The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-08
AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.
Thirty-FOurth Anniversary-Addre
by Wendell Phillips and Miss Anna f.
DfchinsOn.

VhtryYsFOurth Ey-AuuTeBbeb
by Wendell Phillips and Miss Anna f.
Dickinson.
From the Ne,O York papers of to-day.
The American Anti-Slavery Society con-
tinued their anniversary exercises last evening
at Steinway Hall, Wendell Phillips, President
of the Society, acting as chairman. The meet
ing was called to order at halt-past Z o'clock,
when the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was
performed on the organ and sung by the
audience. The Chairman announced that he
had intended that Miss Anna L. Dickinson
should be the first speaker, but that as she
had not yet arrived, he would open the meet
ing himself, and would leave the platform
when she came.
REMARKS BY WENDELL PHILLIPS.
This is now the thlrtieth anniversary which have
come 10 New York or or to some neigho9ng city TO
Society 1t is thirty years since first pledged myself
Society. I'd dd il rather from impulse than from any
distinct understanding of the great and broad prncl-
sf OF IL The o9E oc %h the
renee Of young man. confident as young men men
entered the hall and was loudly 9 9apploud!ed poud!Hl
he speaker Sn Oa5 msa @ aGy ES0gI
her preference to walt, Mr.. Phillips continued
the society," With s the indeTepce which young men
usually entertain towards such questions confident
opportunity SO that we can thrw away any quantity
iike" ike" most Americans, pro Oundy ignorant Of what
slavery was or low strong the slave ystem itself
in an unqualified admiration and acceptance OF the
great republican and eulOgstc tone in which our In
stitutiOns were both criticized and admired. was
hero worshpper hardly anything else N EnSe ElSe
land, / regarded Webster the great states.
mas and almost an orator, and from afar fl
worshipped Henry Clay as the great American
orator and almost statesman. (Laughter) For the
Church, had been bred in an unmiXed and an un-
enshrined all of American virtue, and that most that
is good in institutions had grown under its
huence. had no idea, the slightest of the life
were encountering The mobs of '35, and of the
that Immediately followed it, the great denial for
moment out OF this blind admiration for democTat
institutions. They were phenomena Tor which 1
reliance ON The safeguards Of Saxon liberty /
was puzzled rather than astounded by the fact that
outside OF the law, and wholly unrecognzed i'm the
| theory of institutions, was a mob bower an
abnormal element which nobody had counted in I'm
actions no check no balance had been be
gun which fired at the breast of Elijah LoVe,ov
on the banks of the Mississippi brought me to my
feet, conscious, tOo that stood in the presence of
| power whose motto was, "Vctory or Death" Then
for the first time, think. Abolitonists began to
| ngly Joined At least 1 did. But STILL for a long
| time we saw men as trees walking We still put
| slavery of at a distance. We the trunk Of the
tree growing Southern soi talked oft as tar-
off Institution We had the slightest conception
that its broad reaching roots It's innumerable flores
sosSees ssd intseo that the Calls Of It's syTen SHS
statesman alike into brutes glad 10 do It's bidding
am describing at least the actual condition OF one
honest abolonist in those early days. Itwss long
my head before could realize that slavery, like
the aristOcrRtie element in England, like the
II touched; that there was Inch OF ground moral
WRs moi ElRa 70 dOlt ObesRncs, u WRa IODg' Ions