Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-30
Citp ann County sntrlligemte.

ANTI-SLAvERY MEETING.-The anti-slave-
ry meeting at Brinley Hall, yesterday, was or
ganized by the appointment of Mr. VIM. Coe
as President, Mr.. Efingham L. Capron, Vice
President, and Mrs. Frances H. Drake, Sec
rotary. The meetings, during the day, were
not large; in the evening the hall was filed.
Speeches were made by Parker Pillsbury,
Stephen S. Foster, Mrs. Abby Kelly Foster,
and others, upon topics suggested by the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Whereas, The New York Tribune persistent
ly advocates the claims Ofincorrigible slavehold-
ers to the support of the Republican party for
the next Presidency, and
Whereas, 1t has virtually yielded all its for
mer differences with the slave power or with
the Democracy Of the country, and boldly as
serts that "there is at present no immediate
practical issue before the country involving
slavery, unless it be the African Slave Trade, %
and
Whereas, Its great circulation enables it to
send its poisonous influences over the whole
North and West weakening the public char
acter and corrupting the public conscience,
therefore
Resolved, That, in behalf of the slave and
his cause, we register our testimony against
it, as fatal in its influence to his deliverance
from bondage, and the general interests of lib
erty and humanity throughout the world.
Resolved, That we congratulate the slave
and all his real friends, that the American
church as represented through the American
Bible and Tract Societies, the Methodist gen.
eral conferences, the American Board of Com
missioners of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian
General Assemblies, and other aational relig-
ic of Last rayQolpd in tc
true character as Grand Brotherhood of
Thieves, and the Bulkwark of American slav-
cry, and that we are thus proved to have been
in the right whenever we have denounced it
as "the Synagogue of Satan" and wherever
we have called on the friends of freedom and
humanity to come out of it and to labor for its
utter determination as mighty obstacle to the
spread and progress Of genuine liberty and re-
ligon in the world.
Resolved, That when any person or paper
procaims to the world, that "Rev. DR.. Cheever
has taken the highest ground against slavery"
and Stands like one of the old prophets thun-
dering forth the truth of God without fear or
compromise" it utters what in our judgement
is palpably untrue, in as much as he still
stands in full ministerial and churchfellowship
with the whole congregational denomination,
reeking with such rottenness as the Drs Adj
amses, Blagdens, and Lords, the Tract, Mis-
sionary, and Bible Societies does not make
saveholding or pro-slavery a test Of church
membership, but has recently tried and expell-
ed a member, for no crime but q heretcal che
lief and practice respecting the Sabbath and
the Christian Commandments"
Resolved That while we doubt not the hon
esty and integrity of individuals in the church
anti-savery society, lately formed in this
city, we still believe TINT while remaining in
the.great national organizations and denomina-
tons, they are stained with the blood of every
slave who writhes under the lash and pines in
mental and moral darkness, down to the grave
and to spiritual death, and until they come
completely out of the American Babylons,
where ministers and members trade in slaves
and souls of men, we shall hold them as the
most guilty partners in that terrible traffic,
SHINING as they do against the clearest acknow-
lodged light and giving to slavery respecta-
bliity, and Christian recognition, without
which, by its own odium and atrocity, it must
soon fall forever.
The resolutions, at the close of the meeting,
were laid on the table, and the discussion of
them will be resumed at a future meeting.
Mrs. Foster avaied herself of the opportuni-
ty to defend herself from charges implying
fraud and false pretences in collecting funds,
made against her by Mr.. Garrison.
The interest elected in the discussion before
its close seemed to authorize its continuance,
and accordingly the meeting adjourned to
Sunday next, at l04 o'clock.