The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-04-04

These meetings as will be seen by the papers of
The day, hslden at New York, Boston, Albany,
md the other principal places in the free States OF
The character OF the resolutions passed at Albany,
The Richmond Enquirer said
Amidst these proceedings we hail with delight the
meeting and resolutions Albany; they up the hub;
they are IN perfect unison with the rights and Of
HE South they divested Of all the metaphy and
distractions Of the resolutions Of New York they free
from all qualifications and equyocaon; no idle dennnc
alton OF the evils OF slavery pompous assertions Of the
right oi Discussion but they announce in the unqua
fled terms that is southern question, which belongs
under the Federal compact exclusively the Snuth they
denounce all discussions upon in the other States which
from their very nature calculated 10 nhame the pub
I've mind and put jeopardy the lives and property heir
telow-cizens, at with every ruiz Of moral duty
and every suggestion Of humanty aud they reprobae the
ncendiaries who will persist in carrying them ON as dis
loyal 10 the Union"
will not weary the Senate by reading reports of
such meetings holden in the principal cities and |
towns of the North. The papers of that day con- |
tain abundant evidence TO satisfy the most ncredu
lous. But all this did not satisfy the South they
demanded that the Abotionisis should be put down |
by law in the free States The (newspaper) South
ern Patriot said;
Let the declaration that discussions which from their
nature tend TO iname the public mind and put in jeopardy
e sts anl properly oil our fellow citizens, and are at
war with every rule Of moral duty and every suggestion
OF humanity be only embodied in some legislative act
and better security"
city meeting at New Haven, Connecticut was
held September TO- 1884, called by Dennis Kimber-
| the establishment in that city of college for the
education of colored youths; at which meeting il
| was
"Resolred by lie Aayor, Aldermen, Common Council
and ireene,' Of ne ely Of Nele Haren, in city meetins
se5ied, That will resist the establishment Of the pro
posed college in this place by every lawful means.
| March, fS$3-fown meeting at Canterbury, CONNECT
cut in reference Miss Crandas school for females of
color Resolutions passed expressing the decd
ed determination that the school should mt be established
May "a, lss3-Act passed by the Legislature Of Con.
necucu prohibiting schools Tor colored persons from other
States On 1886, petition to the Legislature for the repea
| OF thus act was reecied.)
June q, 1893 Miss Cranlal was imprisoned in Brook
yn Connecticut on the charge Of having taught persons
OF color rom out Of the State
Crandails house, while clergyman was holding reli-
gous meeting there Rotten eggs and other missiles were
thrown at the windows. o..
with otfai, &c. -
"A newspaper in Connecticut says The committee of
the First Ecclesiastical Society IN Canterbury have seen
proper prohibit the scholars OF Miss Crandals school
from attending Divine worship in the meeting house on
Canterbury green"
There was no other meeting house within three
miles.
8" lay 27-Ihe Mayor AMI Aldermen Of Boston rejected
An appJcation of Zj citizens for tie of Faueu Hail.
for The purpose oholdng meeting in which to plead the
" Augtsi TO- ISI5-Canaan Academy, New Hampshire
driven OFF by mob, for the crime OF admitting ored
! youfhs - 90.
chusetts ~hst w. ileS GvAHse Scott iector,so
slavery, individuals up the lecturers notes, and
September II, lS5-A gallows was erected in front
of Mr. Garrison's, in Brighton street Boston, with this in
scription BY or Ter of Judge Lynch
"Jy A. O. TO- and IL, lS}o the AbOtioniss were mobbe
in New York Churches and stores broken aud
injured and the dwellinghOuses Of several Aboioniss
were mo66ed The furniture OF one was burnt in the
street. The persons OF Aboitiouists threatened
Both political parties joined in the outrage.
These mObs instigaed by the PRESS and pro sla
very public meetings The clergy did not disconnenance
the proceedings that lei 10 them Chancellor Walworth
(Deml and Chancellor frelnghuysen (Whig) made
speeches public meeting against the Abolitonists, and
popular clergymen ridiculed 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
il understood that tired OF mobbing Abotiuniss the
mob turning its attention To the Banks in Wall street
An Anti Slavery Convention held Utica, New
York, October ~ 1885 IN the Baptist meeting house.
mobbed by the citizens OF Utica, headed by committee of
twenty five, composed ofpromlnent members both po
cal parties appointed at meeting held court house
" Al meeting in the court house, prominent individual
JUSTIFIED in express words the violation OF law at
Char eslon, South Carolina These asions' said he
will find aw tor themselves 10 Tor revolution when
it is necessary
Adveuing ths sending Abolition publications to the
South he remarked u ether viii DO tine u4ti
should be blocked up on that subject
Al public meeting OF the citizens resolution was
passed that community rR submit 10 the Hfigifv
in Aboio" asss0'5Ggs being held IN public 6.sily
The MAYOR OF the city the first Judge of the county the
clerk the postmaster, the district clerk and other
prnnnent ctzens OF both political pa rites took n,rt in The
meeting anl most OF them OF the TWEEN.
