The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-13

NeAShsS 1eeeneE ana Garrison
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. IL.
Three thousand were present at the
meeting of the American Freedmep,s
Aid Commission at the Academy oil
Music. Bishop Menvaine was present,
Rev. DR.. Yarrall, also Of the Episcopal
Convention, opened the meeting With
prayer, and other members indicated
their sympathy by their presence. The
meeting was the tirstFthat has been hold
here since the consolidation of the loC1ll
into the national societies, BfshoD Mo
Itvaine made a noble speech brief far
vent and grateful, for the extinction Of
slavery, next to the restorafio ION S5f. me
Union. God has shown ,us the way q
national peril and disgrace by removing
the mountain that lay across our patfS.
The time will come when every one M
the South VIII say TINT Slavery WINS nj
ways n curse, ms we said It was, md a
dellyerRnee Of liberty-alI we claim for
In oar hands. Good will come ont al n
but Judgement, II We dOnot do our duty
! by them IN their education and The de-
VelopinE OF their manhood. 49, - =
bishop Simpson, Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, referred to whnt
philadelphia Ind done for this cause.
a year ago there was pledged ana rais-
9
dollHfss Other localities had worked
literally. Now the effort was made
national The ,FreedmeIlis Aid Conn
mission referred to the wants. OF dive
million of blacks. HeiOfercd special
reasons for the effort. We were friends
~ To the South, md would furnish them
win what they cannot furnish. Six
hundred and my teachers arSi there
now at IN expense OF five hundred dol
lars apiece nearly. We need two hmm
dred teachers. We are gladltO nGlrrlbTI-
edge the presence in person and letter
OF The great representative head of the
chfisliiln and Sanitary Commissions
A letter from Gen, Howard,yyas read
ana Kew. DR.. Bellows made a powerful
adLlresS-, He said he was an outsider.
nut had been busy in an0Ehet great ma.
uonnl organization. He told how The
sanitary Commission grew by or6aiii-
5alllons until, when II called, indeed Il
n!i'l o1etla ms pepple to stOpBivfng.
Much of tho work OF this CoTfniissi6n
was to educate the north to lose their
prejudice against the blacks, It win
require faithful, capable, well paid
agents. We should depend ON nothing
spontaneous, but organize eVerVWhere
STATE local, country and village sOcie.
Henry Ward Beeeher made Tho ,,.r,,,s,
speech Of. the evening, on the naifonsI
need Of elevatIng the cOlOred man. and
defending the necessity ON natiSnSi
grounds Of giving him 4 vote. He I,qI
viewed the history of the slavery moi
tAtion and tho events OF the past SH-
years, and with alternate ridfcuIe and
argument exposed the wrong on tboSe |
who deny the blacks citfzenshi,, III, |
showed that there Is no plac, in 6f1r in
stiIntions for an intermediate clSSs
WliltamI. Garrison made the Ciosjns,I
SPeecn, IN the course Of which he tools |
occasion to deny the Louisville DeToz |
e ~. story that Secretary Seward Eiib-
~ the Mississippi Constitution. 20 |
MN IN ana Governor Andrew. He nnde
a q noble argument ON the humanity or
the movement. .,i'F ~ - y Y
The meeting was tho largest ever hold
LOT i.li,, the freedmen In the country, and
VIII nobly inaugurate the mOvement /
called Tor 70 elevate thcm, to eidcSte |
PUBLIC opinion, and 70 so impress Cow |
f1sii4!slent that 1t shall not dare 10 ne1-
neg Us duties to these people. ~
AT the Illinois State Fair Mt Chicago
representatives.. Of two rival aTt,Ae;sI
leg establiahmeiits had n I,,oII,I,,s.
iL.i9atcn The victor made hiS mia ~ ~
minutes. IT p M ! - z - w - IN ~