Washington sentinel., 1855-02-06

doubt not that everything will work right il
Virginia.
SOA THOSE WHO HAVE EYES TO
SEE AND EARS TO HEAR-UGLY
SIGNS.
The Boston Telegraph, of February Sd, pub
fishes sketch of an Abolition lecture deliv.
cred by Hon. Anson Burlingame at fremont
Temple, before the Anti-Slavery Society.
Some of the highest functionaries and most
prominent public men of Massachusetts were
IN attendance. Among them were Governor
Gardner, Lieutenant Governor Brown, Hon.
Robert Rantoul, and Hon. Henry Wilson.
After denouncing slavery and the South, the
lecturer thus proceeded:
The men of the South are men of one idea
They make politics their study, while at the
Nortn the reverse is true. As a remedy for all
TINS, we must study politics. He could not
agree with Wendell Phillips in his plan of dis.
solving the Union, nor with Ralth Waldo EN-
erson In his proposition to purchase the slaves,
as q remedy for slavery. If asked to state
specifically what he would do, he would an
swer: lst, repeal the Nebraska bill; I'd, re-
peal the fugitive slave law; Sd, abolish slavery
In the District of Columbia 4th, abolish the
interstate slave trade; next he would declare
that slavery should not spread to one inch Of
the territory Of the Union; he would then put
the government actually and perpetually on
tne side OF freedom, by which he meant that
bnght-eyed boy in Massachusetts, should have
AZ good chance for promotion in the navy as a
poy OF one OF the FIRST families in Virginia He
would have our foreign consuls take side with
Inc noble kossnth and against the papal
butcher Bedini He would have Judges who be.
ileve in higher law, and in an anti-slavery con-
stitution, an anti-slavery Bible, and an anti
slavery God! Having thus denationalized
slavery, he would not menace it in the States
where 1T exists, but would say to the States, it
Hyour local institution; hug it to your bosoms
until It destroys you. But he would say, you
must let our freedom alone. (Applause.) If
you but touch the hem Of the ga rmcnt Of free
dom we will trample you to the earth. loud
applause.) This is the only position Of repose.
and 1t must come to this. He was encouraged
by the recent elections in the North, and he
defended the new movement which, he said.
was born of Puritan blood, and was against
despotism of all kinds. This new party should
be Judged, like others, by its fruits. 1t had
elected champion of freedom to the United
States Senate for four years, to fll the place Of
man who was false to freedom and not true
TO slavery. For himself, he could say, that so
long as life dwelt in his bosom, SO long would
he fight for liberty and against slavery. In
conclusion, he expressed the hope that soon the
time might come when the sun should not rise
on a master nor set on a slave
AT the conclusion Of this harangue, Hon
Henry Wilson, the newly elected Know-nothine
United States Senator, was vociferously called
for. he responded as follows
Mr.. Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen
This is not the time nor the place for me to
utter word. You have listened 10 the elo-
quence OF my young friend, and here tonight
endorse every sentiment he has uttered. In
public or in private life, in majorites or in mi.
noriiies, at home or abroad, I intend to live and
TO die with unrelenting hostility to slavery on
my lips. / make no compromise anywhere, at
home or abroad ] shall yield nothing of my
anti-slavery sentiments to advance my own
personal interests, to advance party interest,
or to meet the demands Of any State or section
Of our country. hope to be able to maintain
on all occasions these principles, to compre-
hend in my affections the whole country and
the people OF the whole country; and when !
say the whole country, want everybody to un-
derstand that include in that term Massachu.
setts and the North. This is not the time for
me to detain you. You have called. on me
most Unexpectedly, TO say word, and, having
done so, | will retire, thanking you for the
honor Of this occasion"
Without submitting any comments of our
own, we adopt the comments Of the New York
Herald, which deserve the more weight and
consideration, since that journal has lately be-
come one Of the most jealous advocates of the
new secret order. These comments, emanating
from such a source, should command the
special attention Of the South. The Herald
says:
Read the proceedings, in another part OF
this paper, Of a late anti-slavery meeting in
Boston-the speech Of Anson Burlingame. and
IFS full endorsement by General Henry Wilson
and it viii be manifest To every mind that
the first man elected by the Know-nothings to
the United States Senate is the most fanatical
and implacable Abolitionist ever sent to that
body. he endorses all that Garrison or ABBY
Kelly Foster could urge in opposition to South
ern slavery, excepting the immediate dissolu.
tion of the Union.
"What does this mean2 1t looks like an al.
lance between the Know-nothinQs and the
Aboltionists. Is Il so? What says the State
council Of Massachusetts Let them speak
or forever hereafter keep to the north of Mason
A Dixons line.'
The Herald says that if as this speech O
General Wilson seems to indicate, there is ar
alliance between Abolitionism and Know
nothingism, then "the South can have nothing
to do with them" the Know.nothings. i
continues: "The Know-nothing State counci
of the North must speak on the slavery ques
tion or be ranked with the anti-slavery Goa
ition. The Herald thus concludes its remarks
"His (Gen. Wilson's) manifesto viii be