, went home with joyful fee
ing of victory-of the triumphant manner
which the riotous demonstrations were put dow
- 1t is but justice to say that the Mayor, Hoi
y John p. Bigclow was present, with large bod
'' of Police, of which he took the personal dire,
:" ton, being resolved to sustain the Meeting in i
rights. In this respect, he seems to have s
-. the Head of your City nm example in the duti
=, 49, of Civic Magistracy, by which he may profit,
an his day of grace be not passed.. AVIATION
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