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 THE 
 
 PROCEEDINGS 
 
 UNION MEETING, 
 
 BREWSTER'S HALL, 
 
 OCTOBER 24, 1850. , v o , 
 
 PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE 
 "UNION SAFETY COMMITTEE. 11 
 
 ■ » NEW HAVEN: 
 PRINTED BY WILLIAM H. STANLEY. 
 
 1851. 
 
M ' 
 
 THE 
 
 GREAT UNION MEETING 
 
 AT NEW HAVEN. 
 
 An earnest desire having been expressed by many of the citizens of Now 
 Haven, that the sentiments of the great mass of our people, in reference to 
 the compromise or peace measures, recently passed by Congress, should be 
 embodied in some tangible form and made public, as a matter of justice to 
 themselves, and foi the purpose of cheering the hearts and strengthens 
 
 f the Union in every part of our wide-spread and 
 gloriou a number of preliminary meetings were held in the 
 
 Common Council Chamber, a call for a great public meeting agreed 
 and all the necessary arrangements made efficiently to carry oui 
 object. 
 
 On the evening of December 24, A. D. 1850, a large audience, composed 
 of our most substantial citb abled in Brewster's Hall, and though 
 
 fore differing as wide! ch other in their political viev 
 
 their pursuits, but one thought, one sentiment, one feeling prevailed— I 
 fidelity to the Constitution and its Compromises, and a faithful adherence to 
 the Laws — while tity of the Union was 
 
 silently to Heaven. The voice of that Meeting is the voice of New Haven — 
 it spoke the true sentiments of our citizens; and as it goes abroad through 
 our State, breaking the stillness of the valleys, and echoing among the hills, 
 we trust that answering voices will every where come back to us, declaring 
 in no doubtful language that the Union must and shall be preserved. 
 
 \& 
 
THE CALL, AND SIGNATURES. 
 
 The undersigned, believing that any alteration of the 
 COMPROMISE MEASURES adopted at the last Session 
 of Congress, is not only inexpedient, but that it is the duty 
 of every good citizen of this Republic to support and vindi- 
 cate the same ; do therefore recommend, that a public meet- 
 ing of the Citizens of this place, without distinction of 
 paett, be convened, to express our united determination; that 
 the same shall be executed to their fullest extent, and our 
 united opposition to any further agitation of the subject, or the 
 subject of slaverv in any form. 
 
 Charles A (water, 
 Charles W. Allen, 
 John Arnot, Jr. 
 John ( i. Anthony, 
 Willis M. Anthony, 
 A A Hi-, 
 J. N. Austin, 
 I.. A. Arnold, 
 John L. Ailing, 
 David Allen 
 Albert All in?, 
 W. F. Alexander, 
 John Arnold, 
 J. M. Andrews, 
 James Ackerly 
 Wm. E. Allen, 
 I-'.. I'.. And] 
 George Abbott, 
 Jesse Andrews, 
 S. W. Alii-, 
 L. E. Andrews, 
 Henry Atwater 
 Russell Ailing, 
 Andrew Bryan, 
 Benjamin Beechcr, Jr., 
 Wm. D. Bryan, 
 Samuel Bradley, > 
 Charles Bradley, 
 George Beers, 
 
 C. G. Baldwin, 
 P. Brockway, 
 
 D. W. Butler, 
 
 ' . : water, Jr., 
 
 S. L. Allen, 
 George Anger, 
 II. B. Allen, 
 Charles J. Allen, 
 
 \!>bott. 
 William Austin, 
 I!. Andi 
 
 William Allen. 
 jH. II. Austin, 
 Jonathan Alii 
 II. K.Arnold, 
 M. B. Atwater, 
 Benjamin Ailing, 
 John B. Adriance, 
 
 J. J. Atwat 
 A. P. Atwater, 
 
 o Adam-', 
 1 
 
 Ansel Austin, 
 Asa K. Ailing, 
 Isaac A 
 Sherman A. Barrows, 
 
 C. A. Ball, 
 Oliver Bryan, 
 Edward Bulkley, 
 Henry Bradley, 
 J. W. Bover, ' 
 Truman Benedict. 
 
 D. A. Benjamin, 
 James Bogart, 
 
 Atwater & Bassctt, 
 H. P. Andri 
 N. Ailing, 
 W. H. Augur, 
 
 DanielAuirur, 
 I. F. Avery, 
 L. C. Allen, 
 M. Armstrong, 
 E. Atwater, 
 o. Alii 
 
 William A. Atlee, 
 Abner Austin, 
 M. Andrews, 
 J.S. Atwati 
 H. M. Ailing, 
 J. Atu a 
 
 Ebenezer Arnold, 
 John Anketell, 
 C. S. Adams, 
 Thomas Atwater, 
 [saac Anderson, 
 Leverett Ailing, 
 James M. Andrews, 
 Horace B* 1 
 George E. Blakeslee, 
 
 by P. i shop, 
 Benjamin Booth, 
 P. II. Bartholomew, 
 Samuel H. Boyer, 
 . W. Benedict, 
 
 v' Brooks, 
 Thomas W. Beecher, 
 
J. Barrea, 
 J. Brinsmade. 
 Charles Brocket, 
 M. Beechcr, 
 Riley Blakeslee, 
 H. W. Brinsmade, 
 E. W. Bedinger, 
 Charles R. Baer, 
 H. D. Beman, 
 J. S. Branson, 
 Douglas Barman, 
 J. Ward Barnett, 
 Alfred Bassett, 
 Charles Bradley, 
 David Bassett, 
 J. S. Bardon, 
 H. O. Beach, 
 Thomas Burns, 
 K. Biown, 
 Isaac Bradley, 
 W. S. Barnes, 
 C. J. Belts, 
 Alfred Bronson, 
 
 C. Brassill, 
 Elisha Blackman, 
 H. M. Bidwell, 
 E. B. Bills, 
 
 E. A. Beach, 
 I. W. Barker, 
 Frederick Bulkley, 
 A. Black, 
 G. F. Bradley, 
 S. H. Bishop, 
 Timothy Barney, 
 J. E. Baldwin, " 
 William W. Boardman, 
 J. Barnett, Jr., 
 W. C. Bm! 
 Alfred Blackman, 
 Benjamin Beecher, 
 Jonas B. Bowditch, 
 Edwin B. Bowditch, 
 E. Batram, 
 H. Bulkley, 
 Thomas Barnett, 
 A. J. Beers, 
 E.J. Baldwin, 
 W. H. Brown, 
 George Brown, 
 Nathan Baldwin, 
 Asa Budington, 
 E. B. Bishop, 
 Sherman Barnes, 
 Hervey Bradley, 
 J. S. Beecher, 
 J. A. Bishop, 
 Hervey Brown, 
 E. A. Burgess, 
 Levi Baldwin, 
 
 D. E. Burwell, 
 William Bishop, 
 
 O. E. Baldwin, 
 William Brooks, 
 Willis Bunnell, 
 Eugene Beardsley, 
 George Bronson, 
 J. W. Bradley, 
 Silas Benham, 
 M. Butiricks, 
 
 B. W. Bellamv, 
 H. H. Babcock, 
 H. A. Battles, 
 A. J. Burnham, 
 J. G. Baird, 
 George Benham, 
 
 C. A. Brown, 
 E. C. Beecher, 
 Samuel Bishop, 
 Jeremiah Bishop, 
 Charles Bradley, 
 Charles Beers, 
 R. Barnes, 
 Henry C. Buck. 
 J. A. Blakeslee, 
 L. E. Blakeslee, 
 A. T. Burwell, 
 Leverett Barnes, 
 William Bishop, 
 Charles Beers, 
 John H. Booth, 
 John Boylan, 
 Charles Ba 
 Lewis Baldwin, 
 George Bradley, 
 Stephen Barnes, 
 William H. Barnes, 
 L. If. G. Blohm, 
 James Brewster, 
 Charles G. Bostwick, 
 M. Burns, 
 William Burns, 
 George Bulard, 
 
 t : . Biering, 
 Miles Baldwin, 
 H. R. Bond, 
 I. H. Beecher, 
 William F. Bradley, 
 
 W. Bull, 
 Samuel M. Bassett, 
 Jonas Bronson, 
 W. H. Bassett, 
 E. A. Bulkley, 
 Richard Beach, 
 George D. Bradley, 
 William T. Bradley, 
 William Buddington, 
 G. C. Burch, 
 Benjamin Bradley, 
 Charles Bearesley, 
 E. Buddington, 
 John Baldwin, 
 David Beach, 
 
 William Baker, 
 C. A. Bray, 
 Patrick Botsford, 
 James Bourke, 
 H. E. Beach, 
 Charles Baldwin, 
 F. Bidwell, 
 
 E. F. Bedell, 
 Giles Bishop, 
 Alanson Bryan, 
 R. J. Brown, 
 George Bishop, 
 Samuel Betts, 
 Thomas Bennett, 
 lLouis L. Beecher, 
 
 F. A. Bradley, 
 Thomas Bishop, 
 M. P. Baldwin, 
 Miles Bristol, 
 William P. Bostwick, 
 J. P. Beers, 
 Rodney Burton, 
 
 E. W. Barnes, 
 E. E. Beardsley, 
 Zebul Bradley, 
 
 E. M. Benham, 
 R. H. Bradley, 
 William H. Bradley, 
 Nelson Burwell, 
 William H.Baker, 
 William B. Baldwin, 
 .T. L. Bn 
 
 15. Bassett, 
 John D. Beecher, 
 William C. Baldwin, 
 William Boyd, 
 Charles Bostwick, 
 Sidney Babcock, 
 Peter Barney, 
 
 F. D. Bradley, 
 S. Barnley, 
 George Bartholomew, 
 William Ba, 
 
 T. W. Beecher, 
 C. A. Bowers, 
 A. H. Beecher, 
 P. A. Buel, 
 M. G. Bowditch, 
 Willis Bristol, 
 J. M. Blair, 
 Samuel E. Barnes, 
 Sherman Blair, 
 Leander Buel, 
 John S. Beach, 
 William Baldwin. 
 jGeorge Butler, 
 J. W. Bowen, 
 William Barbour, 
 |Miles Bradley, 
 !M. Ball, 
 A Burr, 
 
A. D. Bear, 
 
 C. B. Brown, 
 E. E. Bassett, 
 Henrv Baldwin, 
 E. Blake, 
 George Bassett, 
 Bristol & Hall, 
 Reuben Bunnell 
 H. W. Bouton, 
 R. Burritf, 
 Rufus Booth, 
 George S. Bradley, 
 H. T. Batram. 
 
 J. W. Bennett, 
 Wyllis Barnes, 
 Lewis Bassett, 
 I. Blakeslee, 
 Harry Croswell, 
 Patrick Colwell, 
 
 D. Carrington, 
 J. F. Chatterton, 
 A. T. Cooper, 
 Henry L. Cannon, 
 G. I. Cummings, 
 T. Chope, 
 
 C. C. Clinton, 
 Francis Chatterton, 
 John T. Collis, 
 Solomon Collis, 
 Thomas Chatterton, 
 L. Candee, 
 William T. Cannon, 
 John H. Coley, Jr. 
 Frederick Croswell, 
 George L. Cannon, 
 Hugh Caldwell, 
 J. D. Chatfield. 
 P. K. Cover. 
 W. N. Coterell, 
 J. G. Corbusier, 
 Pierre Creed, 
 William Canada, Jr., 
 
 E. C. Chamberlain, 
 S. Chamberlain, 
 
 J. Chapman, 
 M. C. Conwell, 
 N. E. Candee, 
 R. Carrington, 
 A. M. Coal, 
 
 0. A. Cook, 
 
 1. F. Champlin, 
 George Cooper, 
 W. J. Chalker, 
 Samuel Cooper, 
 Eliphalet Cooper, 
 R. Chapman, 
 Robert Cottingham, 
 Jeremiah Chalker, 
 Thomas Cauldwell, 
 Luke Campbell, 
 Thomas Connell, 
 
 A. Boardman, 
 ]C. Bartholomew, 
 iG. H. Bostwick. 
 John Bogart, 
 
 D. W. Beecher, 
 Henry Beecher, 
 L. Brockett,l 
 Ailing Brown, 
 Charles Butler, 
 J. B. Brainard, 
 Daniel Bacon, 
 Henry Bronson, 
 W. N. Bartram, 
 William Benedict, 
 Hubbard Barnes, 
 William E. Burwell, 
 John H. Colev, 
 
 E. Cutler, 
 
 F. Cur ran, 
 M. Curran, 
 
 G. J. Cone, 
 George Cooke, 
 Samuel T. Cummings, 
 E. S. Cone, 
 
 W M. Clark, 
 
 W.F.Clark, 
 
 John Colburn, 
 
 S.Collins, 
 
 John B. Chidsev, 
 
 D. P. Clark, 
 
 J. K. Curtiss, 
 
 D. Coney, 
 
 P. S. Croffut, 
 M. M. Camp, 
 W. A. Comstock, 
 William D. Curtiss, 
 H. W. Cook, 
 John Concklin, 
 
 E. P. Church, 
 James Creed, Jr. 
 Joseph Canada, 
 M. Chalker, 
 
 B. W. Clark, 
 James Cunningham, 
 J. T. Clark, 
 
 Zera Chapin, 
 Anson Clark, 
 W. J. Cunningham, 
 
 C. Churchill, 
 
 D. Campbell, 
 H. Creighton, 
 J. Chipman, 
 
 J. T. Cosgrove, 
 Philip Curtiss, 
 Dorus Clark, 
 J. F. Cooper, 
 I George B. Curtiss 
 | Isaac R. Cornwall, 
 iJames K. Curtiss, 
 !0. F. Case, 
 i Anson T. Colt, 
 
 iL. A. Bassett, 
 
 C. D. Bassett, 
 
 A. T. Blakeslee, 
 Anson Belden, 
 J. A. Blakeslee, 
 W. Bunnell, 
 
 iR. G. Babcock, 
 |A. H. Beecher, 
 !Otis Belden, 
 |0. C. Beers, 
 Edward Bromley, 
 George I. Bui ford, 
 P. W. Ball, 
 iJames Barnes, 
 ; Henry R. Barnes, 
 
