New-York tribune., 1867-09-13
FRANCE
THE PARIS AsrI-sLAyERr coSstaEYcE.

PARIS, August -. 1867.
Awaiting The complete official report of the
proceedinp, OF the Paris Antsayery Conference,
which will not bc published until many days, being
quite youninous work a brief though necessarily
imperfect account of its sayings and dongs may in.
forest tho readers of THE TRIBUNE II met in the
Sale Herr on Monday and Tuesday afternoons Of this
week 1t was conyoted by the Committee Of the
British and Foreign Anh-Slavcry Society, the Spanish
Abolition Society and the French Society lConiel Of
Emancipation 1t was composed Of delegates from
aut-sayery and kindred societies and bodies Of diff
fcIcnt counties Of persons not dele gate 'ut inter
cstcd in tho antislayery cause, VINO desired 90 he
written down 10 members of the Conference; and OF
visitors who not entitled 20 vote The greatest
number Of persons present either day may haze been
600, which dwindled 10 less than bali that before
the close OF either session. A large majority was
French next in force We're the English. There
were a few SpaniaTds, Haytens, men from the
Antilles, individuals OF other nationaiitic5 some
thirty persons black and colorcd, and twico as many
women After the meeting was called 10 order, the
Duke of Broglie absent by reason Of old age. was
chosen honorary President; I'd. lAbouiaye acting
President; Prince Albert de BrOghe vice. President
FOR France Scbastiano de Olozaga. for Spain; Chas.
Buxton and joseph Cooper, for England John G..
PalTey and " Lloyd Garrison lthe announcement Of
whose name was followed with loud applause i0rte
United States; Gen. DuhO,s (cOlUlel, FOR llayti and
tries. Tho first French Secretary Was Augusiin
Cochin.
Observe now among others two qualities possessed
in cOmman by all the French gentlemen IN this list
of officers politically they all of the opposition
socially they are all of the Interest respectabty-
| and prudence. Excepting such emssaries Of tho
Government disguised III citizens dress out Of re-
! gard 10 the pTciudces OF English aud American
gucss) attended. dOubt if there were three I'M
perialiss in the house But the patent respectabty
of the audience, II not relieved by the presence of
the negroes and women, would have provoked the
suspicion OF one brought up on Our Aboionist meet
ngs OF twenty years sg9 that the maniagng COM
N. Cochin, after reporting the correspondence re-
ceved from absent friends of the cause and reading
select French portions of 1t from GuzOt and Monta
embert, and tho Duke de Broglie spoke well and Ut
some length on the origin and progress of Emancpa
ton. AS he mentioned with due word Of praise to
each one after another the names OF the eminenly
respectable Frenchmen and foreigners distinguished
by their services in the, cause, General
doah Valley and elsewhere during the Rebellion.
interrupted the speaker with And Victor School
cher 1" You need not be reminded that Schoelcher
was from 1879 to 1913 Of the most indefaigable
and efficient advocates OF abolition. His numerous
written arguments upon the sum OF all vlllanes" and
of all bunges published during those twenty years
were sustained BY severe closet study and by study
from personal observation in Mexico, Cuba, the
United States, nearly all the West India islands,
Egypt, and the west coast of Africa. 1t was under
his presidency, and owing TO him more than TO any
other one man. that the commission drewup the de-
crees Of April o. 1913, that abolished Immediately
Slavery i'll French colonies. NJ. Cochin assured Blr
Cluseret that would be forgotten ana presently
did introduce the of Schoelcher with high COM
pmentary words, adding that unlike some, when
arrived at power he kept his promises a
phrase in which portion of the, natives
present, found OF, made on allusion that they
underscored with loud hand-clapping But Victor
Schoelcher is Red Republican; hc is not Catholic
nor yet a church Protestant. His name was not men
toned again that day nor the next Victor Hugo's
was barely mentioned. and but once That of Bishop
Gregoire or any other of the French revolutionary
that an Slavery Conference held in Paris offered
fit occasion to do much honor to tho Emancipation
acts OF the old repubc,or of the republic OF lSfS
to the antiSlavery efforts Of individual French Re-
publicans. The Duke de Broglie, the Bishop of Or
leans, Monseigneur Dupanloup had large-not un-
merited certainly but rather rdsproportionate-pac