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Mr. Park rejoined, that such a complaint had never been made before in respect

to him.

Mr. Park went on to say, that he endeavored yesterday to get rid of this matter by a side wind, but as that did not obtain, he should try it again.

He now objected to the notice of the Anti-Slavery Society, in which it is announced that one Amos Dresser, a man who has been lynched, would address the meeting this evening, and they intended to adjourn here from a stable loft, to send all over the Union, the fame of this great meeting in the Representatives' Chamber.

He had nearly been lynched himself last year, while attempting to rescue females from the mob in front of the Anti-Slavery Rooms in Washington-street, being mis

taken for an abolitionist !

This subject was pressed in such a manner, that he should not be mealy mouthed in respect to it. He feared the effect the meeting here would have all over the Union. It would be bruited in the public prints in the strongest terms.

A motion was made to adjourn, but negatived.

Mr. Richmond of Plymouth, said he, as well as the gentleman from Boston, felt some regard for the credit of the Commonwealth; he did not wish to see its plighted word retracted.

The gentleman talks about a lynched man-lynched for what? why, for telling the truth. We have slept over these matters long enough.

These petitions do not break windows and tear down houses: it was those who opposed them. He would venture to predict that if this vote was reconsidered, the antislavery cause would be strengthened. He spoke with a good deal of warmth of the right of discussion, and the right of the slave to be free. He thought it a most important subject-this violence that had been done to a northern citizen-and he thought it quite time to inquire if such things could be done by the southerners with impunity.

Mr. Folsom of Hingham, advocated the reconsideration. Why do not these philanthropists go to the south, and beard the lion in his den-not stay here barking behind his back?

Mr. F. went on in a very hyperbolical strain about the integrity of the Union being endangered.

Mr. Ward of Danvers, thought it would be impolitic and unjust to withdraw the consent of the House, after it had once been given in an affair of this kind. The House had pledged itself—and should it now stultify itself, by assuming that it did not know at the time what it had granted?

A meinber in the gallery, hoped we should not retract our pledge; it would look like persecution.

Mr. Abbot of Andover, said after the notice had gone out in the public prints, it was too late to retract; it would be impolitic now to refuse what we have once granted.

He had no fear of a mob, and trusted that the citizens of Boston had too much good sense to attack the right of free discussion. If the hall is refused, it will produce a shock or revulsion of feeling in favor of the Anti-Slavery Society.

Mr. Cook of Boston, was not present yesterday: if he had been, he should have voted against it; but he now considered the honor of the House pledged; the use of it had been granted, and there was no honorable retreat. He moved to lay the order ou the table; negatived, 228 to 190.

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Mr. Park said, change makes change.' The Society had changed their ground

they asked for free discussion, but now they announce a man for exhibition, who has been lynched.

Mr. Ruggles of Fall River, said he last year opposed the granting the use of this hall to the Colonization Society, without at the same time giving the same privilege to its rival, the Anti-Slavery Society.

If we now refuse that equal treatment, it will be said that we are committed to slavery. The gentleman (Mr. Park) put his opposition to the use of the Hall on the ground of mobs. Good God! has it come to this? Are the House afraid that 'the gentlemen of property and standing' in this city will mob ús in our own Hall? Is it indeed true, that free discussion is destroyed in the very cradle of liberty? He hoped not. He despised the contemptible, craven spirit, prevailing on this subject. He would maintain free discussion as long as the breath remained in his body, let come what would. He did not fear the gentlemen of property and standing-let them do their worst. He trusted the deep disgrace would not rest upon the city of Boston, of mobbing a man who came here to tell us of the outrages committed upon him by southern slaveholders.

During the discussion, two or three efforts were made to adjourn, and to lay the question upon the table: but the House put them all down-being determined to take the question of reconsidering—which was decided in the negative—233 voting in the affirmative, and 234 in the negative.

Mr. Ruggles of Fall River, was truly eloquent in his defence of the right of free discussion. We have seldom heard a more manly, noble eloquence, than he evinced on this occasion. It was of the true sort, coming as it did from the heart.

Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in account Current with Henry G. Chapman, Treasurer.

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Boston, January 24, 1837. HENRY G. CHAPMAN, Treasurer.

BOSTON, Feb. 3, 1837.-I have examined the above account, and find the same duly vouched and correctly cast.

S. E. SEWALL, Auditor.

DONATIONS TO THE SOCIETY,

FOR THE YEAR 1836.

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DONATIONS

Taken up at the Annual Meeting of the Society, held in the Stable Loft

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Arthur Tappan, New-York.

William Rawle, Philadelphia.
Rev. S. J. May, Scituate, Mass.
Rev. S. S. Jocelyn, New Haven, Ct.
Rev. George Bourne, New-York.
Hon. S. Crafts, Craftsbury, Vt.
Hon. A. Clark, Danville, Vt.
Rev. W. A. Chapin, Craftsbury, Vt.
H. Merrill, Esq., Peacham, Vt.
Moses Brown, Providence, R. I. (dec.)
Rev. O. S. Murray, Orwell, Vt.
J. Ridgway, Staffordshire, Eng.

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