Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-05-19
AMERICAN AErr-sLAvERY sOCrETT-HrER-


published report Of their Treasurer shows that the
principal society and its auxliaries have raised and
expended in the last current year S35 967 In what
particular way this fund has been employed we are
not informed-in circulating antislavery tracts and
in stealing negroes and running them of to Canada
we suppose.
For the better information of our readers we give
few choice extracts from these proceedings:
sNlr. Oliver johnson then read letter from the
Hon J. R. Giddings. Mr. Gddings writes to Mr..
Garrison that he cannot come to the Anniversary.
He thinks that the is prospecting in and out OF
Congress, and says that no such demonstration IN
favor Of liberty has been made since l9o as this last
winter by Congress in declaring that the President
uttered a falsehOod when he declared that Kansas
was as much Slave State as Georgia or South Car
0ina lie suggests that suitable addresses be trans
mtted to the Emperor Of Russia and the Governmeul
of Holland rendering the thanks Of the Society fol
their generous efforts in the cause Of civilization
and he recommends a union Of Philanthroplsis II
different nations for the eectual awakening Of
the public mind"
This is the same GIDDINGs who congratulated
GLMER, of North Carolina, so warmly over hi:
recent speech against the Kansas LecomptOn Con
stitution. The same who mingled tears Of congrat
ulatfon with Messrs CRIrrRNDEN and MARSHALL
over the supposed defeat of the admission Of Kansas
The proceedings continue:
The letter was received with loud applause as Wa:
the entrance at this time of Mr. Frederick Douglass
digger
Mr. Garrison read three columns Of resolutions
covering the whole ground of the anti-Slavery So
ciety at length They pile up all the heavy epithet'
upon Slavery and shareholders; declare that while
Christianiyis against Slavery, the American Church
and United States Government are UNFOLDING 1t by
| their deliberate consent and active co-Operation
| that the bred Scott decision Outrages the common
sense of mankind by denying citizenship 70 those
whose blood was shed to obtain American Liberty
and whose suffrages among others ratified the Con
sti.uton; that the traffic in Coolies Is as bad as
the old in Africans that the attitude Of America !:
humiliating contrasted with that of Russia, whose
| emancipation Of her serfs is comphmented. Among
| the list was the following:
RssoIDed That the "revival Of religion, which
has swept over the country with contagious rapidly
during The last three months, is mauifesy delusvt
and Spurious exceptional cases TO the contrary not
withsanding; because 1t has expressly excluded the
millions in bondage from al considerauon-has
multiplied its converts readily at the South as a.
| the North-has excited OPT OsitiOn IN the mids
of universal, all Astounding corruption andprohlgacy
has received the sanction and cooperation OF the
most Pro-Slavery divnes and journals in the land
| has operated las it was evidently deslgned) Il
strengthen Church whichis ''the bulWark Of Slave
~" and to divert attention from the work Of prac
| teal righteousness.
Chas Lenox Remond was introduced. He saiC
that he supposed that he was there TO give color tC
! the occasion, and pretty deep color at that Nj
! Remond is a considerably colored man tie haC
discovered that this revival Of religion had brought
with II what he thought they had all Outlived-hisse
at Anti-glavery meetings. Mr.. Remond proceeded tC
sustain the proposition that the American Govern
ment was failure and its dissolution was the ques
lion for white men as well as for black men. Ht
might ransack the plantations Of the South in vain
10 find a more abject slave than he held the Hon
EiW, Everett to be Kisses and applause When
black men could be burned in one State and white
men shot down in another for their love Of Freedom
he thought that the American Republic was fail
| ure ; when he saw few days ago in Philadelphia
woman who been had boxed up in a box not bigger
than a coffin and all the air she had to breathf
came through a hole that she made with pair Of
scissors he called the Union failure, and when M
saw such men as Edward Everett and Rufus ChOate
and Robert C. Winthrop as silent as the grave il
regard 10 this question, that was a stronger
proof of the failure of this Union. Applause
When the decision of Justice fancy was published,
he thought that meetings should be held by the
colored people themselves from one end OF the
country to the other. But he was glad that they
had taken no notice Of it. He told story of &
black man who was passing along With little coffin
under his arm. Some boys attempted 10 obsruc
his wav; he said; "Stand aside, boys; see q
funeral" He hoped that the eolOred men Of thi!
country would some day assert their rights and
their manhood, Union or no Union that they would
say to white men: Stand aside; am man! Ap'
plause.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips was the next speaker
He could not see how any AbOlitionist could fail
to recognize the patent fact that the church was
supporter of slavery. For 90 years it had educated
men into supporters Of oppression The character
Of the nation the result Of the teachings OF the
Church and the Government. Doctors OF Divinity
Dreacbe5 in favor Of it. He did not 90 with Mr..
