The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-14

The twelfth anti slavery lecture OF the season de-
livered last evening in the Tabernacle by the Rev.
SAMUEL May of Syracuse ion the rise and progress Of
the anti slavery since 1890. The audience
small The following Is the substance Of the lee
turers remarks:-
The sentiment Of right the aspiration after freedom,
and the love Of liberty from above. This lore OF
liberty abidsth not the rociy mountains OF mo.
narchicai supremacy But what there is OF this spri.
Of liberty that ashts the proud eminsnce Of human
society tckies down into the valleys Too often II s
hidden in dark caverns; but Il never dies there.
eternal spirit of the chanlsss mind,
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art"
Ever In the worlds HISTORY there have been some
who have broken out living spirits Of this humanity
II 10 thus the spirit Of . single mind makes those of
muttudes take direction Such was the spirit OF
the mind ef that man In country who advo-
Gated universal liberty. claim for Mr. Garrison that
the spirit OF his mind has made the minds Of mutudss
take new direction. The spirit Of liberty must run In
earthly channel and II Is often ins rocky one, bs.
tween high banks But far less than water can II be
restricted 10 given channel II will rise to empy.
hsghts that II may fall again among the children
ofmen. Long had the lovers Of liberty toed they
could exact from their tyrsnts that freedom which
given In magma charta. The American colo.
mics having grown into States became impatient Of
strieioIs imposed Upon them BY England; They rose
pendent. Here II would that freedom would be
showertd ke the rain upon all men; but alas not
40. Somehow IL provided In the constitution that
those who had been In slavery should continue 70 be-
IL seems strange % that who had nobly claim
ed their own rights should have forced upon bond.
age, one hour Of which dreadful than whole
ages Of that from which they had revoited. That
Thomas Jefferson or Patrick Henry should have consent
ed TO this, passing strange Bat than all that
washipgtenour almost idolised wsshinxton--that he
should have given his example 70 the maintanance Of
great wrong, has thrown shade upon his majestic
character However much may deslre 10 their
infdety TO the OF down rodden humanity there
the fact stands that the American Revoutonsts did
not intend that liberty should be given 20 ano not 10
all those who had fought is battles There the fact
stands that the aim, the tendency the result Of that
great struggle for freedou werpsrfai restricted and
selfish. The consequences OF srong must always be
wrong and II can never be sxpsdent 10 90 that which
IL wrong See the evils which this system Of oompro
mise has brouaht into land The compromises that
have been made the slave power have been such that
the free States have been virtually subjueatsd and the
dsolution OF the Union be the only adeuuate mice
for our restoration 70 liberty For twenty years after
the formation Of government true hearted men and
women spoke against slavery and the slave trade
Bot after they obtained ths prohibition Of the
slsve trade, In 1905 they subxided, forget.
Of supplying would set long b wanting The mana.
msson Of slaves prohibited In all the Southern
states The 6rst event that reused tbs attention of
Northern 90 the condition OF the slave rower wa.
the movement 10 admit Missouri n the Uniop In 1919
We asked sometimes Why take sneh interest IN
the abolition cf slavery wsanswsr IN ths words Of Ter.
renee we men and therefore mast ~ concernsd In
svvrything that eoueerns hunanity. Bat have
sao.Aey hnswt--rs vwe fsl,!.sc-xs ware aryri p