The New York herald., 1869-05-13
The American Amti-siavery S0cieiy-Wen.
dell Phillips tejoices.

dell Phillips RejOices.
Thrty-six years ago the American Anti
Slavery Society was started in this city for the
abolition of Southern slavery project which
at that day and for twenty years afterwards
was considered as involving the abolition of tn e
Southern States. In fact, the ruling ideas of
the society were to cut off the slave States in
order that We might have 'no union with
shareholders" and to abolish the constitution
He'll" 1t was blind, headlong, fanatcal,
| revolutionary, abolition movement, and its first
notable effect was the creation of an equally
fanatical disunion movement in the South for
the security of slavery. Thus between the
disuniOn abolitiOnists of the North and the dis
union pro- slavery fire-eaters of the South for
twenty odd years, ON the slavery agitation,
our political parties, North and South, were
knocked about like shuttlecocks, till the
famous year 1860, which sounded the death
knell of slavery and the Southern slavehold-
ing oligarchy, with the Charleston collapse of
the democratic party.
Now, after thirty-six years since its christen-
ing, this Anti-Slavery Society meets to find
that its work Of abolition and equal rights is
so thoroughly accomplished that its leaders
have nothing left to talk about but the preju-
dice of color. Hence, with nothing else to
abolish, they have now undertaken the task
of abolshing this prejudice This will last
them some time-that is, until Barnum' nigger
turning white shall have completely changed
his skin to the fashionable tint The society
this year in their resolutions declare -
1. Their profound gratitude for the progress OF
liberty
2 That the fifteenth amendment IS the capstone of
5; That President Grant, in ignoring color is up to
the mark of his high calling.
T. That the government Is still too slow in putting
q stop to blO0dshed down South.
8. That the prevailing prejudice against color in
the New York hotels Is very bad.
isfactlOn that the black Lieutenant Governor OF
Louisiana has been cOurteOusly received in New
York.
Z. That they expect to see this inhuman prejudice
Of color subdued without the aid Of the churches.
s. That Southern reconstruction rests on education
and the division Of the lands into small lots.
That the proposition to cheat the freedmen Of the
District OF Columbia out OF their voice in Its govern
ment ~ perfectly outrageous.
TO- That aboiitiOnlsts must still keep up the fire
for all the rights Of all human beings
Compare these with the society's string of
resolutions OF, say ten years ago, and mark
the change. Then the detail of living out
RACES on human rights was the fugitive slave
law, Southern bloodhounds and Northern
slave-catching mercenaries, the slave auction
block, the Shareholders lash, the slaves
wounds and manacles and chains, the sepa-
ration of the slaves family to different pur-
chasers, the Southern roastings of negroes,
Southern vigilance committees, the banging
and tarring and feathering of Northern
men charged with abolition Yankee no
tions, and Northern pro slavery spies,
acting in concert in the catching Of abolitionsts
with Southern committees, and all in obe-
dience to the cotton oligarchy ruling the ad-
ministration Of the courts up to the Supreme
Court, and the army and the navy Then,
too, the announcement of Wendell Phillips as
the speaker at one of these abolition meetings
in New York was signal for a democratic
shower ofturnips, parsnips, onions and rotten
atrocities nothing is left but the prejudice of
color. Even in the absence of the inspiration
Of a bowling mob Phillips is out of his element,
and in applauding instead of denouncing the
administration he becomes comparatively fiat
and commonplace. There is really nothing
left for him to do in the motley coterie of queer
looking people, men and women, black, white
and yellow, Of the Anti-Slavery Society, and
nothing for that society ITSELF Everything
being abolished which the society in its blind
end blundering way undertook to abolish,
Master Phillips ought to abolish the society
itself. He is beginning to mix up different
things, and the reformer who tries this expert
ment always fails. II is the single great idea
that changes dynasties aud systems Of govern
ment. The equal rights of the black man with
the white man, the great idea upon which our
second revolution has been carried out, has
served its purpose. Now let the powerful
Phillips devote his attention to the great idea
Of womcn's rights ''unmixed with bascr mat
ter, and his second crowning victory may be
greater than his first. Who knows
GoODuY OLD FRIEND. One item Of eS-
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