New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-21
THEODORE PARKER'S LECTURE.
RELATION OF SLAVERY TO OUR DEMO
CRAFT INSTITUTIONS

| ernscle, On the above tutject The evening
oeediDgly cold; nevertheless every portion Of the
building that afforded for sitting or standing u
crowded to Ire utmost capacity. NJ. Pa-kers sp-
rearsDce -as greeted with buIs Of enthusiastic sp-
plause. When i; had s1bsided, OLIVER JOHNSON said
LADIES AND GESTLENEy-The g.Dtle nsn invited
70 scor,ss us t1s evelHg bss been charged VITA en-
t.Tt6iLiDg eno prom ugaios some peIicilu- heresie
but believe be ma bsen charged, even By his
wort enemy. With tOrturiDg either the OH or Ne =
Tettsuleui into an apology or oeten-s OF Ansrlcsn
Saver His religious creed may be IS dshcleni snd
erroneous BY u. popular standard ha' Of % good
Sam sritsn hut ak you when be FGs ever i)unf
OIL II tide Of tie slsyehoder when has the nerI-
cin save puDcered. outraged, !CrsGken, lifted up
bis cry T. bin in vain / have great pleasure 10 Ia
to. ucpg TO you vbo has been thought wort, OF
an Indictment IT. Uftet " .es ut for BIS ddeli'g
10 Freed ) and to frs dom Of speech 10 the old cradle
Of Liberty. loud applause
THLODoRE PARKER arose AID was greeted wan
lend ard tremendous cheers. He saiG:
LsDIs AND GEsTLExES: Ar. johnson % iHtfo-
6uced ny name as one Of those who are Indicted for
freedom of speech in Faneuil Hall and Shen he spoke
Of ne a. being charged with being culprIt, you an
svered win applause. Don't you know that 1t Is
great or.r7, and nisdemesnor to do 80 lchsers
You NAV link yourselves fortunate that you in
New-York, where Mr. Ingrahsn has died and has
not left bis peer But ii you had done tas in Boston
rnert. for II Mr George Curtis Of cur kidnl2-
lers old lot report that it was iev!ng war an sure
that Mr.. Benjamin Hsile AID Mr. Ben'enn Gu
tis-ihe two terrible broihers-in.lsw wsold have
preierted you TO the G:aud Jury and g't you IN
cc.ed for obstructipg officer Ladies ard gentle
,leueD. Isnl ak Year attention might to Sd nc
.boug bic on the relation of Slavery TO the Democratic
intitn,ions Of ne.ics shall not be .ong as tue
theme deunrds, will try to be 4. brief as you' pa
tiepce may require. African Slavery wcat u VIZ
euis the sau year thai Pdri 'an-n SGT foot in Ne'-
England The year 1920 cav negro slavcs at james
town in Virginia, and it say Puritan Pilgrims on the
ssrds Of Plymouth in New England. WHAT diverse
couaeauencss have followed from these two institd-
tioni--AfIican Slavery at jamestown, Cnristisn
Pu,its1im at Plymouth Slavery once intro-
duced into this county, it grew with its
growth it spread with ito extent, it strengthened
with the power Of tie new nation. At frst Slavery
vss not in contradiction with the consciousness of the
PEOPLE in any part OF the land For in Europe, on
the Continent, 10 Scandinavia, in Germany 10 France
iu ell TIE cer.er and all the north of Europe, the
great mass of the working people were still slaves
Tcey were not always in a condition of absolu Q
Slavery, but they were almost always bonjmsn
throughout the center and north Of Europe. la En-
eIan5 Slavery had almost ceased but it till contin
ued. In the age of Edward VI, Thomls Smith found
no "villains in gros" and bat fe others. Henry
VII borrowing the idea from Thomas Moore
said that all men had equal. inherent
right to liberty and therefore he emancp lted all toe
slaves Of the Crown. In the reign Of biz son, there
were Few absolute slaves in England. Ia Ehzabsths
reign still fewer ard under james thoy still re snei
small ard scpnty in number. But Slavery wss not
abolished, even then Gentleman OF property and
standing followed the army Of Oliver Cromw Ill, and
after the victories in Scotland the crowning msTces
they called them, their prisoners were sold and sent
t. bord in the West Indies. This trafii conin
ued more or less, until 1853, when the last cargo
of Scotcbmen kidnapped in Aberdeen, ani
brought and sold in Philadelphia. | say, at the
frat foundation Of the country, Slavery was not
a contradiction TO the COT scousntss Of the pso
ME anywhere New colonies er-duslly were
established, snd Slavery came INFO the All. within
three gei traors OF my own fathers, ney nave Owned
not only black men, bu. red msn and VINE nsn.
