New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-12
SYMPATHY FOR THADDEUS HYATT.
MEETING AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE.
SPEECHES BY DIR. CHEEyER, WENDELL PHILLIPS,
AND WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.


Two thousand people must have assembled at the
CooTer Institute, last evening to express their sym
rathy with Mr.. THADDEUs HYATT, now imprisoned at
Washington for refusing to testify before the Senate
Investigating Committee The audience was composed
of both sexes in nearly equal numbers and of the
most respectable character.
The meeting was organized by the unanimous ap-
pointmcnt Of Messrs. Henry G. HART and OLIVER
JOHNSON az President and Secretary. The Rev. HEN
RY {. CHEEyER of Jewett City, Conn., made preia-
tory prayer in which he mpOred the Divine strength
10 enable Mr. Hyatt TO endure even unto the death his
present suferngs in his heroic attempts to indicate the
rights of conscience.
The President then made brief address, explaining
the circumstances under which Mr. Hyatt was sent to
prison for contem after which, the Secretary read
he following resolutions each OF which was received
with warm applause:
Bc,cirtd That the Senate of the United States In the i'm
g appear before Committee Of that body guilty Of
gross aid dangerous usaon of power meeting the indgna
F. fsfl mt he hearty thank. every Of freedom
rf que Rh he b % pGsr the Senate and
submitted in the vile jail at Washington, rather
i@ ,.Sa fS The The p sy Of to punish
citizen their discretion for act. wiGh thy consider contempt
fixed By kno% d T G1s e4d 9Sa q sGs a
Of aespom rests in reality the principle Of an ca
law utterly unjust making one party not only
l. therefore part cf the parliamentary law adopted
's1 s ard s s TSo e 'ne %s
lbyeye of the lights Of the citizen and however sanctioned
by needless submission, should be met always with
Rc,ord That whenever individual Disturbing The qniet Of
only hes him i to commit him to the ESecgtye to
% pts a hae K o oen and S punishment described
Fixed by settled and known laws 10 trial before jury end
citizen and at admit any other in Legislature i. to
the ssrdGi principle Of free sSs 10 gd
up sacred individual rights to party hate personal caprice or
of he
tempt and denial rights of conscience and making the bare
zen is ar Outrage upon Christian liberty which should be
stamped with the Indignant reprobaton ofa Christian people
The SECRETARY also read letter from the Hon.
Charles Sumner, regrettng his inability to be present,
and warmly approving the course of Mr.. Hyatt.
The first speaker, SAMUEL Z. SEwELL, esq, OF
Boston, counsel of Mr. Hyatt, was here introduced
and received with enthusiasm. He detailed the cir
cumstances under which Mr.. Hyatt was imprisoned
and with which the public are already familiar.
The Rev. Dr. GEO II. CHEEyER made the next adj
dress. He said the outrage on Mr.. Hyatt showed the
progress of despOtism. Kossuh had warned not to
let the word government blot out the word nation
The people were the nation; if they did not look out
they would become merely the governed. 1t was true
to use the language of Burke that they took the power
into their hands, and governed in their own way
Arplause.) The necessity for revolution was Gods
OPPORTUNITY The people were bound to bring this
man Of prison, to release him from the clutches of
Tie slave, power. Tremendous applause 1t was a
religious duty for them to do The speaker contin
ned in this strain for over half an hour.
DIR. Cheever was succeeded by WENDELL PHILLIPS,
who az soon he could be heard assumed his always
eloquent mastery of those present. After paying
tribute to the preceding speakers he said he would
discuss the crisis of Constitutional Liberty III which we
stood Every government was made up, SO FAR as 1t
free of what the people had arrested from usurpa-
ton. Every element of freedom had been heard first
in the prayer of the patriot and the creak of the glib
bet. Our Government was not stately fabric built
in "A decade, like Soomons temple was an old En-
glish fabric altered TO suit the times. We got il by
he a npOpp.
the people came Habeas Corpus and every other land
of Liberty.
II was weapon which the people caught up when
they wanted to knock tyrant down. And so we
loved our old Ango-American principles and when
want to establish right, must show that il WAS old,
English, constitutional Well had DIR. Cheever said
that not equal to our fathers. If we so,
would long ago, instead of sitting here have gone
10 Washington in the railroad cars, taken Hyatt, ana
brought him home. Applause We should nave
sung, parodzing the old Cornish refrain:
And shall Thad, Hyatt die
APs % 9Sy 1R SSa.l hyp,! Ss boy.
Win know the why
Renewed eheers Tie laws were not made to pro-
tect popular and powerful men, IKE toVerior hVlSah
and William b. Astor They should protect the num-
bic and uninauental Mr.. Phillips said ne should take
broader ground than that embraced III the resou''9n
For his ideas he alone woulo DC rcSPoilsls in
held that neither Judges nor ia~yeTS had rght 10 ,e
nrve man of bis liberty mt pleasure. Arguing TO TINS
effect. he cited the past history OF popular truInphS
| over defpofm. And if we had got rid OF Il KING on
Iis tbrone-ofa George the Third lit seemed to linn
that we had made poor exchange from decent gen
tl,man on a throne, TO dirty demagogne III Senate
He contended that no man in this century hal done
better service TO the cause Of constitutional liberty
An honest noble man, buoyed up by no popular APP
pause deserted by his own party, sneered at by the
public Journals he dared to suffer manuSy for lber-
| IL and the Right. IApplause.l Becacse the pres
wishedto snuff ont Thaddeus Hyatt, would the people
Lei the citadel of Liberty be Carried by deultl IL
| was said we were one idea people. For Gods sake
| give The TRIBUNE tonight an idea 10 talk about Let
ths meeting wake such feeling IA sha remind one Of
tie times when Horace Greeley hid the hearts of the
people. Let no timed newspaper politics restrain our
| nobler wishes.
II better TO defend great constitutional prnci-
pie than TO bave been President OF the United States