The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-13
DAILY LEADER.
THE ANTI.SLAVERY SOCIETY

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n PrOeeedIDEs OF the Thir1y.secOnd An-
j, niversary.--Animated DiseussiOn on
n s0aion 10 Bdi0urn the Society
I 1.-The Notion Lost.
The thirty-second anniversary Of the
American Anti-sIavery Society was held
. in Doctor Chesver's church, in New York
city, on Tuesday and Wednesday Of the
, past week. It wss very interesting meet
ing. The fact that the great work of the
Society was accomplished, and that almost
every one was now an sbolitionst, was fre-
quently referred to, and, In view of this
fact, Mr.. Garrison proposed the dissolution
of the society. The debate on this question
constituted the most interesting portion
of the meeting;
We condense from the New York papers
an account of the proceedings;
The first session of the thirty-second an
niversary of the American Anti-Slavery
Society was held yesterday morning, at
1890 O'CLOCK, in the Church of the Puri-
tans, { Rev. DR.. Cheever's). The heavy fall
Of rain in no way iatertered with the en-
tire numerical success Of the occasion, ss at
$3.50 the spscious edifee was crowded 70 its
fullest capscity Upon the platform sat the
venerable VIM. Lloyd Garrison, the per-
petual President of the Society. Wendell |
Phillips, George Thompson Of England, |
Mrs. Francis Watkins Harper, Thomas
Garrett OF Delaware, Robert PurVis of Phil |
adelphis, Samuel May, Jr., Rev. J. +. Ssr- |
gent Hon. George b. Lincoln of Brooklyn, |
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one or two others Of note. The entrance of /
Messrs. Garrison and Phillips was the signal
for enthusiastic applause and most friendly |
grestiDg on the part Of the audience.
Ths exercises we're opened by singing
Mrs. Julia Ward HoWe's "Bsttle Hymn
of the Republic" reading of the Scrip
tures, and prayer by the Rev. Samuel
May, j..
Wendell Phillips was then introduced
We append two or three extracts from his
speech:
OUR FIRsT IDEA OF THE REBELLION.
Our first national purpose was incar-
mated in the idea that the South was not
sngered but misled not hostile but way.
ward that Ehe loved the Union rs much
as we, and that misled and mistaken IS she
was, 1t was only by msgnsnimity, and an
exhibition Of power, that we could win her
back 10 us. Mcclellan was the exponent
of that idea-he cOntended that no crime
WIS intended That form of war was
made evident by slaves sent bsck TO their
masters, by proclamation that insurrectiOn
should be put down with heavy hand,
by the gusrd over the house of General
Lee while dying men lay shelterless in the
field I; by guard over spring in the
garden while fevered soldiers died of thirst
IN the very sight of the pickets over the
garden, so that wounded soldiers had TO be
carried half mile around the place before
they could reach the hospital. Did it do
any good? The South hugged the delu-
sion to her breast that the North had no
strength, or that we dared not use it, and
what had been the comparatively desplcs-
bic shape of Rebellion, appeared in the
hated guise of civil war.
TWO YEARS AFTER.
Two years and another phrase appears.
Sherman sweeps like q tornado across
Georgia, leaving broad track of desols-
tion behind him, but holding the thunder
bolt of power in his hand. One day he
crossed into South Carolina, and sees three
of his soldiers lying dead with their throsts ,
cut and on their breasts the words "death ,
20 every forsger" Then he spreads the
wings of his desOlsting host forty miles ,
wide, burns every house, leaving neither :
fence nor shed, and man and woman ex- !
cepted, neither biped nor any four-fOOted |
creature, but one dead, uniform violence.
In this guise he marches up to Greensboro,
taking behind him thousands of houseless
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daily bread. They but two years felt Sc {
cure in the quiet of the North; then they
saw the differences. Sherman wroge with
the sharp point of his sword, in letters for
ty miles long, upon the dust of South Gar q
olins, and the astounded Confederscy Z
dropped into pieces, discounted, snnihilA-
ted.
TIE PUNsHMEET OF LEADING REBELS. :
What shall be done to assassins 2 If /,
the hand of Davis, red with the blood OF
our Chief Magistrate, be brought under
the felter, we must leave him IN the charge c
Of tie Government, but when we speak of I
the greatness of the people, aliens, not
rebels, on the other side of the picket, we
ask what shall be the policy Of the Gov
ernmeut, which will the quickest and /,
surest guarantee foe the liberty Of the
negro2 One thousand men banded To-
gether by determined principle, intellectual,
fierce, cunning and brave, are the rebellion.
1t is not ssfe that these thousand men .
should continue to dwell in North America
Living OF dead here is no place for them
Men say jury bss no power to Danish !
citizens. Very likely. never intended
to try public enemy by = jury. sh uld
as soon have expected to ask Washington
TO try by jury the red coats at Bunker Hill.
The idea of jury empsnneled to try JEFF.
Davis rs a traitor would be "lsn entSble
and tragicsl comedy" For four years the
Supreme Court and the United States
Executive have proclaimed, in word and
deed, by proclamation Of blOcksdes,
and by exchange of prisoners, ,
that the mon the other side of the picket
line are public enemies. would have an
act Of Congress select one thousand men,
the leading men of the South, and an
nOunce to the world that these are alien
enemies, and thereby forever forbid, under
pain of death, any one of them icing found
again in our territories. IApplause. An
act of Congress, under the war power, with
no relation TO treason, can declare them
public enemies, aliens, who shall not be
naLurslized, not permitted TO come here
VI course Wu5n tney are Danlsne0 bneI | :
property falls into the hands of the gov
eminent, TO which would sdd that of ten
thousand more, the Fubordinstes in the
conspiracy, who are not strong enough to
be banished, but enough TO be crippled,
and having the land, would then give 1t to
the loyal white and black people of the
South
ANDY JOHNSON.
thank the Lord that there sits holding
the helm of State to-day man who
knows by experience, by the burning Of his
own roof by the exile of his family, and
by the terrible suferings of himself, the
bitterness of the pro-sls7ery caste, and who
has given official utterance to the sentiment
that "treason is crime TO be punished, and
not mere difference of opinion" and to-
day, unless the telegraph tells untrue, he
announces that land and the ballot are
the guarantee of the Union in the hand
of the black man.
After speech from Mrs. Frances W.
Harper, colored, and the singing of another