WENDELL PHILLIPS said, with regard to what had been suggested about William H. Seward, that it left him in a worse position than before. For a man, in his circumstances, who holds in his own breast the key which explains and clears up his apparent inconsistency and want of principle, to refuse to use that key, and suffer the Cause to labor under the odium of duplicity, proves himself one of the most dangerous foes of the Cause. Mr. P. expressed his fear that the enthusiasm against the Fugitive Law, which Mr. GOODELL had described as prevailing in the State of New York, would not last. We have just seen HENRY LONG, said he, sent back into Slavery from the City of New York, and the "Union Committee " there volunteering to bear a large part of the expenses of the so-called trial. Our friend GOODELL has told us of the rural Districts. We have not reached them yet. Philadelphia has fallen before the Fugitive Law! She has shown too great an alacrity, and sent back the wrong man into Slavery. New York, the great commercial metropolis of the nation, has bowed and fallen before the Slave power. And to-day we have heard that the Slave-catchers are in Boston again, in search of a man said to have taken refuge with one of our citizens.

Mr. GARRISON added a few remarks on the more cheering aspects of the subject, and the Society adjourned to meet in the Tremont Temple, at 10 o'clock, A. M., on the morrow.

THURSDAY-MORNING SESSION.

The Society met according to adjournment, the President in the Chair.

On motion of WENDELL PHILLIPS, the hour of half past three o'clock, P. M., was assigned for the consideration of the funds of the Society for the ensuing year.

The resolutions reported by the Business Committee yesterday, came up for discussion, and the sixth in number was spoken to by SAMUEL MAY, Jr., and JOSHUA T. EVERETT.

ADDISON DAVIS followed and occupied the entire remainder of the morning session with a repetition of the old and oft-refuted argument, that the United States Constitution contains no compromises with, or guarantees to, Slavery.

CHARLES C. BURLEIGH followed, but gave way to EDMUND QUINCY, on whose motion the Society adjourned to 23 o'clock, P. M.

THURSDAY-AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Society again met in the Tremont Temple, the President in the Chair.

CHARLES C. BURLEIGH spoke in reply to Mr. DAVIS's morning argument, until the hour assigned for the raising of funds had arrived and passed, and then gave way for that subject.

WENDELL PHILLIPS spoke with eloquence and effect on the subject of funds, and the present exigencies of the Anti-Slavery Cause.

Mr. GARRISON followed with some brief remarks on the work before us; and the Society adjourned to 63 o'clock, P. M.

Again assembled at the Tremont Temple, EDMUND QUINCY, a Vice President, in the Chair.

CHARLES C. BURLEIGH concluded his speech on the Constitutional guarantees to Slavery.

JAS. N. BUFFUM moved that speakers be limited to twenty minutes. On motion of Wм. A. WHITE, this motion was laid upon the table. The discussion was resumed by CHARLES LIST, who spoke mainly on the Fugitive Slave Law.

[In the course of his speech, Mr. LIST gave way to Dr. CUTTER, who came into the Hall to offer the volunteer services of four young ladies, the Misses HALL, (now giving concerts in the City, and in another apartment of the Temple,) to sing an Anti-Slavery song. The offer being accepted, the ladies appeared and sang in a very agreeable manner, "The Fugitive Slave's Appeal to the North Star ;" and afterwards, "Ho! the Car Emancipation." And being warmly applauded and encored, they returned and sang "There's a good time coming." The songs harmonized well with the debates, and formed a pleasant episode. Afterwards the brothers HUTCHINSON sang, in their rich notes, a song in rebuke of Daniel Webster's apostacy, and his servility to Slavery.]

WENDELL PHILLIPS then took the floor, and offered the following resolution :

11. Resolved, That in regard to SAMUEL ATKINS ELIOT, in his votes on the Territorial and Fugitive Slave Bills, we will not under

take to decide whether he represented or misrepresented his constituency; but since neither he nor his friends have attempted any defence of either of those measures, except as necessary to avert dangers which nothing but the grossest ignorance could believe to exist, his base selfishness and craven spirit at that crisis make all former northern treason look white by the side of the blackness of his infamy; and as long as New England retains any spark of the spirit or of the pride of her ancestry, his memory will be held in loathing and abhorrence.

Mr. PHILLIPS referred to the vote which Samuel A. Eliot gave in the Massachusetts Legislature, to instruct the Massachusetts delegation in Congress to oppose all extension of Slavery; and to his subsequent vote, at Washington, as one of that delegation, in favor of all the Compromise measures with Slavery, the Fugitive Slave Law included! It was base fear for the Tariff, said Mr. P., and an equally base and a false plea, that the law of 1850 is no worse than the law of 1793, that led him to give this disgraceful vote. If the law of 1850 is no worse than that of '93, how comes it, said Mr. P., that within four months we have had, here in Boston, two different attempts to recover Fugitive Slaves, and that they are occurring by scores throughout the northern States, and so much more frequently than ever before in the history of the Nation?

