Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-02-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ALP., Professor Goldwin Smith, Mr. Edward Miall, and many others, regretting their inability to:attend the meeting and expressing sympathy with the object they had in view. The Chairman having opened the meeting in an able speech, The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel rose, and was received with loud cheers. He thanked tho meeting for the warm reception they had acccorded to him, but suggested that the cheers would have come better after he had spoken than before. (Laughter.) He trusted to be able so to speak, judging, as he thought now ho fairly might from what had already taken place that the meeting was hearty in the cause of emancipation and the union, that he might impart to his hearers a little more zeal than that which was even Ist that moment so effervescent, (Cheers and laughter.) The states now in rebellion against their country and their lawful government contained three and a half millions of human beings in a state of bondage. He wished ;to examine, first the question whether it was likely the suiveholders would emancipate the slaves, supposing them to become through the course of the war, independent. It was said by many that all in this country entertained that opinion. He hoper that the meeting would show that they at least were not of that opinion (Loud cheers) When Mr. Lincoln was about to be elected, the party which brought him into power published a programme of their principles, in which they declared their full intention Co reetrict slavery to those states in which it already existed, and not to. allow it to be ease.led to the immense territories which would come in succession under the power of the United States. It was upon that statement that Mr. Breckenridge was proposed us a candidate, and the issue was raised whether the nation would have a President who would allow slavery to be extended or one who should refuse it. (Cheers.) The slaveholders then announced that if an abolitionist President was elected they would secede, and they had fulfilled that promise. In their secession ordinances no other cause was mentioned. They never found the tariff put forward as a reason, but uniformly by writers, speakers, and ordinances the threatened invaaio upon slavery was stated as the one cause :of secession. (Hear.) With what power the slaveholder tightened his grip, and with what determination he intended to maintain it, was proved in the little information that reached this country from the Southern States. The other day, at Charleston, when some niggere were found to have secreted arms in a graveyard, nineteen men were hanged upon the spot without any evidence being heard against them, except from the mouth of pour trembliug wretches who gave their testimony with the fear of torture before them, and who would swear anything. Those who were accused were the most intelligent, because tyrants feared intelligence. (Cheers.) For secreting arms—they had not used them, and there was nothing to prove that they were not inte....ded solely for their own defence-19 men were hanged at Charleston the other day. Turn again to the great battle-field, where, through the blessing of God, the Federal arms had been so successful. (Great cheering.) At Murfreeeborough, In the rear of the victorious army, a cavalry raid had penetrated to the spot, and finding there unarmed teamsters guiding the waggons of the Union forces thole ruthless cavaliers attacked them and put them to death. He was not surprised that lovers of freedom should be forced to express the execration with which they regarded SUCh a deed, nor did he wonder that those who sympathised with the Smith should wince under the statement that unarmed men were murdered in cold blood by those they patronised and loved. In North Carolina, a few months ago, five men were put into their coffins stood upright and shot. These were black men, two were free and three slaves, and for the alleged offence of attempting to seek, without violence, that which he ventured to say not a man present at that meeting, whether his sympathies were with. the North or the South, would have hesitated to sok for hbuself if not for others—these men were, upon