New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-10
ss...r. Peters and Biddle, and Messrs- Rieard ana
u,,r CRY ANTI-sLAvERY SOCIETY.

Tho City Ant-Slavery Society held its anniversary
,ast evening in the Cooper Institute, Mr. OLIVER
IouxsoS nresid;ug The large hall was filled, although
an admission was charged at the door, The platform
as 40 densely crowded that the seats OF reporters
were appropriated by others
A. TuropoRE TILToN was the first speaker. lie
Attended the existence of the Abotonists the lead
ers Of leaders. Those same Republican leaders at
whose feet the people sat, themselves were compelled
10 come and sit at the feet OF Wendell Phillips Inc
Republican party needed agitation IL was still IN favor
of the Fugitive Slave Law. Mr.. FELTON, declared that
when Gardner Spring said the Bible no agator,
he slandered the Word of God. Loud hlsses and APP
plausel Infdelity, he said, the religion OF the
ffth-avenue churches arrertng the divinity OF Christ,
but DENYING the humanity OF man. lhehe"eu ni'e''
and applause ..,
closing with that of meeting of sympathy win
Tbaddeus HYATT, lgreat applausel, 10 be held on
Friday evening in that hail. and TO be addressed by the
Rev. Dr. Cheeyer, Wendell Phillips and Sauuei T.
Sewell, esq. ,,,,.h, T..
Announcing the Woman's Rights Convention to-day
and Tomorrow which he said would demand ior
woman the right to the ballot. General smiles lie
sa;d that thew need not smile; il would come in due
time He doubted not that be would yet address a
meeting in New-York at which women as well az men
would be making up their minds as to whom they
would vote for for President and as to whether Mr.. A.
II. or Mrs. II. G. would make best Governor OF the
State Laughter and applause. MIR. Phillips defended
the agtatory policy of the Anti Slavery Society tie
said that the Constitution the weathercock on the
steeple he went for the wind. Kisses and applause
IL made no difference what Washington and Jefferson
thought would be effect of the Constitution; was the
ugli fact which we had to deal with The Car was
striking off the letters of his slaves, and the Sultan had
striker off the letters of his. AT the same tme IN TINS
country the Christian Churches were employed IN de-
nouncng the chief opposer of Slavery IN tins country
as infde The Church reminded HIM OF the saying Of
Humboldt The chameleon is the only animal tha
lean look with ono eye heaven and with the Other
"to the earth; it's Just like priest The religious
continent reflected the average sentiment OF the com
mercal enterprise of the country. Ministers were
men. :, So.
He did not blame the pulpit for this he blamed il for
pretending TO represent the New Testament and the
mind of Christ. In new, fresh country like ours the
greatest mind must be drafted into the channels OF ma
sorbed the deepest mind We had neither literature,
nor pulpit nor craftsmanship that could get out of the
mine OF Wall street In any c. ;he small towns lhe
FIVE six rich give the moral and religious zone
The pulpit of the United States had become but the
servant of the broker and the factory. Hawthorne in
the preface his Marble Faun, spoke of the difficulty
of writing romance Of country referring to Amer
ica) in which there shadow, no picturesque OF
gloomy wrong And yet every sixth man was 9
slave A statesman murdered in the Senate; Dr. Ad
ans whom God omitted TO put soul into, mnlsterinl
in Boston That American literature, the Shakes
peare of the Western Continent. Now for the states
inanship. Mr.. Seward would vault into the Pres
deney. The horse was high, and the saddle short
What Was he trying to make his saddle-bloek II
would steal plank from the glbbet OF John Brown
from the cross Of the 18th century, to mount into tn
Devils throne. Kisses and applause. William III
Seward get his foot on America trembling under he
first Apostle John Brown, and he says of him jur
eosus he was rightly hung. If he believed it, Go
help him; if not God help the country. No man wit
Chicago in his eye would care to say anything else
This meeting was held tonight, not TO free the blac
man in the Carolinas, but TO achieve for VIM. II
Seward the liberty to speak what he thought. I'll
(Mr. Phllips) mouse, and he tAr. Seward wa
lion, bat he gnawng the net which held tn
lion. In 1889, Henry Clay made speech twinerothe
TO Vim. III. Seward. He digged has own pit. Kisses.
He was glad that the American people had outgrow
|, him. If Mr.. Seward missed the Presidency becaus
be had stopped too low for it he thanked God for tn
N FAKE of the people. They were going TO hold NEE
10; y,-strong-mnded women, and reputatione
men. But they were, because William 7. Fessende
another candidate for the Presidency, said be had vo
for the Committee, and he should vote for the powe
they claimed, stopping only to consider whether b
vote would save the Republican party. In America
was thought malignant philanthropy If we would M
give statesmen the credit of telling lies. Carl Schur
told him that Six OF seven years ago IN Germany
German scholar spake of Everett to him as the cap
sheaf of our literature, and as an AbOltionst Mr.
Schurz unfolded TO his friend the doctrine of Hunker
ism and explained Mr.. Eyerett's position, and that h
was not an Aboitionst. why" answered hi
friend, IL thought Mr.. Everett was decent mau.
That was the way it struck stranger. Auburn states
manship and Jesusm. The very spirit which
breathed from every word OF Stewards speech wa
1pmatus LOyola. The people We're to blame. The,
were poor miserable rasteboard limitations OF Seward
They had all the baseness, and none OF the good in
teDtOns.
Mr.. WV. LLOYD GARRISON said that those who lei
wears ago could bear his Gghtest word, could
swallow his rifle. They were all AboitiOnSts. The
all loved liberty and desired to be free. There wa
not a soulfhere that would not kinde with indignation
if fetter were profered TO it. Apply the Gode
Rule to this Tue Almighty never yet created san
mind thai did not know thatiSlavery was wrong. III
was glad of the enterprise of John Brown II teste
Anti-Savery men. They said il was instgatedby Gid
dines, Hale and Wade. But be thought Il was insti
gated bv Patrick Henry ond the Constitution of Viz
GINA The sentiments of the civilized world ais
responsible forit. measured the right of the slave
by the Bunker Hill Monument. He peace man
but if men wanted to fight for liberty he would not stan
in the way. This was a Christian nation, a Bible be
Eevng nation. lie asked that they should break ever
yoke and let the oppressed 60 free And they callet
him infdel Mr. Garrison continued Al length.
Mr.. johnson in conclusion, introduced Mr. THoNA
GARRETT of Wilmington, Del, as one of the con
duct0rs of the Underground Railroad, who had for
warded more than ?, 100 slaves.
The Society adjourned at late hour.