The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-11
THE OLD FIRES RE-LIGHTED,
Everybody Donounced--The Church
Declared a Nuisance,
lnsurrecti0nary Speeches and Resold-
tiOnS.

tons.
The old New Englad anti.slavery convsn-
tion. which tor so many years has been the
pioneer of the radical sentiment of New Eng.
land the bellweather of the republican
party, and the guide, philosopher and friend
of every crazy, malignant, eccentric genius
In 1ankeedom held It's annual meeting We'd
nesday, at the Melodeon. The same old
coons were there that we have been accus
toned to see, with the single exception of
Garrison, who has become conservative, and
his man Friday, Edmund Quincy. Age does
not wither, nor custom stale the Infinite
variety and freshness of their denuncations.
There is "a intellectual vigor about them
which gives raciness to their meetings, and
snoy IRE SO oai4uo- and orrSruaf sIIofT maui
ner one always finds something 1nvigoratIng
In them. The convention was composed ex-
1clusively OF those, who, year ago, were
"loyar' people, and who defined Loyalty to
be . support of the administration, which
was the government. To day, they are as
"loyal" as ever but disloyalty has become
loyalty with them, and they now proclaim
the president and all who support him as
traitors.
I We gave brief account yesterday of the
proceedings attendant upon the opening OF
the convention. In the afternoon session,
\ Stephen S. Foster took the floor and mourn
ed with vehement sorrow that the abolition.
. SITS of the north, turning away from the
friends of the slave took Abraham Lincoln,
4 that slave holder ! and when, for second
time, we of the north took the slave holding
Lincoln again, whom by this time we know
. to our sorrow, and Andrew johnson, who
aho-oA fol npteida nj do than
dent and vici-president, that was our great
crime, and God is oursing us to-day for IT.
johnson to-d-y is president by the voice of
the abolitiopists. Foster said, that in one
year, we must have negro emancipation or
we would see O bloodisr war than that
through which we have just now passed
. The war this time will not be at the south
] but up here, in the streets of cur northern
I cities and in our northern villages, as Frank
! lin Pierce prophesied.
Foster gave An account of the early begin
; ming of the antoslavery movement. when he
and Parker Pillsbury used to beat about q
village a whole day in order to get hall to
, hold a meeting liz aud when the evening
came they would find, perhaps, three men,
one of whom would be drunkard, one q
gambler, and one horse thief, aud he long
ed for the good old times again.
Paying his respect to the church, he said
! the anti slavery men had neglected it too
! long. Some of the friends had thought it
. was improving. He had no faith in its inn
provement. 1t was bad and as rotten
now as it ever was. He would like Pills
, bury to prepare resolution leyelsd at the
ohurch-a rousing one that would send the
probe In deep--a resolution garnished with
quotations of Scripture. saying to the church,
7 ':You are of your father, the Devil, ana his
works We do" ''You are liars from the be-
! ginning" He wanted to give the church
strong doses. lie did not believe in homOe-
pathy, but in full psssori ptions of CAYENNE,
] lobelia, nettles, teszles. and anything else
that would stir them up.
With regard to the war, Foster thought it
was all wrong and he did all he could to en-
barrass it. At first he was in doubt which
/, aide to take. (Applauss and hisses.)
Parker Pillsbury spoke in a cadaYerous
strain. He condemned the action Of the
leaders of the anti-slavery cause in abandon
/ ing their efforts at the breaking out of the
war and in declaring that the south was
B wholly wrong. That was their great mistake.
. Mr.. Pillsbury made the assertion that the
most radical speakers were always the most
rapturously received. The apostle, he said
! gives the rule add to your faith virtue, and
to virtue knowledge" He would reverse the
4 rule and begin with knowledge. That wa.
what the people want. They virtuou:
/. as they know how TO be. In refer.
cnce TO Mr.. Lincoln, the speaker said
b there had been many severe CRITICISMS upon
T Lincoln, but thay wore none too severe; he
i deserved tasm all. Congress, ne said, bend.
|, Its car to the ground, to know what thi,
!. meeting will say to day. Lincoln would give
] worlds if he could recall his last address from
the history of the nation. 1t was 80 far be
hiud what God wills, 1t became necessary
!. that one man should die in order that the Ia
|. ton might live, and that man was him If
| It was a msrcifui visitation from Aimight,
God! To-day we are making it nesiful tina
He again appear We cannonaded tn
!. bred Scott decision all through the war; t.
I day congress is oanouizing that decision.
Doolittle is not the only man in congress wh
, is worthy of that name. They ere all do I'll
I tles-at any rate they could not very we'll
less The church, with all her revivals,
the curse of the country, false to her trus
4 standing in the way of God and humanity.
!, Mrs. Ellen Harper, q colored woman, sal
I the worst enemy of Andrew johnson neve
laid such q snare to his feet as tho republica
| party laid when they took him from Tenne
1 see and placed one life between him and tb
Z presidency. Mrs. Harper made a spsec
very pretty aud imaginative, atfuent In laI
ruage, tender and affecting IN its emotions
Fl p6b6a26b duu pEcScuSoo "ufEo0 COhtfaoS
|, the coarse, wild, frantic blasts of Foster. an
! the more decor Gus manner but equally bite
, spirit of Pillsbury, who had Immediately pr
cedsd her. The audience listened to TIL
. very pleasing speaker with the deepest after
!, ton. She thought rather better of Andre
J johnson than she did Of Henry Ward Beecl
! or. and had rather see the republican part
in the right than in the majority. If she ha
!, vote to give she would vote for Gen'l Ben
f. Butler to direct the freedmen's bureau
he. the first Union general who ever hung
rebel. (Applause) As for JEFF Davis sh
didn't cure whether he was hung up or nun
down. She didn't fear that any body woul
take Wilkes Booths pistol to cut down And,
johnson. If Johnson didn't die till he we
assassinated, the youngest child in the cradl
would 1--we to be three thousand years old be
fore it happened. What she demanded o
the nation was that it should put away it
Chrissless, Godless preiudicss aga;nst the ne
gro and give him fair chance.
Chas. c. Burleigh made an animated sneecb
Wendell Phillips introduced additional rsso
lusions, and Stephen S. Foster Presented tn
following, which, after discussion. by Messrr
Phillips, Foster, Norton, Coffin and Remoni
WAS laid on the table: