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of the colored citizens held to welcome Mr. THOMPSON, in Belknap Street Church. Its enthusiasm was unbounded and its success entire. The police, warned by the censure brought upon them by their supineness at Faneuil Hall, kept the peace in the street in an efficient None were allowed to enter the Church except colored people and their recognized friends. Thus perfect order was maintained within doors and without. The meeting at Worcester, on the next Saturday, being an adjournment of that at Faneuil Hall, was of the most successful character. A large number went from Boston and the neighboring towns by Special train, and a still larger concourse met them in the spacious Town Hall, collected from Worcester and the country adjacent for many miles. The Hall was entirely filled even in the morning, which was a strong proof of the deep interest which the occasion excited. The organization of the meeting was, of course, the same as at the Faneuil Hall. Mr. GARRISON offered a stringent set of resolutions. Mr. PHILLIPS spoke to them, and at the close of his speech introduced Mr. THOMPSON, who was received with a most enthusiastic and unanimous welcome. He spoke with excellent effect, and at the conclusion of his speech the morning session was adjourned. In the afternoon the Hall was even fuller than in the morning. Mr. REMOND spoke first, and was followed by Mr. THOMPSON, in a very powerful and telling speech. Mr. BURLEIGH followed him, and Mr. GARRISON concluded the afternoon's session. It was altogether a most satisfactory and encouraging occasion, showing that the city does not, in all cases, give the key-note to the country.

Mr. THOMPSON's reception everywhere, since the impulse was given in his favor by the cowardly and indecent attack upon him in Boston, has been perfectly triumphant. At Worcester, soon after the meeting just described, the citizens of that place, without distinction of party, invited him to address them. The Mayor, Mr. CHAPIN, presided. The Town Hall was crowded. The enthusiasm unbounded and unanimous. It was a proper rebuke administered by the country to the city. At Lynn, also, he had a great meeting of welcome. At Salem, at Plymouth, and many other places, where we have not time to follow him, public meetings have been held in his honor, and great assemblages gathered to hang upon his words. Perhaps the very demonstration in this city, which was intended to seal his lips in this country, has done more to give attraction to his name, and notoriety to his movements, than the most uninterrupted and prosperous success of that meeting could have accomplished. We regard his visit to us as

having been attended with great advantage to the Cause, and we trust that it will be prolonged to the utmost limit consistent with his duties in England.

THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

We have again to express our acknowledgments to the untiring AntiSlavery men and women of Great Britain and Ireland, for the continuance of that sympathy, encouragement, and assistance, which we have been happy to acknowledge in former years. The kindness which was extended to Mr. W. W. BROWN, on his first arrival, seems to have met with no diminution. We notice with pleasure meetings held for him, and attended by him in various parts of the United Kingdom, which appear to have had an excellent effect in arousing and keeping alive the Anti-Slavery sentiments of the British people. Of these sentiments we have received substantial results in the contributions which enriched the Annual Bazaar, which has just closed. The Fugitive Slave Bill, too, has excited a just and righteous indignation. Public meetings have been held in various places, and addresses directed to this country, speaking the emphatic sense of the British public, of this atrocity. Our dwindling limits forbid us to particularize the various forms in which British sympathy and help has reached us; but we can assure our trans-Atlantic friends that no testimony of theirs against Slavery and Slaveholders, no token of confidence in the true AntiSlavery Movement, is unnoted, either by us or our enemies. Their burning sympathies form a part of that narrowing circle of fire which is closing around Slavery, and which will ultimately destroy it. It is for them to keep alive and to fan the flame of that consuming public opinion.

ESCAPING SLAVES.

Notwithstanding the stringent provisions of the Fugitive Bill, and the confidence which was felt in it as a certain cure for escape, we are happy to know that the evasion of Slaves was never greater than at this moment. All Abolitionists, at any of the prominent points of the country, know that applications for assistance were never more frequent. This is inevitable in the nature of things, and from the extent of the

frontier of Slavery. During the summer, Mr. WILLIAM L. CHAPLIN was arrested in the District, or just over the line of Maryland, in the act of conveying several Slaves to freedom. For this act of humanity, and on charge of resistance of the officers employed for the recovery of the Slaves, he was thrown in our prison, at Washington. A strong excitement was raised in his behalf, particularly in Central New York. Agents were sent over the country to raise the money necessary to liberate him on bail. After being thus released at Washington, he was re-arrested and confined for several months, in Maryland, for an alleged breach of her laws. Very recently he has obtained bail to an excessive amount, and is now in this part of the country. So dangerous and expensive is it to yield to the simplest impulses of common humanity in this free and happy country!

