New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-26
blaze, it Is but fair that they should receive the
first warming of the fire."

byteryr said the Rev. Robert n. Anderson, ID. d..
writing TO the Sessions of the Presbyterian churches
of Hanover Va, II design TO offer pre-
amble and string of resolutions on the subject
of the reasonable and abominsbly wicked Interior
ence OF the Northern and Eastern fanatics with our
political and civil nights. our property, and our
domestic concerns II there be any stray goat OF q
minister among you tainted with the bloodhound
principles Of abolitionsm. let him be ferreted out,
senced, accommodated, and left to the public TO
dispose of in other res poets"
IF you wish to educate the slaves" said the Rev.
J. c. Poste (Methodistl Of South Carolina writing
to the Rev. La Roy Sunderland Of New-York. will
tell you how to raise the money without editing Zios
Udtchmdn. You and old Arthur rappan come OUT
to the South this Winter. and they will raise hum
dred thousand dollars FOR You. New-Orlcans itself
will be pledged for It,"
During this same year twenty thousand dollars
reward WIS offered in New Orleans for the seizure
of Arthur TappaD, and ten thousand dollars in
other place for that Of the Rev. Amos A. Phelps.
Several other Northern AbolitiOnists were honored
in a similar way, and the fires Of persecution burned
fercely In March. 1885, tue Noyes Academy in
Canaan, n. H.. was opened for the reception Of
pupils without distinction of color. The whole
State was thereby thrown into fierce commo,ion.
The Nar-Hampskilc Patriot at Concord, aud many
other papers, teeined FROM week TO week with the
most vulgar attacks upon the school and ITS man
the inhabitants of canaan and the neiRhb0ring
towns assembled together, and, with team Of one
hundred yoke OF oxen, dragged the school Dnlldiug
from its foundations and lett It on the highway.
useless ruin The leader OF this mob was a member
of the Congregational church IN Canaan. The out
rage was regarded with cool indifference, II not
with appreciation, by the great body Of citizens in
all that region.
In the midst of the persecution Of this period the
Aboltonists were chccrcd by the intelligence that
distinguished stakeholder. Mr. James G. BIrney bad
espoused their cause, and gwen freedom to his slaves
He was "A native of Kentucky. but for some years
had been distinguished member of the bar at
Huntsville, Ala He had for several years been the
agent of the Colonization Society in he South
western States. As early as 1892 he met Theodore
d. Weld at the house the Rev. DR.. Allen, of Hunts
ville and in conversing with him was led INTO closer
examination of the moral character OF slavery.
The final result was n conviction in his nlnd OF tho
sinfulncss If slaveholdng. and of his own duty to
emancpate his slaves He thercupOn summoned
them ali into his presence, ACKNOWLEDGED the wrong
that he had done them in holding them in bondage,
and announced that he had executed deeds of
emancipation for each and all of them, and that
henceforth they woud be freq. lie offered to
retain them all in his service and to pay them wages,
if they should desire to remain with him. The
negroes. instead of proceeding at once as according
to the current pro-savery theory they ought to
have done, to cut Mr.. Birneys throat and burn his
house over his head, gratefully took M the shovel
and the hoe" and went 90 work for hin win right
good will. Naturally enough, Mr.. BiTney was
received with open arms by the Aboiitonsts
Wherever he ne was snnsrneN 10 spesN Hrow was
mild yet firm, cautious yet not afraid TO speak tue
whole truth candid but not compromising, careful
not to exaggerate IN aught and equally careful not
to concedc or exteuuate' But Northern sympa-
thizers with slavery, though they could not charge
him with any violence or ianarcis, ana tnOGed
and cultured gentleman and CHRISTIAN liked MN
not whit better than they did Mr. Garrison. The
tide Of detraction against the anti-Slavcry cause
was not diminished or softencd IN the least by his
appearance among us. Indeed he was the object OF
peculiar hatred, because having lived IN the South
from his birth no was able to throw flood of light
upon the workings of the slave system, aud thus TO
show the folly and absurdity of all the dcfeuces
made of 1t by its apologIsts and supporters.
The American Anti-Slavery Society. soon after
its formation, adopted the practice of sending its
most important publicatiOns-th0se especially
which explained its principles and designs-to lead
ing citizens at the South. This would seem to have
been required on the of principle as well as
courtesy Seeking the abolition of slavery, not by
external force but by appeals to the reason and
judgment well as the conscience of the masters,
the Aboliionists desired nothing so much as to
have their movements thoroughly understood at
the South. They would gladly have sent thther iy-
Ing agents to meet the holders of slaves, and. IL
possible, persuade them, not only for theiI own
peace of mind, but as means of advancing their
pecuniary interests, TO give freedom To their bond
men. III the beginning, luueen, IL was lutu nope
that the Southern people would shortly become
reasonable enough TO permit II not to invite, tho
presence of such agents. Meanwhile. the least that
they could do to send their publications To men
whose names were found in public documents or
obtained from private sources. This they did
openly avaling themselves OF the postal service Of
the United States. Not of their documents was
over addressed by them to a slave To him. indeed,
they had nothing to say save to entreat him never
to attempt to redress his wrongs by violence, but
TO wait patiently for his chains to be broken by
1.-THE mid of Truth and Love,
Made mighty through the living God"
In the Summer of 1885 large quantities of anti
slavery publications were sent through the mails
to citizens of the South, from the auslavcry Office
in New-York A tremendous excitement in that
part of the country was the consequence. IL, in
deed the Society had furnished every slave with q
bowie-knife. and advised him 10 cut his masters
throat Herewith at the earliest possible moment.
the rage of the South could hardly have been
greater than 1t was. The documents were pro-
nounced incendiary, and though they were adj
dressed exclusively to white men, and generally to
the foremost Shareholders, il was coolly assumed at
the North as well as at the South, that they were
intended to excite an insurrectlOn and deiuge the
South in blood! Fresh torrents of misrepresen-
tation and abuse were therenpOn heaped upon the
heads OF the Abolionists, whose voices OF explain
alton and protest were drowned in worse than
Niagara roar of calumny. In Charleston. on tho
29th of July the post-oiiice was broken open by
mob aud the ant-slavery publications that had ac-
cumuated therein, and which the postmaster nad
obligingy left in pile for the convenience Of the
rioters, taken out and burned IN The presence
of an exultant crowd. shortly aftcrwar'i a public
meeting was held to denounce the "iucendaries' OF
the North and to complete the work of the mob by
ierrcting ont and furnishing any Abolitlonist or
friend of Abolitionists. who might happen to be In
the city. This meeting" SAID me Charleston
Courier in its report the clergy of all dcnomlna-
tions attended in a body, lending their sanction
to the proceedings aud adding by their presence TO
the impressive character OF the scene" John u.
Whittier was moved to embalm this impressive
scene for the benefit Of coming generations, in
poem entitled Clerical Oppressors," a few stanzas
of which are here cnnied =