Remond in reference to the sentiment expressed Of
Mr.. Everett He supposed that Mr.. RemOnd allu-
dgd TO the story told by Mr.. EEererets apoOgisers,
that he was under the effect Of enOdyne when he
signed the remonsance against the injury OF Charles
sumner When he considered that Edward Everett,
under the influence of the most potent stimulant,
had never been able to say that his soul was his
own. he could not believe that under the influence
of an anodyne he would be able to sign his name at
all We had passed through a very strange month.
The representative of European despotism had ia
ken q final step toward emancipation. His granite
calm yielded to the spirit Of thenineeenth century,
while the Democratic Government Of the United
States was fastening slavery upon sovereign State,
in spite of its circumstances. How had We reached
such an antagonism to the spirit OF the age IN which
we lived? Russia meant what she said; she loved
despotism and lived TO it. She saw that it was q
reason why we were so much below her was, that
were not a sincere power; neither our Church nor
oUr State meant what she said We had lived false
hood and hypocrisy until we were ,case-hardened-
lost to moral sense and could be DO ught up by pat
ronage. The President they said, gave $50 bar
rel for -four to 60 to Utah. BE bought it cheap if
he bought voter in each barrel Here there was
a slight movement towards the door, but upon re-
Election every body having paid his 10 cents conclu.
ded to remain. The great error of the Republican
party was the capital blundeT Of letting the enemy
choose where and how to fight; the point Of attack
and the form Of issue-hat the battle.
He met the Governor of Kansas under the Topeka
Constitution the other day, and asked him his pro-
grsmue il LecomptoR passed. submission organize,
and take possession of the State" And what then
"Sbape il to suit ourselves" HOY? go, there's
only majority Of two or three against Us, and we
can shoot them" 1t was sad thing if the fate Of
Kansas depended upon the shooting Of majorities in
her Legislatures Buchanan with his patronage
had power equal to Napoleon with half a million
of men, in the country, where the sin Of not being
rich was only atoned for by the effort to become
In three months Kansas would be covered three deep
with Central America, Cuba, aud the slave trade
The next Presidential election could be carried
the by the same means that had carried Kan
ses elections: ballot box stufhng and Border
RufHanism we're as effectual in Pennsy lvania or
Indiana as in Kansas. The talk of the Republicans
about a union reminded him Of the story Of the
Chinese sage, Hong Flung. The Emperor once said
TO hiTa sNinety We irs Of wisdom must have taught
YOU much, and what is the great danger Of Govern
ment?" Said Hong, cts the rat IN the statue "
The rat in he statue" said the Emperor, "what's
that?" "WeIl" said the Sage, ''you know we build
statues to our ancestors and set them up in the
sacred places in our houses. They're wood, hOlloF,
paiuted on the outside, and if rat gets into the
center you know you cannot brown It, for its the
image of your father; and you may not plunge 1t in
the water for it will wash of the paint, and the rat
is safe because the image is sacred. Applause. SO
il is with the Union: Buchanan Is in lt-rOttenness
itself FGreat laughter and applause The Demo-
cratic party was covered By it, with Slavery in its
heart, you might not touch it. Washington founded
and and Jefferson bessedit, and Hamilton launched
IT, and our fathers all sWore to it, let not fire come
near tit is sacred merge 1t not in the ocean Of
public scorn for you will take of the traits that
remind Us of the Revolution, and the rat is safe.
Laughter and applause So it is with religion Our
friend over there at Brooklyn, that rides alone IN
the UNIQUE gigantic strength ofhis great heart, with
a brow bright and tall enough TO be seen from
Brooklyn to the Rocky Mountains; he cant tonoh
the Church but the rat is sacred within 1t. lie must
how down in the hose Of Rimmon. When 1t bapuzes
itself with the name of revival although 1t is hard,
hard TO fancy that in the bottom Of his own heart,
he does not know that every atom added to the
strength of that fabric was another pound weight
laid on the heart Of the bondmen' slnle hiss.
Mr. Phillips thought the converts from the Demo-