New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-14
RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE ANTI
SLzTERY MOVEMENT SINCE 1880.
A LECTURE BY THE REV. SAMUEL ]. MAY
OF SYRACUSE

| The twelfth lecture Of the New-York Anti.ssverl
Soeiety's Second Annual Course was delivered a
s'ove, last evening in the Tabernacle. The attend
snce was numerous, considering the unf,vorable con
dition " the weather The Rev. DR.. Bellows oc.u
pied seaf On; the platform.
OLIVER J,sysOS, in introducing Mr.. May said
The Aboionist. have often had occ ison to spesS in
tones Of sorrow snd Indignation Of the degenesscy OF
the American Pul. Il on the grei, question OF Hunsn
Freedom; to mourn that, in tue high places OF the
CluIcb TO use the language Of Cceriise
TIE sweet soris
OF Chistisn proni.e-~ord. th.t yet
hishf sfeu cestl they wisely preached
Are uritsra Ger By men whose q E-s proclaim
How lat and v,sfisOme theS feel ID II tEsde
To denouLee the hypocrisy of those
ho preach and fidnsp men
Give hanks ard rob CD. o~n siie;ed poOT,
Tax Of Chis,'s s.oiioGs liberty, saa then
Bolt hard the csPtves door
But, notwithstanding the geuersl delinquency, there
have always been few members of the clerical pro-
fessoD, who, in face of popular cbloquy aud scofn,
have dared to utter the whole counsel Of God whether
men would hear or iorbear. lis clergyman OF this
class whom have the honor to introduce 10 you on
the present occasion; who, in the eventful strus
giles Of the las, quarter Of century has ever been
faithful to the Anti Slavery cause And am very
sure that when you have heard the lecture OF this
evening you will be ready to confess that although
We could not prevent the failure OF our Banks,
have at least preserved the currency OF this platform
from depreciation.
MrMAY began by adv ertpg 10 tie fact that amid The
drearest nnss Of oppression here ever shone out the
nan OF some representative man. through whom the
fountain of tie human heart in favor OF free
com. found a vent. Such ia Garrison, who will be
hoIored forever as the leader in movement for hu
mainly. The humble beginnings Of Mr. Girrisoas
efforts were depicted but those who despsed their
humility forgot that Z" tall oaks from little acorns
grow" For twenty years after the CONSTITUTE,
was ASopted many tfue-hearted men and wom.a-
headed by DR. Franklin-ayitated against the slave
trade end Slavery. After the slave trade WAS aso
shed, in 1905, their efforts subsided' under false
hone that the ys'em Of Slavery about TO die out
this epathy continued about ten years during which
the friends OF Slavery spread it, foundations, by pur
chase of territory enhancement OF save.vslue, and
LEGISLATION az anst manumisson and for disabilities OF
the fee colored people. The attention OF the North
was trst reawak ened at the time of the Missoi III
Couuromse In 1917, the South Itself asked Northern
interference in Slavery by agents sent TO c0ncliite
the North in favor OF colonization oil Africa
by fee colored people, whom the South vas
otsirous to get rid Of, fearing they would influence
the slaves to insubordnation Then tbs people OF
America could feel for al the oppressed Of all the
world cave the one sixth part OF tner own ieu o"-
country men, Americans whom they called Africans
il was needed that man should arise aud peak
the truth in ii cir esrs They were anxious TO gather
10 them the heather Of all the foreign world, but the
heathen at home, the most Chtistlsn among them,
IveC-3COO miles of Laughter and applause
After his Imprisonment in Baltimore, Mr. Garrison
OF posed the colonization scheme, and gradual emau-
citation. Tt ell the churches were closed against hun
vel be is a profoundly religious man-Chrst and his
religion are III utierably dear to hm-but the american
Church is aeb nowedsed by the most orthodox to be
the bulxaIk of Slavery and the good general always
SHOVE his greatest force against the enemys strongest
bulwark To the argument that emsncipttion
would array the slave against his master
il can be replied that not an instance 10 on
record OF a liberated man raising his hands to-
ward his liberator except in gratitude The praise
due 10 Mr. Garrison is not that he discovered any new
p1ncipe but that he has led men to see and acknow-
ledge old ones. His declaration Of the American
Anti Slavery Society far transcends that oil Amer
can Independence as the latter transcends Magma
Charts. His doctrine that Slavery Is essentially
AIN and should at once be repented OF ana lett mas
nothing in it that inspection does not show 10 be SIM
pie truth demanding immediate action. AL the great
mar Is that Join in the Anti Slavery current are but
tributaries drawn thther by VIM. l.. Garrison 1t Is
cuIrert that sooner later must and will wa:h away
obliterate from the earth American Slavery.
Mr. May was heard with much attention and ffe-