The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-30
John Brown Sympathy Meeting.

john Brown sympathy Meeting.
A meeting of sympathizers with JOHN
BROWN, was held at the Cooper Institute,
New York, on the 18th. 1t was intended
for the benefit of Mrs. BROWN, and twenty
five cents admission was charged. WENDELL
PHILLIPS and Rev. Mr.. CHEEvER were the
orators. The following is the Times report
of CHEEvER's speech:
DR.. Cheever came forward, amid loud
applause. The Reverend gentleman said
that two hundred years ago, John Milton
deemed it lawful to write against despotism
and if he were now in our country he would
approve of John Browns action. Applause
and Kisses.
A voice-Let geese go out.
Rejoinder-Go out yourself.
John Brown had perfect right, by the
Bible and Constitution, to attempt to over
throw Slavery. Great confusion. Two
men put out. There was nothing in the
Constitution that required John Brown, or
any other man to defend Slavery.
At this point the confusion was almost
indiscribable. One man after another cried
out, and was, accordingly, put out by the
police, though not without much difficulty
One individual said that every man had a
right to speak and he meant to exercise it.
DR.. Cheever then proceeded to say that it
was John Browns natural right to prohibit
Slavery. Sensation.
Another man was put out, but the confu>
sion waxed greater. Gen. Pilsbury be-
L. ~ - b. al l>,,A l.
effect was his appeal. In the height of the
noise the band struck up Hail Columbia +"
DR.. Cheever-John Brown was at liberty
to protest against the laws when they were
wrong. God found him and man killed
him.
A voice-Stop that, stop that.
The gentleman was escorted to the door
and the Doctor proceeded.
John Brown was indicted and hung for
treason and murder, neither of which was
proved against him, and of neither was he
guilty. The Instruction was on the part
Of slaves and shareholders. John Brown
was loyal to the Constitution and obedient
to God. If all men would act as he did,
slavery could not exist, and if only few
tyranny would overwhelm US like deluge,
Patrick Henry said for himself " Give me
liberty or give me death )" John Brown
said for others, =" Give them liberty or give
me DEATH" Applause and Kisses. God
helping him DR.. G.. he would maintain
Liberty and Union. Seventy-fve years ago
Washington, Warren and Lafayette were
canonized for treason such as John Browns.
Here the speaker was compelled to stop
on account Of the hubbub in the hall. After
ceasing about five minutes he continued to
speak, though the noise had not in the least
abated.
One such man, one such heart, one such
real Christian had done more than million
hypocrites, or all the lying in all the pro-
slavery churches in christendom. He re-
fused communion with a slave holding
clergyman, and on his way to the scaffold
he stopped down to kiss little negro child.
A LADy-God bless him.
He would never be excelled in faithful
ness. Three cheers for Gov. Wise. Three
groans for John Brown. General confus-
ion.
DR.. Cieever continued in this strain
little longer, but so great was the confusion
that he was compelled to retire. A large
crowd in one part of the Hall cheered con-
stantly for Wise, the Constitution, the
Union, and groaned for John Brown and
DR.. Cheever. A Mr.. Byrnes, who was put
out early in the evening, returned and aided
the disturbers. Chas. H. Haswell, Ex-
President of the Board of Councilmen, and
DIR. Louis H. Sayre, addressed the crowd
upon treason, and the speakers of the even
ing. A proposition to tar and feather Dr..
Cheever met with unanimous approval.
Gen. Pilsbury and Deputy Superintendent
Carpenter were present with large force,
but failed to restore order. Amidst all this,
Wendell Phillips came forward and spoke
as follows:
After CHEEvER had concluded, PHILLIPS
delivered violent address. He said BROWN
was a patriot, stood far in the lead of
Washington Or Lafayette his gallows was
as sacred as the cross; if Clay and Webster
ever got to Heaven, they would have smiled
in approval, if BROWN had conquered Vir:
ginia, and melted slave instruction, from
Harper's Ferry to Richmond and much
more of the same sort. But here is an ex-
tract that shows the character of Phillips,
speech:
l do not couple John Brown and Joseph
Warren (who fell at the battle of Bunker
HilD not bit. Joseph Warren is not tall
enough in that Heaven where he sits to-day
is not tall enough to touch the hem of the
garment of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry.
Joseph Warren was an honest man; Joseph
Warren was patriot Joseph Warren was
brave solder-an honest citizen, but John
Brown is more than all that. A voice,
you're liar."] It's no matter what
amt is utterly Indifferent; say Joseph
Warren died for himself; died for the whites;
died Tor his own country; his own law.
Joseph Warren was only soldier nothing
more. If John Brown had been shot at
the door of that Armory the world would
never have known that he was any more
than Joseph Warren but God in his prov
idence said, Come up higher-I will melt
a million of hearts by that old Puritan SOUL"
Great confusion, during which man was
put out.
is it any wonder that the South is
excited, when such language is addressed to
approving thousands, in the commercial and
political metropolis of the Union?
The Richmond (Va.1 papers are flooded