Washington telegraph., 1851-08-13
ABOLITION COURTESY have late

concerning the Abolitionists of Massa-
chusetts, which shows how much ruth
there is in the old saying, that extremes
| meet.
The N. Y. Express says tina: the otiier
day an anti-slavery convention was held
at Danvers, Mass, the chief performers
at which were men Of the Pillsbury aud
Garrison school-a school that is now
pretty we'll understood by everybody. A
certain Mr.. Caleb Jones, a wei! known
citizen of Richmond, Va, was one of the
auditors; and as it had been announced
that free discussion was allowed in the
convention, in the course of the evening
friend OF his obtained the consent of
the president to have Mr. Joues enlighten
the auditory as TO his views upon the
subject of slavery. And not ouIy the
president invited him to speak, but calls
from all parts of the house encoura ged
him TO come forward; and accordingly
forward he came, and spoke, for perhaps
ten minutes, the sentiments which one in
his position might be expected to enter
tain Oh the question of slavery. His
manner, it is said, was peculiarly pleas
lug, entirely devoid of excitement, and
his Whole appearance gave indication that
he was gentleman. Notwithstanding
all this, however, in the course of his
remarks, he was repeatedly interrupted
! in the rudest and most discourteus man
ner AT one stage of the proceeding, ilI-
deed, the opposition that was manifested
threatened to assume shape menacing
| personal violence. Several persons cot
up on the floor simultaneously and shook
their fists in his face. The gentleman
from Richmond, therefore, had to proceed
| with his remarks in the face Of difficulties
and dangers that would have made most
men afraid He only brought his remarks
10 an abrupt conclusion, and bidding his
hearers good bye, he took his hat and left
| the room. Not content with the abuse
of the gentleman before his face, in The
hail Of the convention, another meeting
Of the convention was called next day
Mr.. Jones of course lot being present.
, His case, however, was passed round from
| one to another, and each exhausted upon
it the whole force of his battery of de-
nunciation. Mr.. PiIlsbury made COM
parison Uetween their Invited guest and
horse thief, and brought the horse thief
out decidedly ahead. MIR. Garrison ran
out the analogy between the same in-
dividiial and pirate; and IN the parallel
| for crime the pirate was no where
Society" said Mr. G.. "deems the pirate
worthy of the galows; if this be so, this
person deserves greater punishment"
The Boston Journal adds:
The experience of Mr.. Jones at Danvers
will probably teach him to exercise
greater degree of caution in regard to the
| company into which he allows himself to
be led. AS specimen of the sentiment
Of the speeches on the occasion, the
| Register publishes the following:
| ''The Fourth of July is the most cursed
day III all the calendar. The day when
Judas IScarot betrayed his master; the
| day when Jesus Christ was nailed on the
cross, is more to be honofed and celebra-
ted with the firing of cannon and waving
Of the hateful bunting, than the Fourth
of July. On the morning of the Fourth
| of July we should clothe ourselves in
sackclo,h, and sit in ashes during the
| day.
George Washington waded in blood
through an eight years war; he then
| went home, and grew rich in selling his
| neighbor and stealing their hard earnings
",There is not sterile hilltop in Aus
tria, but that it is more sacred to freedom
than Bunker Hill, and the plains of Lex
ington and Concord The vilest mud
scow that floats ON the Danube is a nobler
craft than the proud frigate Constitution
These sentiments were uttered on Sab
bath evening by Parker Pilsbury. and
| tho II hof
Friday afternoon the same speaker went
through mock ceremony of taking seve-
ra! dogs into the churc lt--that he aues-
toned them as TO their doctrinat opinion,
aud made them give replies satisfactory
to hmseH-that he propoulded them. and
finally administered the ceremony OF bap-
tism in the following words: 81 baptze
thee, Bose in the name, &c; | baptize
thee. Tiger" &c.
There can be hut few who will not Join
in the belief that The author of such a
| PROCLAMATION aud blasphemy is not fit
| person 10 be at large IN the community.
A GIRL OF THE RIGHT SoRT.-It seems
that there was young lady in the Wo-
mans Rights Convention, at Akron. who
tOOk very cotHUiou-oeuSe view Vi tue
subject. Her doctrines were not popular,
it seems, among the eSprle forts of the
convention, but they will be quite the
contrary where bearded chins predomi-
nate. An enthusiastic Englishman would
call her trump, he might ever go far
ther, and say that she had entitled herself
to be denominated brick. Here is an
extract from the report of her speech:
"For her own part" she said. "sTe
loved man, individually and collectively.
better than woman. aud so, she was sure,