New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-11
SKETCHES or LECTURES
ANTI SLAVERY LECTURE.


Last evening there lecture delivered rs above at
the Tabernacle before a largo audience The lecturer
said that when invited 20 lecture volume of the org
nal minutes of the New Nork MsuumssiOn Society from
1855 1927 had come into his hands which suggested the
present lecture Men engaged in the framing OF the Fed
eral Constitution and members OF Washingtons Cabinet.
belonged that Society Much he observed has been
said about the duty ofupholdng Slavery which devoves
on all Americans, as bound by the Federal Constitution
but how unjusy, II is easy TO show The lecturer then
gave instances of the treatment OF slaves in New
York before there Emancipation. The old Governors
couraged the slave trade In i7l2 number of negroes
were convicted of murder and attempt at Instructions
condemned to be burnt q; slow fire. so that he
should suffer eight ten hours another to be hung up
without till he died another 10 be broken alive
on the wheel The negro plot $50 called in history.
but which existed only in maginahonl commenced in la.
and lasted till i742 on tho charge OF being concerned in
IT, eleven negroes burned The idea continued the
lecturer that Slavery in New York expired OF itself and
that the climate rendered il impossible has no basis In
historical truth its abolition was the result Of organized
effort The first meeting to form Society for the manu-
mission of slaves, held in 1885, in the house OF John
Simmons, inn keeper, where the ErRress office now
stands The first President John Jay-lapplause -
the second Alexander Neutrality-suspicious. tho bearer
of prominent part in the framing of the National Const
tuition aud the securing Of the union OF the States OF
whom Guzot said that there is scarcely element Of
der and durability in political system for which we are
not in great degree indebted to his genius lis name is
attached TO memorial from the Society which speaks Of
those who although free by the laws OF Cod are held in
slavery by the laws Of the Sate-a distinct recognition
of the hiehcr lac. Cheers Among his eolaborers
Peter Jay Munroe Peter Augustues Jay, and Daniel
ID. Tompkins-lcheers who, as Governor recon
mended abolition, and whose regard for the
principles OF the Revolution lives in his descendant,
Applause Robert K. Livingston of Cermont Chancellor
of New York aud Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the
articles of the Confederation CHEERS Judges Troup,
Their of present learned and accomplished Judge All
bis brother the late President Of Columbia College Noah
Webster the photographer and very many Others who's,
sons and grandsons constitute the substantial part OF
this community Cheer The trades, and the Society OF
Friends were also represented IN the organization and
Waryille, Thomas Clarkson and Thomas Hoare AT hct
heideas of of the Association were marked by ex
IRENE caution and design to tit the negroes for freedom
before emancpatng them-but this aterward found
to be mistake, and immediate emancipation deemed ex
pedient. Some OF the means employed were the pabica
lion of parts Of the proceedings and the circulation Of
tracts aud volumes petitions to the State Legislature and
10 Congress and correspondence was kept up With sim
liar societies in this and foreign countries In 1870 they
received memorial from the Pennsy lyania Emancipa-
ton Society, signed BY Franklin his last public act DE
Waryille came from France as an anti Slavery proPa-
eandst and had an interview with Geo Washington, who
expressed his desire for the formation OF similar society
in Virginia. IApplause The Jealousy since shown by
the Slave States was then unknown the words domes
"tc institution " not heard then the spirit Of the
age and nation condemned slave holding "a inhumini
Washington Jefferson Patrick Henry and other distin
euhed opposed to il were the colleges and
the church Jonathan Edwards remarked that in 30 years
10 hold negro slave would be considered shameful to
dren, which had 166 pupils when opened Slavery in
New York terminated absolutely in ls after an existence
two centuries. The first act OF ameioraton was ~ ISL
when freedom given 10 slaves who had fought IN the
Revolutionary War In l7s6t was enacted that all slaves
WHO became the property of the State by attsnder
consc0ton should be set free and supported Dy tne oae
If not able support themselves more important act
in I7ss prohibited any further Importation In 1873 aystem
of gradual abolition commenced which was enlarged
ard improved in 1910 and lsl3 In lsi1 arrangements
were made for complete abolition in 10 years. and thus.
in 1877 Slavery expired in the State Of New York This
view has an interest disposing Of what has beent to
many stumbling block In the way OF manly Efforts tor
American freedom by disclosing the views and conducted
the great who, in the midst OF their lab0s Tor manu-
mission, assisted forming the Federal Constitution Ihey
cha crafS and
that until America into measure Tor ts abolition
her prayers to Heaven would be impous They trusted
that he younger generation, filed with spirit OF
liberty and rising above the suggestions OF ayance would
hesttn the hour Of emancipation They have len u.
practical examples in their associations, determined Rn-
cipes fined rules Of action and proper machinery They
aimed at humanizng public OplnoDthey addressed the
Executive OF sister State thus showing that they did not
regard Interference with the domestic affairs Of other
States as inconsistent with the federal compact In their
Catholic work they did not dsdain foreign aid bat accept
ed from a generous Englishman bis beneiaction OF
gold. They did not cOnine themselves 10 appeals
to Shareholders ia favor Of emancipation; but
also endeayOred TO render the traffic in slaves
odous and difficult and property in slaves precarious
They declined TO patronze auctOneers who deOased their
licenses by selling slaves and they exerted themselves TO
deprive shareholders Of the facilities afforded for recap
turing fugves by adyertisomentnthe public prints zap.
rlause Their petitions to Congress showed careful
recognition of the constitutional right Of the Slave States
and the expressed and implied powers Of Congress- and
a determination 10 maintain the proper sovereignty
Of the several States and the reserved rights Of the
PEOPLE The claims since advanced for the protection and
extension of Slavery then unknown The absence
fpower the part of the General Government 10 inter
fere with Slavery in the States recognized but the
prrcale that freedom Is national and Slavery sectional
was The cardinal In the national creed. The states
OF that day demanded Of Congress In the last word,
Of Franklin that it should step 70 the very verge Of the
power vested in It IN Encouraging traffic In men, To
what better purpcse could the present, surplus
revenue be applied than to confer1ng liberty on
those who retained by National Legislature in
Ignorance and slavery Mr. Webster DECLARED that it
was competent 10 Congress to forbid the traffic between
in
il can deny admission to any State whose Constitution
does ignore it. The greet engine Is Tho ghtenmsnt
public opinion We not 10 forget that we have allies
among the shareholders themselves 20 an extent perhaps
little Known in general More guilty than they are the
citizens Of the North who the Apologies oil slavery
ard ehunters for Southern nesters Let US survey
all our advantages thank God, amt take courage. APP
plause.l