The true Democrat., 1854-06-27
The Franks of the Fanatics.

The Massachusetts anti-slavery soctv closed its anniversary meetil Z at Boston the other day. most characterisslcally. The reported proceed lngS real like the narrative of d visit to ali in- sane asylum.
 We give few specimens Of what was said and done on thls occasion. The reader will re- collect that this meeting was held in tl-e very midst ot the excitement occasioned by the arrest of the fugitive slave, Burns and this kept the mercury up to boiling neat.
 Early in the meeting Abby Folsom, who, crazy as she Is not whit more mad than the rest ot them, N ho perhaps have more "method in their madn.ss," spran5 upon her feet, excam- ing, ''I am for action action." and in a loud voice she gave her views of freedom liberty of speech action, etc., etc. Passing back and forth across the platform, sine defed the efforts of MesSrs. Jackson, Foster, May, Buffum, and others to put her down.
 s. 5. Foster styled Abby as an insane woman
 " It Is a lie,'' exclaimed Abby.
 ''So it is,'' exclaimed Father Lanson, and he was proceeding to speak, when Mr. Jackson put the question, Is it the pleasure of this audience to remove these persons from the plattor1n?' and declared it to be vote Abby Folsom and many others crying mo! no.''
 Parson May, the Quaker Bufum and others seized Father Lanson, and amid cries of Shame Shame. Don't do it! Put him out etc, etc., car- ried him out of the hall, the greatest confusion prevailing.
 G. W. F. Melen exclaimed, "Stephen S. Foster is as crazy as anybody else' Amid these mutual recrminations Mir. Foster gained the P latform and spoke till the adjourn ment.
 In the evening, G. W. F. Melen who thought Foster crazy, took the platform, amid demonstrations which were evidently intended to deter him from speaking.
 Mir. May rose, and moved that Mir. Melen be allowed to speak five minutes without inter- ruption.
 Mir. Mellen attempted to continue, but was interrupted by Mr. Garrison who stated that l odnever made MT. Mellen fora public speaker. l This rather fabbergasted Mellen, who be- ing called on by Garrison to apologize to Foster for what he had said of him. said he should not do any such thing, and boasted that he l (Mellen) had done as much for the cause of abolition without pay as Foster had, being re- gularly under pay! This was telling tales out of school, and Mellen was coughed down.
 The inevitable Wendell Philips also spoke and commenced by saying that he did not think the day was so bright as many consider it. In regard to the events of Friday night, (when Batcheder was murdered), he had only two re- grets:-one was that the effort was unsuccessful; and the other was, that he was not there.- Why the duce want he there? In regard to his speech on the fatal and memorable Friday night, his only fear upon retiring to his bed was, that some of the papers on the following morn ing would praise it. GA voice. You no need to have flattered yourself on that.' ] That ''v voice. was the only sensible " voice" in the whole evenings proceeding
 In the course of the evening there occurred a slight contest between Messrs. Mellen, May and Garrison, each contending for the floor.
 Mir. Garrison attacked Mir. Melen severely as an intruder, full of absurdity, and again said he was man whom God never made for a public speaker.
 Mr. Mellen, of course, rejoined in high dud- geon.
 Mrs Josephine Griffin, of Ohio, who succeed ed, vented aquantity of abuse on the city of Boston for IS subserviency to slavery. Boston stood 1t very we'll.
 Garrison terminated the proceedings by a wholesale attack on the Boston press, paper, pen. ink, scissors, publishers, editors, printers. devils and newsboys. And then the pow-wow broke up.
 One of these wicked papers the next day, (for somehow they did survive Garrisons male- diction) said that "Father Lanson was forced from the meeting by the lovers of free discus sion. because he felt free to speak, and in the struggle he dropped his hat. Mrs Folsom in her yeneration for the old man, placed his ca- peau upon her head, in lieu of her bonnet, and marched the streets like shero."-N. C. Fac.