The New York herald., 1862-05-08
THE ANNlvER RSARIES.
New York City Anti-SIayery Society, American
Tract Society, the American Tract
Society Of Boston,

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New York City Anti-Siavery Society.
sPEEeHEs OF THEODORE rILrON AND WENDELL
PHILLIPS.
The anniversary OF the New York City Anti-Slavery
Society was held aast evening in the Cooper In
stituie The audience large and respectable, and
was presided by Dr. HARTr who, after few intro
ductory remarks which no alluded to the assertion o
the enemies OF the society that il dead introduced
tho Hutchinson family, who sang or their character
tstic antissiavery melodies.
THSoDoRR TLIoN of tho Independent, the first
speaker. He said chat freedom owed debt speech
and what the nation needed than victory the
spoken word of free people 70 s government demand
Sng tones OF thunder that henceforth that liberty shall
be the of all classes and coors knitting the
nation INTO one brotherhood, calling down upon us the
blessing of God, who the Father Of all. The story
of American slavery never could be told, for herosm
suiering would be its record. lie aladed to the
song OF John Brown which the soul OF all the
laws Congress and the proclamatons Of the President
That sign Of the times. Another sign was
that the old genteman's asylum (the Tract Society
In Nassau street) publishing Wberforce's speeches
slavery delivered fifty five years ago. He warned
his eloquent friend who to follow be careful Of
what said for Tract Society might be publishing
his speech fifty hence. daughter and appiause)
n the was 70 be slavery must
be left entirely The question was, how should the
slave power be buried under the ground He believed
that the Confscation bill would not tend to wipe away
system would do something The proposition
to co onZe the slave would settle the question Nor
could the States in rebellion finally determine the matter
There was only way which was safe, just humane
and agcous and that the lifting OF the right
OF the power for tine blow of universal
He quoted Patrick Henry OF Virginia. TO show that the
constitution, in clear and unequvocal terms gave the
government the power to emancpate the slaves He be-
sved that before the ends Congress would issue
edict giving emancipation. Mr. Tton said the rspresen
tative OF the last administration James
Buchanan. of whom it would be said, in the language of
Shaxspere-sJames OF Lancas ter thou hast deceived
me- He had faith in the government but greater faith
In the people. Hesnbscrbed heartily TO the sentiment,
" Voz popaii, De; bat wished that the sentiment
reversed. II by OF the early efforts Of
the abotonisis that the government enabled to
subdte the slave power.
WENDELL PHILLIPS introduced amid great applause
He said that the people had to the conclusion that
engaged ID u war; but six months at
II before Mr.. Seward woke up to thatiact The anti
slavery enterprise was launched on the idea that
were civilized people We believed that the millennium
of brains had come and not bullets We were right
far the north Of the Potomac was concerned but
forgot that the nineteenth century. with its types and
ideas linked like the classic legend to the dead
Of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the
bar arbarsm and tn half development of the other side
Of the Potomac President Lincoln honest man,
but sou moving machine 1t took him to the 4th oi
March TO prepare bis message and felt in the language
OF another TO have God Almighty his side; but he
have the State of Kentucky He believed that the
President would wait till next March before he took
another step forward he took long strides only
a y1ar. lie thought it would, If the people
urged him ahead little, be q great advantage.
The speaker alluded the mission Brigadier General
Saxton to South Carolina and affirmed that he
the theory hat there was no corporation known to the
law stylei the State of South Carolnn The military
general carried the republican platform with him. that
the Territories of the United States ignored slavery.
The people ht demand this Of the republican party
and he hoped Saxton would know nothing but citizens.
he did not the duty OF the people to arraign
ana criticize the government Our civilization in the
North of ideas. education labor. He held
that the South be snnihated not the Territorial
South, but the South that offered i've thousand dollars
r.. 1.~.A Aafurx lAylG
would peace nor union till the South in that
sense was annhilated. He thought had constitu-
aicnal power do ~ but IL lad not il would not
trouble him ia the least for he did think nations
'hiewAs locked up in parchment The citizens OF New
England whosmigratedto Illinois did so with the un-
derstandn that The Mississippi was to be theirs The
South sad-i'I load my cannon in order that may
initiate Massachusetts She accepted the challenge. and
her being the aTges and the strongest she would
anninilae her instead. He did not believe that Jc1 Davis
had than 800 900 but he would Gght big
battle somewhere before he yielded The North had
conquer arms, and had also arnihate state Of
mind. Mr.. Phillips, in bitter and sarcastic strain
spoke Of the Darbarismof the SOUTH claiming that the
Southern did not know how to open jackknife. He
suogzed Burnside for putting confidence in the inorma
zion given him by eortraband. and he (Burnsde) had
said that long he had loaf he would share with
the msn who gave him Roanoke. Could the American
people afford TO give up the OF four millions of such
peopes He thought the Union army would not do much
until got rid of of generals for he claimed
the right Of having the Northern idea represented all
the south He paid tribute TO the energy OF the
Secretary OF the Navy, and said that it not in the
Cabinet but in public opinion that TO find the
strength OF Tor this Mr.. Philips
tnued great ength, and in conclusion said that there
spot the OF the earth where the Stars
and Stripes would not protect the American citizen
except the fifteen save States The question was
whether the citizens af New York and MassachM-
setts should be protected by tho laws Of the
Union wherever tho stars and stripes carried And
order accomplish that the people should demand
OF President Lncoa that hen south Caroipa had givea
him the sword his hand to cut the neck OF the
which had hitherto made her alien amoug her sisters
and that he shall it in the name OF justice and God.
Loud calls were made for hr. GARRsoS who rose and
In few remarks said that the hour hadcome when the
nature OF the contest in which they were engaged was
beginning 10 be nteiigently understood He conf
dent that the people only needed to clearly comprehend
the struggle to lead them TO rise for the
honor the glory and the unity OF common republic,
and decree the abolition OF slavery, shat by the
freachey and rebellion OF the South that power put
into the hands Of the government. lie Tor the
osaerty Of the country; and he believed that the
wealth of the North would be greatly augmented and
consequently the and prosperity of the South
there could be liberty throughout the land. After
couple OF songs from the Huchinsons the audience dis
perSsd.