The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-10

OF THE
MTl-SLAvERY SOCIETY OF Pennsylvania.


Uu@au8nt Oh INC rreshQcutLal CanQlQaSess
SPECIAL REPORT FOR THE NEW YORK HERALD.
WEsrcHEsrER, (PA) October 7, 1851.
Your correspondent arrived this day in this pretty lit
tie town of weschessr which numbers about $500 souls
boasts Of ten places Of worship very large and splendid
court house. and numerous stately ednces and
private mansions particular account Of which he
wifurnish the New York HERALD he takes his de-
parture hence. vast number people congregated
here attracted not only from all parts Of the county
Chester but other quarters Of the statepartculary the
city Of Brotherly Lovely reason of this being the
fourteenth anniversary Of the Pennsylvania Anti Slavery
Society The Quskers a religious order and that of
the Hckste denomination preponderate over all other
class of regionists. The females-many really pretty
and some very beautiful present; but there
are no boomers for they cannot vegetste among the
broad brims and close bonneted modest, demure aud
unsophistcsted population Of these dggings Well to
be serious the convention assembled this forenoon
o'clock in very neatly built and commodous ediAce
called the Horticultural Hall. e. NJ Davis of Philade
pha, took the chair, and @. NJ Bureigh Edward Webb
and Ann Preston appointed secretaries There was
large and very respectable audience present. and the
proceedings were by good order and deco
rum Throughout. Not the slightest excitement pre-
vailed. Much disappointment manifested among
the jealous portion Of the members the society
that many friends from abroad who expected to
homer the occasion with their presence at
tendance. The celebrated VIM. Lloyd Garrison and
other eloquent abolitionsts, absent-the former
owing to iniisposition
The preliminary business of organization and the ap
poiptment OF the customary committees being con.
cluded,
LrcRErA MoTr addressed the meeting at some length
upon the present aspects Of the antsavery cause aud
to the paDful of he or ;rc
nection with the operations of the Fugitive Slave law
and especially with the traeical ARRAY at Christana
she sald that while these facts appeal strongly
yppabies ard sadden hearts, they not for
announcement, or any relaxation OF effort We see
In them the necessity Of wider puSnncA.ion Of our
principles the enlightenment Of the people Our rei
has been upon the power Of truth The press
the public speaker and private appeal have been
ipsrumen taiities Thee should be employed Ell
ciently to show the enormty Of avery-the wisdom jus.
tce and economy Of freedom and free labor-and the
duty Of the Northern people to refuse all aid to slavery
and employ rghtful influence to change the public
action
The PRESIDENT addressed the Convention In few brief
and impressive remarks In which he said there
much in the state Of affairs around depress but
not to dshearten the friends of this benevolent
The extraordinary Efforts which made by the slave
holders and their abettors to put down abolition
only proof that they considered their system in
binary danger There nothing 10 the present state
OF affairs properly undertood TO )ducs dependency
Our cause he Observed Is still moving onward and we
are full Of hope for the future.
