New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-05
The naughty heart derideth.
And the sinful lip reviles,
But the blessing ~ the perishing
Around thy pillow smiles,

And the SINFUL lip reviles,
But the blessing ~ the perishing
Around tiny pillow smiles,
Expressions hand NAV scatter
Its nettles on thy tomb.
And even Christian bOepms
Deny thy memory room;
For lyng ms shan torture
Thy mercy into crime.
Aud the sianderer shall flourish
AS the bay-tiCe, Tor a time.
But. where the south wind fingers
On CarOlna's pines,
or fails lie careless sunbeam
Down Gcorgia's golden mines;
Where now beneath li, burden
Inc toilng save u OIlNen;
Where tyrnts wocsery
Is offered unto Heaven-
Where Mammcn hath its affairs.
Wet DER with human blood,
And pride and last debaSes
The workfnansnip Of God
Redeemed from Fasehnod's ban.
When the letters snall &c brnken
Aud the slave shall be a man
In the evil days before us.
And the triai yet 10 come
or the cruel rnariyidom.
We viii think OF ihee. brother
r. A iIe b ,n of ne osp five
And the anthem OF the free.
Bcriah Green was called to the presidency Of the
Oneida Institute. where, teacher and preacher
for many cars. lie cXer,ed great influence, being
widely known aud beloved. lle was equally elo-
Quent with voice and pen. Professor Wright WIS
called TO serve the American Anti-Siavcrv Society,
shortly afterwards formed, pondinG secrc-
tary-an Office that he filled with ,onsummate
ability for four five yeas. The annual reports
from lis pen were mastery presentations Of the
society's principles and objects He edited the So
cictvs publications, The Emoacpdtor. Buman
Rights. BRt-SidrGy Record, AMI Quarterly Ant-
Slorey Magazine making them all powerful agents
FOR promoting the cause. Al a later date he was
Editor of The Massachusetts, 5bOlitiopisf and later
still of Boston daily paper, The ChrOaogpe. Ills
aboIs as a Commissioner of Life Insurance IN Mas
sachusctts, in later years. have given hun high
reputation.
Mr.. Garrison's account of what ne bad seen and
heard IN England greatly encouraged the friends Of
he cause and he was himself no less cheered when
he found on his return. that call had been issued
for n convention to meet III Philadelphia Oh the
4th. 9th and 9th of the ensuing December, tn form
a National Anti-SlavCry Society. He entered into
the project with all his heart. The public mind
was In an exceedingly feverIsh condition. The
enemies OF the anti-savery seeing that it was
rapidly gaining ground, and stung to madness by
what they called the impairment Interference of
Wilberforce and other English abolitonists with
the " domestic institutions of the United States,
began to show symptoms of purpose to resort TO
violence in order 10 suppress the agitation. The
formation of an Anti-Slavery Society in New-York,
which took place within day or two of Garrisons
landing in the city on his return from England.
made the occasion of mob. The Aboltionsts de-
fearcd their opponents by n ruse. Foreseeing that
their meeting if held at the place where ii first
appointed, would be broken up, they went to the
old Chatham street Chapel, where they organized
their society, and then retired through rear door
as the mob entered at the front. The distnrbers
encountered bat man, the noble old Quaker,
Isaac 7. Hopper. who, when his wabolItonists
retired. concluded to stay and see what the mob
would do. He was found sitting in imperturbable
quiet, in meditative mood. of the benches,
not in the least disturb by the entrance OF the
mob whom h badgered and shamed by his unfail-
ing wit. The mob was instigated by the press,
notably by James Watson Webb's Courier and En-
qgrer aud Colonel stones Commercial Advertiser.
Not that these papers, in so many words. recon-
meuded resort to violence, but that then nfam-
matory denunciations and Recommendations of
the Aboticniss precisely adapted. if not even
intended. 90 produce that result.
This ulcb occurred after the call for the National
Convention was issued. IL it had occurred sooner
possibly The Convention might have been delayed
and possibly it might not. The Ab0lilonists though
courageous were not reckless. They did not desire
TO provoke violencc-far from il. But they felt
that their cause was just-that God their
side and they sure that, whatever of
prOach, persecution violence they might be
called TO endure. the cause would eventually tri-
umph. They were resolved to act a worthy part, as
men aud Christians who loved their country, aud
were resolved by the help of Cod to deliver it from
the crime and curse of human bondage. And so
they held their Convention.