Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-09
a ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
From the Iibcrator
ANNIVERSARY WEEK IN NEW YORK.


We cannot allow the late anniversary week in
New York to pass without at least brief notice
VI tne three great antl-saycry meetings held in
.he metropolitan Theatre--the first addressed by
senator y ilson, OF Massachusetts, the second, the
anniversary of the American AntiSlavery Society
the third, gathered in overwhelming numbers to
hear Senator Sumner, who subsequently repeated
his admirable leeturc in NiblOs Garden--and
fourth, at the Broadway Tabernaclc--our readers
have already been apprised. They constituted the
prominent features of that memorable week, threw
into the shade all the meetings of the great nation
al religious organizations in point OF numbers and
interest, and excited more discussion througlt the
city than all other topics combned: The spirit
evinaed by those in attendance uniformly
friendly, with no disturbing element, and at times
in the highest degree enthusiastic. In addition T."
these meetings, three others were hel2 by the
American Anti-Slavorv Society, in the Frec-Will
Baptist Church in Sullivan Street,-makiug seven
in all,--thus giving prominence to the cause Of
the slave somewhat commensurate with its impor-
tance, and never before paraleled on any similar
occasion. Never were utterancGs more bold new
was the axe laid at the root Of the upas tree
with more vigor.
All this was cheering beyond expression, rrovi-
ded the vision did not extend beyond the walls Of
the theatre, and the Sympathetic audiences cJngre-
gated therein. But one swallow does not make q
summer and all is not gold that glttcrs. Unde-
niaby the interest manifested in those eanti-allycrv
lie feeling; and undenably, other facts plain
ly demonstrated that mighty revolution yet re-
manned to be achieved at the North, before the
Slave Power could have any thing to fear on the
score of general hostility to its despoc sway
the whole country.
Let notice few significant facts.
l. 80 far rs the leading political and religious
Journals in the city were concerned, representing
its respecability wealth aud p:eiy,--there was no
more lriendliness shown to the anti-slavery cause
han tlnra l.,l ti,o
Express. the Daily News, the Journal Of Commerce
the Times, the Observer, &c. g.. were as bitter
deamatOry and hostile ever. They dealt in
carcatuIe and backguardism Of the anti-slavery
proceedings as freely of old, that none OF
their readers could form any lust opinion of what
was said or done on the occasion. Read the ribal-
drous articles grouped together on our first page,
in that receptacle for every thing vile and satanic
the Refuge Of opprpSsion,' and compare them with
tho malignant ebultions of the New York press
at early period in the antislaveiy struggle; and
whether any change is perceptLle in that d-
rection. Mark the slang about the notorious male
and female infdel abotionsts Garrison and
the other old stagers of lnidety 'unadulteratcd
fanaticism,' the overthrow of the Union. the Con-
sttution gion and society, and the substitution
of universal ng5eriom, amalgamatou, anarchy
fire and slaughter, Garrison. the frank and open
mouthed fanatic, and Seward the sedtiOus and
slippery demagogue,' IA motley assemblage Of
white, muhtto and darker coorcd persons a mad
bio of conspiracy, treason and madness that Goth
an has yet known in all her bcdlams,' a parti-co
ored collection of cream faced, skim-milk-tnued
snuff-iaced and ebony-taccd specimens Of humanity
that in the cockney, Yankee and Niger dialects
fumed away their zeal a kra OF bowling mani
acs,' 'an abolition conclave Of fenas, animated by
COOL calculating dabolical malignity,' 'agitators
who have worked themselves by degrees down to
the level of fends. and are bent on a scheme of
gigantic mischief and wickeancss,' Garrison. tic
English e,aisSa,y, who has never been natnrtli2ol
C!D the sly and hypOcritlca tactics OF the Brli1ls
of the cOnclaye,' 'old men with hoary heads be-
besmirchng their brows with treason, and women
unsexng themselves to chatter pHrrcida the
fends that follow Garrison who would Introduce
millennium that would send Joy down to Pandc-
monium,' &c, s.. Sc. All this outpourng Of
vtuperdton, ialsehood, scorn and hcllish malevo-
lence, because the right to make merchandize of
fellOwcreatuYcs has been denied, nj the cause
of impartial liberty uncompromsmgly advocated,
and covenant with death Stcrnly denounced, and
the rel gon Of Jesus Christ yndicuted against the
charge Of sanctouing the vleSt oppression beneath
the sun, and the Declaration oc Inlcpen leIre ap.
pealed in proof of the inalcnable right of ovcrv
human being to life, liberty, and the pursuit Of
happiness :. Fail not to observe that these foul
mouthed libclers OF men and women whom they
dare not confront face to face on free PLATFORM
are deeply concerned for the safety of the Union,
and for the welfare Of the Church. and for the
honor of religion, and profess patriotic abhor-
renee of treason, and holy horror Of 'inGdelity!
thus demonstrating how utterly cOrrupt are the
religious and political institutions of the day
2. The journals in which such wicked assaults
are systematically made, such scale of
transcendent villany, are sustained by the most
liberal patronage possess wide circulation, and
represent the general sentiment Of the great COM
munity in which they are published. What, then,
is the difference between New York and New Or
leans? Encouraged, nay, stimulated by such Wig
orous cooperation, why should not the South laugh