The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-16

longer contempt. Hear, bear) The advocates OF
slavery attacked his valued irlenu Charies ounr
ner-lapplause) las he sat quiet and unspeaking IN
his seat In the Senate house OF his country, ana
nearly took away his life, and then presented the
executioner with votive canes and initiative cudg-
els; but battery and assault, mutilation and MUIR
der were indications of hostility, alarm and conster
nation, not of indifference and contempt. cap
pause. They might depend upon il that the cause
of the abolitionists was making real, palpabe and
daily progress. (Hear, hear) 1t entered now into
every phase of private social and domestic me;
every decision of the courts of law teemed with IL;
il was matter of comment, etheras being advert
ed to OF omitted in the teachings of the pulpit; 1T
entered into almost every election u anected the
election of members of Congress, of Senators, OF
Governors of States, and might, perhaps, before
long influence even the selection OF the President
of the Union. (Applause) Under these circum
stances he wished that the voice of sympathy hope
and encouragement, even from old Europe, old
England and old Yorkshire (applause) Knight
not be wholly wanting. Clear, hear2 They
had been reminded by his worship the
Mayor that indications had not been want
ing in the great n,eighborng empire of
France that the claims of liberty, which were not
treated with involate respect in the interior rea
lions of that country, might also meet with but
scant observance in its exterior relations. (Hear
hear) He would not touch upon the question of
the lawfulness of the ships and cruisers Of this
country ascertaning the bona tide character Of
other yessels-whether they were engaged under
the lawful flag OF their country, merely piratcal
and slave carrying vessels. That question might
for the moment be involved III some embarrass-
ment which he should be sorry, by any observa-
ton of his to increase, especially he could not
tell exactly how it precisely stood. (Hear, hear)
He must say upon this head that he thought some
OF the aboitionsts of the United States themselves
Gin speaking of this question last year aud of the
part this country had taken) did not evince such
generosity or gratitude for the efficient part which
Great Britain had always taken in every measure
for the suppression of the slave trade (Applause)
But whatever this country did for that great-he
had almost said that Godlike purpose, she had
not in view the thanks and gratitude of men,
and might well pass without them (Applause.)
What he felt anxious about was that the demon
stration of the feelings which animated the people
of this country this class OF subjects and which
was evinced by the existence of antisiayery socic-
ties, should serve to show their rulers, their
own Parliament, and mankind at large, that in all
the essential questions relating TO slavery the
slave trade they would be true to themselves and
true to the great part which their fathers played in
this immortal cause. Cloud applause) Most fer
vent, indeed, was his hope that the present display
of the spirit that was within them might even make
itself felt and known across the wide world of
waters-to those among whom the cause was still
only militant and not triumphant. (Appause.)
There a sublime notion connected with the
laws Of sound, which he believed Mr.. Babbage had
most mpressiyeIy mentioned in one of his works,
namely, that all sound whatever even the miidest
word which escaped their lips, was never wholly
lost, but so mpelled by the undulatlons
of the air, or whatever the medium might
be, as to leave Its impress through all
space and during all time Such notion
seemed to invest their utterances with new and I'M
dreamt of responsibilities. clear, hear) Even the
very youngest person had been startled by the
veous effects of electric communication; and he
asked them only to figure to themselves that, by
chain of connections and sympathies, even more to
be relied on than the great Atlantic cable which
still lay submerged at the bottom of the deep, they
were, from the Town Hall of Leeds, waiting that
night across the mighty ocean to those rugged
sleeps once trod by the Pilgrim Fathers, to those
wide plains where Washington unfurled the stand
ard OF independence, or Ito present the exact re-
verse pictnre) to the rice swamp the sugar planta
ton and the slave mart, where the slave still toiled
and bled and was sold afresh: that they were watt
ing from this real land of liberty to the still existing
home Of slavery the accents of their sympathies
allegiance to the undying cause of freedom. (The
noble lord resumed his seat amid loud cheers.)
The resolution was seconded by Mr.. Il. Baines,
and carried unanimously.