 !h. Combs, 
 |A. Clay, 
 M. Colben, 
 ]S. Conley, 
 T. Craven, 
 Jesse Crane, 
 IWillard Chenery, 
 G. H.Cone, 
 Lyman Chipman, 
 H. P. Crofut, 
 W. Carr, 
 J. N. Collins, 
 H. Clark, 
 
 Charles W. Curtiss, 
 William Cornwell, 
 Thomas Cook' 1 , 
 John H. Cooke, 
 
 B. S. Curtiss, 
 John Colburn, 
 A. Covert, 
 
 E. W. Cooper, 
 P. A. Catlin, 
 James Corse, 
 
 A. J. Cutler, 
 
 B. Coan, 
 
 J. R. Coats, 
 Edward Collins, 
 N. B. Church, 
 B. Conlan, 
 John Coffey, 
 A. C.Cunningham, 
 J. W. Clark, 
 Thomas Collett, 
 George C. Curtiss, 
 Moses Chandler, 
 W. S. Charnley, 
 N. A. Cowdrey, 
 
 D. N. Clark, 
 William Crow, 
 James Chaplin, 
 W. H. Clark, 
 Robert Craig, 
 William Cosgrove 
 J. W. Cook, 
 Daniel C. Clapp, 
 

 John Cleary, 
 George A. Cable, 
 William Cone, 
 Nathan H. Carey, 
 Thomas Catlin, 
 Henry S. Catlin, 
 Samuel J. Clarke, 
 Thomas Clarkson, 
 J. T. Clarke, 
 Edward S. Cone, 
 George Clark, 
 Samuel Clark, 
 Daniel Cushman, 
 T. Dwight Clark, 
 David Daggett, 
 William Dickerman, 
 Joseph Downs, 
 E. B. Dibble, 
 E. Dickerman, 3d, 
 Charles B. Doolittle, 
 J. F. Dobson, 
 H. S. Dawson, 
 Charles Dougal 
 Alonzo Davis 
 L. A. Daggett, 
 M. B. Dana, 
 Smith Dayton, 
 Sylvester Dewey, 
 J." J. Doyle, 
 Zelotes Day, 
 Eli Denslow, 
 George Davis, 
 G. A. Davis, 
 Samuel Dixon, 
 Edwin Dennerly, 
 Lucius K. Dow, 
 Charles Dixon, 
 William C. Dei 
 Calvin Duwnes, 
 I >av, 
 M. II. Doolittle, 
 Francis Donnelly, 
 James Donnaghe, 
 Thomas W. Ensign, 
 Thomas Ensign, 
 Eng'i ter, 
 
 Howard B. Ensign, 
 
 E. W. Ensign, 
 Charles H. Earl, 
 Matthew G. Elliott, 
 
 F. Eav, 
 
 George D. English. 
 Charles L. English, 
 James Eaton, 
 Eleazer K. Foster, 
 S. L. Ferris, 
 Lucius R. Finch, 
 J. W. Frisbie, 
 J. W. Frisbie, Jr. 
 Richard H. Fowler 
 C. A. Ford, 
 
 G. Crary, 
 
 James Crowley, 
 C. Crowley, 
 .lames Crayner, 
 
 aes O. Conger, 
 Jedediafa Chapman, 
 Thomas Clarke, 
 Henry A. Cook. 
 John H. Coley, 
 Daniel Clark, 
 C. D. Curhan, 
 James B. Clark, 
 P. H. Cone, 
 Hezekiah S. Cone, 
 S. D. Davis, 
 J. Durn, 
 J. Dnunmond, 
 W. D. Dutton, 
 Gr. C. Dickerman, 
 Ransford Davis, 
 Clark S. Dunni. 
 
 F. D. 
 
 G. T. Durantt, 
 
 I >avis, 
 i 
 T. Camp Downes, 
 John Douglas, 
 Charles S. A. Davis. 
 J. Dooling, 
 
 i Jr. 
 
 E. R. Dickson, 
 [ra Di Iceman, 
 Orlando Dudley, 
 Charles Davids, 
 
 Dunning, 
 Chester Dickerman, 
 David L. Dagge 
 James Deli 
 William E. Dudley, 
 Chari- i >, k rman, 
 George W. Da\ 
 
 B. Davis. 
 William Erwin, 
 William H. Elliott, Jr. 
 John English, 
 
 Edward Ely, 
 Amos ! Mis, 
 T.B.Evarts, 
 W. M. Este, 
 Norman L. Evarts, 
 H. II. Edwards, 
 Lewis Ellis , 
 E. Fowler, 
 John Field, 
 C. Faimagan, 
 Asa F ench, 
 J. H. Fairchild, 
 William R. Ferree, 
 C. H. Finch, 
 
 Canfield & Spefl 
 
 Daniel Crowley, 
 William Chipman, 
 Michael Connell, 
 John Conner, 
 George A. Chapman, 
 L. Chamberlain, 
 D. Connell, 
 
 C. Clark, 
 A. L. Chamberlain, 
 
 'it Crager, 
 Gilbert F. Ca 
 A. A. Colton, 
 
 J. M. Deffendale, 
 Samuel Du dap, 
 W. Deghammer, 
 T. P. Dickerman, 
 S. A. Dunning, 
 Milo Downes, 
 Henry A. Duntze, 
 Julius Doolittle, 
 
 i Dickerman, 
 Alfred Daggett. 
 Dellinger Davis, 
 J. B. Douglass, 
 R. B. D 
 W. B. Davis, 
 Li vi Dibble, 
 W. J. Derby, 
 Horace Dibble, 
 John D 
 
 William Dickinson, 
 Andrew DeMarlin, 
 John E. Dei 
 William Douglass, 
 Edward Downes, 
 Samuel Demond, 
 Abram M. Darrow, 
 Pat Dn 
 
 Philos (t. Dorman, 
 W. V. Dooi, 
 C. H. Douglass, 
 William H. Elliott, 
 
 . ;. English, 
 William H. Ellis, 
 R. M. Everitt, 
 James M. Evarts 
 William Ellis, 
 Peter E 
 C. A. Ensign, 
 * . A. Ensign 
 
 Richard Everitt, 
 
 Joel B. Foote, 
 Henry Farnham, 
 P. Fannagan. 
 C. W. Fields; 
 John C. Furber, 
 iH.H. Foote, 
 James Ford, 
 
S. C. Ford, 
 L. R. Ford, 
 
 Weston Ferris, 
 
 John N. Francis, 
 
 Thomas Flood, 
 
 Nathan Fenn, 
 
 William Faulkner, 
 
 P. O. Forbes, 
 
 Robert Fenton, 
 
 E. H. Frisbie, 
 
 Moses B. Frost, 
 
 S. N. Foster, 
 
 M. L. Frisbie, 
 
 Nathan S. Fowler, 
 
 Luke Fagan, 
 
 Timothy Fowler, 
 
 Morgan Fowler, 
 
 D. R. Franklin, 
 
 J. S. Farren, 
 
 Stephen Gilbert, 
 
 Jesse Gilbert, 
 
 I. W. Gill, 
 
 Frederick P. Gcrham, 
 
 Lucius Gilbert, 
 
 INewton Green, 
 
 I. Gilbert & Sons, 
 
 William Gilbert, 
 
 k. M. Gilbert, 
 
 Henry Grunert, 
 
 James L. Gould, 
 
 J. A. Gallup, 
 
 James Gallagher, 
 
 W. W. Guthill, 
 
 H. A. Gray, 
 
 F.| Gay lord, 
 
 Jeremiah Goodenough, 
 
 Hezekiah Gorharn, 
 
 A. Gerrish, 
 
 M. Giiheny, 
 
 Levi Gilbert, 
 
 Thomas Gilbert, 
 
 Sackett Gilbert, 
 
 Eleazer Gorham, 
 George P. Gates, 
 S. C. Gorham, 
 William Grant, 
 Alfred Goodsell, 
 Henry Gwinnell, 
 E. M. Hanover, 
 Isaac Heard, 
 E. B. M. Hughes, 
 G. C. Hawley, 
 Edward Hosmer, 
 George Hosmer, 
 Charles Humphrev, 
 V/. W. Hubbell, 
 W. L. Hubbell, 
 Bartholomew Healey, 
 William Hulse, 
 George W. Hyde, 
 B. M. Hubbard, 
 
 F. C. Ford, 
 Charles Flisler, 
 J. B. Foot, 
 Philip Flood, 
 L. D. Fitch, 
 J. Walker Fearn. 
 E. L. Fairchild. 
 S. D. Fairchild, 
 |A. Fetherby, 
 Thomas Farley, 
 IR.L. Fields, 
 Enos Foot, 
 James Farliman, 
 James Featherstone, 
 J. Frisbie, 
 William Farren, 
 John Ferren, 
 Jira B. Foote, 
 
 John S. Gr; 
 A. N. Gould, 
 |T. W. Gillett, 
 IS. & J. Gilbert, 
 r.S. Grilling, 
 James W. Glynn, 
 Eli D. Gilbert, 
 ! William Grant, 
 |S. G. Green, 
 Edward Gilbert, 
 J. P. Griswold, 
 E. R. Green, 
 E. Gilbert, Jr. 
 Patrick Gordon, 
 W. O. Glover, 
 I. Goodrich, 
 George Gorham, 
 (Chester Goodyear, 
 D. H. Granger, 
 G. W. Goodse.d, 
 
 Gilbert, 
 IC. Graham, 
 IS. Gilbert & Co. 
 Lcverett Griswold, 
 John Galpin, 
 James Goodrich, 
 'Thomas Gordon, 
 IJ. B. Goodsell, 
 H. Gwinnell, Jr. 
 iThomas Hayes, 
 Jes^e Higging, 
 Edwin C. Hewitt, 
 John B. Hanover, 
 William T. Hanson, 
 |E. L. Hubbell, 
 John C. Holer, 
 Hervey T. Hart, 
 R. F. Hitchcock, 
 IGeorge E. Hubbell. 
 -Benjamin L. Hall, 
 E. E. Hall, 
 W. Hunt, 
 
 William Faverweather, 
 G. Ferris, 
 J. H. Farnsworth, 
 Patrick Flood, 
 W. Fuller, 
 Asa French, 
 Jabez Fitch, 
 J. T. Fairchild, 
 William Farrell, 
 Robert Finley, 
 James Fordham, 
 William Fairchild, 
 Charles Farrill, 
 Anson G. Francis. 
 George W. Ford, 
 Morgan G. Fowler, 
 Merrit Fenn, 
 Charles Finch, 
 
 G. Giurl, 
 1. Geparciu, 
 Samuel B. Gorham, 
 William P. Gardner, 
 H. D. Gilbert, 
 Patrick" Garvey, 
 Levi Gilbert, George-st. 
 E. Goodrich, 
 Georsje Graham, 
 
 C. R. Goodyear, 
 George W. Gordon, 
 
 D. B. Greene, 
 L. G. Gelson, 
 Seth Gillett, 
 George Goodsell, 
 J. Gill, i 
 
 Timothy Gorham, 
 Thomas Grant, 
 James Glaney, 
 
 A. S. Grant," 
 Lewis Gunn, 
 William B. Goodale, 
 S. M. Gorhi 
 Josiah Gibbs, 
 Daniel S. Glenney, 
 Joshua 11. Gore, 
 John Gray, 
 Anson Grannis, 
 
 A. Heaton, 
 Russell H. Haven, 
 Charles Hooker, 
 Albert R. Harrison, 
 S. L. Hakwins, 
 John C. Hay den. 
 Simeon Hubbell, 
 Simeon L. Hubbell, 
 Charles Hull, 
 S. W. Han, 
 John M. Hendrick, 
 Edward Hern, 
 Gerard Hallock, 
 
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 Edwin Horton, 
 Charles Hattersley, 
 Jeremiah Haley, 
 Henry Holden, 
 Alonzo Hinman, 
 Enos S. Hurlburt, 
 A. E. Hotchkiss, 
 Chase Hil], 
 Alexander Houston, 
 Russell Hubbard, 
 John Harris, 
 Joel Hinman, 
 Thomas Healy, 
 William W. Holly, 
 Russell Hotchkiss, 
 George Hoadlev, 
 H. S. Hoadley," 
 C. P. Hubbell, 
 L. W. Hall, 
 C. Ha user, 
 H. L. Hotchkiss, 
 John C. Hollister, 
 N. F. Hall, 
 F. C. Hall, 
 Elam Hull, 
 Isaac Hopkins, 
 
 E. C. Hargill, 
 Hotchkiss & Johnson, 
 L. R. Hotchkiss, 
 Patrick Haley, 
 
 C. A. Hotchkiss, 
 C. R. Harris, 
 George S. Hubbard. 
 Thomas Horslall, 
 John W. Harris, 
 
 F. Henchit, 
 
 G. R. H. Hughes, 
 William G. Hudson, 
 R. W. Hill, 
 Henry Hooker, 
 
 J. T. Havens, 
 L.F.Holt, ' 
 Thomas Hall, 
 R. H. Hall, 
 Alfred Heyliger, 
 J. M. Hendricks, 
 James B. Hotchkiss, 
 Ralph I. Ingersoll, 
 C. A. Ingersoll, 
 C. M. Ingersoll, 
 E. Ingraham, 
 Hoadley B. Ives, 
 C. R. Ingersoll, 
 Charles Ives, 
 L. B. Judson, 
 George S. Johnson, 
 Erwin Johnson, 
 Edwin Jacobs, 
 William Jepson, 
 S. N. Johnson, 
 P. A. Jeu^ett, 
 
 Edward E. Huggins, 
 Henry Huggins, 
 Adrian C. Heitmann, 
 L. G. Hemmingway, 
 William Hanson, 
 William Henderson, 
 Alfred W. Husted, 
 George M. Hotchkiss, 
 Seth C. Horton, 
 John Hood, 
 George F. Hayward, 
 Alfred Howarth, 
 James Hurley, 
 James L. Hall, 
 iJ. K. Holean, 
 William Hull, 
 E. Hull, Jr. 
 Charles Hyde, 
 E. A. Hurd, 
 Henry Hale, 
 S. B. Hanover, 
 E. S. Hinman, 
 J. H. Hayes, 
 E. C. Hull, 
 T. N. Hotchkiss, 
 M. Higby, 
 S. A. Hotchkiss, 
 R. Holbrook, 
 P. C. Hinman, 
 A. J. Hawkins, 
 Stephen Hotchkiss, 
 Ezra Hotchkiss, 
 C. B. Hanson, 
 Asa Hoyt 
 S. G. Hayes, 
 J. B. Hawley, 
 R.J. Haldeman, 
 Charles H. Hoyt, 
 W. Humaston, 
 G. L. Hubbell, 
 Hooker & Osborn, 
 Adner Hotchkiss, 
 J. H. Hogan, 
 
