The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-16

POLITICAL SERMON BY GENERAL J. J.
gIMONS.

and vicinity was called DO held at the premises No
1s5 Spring street. o'clock, precisely last eve
ming; and our reporter anticipating immense gather
hg and terrible crush, careful to BIO puncuay on
hand the appointed hour whep to his SURPRISE there
were only persons present. this including the
ntor and child The following copy Of the notice
calling the meeting M
NJ ciy and Vicinity win be held Tuesday evening Nov.
man .nS q s ecst
dto be present without fan An those who love liberty better
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the ideas Of the colored people Of New York on the
30 called atrocy Of slavery are be measured by the
numbers that responded this enthusiastic call then 1t
must be held that there not great many who ove
liberty better than slavery" At the hour fixed for the
lecture there but eight persons
although the proceedings not opened for fully an
hour After the audience certainly did not swell to more
MAN twenty persons Upon the closest calculation
reporter averaged the net Of the evening" at
cents head TO defray expenses, At 80 so.
The meeting having been called 70 order in the usual
Mr. JAxM GREEN opened the proceedings by an address,
which no reverted to the long suerngs q the negroes
and the patience with which they have endured all the
made sugar to sweeten the white mans throat on cult
waited tobacco for him 70 chaw since the earliest days
boot p0shers coat brushers and occupants Of the mean
ct Offices, and this Notwithstanding that they had
done their share towards the Independence and
their part manfully in the struggle against England
Tor the freedom .s a.. Of the country cheys Aatfi.
the ship from which they threw the tea and fell noblv
for his country on tho deck In the battle Of New Orleans
me C1ckh fought Side by aide with the Whites and freely
virtues and merits which in republic like that Of Rome
would be rewarded, but II here; for If 10 900
negroes were on an emergency to offer their lives to turn
UNI ha
ed In history, because their skins were black He
proudly alluded to the fact that whatever might
TO be seen infesting the streets Of the CITY. as
beggars, planning all sorts Of schemes TO impose on
the people but they Were always willing able and ready
General SMoNs was then introduced, and began by
quesng the reporters to represent him fairly He then
passed on to consider the laws of the United States
which were outrageously oppressive TO the negro While
he was recognized in this State citizen he felt that he
citizen Of the United Stacs but as he was not SO
considered by the law, he would freely speak
his mind for the United States could not make
2 man who was not a citizen answer for that
The so-caled instruction or excitement in vir-
gina was said 70 infringe on the law OF that State
and Of the United States But he knew Of no people or
who have suffered 30 much the colorcd population Of
the South ever they to act IL is at this time;
and they should seek by manly determination, to gain
their ewn liberty, the first Of those bravo men who
fought for American independence They could not COM
pare themselves their oppressors every one knew
how much they had endured and how they have been su
fered 70 exist But they must make way for themselves
and for those who are 70 come after them. he then
spoke OF the efforts Of John Brown TO relieve Vrginan
slaves from oppression and auded the Of nsurgeut
to the SKIES In his opinion John Brown was one Of the
greatest heroes the world has ever Shareholders
be said were made up Of set Of who had but very
little regard for and humanity and yet there were
In the North who took the hand Of the Southern
in sdns sndsh msn Mno mold their
ored people to declare that they will be slaves no
longer They must act as the Revolutionary fathers did,
must not depend on the assistance OF white men, How
ever well meant this might be, without their efforts
hsy v WSoS S NEWER % Tree he had no
this day but for that party which had driven the nail
home in the fabric Of misery Of the slave They must not
hsten 70 the arguments Of this party He did not think
that John Brown intended TO free all the slaves; but
did think that he went mission Of too much mercy.
he had been a man of ss dark hue as the speaker,
he never could have shown such mercy for not one
white savehoding should have been permitted to
escape 70 the engine house 70 tell the tale When slavery
black himself Black men must act for themselves
they wished to better their condition. They not
be to prove that they able to accomplish their
freedom. They have hitherto neglected 70 perform
Sis native ''s SOIL and he was prepared 70
fight side and side by the white man for its freedom
man was prepared march at his side for the noble
purpose, and to show him and his people all the justice
which is due to them. (Applause It was II the power
Of the four millions of beings in this country now held in
bondage to deliver themselves, II they would resolve TO
prove to their bondmasters that they equal
TO themselves. 10 do this they must refuse to
wishes Of the white people. Another thing to be
avoided was tho prejudice which existed among
the coored people theselves-for II had been truly said
that there prejudice among the colored people
themselves to another, than shown to them by
tho whites. They had some men of color equal in
ability to oppose themselves to the members of Congress-
and they not behndhand in education anything
else They must meet the white man face to face He
man, and he not afraid to speak his sentiments.
He had fear Of the white man. for he was just good
he More than that, he allowed that white mon
good as negro SO long as he behaved himself
ton in the South; he did not wish to set fire to the
houses and properties In the South If the South will
but not then fght-nght and spill your blood and be
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS than submit to slavery They will
whole United States army will DO brought against them
But TO counterfeit this the coored people must learn to
Is e9 could o
they would be free, and not before. (Cheers.) He
was very certain that the HERALD was going 70
Of that paper TO do 90 in regard to the negroes
and the Southern States, and will continue to do until
II dies it's natural DEATH He regretted much that good
heroic John Brown had fallen into the hands Of the devil
and his mps But he did not fear in this respect John
Brown is executed there will be great many others like
lated; and this was not to be done by prayers The
colored people had been praying too long, and their
cheeks have been too often wet with tears In sending up
prayersfor them devils down South. (Laughter) The
best prayers for the stakeholder were powder and
shot and the aHS n, white ms and must
when they would have to do SO. Whenever
John Brown Is hung, Governor Wise had better
prepare himself for death. will all end with him it
ended with Bully Brooks when he went behind Sumner and
assaulted him like thief He advised every colored
man to get musket and keep in his house and to
70 when the time comes he then pitched into the
HERALD the usual STYLE The only thing he sad TO be
done now, WINS 70 convince the white man that they
will fight, and that fugitive slave who touches this
SOIL nor any slave master that in pursuit. shall
alive, unless every negro be extcrminated
He was willing die to be hung between heaven and
earth for such (Cheers.) Tho white man
mot more ready to die than the negro. If you lick
white man handsomely, he will love you; but you
run from him., he viii despise you. He looked
upon praying and the Christian doctrine OF submitting 10
wrong continually great humbug, which was played
sut. The devil and his mps were going about seeking
whom they might devour and TO defeat them they must
be met with the which they bring, this the
only way defeat them He concluded by urging the
colored people to get guns and keep them in their houses
against the time when they shall have need of them.
Mr.. JAMES GREEN, tall, well proportioncd negro, then
addressed the audience He gave interesting nara
tive Of his experience as slave in Maryland and how he
brought about his escape by imprisonng his mistress
He then gave succnct clear able synopsis the gen.