New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-08
THE ANNIVERSARIES;

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and not black man among Ig Of IS ifs' Il S Was
once was in violation Of te lIncpva "a ,hG D; ~ man
sSspeoSs Of proper execution o. the biz and lt Mt
fuIther 6aS Tom The black e that st great lesson
Mai he could have given b IN the art OF Winnie of
There he stood SPSSp S thTssG SSd 81 first act
Commanding genera is TO thrust HIM i roi the whole
and that b WAS sSai WpeS constitute Louisiana
board OF three registers have Deea e. a White man.
parish ESs one Main 9' to those have The doctrine gs
eoua rights at heart-who thlnk ,nc Who DO not think
MOI 70 70 be- machine 10 get politicians IN c Was
ahe order of the Genead ad pyons 5under in policy
an not dispOsed the slightest GeeIee, 20 I e 4Ie
General lor Nm an erroneous systemthe system OF placing
fbe task Of organizing the kepubhc IN - he
81 oi.,1 hands The military man does not reasoning
obeys Ii not ms function 10 devise hut u IS ls ta
20 execute what another commands MN ~ az The
When the General commanding the Dep3rttShS " t
Snf 1.-THE speaker went on to say was asked IhoLe
any means ~ he SOS Of July last he said there were
that he could have forbidden the C0hSe' Sroto
meet body of American citizens, assembled 10 aeoye
on their IN n affairs IN an orderly way that Is 10 sly
could have been denied Their Ights ny l 6 lave 6een
eraL lie further said that the massacre e8u nav ed
prevented by placing over the CGSenoR dl the ap
force but such an act would not as ta pSror Of that
sieneIal what rank had he ataine3I t9r lhis lI,
,S SOeT stTea he was T Tex 6qs o. pPae
blame should rest upon those WHO llatea ti,is
t;eneral there and did not allow him to protect Ameri
can citizens in their rights When 1t was dehQNssra,Cu
that all men, black and white were h4t lt Tor @ Ie
oysn 70 he fsilUrc and the black flag Slavery might
aSan NEAT oye @ Should be framed that would
prohibit every State from manng any diS ~ i " Hn
panse When that was done and edataoh T b one
roiticaiy for the black man, making him perpetual
eJEen and placing the guardianship OF MS AnCl y H i
der hisown conscience ana his own uhucls'"NOie' ny
The rev Mr. CHADWICK of Brooklyn was then intro,
need ana said that they had met today 10 rejoice anu
ratfy the progress made IN the good Worh ol Wv r
years There something TO be done rs yet LoWeNC'
T., hot a1 ignorant
remained urmpeached Congress had done coOd WQIk
and lust but much remained to DO done, and the anti;
slavery Society had to DO the work We must D3 oie
The merit of being available. Andrew Johnson was, a.
The time q lis Hsr election e ~ very Ge SOUTH must be put
on sound poclbaSis, though every negro shOuu WY
amended hat every negro south. wen wei as North
shall have vote without any 0istncu,En NnatCt 49,
genera nav G mai system fer the universal education
of Americans We want tins country on basis OF intel
Bgcnce and education. We do not want an eaueaIona
Trcss The poor and neducaed the events Of the few
past months have profed. Men like Wendell Philips
aud John Blight and Mazin and gallant people INC tT
Cretans arc arrayed at this janeuIe al me WOllo over
ayeTy and the SPEAKER hoped that The good fight would
20 until even two links of the cham lenaneG %
IN brief remarks relating comic s9y cpe9te
IIshman pig and The day 81 gag 2G sd MTm @
evening Mr. Philips having announced that MISS DICK
inson would speak at the evening meeting
Ats o'clock the meeting was called to order Ivy the
President and after announcement by the secretary
O'clock to-day, Miss Dickinson not having arrived,
che Presidents after stalhg the IaSt anu sa!e oo &c
would leave the platform when she appeared spoke as
Follows
This now the SOth Anniversary which have come 10
Eew-Yok TO neghboring city to attend in the
service Of tie American Anti Slavery society IL Is thirty
years since first pledged myself to the principles EN-.
bodied in The Constitution OF hS sGee gH ~ Of
the great and broad principle at TIE root OF our
the buoyaut enthusiasm OF young man OF 2Cconhdent
as yong men generally are Al TINS point MIS- d RiEK
stratiCns Of applause by the audience MI Phillips
paused; but the audience as well as Miss DICKINSON IN
sting that he should proceed, he continued say pro-
nOunced the shbboeth Of the Society with that enthusiasm
confident Of a largo reserve of strength and lavish
amount OF opportunity &c that we can throw away any
then Ike most Americans perfectly ignorant 81 Wh a
had been brought up most Americans are, in an un
qualified admiration md acceptance OF the great KepqD
sttutions were both criticized and admired was 9
that day, especially in New England, regarded
Webster as rom great a of % TaTsPed Henry aG nR as
the great American orator r ana ALMOST c ,rS bnd
ana FO Spd 1ne ycpc 1d
the belief that in il was enshTned all American virtue
grown up under its influence ! had no idea-not the
sghtest-of the lifelong battle Of the great DEEPEN
chOTed evil, which we were eneOuJteI1ng WITHIN le53
and the years which Immediately followed il,
the great denial, for many years, the
anent out Of this blind admiration for Democratic nstitu
count lawyer held ali the technical reliance the
safeguards of Saxon liberty. puzzled rather than
wholly unrecognized theory OF Institutions was
mob power-aD abnormal element which nobody had
counted on In the analysis Oh the system lot tlose II
regular actions check, no balance, had been
provided, The gun which was aine9 az the
sipp brought me 10 my feet. conscious that
tory Death Then the hrst time think Abolition
lists began TO realize the deathGappe 10 which they had
AT H.
time, we !" saw men az tIees walking we sun put
Slavery of at distance. We saw the trunk OF the tree
growing out Southern SOIL without the slightest con
eeption that its brOadTeachng roofs lts lhhnmefaDe
aTbOrs penetrated even TO New-Engand-tbat the
and stifed intellect that the tones OF its yren voice, like
that OF Calypso, turned politician and statesman alike
actual condition Of one honest Abo0nst at least in
those early days. IL long, long time; many many
that Slavery, like the ansOcratic element IN England,
like the Catholic element in Italy, had poisoned every
the flag hoated that was glad 10 do il obesanee
It long long time before began to learn that the
poet sang only Of its praises that the merchant with III
stinctiye sagacity shrank from disturbing its guelude
that the historian nodded his rec0d and the chuch6af
ter No matter where the Ithuriel spear OF the anti
slavery movement touched the American people, it
stirred up the fiend No matter how horTid the
masks that played all the several parts-nOw calling
itself Literature and now Religion, History and
Politics and now Trade, when tore OF the mask the
hdeous features were behind it-a sneerng aud
bberng specteT This America. Ten, twenty thirty
years in the thick OF the tight revealed the depth the
disease, the wide extent OF the We were called
biased critics; only told the truth We called
uncharitable speakers only quoted what men had
been proud to say We put on record without word
looked at IT, and in the cold light OF his own retirement
IN the subdued light OF his friends, he shrnk back
words. Well, you know the rest Of the history. After
this long battle aiter I'M; dread experience after hs
believer IN American State and American Church, when
itself when Dgng aside AL DISCUSSES. tramping under
foot all pleasant terms denying the North all the pre-