Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-31

timately it must triumph. loud checrsl.
GERRrr SMITH, who was on rising receiv-
ed with great and continued applause, said /:
will not express to you, sir, all the pleas
ure feel in this visit OF the American Anti
Slavery Society to the city of Syracuse. !
hope that you and your associates will feel
yourselves to be at home amongst us. hope
you will feel that you are not among strnng-
ers. Most of us are strangers to you, though
you are not strangers to us. We have long
known you, though we have not before, at
least many of us, seen your faces, or heard
your voices, still, | say, we have long known
you. We have known you from the produc-
tons of your pens, from the numerous re-
ports of your works of faith aud your labors
Of love. We recognize you, sir, aud your
noble associates as the pioneers of our great
and glorious and blessed Anti-Slavery Cause.
And not only this, sir, but we recognize you
as having we'll followed up what we have
well begun. [Cheers.] We have to say,
and lament the necessity, to some Aboli-
tionists, aye did run we'll" We can say
this of you; but we can add, aud aye did
continue to run WELL" Loud cheers j
hope, sir, that you will feel yourselves at
home amongst us. We welcome you from
the very bottom of our hearts. We wei
come you TO the city ofSyracuse in the name
of free discussion. l welcome you TO this
city of free discussion. You have referred
in your remarks, TO the outrage on the right
of free speech which the City of New York
has been guilty of Honorably, gloriously
does the rising city of Syracuse contrast with
the great city of New York. [Cheers.
Yes, sir, we welcome you TO the city of
/ Syracuse. We welcome you to Central
New York. We welcome you TO our homes.
| We welcome you to our hearts. And not
only is it the American Anti-Slavery Society
| that we welcome,-wc welcome also George
Thompson. Immense cheering1 For be-
ing n foreigner, lac is not, perhaps, technical
| ly member of the american Anti-Sluvery
Society. i know that he is substantially
such, for know that his heart is in the full
est sympathy with your principles and the
spirit of your measures. We welcome him,
and are glad TO see him again. We shall be
| glad To come once more under the fascna-
tions of his eloquence. We shall be glad to
hang once more upon those lips, all of whose
utterances are constructed 10 Truth and
Freedom. [Cheers.l We welcome you, and
we beg you to speak OH, freely, not to feel
yourselves trammeled by any consideration.
Tell US Of our errors that we may correct
them; for we Aboliiionsts of Central New
York have our errors. We are willing to re-
ceive light into our minds from any source
whatever. Our hearts are open to the in
fluences of truth come from whatever quar-
ter they may. Speak out TO us freely we
shall receive it in all the affectionateness of
our hearts, whatever you may say to US
[Cheers.
Rev. SAMUEL. J. MAY, Of Syracuse, next
addressed the meeting, and was, on rising,
greeted with much applause. thank Mr..
Gcrrt Smith for his generous reception of
the American Anti-Slavery Society, with
which have been identified from the be-
ginning. Coming from him the most distn-
guished philantlropist of New York, this
welcome is peculiarly grateful. [Applause.l
For one, am more especially gratifed by
his generous words, because there are many
in oil this community who may not have sup |
posed that he and those who are known in |
this region as the most uncompromsing |
Abolitionists have been, and are still, not so |
olenated from the New England Abolition
lists but that he and they may cooperate |
with such men as Mr.. Garrison, Wendell |
Phillips, Mrs. Abby X. Foster, Francis jack
son and others, that could be named in that
glorious company. [Applause.] But, sir,
do assure you l have known il to be other
wise since have had the happiness of re-
siding in this place. Soon after coming
here attended meeting of the abolition
lists OF this region, known as the Liberty par
~. was received by them with the utmost
cordially, and allowed to express my opin-
ions whether they agreed or whether they
differed from theirs, with the utmost free
dom. l heard from them the most cordial
expressions of regard for the American Anti
Slavery Society, however we were known to
differ from them in our modus opdrdndi. As
to an interest in the Anti-Slavery cause, do
not believe that it has ever been less IL the
bosoins Of Gerrit Smith and his fellow la
borers than in ours. Cheers. They have
differed from us on one or two points, that
in times past seemed to us of no little I'M
portance, because they tended TO shape a
different course TO that pursued by us; but if
they believed the Constitution of the United
States to be an Anti-Slavcry document, it
has been with the determination TO make il
tell for the Accomplishment of that for which
by their Interpretation they believed it to be
designed, not less than we who belieVeing
the American Constitution TO be pro-slave-
ry document have determined to do what
we can to overturn il. Both they and we
have aimed at the same result,-the over
throw of American Slavery, believing it to
be the greatest course of our country, as well
as of our common humanity.
Edmund Quincy Esq, then rose to sup
port the resolutions in reference to Mr..
Thompson and the aboltionists of Great
Britain. lie said;
There are many things, for which this ma
tion prides itself; many qualities of mind,
of heart, and of character which America
seems TO think peculiarly belonging to her
self and which Americans seem to consider I
in manner as their monopoly, to which
they have an inherent right, and with which I
no one else may interfere. think that il is !
entitled to one characteristic, one to which I
it does not always lay claim, and that is to ! I