ABSTRACT

SLAVERY – MR. FREDERICK DOUGLAS. We beg to refer our readers to the advertisement of the Anti-Slavery Meeting, to be held in the Courthouse tomorrow.

Mr. Douglas, to hear whom the meeting has been called, is a most eloquent and effective speaker. We heard him last evening at the Festival in Globe Lane Temperance Hall, in honour of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew, and were delighted with his calm, forcible manner, and his frequent bursts of fervid eloquence; and as we have no doubt he is as effective on the subject of slavery as on that of temperance, we can promise our citizens a happy intellectual treat. Never, we do think, was the assertion more signally disproved than on last evening, that the taint of African blood necessarily produces inferiority, either of body or mind; and the feeling that such a man should ever have been held the property of another, his noble frame tasked, flogged, and fettered, and his active, intelligent and expressive mind cramped and darkened, without a solitary chance of having its energies awakened, causes a loathing of the slave system which should be sufficient to enlist all our sympathies.