The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-12-17
HUMAN SACRIFICE TO SLAVERY,
The authorities of Virginia will put to death
JOuS RRowN

~ JOHN BROWN,
ION Friday, Dec. 2, 1859, at 2 o'clock p NJ. On
Hthe evening of the same day, at o'clock, an as
semblage will convene at the Meodeon Hall, in
THE city of Cleveland to make suitable demonstra-
ons of their love of liberty and hatred of oppres-
sslon, by resolutions and speeches. The hall viii
zbe draped with mourning. All who are yet free
land have determination to preserve their free
dom. are invited to attend. The following gentle
: men are expected to be present and take part in
the exercises Rev. J. C. White c. H. Langston,
. roohey, Hon. Hiram Griswold, Hon. D. R. Til
{ den, Rev. Mr. Brewster, and A. G. Riddle, Esq.
Well, Friday evening arrived. Before
z o'clock the capacious hall was packed
with t1oo Thousand sympathizers. Thou
sands were compelled to return home, be-
ling unable to get to the door of the hall
| entered the hall about o'clock, and
found the stage occupied by several of the
first lawyers of the county, ex-members of
! Congress, &c. took my seat among
! them Touching the appearance of the
] hall and the audience, will quote from
our city papers. The National Demo
4 crat," administration organ, says:
Melodeon Hall was crowded full last night, to|
hear what might be said by the sympathizers
! Of John Brown of Osawatomie. The audience was
considerably cheekered- black and
white, like the finger boards upon piano. The
] hall was draped in black and several quotations
Z from Browns letters and conversations we're
framed and hung about the stage.
The following is from the Herald"
At the hour appointed, the hall was thronged,
4 go large number probably never having before
assembled in that place. About one third of those
present were women.
The hall was hung with mourning, the gale
fries, pillars and walls being draped with black,
! with white rosettes the chandeliers hung With
scrape, and long festoons of black depending FRONT
{ the grders of the roof Directly over the centrel
sof the stage large photograph of Johnl
Brown, the frame of which was encircled with al
wreath of green leaves and white flowers. TheE
'The end crowns the work"
HE being dead, yetspeaketh."
! "Amcus Humani Generis."
Remember those that are in bonds as boundl
i with them
''If had interfered in behalf Of the great, the
wealthy, and the wise, would have blamed
me.'-John BrO,on to the Court Of Virginia.
"John Brown, the hero of 1859"
Ellis noble spirit makes despots quail, and
Freedom triumphs''
As early as half-past six o'clock, the
dense throng crowding the Melodeon testi-
fed the universal interest felt in the nature
and objects of the meeting, and at o clock
there was not vacant seat in the hall
and the standing places were all occupied
The exercises of the evening were opened
R by the Rev. Mr.. Brewster, of the Wesley
an Church, who read the following pas
sages of Scripture: Epistle of James w.,
LIST to 18th; Timothy iv., 18th to 18th !;
! LIST Corinthians, XIV, 10Th to 34th.
The Throne of Grace was then address
Z ed by Rev. Mr. Crooks, in an eloquent and
touching prayer, acknowledging the hand
] of God in all the events of life, and His
dealings with the children of men.
The following resolutions were then pre-
sented by the Rev. Mr.. Toohey, and almost
unanimously adopted:
Whereas. The peculiar institution has this
4 day made strikingly manifest its baneful influence
/ upon the rights of man, by inficting the death
penalty, at Charlestown, in Virginia, upon John
4 Brown of Osawatomi9, for conscientious obser
vance of the law of brotherhood, as inculcated by
Jesus Christ, and the law of freedom as taught by
3 Thomas jefferson
y hesotUed, That the system of negro slavery as
{ it now exists in some of the States of the Ameri-
lean confederacy is but the experiment of despot-
Ism, which lives upon conceptions, and becomes
Z lusty upon cancellations and compromises It is
in the words of Wesley, the 'sum of all villainies
and can only be subdued by giving it, in Southern
parlanee, ''war to the knife, with the knife to the
s hilt."
s Resolced, That the State of Virginia, under the
lead of Henry A. Wise, is contemplate carica-
{ ture of the 'Old Dominion in the DAYS of Geo.
& Washington and George Mason. She was once
Z aptly called the ''Mother of Presidents" She
! may now, with significant propriety be termed
+ the "Mother of Slaves" She is afflicted With
frightful visions of armed invaders, and with al
uxuriantly guilty conscience, her chivalry flee
when pursued by shadows. They are ready toI
4 cry out with the "Humpbaek:'
I BY the Apostle Paul, shadows tonight
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than could the substance of ten thousand soldiers,
Z Arm'd in proof
a ReSotred, That for their conduct in the HarI
Spers Ferry war, when zone man chased thou-I
sand' and in the sequel to that war, when ''tenI
thousand put the one man to death, the spurs!
should be hacked from the heels of the chiyalryl
Of Virginia the bearings on their State shield re-
versed and, instead of the PROSTATE despot, With
bis broken manacles and the spirit-stirrng motto.
.tCio SamDnr TvrauuiS tba;n