 C. H. Hallowell, 
 P. B. Hurdon, 
 John F. Hall, 
 
 J. W. Hotchkiss, 
 Morris Isbel, 
 George M. Isbel, 
 Willis Ives, 
 Henry Ives, 
 W. H. Ives, 
 N. B. Ives, 
 Stephen V. Ingham. 
 William Johnson, 
 William Jackson, 
 
 D. S. Jones, 
 J. T. Judson, 
 George W. Jones, 
 D. T. Johnson, 
 William B. Johnson. 
 
 George W. Hicks, 
 John B. Hotchkiss, 
 J. A. Humphrey, 
 John G. Harvey, 
 Augustus Hale, s , 
 Samuel Hemmingway, 
 Nelson Hotchkiss, 
 Thomas C. Hall, 
 James T. Hemmingway. 
 H. Hickox, 
 Isaac D. Hawley, 
 Lucius Hotchkiss, 
 George Howard, 
 Edward Harland, 
 George Hopkins, 
 L. C. Hayward, 
 William 'M.Hall, Jr. 
 J. S. Hotchkiss, 
 Henry Howe, 
 W. B. Hays, 
 Giles B. Hoadley, 
 George Hinman, 
 N. C. Hall, 
 E. M. Hotchkiss, 
 William Hogan, 
 G. C. Hotchkiss, 
 J. G. Hotchkiss, 
 Orrin Hull, 
 William Hutchinson, 
 W. M. Hulduse, 
 R. R. Hitchcock, 
 H. Hopper, 
 T. C. Hollis. 
 John Healey, 
 R. Hart, 
 Albert Hebard, 
 Oliver Hotchkiss, 
 N. S. Hallenbeck, 
 
 D. H. Hotchkiss, 
 Ross Hinman, 
 Samuel Hill, 
 Robert Hubbard, 
 R. Harkness, 
 George Harpin, 
 Charles Hallock, 
 Charles S. Hotchkiss,, 
 Elizur Harrison, 
 John D. Ives, 
 Lyman Ives, 
 
 F. E. Ives, 
 James Ives, 
 
 E. L. Ives, 
 L. Ives, 
 A. Ives, 
 
 John K. Johnston, 
 John Jackson, 
 H. B. Jones, 
 N. T. Johnson, 
 Newel Johnson, 
 
 G. P. Jenks, 
 E. L. Johnson, 
 
9 
 
 George W. Judd, 
 J. A. Jones, 
 William C. Janes, 
 Charles Jelliii; 
 Sherman Johnson, 
 William Jennings, 
 Frederick Jones, 
 Isaac Judson, 
 J. Johnson, 
 A. B. Jacocks. 
 Dennis Kimberlv, 
 William R. Kin'l \v, 
 J. S. Kennedy, 
 John B. Kirbv, 
 G. Kinll, 
 W. J. Kempton, 
 A. L. Kidston, 
 Henry Kelsey, 
 Charfes King, 
 Daniel Kline, 
 H. Kilbourn, 
 Owen Kean, 
 Justus Kimberlv, 
 John P. Kingsburv, 
 
 D. M. King, 
 H. G, Lewis, 
 
 0. B. Leavenworth, 
 W. H. Lyon, 
 Samuel Lockwood, 
 Daniel Loomis, 
 J. M. Lansing, 
 Gay Lloyd,, 
 George Leek, 
 
 E. Lee, 
 
 George Lindley, 
 L. Layman, 
 Charles Lindley, 
 Bela Lord, 
 
 A. Loby, 
 
 George E. Leonard, 
 "William F. Levere, 
 E. M. Lockwood, 
 Miles Linsley, 
 William Loveland, 
 Isaiah B. Law, 
 
 P. Lowles, 
 
 B. L. Mason, 
 S. B. Morrell, 
 
 L. P. Morehouse, 
 Giles Mansfield; 
 Jno. "W. Mansfield, 
 N. A. Moses, 
 Ira Merwin. 
 George P. Marvin, 
 H. S. Mygatt, 
 L. Mandlebaum, 
 Enos S. Monson, 
 Henry A. Murray, 
 George Morse, 
 A.-B. Mallorv, 
 H. S. Miles, 
 M. Moulthrop 
 
 Harmon Judson, 
 [John J. Jones, 
 JE. A. Jones, 
 John Jepson, 
 Amos Johnson, 
 William Jones, 
 I, L. Jeroliman, 
 William H. Jones, 
 William Jones, 
 jCapt. J. Cluinn, 
 G. I. Kinney, 
 A. ?. Kirwau, 
 I Henry Kimberly, 
 A. Kauffman, 
 jRussell Kneel, 
 George Kennedy, 
 A. R. Kilborn, 
 James Kay, 
 Thomas G. Kent, 
 George J. Klein, 
 John Keagan, 
 R. Kain, 
 S. W. Knevals, 
 Charles B. Knevals, 
 H. C. Kirtland, 
 M. Lynch, 
 G. W. Lyon, 
 A. F. Lilly, 
 jW. A. Law, 
 Elisha Lester, 
 H. W. Lounsbury, 
 H. G. Lum, 
 ■George B. Lego, 
 H. Loomis, 
 George Love, 
 \N. H. Lancaster, 
 
 F. Lomly, 
 
 C.H.Leeds, 
 
 John Lyon, 
 
 William Law, 
 
 Thomas M. Lord, 
 lOliver Lyman, 
 jEbenezer Lane, 
 'Philo Lewis, 
 
 IP. Lamey, 
 •Clark Lum, 
 Norman Moses, 
 E. D. Moore, 
 'C. M. Maguire, 
 W. H. Myers, 
 on Martin. 
 ; William M'Cov, 
 
 . Merrick," 
 :.John B. Magie, 
 Patrick M'Cleaveland, 
 
 [ aher, 
 William Marriner, 
 JAsa Mills, 
 ,G. I. Merriman, 
 |C. H. Munson, 
 Philander Miller, 
 
 G. B. Miller, 
 
 John Jackson, 
 IB. H. Johnson, 
 'Edward I. Jones, 
 John L. Johnson, 
 [William M. Johnson, 
 S. B. Jerome, 
 George I. Judson, 
 Charles S. Jones, 
 William H. Johnson, 
 
 D. Kearney, 
 F. Kittera, 
 
 B. S. Kellam, 
 R. B. Knight, 
 A. W. Knight, 
 David Kempton, 
 
 A. Kilborn, 
 Bradley Keeler, 
 M. P. King, 
 
 P. Kerrigan, 
 Barney Keagan, 
 Peter E. Kilbourn, 
 Jonathan Knight, 
 Joseph Kensev, 
 
 C. P. Kirtland, 
 P. R. Law, 
 George Laughlin, 
 
 B. C. Lake, 
 William Lloyd, 
 John E. Leland, 
 Virgil Leek, 
 Joseph Leavitt, 
 William Love, 
 Chester Lyman, 
 J. L. Lvon, 
 
 J. C. D" Lee, 
 Lockwood Lane, 
 B. B. Lockwood, 
 David J. Lines, 
 Samuel Lawson, 
 Thomas Larry, 
 Henry Lampson, 
 William Linsley, 
 John E. Lewis, 
 H. S. Lanfair, 
 William Lewis, Jr., 
 P. Maguire, 
 W. W. Merwin, 
 
 E. A. Mitchell, 
 J. A. Milligan, 
 H. W. Moses, 
 H. McCormiek, 
 W. C. Mayo, 
 Francis Mullen, 
 
 F. A. Mooney, 
 John Mulligan, 
 Daniel Merwin, Jr., 
 E. E. Marsh, 
 Norris B. Mix, 
 
 L. Moulthrop, 
 Alfred P. Munson, 
 Dennis Mansfield, 
 
10 
 
 H. E. Matthews, 
 
 Jonathan Morse, 
 Casper Meyer, 
 William Mansfield, 
 Patrick Murphy, 
 N. W. Moses, 
 John M'Lagon, 
 Orrin Miller 
 James Mix, 
 George S. Mygatt, 
 Charles Mix,' 
 H. Mandevillc, 
 Charles Morris, 
 Allen Mix, 
 John Markland, 
 John H. Munson, 
 E. L. Munson, 
 H. J. Morton, 
 Francis Magon, 
 Burton Mallory, 
 Peter Merter, 
 James McGrath, 
 E. McCormick, 
 Anson Munson, 
 J. McClay, 
 W. W. Miller, 
 Nelson Newton, 
 Ebenezer Northrop, 
 Henry Norton, 
 J. Nicholson, 
 G. W. Nettleton, 
 L. C. Newton, 
 Henry North, 
 Samuel Noyes, 
 D. L. Newton, 
 Minott A. Osborn, 
 R. H. Osborn, 
 Ebhu Osborn, 
 H. N. Oviatt, 
 Henry Peck, 
 James Punderford, 
 S. D. Pardee, 
 I. N. Prior, 
 J. R. Parker, 
 Anon B. Peck, 
 D. W. Peck, 
 William M. Phillips, 
 B. M. Prcscctt, 
 
 D. S. Prindle, 
 Lester Pail, 
 Abijah Porter, 
 Elias Potter, 
 
 E. A. Pratt, 
 Thomas Parkinson, 
 George Phelps, 
 
 H. E. Phelps, 
 John Pierson, 
 George Perry, 
 Asahel Pierpont, 
 Nathan B Piatt, 
 Thomas Patterson, 
 
 J. McCormick, Jr., 
 
 Isaac Mix, 
 
 II. D. Merritt, 
 John McGoveran, 
 Thomas Martin, 
 Hugh McLawley, 
 James McDonnell, 
 P. More, 
 William Mills, 
 W. MclTen, 
 P. McCarty, 
 ' MfcBranty; 
 T. McClay, 
 El. Munson, 
 John Mire. 
 E. McGildowncy, 
 S. D. Miller, 
 Daniel Merrill, 
 Andrew Martin, 
 B. F. Mansfield, 
 N C. Mix, 
 E. McGowen, 
 Patrick Murphy, 
 John Murdoch, 
 B. C. Marsh, 
 A. L Mason, 
 II. Mansfield, 
 Merril Newhall, 
 Roger Newman, 
 Rufus Neur, 
 John Niven, 
 A W. North, 
 A. S. Noble, 
 George Northrop, 
 Ami rcw Newman, 
 Nathaniel Olmsted, 
 M. Olms 
 
 Peter 0"Connell, 
 P. O'Gravan, 
 Thomas C. Pitkin, 
 William F. Parker, 
 E. A. Park, 
 P. W. Post, 
 W. F. Pettit, 
 Seaburv Peck, 
 J. D. Payne, 
 J. A. Pmkerman, 
 William Pierson, 
 Henry Phelps, 
 Robert B. Peet, 
 George Pinkham, 
 Edward Peck, 
 Fenn Philleo, 
 E. C. Pratt, 
 Henry Parmelee, 
 Robert Peterson, 
 John Parker, 
 J. C. Parker, 
 Frederick Piatt, 
 J. E. Parmelee, 
 Timothy Potter, Jr., 
 
 John McGuire, 
 
 1 )\v in Morris, 
 Joseph 0. Miller, 
 Joseph Merchant, 
 John A. Myers, 
 I.. Mansfield, 
 M. McLan^hlin, 
 Elias T. Main, 
 J. M. Mann, 
 T. Merwin, 
 Philip G. Martin, 
 A. S. Monson, 
 D. P. McCarty, 
 Caleb Mix, 
 [J. Mansfield, 
 
 D. C. Mitchell, 
 Elihu Myers, 
 Samuel Mallett, 
 James D. Munson, 
 Patrick McEwen, 
 James Mooney, 
 
 J. McKee, 
 James Maples, 
 JohnMcl in, 
 Jared Mallory, 
 R. T. Merwin, 
 C. Mix, Jr. 
 John Noagle, 
 John Nun hi i. 
 Moses Nuibaum, 
 George S. Newhall, 
 
 E. N. ttleton, 
 IL^Northrop, 
 Knos Nichols, 
 W. H. Norris, 
 George Olmsted, 
 J. Olcott, 
 James Onthank, 
 H. Orcutt, 
 Noah Porter, 
 W. Pruger, 
 Jesse S. Pardee, 
 Evelyn Peck, 
 Jared L. Pitcher, 
 Dwight Porter, 
 Augustus Parker, 
 William P. Parmell, 
 Joseph H. Pardee, 
 Erastus Phelps, 
 
 S. H. Porter, 
 Rufus Pcttee, 
 George Prindle, 
 Henry L. Pierpont, 
 A. G. Pratt, 
 George Palfrey, 
 William Pendleton, 
 P. W. Powell, 
 Cornelius Piatt, 
 George Piatt, 
 P. W. Payne, 
 James Powell, 
 
11 
 
 D. Pritchard, 
 
 Isaac Plumb, 
 John Peckham, 
 James C. Phelps, 
 William L. Page, 
 John Perou, 
 W. H. Pond, 
 Miles Punderson, 
 Lewis Pierpont, 
 James Quinn, 
 William A. Reynolds, 
 Patrick Rogers, 
 Edmund Reilly, 
 J. E. Redfield, 
 H. S. Rogers, 
 Jackson Roberts, 
 William Ramsdell, 
 Nehemiah Robbins, 
 H. M. Remington, 
 Henry Razee, 
 N. S. Richardson, 
 Stephen Ritter, 
 
 E. C. Reed, 
 W. B. Ross, 
 
 J. T. Robertson, 
 S. Richards, 
 Chas. P. Riggs, 
 John Richardson, 
 Harvey N. Rowe, 
 Stephen Rowe, 
 Edwin Robinson, 
 Henry M. Rowe, 
 Stephen Rowe, 2d, 
 Nathan Smith, 
 Owen Sweney, 
 Oliver Smith, 
 Sanford & Allen, 
 S. Taylor Scott, 
 R. N. Strickland, 
 T. J. Stafford, 
 E. G. Storer, 
 L. E. Shelley, 
 O. Squirrel!, 
 B. W. Stone, 
 S. M. Stone, 
 L. S. Smith, 
 Wm. Shortman, 
 M. N. Sperry, 
 S. D. Sperry, 
 Wm. Scoville, 
 Enos Sperry, 
 Rawson Smith, 
 Sylvester Smith, 
 Horace Sperry. 
 Joseph Sutherland, 
 Henry Scovill, 
 Henry Smith, 
 Levi Sherman, 
 Hiram Stevens, 
 Scranton &. Parshley, 
 W. T. Scranton, 
 Joseph Short, 
 
