The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-12-24
OUR NEW HAVEN LETTER.
New HAVEN, Dec. 10, Is

| New HAVEN, Dec. 10, 1859
| DEAR ANGLO: The Northern-doughface-
| Southern-lickspittle Union-saving- meeting
I was held here last Wednesday evening"
the 14th inst, and passed off just as I pre-
dicted in my last The call, with about
700 or 800 names attached, was published
in the Register and News" the organ of
the cotton-democraey Of this city. In the
list Of signers were all the O'Flahertys,
McDonoughs and O'Brady's that the Emer
aid Isle has spawned upon our shores, andI
thrown up as far as the City of Films. Y
A United States District Judge was thcI
mouthpiece Of the slave power, and made
the sycophantic speech Of the occasion, and
l was followed in the same strain by an ex-
Missouri STAKEHOLDER, who is now prac-
ticing attorney in our city.
But amid this general degeneracy of
Northern politicians aud Northern mer
chantsin making such obsequious obedience
to the slave power, it is very gratifying to
\ know that we have some men in our midst
I who will not bow the knee to Baal nor i'm
molate their principles to the Moloch of
l slavery. There are some men of sterling
| stuff among us, who could not be scared or
driven to sign the call or participate in this
meeting by the crack Of the slave-driver's
whip. Among those few in Sardis who
4 would not thus dcfile their garments, | may
I mention Geo. Baldwin, Gov Dutton,l
| Judge Foster, Stephen D. Pardee, Marcus
Merriman and Henry b. Harrison. AM
|, honor to those brave men, for they are anil
\ evidence that however far gone mankind
are from original righteousness, as the 39E
articles Of the Church Of England express
the consequence Of Adams fall, yet hu-
manity is not totally depraved, as the iron
| reformer of Geneva would have us believe.
| There was another meeting held here
last Wednesday evening, in the Zjon|
Church, to sympathize with the Harper's
Ferry sufferers But since their proceed
ings have been developed, it is understood
4 that an anti-slavery society was conceived
and organized at that meeting. Now II
bid those gentlemen Godspeed who parti-
I cipated therein, and hope they will 60 and!
do all the good they can. But am COM
I PEELED in justice to the rest of the New
Haven public, to make some exceptions toS
| their hasty, ill-advised and precipitate ac-i
ton. But very few knew that HarpersI
Ferry sympathy meeting was called; andI
1 still fewer imagined that an anti-slaverys
society was to be conceived and rushedE
| through at the meeting, There are manyG
who would have been glad to have testified
their unwavering fidelity to freedom by be-
l ing present, and participating in the organ
| ization Of such a society; and it was due to;
them that the notice should have beenl
more general, specific and mature than what
it was. Such society ought not to bel
organized to serve private, personal orr
party end, but should have the general!
good IN view. And if an anti-slavery SOL
ciety succeeds at all among our people, it'll
must have the spontaneous cooperation of
the whole, without respect to party orI
creed. But it cannot command this Co
operation if it is . one-sided organization
intended to give popularity to any one
| particular church or class Of persons in So
ciety.
Now cannot say that the friends who
organized this society, with haste more
| immoderate than the Virginia courts tried
1 and condemned John Brown and his com
| patriots, were really actuated by such mar
row and sinister views; but their actionI
looks SO much like it, that it will be hardI
to persuade the mass of people otherwise.
4 hope, however, that if such were their
views, that further experience will giveI
them repentance and better minds, as wei
are taught to pray in the old English
ltany. The proceedings Of this meeting
l believe, are to be sent for publication inI
the anglo"
l understand the Rev. Amos G. BemanI
is to eat his Christmas dinner in New
| Haven, whether the Rev. Mr. Cato dOesE
Or not, and he will assist the Rev. Mr..
. Washington and perhaps the Rev. Mr.. Stan
ford in the religious solemnities Of that
double festival, the goth inst being both
the Feast Of the Nativity and the Lords
day also, We are glad to see that the
coldness and indifference eff few whos
ought to know better, does not discouraged
the reverend gentleman from visiting his
old familiar field of labor Perhaps. bys
thus fulfilling his Christian duty, God may
have mercy upon bis enemies, prosecutors
and slanderers, and turn their hearts, and /
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