". i've and the Judge postmaster, &C. their Off
While the Convention was IN session, the chairman
OF me committee twenty five followed By a mob of five
hundred entered the meeting house, Interrupted the pro-
ceediugs demanded that ii shond break up ami iisperse
which done.
The AbJiuouists went through the mud thirty miles
Peterborough, where they resumed business the vii
0cto5r1 q, ls5-rhe very day OF the mob at Utica.
New York a mob of five thousand gentleman of properly
saI standing assembled Washington street Boston in
broad daylight which succeeded IN deTaolshing sgns
BOOKS doors Sc, dispensing Female Ami slavery Soc
ETY. and attacking the edior OF the Lbsra0r, Mr. Car
uSon.'
The Boston Atlas thus describes this mob:
lie was found croucned under pile Of boards in a
second story of carpenters shop and here he surrendered
about his and he was let down. by ladder
IN me rnund, his countenance was male and ronyulsei
with terror a.. ne made speak resist
There was very general exclamation o don't hurt him.
and vo individuals seigng him ON each side by te collar
he was conducted through the lane into Stale street aud
from thence hurried into the Mayors office in the City
Hall"
The Boston Gazette thus describes this mob:
I'VE never before saw so gentemanly rabJe if rabbe
may be called, that assembled yesterday they opened
the right and left in the greatest possible order when
female atemped TO mass i'm or out NOT only SO bu when
proc esson Of ten dozen back iddies made known
their wish 10 he admitted, the same done for them,
without the slightest token Of disapprobaion being mani
tested was, in fact meeting Of gentlemen of property
ami standing from all parts OF the city who were disposed
and still are determined, at all hazards, aud come what
may preserve the peace OF the city from all domestic
ncenares, well as protect the Union against foreign
Interference"
In 1886, Elijah p. LoveIoy removed the St Louis
Observer 10 Alton, Illinois. Mr.. l.. discussed the
v.
lutons were passed, calling upon him to dessi; they
forbade him to utter his sentiments that subject
in any manner Mr.. Loveloy refusing 10 recognise
the inqusitOria authority which his ellowcitizens
had assumed, his press and type were DESTROYED by
lawless mob. Another press and type were pro-
cared which, the day of its arrival at Alton,
forcibly taken from the warehouse in which ii was
placed by order Of the Mayor, broken TO pieces,
and thrown into the Mississippi. The mayor ar
rived while the lawless work going on, and
dercd them to dispese; they replied that they would
do SO as soon as they got through. few days sub
sequent 10 this Mr.. LoveIoy was assaled by mob,
and rescued from their hands only by the heroic in
reference of his devoted wife On every side, his
ears assailed by the most fendish threats, and
his steps were logged by remorseless foes who had
bound themselves under curses TO take his llie Ills
family was threatened his house frequently assaed,
and night after night his wife driven from sick bed
into the garrett TO her life from the brickbats
and from the violence of the mob. Three presses |
had been destroyed, and fourth was procured,
which, under the superintendent of the mayor, |
was stored away in a warehouse on the 7th OF No
vember, 1881, In the evening, the warehouse was
stomed with stones, pistols, and muskets, windows
were broken in, and the building fired. Among
those of the defenders who sailed forth TO extin
guish the flames was the lamented Loveloy, who
! was shot at by one of the rufiians and deliberately
murdered. To escape the deyOurng flames, the rest
| of the defenders abandoned the building, and were
| fired upon they fled. The press and type were
| thrown into the river.
In 1885, the press of the Philanthropst was eslab
| shed at Cincinnati, with n view to the proInulga-
ton of anti slavery sentiments In January, an inn
| mense meeting of citizens of all parties was held at
the courthouse, over which the mayor presided.
committee was appointed Of leading men of the
city, TO draught resolutions expressive of The sense
of the meeting against the discussion of the slavery
question. The resolutions reported took the strsng
est ground against the agitation Of the subject OF
slavery in every form, denounced the Abolitionists
and called upon the citizens to exclude the Philan-
ihropst the Abolition organ, from their houses. In
July of the same year, mob, headed by young men
belonging to the wealthy families nj midnight broke