 John Parshlev, 
 N. P. Powers, 
 H. S. Potter, 
 
 D. Augustus Peck, 
 Richard Piatt, 
 Jesse Peck, 
 David J. Peck, 
 Lyman Parker, 
 
 Joseph W. Quill, 
 Reuben Rice, 
 John Riley, 
 James Ray, 
 S. D. Roberts, 
 I. B. Rich, 
 
 E. H. Riley, 
 
 F. A. Riggs, 
 Philip Ryan, 
 J. S. Rathburn, 
 Wm. Risley, 
 Josiah Reab,' 
 E. Rockwell, 
 Lyman Rico, 
 
 E. Reilly, 
 
 John B. Robertson, 
 John J. Ryan, 
 Charles Roberts, 
 J. O. Riggs, 
 Levi Rowe, Jr., 
 Daniel Rowe, 
 John Rowe, 
 George B. Rowe, 
 Moses Seward, 
 D. B. Sanger, 
 I. Sanford, 
 George W. Swift, 
 W. Smith, 
 Isaac Stevens, 
 Albert Spencer, 
 EI. S. Shutliff, 
 A. A. Smith, 
 W. H. Simpson, 
 George W. Sperry, 
 H. H. Smith, 
 
 F. Strauss, 
 Wm. Skinner, 
 D. H. Scovill, 
 M. G. Smith, 
 S. G. Stoddatd, 
 S. A. Smith, 
 Charles H. Stevens, 
 W. H. Sheleen, 
 Jas. Stevenson, 
 Robert Sizer, 
 
 Geo. A. Smith, 
 Thos. Sault, 
 Burton Sperry, 
 P. Sheridan, 
 David Scranton, 
 Harry Scranton, 
 H. Schellenberger, 
 C. Sweetman, 
 
 Thomas Phillips, 
 Henry Pond, 
 Charles Peterson, 
 Augustus Page, 
 Laban Pardee, 
 G. H. Phelps, 
 Daniel Parmelee, 
 Lewis Parmelee, 
 
 Elijah H. Quimby, 
 Samuel Rowland, 
 Henry Ruckhold, 
 Bernard Reynolds, 
 James C. Rice, 
 Samuel Root, 
 S. Robinson, 
 Henry Richardson, 
 
 E. W. Richards, 
 J. E. Rathbun, 
 W. L. Rowland, 
 Shubal Royce, 
 M. Rearden, 
 Peter Rice, 
 
 C. Ruckoldt, 
 Bernard Riley, 
 Daniel L. Riggs, 
 Henry Robinson, 
 Ruel Rowe, 
 Willet Rowe, 
 Hiram Rowe, 
 Edwin Russell, 
 
 Hugh Shields, 
 Henry Simson, 
 Charles Swartz, 
 C. Sullivan, 
 
 F. Schneider, 
 
 F. S. Smith, 
 
 G. Q. Sill, 
 
 H. F. Stedman, 
 George Shumway, 
 S. D. Smith, 
 Chas. Smith, 
 Robert Sutton, 
 S. M. Smith, 
 M. Shumway, 
 M. Shumway, Jr. 
 Wm. Seward, 
 A. C. Sperry, 
 John Seward, 
 Sidney Sperry, 
 W. E. Sanford, 
 Joseph Sutz, 
 A. H. Sherman, 
 Geo. W. Stebbins, 
 John Shanley, 
 William Stanley, 
 A. Scott, 
 F. E. Stevens, 
 E. Stannard, 
 Jno. N. Sanford, 
 E. Shields, 
 
12 
 
 N. Sweetman. 
 Lyman M. Smith, 
 
 E. Stevens, 
 Frederick Stone, 
 T. M. Smith, 
 Jonathan Stoddard, 
 Richard Stone, 
 
 S. E. Sanford, 
 Sherman Smith, 
 W. Stickaej . 
 Henry Stow, 
 Peter Schlot 
 A\ illiani Stoddard, 
 
 8 
 A. Si 
 
 i Sporty, 
 Henry F. Smith, 
 Samuel Smith, 
 G.P. Sanford, 
 Isaac Seeley, 
 John Smith. 
 
 F. Stocking, 
 
 Smith, 
 S. F. Stedman, 
 T. M. - 
 Lucian M. Studdard, 
 
 . v, 
 J W. Smith, 
 
 Thompson, 
 ris Tyler, 
 
 b Taylor, 
 C, I '. Thomas, 
 
 Thomas, 
 Philo Terrell, 
 W. I. Turrell, 
 Vv'illet Thompson, 
 I >. Trowbi 
 l>. A. The 
 George W. Taylor, 
 John Tillou, 
 E. S. Tuck 
 Isaac Tuttle, 
 Wesley Tuttle, 
 Jos. Trowbrii 
 Alonzo Thompson, 
 S. (-. Thompson, 
 C.S. Todd, 
 W. F. Tolles, 
 N. W. Taylor, Jr., 
 A. A. Thompson, 
 Charles P. Thomas, 
 Elizur H. Thatcher, 
 Julius Tyler, 
 Theron Towner, 
 Geo. P. Thomas, 
 George Umberfield, 
 Levi Vanhoeseu, 
 O. Voin 
 
 John Wood raff, 
 R. A. White, 
 Wm. G. Webster, 
 
 IH. D. Smith, 
 
 M. Shields, 
 
 G. II. Sherman, 
 
 a Smith, 
 jGeorge P. Stillmau, 
 
 E. 11 Smith, 
 |F. S. Smith. 
 
 Samuel Short, 
 
 John Scarritt, 
 iGeo. Sweet I. 
 
 Stephen Stow, 
 
 Burton Sperry, 
 
 Wm. S 
 Thomi 
 
 Fowler Sperry. 
 Charles B. Shepherd, 
 ! [iram H. Si 
 
 :ers, 
 
 Amos E. Strong, 
 Henry H. S 
 
 !>. Stow, 
 Z. C. Stoddard, 
 Wm. L. Stark, 
 H. B. Smith, 
 
 Lyman Treadway, 
 A. J. Thorn . 
 Sherman Tyler, 
 Francis Taylor, 
 
 ■ Uttle, 
 A. N. 'Futile, 
 Samuel Tolles, 
 J. E. Thompson, 
 Selh Tuthill, 
 A. II. 1 
 
 Treadway, 
 .1. T. Thompson, 
 Rilev Tliomas, 
 C. Thomas, 
 
 1 Thomas, 
 Amos Thorn 
 Henry Thompson, 
 Orrin'R. Treat, 
 F. E. Townsend, 
 Wm. J. Thompson, 
 Atwater Treat, 
 Spencer Turner, 
 'David Tuttle, 
 Francois Turner, 
 H. S. Tomlinson, 
 Smith G. Tuttle, 
 C. S. Thompson. 
 Loren Fmberfield, 
 Louis Vetter, 
 James M. Veader, 
 A. Wilcox, 
 T. Wausen, 
 T. Watson, 
 
 C. Sweetman, Jr.. 
 i,. Shepherd, 
 - iiiderson, 
 M. R. Shepherd, 
 Henry Saxlon, 
 
 Smith, 
 M. Schenehon, 
 Ilcrvey Sanford, 
 jjohneon Sanford, 
 Lewis T. Smith, 
 i .''li Sears, 
 mith, 
 B. Stone, 
 Robert II. Starr, 
 
 • rry, 
 
 Iter, 
 
 i Stevens, 
 
 es Smith, 
 
 ma, 
 
 ph E. Sheffield, 
 
 Alexis Sperry, 
 
 1 I. Sawyer, 
 
 Phillin 
 
 Bevil P. Smith, 
 
 E. T 
 
 II. L. Scranton, 
 
 • Tuttle, 
 II. Trowbridge's Sons, 
 M. Tu 
 .Michael Tavlor, 
 
 [.Thomas, 
 Charles Tuttle, 
 
 F. Tuttle, 
 
 E. Tuttle, 
 J. Tucker, 
 •nple, 
 
 ard W. Treat, 
 Edward Thomas, 
 Tree, 
 I . Tuttle, 
 E.B. i 
 
 Chas.A. Tuttle, 
 Evan Thomas, 
 Frederick Thomas, 
 Daniel Trowbridge, 
 John Townsend, 
 Wm. Thomas, 
 Lewis A. Thomas, 
 Cyrus E. Thorp, 
 
 Thomas, 
 (i. I). Tomlinson, 
 John Thompson, 
 Henry Townsend, 
 
 I v Upson, 
 Wm. Vann. 
 Wm. E. Vibbert, 
 J. M. Ward, 
 [Isaac Watts, 
 James Woods, 
 
13 
 
 Clark Wooster, 
 Lewis Warner, 
 Samuel Wire, 
 A. C. Wilcox, 
 J. H. Wells, 
 D. B. Wheeler, 
 S. R. Warner, 
 P. F. Wilbur, 
 Chas. S. Weller, 
 
 D. E. Wagner, 
 
 E. Wharton, 
 John White, 
 
 A. Willoughby, 
 Chas. W T ebster, 
 Eneas Warner, 
 George Wheaton, 
 
 B. A. Wooster, 
 Joseph White, 
 Henry Woodruff, 
 W. R. Webb, 
 
 T:. Watkins, 
 
 I Wallace, 
 G. A. Woodworlh, 
 (i. F. Warner, 
 Bt R. Wells, 
 Chas. B. Warring, 
 John J. Wright, 
 Francis Weltou, 
 Jam"K M. Wiswell, 
 Roswcll Waters, 
 Alfred Walker, 
 James M. Woodward, 
 T. S. Wells, 
 Win. Warner, 
 William M. White. 
 
 C. A. Wooster. 
 H. II. Wooding. 
 Stephen White. 
 Wighton, 
 H. M. Wells, 
 C. R. W he don, 
 Hiram Woodruff, 
 Samuel Weight, 
 H. L. Warner, 
 
 B. H. Wheeler, 
 
 C. Wharton, 
 Benjamin Warner, 
 M. E. Wakelee, 
 George Weir, 
 
 V F.Wood, 
 
 ilcox, 
 G. A. Wissbecker, 
 ! David Wilcoxson, 
 W. A Willoughby, 
 J. C Wooding, 
 
 C. M. Willi 
 Eben Williams, 
 John Woodruff, 2d, 
 Xoves Wilmot, 
 
 J. B. Wheat, 
 Israel R. Ward, 
 John Welch, 
 Thomas Way, 
 'John E. Wylie, 
 John Warner, 
 Alvan Wilcox, 
 James C. Woodward, 
 
 D. B. Watrous, 
 Ij. B. Wilcox, 
 
 Horace Warner. 
 Charles Warner, 
 B. Webster, 
 L. Waterman, 
 Henry Warren, 
 Leonard Winship, 
 Chester Warner. 
 |R. T. Weeks, 
 H. H. Western, 
 J. Wharton. 
 Owen Ward, 
 W. H. Way, 2d, 
 H. C. Wakelee, 
 James M. Weaver, 
 Henry D. Wells, 
 H. A. Wilcox, 
 John Wilson, 
 A.W. Wield, 
 J. F. Warner, 
 Charles Warwick, 
 Brvcc Wilson, 
 J. F. Wilcox, 
 Isaac Woodford, 
 James Williamson, 
 James M. Welch, 
 George A. Wright, 
 Thomas Walsh, 
 John Welsh, 
 Wm. Way, 
 Jacob Whiting, 
 W. W. Wait, 
 
 I Lyman Woodward, 
 \. A. Wilcox, 
 C. A. Warren, 
 
PROCEEDINGS 
 
 AT 
 
 BREWSTER'S HALL 
 
 On the evening of the 24th inst., a large audience was con- 
 vened in Brewster's Hall, and at the appointed hour, James 
 Brewster, Esq. called the meeting to order. C. Atwater, 
 Jr., Esq., announced on behalf of the Committee of Arrange- 
 ments, the following officers of the meeting : 
 
 President. 
 Hon. DENNIS KIMBERLY. 
 
 I ice Presidents. 
 
 1. Chas. A. Incersoll, 16. William H. Elliott, 
 
 2. Natii'l. W. Tayl . 17. Wm. S. Charnlev, 
 :•». Joel Hi 18. Henry Trowbridge, 
 
 4. Eleazar K. Foster, 19. Wm. A. Reynolds, 
 
 5. William H. Ellis, 20. Russell Hotchi 
 
 6. James Brewster, 21. Frederick Croswell, 
 
 7. Alfred Blackman, 22. Ceorge Hoadl 
 
 8. Joseph E. Sheffield, 23. Guy C. Hotchkiss, 
 
 9. Sidney Babcock. 24. Stephen D. Pardee, 
 
 10. Nathan Smith, 25. Henry Hooker, 
 
 11. Wm. Welles Holly, 26. Roswell J. Brown, 
 
 12. Stephen Gilbert, 27. Ezra C. Reed, 
 
 13. Minott A. Osborn, 28. James Punderford, 
 
 14. Willis Bristoll, 29. Henry Peck, 
 
 15. James E. English, 30. James M. Veader, 
 
 31. William M. White. 
 
 Secretaries,. 
 
 1. John Galpin, 4. Charles W. Allen, 
 
 2. H. J. Morton, 5. Burton Mallory, 
 
 3. Samuel S. Bassett, 6. Lewis B. Judson. 
 
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 Gen. Kimbeklv, upon taking the chair, was loudly cheered, 
 and addressed the meeting as follows : 
 
 Fellow Citizens : — It will be sufficient, perhaps, in refer- 
 ence to the objects of this meeting, that I refer to the 
 call which has been made, which probably you have all seen 
 and which indeed most of you must have signed, as it pur-^ 
 ports, I understand, to be signed by about seven-eighths of 
 the legally qualified electors of this city, embracing all class- 
 es, sects, and professions ; not all parties, but the two great 
 political parties. 
 
