Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-02-24
LOCAL NEWS.
VIM. Lloyd GarriSon,s Lecture.

VIM. Lloyd Garrison, well known through
out the country as an original abolitionist and
opponent OF the peculiar institution for 80
years past, during which time he edited and
published, at Boston. the anti-slayery paper
known as the "Liberator," lectured last eve
ming at the Union League Rooms, on 9th street
to an audience of two or three hundred ladies
and gentlemen. There were a few colored peo-
pie present. There is nothing of the enthusi-
est about this pioneer of the anti slavery move
ment. He is practical looking parsonage
rather clerical in his manners and dress, past
middle age, with a spare but 1.-THE frame, a
bald head, keen eyes, and benevolent expires.
His subject was sLiberty Victorious" and
he commenced by review of the past, showing
versal freedom While rejoicing at the sun.
preston OF the rebellion in the South, and the
abolition OF slavery the North ought to re-
member with shame and humiliation her COM
piIclty In the cause Of slavery for over seventy
years.
The South seeded under an administration
and President of their choice. But to say that
she has been guilty Of the blackest perfidy and
treason does not 60 to the root Of the matter
What was done at the North by the pulpit the
press, by attempted mobocracy, by all the
influences OF social opinion TO increase their
demands, multiply concessions and crush out
every spark of manhood. How obsequiously
the Southern slave lords were nattered and
soil.
The South had for years dragged at her
chariot wheels the entire North, except few
early abolitionists were compared to Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego, who Were cast into
the furnace because they would not worship
the idol; but, thank God. the South was led to
dig her own pit and fall into il. Where are
now the boosters, the braggarts, the cavaliers 7
Is one Southerner still equal to six, eight, or
ten Yankees Do the stars and bars float over
our Capitol, or the glorious stars and stripes
What has become of the impregnable holds
which were never to fall before the assaults of
the mudsills of the Northl How about KING
on Tl<NF Al.
or the rail-splitter Where, oh where, is the
Bombastes FHrioso OF Virginia Henry A
Wise and what has become Of the boastful
Georgian who was to dictate terms to the
North from Bunker Hinl Hark from the
Toonlbs. The South reaped as she sowed. The
North, as her former guilty accomplice, also
received her retribution.
The former state of parties was here IL
Illustrated by the story of David and Goliah,
closing with the question, where now is ihe
siayeholding Goliah 2 Sac semper tyrannis.
The sublimest and most far-reaching event
of modern times, he said, was the adoption by
three-fourths Of the States Of the Constitutional
Amendment, forever abolishing slavery
throughout the length and breadth Of our
country. As an abolitionist he was fully yiH-
dicated at length by this great national verdict
1t was the national confession Of the truth OF
anti-slavery doctrines.
If on this occasion he should proceed to speak
In Jubilant strain, it would not be in forget
fulness OF what remains to be done for the ele-
walton Of the freedmen. He knew the condl-
he threw down his gauntlet to the slave power
some thirty years ago. and in the name of the
God OF Justice, challenged it to mortal combat.
At that time he had everything to discover in
the all-pervading Egyptian darkness now all
things were made manifest in the light He
was no visionary enthusiast, intoxicated by
past success, disposed to lie down on enchanted
ground in dreamland But he did not approve
of the disposition displayed among some anti
slavery men to look at the dark side Of things
because millions Of race who but yesterday
were registered with cattle and swine are not
to-day clothed with all that belongs 10 full and
complete citizenship, and because the old slave.
holding spirit yet survives the accursed slave
spirit.
The present question was not whether there
is not disposition in the pseudo loyal South
to render the condition OF the emancipated as
miserable and degraded as possible; nor whether
there are not frequent outrages perpetrated
upon them. These are facts which are con-
hrmed from every quarter. The real question
was whether the advocates of equal rights for
all had ever lost an inch of ground, or on the
other hand had not steadily advanced toward
the goal Of absolute equality before the law;
whether, IL the sun is not yet at high noon, the
morn Is not radiant with light. How strange,
he said, the announcement sounds from the