am speaking If me who haze not been w5alihy men,
not mer chants and traders but ifmer' ana m7c'Ai'
les who worked az farming all the sum nsr, every
fair day ard when II was too RAINY 10 wo'k %: o.
DOOR. turned 10 the shop and worked 1 the aay. or
with The plane. Ard rs thee men o~-ci sla'es'
black red and white, il WAS lot ~ c,ntFe tct on 10
She cor sciousne's of the pc pie. But tue hs5 NaF-
England States were chiehy indebted 70 religious
orisin for their existence ani there fnd tsP-ctly
NJ
formed ad yerse 10 Slavery. Missschusets Is mall
State She hes only :, 800 square miles o ian1 foor
laud il IT, with a sour climate end Dlserlps slil Bl'
Plymouth Rock is ia Massachusetts,; Fareul al i
in Massachusetts; the fret bate-ielfs of the Rsyo-
luton are there There is Lexington, there Is Con
cord; there, also, ia Bunker Hill Aud the great
IDEAS which have preponderalsd IN Amenol maze
mainly he'd their birth in the little old state OF Misi
chusotts. And their origin is 70 be tract to t1'se
religious Pilgrims who in lG20-2s snd 30 brought ne
seeds OF Freedom, and planted them IN tnll W tern
land. For long time thera was no N@Hoh9i
consciousness in the county. N0poiJ caIlea hlmse'
an American Trey were men of M.ssscsu'e'ts,
New Yorkers Penn sylvauians NugirisOs Cir)lini-
ans &C. Bu' az last, whsn the Colonies hai grown
sorneshst stronger, and the mother nahon e. bone
soueht TO oppres5 them then for the first time tue
feeling of Dsons consciousness co. awakenei Ia tue
American bosom. They began tlen ~ feel ms toey
we're Americans, and had uni'y Of consc )usnss'.
through the Revolution thu yard pressure OF the
molhsr county forced these TAR sen 1onlss int>
somewhat compsct union When victory psrci5! "a
our eagles and the force Of the mother country was
Withdrawn, the question came, nov we saoi'd uhits
oa,selyes toto grea, Safe. Now, there c'nno' De
snv IaoLsl urity Of sc.On IN ei tnere i hA4 ,u-
unity of idea Two csnnc- wax tegeth 81 ualess they
be agreed and they must gfee a. 10 two thog', met
as 10 the place they viii 20 to- Il a. ID tn5 roat
they will so by sl5e there ~ 10 possiJhty 10 ieh
70 90 together at al 10 order that there N; De ~
ticpsl unity Of sctior there mus De nsuona uHl'y u
idea. Now 10 the American people a. tha; Slne
there wee tro very disiG,, idess pgeVser-
hey were not brought so clsun ny = '-v
col fciousress Of the Aner ~ pope, IS
| will bring them 70 yours 70 night oIs o.
these call the idea of Freedom the other the Tea OF
slavery. 4 fsR words on each. Fint OF the llea 81
Freedom. Inst seems simple, i,is omP9site-n1le Up
f the &c five parts The is the first: Every L j =
natural essential Inherent rights 10 llte hosry aoc
tie pursuit of happiness among other thihg'. lha
is the first part Every mao has n iural ~ e''5"-
tia rights. Here i. the n qs't: These so''
insiensble. one msn ci.Lo ioreu VI -