The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-30
NEW ENGLAND ANTI SLAVERY Y
SOCIETY,"

THE observation-disclosures OF WENDELL PHILLIPS.
BOSTON, May 29.-The thirty.seyenth annual
anniversary of the New England Anti.Slavery
Society was held to-day. A series of resolutions
were adopted, the first of which declares, "That,
S, ~ TIv ioIs sumHe.lng m Oh Inis naIlon under Lne
had It's perfect work, and in such in-judged for
bearance we recognize not the virtue of a great
magnanimity, but the folly and wickedness OF
ashort-sighted moral sense, and connivance
at wrong"
The resolutions further protest against any
longer denial to the colored people of all the
social and political rights to which they are so
clearly entitled; they allude to the Mobile riots
as evidence of reviving insolence of the de.
feated Rebels, and Of their determination to
re-enact resistance to the legal and loval an.
thorities of our Government on every available
opportunity; they denounce the shameful reti-'
cence OF the so-called Christian pulpit on these
vital themes, and declare that the release OF
Jefferson Davis proves the South still trium-
phant in the Executive Councils, and calls fora
large measure of conhscation of Sou uthern lands,
to give the negro race, that basis of Independent
action without which the ballot is so often
Wendell Phillips, as usual, was the leading
speaker. In the course of his remarks he re-
ferred to the release of JEFF. Davis, and said
Horace Greeley seems to think that ali we want
is to punish Mr.. Davis, but we can disregard q
hundred thousand Davises He is weed, in O
personal sense, upon the surface of present
affairs; his only value is as the index of the
purpose of the Northern people. "When the
Executive released Jefferson Davis, to my
mind" the speaker said, sit was q bid Of
Andrew Johnson for the support of ten States
Horace Greeley, and conquered. Now, the
Union League Club OF New York repre-
sents the most decisive and energetic minds
OF the Republican party of New York and are the
strongest of the radical ring OF that party; and
when the leader OF that party attempts to cover
and protect the leader of the Rebels. they dare
not rebuke him. They forget the great epoch OF
the nation" Mr.. Phillips also saId:-T think
Horace Greeley has not the first conception of
the beginning of the epoch in which he lives,
God means him for sim ple-hearted, inoffen-
sive man, hut he supposes himself to ibe an
acute knave. The fact that his own comrades
and the country presses of his own party dare
net rebuke him, Is lamentable fact" In regard
to the Presidential election of 1858, Mr. Phillips
said 1.-THE country can bear the defeat of a
nominal radical, but we can't survive the elec-
JIon of u Grant or q Senator Sherman"
The speaker said he could not consider the
country safe or the great question of the war
settled until the purpose of the North is written
in the Constitution, and the United States has
got the right to construct schools for the chill
dren born its territory, and when every
black person at the South may have forty acres
of land for his own within ten miles of his
birthplace, and the right to use the ballot and
appeal to the ballot-box TO protect him in the
enjoyment of life and property. Mr.. Phillips
in closing said he should not feel satisfied with
the efforts of the radicals until the name of a
black man has been placed upon the ballot for
Vice. President, for the purpose of strengthen
ing the party.
The Hon. Henry Wilson was called,upon to
address the Convention, but he excused him