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Show FROl\1: IrANSAS. (CorrcRpondcncc of tho New York 'J' r ilnnw.) LAw ngN(' J•:, ]{nnRnR, D<'cembcr 2, 1R50. Trm An1i-Slnvery men of thiA county met h<'r <' 1o-day, in mnEls meeting, to enter their prot eRt again st American Slavery, nncl 1 o expr<'RA 1 heir conlicll'nce in and Rympathy with Capt. J ohn Tkown, who is well known here, nml to take measures for the organization of the Ant i-.. lavery sentiment of t his conununity. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted:- Jleso lred That American Slavery is nn unmitigated <'v ii, n curse, to both master nu:l slave, a sin against God and man, and sh ould be immediately abolished. Re.~oltwl, That we accord to the slave the pc rf<'ct right to protect hims<>lf ft·om the t yranny of his pretended mast er, anrt to usc prcciRcly the means that ChriAti:m white men wonlcl be justified in uAing under similar c ircu mstnn cN~ ; nne! that the time nnd mode of aiding the weaker s hle in such n conteAt lie solely in the judgment nnd conscience of those who sympathize with the 1ceblc and oppressed. * * * * * * Resolved, That whereas the charact er of our old comrade in nrms, Capt. J ohn Ilrown, whose life to-dny ill to be sncrifiCl'cl to ~ l avery, has been cruelly mnJiuned by the democrntic press of Kansas, and the Korth generally : 'Ve, thercfo~ e, the p<'ople of Doug las County, in mass meeting asRemhlcd, do unheAitatingly affirm our full confid ence in the int egrity of hiA character, and th~ nobleness of his mothes, b(•liedng that iu hiR rer <'nt eondurt he wns not nctu . ntecl by n Apirit of revenge, hut by t he hig hest and purest motives. Jlesol rrd, That while we may h :.w c <l ifi;· t·e<l with Capt. Hrown ns to the wisdom of his plans for the r r lirf o f t11<' s lav<', W<' cmmot withhol d from him the hig hest honor nnd respect due t o one who cndc:wored to live up to the go lden rule, nnd that he will be embalmed in our memories as one who has laid <!own his life for the rig hts of man, and in nn att empted vind ication of the g r <'at irl<':t of the " Ucclamtion of I nc!(•pcndenee;" and that he and IliA comrndl'R will h:wc gone down to no ing lorious gra ve~, but will swell tllc noble column of t hoAc who have fall en in th<' g reat battle f01· fn'cclom. Resoh -erl, That w clt'clare our r csprct nud <'stel'm for ,J oho Brown, in rcf<'renr. c to his lnbot·s in Knnsa11, knowing him to h fw e b<'C'n n t rue and c.lisint ercstcd fri end of freed om here, nnd he taught t h t• Border ltuflian invaders of our soil the whoiC'ROme lCRRon t hnt oppreRsor s of the poor mig h t be made to "bite thr dust," anu to flee from the h at ed YankCCEI, nt a time when they imag ined tlwir foul est dreams ou the e ve of being realized. I. LECTURE BY WILLIAM A. PHILLIPs.* LADIES AND GENTLEl\:IEN of L awrence : In complying with the r equest to lP-cture before you, I adopt the subject announced, in pre ference to any scienti fic one, believing that occa ions dig nify current events with a grandeur and importance that turns our a ttention irresistibly towards them. It would be vanity to affect a ny shrinking from a popular topic. The re arc times when the lessons of scicnco dwindle in importance before the lessons of history, and I question if there can be a higher duty than to present the startling lesson of to-day, in the diffe rent aspects in which it may strike us. Zoroastet·, in his Zendavesta, has an allegory which shows that those who travel in purs uit of knowledge describe a circle, antl return at last to their pristine ignorance. From another we learn that in early times the whole human race inhabited a small valley , shut up by lofty mountains, and that they believed the firmament to be of adama nt, and to rest on the tops of the"e moun t..'l.ins, thus shutting out a ll else from human ken. Until to-day men continue to make their li ves similar profitle~s circles. Society persi ts in inhabiting ~ Valley of I gnorance, and conjures up another "firmament of adamant" to shut out the richest lessons of history, T he * Eutitleu " 'l'hp Ago nqd t11e Man." Doli ¥ot·etl iJl Mil~ot·'s Hn)l, Lnwrenco, Kansas, Jan. ~o, ~two, 3l (361) |