It becomes our duty, said he, to express our moral contempt and indignation of Mr. Eliot's vote and whole course on this matter, and to show that the presence of the Slave-catchers in our streets is a consequence and a fitting commentary on his vote, and recent letter in justification thereof.

Daniel Webster has told us, said Mr. PHILLIPS, that whoever undertakes to re-open the question of Slavery, will find himself in a poor and contemptible minority. Does not Mr. Webster know that poor and contemptible minorities have reformed and ruled mankind? Did he never hear of a contemptible minority of twelve men, gathered in an upper chamber, whose voice and whose doctrine revolutionized the world? Mr. Webster says, that when the Compromise measures passed the last session of Congress, everybody understood that the settlement was a final one. Indeed! Lord JOHN RUSSELL once in the British Parliament, for a doctrine similar to this of Mr. Webster's, got the nick-name of Finality John. We may call him Finality Daniel. Did not he know that there were men and women, scattered up and down the land, who love the Anti-Slavery Cause too

well to allow any final settlement of it like this? In 1646, said Mr. P., a Committee of the Massachusetts government laid out a road westerly from Boston, as far as Newton; and when they reported the fact, they took much satisfaction in the completion of the work, saying that no road would ever be needed farther in that direction! They were the finality men of their day. Mr. Webster's foresight may be taken as equal to theirs.

At the conclusion of an eloquent and very able speech, which was much applauded, and of which the above furnishes but an occasional fragment, the Society adjourned to Friday, 10 o'clock, A. M.

FRIDAY-MORNING SESSION.

The Society again assembled in the Tremont Temple, the Presi dent being in the Chair.

The resolutions of the Business Committee being still before the meeting, were advocated by Rev. JOSEPH J. LOCKE, of Barre, THOMAS H. JONES, once a Slave in North Carolina, whose speech was received with great favor, and JUDSON HUTCHINSON.

Mrs. REDLON, of Providence, spoke chiefly on the question of Woman's Rights, and was repeatedly called to order.

JOHN C. CLUER moved, and the Society voted to lay the resolutions on the table, and to take up the resolution presented by him on Wednesday, P. M., relative to a slanderous charge against GEORGE THOMPSON. He defended Mr. THOMPSON from the charge of T. D. McGee, that he voted in parliament for the Irish Coercion Bill, and showed by incontrovertible documentary proof that the charge was false and libellous in the last degree.

Mr. CLUER's resolution was then adopted; there being a very general vote throughout the audience in the affirmative, and one only in the negative.

The Resolutions on the table were taken up, and the meeting was addressed by Rev. THEODORE PARKER. He occupied a little time in reviewing that portion of Gov. Boutwell's recent Message which speaks in such twaddling and evasive terms of the Fugitive Slave Law. Mr. PARKER also examined the question whether a Juror is in all cases obliged to find a verdict in conformity with the facts proved; or, whether in a case where he believes justice and popular rights require

it, he may not give a verdict contrary to the facts, without being mor

ally perjured.

Soon after 1 o'clock, adjourned to 2 o'clock.

FRIDAY-AFTERNOON SESSION.

Met at the hour appointed, in the Temple; the President in the Chair.

EDMUND QUINCY, from Committee on Officers of the Society for the year ensuing, reported a list of said officers.

The question being taken on the acceptance of the report, it was decided in the affirmative; and the individuals named were elected the officers of the Society. [See the list, in another place.]

The resolutions before the meeting were further discussed by EDMUND QUINCY, GEORGE W. PUTNAM, of Lynn, THOMAS RUSSELL, of Plymouth, and WENDELL PHILLIPS, who controverted the position of Mr. Parker, respecting the juror's right to shape his verdict according to his own ideas of justice.

WILLIAM L. GARRISON introduced the two following resolutions :

12. Resolved, That in the visit of our long-tried and untiring coadjutor, GEORGE THOMPSON, to this country, for the second time, we see cause for emotions of the deepest shame, and feelings of the liveliest gratitude- shame, that in this vaunted land of freedom, there are millions of our countrymen still wearing the galling chains of a Slavery which England has long since abolished throughout all her dominions— and gratitude that, notwithstanding all the scorn, insult, and outrage heaped upon him when among us fifteen years ago, as the advocate of Universal Emancipation, he generously throws the past into oblivion, and is once more with us, the same magnanimous and world-embracing spirit, the same dauntless and invincible champion of freedom, the same unwavering friend to the liberty and prosperity of our country, the same fearless and eloquent advocate of the rights of the enslaved,as ready to incur opprobrium and persecution now, in the same glorious Cause, as he was in the perilous times of 1834-5.

13. Resolved, That with three millions of our countrymen in the galling chains of Slavery, we have a fitting commentary on the empty declaration, that this is the land of the FREE; and in the consternation which is everywhere visible in this country at the presence

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