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Breakfast Of The American And Foreign Anti-slavery Society

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
June
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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T!Í3 Aíshciatínn Iield a public bi-cakíat in the lnrge room onder the Tabernacle yesterdiy rnorning, which was ttttended by about 500 persons, a 1 ir-ge proportion of whom veré p o;]e of color. - Lew3 Tappan, K.-q., presided. Afier the crea I ti re comfir:s had bren safcly disposcd o!" the ntellpctiial portioa f tlie etiterfainmeat woa istroducaA - Speeches werp made by Rev. N. Colver and Mr. Leüviit; and then Dr. Snodgrass, uf Baliimore, foimerly editor f tlie inore Visiter, ond now connected with the National Erawas introduceH to the au- dlence, .ind received w.ith great applnuse. In the course of his speech, Mr. Snodgrass reinarked as follows : One thing he wished to say, and he hoped t would be received with kindness, thougri he uas ;i young man, and pe"haps onglit not to give advice. He hoped they wouíd make np llieir mindsasanti-slnvery people lo pull '.ogether, and to gi forth be(bra ihe peojileof ihe South like John tha Baptist, crying in the wildenie : "Prepare ye the way of tho Lord!" Whnt most embarrassed the movement?, was tha q uan els and squnbb es among anti-slavery men. himself, he haüed al) who were stnigling íor the oowiil;'l ot slavery as brothers and sistrrs. no matier by what nonio they were called. Let ali dj so - ]et tliere be only union among tliem, and the hated iiuliiution would ba overihroun. The difficuhv in the Nonh was now, not so mud) the condition of the slave as of the free innn of color. He feared their Norihcrn frisada overlooked this gr.at matter in their agit-ition of the subj ;ct.- VVhen, in B'iltimorr, he urgei fmancipation lipón slaveholdrs M a duty, h was p, .ii td with a triumphant air to th -so pnor. nrentures, th fre.' psoplf of color. "Sh:ill we liberóte our slavn while freemen nre in such a noUarabls oonditiou V' - this wa thequestion. Tho 'inly answer he could give, was that this was not so much an individual nvitter, but a g'e.'t general question of races. ShouM tliis race, which wns croatpd to be smetliing more than loiüng drudg'-'s on pl;nt tions, be elev.itcd ? It was a quesiion of racfs and not of individual convenicnceThe friends of th si ive must fee to it, that this obtncle wns rnmoved. The fact w;is, that it wnuld be teaiovrd. Let til : condition ofth fiec tnun of' color be ele vatpd, and then thy would have example to point to of wint the negro race might beooma out of tUttfy. It was tia to hiinc hw remarks to an end, but onething ho must say. He hopd to God iho Ü:n Wuvld come, when men would npp-ar I from Maryland, not as the representaties
,,l' a s' ye S'níc, lr.it n freti Ftate, W wl en New York mighl sl.nle linnds wiili Nl-rvlanW wih n s'ioul of'fríumpli - "Mfl ryl.-'ü.i too ís (Ve1 !" (Gtcmi nppln'Ui'e.) Rpv. Mr. Davirs, from Brilish Guiano. wos ihcii ínjroduced lo the meeting, nrul pae an cc"H'r j]y inlerpslins; nccoimt of the good repulís ofemnnclpatión io th-n rou'itiy, un'! that of iha pi'e-eiit si i te o f tlie eulonid KpiJaf!on tlierc

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