The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-11-09
PERII0US DAYS RECALLED.
SOME TENERABLE MEN VINO AIDED IN
CRUSHING our SLAVERY.
Real Old Fash Toned Abolition Talk In an Up
town Parior-A siIver-Haired Judge who
Assisted Runaway Colored Men TO Canada.

Heal Old Fash ioned Abolition Talk In Up-
town Parior-A siIver-Haired Judge who
Assisted Runaway Coiored Men to Canada.
A reunion of the early Aboltionists was
held last evening In the residence OF DR.. C. s.
Lozier. 22l West Fourteenth street 1t was the
fortieth anniversary OF the casting Of the first
anti-slavery votes. In the spacious saloon
parlors were many who had. forty years ago. in
poverty and obscurity. spoken from public plat
forms In favor OF freedom for the slave. but who
were then desp pissed and laughed at. Some ladies'.
descendants OF revolutionists were there. Mr..
Albert o. Wilcox. Chairman Of the Executive
Committee Of the New York Young Mems anti
Slavery Society in 1888 presided. His hair WIS
white. but his form was as stout as an oak as he
stood In the centre OF the parlor. In a short
speech he spoke with energy Of the old fights
that he had helped to carry on in this city
against the then popular institution OF slavery.
Then he introduced John jay. yet stouter
and whittier haired veteran In anti slavery days
who recalled the anti-slavery movement begun
forty years ago in Philadelphia. and followed
up energetically in New York. The movement
he said. began in 1893. and was first in the
hearts and on the tongues Of the people Of this
city in 1884. The denunciation OF slavehold-
ing. and the project OF elevatng people Of color
was stigmatized as n crime by almost evervone;
yet the Society In New York hold that slavery
should be abolished in the District OF Colum-
bia and also In every State to be
| thereafter admitted to the Union. Meet
ings held by the Society In Chatham street
were broken up by mobs. DR.. Abram L. Cox's
| church, In Broome street. was threatened, and
II was for long time guarded night and day
| Then the speaker traced the rapid and power
fu rise OF the Society from 1886 TO ls4S. In 1854
| came pull back through Fillmore : signing OF
| the Fugitive Slave law hut NJ inspired mpm-
| Orable series of lnti-slavery meetings In the
old Broadway Tabernacle to protest against
protecting human slavery. Out OF that excite
ment added the speaker, arose the public SEN
tment that caused the Kansas resistance in
1888, whence flowed the rupture between the
Chairman Wilcox said that there WIS in those
early times one Judge in New York who dared
TO defend the fugitive slave in New York. aud
! lie was John jay. This brought applause from
the silvery:haired Veterans.
| his feet. and said that he knew OF many n
slave who had been helped toward the Canadian
boundary, by Judge jay. whereupon more ap-
Mr.. Wright as silver haired as his compeers
| remembered when Southerners had a meeting
| In Tammany Hall which WAS pro-slayery. and
which established beyond a doubt, in their own
minds. tho divine right Of the institution ofhu-
mistaken. Mr.. Wright added that his main OBJ
| Ject in speaking was not 10 charRe any
SogtSerp but to Show now % The ad &
vocates OF universal human freedom suffered
in those days. In particular. he praised Gen;
James ID. Birney. Southerner. who liberated
his slaves. Gen. Birney's picture hung on the
wall OF the parlor. and ths speaker took II down
as no mentioned him. 4 murmur OF applause
went around, and the picture was passed from
Then Chairman Wilcox said that some were
there who were OF the old "Liberty party"
formed in ls49. He called on Mr.. Benjamin l.
Mason OF Yonkers, who spoke briefly. saying
that the work OF the nti-Slavery party IL not
yet finished. The Indians are not yet treated
BY Government as they should be-. ,o
Mrs. DR.. Lozier recalled the time In 1929.
| public for the liberation Of the slave. Many re-
ligious meetings were held In secret. and the
Railways leading to the place OF meeting were
not lighted. lest the many Jealous pro-siavery
advocates in the neghborhood should enter the
''Tn Thea nc George L. Downing Of Washington said
that he had been identified from tho hrsl with
the snti-slnvcry movement ana that he being
il not wholly emancipated set Negroes In the
South are yet oppressed II Is q mistake 10 sup
whom they live continue in many ways 10 op-
press them. and the only way 70 elevate tho
blacks is to elevate the, whites-by education
and by wiser statesmanship.
Here woman Jumped up, and said that IL
was wrong that the meeting should close with
out a mention Of John Browns name The
name was received with clapping Of hands.
Nothing more was said. however. about that
abolitlonist.
early struggles in the movement. and told how
he was treated. publicly. and privately. with
Oder speakers we're William Whitney the
Rev. Phusbe Hanaford. the Rev. Charles Is. Ray.
and Daniel +. Appleton. Before the meeting
broke dp letters were rend from u dozen old
anti-slavery leaders in the Union. New York
Herald dated Nov 3. 1888. which was about a
third as large as II now Is. containing n three
meeting in the Broadway Tabernacle. was
| handed around and laughed at.
| men related to each other interesting incidents
OF the anti-slayery strife forty years ago.