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Show • "TnAT John Drown was wrong, in his attempt to break up Slavery by violence, few will deny. But it was a wrong committed by a good man- by one who dreaded the vengeance of the Almighty and forgot His long-suffering. His errors were the result of want of patience and want of imagination, and he paid the penalty for them. lie had faith in the divine ordering of the affairs of this world; but he forgot that the processes by which eYils like that of Slavery are done away, arc thousand-year old,- that, to be effectual, they must be slow, - that wrong is no remedy for wrong. He was an anacht ·onism, and met the fate of all anachronisms that strive to stem and divert the present current, by modes which the world has outgrown." TnE ATLAN TIC MoNTHLY. - III. SPEECH OF CHARLES O'CoNOR.-x. MR. CHARLES ? 'CONOR was r eceived with loud applau:-;c. lie saHl : F c1low-Citizcn , I cannot expr e s to you the del ight wltielt I expe rience in be holding in thi · great city so va::;t an as:-; 'mbly of my fellow-citi zens, con venec.l for the purp o~c stated in your r c. olution . (Voices-" Louder! louc.lcr ! ") It may be proper to . ay, gentlemen, that I cannot :;1wak any louder than I do at t his in tant; and if it be not equa l to your desire., I can only cca. e to mploy my feeble voiec. (Crie of " Go on ! go on!") I am delighted, gentlemen, beyond m ca~ urc, to behold at t his time o va~t an ass mbly of my frllow-citizens, r cspom1ing to the call of a boc.ly o n•:o;peetaLlc as the twenty-thou and New Y ork r:; who have conv<•tl('d this meeting. lf any thing can give a. surance to those who doubt, and confidence to thoso who rnay hnsc had mi:..:gi\·ing' as to the permanency of our in. titutions, and the . olic.li ty of the support which the people of the North arc pr<'pan·d to give them, it is that in the Queen City of the New \Vorldthe capital of North America- there i as ·emblc·<.l a nw<>f ing so large, o r e, pcctable, and so unanimou a:5 thi meeting Ita:-~ shown iL ·If to be in receiving . entiment , which, if ob:..:<·n·c·<l, mw;t protect our Union from de tr uetion, and eYcn f'ro:n danger. (Applause.) "'J)pllvcre<l at the Union Mooting held t\t lho Acu.uomy of Music, N4:!w York, Dt'Cl'lfi· bcr, 10, 18&\l. (281) |
