New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-15

"a tom v-r,.,os i.appreheu.ious snich are o'ten-
tai T., al controversies. having been gTe1uy ih.uh'eI
shto by tteu-iba' they themerIVs5 ~ s ;,, pN
acts u de- tie uggestion Of IA from NJ psIl q
6suet, op4rg,ire upop th. 1mpenh government re-
oueed the p-Iiod Of apprenticeship oy 'No yeHs.
They ,berefrie, ri ~ say, are ,eno he,
MN 40 il ,ba, yres, good ~he'eby The Let 81 August
1899 fnaI uitI.,-.d toe comp -te and absolute -nao-
c,parion q our slaves. Chesr. II 'hefe any1oes
thai give. pain the present occa'hn n's w u7
6r,t u ace th.t example bas nor o-en iov"e' W
nhet cnn.r., 70 at Spain particularly Shch Is tue
uorst of all 10 many respects, p"twat'1h'ns 'he 'u
huerce hich tito pos.e-e--nos by fennhe n-i
of benefits conferred; bat by simply bo'ifg "a nsr th
". ~ere fellow laborers IL her OF rance
| that Spaip cay ro.wIthsi audiIg our naurA aud
int influence h-s followed that example; nay,
bs. ple'ely abandoned me Save ram, car
Md on IN spite oftr. sites well as OF al honesty Ana
| bo,.r Bot by degrees truth will prevail over even
Spsri sh conrsels and they VII NM tha, tner OIL
best rterest-inceed would Md, their safety in toe
W.st Ird,+s consists IN extending 70 Cuoathe ne A-re
| .fsnapcioa,op IHear, hear. | greve N say toat
our brethren our kusfOk in America, fnrhish soo,ner
exception TO example, but OF toat woaEl speak
terd.ry from rec, ec'ng that America nas sc'ed sl-
nrsbly 10 many respects ana even so.i-heo Tue ssVe
trace year before ourselves old. Even 10 Uso'gs,
which devoted 20 The g institution, q. 'hey are
plea ed to call it, aIy of the Southern States, It 90
our 70 ut and not their that they hsd Slavery,
fer we pressed il upon iheW, ard they refused it, They
protesed sgairs, il but we defeated then; aad IL
our fault that that " Institution prevails IN those
States Bu. it i. pleasing 10 reflect tbs our reasoning,
plousis ssents may p'ooatiy succeed tber. and in
Spain ssc so thai zee the end OF that abuse,
, AID Slavery will be no more
S"e.d Oh prea ny Isn fiis Psss t ''e 10 'of
fCbe.rs need not remind You that the friends OF
liberty are also the friends Of peace ard that ey Tho
have tie pIeafest Adherence 81 slavery they VINO
most earnestly detest wsr. Hear, hesr.J Bu, me
feeling Of satisfaction with which We meet ON the pre-
seut occasion il damped by than recolec'ion
sDo caleiy ntion the melancholy consideration tha
~e here meet f. " Of me old pariarchs Of ;ns csu-e
They have gone long snce--ihauy of tnem very ling
sibcs cor more Iecently-to their account ~ ~ &c
cour, certainly rendered more safe FOR thep aud more
edlfyng to u by the purity Of their YVES and by The
GREAT value of their public works and by ole part
Of their lives and portion Of their works more
than BY their having done their endeavors, ana "'h
success, 10 abolish the African slave rode and 70 'iee
| The African sav.s. Che.rs. We have 10 lame the
absence here Of IA ID WHEREFORE as Car ksoo,
as Stephen, Macsrlay, and sst OF al, though u"'
| least OF Joseph Surge whom We have lately lost
M All ir1eussble Oes II IT, o. Wilterforce, that great
chan MON Of DOR cause 10 Parliament and out If Pdra-
nent i will only say the WORDS Of Dr. JOHNSON, Sp'
| piled to another prIson:-
"ID ev.1y speech persuasive wisdom flowed,
| Suspended faction ceas-d rom rage aud 'tT!is
ITO hear bis .loquenc, and praise h' hfe''
Hear lesr But there the silent cloquenea OF
good life ~ Joe. pn Surge, the silent elOqnebce ny
which he persuaded to follow lie example, and by
which be aso fortified and strengthened every good
cause 10 bich be devoted himself; and knoT OF hone
| in " hch be not q sboer. His sOnnd judgment;
his etc ady sdhesioo 10 his principles when they dii
fered from Otler ems bic tolerance OF which hard
ly the hike his perfect charity ard perfect
ftDdines eveo TO those from whom he differed most
thee qualities which certainly make bis 40 irTe
parable l0.t. Ibeed lot dwell the merits of Thomas
iark.op, the pior in the great cause Of abolition;
but will add tGst there other pioneers ct emanci-
p,tCn, be was the pioneer OF aboi'iDn whose names
a'e p,t sufficiently before the d, because they
not PsIau .eBtsry advocates Of the cause. | name,
fret and foremost among these, james stephen.
