Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-05-19
EDITORIAL CuRREsPoNpENCE.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY l6, 1S

w '"e anniversary CopNeutione, tneu III '"H
blast 10 that great city, and among others to
that OF the Anti Slavery Society, over which
WIN. Lloyd Garrison presides, his principal
co.worker and associate being Wendell Phil.
ips, who is sometimes referred to, by his
coadjutors, as the silver tougued orator.
MI Philips is q man of about ffty.f years,
fair complexion and sandy hair, prominent
nose, incliuing to the Roman order. lie is
slow and deliberate 10 his enuncistion, and
perfectly self possessed at oil times. These
advantages, with highly finished education
ard well stored mind, and q memory that
enables him to illustrate almost every incl
dent with o well told anecdote, or historical
incident, gives to his speeches raceness and
freshness that never fails to entertain his
audience, and bring down thunders Of ap-
plause from his friends The large hall Of
the Cooper Institute holds about three thou
sand persons, and this was filled on this
occasion.
Garrison is q somewhat larger man, with q
head smooth nnd build on the crown, q
swsrtby complexion and O couture of face
similar to that of Mr.. Philips. They are
both wealthy and both refuse to hold any
office or take an oath TO support under q
constitution which legalizes slavery.
| 10 the evening the Rev. a. B. Bradford
delivered an address on the subject Of slavery
that was listened to with marked attention.
AS an argument it was we'll arranged, me.
| thodical and logical in its conclusions. At
first it was difficult for those at distance
to hear him, but as he progressed he warmed
up with his subject, and bis voice, naturally
weak, could be heard over the entire ball.
Toward the conclusion be VIZ frequently
cheered, in which Garrison JONES heartily.
Mr.. Bradford does not, however, entertain
the extreme views Of the Garrison party. In
:he course Of his remarks Mr.. b. referred to
the visible as well as the invisible church.
Mr. Philips, the next evening, referred to
this distinction, and remarked that be could
not see the distinction as he looked upon all
our churches as sublmely invisible.
Mr.. Bradford commenced by rsmarking
that this was very young nation in years,
but very old one in guilt. 1t was even now
reeliug and totterng like q drunken man
under the weight of its guilt. Compared to
England and France this country was the
most advanced in guilt and crime, notwith-
standing its superior advantages for civilza.
tion. Many wise and patriotic men really
fear that our people will throw of all restraint
and 60 down to atheism in religion, and bar.
barism in manners. Since the conquest OF
California there have been 400 murders
committed in that State, and only two con.
vctious. On single day in June, 1857, in
the two States OF Illinois and Missouri, there
we're twenty.seven men banged for murder
He then concluded in the following fierce
and emphatic language, saying this is the bill
of indictment | draw up against American
slavery as patronized and sustained by the
American church. AS o citizen l charge it
with being the enemy Of my country. /
charge it with being the COLI blooded and
deliberate murderer Of Daniel Webster, the
prince of American orators and statesmen.
charge it with the political death and 6ectruc.
tion Of Franklin Pierce, who wauders, like
Cam, with the blood of the martyrs of X ansas
on his hands. ] charge it with Offering the
knife Of suicide to James Buchanan, and with
having already dug his political grave deep
and alongside that of Franklin Pierce.
charge it with all our Congressional quarrel.
lings and distractions with fomenting and
setting on foot filbustering expeditions and
causing oil those sores that disfgare and wea.
ken the body polite. AS Christian, charge
it with plunderiDg four millions laborers Of
OF oil their hard earnings from one generation
to another, thus teaching the American people
both by precept and example, the great lie
that stealing is neither a sin nor a shame. I
charge it with taking the Bible away from mil
lions OF its victims, imbruting their minds in
heathensm darkness, and then turning round
in its impudence and cursing the Catholics
for doing the same thing. charge it with
rolling back the tide of Christian civilization
in the South two hundred years and drying
up the fountains Of benevolence and good will
to men for the Sandwich Islanders, who ifty
years ago were worshippng idols, now pay
into the treasury OF the American Board of
Missions more money than all the slave States
of the Union put together. | charge it with
forcing millions OF our citizens and church
members to live in concubnage and universal
prostitution by denying to them the civil
rights of marriage-thus proclaiming another
grand lie, that human beings, in the midst of
such ignorance and pollution, can be fit mem.
bers of the church on earth and hopeful candi.
dates for heaven. charge it with making q
jubilee in hell and mourning in heaven, by
getting up revivals ofslavehoidng religion
a religion that sells its own converts for
money-a religion for whips and thumb
screws, of msnacle and sbranding irons.
The WOmens Rights Convention assembled
the next day in Hall of the Cooper Institute and
as usual, attracted a large number of PERSONS
When | entered. Reverend Mrs. Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, was speaking Mrs. Black
well is woman Of about thirty, rather below
the medium size. She was neatly dressed in
black silk with white collar, dress which is
adapted for all occasions and always becoming.
Her demeanor was that of a modest unpretend-
ing woman with cast of countenance somewhat
sad and subdued in expression. She spoke with