Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-29
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FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1857.
Ncu KnsIand Anti-slavery Convention

New England Antf-sIavery Convention
Tbs usual annual session of the New England
Anti Slavery Society was held at the Melodeon'
iu Boston, on Wednesday and Thursday h1-
mund Quincy of Dedham presided, with iaise
number of Vice Presidents, and Samuel May o.
Boston was elected Secretary. Mr.. Garrison pre-
scented at the opening, on "Wednesday mOi"lAs'
a series Of resolutions, in the CUSTOMARY
vein. accusing the churches of oeing Tue
bu,,gark of slavery, condemning, IN unniius@.eu
terms the American Tract Society, tor us ia'ely'
...,r,.3 Mn. and-water position, and denounc-
inc the New York independent and the Boston
o,,os7zt,onqlist for expressing their satisfaction
with its late action on the slavery question:
Rev. Or. fSouth Side Adams" received aterr'ole
broadside of deserved denunciation. Mr. Carl
sonsaid Of the report of the Committee on Reso-
lntions. endorsed by the late New York session
of the American Tract Society that al'p0usH
the report was heartless and hypoertical' upon
the whole it was a triumph of some sort lol AMI
slavery. II was all owing, however, to the oe'
r,ncistions of the abolitionists in the past 1t
was made to quiet and satisfy the uneasy feeling
NJ the North, and that Society was unworthy the
support and confidence of good men,.
Wendell Phillips was the next speaker AS
reported in the TrGUeller-
q He declared the Tract Society an organiza-
lion not worthy the support of anti-slavery men;
II was Jesuitical; it had whiteWashed SIM hau
denied that it had expurgated anti slavery pas
saqes from its publications, and now II hau con
fessed to the act and was wriggllng INTO the goou
praces of the community again. Mr. Phlllps
IRaachpr. (fheeVor, ana the
Republican party, were most dangerous TO the
abolition cause, which was ptted agalnstthe guy
eminent the pulpit and the institutions Whlch
held men in bondage, body and soul. 90 Iaf as
government was concerned, the aoontloh cause
m 10 this time had been failure. Slavery mas
pat down its foot and kept it there, and leo you
o., year after year, from victory to victory. l
met Gov Boutwell,, said Mr.. p, in the street,
the other daY--that cold man, whose heart mas
re 'er melted, though inclining to democracy
and he remarked that the government at ASH.
irgtOn is conspiracy, and nothing else' anu INA.
in twenty years the nation will know whetheT II
is SO or not. Gov. b., he continued, has stooo
inside If the political machine. and he knows aus
working. What we want, he continued, IS hG-
ednsss OF purpose, which shall stand himly
against any farther Entertainments OF the save
power. We want public opinion and intelligence
t. stand against bred Scott decisions 1hei
people have had nothing to do with government
intelligence and learning don't govern FRANK
Pierce governed when he was at washington,
and he did not come within long shot of either
OF those qualifications. (Cheers.) When the
ship of State launched years ago, at the same
moment, the Devil lowered over Charleston and
sowed the cotton seed, which has grown wonder
fully and has annihilated the principles OF wash
ington and Jefferson, so that at present we are
nothing but great cotton bag. daughter
and eheers.) One by one the institutions OF the
country have gone over to theIslave power-the
Cno fho
Side Adamses and we are left alone. He want
ed something to eet this march of despotism-
a deep-rooted prejudice, like that which in old
times actuated Protestants and Catholics, SO that
when they met they would spring at each others
thloats He wanted to have an eternal enmity
to slavery, so intense that when he had done with
life, the chemist, in his laboratory, might ana
lyze his bones and find nothing left of him but
curses for Carolina! (Applause.)
Rev. 7. W Higgiuson of Worcester followed,
and said that
"The abolitionists took an account of stock, a
few years ago, and found themselves demoralized.
But to get revived they took in Coalition, and
were feeced by Caleb Cushing. They they took
in Know Nothingism and Gardner also, and the
people rejoeed greatly; but like the man who
drew an elephant in lottery, they bad been try
ing to get rid of him ever since. The speaker
INDUCED in a vein of sarcasm upon the politici-
ans of.l Massachusetts,, saying that some negroes
from the South earned money in Worcester few
days since by turning somersets for the amuse-
ment of the people, but they stopped when told
that a great many white men in Massachusetts
got their living by turning somersets.'
The Convention here adjourned for dinner.
Mr.. Phillips spoke again at the evening session,
concluding by saying; sss
" Enough for to-night tomorrow we shall
unfold other pages Of this book, and shall try to
prove 10 you that the strength of the anti-sayery
movement lies in the reserve spirit of every anti
slavery man to get at the slaye--if not through
over the Union"
Thursday forenoon, the Convention was adj
dressed by Chas. C. Burleigh Of Connecticut,
Rev. Mr.. Stetson of Scituate, Rev. Samuel May,
Jr., and Mrs. Abby K. Foster, and Mr.. Garrison
introduced some additional resolutions, denunei-
atory of the Republican party, for its shortcOm-
ines