Last summer, RICHARD H. DILLINGHAM, whose case we have formerly recorded as suffering in the Penitentiary, at Nashville, Tenn., the penalty of his humane assistance to escaping Slaves, was released from his captivity by death. The excellence of his character, and the firmness with which he sustained the punishment of his obedience to the Higher Law of humanity, won the esteem even of his enemies. His name is added to the list of true martyrs, and will be ever held in remembrance by the true lovers of God and Freedom. Earlier in the year, JOHN M. BARRETT, who was under indictment in South Carolina, and had suffered a long imprisonment there, died in Indiana, being then on bail, of a disease contracted in his dungeon. His crime was taking letters from the post-office, containing the pamphlet of "Brutus," addressed to the white people of South Carolina, on the subject of Slavery, by one of themselves. We regret to state that Captains DRAYTON and SAYRES, the gallant men who were implicated in the attempt of the Pearl, which nearly rescued seventy Slaves from bondage, are still in prison at Washington, and suffering the extremest necessities of poverty and want. A fitter case for humane interposition and relief, surely could not be found.

The opportunities afforded by the Slave Law of 1793, which have been increased by that of 1850, to the Slaveholder to reach the friends of his escaping Slaves, through the United States Courts, have been improved during the past year, as in former ones, in various places. A series of cases which were decided at the May Term of the Circuit Court, for Indiana, reduced several most respectable citizens from competence to poverty. In these cases, the Slaves had been brought before a State tribunal and discharged, the plaintiff preferring his

remedy for damages, and not prosecuting his claim. In his charge to the Jury, Mr. Justice MCLEAN laid down the extraordinary legal position, that the discharge of the Slaves by a State Court did not exonerate the defendants from their liability in damages. The usual understanding is, that when a party, in good faith, acts under the advice of counsel, he is not held liable for damages for what he does under such advice. But this was a yet stronger case, inasmuch as the Judiciary itself had interposed and sanctioned the legality of the act, for which smart money was demanded. But Judge MCLEAN has only reaffirmed, what we all knew before, that Slavery is the Supreme Law of the land, and that no State laws and no Common Law can be allowed to stand in the way of its convenience or its revenge. This, and the analogous case of THOMAS GARRETT, of Delaware, who was stripped of his estate for giving food and shelter to a party which the Chief Justice of Delaware had discharged as no Slaves, proves the kind of "Justice" which the Constitution of the United States was intended "to establish," whenever the element of black men's rights enters into the case to be adjudged.

THE NATIONAL BAZAAR.

This Institution which has so often done such signal service to the cause of the Slave, as well by the wide-spread remembrance which it keeps alive of his condition as by the liberal supplies which it has always poured into his treasury, was held again in Faneuil Hall, with even increasing attractiveness and success. The contributions from our English, Scotch, and Irish friends, as well as from American Abolitionists residing abroad, were never more abundant, more elegant, or more saleable. The slight apprehension which was entertained in advance, that the recent pro-Slavery Revival, caused by the labors of Mr. WEBSTER and his devout helpers, might diminish the attendance of the public and the result of the Sale, was signally disappointed. The proceeds of the Fair exceeded those of last year. During the evenings of the last week Addresses were made by Messrs. PHILLIPS, QUINCY, THOMPSON, GARRISON, BUFFUM, and RUSSELL. The evening that Mr. THOMPSON spoke, the Hall was as full as the arrangements of the Fair would permit, and his reception and the reception of his speech of the most enthusiastic character.

THE ANTI-SLAVERY PRESS.

The regular Organs of the Cause remain, we believe, as they were at our last account of them. The LIBERATOR has just completed the twentieth year of its existence, under circumstances of unexampled opposition. The peculiar talent, unshaken integrity, distinctive sagacity, and unquenchable enthusiasm of its Editor, continue to make it, what it has ever been, the widest known, best hated, and most influential of all the papers that assist the Cause, directly or by indirection. We are happy to know that its pecuniary position is at least as good as at any former time, though still calling for the punctuality of its subscribers and the assistance of its friends, in extending its circulation. The STANDARD maintains the high character which it has held under its present Editor, Mr. GAY, for ability, fidelity, and skillful presentation of the weekly Anti-Slavery History of the Country. The Pennsylvania FREEMAN, and Ohio BUGLE, remain under the same able superintendance that they possessed last year, and they are as worthy as ever, of the confidence and support of Abolitionists. The NORTH STAR, of Mr. DOUGLASS, has entered upon its fourth volume, which must be an encouraging fact in its history. Whatever Mr. DOUGLASS touches, he treats with native eloquence and skill, and his paper cannot fail to have a valuable influence as far as it reaches. We regret to have to state that the Louisville EXAMINER, after changing to a monthly from a weekly publication, finally ceased during the past year, for want of pecuniary support. We regard this loss of a stronghold in the enemy's country as one much to be lamented, and hope that the able and faithful opponents of Slavery who have spoken through it, will soon find another Organ.

THE CHURCH AND CLERGY.

Our narrowing space forbids us to devote to this head the attention which its importance demands. The action of the great denominational bodies has not been marked with any of those prominent features which have obtruded themselves upon us in former years. Not that there has been any relaxation of the attitude of repulse which those sects maintain towards any attempt to act against Slavery through their machinery. And, perhaps, their long established precedents of dis