The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-09-20
1& rI1lCA FREE LOVE PRdLANTHROPiC
CONVENTION.


COVNT10Ns
Parker Pillshury and thc Rspurters-Discus-
saon ON nlegitimacy, Free Love and Aboli-
tionism-Blasphsmy Run Aad-Woman the
Great Artist.
SECOND DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
UncA, Sept H. 1853.
At the close Of Mrs Branchs speech the company was
rcgaIed with the song Of Wait little longer executed
BY Miss Higgins
Miss NJ CARKE OF Auburn, next introduced TO the
meeting and commenced TO address in that quiet, gentle
voice which is excellent thing in woman, but she went
up ascending scale till she got to point that would
have made xantippe envy her She addressed her
marks the point that Mrs. Branch did belaborng
the RIGHTEOUSNESS of and demanding TO know how
many men there in a community who do not practice
RIGHTEOUSNESS. She looked forward to the time when
good healthy children would be born but that would be
time when would love women for their purity not
Mrs DAVIS came forward and proposed the following
resolution
Resolved, That true e.srual and p,odae
and productive q misery there should be the greatest wisdom
nat this and may sacred while those
@ sTs SO %
snnul such and thus escape their disastrous couse
AFTERNOON SESSION
UncA, Sept IL, 1858.
The first hour and half Of the afternoon session
occupied by Nr Parker Plsbury, of Boston, in anti
slavery speech, in which he took occasion indulge
TRADE against the reporters and the press whom he
rovc asten the responsibility for the features of de-
bauchery and RIGHTEOUSNESS in which the Convention
represented.
After he had got through, the inevitable German phlo
sopher Herr schmonecker to get in his resolutions
but he overrued by the Chair who announced song
I'll oe tkn
Coming" was given in good style by the club.
Mr. JOHN l. KING took the stand behalf of the press
IN reply to the denunciatons Of Mr.. Plsbury.
The CHAIRxAs-Wil Mr.. King state what press he re-
presentsP
He said well understood that there two ways
Of acquiring fame in this country One TO pursue the
path Of high and honorable career, and them
later he would find the press his sde the other fol-
low such would draw down the condemnation Of
the press Mr. Psbury had resorted TO the latter pan
faJsifcaon. there any person against which
this charge Of Justification true why did not Mr. Pills
bury declare IT. and why should he accuse Of fasehood
whose character for truth and uprghtness would
compare favoraby with the speaker. He said that he
knew the force o language and denounced the Mr.
Pllsbuy had pursued ID the matter as sneaking and
ccwardly.
Mr. PirIsBrRY said he was there on the platform and
wanted know how he acted sneakngly and cowardly
kr. KNG-Specdy, sir, to whom you allude.
Mr. PnIsBrRy went to say that he moved 10 his
remarks by article in the New York Observer and by
Utica Herald He wished 70 be understood alluding
also 10 the NEW YoRK HERALD and Tribune and Tines and
others Of kindred spirit But he willing to give the
devil his due and would not put the HERALD or Tribune
such bad company the New York Observer. daughter
He had hesitation in declaring his belief that, taking
these gentcmen-the reporters-out OF their business
they high minded and respectable could be
found; but Of them had said 10 him in New York,
As reporters you cannot expect have principles
He had much human nature ask reporters for
American press 10 have principles. lie thought the
ports were what tie people wanted 1t was 4 little re-
rtnh hoxa lp pf
and New York was little more outrageous than the
democratic press bad as that He thought the demo
cratic press the beet argument in favor Of the Cal
whistle doctrine OF total dcpravity yet he would do it the
justice TO say that their reports we're, In the man not
quite so bad as those Of the republican press.
Or. HAIIocg, OF New York, suggested whether these
personal alterations were not beneath the dignity OF the
grave matters which they had come here 70 discuss.
Mr. PsBvRy appealed 10 the audience that this
discussion not personal The ruthfuness OF the pro
eeedngs Of this Convention was not personal matter.
Ee stood lhere TO vndcae the OF reform against
the NAL cpant attacks OF It's most malignant foes.
Mr.. w,RRKS CHASE next took the 1oor lia did not
come forward to take part in the altercatou about
undoubtedly had written articles that obnoxious
10 the Convention or parties or persons against whom he
wrote. n the reporters msrcprosented the proceedings
of the Convention, their false hood would do themselves
injury not the Convention. II seemed to HIM that this
Convuntion called 70 say whether any OF the alche
sis a tho country had found the philosophers stone.
HIS clerical brethren had discovered the ellrr rita the
atoncmcut the origin evil in the doctrine total dc
pravty had cndeavored 10 prevent further search
70 the origin OF eyil but twas entire failure
cure and the origin has long since proved 70 be different
from that which they ascribe TO- His brother Foster,
who dissected everything, not with the lancet with the
dssecting knife but with the saw had discovered the
origin Of evil in slavery. He did not know that Foster
wod send the SHAREHOLDERS 20 hell but he would at least
send 10 heaven the slaves until they would Tx up
things 80 that the Shareholders might be re-
ccived there. His friend Wright had found the
Of evil 70 be an unnatural system Of
generation and he would change the condition Of society
. much better condition than rs now In II he had the
means OF doing But st he had not found the of
evil His sister Mrs b ,nch thought she had discovered
The great origin o. ev 70 be ~ the Institution q marriage
represented her opinions here today, and had
merely pictured the misercs arising from wicked system
Of matr mony. But he not satisfied that she had dis
covered the philosophers stone Ills brother J. Davis,
given them beautiful history Of the systems
g S b. SS, ss sa ne
he too had been searching or the origin OF evil but he
had abandoned the search long ago satisfied that must
philosopher s,onc-satishcd that respectively all cond
ions are good-tha, in the words cf the poet,
Partial evils universal good.
He had however risen speak Mrs Branch resou-
Ton calling the state Legislature 10 egmatize all chill
deep portance and because he o an the who
ought 10 second H. and " they wanted 70 know why let
them read bis bcck-'The Life Line of tho Lone One"
No priest magistrate gave his mother permission to be
the mother of child and he had no one n guide pro
sect him in his early years lie had been sold when he
years old by the of New England
vorkhouse for sixteen years 10 master cruel than
nine o o the Southern shareholders Of whom they
beard 70 much; y was Tune % That sometnng should oe
ton OF importance How many were there IN this
state who had social right because of the manner In
which they born into the wurdg Was not time
that the laws should declare these children legitimate aud
entitled 70 their proportion q their fathers mothers
estatef There thousands Ike him. and he merely
spoke OF himself 10 show why was he seconded and
spoke in favor q this resolution. Could no voice I've raised
in favor Of those who outawcd society and deprived
Of their rights everywhere because they came into the
world without the authority Of priest or governmcnu
Here and important questions before the
Convention and not proper 10 devote some hours 20
this important subject and leave all chickering's about
sous and newspapers out N the question
Mr.. STEPHEN FosrxR sorry that the last speaker
understood him as saying that slavery the origin
Of evil go far from that he had always regarded the
gin of evil Gar above and beyond the possibility of
comprehension, and, therefore, had spent moment
in pursuit of H. lie had spent moment In pursuit
of the origin OF cold though he had spent days expei
ny II from his parlor Cold, like evil inscparablo
I.resliv from heat Thcrc could be no good without evil