Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-05-19
ANrI-SLAvERY sArusNa1IA

Inc c"u''n-moraton of III, anniversary of tho
"atnef'e"i an'l'slRvery society" in New York on
lueSuay anu "odnesday, judging from the publish.
ed proceedings, Was we'll worthy the occasion aud
the fanatics and fools who partir,ps.ed in IT.,
orgies. Men, women AMI children whit. mad hl..r
were in a'tedance,t 10 enst upon the oufpourines of
q contemptbe crpw Of hyp ,cri,.s and traitors vino
are rebels alike against the laws of God ana mnu.
Rev. Andrew l. FOES, ia the course of his remarks
averred that mad the Angel Gabriel done what our re-.
voluionary fathers did he would have been scoupdrel
for it, that "thore hover was an hour when ths bias
phemous and Infamous government should be made,
and now ths hour WAS to bs prayed for when that
disgrace TO humanity should be dashed to piece, for
ever he declared himself "rator t. this oppressive
government and an in61el TO pro slavery church."
rebuked Banks Hale and Wilson, as unworthy re
pressnativeS of ths an,i.slavery cause, and pro
uounced Charles Sumner the only man from
the North who stood in Congress true to prin.
cple. One Of the abolition Amazons erosc, in the
person of Mrs. Abby Kelly Foster, and appealed
10 the meeting for material aid" 10 the Cause o.!
freedom Rev. Oot.vius Rockingham. of Jersey
City, opened his address with classical aIlusion
drawing parallel between C4ssandra, the daughter
OF old Prlan, and the ants!avery society. lie was
by no means encouraged by the aspect of the poti.
Cal skies, and believed that this Unun efIectually
prevented them from advancing, in the least degrel
the work Of the slave. redemption" Mr. Garrison
" "coufessed that ths prospect looked gloomy" de.
nounced tn. conduct OF the large number who left
the house wh-n the collectors pere going through The
audience, as cowardy and mean. Abolition syinpa.
thy is much more pcofuseIy expended on such occa-
sions than money. Mr.. Garrison also declared the
election Of Mr. Bnchannn to have been uac0nsttu.
tional, &c. Mr.. Edmund Qaincy was particularly
war like 10 his remarks, in which hs expressed
wish for a dissolution Of tho Union, in order
that Massachusetts might be "Iett free to right
her own wrougs--tha, she would then fad no diff
Guilty in sending her ships to Charleston and laying
that city in ashes. Massachusetts, he thought could
whip South Carolina with one hand tied behind
her." Mss Frances Ellen Watkins, a mui1t,o girl,
late of Baltimore was Introduced next. She deliver.
ed lecture, which was received with applause.
Mr.. VIM. Wells Browp, fugitive siave and dele.
gate from Massachusetts, was full of fight and fury
in favor of his cula-ed brndders OBJ lie Souj. Mr..
Burleigh differed from his "friend Brown" He held
that a servie revolt in the South would be neither
polite nor wise. ut was not the doctrine Of the anti.
slavery society" Alter laying on the liable several re
solutions, at the close Of tho proceedings the meet
ing adjourned sine die Wednesday evening.
The few extracts which have hsre given from
the proceedings OF the second day of the session. as
published in the New York Herald, are enough 10
satisfy Southern that they have enemy totally
lost to the influence oagamrn' or the renonstrsnces
OF reason. Bu, this school of fanatics is less danger
ous.with its viru!ence and venom than those who
are calmer in council and more metbodcsi in action.
Such men As Seward, and Greeley, and Gidings,
who deliberately coun; the cost and calcnat: th-
chauces arc much n'or- Ia b- dreaded than il," #
forts of rockingham and Foss, Mrs. abby Kelley
Foster Mss Frances Ellen Watkins auI .Nr. Wm
Wells Brown TITS sniisavery society is truly a
sad commentary upon c!vi,1st!ou and upon huuHii
nature. When white men come Gown 10 bro
therhood and conpanonzhIp with negroes and white
women and unlallccs delivering addresses in the
same assemb!agr, il would amv=t seem that society
itself is as yet un experiment. threatened with full
ure.