The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-28

Ponsseal Intelligence.
oun CORNERSTONE coRRsPoNDNcE.
.s..H - HARTFORD, Como, Feb. rs, 1854.
Tn .A~si- Nebraska Mssting at Hartford Position
of the Hartford Times, &c.
Tho anti Nebraska meeting called by petition Of
eerain citizens Of Hartford came off last evening at
- City Hall.
The call specified that the object Of the meeting
was for an expression Of indignation, without dis
tinetion Of party.
found upon arrival at the hall large assemblage,
but not crowded, the hall being about threefourths
full. The leading wings we're there, including the
ex-Mayors and ex-Memben Of Congress, the presid-
ing Judge of the Superior Court, and the exChief
Justice Of the same court President Of the meet
ing, with ex Mayors Collins and Flower, Hon. John
n. Niles, Denison Morgan, Seth Terry, and Albert
Day. who took seats the stage as Vice Presidents
The meeting was opened by speech from the
President, Hon. Thomas 81 Williams Not having
taken full notes of the proceedings, can only give
Won few scattered expressions that came from tho
speakers. The sum and substance OF Judge VIII
hams's speech was that his hoTorstricken feelings
al this yilanous Nebraska bill had brought him out
from his retirement from politics But this question
inyoyed great moral evil Is well asiDjustiCe to the
North, and as he said, the interpositon Of God
under such an evil could not be depended upon, he
felt il his duty to come out upon the question. He
then took up the slavery question, claiming that tho
various compromises passed by Congress were, In
fact c0mpacts between the North and the South and
considered IS anality in the settlement Of the
slavery question. and that the North had acted in
good faith on each and every one Of the compromises
while the South feared not /" God, man. nor the
devil" Now, it was full time for the North to kick
out OF the traces and to show the South that their
fugitive slave law, or any law extending slavery,
could not be enforced in Connecticut or in New Eng
land, and that he now hoped and predicted that not
another slave from New England would be given up
under that law. The venerable Judge closed by call
South. NO '''A1''''''A y A'A''' 'p'A ''' "'A'1
Next came forward the Rev: Mr.. Murdoch, Bap-
tist clergyman. He presented set Of resolutions,
which, doubtless You win find in the Hartford Tnses
Of tonight, that paper having, to the establishment
q the democracy Of this region, flung itself into
Tree soil interests.
The reverend gentleman then came out with fiery
Indignation against the South and Nebraska. He
said that, although he was opposed to compromises
generally, he was now ia favor of sticking to them,
and wanted to know what we should think Of . man
his or ne
dred dsllars, and when that note became due he
should refuse TO pay because his creditors were
opposed, ct the time OF settling, to the compromise
msde This, he claimed, was fair specimen Of the
South IS debtors to the North for what we had
yielded to them in all these compromises.
Without going farther into this genteman's argu-
ments, will leave him with his declaration that he,
TOO, % well as Judge Williams, was determined to
kick out Of the traces, and would no longer be
bound by law or anything else that should favor
slavery. ttae
tional Church. He was alarmed for our country
and mortified beyond measure on the coming out Of
Douglass Nebraska bill. He held down his head in
shame until the Hartford Times came out opposed
% thath NJ puchn oo11o "a
meeting Composed as 1t was wholly nearly So Of
abolitonists and whigs) to sustain the Times in
this glorious cause.A He said the North had been
dealing long enough In dough and cake, and that
getting scarce at the North, and their fears here
after not 30 easily wrought upon. Now, said the
reverend gentleman, where is their high sense of
that We have heard 80 much about It has ali
been confded to the holy keeping Of Douglas
and his Nebraska bill. And now let me here
declare that II the slave power continues to
should pass Congress, then I should wish TO
leave the country. But, said the reverend gentle
man, am greatly encouraged; Northern men with
ssctns1 principles are beginning 70 skus they are
mem, they are men OF no principles. He had much
70 say about the wickedness Of slavery, aud the
cessity Of the pulpts speaking out upon the ques-
Hon. James Dixon then took the platform. He
commenced by saying:-What do we see here? What
means this numerous and respectable audience?-
these honorable and digni6cd gentlemen upon this
platform, composed OF men not accustomed to go
eogether but in fact are the whole Of Hartford Why
this excitement, and why has the lion and the lamb
balm down togetherf Here are Medes and Persians,
Coins and vandals, Al speaking In the Same tongue
wings and abolitonists most glorioualy drunk up
THUS The honorable gentleman went on but
said that he had been in Washington-he kne how
the card was worked there. This slavery question
was fruitful subject for demsgoyues to ride into
power upon; but Of oil the devils who ever figured in
the Senate OF the United States, Douglas Is the
greatest; he Is the man who has set our country on
hre-who has brought out 30 much eloquence from
the abolitionists and has opened the door for the
= bs be sn ye % Ssa p
any truth on his side? Ho is II in regard to CON-
promises on slavery? Has not the ordinance Of 1887
kept out slavery from every Stale cat out Of the
Think Of Ohio Illinois, Indiana, Missouri Arkansas
and Mississippi has not slavery been arrested from
al these States by the ordinance Of 1887 !? and has
not the rendition of slaves there provides for been
Kept sacred by the North ever SINGER Also, under
the compromise Of 1850, has not tho North been
faithful to the fugitive slave law, well in the ad
mittsnceof New Mexico Utah, Oregon and California;
md out the principles Of tine Missouri compromised
And In regard to agitation has the North iterfered
with the Missouri compromise by throwing in pc
ttions 70 Congress for the abolition Of slavery? Was
the W1mot proviso sprung upon the country by US?
Have not been faithful in all these things And,
Mr.. President, can you mention single thing in
which the South have remained faithful to the laws
Of the land? Are not the 6outherpers set Of Hot
spurs, faring up whenever we touch upon slavery,
talking about State rights, violation Of the consti
Triton, &C.?
Thus much l give you of the hon orabe gentle
mans speech. He finished Off with threat upon
our demo cratic Senator In Congress, that il he
voted the Nebraska bill, he viii never dare meet his
constituents again.
Judge Ellsworth followed. But will not enlarge.
viii. however, give You touch Of the speeches of
M Joseph r. Hawley and the Hon. John NJ Niles,
ne leading abotionists who spoke last. Mr.. Niles
went back 70 the creation Of the world. He COM
pared Douglas to Satan ct the time he took our
Saviour upon mountain, where he offered him all
the nations Of the earth II he would fall down and
worship him. But our Saviour said, (" Get thee be.
hind me Satan Mr.. N. hkened IL unto che South,
vhich refused IN tnvrtnrv on hux 90