 It may, however, not be amiss, for the purpose of bringing 
 more distinctly before you the object for which we are as- 
 sembled, briefly to recur to the immediate origin of the Ques- 
 tion upon which you propose to express your opinions. 
 
 You will all distinctly remember the events which were 
 transpiring for a considerable time anterior to the last session 
 of Congress, and which necessarily brought up for the consid- 
 eration and action of that body, various subjects affecting or 
 supposed to affect the different local interests and feelings of 
 the different sections of the country ; and all more or less 
 directly involving the delicate and distracting question of sla- 
 very. Previous to the session the people had become greatly 
 excited, and the country, from its center to its extremes, con- 
 vulsed with the subject ; the session commenced in a storm, 
 and so entirely did these matters engross the feelings and con- 
 trol the action of members, that days and weeks of the ses- 
 sion passed away in fruitless eilbrts to organize the House ; 
 the ordinary business of legislation was suspended ; the honest 
 creditors of the Government were denied a hearing, and nearly 
 the whole session of Congress, embracing a period of almost 
 ten months, was spent in angry and acrimonious debate. 
 All remember with what painful excitement the lookers on 
 from a distance waited the result. It would detain you too 
 long, indeed, it is unnecessary to go into a detailed history of 
 the struggle ; suffice it to say that it resulted in the adoption 
 of a series of measures called the peace or compromise 
 measures, one of which is that which regards the extradition 
 of fugitive slaves, and that is the one in reference to which, 
 more especially, you have deemed it necessary to express your 
 opinion to-night. 
 
 Upon the adjournment of Congress it seemed for a time that 
 if comparative peace and tranquility was restored. Indeed it 
 was then hoped that these questions might be considered as 
 settled, and be no longer suffered to agitate the country. But 
 this did not suit the purpose of certain persons in either ex- 
 treme ; and hence agitation soon began again, and is continued 
 
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 to this tims ; and now there is a spirit <>f disunion and discord 
 prevailing, a disregard of the laws and constitutional obliga- 
 tions, which, unless met and controlled by a conservative- in- 
 fluence, bode evil to the country. 
 
 And, gentlemen, it is not to be disguised that this spirit is 
 not confined to the remote sections of the country where we 
 have been accustomed to expect it: but here in this highly 
 favored and happy New England, there are those who avow 
 their purpose not to abide by any compromise; who hold to 
 a higher law than the Constitution of their country, in virtue 
 of which those provisions of that sacred instrument which 
 conflict with individual conscience, are abrogated. 
 
 There are here among the order-loving, law-abiding peo- 
 ple (as we have been accustomed to consider ourselves) of 
 New England, those who teach and those who preach diso- 
 bedience and lorcible resistance to the laws and the constitu- 
 ted authorities, even to the shedding of blood ! 
 
 Now as much as we may wish it were otherwise, these 
 things are so. I suppose you do not entertain these opinions. 
 I suppose there is no one here pursuant to the call, but would 
 desire not to be suspected of entertaining such opinions, or 
 of having any sympathy with those who do. Therefore it 
 is right and proper, here to assemble and. publicly declare our 
 unabated attachment and unwavering fidelity to the Union, 
 and to its Constitution; and our determination to abide by 
 and sustain the Constitution in all its parts. That it is our pur- 
 pose now, and at all times, and under all circumstances, to in- 
 culcate and enforce the duty of obedience to the laws, all 
 laws regularly enacted — not excepting those of the comprom- 
 ise; and no less than one of the series of compromise meas- 
 ures which relates to fugitives from service, than all the 
 others of the series. 
 
 It is unnecessary now to go into the question whether the 
 law to which 1 have alluded, and out of which has grown so 
 much feeling, be defensible in all its details or not. We are 
 to sustain it; it is our duty as patriots, and as Christians, to 
 sustain it so long as it continues to be the law of the land. 
 
 In regard to this law, however, 1 wish to Bay a word. I 
 have examined it somewhat critically and carefully, and I de- 
 clare I cannot find that it is justly amenable to all the abuse 
 which has been so liberally bestowed upon it. I do not be- 
 lieve it is. I do not doubt there is great misapprehension in 
 d to its provisions. It may be honest misapprehension, 
 but I do not believe it is understood, and I fear there is too 
 little disposition to understand it. It may not be so. 
 
 Now, in the first place, 1 do not doubt that it was the duty 
 of Congress to pass some law on this subject more effectually 
 
17 
 
 to secure to the South their constitutional rights. No doubt it 
 is the duty of Congress, from time to time, to legislate on this 
 subject, as the exigencies of the times require. This duty- 
 was very early recognized, for in 1793, four years after the 
 adoption of the Constitution, Congress passed a law in prin- 
 ciple the same as the act in question ; and on examination 
 and comparison of the two laws, I think that of 1850, will be 
 fairly subject to less complaint than that of 1793. 
 
 The law of 1793, in one or two particulars, was undoubtedly 
 defective, and therefore the necessity of the revision. The 
 law of 1793 devolved upon State magistrates, Justices of the 
 Peace, the duty of its execution ; well, experience shewed 
 that this was an unwise provision, and in 1842 the Supreme 
 Court of the United States, in a case before them, intimated 
 a doubt whether State magistrates could be required to act 
 under the law of Congress ; I don't understand that it was 
 decided that they could nut ; but the intimation of a doubt 
 was quite sufficient to render that part of the law a dead let- 
 ter ; indeed the whole law from that time ceased to have any 
 vitality, and it became necessary to provide a substitute ; 
 hence the act of 1850 provides for the appointment of Com- 
 missioners, men legally qualified and competent to execute 
 the law. This is a great improvement upon the old law ; so 
 in another respect, the law of 1793 did indeed profess to author- 
 ize the master or his agent to seize or arrest the alledged fu- 
 gitive, but it left him without any legal process ; he was 
 obliged to rely upon physical force alone, and this sometimes 
 led to disturbance, endangering the security of the freeman ; 
 confounding him, as it sometimes did, with the fugitive slave. 
 But the law of 1850 has wisely provided that a warrant may 
 issue in the first instance, directed to the Marshal of the Dis- 
 trict, or other known officer, who is required to execute the 
 warrant, peaceably, in the execution of his duties as such offi- 
 cer. Is not this a great improvement upon the old law ? 
 Does it not add greatly to the security of all parties? No 
 doubt. But I am not going into all the details of the act ; 
 I am not here for the purpose of justifying them, but I can- 
 not justify the abuse heaped upon the law. 
 
 I wish every individual who desires information on this 
 subject, would take the two laws — that of 1793, under which 
 we have lived a half century, and that of 1850 — and compare 
 them, and I am confident that the latter will not suffer by 
 comparison. 
 
 The chair is informed that the Hon. Ralph 1. Ingersoll will 
 present certain resolutions accompanied with such remarks 
 as he may deem desirable. 
 
 3 
 
18 
 
 The Hon. K. 1. Ingi.ksui.i. tneii arose, and WSJ greeted with 
 loud and enthusiastic applause. The following resolutions 
 were presented by him : 
 
 /Itsolwd, That we cherish a cordial, habitual and immoveable attach- 
 : to the Union, and the Constitution which the fathers of this Repub- 
 lic framed for us; that we regard this I'nion ami its Constitution as 
 beacon Lights erected by the wisest and purest of patriots, under the guid- 
 ance of i J rovidence. From wreck the ark of our Liberties and 
 Independence. 
 
 Retoirt'1. That we regard tin' unity of government which constitutes 
 the peop • pie, "a- the main pillar in the edi- 
 
 fice of our real independence; the support ot our tranquility at home ; 
 f „. .il.road : ol our safety; 01 out prosperity, and of the very 
 
 liberty which \\ e so h gbly prize;" that it is the duty oi every pood citi- 
 zen to ''watch for in preservation witl us snxiet) . discountenen* 
 
 • ren a suspicion that it can in any event be 
 
 idoned; and u the first dawning of every 
 
 attempt t portion of <>ur country from the rest, or to safes- 
 
 j e ..' which now link together the various parts." 
 
 in all its part", 
 
 ipreme law ol the land, which every citizen 
 <ltl j , Mind to r< i to which the electors of Caunec- 
 
 ncui t "true and faithful ;" that the requirements contained 
 
 in it, that "persons held t >i in one Slate, under the laws there- 
 
 ■ red nn on claim of the party to 
 whom Buch service ot labor n inding force than the 
 
 other parts of that sa at ; and that the receut act <>t Congress ra- 
 
 ng fugitn irsuant to this plain provision of the 
 
 ild he truly and faithfully sustained by every friend 
 of tint g ; which it has pleased Providence to favor us 
 
 with 
 
 /; i we will a d sapport, all the m< ' peace 
 
 and i ,!l nl Congress | as well as the 
 
 knd no the territorial 
 
 ition ol the 
 hat which enforces 
 the Constituti that which ad- 
 
 mit- i rnia into this Union, I nstitntion excluding 
 
 the institutioo ih which those 
 
 mo. i- i -tii "i time a hick iheii i 
 
 ami examination occup. and the country, the danger- 
 
 ous and threat ublic mind which preceded their en- 
 
 actment, and the ] I unparalleled exertions of the emi- 
 
 nent statesrru political parties who labored in season and out of 
 
 season fi>ran amir , we leel it to be our duty to adhere to 
 
 the resw .:, an 1 'in principle and substance a 
 
 final settlement of the dangerous and exciting subjects' with which the 
 country has I • >ed ; and we deprecate the re-opening of the ques- 
 
 tions connected with them or their further agitation, as unwise, unpatriotic 
 and fraught with imminent peril to the peace, prosperity, and union of our 
 common country. 
 
 'ved, That we know of no higher law as a rule for political action 
 than the Constitution of the United States, and we have no sympathy or 
 fellowship with men who instigate or encourage a forcible resistance to 
 
19 
 
 the constituted authorities of the country; we hold such men to be mis- 
 chievous members of the community, and justly deserving the severest 
 penalties which the laws have provided tor their offences — and that those 
 who claim to be too conscientious to yield their obedience to the laws of 
 the land, should remove themselves to some other country whose institu- 
 tions they prefer, and not avail themselves of the benefits of the Union 
 whilsHhey repudiate its obligations. 
 
 Resolved, That we are utterly opposed to all foreign interference with 
 our political and civil institutions; and when foreign agents or emissaries 
 come among us teaching or preaching treason to the Government, they 
 are not entitled to the hospitalities of the country which they abuse, or 
 the respect or countenance of a law abiding people. 
 
 Resolved, That the following named citizens be appointed an UNION 
 SAFETY COMMITTEE, with power to fill vacancies and add to their 
 numbers ; whose duty shall be, by correspondence and otherwise, to carry 
 out the objects of this meeting — which are hereby declared to be : To re- 
 vive and foster among the people of the United States — the spirit in which 
 (he Union teas formed and the Constitution was adopted — and to resist 
 "every attempt to alienate any portion of our county from the rest, or to 
 enfeeble the sacred ties which now bind together the various parts." 
 
 Alfred BlackmaK, tkr, Jr.. 
 
 Drama Kinberlt, v"j ,ur.n, 
 
 Charles A. Ingersoll, . Galpin, 
 
 Wm. H. Ellis, Hoadlet, 
 
 James Biu '. bi . e. 
 Chaki.i- 1'. HcBBELL, JoHH B. Roi 
 
 H. 15. W i i.i II. ilooKK.r.. 
 
 Charles \V. Allen, Lewis B 
 
 Samii iett, He* Lev u, 
 
 Burton Malloby, I>i ' i- 
 
 Stephen Gilbi 
 
 GEORCii: I». EmOI I8H, • 16, 
 
 William Dickbbman. 
 
 Loud plaudits accompanied and followed the reading of the 
 resolutions, after which Mr. fngersoll addressed th<> audience 
 as follow- 
 
 Mr. President ind Fellow Citizens — I should have 
 
 been well satisfied, had the vote been taken upon the resolu- 
 tions, without a word of comment — but as my fellow citizens 
 now assembled from (hi-- busy community, seem toexpect that 
 something Bhould be Raid, 1 will detain them for a lew mo- 
 ments, and I assure you the}' shall !>•• very lew, while I ex- 
 press rny own views on the subjed that hag brought us here. 
 I shall iay nothing but as to one of the measun - (prom- 
 
 ise, for the public sentiment has been too generally expressed 
 in favor of the others to justify any further comment on them 
 on the present occasion. It is, however, the fugitive act that 
 lias drawn upon the compromise the violent denunciations of 
 a portion of the public press — of meetings of excited citizens, 
 and I regret to add, of some pulpits, too. But after all this 
 
20 
 
 . or f( i ' the calm searcher after truth 
 will find that this act is founded in one <>t the Bolemn com- 
 pacts of the ConstUutioni which plainly declares thai ■•per- 
 i held t<> service or labor in one State under the laws 
 thereof, shall bo delivered up on claim of the party to whom 
 such or labor may be due." 
 
 It has always appeared to me in view of this clause <>| the 
 Constitution, that the only consistent opponents either of the 
 law of 1793 i ir the return of fugitive slaves to the jurisdic- 
 tion from which they c >me, or the law of the last b< Bsion oi 
 ( >his 'in- same in principle, though more effectu- 
 
 al in carrving out the constitutional requirements, are tho 
 who h!. M Garrison and h I denounce the Con- 
 
 stitution itself, as " a compact with sin," ;is well as all laws 
 thai le in obedience to Its . ents. But 1 am not 
 
 of those who believe that we have grown wiser in refor- 
 mer to our moral or constitutional duties, than wen 
 the fatl Rej nblic Th( j carried the country 
 
 through the war of the Revolution, the men of the north and 
 :i. contending Bhoulder to shoulder, in the 
 commo ' ' all i" question, or inter- 
 
 fere with the d< titutions, which either section saw- 
 
 tit to m The il! in who drew up the 
 
 Dec I ara tion of 1 
 
 untie may be said of him, more illustrii 
 through th< Revolution, the 
 
 the heart - ol his 
 i ig which it had pleased 
 
 IV | i in the t the 1 
 
 I, nated th< era ol ention which at- 
 
 I ork, which had 
 
 in afield. I . harmoi • the 
 
 tch-words ol I without them, the independence 
 
 <>t" th« se States could nevei have been won. without them, this 
 
 . in my hum- 
 
 ■ numbered when • to 
 
 i as they w< I by those early patriots. 
 
