Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-05-24
From the New York Tribune.
Changes to be Noted.

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Society on Wednesday evening. That
speech however was not the marvel of the
occasion. Eloquence is no unusual thing
with the Massachusetts, Senator. Tie
marvel OF that evening, as of the day and
evening preceding. was not on the platform,
whether occupied by Mr.. Senator Wilson,
| Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker or Will
lam Lloyd Garrison. The marvel was in
the audience. The vast pit, the tiers of
| spacious boxes & galleries ofthe Metropo-
Titan Theater crowded in spite of the storm
to their utmest capacity by intelligent edu-
Gated admiring and enthusiastic listeners
representing not only New York but eve
ry section Of the country and every profess
sion and class of society The other Ami
versaries showed no unusual enthusiasm
or crowd but the interest and enthusiasm
OF these Anti Slavery gatherings were not
only most unexampled but seemed to
grow as the sessions were protracted
When the usual hour of adjournment had
long been passed the still deeply stirred au-
dIence slowly and reluctantly consented to
leave their seats.
| We cannot seal up the record of this week
without calling our readers attention 70 its
extraordinary siyaific ance. We need no:
carry them back twenty years to those
bitter days when Adams was gagged on
the floor of Congress when the streets OF
our seaboard cities roarcd with riot; when
horde of Southern DULLES invaded Phila-
de!phia to give its native rowdies their Who'll
ly unnecessary help in burning Pennsylva-
MA Hall; when Mayor Lawrence of this
City informed the mob by proclamation that
1t need not trouble itself about Anti Slavery
meetings but that the law would put down
these denominations" when M. NJ. Noah
framed his bill to suppress free speech, and
Governor Everett of Massachusetts recon
mended his Legislature to punish it with the
State Prison; when Mayer Lyman of Bos-
ten, having found his mosthumble entreat-
les to the mob of gentlemen of property
and standing" to allow hin, to be Mayor
Tor that hour entirely unavaling, could fur
nsh no other shelter for Mr.. Garrison and
the laws but Boston Jail, at that time be it
remembered under control OF Mr.. Senator
Summers father, the High Sheriff of Suf-
folk. Then for the first time thoughtful
men perceived that Slavery ruled the North
as well as the South; then they saw that
we held all our rights by the tenure of alb
solute serv!ity and solely by the sovereign
permission OF our masters.
Still later than this, only five years ago,
Bully Rynders stood on the platform of The
Tabernacle and commanded the American
Anti Slavery Society to cease lis discus
sions. In vain did the venerable Isaac L.
Hopper intercede with Mayor Woodruff to
vlndicate the dignity olthe laws and protect
free speech. The Mayor secluded himsel f
III his Office and left Chief Matsell 10 exhib-
1t himself with his staff on that platform for
three long hours in the attitude OF being
insulted and deied by the ruHians OF the
CITY The tace ana eioquence oil the Anti
Slavery speakers defeated Rvrders that day,
but the next morning lie rallied and drove
them from their hall, fifty policemen being
in attendance to protect his efforts ami
grace his triumph. The Press of New
\ ork we greve to say, with but few excep-
tons defended Rynders. But very few of
our New York journals could spare room
Tor a word Of defense OF free speech thus ut
ery stricken down. For Two years the
Society was unable TO procure hall in this
city and held its meetings in Syracuse and
Rochester Union saving Committees aud
puIpts dumb with hypoclltcal terror took
It's place. Then public virtue fell so low
tina. 1t became rare and marvellous saintship
Tor a merchant 10 s.artle the world with
the Quixotic declaration that "his goods
were for sale and not his pricipIes.''
But now what change! New York COW
ers that blot IN her escutcheon with ample
repentance. She runs up the proud flag of
free discussion never we hope to be di pIa-
ced. a Il the members of U mon Committees
ask OF us is the Christian charity OF being
forgotten. The mobbed and exied Idea re-
turns to take possession and crowd that
the Tabernacle walls could not have held
gathers to its sessions. And who are its
speakers? Massachusetts, Senators! That
Governor Everett whodoubted the Yankee
right to ask questions has since then been
IN the Senate and faded out from pure in
efficiency. His successor comes to Metro
poiitan Theatre to say that, ''any party
wich lifts finger to arrest the Anu Slave
ny movement will de, ought TO die, and
that he will do his utmost to make it die"
Mr. Webster a Massachusetts, Senator in
1850 pledged his ready submission
to the Fugitive Slave bin Z" to its
utmost extent His successor refuses
to call it law; asks the country in the
name OF Justice and Humanity to make it
"a dead letter; and five thousand hearts
smother halfhis emphatic periods in the I'M
comfortable burst of their enthusiastic
Amen. Massachusetts calls back Burns
and her Legislature orders her Slave Com
missioner to be surrendered instead, with
all the "alacrity" Mr., Webster advised.
Nor is this striking change confined 10 n.
I ork and Massachusetts. Wisconsin with
youthful impstuosily throws down her
gauntlet of defiance to the infamous statute
and the United States Judiciary that pre-
sUmes to enforce its unconstitutional pro
visions. Cincinnati slurdily maintains the
supremacy Of Ohio law in her streets ill she
has secured the substance of her wishes and
then yields TO judy Mclean only the shad-
owy form of triumph. The American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-