New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-11

utters but Garrison is thoroughly ahsoFoeu III
his subject that he forgets style and phrase.
This, said DR.. Conway, accounted for his ire
mendous quietness and serenity he adoeo:
He flung forth ightnngs as though tney w Mers
sunbeams in benign and serene mashet' M[n e
most musical voice. He was accused OF NloIeLI
as in those DAYS Especially when it was done in
Biblical language, like the Psalms OF DaV1e; b I 4
come Of Democrat oqtrage Sai I'D eIybodV felt
R1Fty ga is me hank you SIR and we ali felt that
the recording angel would not reckon up that
swear but leave it to be wiped out by Democrat
DR.. Conway then described anti-slavery meet
ing soon after the judgment had been given Which
sent the slave Burns back into slavery rms
occurred on the Fourth of July and Garrison after
he had read the Declaration Of Independence, light
ed a match and burned first the Judgment against
Burns then the document in which Judge Gurus
accused Of treason all those who helped Burns 10
escape. Their he declared that there were COM
promises with slavery in the Constitution that maze
it a covenant with death and an arrangement with
he'll Then he struck a match and burned the
Declaration of independence, with the solemn
words Let all the people say Amen.
Most of them did say Amen but there were
some hisses." continued the speaker He added:
AS Sou1herner 1 WINGED sometimes at his
scafhing TIterances for l felt that the people of
Ire South were more the victims of slavery than
6e s iba o ree the nag Noh e from
with slavery was more Important than TO make me
a non-resisler and therefore we must not use car
nal weapons but he telt that those VINO did no.
share these principles might and ought to 60 to
war anu so he supported the war as q judgment OF
the nation, while personally, II JEFF Davis had
struck him on one cheek. he would have turned the
To him slavery was the only thing important
though as a matter of fact there were more misery
and suffering caused by the four years OF war
than by- a hundred years OF slavery. In this very
hall on January a. 1862 he made remarkable
speech, critfcising Abraham Lincoln for refusing
to let the oppressed go free If his plea had been
listened to there would have been no need to cele-
brate as they are celebrating to-day, those who
fell at Vicksburg. The line of freedom would have
been at once moved from Canada to the Ohio River,
but the Proclamation of Emancipation came too
late and half million bit the dust.
After a letter from Booker T. Washington had
been read expire sing syml ny with the ceebra-
tion Dr. John P Peters del.v- address on
political Enanc patton He said, in Fart:
1t is very ficuIt for men to regard those Of diff
ferent colors as the + ICals. We show it with
gard to re e.ro TIE or h Il our II atment
Of h m in labor or anzatiCnS az d hotels. We show
it In the South in differ, MT ways He is helQ in
whites as he ba ks. in the Phi lpp-n have
another problem of the SINE sort to DIAL w.,h.
we have let political power slip of own
hands We are subject to boss rule'' and though
we assert ourselves for the moment are bound
again in d moment VIII anybody say that the
Senators from New-York express the will of the
people OF NewYork2
Cries of No, no. came from the audience.
Ii they came up for reelection would they not
he owe wheningly defeated? Who does Aldrich,
of Rhode Island repres Mt?