Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-22
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Lord BrouEham on West India Bmanoipa-
tiOn.
The twenty .fiftlranniversary of the abolition
Of Slavery in the British Colonies was cele
brated on the Sd of August by public meet.
ing at the Music Hall, Bedford square in Lon
don, over which Lord Brougham presided.
The attendance was large and respectable,
and upon the platform, in addition 10 the yen-
cradle President, we're many distinguished
friends OF negro freedom.
Lord Brougham, in opening the proceedings,
after briefly acknowledging the enthusiastic re.
ception which greeted him upon taking the
chair, said II naturally gives us all great
satisfaction that we have lived to see accom-
plished this great measure of Slavery abolition,
than which there was none in the whole history
Of our career at all superior "a importance or
in virtue, or in what may be expected to be its
beneficial consequences, and that we have now,
by the goodness of Providence, been spared to
witness the 25th anniversary ofthat great event,
a quarter of century TO day having elapsed
since the shackles of the slave were finally
struck off ought not, perhaps, to say "finally
struck off, for there was substituted for Slavery
an Indentured Apprenticeship of seven years,
| which, in many respects, was only mltigated
| form Of the evil which we had crushed, and
| which our utmost efforts were forthwith APP
/ bled also to terminate. derive Unspeakabe
satisfaction in looking back to the year 1893,
when 1 led in the contest for diminishing tho
| period of apprenticeship by two years. 1t had
then existed five years. but instead of continu.
! ing till lS40 it ceased in 1898; and will do
/ a II
having oltentimes been in opposition TO them,
and from various misapprehensons which are
incidental to all controversies, having been
greatly misunderstood by thCm-that they them
selves by their own acts under the suggestion
of us from the Imperial Parlmcnt, operating
upon the Imperial Government, reduced til,
period of apprenticeship by two years They
therefore, rejoice to say, are fellow-laborer,
with us in the great good whereby the lst o
August, 1885, finally witnessed the complete
and absolute emancipation of our slaves. -
! [Cheers If there is anything that gives me
pain on the present occasion, II is, in the frs
place, that our example has not been followed
by other countries; that Spain particularly
which is the worst of all in many respects, not
withstanding the influence which we ought to
possess-not by reminding ter of benefits con
ierred, but by simply noting to her that we
were fellow laborers in her independence o
France-that Spain, | say, Notwithstanding
our natural and just influence has not follow
ed that example; nay, has not completely aban
doned the slave traffic, carried on in spite o
treaties as we'll as of all honesty and honor
But by degrees the truth will prevail over ever
Spanish counsels, and they will find that thei
own best interest-indeed, would add the
safety in the West Indies consists in extending
to Cuba the measure of emancipation. Hear
a l...tl
kinslolI in America, furnish another exception
to our example; but of that would spea)
tenderly, from rccoecting that America ha
acted admirably in many respects, and eve
abolished the slave trade a year before we oul
selves did. Even in Georgia, which is as dc
voted to the "institution," as they are please
to call it, as any of the Southern States, it wa
out fault and not theirs, that they ever hR
Slavery, for we pressed it upon them, and they n
fused it. They protested against it, but we dc
feated them and it is our fault that that "insttu
ton" prevails in those States. But It is pleas
ing to reflect that our reasoning, and the rea
soning our publichmen, 90 well as of our diplc
matte agents, may probably succeed there an
in Spain also, SO that we shall see the end o
that abuse. and Slavery will be no more
"spread Obi spread the reign, fair Peace, from sho
to shore, ...H
Till conquests cease and slavery be no more"
LCheers need not remind you that th
friends Of liberty are also the friends Of peac
and hat they who have the greatest abhorrenc
of slavery are they who most earnestly detes
war. [Hear, hear But the feeling of saiii
faction with which we meet on the present OC
casion is damped by more than one rccolleC
tiOn; and | chiefly mention the melancholy cor
sideratiOn that we here meet so few of the ol
} patriarchs Of the cause. They have gone Ion
: since-many of them very long since, som
more recently--to their account, TO an accouI
certainly rendered more safe for them an
more edifying to us by the purity of their live
and by the great value of their public works.
and by no one part oftheir lives, and no one po
ton of their works more than by their havin
done their endeavOrs, and with success, to abO
7 ish the African slave trade and 10 free the A
t rican slaves. [CheeTsl We have to lameI
the absence here of such men as Wilberforc
at Clarkson, as Stephen az Macaulay, and ai
of all, though not least, Of Joseph Sturge, whol
we have lately lost-and an irreparable loss
: is. OF Wilboriorce, that great champion of OF
cause in Parliament aud out Of Parliament,
will only say in the words Of DI johnson, al
piled to another person.
"In every speech persuasive wisdom flowed,
In every act relugent virtue glOwed
Suspended faction ceased from rage aud strife
y To hear his eloquepce and praise his lCe."
Hear, hear But there was the silent ell,
' quence Of good life in Joseph Surge, the S
. lent eloquence by which he persuaded men
: follow his example, and by which he also 70
titled and strenGthened every oood cauge ,