j. III McKm followed In rapid review Of some leading
facts In the progress Of the agreeing with the
tments Of the chairman and remaring that this
time for dependency He believed that dependency
was felt BY abolitiopss any faer
resx their exertons They have he said had much to
excite thsr sympa HES, and sadden their feelings but
this has not diminished their determination labor
their devotion principle their faith na tri-
ruphs of their Mrs. Motifs illusions TO tina
wrongs and prosecutions suffered BIZ of fenis
were naturally somewhat sombre She has lately been
into that gloomy prison from cell to cell and spent hours
In conversing with those thirty innocent conaned
there. REcfss
At o'clock the Society took q resess Of one hour.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
On coming together In the afternoon the first business
hr j. MnLER McKIM Of Philadelphia the Correspond
ing Secretary Of the Society read the annual Report OF
written document occupying fifty manuscript res
moot important points Of which your correspondents here
with sends you
The report by abiding to the obstacles the
anti slavery has had TO
and Of the past 1t holds that there
Is nothing In these events TO discourage dspres but
ON the contrary that they all susceptible Of easy
and hope inspiring explanation. II then goes TO
all these developements alluded to- to two causes
one Political and the other commercial One the sp-
proech Of the Presc entail election and the other the
high price Of cstton The Shareholders holding the
the past year been able dictate heir the
North Northern candidates for the Presidency have
let Their on the South for success In their
aspirations and their has been shaped accord
iDgy. Under this head the report Is upon pro-
minent candidates OF both parties The following Is
portion Of what Is said OF Daniel wchs.er:-
But In all his efforts to favor 1t the SOUTH the
President has had In his Secretary Of state formidable
competitor. Daniel Webster has almost rom time i'm
n. mortal been an asprant to the Presidency lie has
proessed ell sorts OF creed and held TO every variety Of
political sentiment He has made antsavery speeches
sun" at Richmond he has been wilmot Proyigo man
and an Anti ilmot Proviso he has blown hot Mt
The South and cold Mt the North and both hot aud cold
In the middle States but up until the 7h Of March 1850
al without avail lie had yet been chosen by any
PARTY as their candidate, and the time hsd when
his hopes would admit Of no further postponemrnt lie
had passed the allotted period OF human e aud his
ering s'eps admonished him that effort must
AIDE TO reach the goal Of his ambition or Il would
or too late Accordingly he struck out new and
bold course for bmsc and In his memorable speech of
he day and year aforesaid the public duty sdver-
Used Of the fact. From that time to this his face has
been Kept steadily TO single point Of the compass and
his voice has been sti for slavery Our obligations to
he South have been bis The wherever he has gone
and the duty Of saving the Union by the execution
Fugitive Slave law, and his personal sacrifices In
wherever he has had opportunity Of holding forth
whether at Harrisburg, Boston, Dunkirk, Buffalo syra-
ruse or Albany his cry has been the same-our
obligations TO the South the necessity Of the Fugitive
Slave law, the crime Of resist ing It's exasutionn
In regard 20 Mr. Buchanan the report holds the fol-
Not over scrupulous TO means, aud an implicit
believer In the lower law he (Mr Buchanan) has seen
rom the berirnng that the most likely way Of attain
roion TO Southern institutions In hts readiness 70
meet the demands Of the slave power he has not only
zone ~ tr Dut further than the furtheet OF his cOmpe
tors His rame hes been quoted with appreciation
he floor 81 the Nashville Convention and his sanction
claimed for one Of the distinctive Of that body
Mr. Buchanan has therefore this advantage his
ivss that he is not only Northern with scubern
principles but Union man with disunon supporters
IN vain has General Csss In vain has Mr. Dallas vain
had Levi Woodbury-nov gone 10 his account-iu vain
,ave they all tried 10 cope with their Pennsyvan rival
HE Efforts 70 propitists the seothern
iuoh they have been wiog 10 eoncede Mr Buohansn
'ss always been ready 70 yield He vouA ouy
i've th.m the Missouri line through TO the Psciao and
NJ the territory south Gift ground for the extension
their system, but this should not be sufi,ient-
Judging nom the course 81 his especial organ and parti-
ulsr friends In the city 81 PhIladeipha-he would
hberate for them the island Of Cuba aud By the essy
,rocese 81 snpeyaton establish them in possession Of
he richest ssveholdng gem Of the These adj
'antsgce which hr buchanan has his rivals; and
his chances should not be greater than theirs II s be-
absolute protrstion has greater merit with the
lavehoider than less profound ebeisance; Il has
merit which, among the free people of the North
meets With different appreciation "
The report states that there have been more alleged
Witiye slaves given MP under the Fugitive Save law
rom Penny vania than from all the OF the States OF
he Union put Together tenumeretes twenty six oases
and gives history Of portion OF them Under this
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