Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-27
Communications 4
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New YonK. April 70. 1854

NEW lORk, April II, 1904
DEAR MARius. The American Anti-Slavcry So
cicty has just closed its Twcnty-f Anniversary
very satisfactorily to its friends The first public
meeting was held in Rev. DR.. Chapin's Church, |
Broadway, one Of the first and best churches in
tho city. At 10 o'clock, Wednesday, this large
church was dcnsely crowded by citizens and stran-
gers, who on Anniversary week visit this great
city to learn what is being done throughout the
nation and world and among the most Important
doings Of on EARTH the onti-slavcry enterprise
holds an important position. VIM. Lloyd Garrison
took the chair at the appointed time, gaa the cxer
ciscs commenced by voluntary ou1Ac organ.
Selections from the Scriptures were then read BY
Rev. Samuel j. May, of Syracuse, n. v, who
then led the meeting m prayer. Mrs. Follcn's
touching hymn, "Whot mean yc, that yc bruiso or
bind" was then sung by the choir, with remark
able effect.
The Treasurer, Francis jackson. Of Boston, an
nouncod the receipts for the year Sl1 los %. Tx
penditurcs SS,72000. Balance on hand, S2,31G %
Mr.. Garrison then made some Introductory re-
marks, affirming the sentiments ever promulgated
by this Society, saying; ave know, and you know,
and the Shareholders know, and the slave, and all
in this country, and in heaven and in hell know,
that We are right in indicating the rights Of man.
for every human being on this earth, and only the
base, or tho blind, or the bgoted, or the unscrupu.
lous, or the timcscrving the bloody-mindcd, are
against MS, or our glorious position. lie was very
happy in Calculating this idea, and after briefly
referring to the present position Of the cause, in
troduced Rev. w. 4. Furncss, of Philadelphia
who made a spirited speech, from which, with
nilprg rqnOrtp1 in flo Vr1tpo ,I,
extracts FOR the Duglc as you may think best. Mr..
Funess was followed by Robert Puryis, Of Phila-
delphia Wendell Phillips and Abby Kelly Foster.
cannot better describe these speeches than by
saying that each ono said just what ought to have
bcon said on such an occasion. Mr.. Garrison then
took the platform, and in brief speech Of great
power, showed that all the unjust complaints made
against us, and every vile cpithot bestowed upon
us for the cause VIC had espouscd, was also being
unsparingly applied to those clcrgymcn who had
protested against the Nebraska bill. Tho meeting
then adjourned to meet in the evening for business
at Hope Chapel The business meetings were wei
attended, and the resolutions thereof discussed.
Among the speakers were Lucretia Mott Charles
Lcnnox Rcmond, S. j. May Edmund Quincy,
Henry BLACKWELL of Cincinnati, who appeared as
delegate from the Cincinnati Ladies' Anti-Slaycry
Sewing Circle, Oliver johnson, Henry c. Wright,
and others
Andrew jackson Davis then took the platform
Thursday morning, and said, since he had been in
the city he had been informed by some of his
friends, that he had many friends in the South.
where his publications were being favoraLly re-
ccived and read with interest, and they advised
him not to identify himself in any way with this
unpopular cause as it would operate preiudiciay
to him and to the sale and circulation of his works
With these facts before him, he felt It his duty to
improve the earliest opportunity to declare thus
publicly, his sympathy with the anti-sl very cause
and his identity with it noe and forecer.
On Tuesday evening the New York City Anti
Slavery Society held its first Anniversary in the
Tabernacle. This is n new organization, auxiliary
to the American Society, and like it, stands upon
the broad, unscctarian basis. Through its inlu-
encc, of thirteen anti-slavcry lectures was
delivered during the last winter, by the most cmi
ncnt champions of our cause. These lectures in
combination with other circumstances, have had a
favorable influence upon the public mind, und
there is yet hope that anti-slavery influence will
ultimately prevail in the commercial metropolis Of
this country.
At this meeting addresses were delivered by
Rov Theodore Parker and Wendell Phillips. Fer
two hours Theodore Parker enchained the vast au
dicnce that filed every scat and standing place of
that spacious Tabernacle, with argument cloqucnco
and ponderous facts, against the peculiar insttu-
ton. But will attempt no further description Of
it. understand it is to lie published, and hope
you will DC able to spread it before your readers
When Parker had closed, Wendell Phillips, the
only man who could have followed that speech, and
carried the awakened feeling onward and upward
took the platform and spoke, as he always does
eloqucntly truthful lie has the power ms no 9th
or man has, to whom l have ever listened, of
"magnifyng the truth and making it honorable
and on this occasion hc did so most triumphantly.
Such efforts weaken slavery and will ultimately
work its overthrow More hopeful meetings for the
cause never have been held in this city All in
attendance will return to their own fields Of labor,
strengthened for the great work and glorious victory
that is before them.