The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-01


take place Immediately, until Monday, to enate the
officers Of the House to place the hal. in trim,
according to the resolution heretofore sdopted.
| NoA-Arrfvni OF the Afctic-NInn Drownc,k
SANDY HOOK, May 81, 1854.
Trere as Jet signs OF the Archc--now in her
18th dy The Asia is also IN her 18th day oat
As tie steamer Thonss G. Ealsht coming down
the lower bay bound os Red Bans, this morning. man.
whoee m ne was underst sod b. Louis McKee, WAS &C
edentany lost svcrbcars and netsithstandiog every
e1ertion made Try the captain acs crew, he went
down TO ris no more TIE ire ocas was on ,he spot IN
possible 10 ssge TIE unfortunate msn. He under
stood TO be an iashman, working A. mason at the
Osesn House.
Msssaenusetss Free Sell Stass Convention.
Awful THREATRNySt,s-SP.iHcH JOHN HALE.
BOSTON,, MAY a. 1854.
The Free Soil Stair Convention asssnlicd in Aasic
Hall st IL y O'Clock About two Thousand persons weT,
Fw. Bird, of walpeEe called the meeting 70 order.
Tseolbus p. ChHndsr Of Bcston, wa.r chosen Prcs-
dert, with fifteen Vice. Preside1.s During the after
not less than 1000 people were pres-r't aud much
CT husiatm prevailed.
IT. iestluiions adoptoa are MS follows
Ts s ss
.u,rsss slave powerful :Ia,.iases fe.ae%
I.Lea'sa sastions and i'm .rae. The sosnss. q hsr
This. this crisis; wAsn liberty
her defence the free democracy wiling 20 rcingn'sh
dis.r:s t sss;sssss
& men ,ssips, the mighty osnspi ass .lsssS.asr
% ss e pae
s % 40 mSin of the Kara: and & NsIrss r.
Resolyed That slavery in the District Of Columbia
ssP =.
ard !. ns;s h, % m,. ~
Resolved that Cuba ii il eoms; into Ito Unson must
Resolved Tha. the inds pende.c. nayti mus, be
Rssoiva That the rights cur ooorod crens going to
Other States M, must be proteetec .,.,, ;. ,.o,,
anew s''
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ws the With ss.y w s
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stve slave going in this city, and briefly com
mented on the passage of tho Nebraska bill lie had
burns mes Sy he the
attempt would be made by the slave catcher to carry
hn e IN defiance Of the decision He did not T. BELIZE" .
ton Of the dearest rights for which nen had sacrificed
tyrs had not been shed .and the constitutional
principles given to man never had graced the statute
books Of nation Slavery would not trust the Mayor
of Foston and the Governor of Massachusetts with all
the artillery they could bring out, thinking that the
spirit Of old Mascae husets liberty entirely crush
! ~,
soldiers about hero TO aid n carrying of the poor fugitive,
1t must send down to Portsmouth and have another
laEy Of marines como to tho He rojoccd that
this 80, and that when community showed dispo
son to carry ont THE lw, the South treated il as
how il with others but hope not entirely
crushed out oi his teart fCeecrs.) lie thanked tho
sayet odes frr what they Had done because they had
driven us to Icipt TO which il desirable to
lie thought they had come 20 pass whore they would
as no' f. mSs sG"a,s use se o was @ nothing moss to
rcht at hand and waiting to he employed.
It was that voice should 90 forth froaa this
Convention to the constituents Of every congressional
district requesting than 70 Instruct their Representatives,
70 give NOT vote for appropriation for carrying
sst eeiar wss vo,eathis ast measure vas repeaiei.
fe!ea eheerng) This would bring abou. repeal very
quickly i, r himself, be would go anywhcresct with
M, bcGy, who would take this ground for repeal Let
there be statute In every free State that when
a man is entrusted with the rights Of community
ard then borays that trust he should DO indicted an.
tIied as criminal compared with whom sheep stealer
vas an angel of light Who does not feel That srch
trusts have been betray the North has been
| sold out Who does not feel that thiA las.
great outrage would not have been perpetrated f
rather than Presidential appointments Ia IL not
time for the North TO arise, and make themselves
wishes to preserve It's name being the home
Of lhertys In the light OF history while full of hope he
should despair because while tyranny power
full liberty was making progress II the present is what
the past made IT, the future must partakc Of the spirit
of the present We must be ready to take by the hand
every true man, and In the language Of the Apostle
Forgetting tho things that behind looking only to
tlosc that are BEFORE" Mr. Hale passed eoqucny to
the action of the 5000 clergymen OF New England.
He recommended Violence but agitation that every
one to 60 down into and stir an agitation which should
go down deep into the hearts Of the people, and
that such action BY no means futile He concluded
suc Of slavery or freedom the one great question Of
the age.
and received with prolonged cheering lie alluded
70 the news from Washington in relation to the
danger in which the Hon Charles S sumner t sto1d 90.
recent excitement. HIS life said Mr. c., In danger
any to be injured, II will be myself, and not
him for have tried every means in my power to kick
tho slave rowey into indignation but cond not 20, one
Of tho biusierers e 30 anything liz claimed M inter.
yention as the watchword Of the free democracy and
slavery, Congress should have power to return
him, even should the fields of the North run red
with the blood Of slave hunters: Mr. eiddiass
position that every man has a right TO himself
and is the property Of no ono, and to unite With
next alluded to the proceeding in Congress the last
days of the debate tho Nebraska bill and paid high
compliment to the principles and action of the Massa-
chusets delegation and particularly compliu,entcd Mr..
Tanks for his stand In opposition to that Scna-
tor fessenden, from Maine, was also highly compli.
nicptcd.
Turing the Convention Mr. Giddings made another
sIscch In WHICH bs ssid he had this morning visited a
place bcctaded by soldiers, and for the frs time In
his life witnessed man on trial charged with no
crime. He had practiccd law thirty years, and
| had before witnessed such q scene. Such
things cond not exist in tho Western Reserve, Ohio.
| lie satisfied that the principle Of freedom was
cherished In New England than Il was to-day.
| Speaking of the recent movement in Washington he
said there better for human rights In Wash
ing'on 70 day than hiessrs Morrison and Nttrdge Of
| New Hampahre. They will TO you nov, that
they don't know they belonged TO democratic
Ierty The Presdcn; had made attempt to curb tue
| have been bought and sold at a, much cheaper
price than black are knocked on LOT IN
\ the South. Ills own colleague, member from oh'o,
OF the converts rewarded the very day no voted
fo1 the BILL with fat Office. lie showed that FRANKLIN
Pierce was traitor 10 the North and sail all such men
shnud be crushed OUT Tho power OF the federal GO
Is TO ay In court house OF Boston, crush
ipr ont the iustice and liberty OF Massachusetts.
fhc meeting was also addressed by Hon. Amasa Walk
or. Francis W. Bird Henry Wilson, John T. Swift, and
The proceedings we're marked with q great degree Of
| enthusissm and determination
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| From, New (Drleana.