 There \ lional int oal feel- 
 
 tion that formed 
 the Constitution. I will mention two of them. The subject ol 
 one vi ith the Bouth, lest it should he in- 
 terfered with contrary to their w d the other hand, the 
 
 [gating of the e tod somewhal of a 6ec- 
 
 ial feeling in the other geographical extreme* wh< 
 was universal to pla< preat interest of Now Bngland un- 
 
 der the control of I government which could secure 
 
 it against foreign int e or competition. 
 
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 The Stains at the south then had the right to import slaves 
 from Africa or elsewhere to any extent as might seem to them 
 expedient — a right which they could have retained till this 
 day, but tor the Constitution which limited it to the vear 1808. 
 The committee to whom the subject had been referred, first 
 reported in favor of the year 1800. The south was particu- 
 larly restive under this proposed restriction, and the delegates 
 from some of the southern States, intimated that 'hey never 
 could come into the Union upon such a condition. A com- 
 mit tee at the same time had also reported in favor of restrict- 
 ing Congress from passing any navigation laws, unless by a 
 two-thirds vote of the members — a condition winch New Eng- 
 land fell to be fatal t<> her interests. In this state of things 
 both subjects were recommitted to the immittee, and 
 
 a compromise was the result ; they reported to permit the 
 slave trade to go on till the year 1808, and to authorize ( ', -,- 
 : navigation laws, without the two-thirds restric- 
 
 tion. Both recommendations were harmoniously adopted 
 by the convention — and it will he found upon the record, that 
 upon the question of giving the longest time (1808) for the 
 slave tradi x - rlampsh icnusetts and Connecticut, 
 
 (the only New England States then represented) voted in the 
 affirmative, with the extreme Bouth, against the votes of the 
 central States and Virginia. Subsequently, when il was pro- 
 posed to inserl that article in the Constitution which requires 
 
 the surrender of fugitive -laves, out of which the nets of Con- 
 
 on that Bubjecl have sprung, nol a voice from .New Eng- 
 land vi d against it ; — it passed with entire unanimity. 
 And when I mention the v Roger Sherman, 
 Olivei rth, and Wm. Samuel Johnson, the men who 
 then represented the honor and interest of Connecticut, I am 
 sure that no nniunity will utter a rep 
 upon their memories. It was not that these delegates, or 
 their i tea from the other portions of New England, 
 
 in favor of slavery in any of its tonus. Far from it; 
 most, if not all of them, had taken part in the legislation of 
 the Eastern States, graduallj to be rid of it in our own bor- 
 ders. Bui in the convention they did not forget that they 
 were forming a united government, for seperate and inde- 
 < ut sovereignties, having different local interests, habits, 
 and pursuits — a government limited in its operation to mat- 
 ters most external, and which left the internal and domes- 
 tic concerns of each State, as far as consistently could be, to 
 its own legislation. And though they voted to permit the 
 slave trade to such States as might choose to have it, till the 
 year 1808, yet even that was better than to form no union at 
 all, and thus leave it to go on forever under sovereignties dis- 
 
united, ami indepei ten other. So when t)i<-y eg 
 
 that flu lould I e delivered up, it was but ■ perl of the 
 
 apact by which the importation was limited, and probablj 
 cured to population at the south, more liberties 
 
 and greater indulgences from thoee whom they served, than 
 the] would have had without it. — fur without some luoh pro- 
 ter would eery naturally resort t<> a more se- 
 iipline to prevent i which would 
 
 alw j ttended by a t->t:.! loss. In this connection I may 
 
 be permitted he i ••- that although tin- word ' v l;> 
 
 no where aui ears in the ( I lution of the I nited State*) 
 (tht i a fastidiousness about using it among the mem- 
 
 re of the convention)— yet the C oecticut delegation had 
 oo tin- appropriate 
 
 rn S \ i ' 
 
 • 
 >urs in ti on that 
 
 on this distui 
 su ; loption "i i < ititution, it ' 
 
 t to I and thai body in 
 
 th,. issrd a law similar in its principles 
 
 : t\ denounced. 
 1798) that the i an} tu- 
 
 : h\ 
 
 . and 
 tak< ■ pon 
 
 pro* ■ of the n te either oral, or by 
 
 atli ide 
 
 ol the I 
 efficient warrant to take 
 It 
 ... one 
 
 wh 
 
 lit to find anything m the 
 
 ■ than this and it ti, 
 
 anv foul Ol which we have lately 
 
 ury and the writs <>i ha« 
 v in all the lO this act, 
 
 motion <*i the big 
 id. Indee i, 1 m 
 
 lubject, whetbei ol 170! 
 . ip. in \c.\ E b . i. The first provis- 
 ion that I find for the sun moog the ar« 
 
 71 
 1,; n; ; . Plymouth, C<>n- 
 
 \. .11 tven. It i- ' 8th article, and reads 
 
 • • [t is all that if anv servant run away from his 
 
•s.i 
 
 master, into any other of these confederated jurisdictions, 
 th.it in ^uch case upon the certificate of one magistrate in the 
 jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled, or upon other 
 proof, the said servant shall be delivered, either to his mas- 
 ter nr any other that pursues, and brings such certificate or 
 proof" 
 
 The similarity is BO striking that f think we cannot mistake 
 the origin of the different enactments. Connected with this 
 same article in the New England Confederation, is another 
 equally summary for the delivery of fugitives from justice, 
 much as the two subjects are in the constitutional 
 
 article, and in the act of 1708; and still more strikingly 
 marking their origin. Any one who is curious y<n this sub- 
 ject may find the .New England articles iii Hinin.i • II itori- 
 cal Collections, pages 34 and 36 - 1 •■'. that may be found 
 in the public libraries of tins citj o private librari 
 
 Tli. II • : caJ < loUectioni of M - ■:■ tta w I alao show 
 that other distant colonies, ool confederated with us. as tar 
 
 the au- 
 thorities of N I. .lid for the arrest of fugitives from 
 their jurisdic which were returned to them as a matter 
 
 of courtesy and colonial common lai I i without any ar- 
 ticles requiring it When the act ot 1793 therefore came be- 
 I that it met with no 
 
 ■untry. It was 
 introduced m the Senate ol the U\ ited State-, and is said to 
 have been penned by M I ■'. d I tished Senator 
 from M I not the Journal of the 
 
 Senate that will enable me to speak from the record. It p 
 ed the body, however, by a unanimo In 'h' - House 
 
 of R ■ . the Journal shows that it passed by the 
 
 decisii • I to 1 the ma ority beii 
 
 posed ••! 26 meml en from i orthem and central State-, and 
 29 from States holding Blaves. The minority was composed 
 5 members from the North and j from tne South, 'i 
 
 northern and Central States bad a majority in the House. I 
 find of the Connecticut delegation the names of .lames Hill- 
 
 houae, Jeremiah Wadsworth and Amasa Learned, recorded 
 
 ' —and but on • of our i irs, Jonathan 
 
 Stui I will be found in the old 
 
 edition of United States laws, bearing upon [\ \ of 
 
 Jonathan Trumbull, who was then the Speaker of the House, 
 and a member from Conne- i honored name in our 
 
 history — and bearing also the approving name of one more 
 honored — <■ Washington. I find also among the list 
 
 of those voting torn, Blbridge Gerry, Fisher Ames, and Theo- 
 dore Sedgwick, men who it is to be presumed understood their 
 
I 
 
 duties a1 le <■!! as those Who make greater pretensions 
 
 now. I find also there, the name of Elias Boudinot, the father 
 and firsl President of the American Bible Society, a stainless 
 name ii »n oi chi tesmen who did honor to 
 
 the age in which they lived. This law, which they passed, 
 has been as free from abuse in pi anj other that could 
 
 be p issed on the sub eel When the Constitution was adopt- 
 ed, and when this act was passed in 1798, slaver] was not con- 
 fined to the South, it ws Northern ••"in.' 
 
 but still among us. It existed in Connecticut 
 — and although til. : i !iv iii tins meeting older than my- 
 
 •i Haven, d on an 
 
 Ii bt Mm y of our substantia] 
 fai : ned t un ind remnants of I 
 
 may now be found i of our tow ns hot ei 
 
 around the the families t.» which their fath< 
 
 belo hearth' I as it \\ 
 
 w • srhich I have alluded, 
 
 from this State i Si ite, I 
 
 havi -lit...; ■ the master willingly availed him- 
 
 institutional i the re- 
 
 W .'i •• then have been the 
 
 ■ t. had | been found I • 
 
 to tell t cul their ma! tor's throats — 
 
 the were bi ou -hi t<> trial — 
 
 •■ d them if th 
 Bhou .' ' . thai our 
 
 sturdy s brooked such 
 
 . than ou . qow do ' [mmedi- 
 
 'idly demands i in certain quar- 
 
 1 ted i wn in 
 
 I say 
 
 I 
 Id h" I 
 an thro pj ■ ] jy 
 
 ^s that I Irenof slavi fl •, time, 
 
 upon the • and 
 
 by this very gradua the institution wa 
 
 tibly uri- ; ft .:• way through the aiffi- 
 
 culty in our ow .-. ■ >rk which, I would 
 
 •. 
 em.- ted to oome amo od 
 
 > they have i the modern d 
 
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 immediate emancipation. If our fathers with so few slaves 
 among them, found the subject so delicate to be dealt with, 
 should we not draw from it a lesson of the most careful for- 
 and a t lithiul performance of our constitutional 
 duties towards those States which have now hundreds and thou- 
 sands of this population to be dealt with, where we had but one? 
 
 T • many petitions got up often by artful managers, and 
 pressed upon < . for the abolition of slavery in the 
 
 Distrid •■ Columbia, lor the last few years, in the hope of 
 affecting slavery in the States adjoining indirectly, have no 
 doubt done much to bring the present crisis Upon the country* 
 Here, too* we have wisdom to learn from the past* for the 
 subject "! slavery in the District of Columbia, is one which 
 any administration may be embarrassed with at all tunes, if 
 the opposition is unscrupulous enough t" ring the changes in- 
 
 mntly upon it. I fore< 
 
 as early • 1805, not in a proposition lor immediate abolition 
 — the tnthropists — but merely that 
 
 tin- children burn of slave parents, belonging to citizens of 
 the I '.strict of I 'olumbia. shoul 1 become fire on their arrival 
 
 at a certain age The administration was then in southern 
 bands — it was during the presidency of Mr. n, who, 
 
 as we all know, had in the HoUSS of R retW ' ' '■ - a very 
 •it' d and skillful Opposition. The leader of that opp 
 I was from tin- St.it>- of ConnOCtioUt I allude, of c lUISe, 
 
 to the late Roger I . a man of commanding intel 
 
 and spotless honor. However tempting the m might 
 
 have been to a man ol less honorable bearing, to turn the 
 anti-slavery feeling against the administration. V et he bore 
 himself far above any sneh paltry pol i when the 
 
 question was taken, l.e with those oi his colleagues from Con- 
 necticut, who were present on the occasion, v. .ted to a mm 
 promptly against the proposition. The vote .»t our delega- 
 tonsured by the freemen of Connecticut, and 
 the whole inbjecl put at rest for the quarter of a centu- 
 
 r\ -iii' followed. Subsequent agitation has brought us where 
 
 wc are. Th 1793, formed in L r, >"d faith, and lor many 
 
 years executed in good faith, I ad, by rea mt agi- 
 
 tation on the subject of slavery, become inoperative. It de* 
 
 panded tor its execution principally on State magistrates, <>ver 
 whom the general government had no control, and who could 
 
 not be required to carry the law into effect, though th.- act 
 e them the power, if they chose to exercise it. State 
 station also came in to nullity their proceedings, and make 
 the law practically a dead letter upon the statute book. This 
 defect has been remedied by the new law, which provides for 
 the appointment of United States Commissioners, who are to 
 
 4 
 
exocul State 
 
 • ■ ihe pi • increased from 61 a hundred 
 
 to a thousand doll wrnent 1 
 
 months. It is in principK the same m that 
 
 I only question n<<\\ fellow-citizens, \\ i 
 
 »rt this act with those oth( ; > are 
 
 . named and compi 1 
 
 and honorable, ti enl "t tins distracting 
 
 [f there when men shou 
 
 he i istitutions of the 
 . 
 
 . in our 1 
 1 I in and 1 1 
 1 • Pearce, and 
 
 ■ 
 
 that the n 
 ent tliroiKjhoui the length and 
 • 
 
 duty, 
 ant in th< 
 
 mi the 
 o| the I 
 
 His 
 
 • 
 
 l" his 
 I -•! 
 
 oth ing 
 aould 
 
 ■ 
 
 A 
 
 ■ 
 
 that 
 . martry< 
 
 ■. 
 and it« 
 
■:. 
 
 that th- land of Wa£ of Jeffe I Marshall — 
 
 the land of the Picki tl eRu • ;e — the land of J ado 
 
 or, should become foreign land t<> us. In the 
 
 ; oik- who has given himsell to tl • with a 
 
 the Re- 
 
 , I \ . — -. — "better would it be to die, while the honor 
 
 of ' try is untarnished, aiul the flag ol the Union still 
 
 flying over our heads, than live t>> beh >r- 
 
 d that i' in the dust." (Mr. J. was loudly 
 
 cheered throughout.) 
 
 : ' • called u| □ E. K.. Foa .1 isq. to 
 
 which Judge Poster i •■ ws : 
 
 Pbbsidi ■ I w Citizens : 1 rise t<« respond to 
 
 the call thus made upon ne, not f* making a speech. 
 
 I hi tbility uor the i >n to do so, and 
 
 mikI me, much be than I 
 
 am i 
 it. Bui J do 
 
 this meel ig, and 
 1 nt i< >ns on t. 
 pr d 
 
 dom. I aho ild t to the truth, if 1 hesitated 
 
 to at \ ib- 
 
 • i a 
 
 . I iuld 
 it wc -I • , Mui on- 
 
 ten' rd not on ih but in the Ian I of h\o{ 
 
 Sherman, in the land of John Elan . ermont, 
 
 •• Qorth •'■ "ii the subj 
 
 to and maintaining tl • I titution ' In th 
 
 times, when men come forward ms to mo 
 
 our duty to meel i Ithem. But it is asked, 
 wba( > gain ? VVI 
 
 impliah by tl »ut 
 
 public sentiment matter. We v •tit 
 
 . sunion, we wish to 
 ■in ten thousand . • \ \i. I \ i . 
 
