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Show 122 1'111RO DA\'-t:VBNING hi.EETINO . nf slavery by the loadstone of "elective affinity"-for it is a time-honored maxim, that" birds of a feather flock together." If l may be allowed a piece nf sorrowful irony-he has come hither to help the white birds drive away the black onrs, that they may have all the strawbe rries and cherries, insects and worms, to themselves. Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless true, that, through a Southern amalgamating proeess, an eighth wonder has been added to the world-the land is swarming with white black-birds! I will relate;an anecdote, to illustrate the conduct of this recreant Englisllman. I was one day walking down to the Parliament [louse with the celf'brated Irish patriot O'Connell, and, in the course of our conversation, mentioned to him, that very many of the Irish emigrants, on coming to the United S tates, very soon partook of the prevailing prejudice against the people of color, and were proscriptive in their feelings towards them. \Vith a generous warmth he instantly exclaimed, "Sir, they are not Irishmen! They are bastanl Irishmen !" As I am on the subject of African colonization, and have made allusion to Mr. O'Connell, 1 cannot do better than to quote the opinion of this ge ntleman respecting that iniquitous !;:Cherne. In a speech delivered by him in Exeter Hall, London, in 1833, he said-" The Ame rican Colonization t:iociety has been branded with many names already. There is, however, one which it has not yet received, but which it richly desen,.es. 1 knew a gentleman, of an imaginative mind, who went out to Sierra Leone; and on his return, he told a friend of mine, that a cargo of bars of iron, which had been sent to that Colony, was found, after it had lain in a store two months, to be completely worm-eaten! 'Vhy, said my friend, 'what kind of worms cat iron?' 1 Oh,' said he, 'they were as like bugs as any worms you can see.' My fri end, who had a little Irish drollery about him, remarked,' We have bugs of th at kind in I reland, but we call them hum-btt!JS !' Now, the American Colonization Society is a bug of that description-it is A JIUM-nuo. ll will eat iron like any thing-it will digest it like an ostrich: there is nothing too hard for the stomach of the Colonization Society. It is the most ludicrous Society that ever yet was dreamed of!" In concluding his remarks, the speaker said he would not insult the intelligence nor doubt the humanity of the audience, by attempting to show that two and two make four-that to enslave beings guiltless of crime, is an outrage upon every principle of justice-or that those who are unjustly deprived of their liberty ought to be set free without delay. Such propositions are self-evident. In allusion to the speakers who were to follow him, he remarked that slaveholde rs and their Northern abettors have affected to sneer at the labors of women in the :mti-slavery ente rprise, but they really trembled in view of these labors. For what good cause had ever been heartily espoused by women, th at has not ultimately triumphed over all opposition? The emancipation of e ight hundred thousand slaves in the \Vest Indies is mainly owing, under God, to the quenchless devotion, and tireless zeal, nnd indomitable perseverance of the women of England. The slave system in this country will find in the women of America most formidable antagonists. \Vhat astonishing effects have already been wrought upon the public mind by the labo rs of only two of their number! Those two were now present-daughters of the South, moreover-repentant slaveholders! One of them, at least, would bear her testimony against the atrocious sin of slavery this evening, in strong and eloquent language. For, though the South demands s ilence upon this subject, on peril of death, there shall be no silence until the how lings of the be reaved slave-mother are turned into shouts of joy, and not a slave is left to pine on the American soil. S l't:ECII OF A~Ufo:J.I~A E. G . WJ-:1.0. 123 \Vhile the speaker was addressing the meeting, there were frequent outbreaks of.a disorderly spi rit, such a~ hissing, shouting, &c. &c.; anti when he too~ hts seat, the rio ters within the building made great e fforts to create confusiOn and break up the meeting. In the midst of the tumult, however, MARIA \V. CHAPMAN, of Boston, rose, and waving her hand to the audience to become quiet, she commenced: 11 Oh l for the strength which will enable one on such an occasion to speak forth the tru th." H ere she was interrupted for a moment by an indescribable uproar, after which she proceeded to express 11 an earnest desi re that the Spirit of div ine truth might so far penetrate the hearts of all present, that they would be prepared to listen to the wail now corning up to them from the burning llelds of the South;" and then appealed for a hearing for those who were about to address them on the slaves' behalf. She was followed by ANGELINA E. GntMKE ' Vt:r.o, a native, and un til within a few years a resident, of South Carolina. The eloqllence of this speaker, together with her thorough acquaintance with slavery from having IJeen. an ~y~ witness of its cru elties and debasing inHuence, had excited much cunostty t? ?: hear her upon this s ubj ect. h will be seen by the report l~er ~ema rks gtven below, that s he was frequently interrupted by the mob. 1 hts ctrcumstance made it next to impos~ible to give a full report of her remarks, or one that will do justice to her talents. All that we have attempt· · ed to do, is to furuish an outline of the ideas, wishing the reader to understand th~t the chaste, yet forcible language in which they were clothed, could not be gt ven. SPEECH OF ANGELINA E. G. WELD. Men, brethren and fathers-mothers, daughters and s isters, what came ye out for to see? A reed sh<~.ke n with the wind? Is it curiosity mere.ly, or a deep aympathy with the peris hing sla ve, that has brought this large audience together? [A yell from the mob without the building.] Those voices with· out ought to awaken and call out our warmes t sympatl1ies. Deluded beings! "they know not what they do." They know not that they are undermining their own rights and their own happiness, temporal and eternal. Do you ask, 11 what has the North to do with slavery?'' llear it-hear it. Those voices without tell us that tho s pirit of slavery is here, and has been roused to wrath by our abolition s peeches and conventions: for surely liberty would not foam and tear herself with rage, because her friends arc multiplied daily, and meetings ~re held in quick s uccession to set forth her virtues and extend her peaceful kingdom. This opposition shows that slavery has done its deadliest work in the hearts of our ci tizens. Do you ask, then, " what has the North to do?" I answer, cast out first the spirit of sla,•ery from your own heart:s, and then lend your aid to convert the South. Each one present has a work to do. be his or her silllation what it may, however limited their means, or insignificant th eir supposed influence. The great men of this country will not do this work; the church will never do it. A desire to please the wur!J, to keep the favor of all parties and of all conditions, makes th em dumb on this and every other unpopular suhject. They have become worldly-wise, and therefore God, in his wi:-;dom. employs th em not to carry on his plans of refonnation and salvation. lle hath chosen the foolish things of the world to coufound the wi!::le, and the weak to overcome the mighty. As a Southerner 1 feel that it is my duty 10 stand up tu:re to-night and |