Having been in the West Indies for many years OF hs
life la~yer by profession, strong steady, and To-
fl, Abie advocate Of the slave, he IL vas who dragged
that System and lis abuses to light by constant nn
G.viotDg course # advocacy out OF Parliament and
look up,n HIM to stand in the same relation 70 ward
emancipation as Thou CaIkson did toward the aoo
li,iop. may mention, also Zachary Macsulsy, who,
having been Governor of Sierra Leone, and having
ssar sase in 10 SraeI
horrors of the mcdle passage, devoted himself con-
stsbtly sfterwsrd to the same abolition aud emanc
patoL-aDd one after MIR stephen served toat Gre6,
csuse mtre Hear hear. IL would be snpertidous 10
m.Dion O. eIs such Buxton, whose great and nll-
na,ely trumpban e1erions yOu are scqus ned with,
and thong be happily lived 10 his work completed
he lie one of those whose loss We have to deplore.
There any others whom now to emu nefste Is 10
ntce,aary; but occasion ike the preset we do
act oi gratitude and expediency Also as wei az DIS
charge debt OF strict Justice, when recite the cir
cumsisnce of those VINO have gone before Among
Others il inp ssole to forget Henry Thornton, the
constant coaojutor OF Wilberforce in Parliament.
And let il be forgotten that after Fox had been
through life steady advocate Of the abolition OF the
ave.taJe- he never lived 10 touch the question Of
en- apcipsion-it was by HE colleagues, Grey, Lans
down ard the Of HE Government, that the first
Emancipation Act passed in 1917. Hear, Hear
To be il cacOus, but that fault of
theirs for accomplished all that had at that tune
been p oposeo dealt with the question by penalties
AID every booy knows that he profits of ina internal
tra6c we're 20 great that might safely risk the
loss Of five Fix vessels by seizure provied he e.
capped with the seventh veese Finding tina, il vas ao
so'uey Necessary that should, for the first tiGe
call the thing by rs tight name, ard that we should
no longer SANDER trade by calling that trade Tncn
crime treated il rs II deserved-as az oiiense
a. bad great satisfaction in prevailing on Parlla-
ment TO pass bill ir making the slavetrade felony
whch--so great was tie revolution that had taken
place in peoples seDtimen,s-rent through both
Houses OF Parliament without eDcUunte'ug one dls
seniieLt voice. That ended share the slave
tiare With the exception Of some few capt. All 'ts
ploying their money that traffic, It has nos ceased
a. b, Brtsh ofiehse, and is confined 10 taose fhegn
patioDs 10 whom have already referred. Cheers.
Now, that emancipation has put the negro the same
foot the white in pott Of rights and privileges
il is fit that should for moment stop to consider
what his behavior hss been under the change; ant
nothing can be more satisfactory than all accounts Of
the conduct Of the slaves. II expected by come
that the let of August 1854 there would be an out
break ana that the sudcen hbers on of persons who
had long been confined and under the influence OF
oppression would occasion conduct that lot con-
siseIt with tie pubic peace. Never was aoy sppre-
beDson completely fasifed by the result. le.r
hear OG that day there was ali over the West In
dies, | venture 10 ssy, among the $4,000 pegrOes
whom We had liberated the most perfect peace, unIn
teirupted by riot or debSuchery. 10 that c5uotry
whore raiure provokts the passions, and where the
stimulus Of Ltemperance Is dealt cut With proiuse
bano, there instance 10 he founi In al
the Caribbean Sea Of into1ica,ion or of riot from
intoxica'loD. On the coIfraiy, the churches AMI
chbpels filed. SuccessiUus of congregations
after another equen,ed them IN order 10 testify their