 I (Loud applause.) If ,1 i 'He mind must l>- 
 
 made familiar with the di ice to law, it is that 
 
 it may he regarded as a kind of moral treat 
 The cry oi infidelity to the I aiw • ion from the I n- 
 
 aacted . until within a 
 
 • time, was heard only from oae small portion ol the cop - 
 monity. In 1888, South Carolina, putting herself in an atti- 
 tude of hostility to the I 
 
■•s 
 
 throughout the length and breadth ol the land — nil beliei 
 her recreant to the Constitution, recreant to the Union, and 
 false to herself. Now, after the lapse ol eighteen years, thi 
 
 nong us, who not only mutter and murmur disun- 
 ion sentiments, and resist ince to law, but saj it aloud. It is 
 not limjted to any profession — it is found t<> ttenl in 
 
 all. Some of th a whose duty it is to preach the gos- 
 
 pel e and the precepts of our divine savior, instruct 
 
 the fugitive to plunge the knife mt<> the In-art of the offi 
 uli" endeavors to arrest him, end carry oat the law! It is 
 time to see whether tin-, is right. 
 
 t my parposi into an examination of 
 
 the particular - ■ known as the Compron 
 
 Vfi They have been amply defended. They w< 
 
 turedelil Bcedent- 
 
 ded in my judgment as the President 
 
 ol tli<- United States, and the resolutions <>n \ ..ur table regard 
 
 them. Hut there is a question back of these and reaching far 
 
 v.- th'-m — and that i» the < pn - 1 : < »i i of fidelity t<» the < lonetitu- 
 
 lion, ami submission t<> law. 1 care not bow obnoxioui :i law 
 
 • - o obnoxious that not one citizen in the 
 
 te, wilt give h lor it Ifet if it is passed by those dele- 
 
 y ont ill' I ■ tition in tin- fail exer 
 
 are bound t" obey it .-it all hazards. 
 
 1 1' it is not go, what becomes ol aw ament I What safety 
 
 is tli«-!-- except in tin- obedience to law I If v< can notify and 
 
 Is laws, ' opposed to our wishes, what 
 
 prei ers from doit nothing? And what becomes 
 
 ot our governme I Be •• is no principle I - - ft: 
 
 — what then becomes ol *• • ament f Anarchy m 
 
 necessanlv prevail. vYe have do standing army, and noth 
 
 t ill back upon, but those principles which are the founda- 
 tion of law, and government Allow me to say it is easier 
 — u how much i oy, than t<> create — to pull 
 
 down than to build up. We may sit here and calculate the 
 babilities of the Union, hut k*t on le and it is a 
 
 Union n jer. I wiM rmt say that it might not be coerced 
 into lion by I • rnment, but a union that 
 
 - upon force So union can bold the 
 
 An St bnt a union of blood, a onion ol 
 
 aflfe it 
 
 1 d i not propose to detain yu with a speech, hut one i 
 lution strikes me with peculiar force — thut which declares 
 that the subject of slavery, whatever may be our views on 
 particular matters should be consigned to re I >un- 
 
 try id should have repose. And I believe thai th 
 
 who are too conscientious to submit to law here, had bet 
 
•<» 
 
 remove to some other country better fitted to their inclina- 
 tions. (Deaf, fling appauhe.) What is it that men who agi- 
 tate this subject aim at ? What would they have ? What 
 purpose would thev accomplish ? Ask them — is it the eman- 
 cipation of the slave ' No. What then is itl 1' you de- 
 sire to interfere with the compact of the Constitution, and 
 thus render it valueless } So. What then is it you would 
 do ' Is it to benefit thirty millions of white people ' They 
 will hardly claim it. What, then, in the name of common 
 sense, is it that leads you to distract the country and interfere 
 with its prosperity ? If we have those amoi ?ho will 
 
 do this, and be unfaithful lo the compacts and compromises 
 of the Constitul noe law does not harmonize 
 
 with their I 1 unapproachable wisdom, I appeal to 
 
 you, whether this is the country for theml On tin- mat- 
 ter I desire no dment. I would interfere with the 
 rights of no man. I would allow every man liberty to 
 express his sentiments, and leave Ins actions uncontrolled, 
 holding him ble for both. When he shows a reckless- 
 ness of all obligations of a high and binding character, I Bay 
 this is not the place for him ; let him go to Canada. (Cheer*) 
 
 We have nothing to do with Blavery. We have noreto do 
 
 with slavery in the States south of the Potomoe than we b 
 with slavery in Africa or Spain, or m any other portion ol 
 the globe w . any man pretend that th nment under 
 
 which we live is not worthy of our cordial support, admira- 
 tion and love ' A we ! 01 literally <"-v.u-.m1 with bli 
 
 g from tl nment our an / tve us ' is 
 
 there a nation on earth whose government can ■ • with it? 
 
 Is not the happiness oi countless nrj riads centered in this gov- 
 ernment ' Suppose that bj continn ■ i agitation three millions oi 
 slaves might, through the slaughter of their mat I of the 
 
 wive, and children of their n >e broughl into a Mate of 
 
 freedom over the ruin-' of the anion. Is no consideration to 
 be given to thirty millioi a ol whites ' I have sympathy for 
 everv man, black or while', but I say 1 have as much sympa- 
 thy for a white man as for a negro; (laughter) and if the 
 question be between three millii i a •'""I thirty mil- 
 
 lions of whites, then I have ten times more. Upon any 
 principal, and in any way in winch this Bubjecl can be re- 
 rded and looked at, there - madness about the disunion 
 Station thai surpasses all comprehension. No, lellow-citi- 
 zens, if we would live an united and happy people, we must 
 maintain the law, whether it is pleasing to us or not li 
 there [a a man here who would have one star struck from our 
 glorious flag, or one stripe erased from our banner, I have 
 only to say he ought not to be here— in the language of the 
 
he should take himself elsewhere. II voice — 
 id /ii//i to Russia . j ! jet him be anywhere iu 
 
 the heavens but here. He can accomplish no ■_■ I here; 
 
 whether he wou i in \\ hich th 
 
 nueh concerned. Whatever it may cost, when 
 tin I - dangered I will be found among those who 
 
 rally for it- preservation, I it may be with other 
 
 ia or elsew h 
 d my house, we will be found i.i the path ol duty, 
 it i- a m tion i(» h i h an 
 
 timents of such an unworthy speak 
 EL are no distinction oi pi or parties; all 
 
 bai • and t-> me it is the haj jht <>l the kind I li i 
 
 . j moral beauty ; and 
 ht to vii 
 ij our highest adn . . i which ma) be well 
 
 ; to reach the moral sublin •■ it Vftei 1 s of 
 
 UDprecedenl u the old political war- 
 
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 ping hat 
 
 . ited 
 1 Constitution and li v. b, | Clu rs.) 
 
 Shall any thins 
 
 1 know that in ( Ion • 
 
 ad right. 1 1 
 
 k 1 1- a rushing without m into this mat- 
 
 -■ill 
 will at om 
 
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 ed him ha 
 
 I should !i ■ iman had 
 
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 kind to 
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 and then 
 
 much more agre 
 
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 will inik I they shall I"- only a 
 
 \:.<1 I v.. t that I ipon the assem- 
 
 bly :ount — 
 
 ': a 
 . which 
 
81 
 
 purpose of deciding the question whether this man or that 
 man shall recer tanl office, each of 
 
 whom are equally as well qualified as the other, and neither 
 of whom may be qualified at all; But this question not 
 only cornier md those who shall come niter as* but 
 
 - es and other lands: for if the sentiments 
 Which are engrafted in the resolutions which have been read 
 are not susta d faithfully carried out, we may bid adieu 
 
 to (he bl< ih surrounded us and the happy situation 
 
 i ri which we ha placed. Sir. I look to the example 
 
 whichthia counl 8brd to other nations ; I have looked 
 
 to the time when the p ea ot 
 
 examples wh let will be adopted in 
 
 othe i and in other natii - But if the principles which 
 
 .,,-,. idinthes s are not faithfully carried out 
 
 may bid adieu to su fa here- 
 
 after. ' We have n el hen ropinion on certain qu 
 
 ! which were had up 1 • », and which at the 
 
 termination ol the last ses ion - d bad been 
 
 finally pettled. Allusion h i made in the manner in 
 
 which C »led ; if ever a Congresa asseml 
 
 which •■ d evil to the country il was that. Allusion 
 
 has been made to the time consumed in the organization of the 
 House; when we look a1 the mam tich it wasorganized 
 
 ■ acrimon 
 i;.,., 9. Membera from the North 
 
 who would not sustain thei onsoi theirparty, 
 
 •h, the n i '' holding 
 
 I bers from the South who re- 
 
 tain nominations of their part) 
 om the free States. If this ■.. 
 
 . Jd soon conditi f thinga ' Where would we 
 
 1„. f But. Sir, < s waa finally organized, and a 
 
 the greal men of the nal oth political 
 
 par1 the puT] ose ol rescuing 
 
 the country from the dilemna in which it had been placed, and 
 placing it where I before, m ry thing was pros 
 
 r/hrough their efforts, asires, called peaee meast 
 
 md finallj acquiessed in by a majority oi both 
 
 is, and received the signature of tl e P 
 
 I, Sir, lam one of those who are no: only willing to ac- 
 
 , piles. • in them one and all. 'nut I stand here and sa-. they^are 
 
 »ht — and, air, if I had been honored with a -rat in the Con- 
 
 gressofthel 9 . with my present feelinga 1 should 
 
 have voted for every one of them; and done my country some 
 
 service by the vote which I should have given. I ea-t o • 
 
 proach upon those who did not. I say what 1 should have done 
 
it are iht l 
 
 1 State iree from slavery. Second, the estab* 
 
 territorial governments for Utah and N< M 
 
 • under th um.-ni^ 
 
 ilthoughthis 
 
 so to them, and do Vvilmot I ifted 
 
 iij».-n tin- law which admits them, it may be Baid thai the Al- 
 
 :hty has provided a proviso u dated t-> accomplish 
 
 the than that an) Wilroot could have made (< 
 
 I , rd, the about DisU I 
 
 lamb i- l I w . 
 
 W\ I xaiiiiii.-.i the law and 
 
 the Constitution* 1 I: vith surprise t" see the 
 
 "ii the little "I 
 
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 S ' 1 - tins ha miry 
 
 he I th<- inimitable 
 
 • tu- 
 ihe United S which was form* 
 
 :, aii_\ country. 
 VVnal 
 ii held ' 
 Si i up t«t the | 
 
 V. . • dm_\ d 
 
 1 ' ll in- 
 
 takes his 
 1 Sod that lie will pass 
 • the 
 1 the 
 
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 ct The n ol ti 
 
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 • 
 
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 Who 
 ■■ m men? Menl The 
 
 ■ 
 
 ■ • rloueeof ( United 5 
 
 in 
 
 • M.ivj h 
 
 ■ .VII 
 
 philanthropists w with th- 
 
hell to carry out the pro isions of the Constitution. 
 This law was found ineffectual and : ■ the act of 1850 
 
 w Why was if h 1 ? Wh 
 
 de it ineffectual ' 
 It i politicians of both parties who made it in- 
 
 itial. 
 I, iik at our State — you I look any farther. Oliver 
 
 tli and K"_ S i with Jonathan 
 
 Trumbull, James la - • 1 1 Rep- 
 
 aid • the law, 
 
 which made it tin- autj : 
 
 "f the I 'in'' S s of the State I its and 
 
 magisti th< and which provided that the 
 
 a State 
 1 'irt. or ti • va, and receive a certific 
 
 by a hioh be would rom 
 
 win i ime And wh u In 1 s -'i> by 
 
 an act entitli 
 ion 
 
 ■ ■ erci- 
 I ed a penalty 
 
 of € me to exer- 
 
 \ • .-.In. 
 
 six old attempt 1 I ban Judges, by 
 
 which the I nectual. J>ut in 
 
 i s 1 1 the 
 
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 to the i ' tnded philanthropists, a 
 
 la\'. . but whit 
 
 I hopev Sered to remain there no longer th 
 
 e tf a 
 State < knirt, officer under the State 
 
 lha ed by the law of l : 93, and 
 
 that an) certificate issued b) Here was 
 
 ification with a v aullifica- 
 
 out "i the Si I en nullification sur- 
 
 \ iee the powers i ested 
 
 by the I d away by the State, and 
 
 the ■• them being ted to a 
 
 penalty, were noi i Sective. The I oi 1850 was 
 
 1 tlunl< I have Bhowo that the Constitution has pro- 
 vided that there shall be such a law, and r »re becoi 
 the ilnt; that this provision is carried <>ut. 
 All of in itiona of an oath 
 to be true and faithful to the < institution of the United Stafc 
 and it is our dnt) therefore to see that the law is carried out 
 in its spirit and m its letter. Yes, every individual who de- 
 

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 ted — whom many of 
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 k a hundred years, and Bhowed bow in a >rttime 
 
 the this country wen from most loyal and 
 
 . miring 
 
 nst it at the • :*. i * « i life. Tl ag 
 
 the inty-five ye 
 
 for 
 tl).- Union, w Ifthe 
 
 tid. dition lii 
 
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 i Constitution in all 
 
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 Washington and 1 Our ' 
 
 the South interfere with our institutions ? wit 
 
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 should v. 
 
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 Vmistad. ^ ou bring him is contact with i 
 
38 
 
 here, and he frequents brothels at the head of Long Wharf, or 
 the old Liberian. (Laughter.) 
 
 The North has sent to the South its incendiary publications. 
 Our Southern brethren have been called cut-throats, and the 
 worst of robbers. Is this the way to promote concord ? 
 Had you a partner in business, would you allow him to insult 
 you and your servants with handbills and newspapers and 
 speeches. How long would that partnership exist ? Yet we 
 have gone farther. Look at the law of Vermont — look at 
 New York and also at Pennsylvania, and tell me if the south 
 has not reason to complain. They without cause and without 
 motive are quarreling with those who are not only our best 
 customers at home, but who give us power and glory abroad. 
 
