The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-16

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then hs was self-svidsnt, selfconvicted liar. Now,
the American church, = whole teaches dogma
that the black is born to DO slave to the white
man.
of the Christian church great majority would not
vote that slavery sin They quote the Bible about
0nesmus and the duty of The proslavery po
on is the position Of the churches in the South and of
their apoogss In the North Look at the action Of the
Tract Society and you will find it pro slavery And now
all these people sefconvcted liars And fan As
Rev Drs Cheeyers, Beecher, and few Others who have
declared slavery sin, very well: they are only few.
The same with the religious revival-it is all lie
A Mr. Buffum followed this speaker and came
down heavily on revivals:
s.These revivals had done nothing They had not
only kept silent about the sins of slavery gambling OF
incompetence they cried out against any sim
"a Voice. You're out of order
Mr. Buffum, No, l. am not am only telling my
experience The revivals all nonsense and tom
foolery. [Appause] set three nights in one Of EN-,
and that's all heard in any of EN- He had been called
account for saying louder ia Of these meetings
and it appeared he guilty Of great nracton of Ell
quette Mr.. Buffum claimed that the revivsls did no
one any good
Mr. Buhum stirred up Mr.. Gross, who was
| big with speech:
| "Mr. Cross. will not give up the floor. know
my rights; I've got speech in me, and it must come
out Applause and laughter Mr. Cross proceeded to
argue that all religion that was not was good
for nothing, and of the devil He told story OF
| young lady in revival meeting who asked what they
meant by coming to Jesus Ono of the brethren told
her Get thee behind me, Satan. And the person who
said that he preferred to work out his salvation in
stead of talking it out arrested and fined
sold Gentleman in the audience. object to all this
abuse Of religion. 1t is wrong [Applause,l What has
| it to do with slavery
,.The Chair The gentleman is not in order unless
| Mr.. Cross gives way
mot in order to object to the abuse of religion
.'Mr Cross don't give way. These people are
afraid their religion will be sent to the devil They say
the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and yet they
are scared Cross What will they do with the gates of
hela say that this religion is only pro-slavery for
the black man. but puts the white man in bondage
| whips Quakers and persecutes inhdels.
s'Mr Cross proceeded to assai the pilgrim fathers
in the most approved STYLE Some of the sisters from
New England could not stand it, and retired from the
premises. Mr. Cross dashed himself into awful pas
sion, particularly about the northern Methodss, All
their talk about anti-savery was lie They were Us
bloody Rome and the Baptsts and the Pres
byterians.
| At another session Of the conclave tho speaking
seemed to have been prearranged and more studied.
A Mr. Higgnson, of Massachusetts, whom We take
to be gentleman of color eulogzed the negro. and
preached the lawfulness of assassination. He was
fer carrying the war into the heart of the slave
States, and opposed to lingering in Kansas and
the Territories on the outskirts of the real battle
ground:
when all these side issues disposed of there
NAMED the great Gibraltar ITSELF the institution of slavery
to be stormed And who to settle the last great
questions 1t men like themselves, like Lane and
the republicans who to furnish the material of the
great battle yet be fought Then there that great
black force which to help who would be free
and themselves must strike the blow There was not
instance in history of apeope being set free by others
He wondered at the negro shaving the white man for
many years and keeping his the outside Laugh
teri But endurance required higher courage than
sassinaton But behind all those years of shrinking
behind the long iyolty of the French nation, there
might lie dagger and the power to use 1t when the time
comes Sensation. They forget the heroes of ST. Do
mingo and Surinam and the maroons of Jamaica, whom
all the powers Of England and Spain had to compromise
with White Anglo-Saxons had to yield the palm of in
divdual hero to the negro The courage of the negro
would put to shame that Of those whites who called them
selves brave. There heroic act in history which
he could not match with equal act done by negro
The heir Of Andrew Jackson had gone back to Ten
nessee with his gold box and could not find white
man in New York, perhaps in the United States,
worthy to receive it, Kisses and applause long
prolonged.l He spoke for himself as well as for
others but Mr. Jackson had not come among the
abotonsts, perhaps he could have found them
laughter Perhaps in that army there might have been
some burly, brawny black man, who performed
deed of valor such required to travel by the
derground railroad They had proved in Canada the
! possibility of African colonization They all had
municaton with their friends in the North and he
thought there underground telegraph well us
an underground railroad. There black woman
who had gone back again. again. and again. into slavery
to help others She circulated eer than the BIZ
be and the negroes called her Moses There
white that she travelled all the from the South
dressed disconsolae widow, and before she got
New York enthusiastic Irish gentleman offered her
his hand and heart Laughter There power enough
in slave population to assert freedom themselves
with little education. Was there here who would
| fight to put down slave instruction ~
On the same occasion Mr.. Wendell Phillips also
spoke
ssThs society had been charged with being an nidel
society because it tolerated every species of religious be-
lief 1t necessary and just to the slave On anti
slavery platform he felt very proud of the Chris
tan religion when he recolleced that it allowed the bond
age of millions"
The society Ieutral and admitted all opinions
in its platform
"He would blush for Jonathan Edwards If he was
ashamed to stand side by side with Thomas Paine In the
antislavery cause. Applause He did not believe in
resting great confidence in opinions 1t was not
enough to merely keep crying out slavery is n sin. He
thought that the opposition would realize that this So
cety the orlo hope and could not stop discuss
| theology.
" He should think that such man as Douglas who
had changed his 'front.' should be allowed to lead tho
| van of freedom. The who had outraged and mis-
led the world question like the Missouri Compromise
should do penance He honored errit Smith, but when
he invited southern shareholders to his table knew that
they could not understand him. They did not see him
invite fclons and convicted murderers to his table and
when in his seat in the House of Representatives he said
the stakeholder murderer and cheat they laughed
at him. and how could they do otherwise Applause /