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Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
February
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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We have been much interested in reacfing an account of the Anniversary prpceedings of this Society. It is exciusively of t!ic Garrisonian schoö], am] is opposed to the Liberty pafty. ít embraces men of al] nnlions and degrees and kinds of extravngance; and yel comprises, we doubt not. superior abiliti?s and exaUed moral worth. This was the tw.-lflh aniy&rsary. The debates Were anjmated and spirited. The meetinori were held in Faneui Hall and in the State Hoihc The topics tUscusEcd werp of great raoiEnt. First in irnportance was t tac Itssolütion ofthk Unton! On this measure t.horo werc two parties. S. S. Folter and W. L. Garrison presented elabórate ptoposhions to thnt eflecl. Garrison's resolution, without the preamb]e reodthus. Resolved, That thenntional compact, ÚÁ ing in principie anJ. practiee n insa-isprinlle dpi;ii-m, itnd frcm y,s inceplinii hrfoic Gontiil nnd vold, it is the riffM, it is the durv of ui! the ffíeodá of impart;nl lioerty and a riphteoiïs government to wiiluiraw tbcir alleiiTuce i_rom thiscompacr, and by a morul on'd peace ful revolution to effect its ovcrthrow."The protest of S. S. Poster has the following passage: "For the reasons hiere ennmerated, nnd otbers of similar import to wh-ch wi miht refrr, wcn"w publicly ABJURE OUft ALLE GIANCETO THE CONTiTÜTTÖN OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UN JON, and phice iho bread se;l of onr reproba (-on on tiiis uf.niiiural and imli.iiy ulhauce betw'éëïi Liberty and Slavery."' A considerable por; ion of the members were not prppored to sustain this uHnuVm, and no volo viis taken on the propon-ilion. Bui Gorrifon ves nolice tliat heiiceforth REPEAL must he tlie watclnvord, the rallying cry óf Abolitionièts. The Liberty Party was thorriiiphly discussed. it was vinwed as the greatest obsincie ïo gerïuine aboüiionism, sik! opposition to it, under present cireumstances, was an amisl:ivery diity. Mr. Birney epecially, was ari object of Ihe'ir disljke, nnd was hoñorrdw3t!í a special resolution penned by Garrison, exposinir l)ia supposed mis'd;rds. It was conceded, however, that the Western Liberty men were a much better set of-feUowsr tl.an those of the East, tuit weregreally deceived when tliey Hllowed tbemsclveá tu be led by Birney and LeavitL S. II. Gay wha has la-ely tmvelled throunrh the Wet, and become some acïain'.éd vvilh Liberty men, oiTered ihe followmg:Resolved, That we fee ín the Libo-rty parir, us n ékièts in the West, an exponent f the onti-slavery sentiment and feeliiitr of its rnembers, and tial believinir Item to be actn atecl by those principies IWr which we have al] lonor conletided, so long ns they maintnin tliis ground, we have no conteiiilon'v.ith 'them on tliis eubject. T!:oma Earle, of Pa. proposed lempornrv ncinjjnations as a eubstitiite for tbe Libeny partv, and the resolution. was adopled. As the Whinrs have reparded the Garrison party with especial favor oflate, we commend to their.nolbe the following portrait ofiiENrt Cjcat. astaken bj Gorrison, and unanjmousiy approved by the Convemion:Kef ol ved, Thai the nnanimona determinatíon of the Whir party to support as their Presidontial cndidate. IIknry Clay, the liardened, incorriiribJe slaveholder - the d.venninrd and desparate foeof the önti-siavery movements - the. man amone the most 'iilty for the cxfensioti and perpetuity of slavery in tlii bnd- cails fpr the btiroipg rrbuke óf cvorv 'Virnc! of fredftim nnd luininnif v . uul shoníd réinspirfithenboliuoní.stíí oftl)p:tvhole cnuntrv wi'h a pesólnte nnd inv-ircH)Ie determina' ion to pxpose the miblushincprofligacy "f thnL party, and to défeat Uic elecllon of Henry Clay A formnl nnd !enghy profost pgainst llie course of ,T. Q. Adnins on Slavcry was adnpled, embracingf a recital of his stranpe inconsistencies of opinión and iictiojj. J). L . Chüd. Editor of the Nniional A-j S. Standard, was] üie only one who deprecated Uie bes.towal of censure pon him. He said Mr. A, sïood, poliiically and practically, at the head of theanli-s'ayer enterprisei Arrangemcnts vero made for hokíin? one hnndrcd convention n 'm quick succcssion in j ALiPpaciitiiPtts.As to the burche?, they did not escnpe wi!4out Ihe usual reb'uke. The folio. ung resolutior, by Gurrison was ndnpied: "Resolved, That Míe Cnurch of Cfirist, Uke its He.-u), óns Jievt-r hekl a e'.uvc.- has „ever apoloorizec] for slavery- Ims nevor Jtnown a .-lavcl.oWer as one lof its membpi-s- . hns never stopped it.s -ear to the cry the poor- hns nevi'r received the .plunder of the noor wiih wi.ich to spread the gospel, circulo'.e'ilie Bihlc, p:ihlish tmets, or esiablish Stïriday Schools; nnd ba's-never held w'nh'm itj; e:nl'racs clirmb fioirs wfiicfi wil' n(t bnrk aj'ninst ilie vtrono-s vh'cl ciiisli li-unni) tv; tiiercforp, Ihe i c;tn Chnrch, which penetrales ui! thet-o enor I mona crime?, s nnt the Church of Clirist, bul the synarrngJie of S';ttm."

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