 Go among the Jews, and the Bible will tell you of a time 
 when one tribe bolted because the others relused to give up 
 certain fugitives, and became degraded. Go a little farther, 
 to the time when Titus battered down the walls of Jerusalem. 
 Look at the provinces of Greece, Italy and Germany, domi- 
 neered over by every tyrant, and by every superior power. 
 {Cheers) If such is their state, what may we expect. We 
 must not only resolve, but act — resolutions alone are not suffi- 
 cient. They who have sold themselves for a few votes, 
 should receive no countenance, and when this is due we have 
 not only scotched the snake, but killed him. (Applause.) 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Taylor, Professor of Didactic Theology in 
 Yale College was loudly called for, and came forward to ad- 
 dress the meeting. He was warmly received, and a death- 
 like stillness prevailed, while he delivered the following speech 
 in his peculiarly solemn and impressive manner: 
 
 Mr. President and Fellow Citizens: I should be ex- 
 tremely happy to say something on this interesting subject, 
 that shall subserve, though in a trifling degree, the interests of 
 my country. I am happy to be here. I am glad to listen to what 
 I have heard, 1 am especially glad to witness this indifference 
 to party ties, when the great interests of the nation, as these 
 depend upon the spirit of the Constitution and laws of the 
 country, are in issue. Long enough has this subject been 
 trifled with. Long enough have the enemies of law and order 
 had this subject all on their own side, and reasoned it all the 
 wrong way. I am therefore most ready to express my hearty 
 approbation of the resolutions on your table, and as heartily, 
 my unqualified disapprobation of all thos pts to degrade 
 
 that article in our Constitution, upon which so much has been 
 said, and to trample on the law, which all northern men are 
 bound in good faith t<> stand by and support to the very last. 
 
{Cheers.) 1 say in good faith ; arid 1 ask if the compact made 
 between the Northern and Southern States — independent 
 sovereignties as they are — was not a lawful compact ? Had 
 not the North interests at stake sullicient to justify them 1 I 
 will not go into the question, whether slavery is a sin. Be 
 it so, if vou please. Had they not reason, and good reason, 
 tor entering into this compact? I will make a supposition: 
 suppose Russia with her hordes, combined with Germany, 
 Austria, Prussia. France and England, were threatening t<> 
 conquer and devastate our country; suppose for our own 
 protection and safety, we deem it necessary to enter into an 
 alliance with Spain. Now there are slaves in Cuba, and if 
 this alliance is made for our protection, Spain says, that some of 
 her slaves will get among our people, and our people will not 
 deliver them up. War is cominsf, desolation is coming ; it is 
 a sin. if vou please, for Spain to have slaves. But may we 
 not lawfully, and for our own safety, enter into such a com- 
 pact, and agree to deliver up these slaves ? We have not 
 made the slavery ; Spain is an independent State ; and slave- 
 rv there is made by her own local laws — made in the exercise 
 of her own sovereignty. They are laws, therefore, which, so 
 far as we are concerned, she has a right to make, and for 
 which, we have not the slightest responsibility. Whether 
 she has this right so far as her responsibility to the Judge of 
 all the earth is concerned, is another question. But so far as 
 we are concerned, she has a right to make these laws. And 
 now. if she makes laws, which are wrong, can we make no 
 lawful treaty, — no compact, with her, which will bind the 
 parties \ What? may I not buy a piece of meat of a butch- 
 er, because he is profane .' -May I not make contracts with 
 men whose characters, in some respect, are marred by immo- 
 rality I May I not consult my own safety by numerous acts 
 o\' a defensive and confederate character, because the men, 
 who are engaged with me, are not as good as I wish they 
 were ? Is this the principle in neighborhoods ? Will it do 
 in the family '. Will it do better among nations ? What 
 right have we to make, or unmake laws for the Southern 
 States: or to say, that if the laws, which they make for 
 themselves, and have, so far as we are concerned, a right to 
 make, do not meet our approbation, we will not stand by a 
 lawful compact, which we have made with them \ W ill the 
 Northern States incur the guilt and the infam} of violating 
 such a compact for such a reason ? I am the friend of slaves ; 
 I am sorry for slaves ; I wish them w. 11 with all my heart and 
 soul: and as I wish them well. I say — cease these agita- 
 tions. Who at. the North are the friends of the slaves I The 
 agitators of this subject do mire to injure the slaves and per- 
 
40 
 
 petuale their chains at the South, than their true friends can 
 do to terminate the evil of slavery for half a century. (Cheers.) 
 
 I have another question to ask : — What right to protection, 
 do fugitive slaves acquire at the North? Every right im- 
 plies a reciprocal obligation. The right of the creditor im- 
 plies the obligation of the debtor. But under what obligation 
 are we at the North, to protect fugitives from slavery at the 
 South ? We are already bound by a lawful compact to de- 
 liver them up. What right have they to ask us to violate 
 this compact? What right have they to come here, and 
 claim our protection, when by affording it, we violate a law- 
 ful compact, and endanger the existence of such a nation as 
 this ? Am I bound to receive into my family, and to protect 
 and support every man or woman whose condition would 
 thereby be improved, be the consequences to the well-being 
 of my family what they may ? Who does not know that 
 Northern protection to the few slaves who escape, directly 
 tends to prolong and augment the bondage of those that re- 
 main ? Fidelity to our compacts, and the execution of law 
 in the fulfilment of such compacts, mutual confidence and the 
 love of a common country, — not disunion, and turmoil, and 
 civil war — are indispensable to the slightest hope of the ter- 
 mination of slavery. What right then have fugitive slaves 
 to the protection of the North, which imposes on us an obli- 
 gation to violate our plighted faith, to do what we can to pro- 
 long and aggravate southern bondage, and to plunge a na- 
 tion into ruin ? 
 
 Sir, there is one great truth, which all are slow to learn ; 
 that every earthly condition is a choice of evils ; and hence, 
 the lesson of submission, till at least a change for the better 
 instead of for the worse, can be made. Why should not the 
 slaves at the South submit to the condition, which Providence 
 has assigned them I Their condition is a thousand fold better 
 than it would have been, in the pagan midnight and savage- 
 ism of their native land. Why should they not be grateful 
 for its blessings, and submissive to its evils, till by some prac- 
 ticable change, it can be made better instead of immeasurably 
 worse ? We may, we do, most sincerely commiserate their 
 condition as compared with a better. We wish and pray, 
 that it may be made ten thousand times better. Mr. Presi- 
 dent, I have a heart, and hands also ; and show me a right, 
 and lawful, and practicable way, of terminating slavery 
 or alleviating its evils, and with all this heart, and with both 
 these hands, I am ready for the work. But, sir, are mere 
 feelings, without judgment, even the feelings of compassion and 
 of sympathy for human suffering, lovely as they are, to sway 
 us, in despite of reason and conscience, and to lead us not 
 
11 
 
 , to augment the very evil we deprecate, but to drench 
 our beloved country with fraternal blood ? Is this the sober 
 dictate of the New England conscience, or is it the prompt- 
 ing of mad fanaticism '. 
 
 As to the higher-law principle : — You expect me to admit, 
 of course, that we are all the subjects of Him who reigns 
 amid the grandeurs and glory of eternity, and that when his 
 will is known, that we as moral beings are bound to submit. 
 There is no question on that point ; here is the point — is that 
 article in our Constitution contrary to the will of God — con- 
 trary to the law of nature, of nations and the will of God ? Is 
 it so ? Is there a shadow of reason for saying it is ? I have 
 not been able to discover it. Is it not manifestly right to de- 
 liver up fugitive slaves, for the preservation of the great, the 
 momentous interests of these States? And if this be so, is 
 it not in accordance with right and duty, as well as with the 
 Constitution, to make a law providing for that result? Is 
 there any law of God or of nature against this ? Is there 
 any law of God, against keeping lawful compacts ? Is there 
 any law of God against doing those things which every man 
 must do, or cause greater evil by not doing them ? I do not 
 so understand it. I do not understand what sort of sin that 
 is, which consists in not making a bad state of things im- 
 measurably worse. 
 
 When 1 learned in the newspapers the novel doctrine that 
 the Constitution of my country was in conflict with the law 
 of my Maker — when I first learned it, I said to myself, is it 
 possible, that from the high places of legislation — from the 
 very hall of the Senate, a man in the exalted and honorable 
 position, whence his voice is heard by all the people, ventures to 
 propound such a doctrine as this ? The thought struck me. 
 that perhaps he was not counting without his host ; perhaps I 
 was but imperfectly informed ; perhaps at the North there is 
 a degree of infatuation and fanaticism of which 1 had not 
 dreamed. In these visions of my fears, I felt very much as if 
 I had heard a summons to rebellion ; I felt very much as if I 
 had heard the cry of revolt sounding through the land, and en- 
 tering every dwelling, and seen the standard of revolt waving 
 on every hill. It seemed like Revolution, desolating our hap- 
 py homes, with its carnage and blood. And, sir, there is no 
 want of tendency in that doctrine to give full reality to these 
 anticipations and these forebodings. Let the doctrine be in- 
 culcated — let it be believed at the North — let the northern 
 conscience, whether perverted or unperverted, receive such a 
 doctrine, and what may we expect 1 We may expect rebel- 
 lion and intestine war. And when I think of the morality, 
 the ethics of this subject in our religious newspapers, and in 
 
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\w; nark, Mr. President, that if it w 
 
 it would rtate that I ha 
 
 Law, and com- 
 
 1 u with the Const 3t es, and 1 
 
 •hat it ia i.. I will farther -ay that I 
 
 that all further ns are i mt 
 
 and ought to be dropped. I have 1- nth pleai 
 
 the resolution* which h illy approve of 
 
 I should « -''I he 
 
 fully, 1 
 will say, th that the eiti- 
 
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 that the ' 
 
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 a man here 
 w ho would • 
 
 vou if you w ■ 'I' .' "'" 
 
 th your 
 
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 feniusofoor 
 
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 li has been well 
 
 i slavery in the 
 
 re no n 
 
 S iutl ( rolina, than 
 
 with Bla \ 9 Does ii ;■ right 
 
 to i lered into a v " oo 
 
 hat ,rt - 
 
 ;. on 
 
 any right to with your portne irrange- 
 
 ihall 
 I go inti his 
 
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 family 
 
 ed int( lip with i 
 
 tut ion air. mutual I 
 
 t!i the 
 South ' i than we had i 
 
 The I ii;<mi \\ 
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 t*;irth ' 
 
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 111 a 
 
 r the 
 
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nis shinii .nine philanthropy 
 
 the whole; I ask then, is this true phi- 
 lanthi face of the 
 
 when a nation had e. >pportunity as ours novt 
 
 I. ifc at its extern 
 — reaching • north to the firo- 
 
 1 on the Bouth to the torrid zone ! He 
 ■ all the i • the worl . 
 
 Would it be philanthropic to 
 >f all Europe 
 
 : til.- opj 
 
 ' 'r if they 
 
 than 
 
 the philan- 
 
 ■ that . >le human i I mtinue atl 
 
 ' 
 
 I I this 
 
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 ■ this 
 
 oad — how 
 
 I who 
 
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 South ? 
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 intry ! Ii that if 
 
 ihment 
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 d : 
 
 . hour of adjourn- 
 i ruin- 
 
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 •nitr\. 
 
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v:ition, those i t acts of i termed the compromise 
 
 measures (Ckeert.) The resolutions of this meeting, 1 
 
 understand them from iding this evenin i thes* 
 
 purposes, and then sommend themselves to oui 
 
 approbation. I ihould be glad if there was time for me to 
 
 i ol these me omewhat in detail. Although many 
 
 in.i\ differ upon son* - of them, yel there can be 
 
 - -nti.il differ pinion upon the great and important 
 
 that have 1 gather this evening, ( \;>- 
 
 I the luitliinl support of tins com pro 
 
 and tl ■•.'■-, proper \\ en thing 
 
 I IM<»n ; 
 
 winch i not only ol our- 
 
 • . . bat <»t" the whole numan ra 
 
 our fathers, and I 
 us — if wen 
 :\ to the i n 
 vhoform- 
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 -hat in hi 
 h 
 
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 •• i; exist only in 
 
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 \ hen a I I have 
 
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 ly to 
 
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 South were aiming at disunion, ai;< i were seeking e the 
 
 union men to the wall. Then all my sympathies becai 
 ed for the latter, and I felt that \ them, not oply to 
 
 the way of their success, hut also 
 
 to aid them directly by every honorable means within our 
 
 reach, and lly we ass propose to do to- 
 
 night that we intend to keep inviolate our obligations to our 
 
 States. 
 
 proper that the Union men of C iculd re- 
 
 spond to the fraternal sentiments of the Union men of the 
 South ; for our gl< i Stal 'rue to the princi- 
 
 ples of the Revolutioi ad to the Union of the 
 
 Though s< of no -I battle fields, yet 
 
 we know that the blood of our troops in the war of Indepen- 
 
 the clash of arms 
 had been n< B ker Hill to Yorktown. {Loud ap- 
 
 plause.) No State - 
 men or means to achieve our freedom than I icut. 
 
 Our Independen i our Constitution estab- 
 
 lished by ' Sor\ I en of the South. 
 
 Let us ever cherish the the sym- 
 
 pathies which common d ommon have 
 
 dered. In the Ian the poet may we 
 
 inquii 
 
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 :t twain the starry •' 
 
 In c ■• let us ■•[• that •■ rpetuate 
 
 Lisbrty, without holding I In the thrilling 
 
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 guage « hich has Ion o im- 
 
 n my memory and on my heart, and is doubtle 
 1 1 1 i I i ; 1 1 to say from the lepths 
 
 of lus s )til — •• When my eyes sh all be turned for the last time 
 to behold the sun in the heavens, may I not behold him shining 
 on the broken and d »rious 
 
 Union — on States cordant, belligerenl — on a 
 
 land rent with civil feuds, and drenched, it maybe, in fraternal 
 id." 
 
 Let their last . lingering, glance rather behold the gor- 
 
 is ensign of the Republic, known and hoi 
 
 throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and 
 
 trophies streaming in their original lustre — nol a stripe e 
 
 or polluted — nor I ir obscured — bearing for its motto 
 
 ich miserabl* " What is all this worth ?" 
 
 • other words of delusion tnd folly, "Liberty first 
 
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