The Liberator

MR. PHILLIPS' ADDRESS.

The friends of the cause of Abolition in this city
and vicinity celebrated the 4th by appropriate exercises in the Howard street Church.
The address was delivered by Wendell Phillips, Esq. of Boston, and was listened to with very
great attention by the audience; it was a spirited
and sensible performance, and parts of it were truly
eloquent. There was nothing in it which ought
to be objectionable to any New England audience.
Having discussed several topics pertaining to abolitionism, strictly so called, he adverted to the proposed
annexation of Texas to this Union; and his
remarks on this head must have found a response
in every bosom. However much we at the North
may be divided in opinion as to the various questions connected with anti-slavery, there surely ought
to be but one opinion in the free States as to this
proposed increase of slave territory—a territory
large enough for eight States of the size of Kentucky—thus securing not only a certain predominance
of the Southern policy, but opening a market
for slaves to an extent which it is impossible fully
to comprehend. Yet this measure is seriously contemplated, and will doubtless be proposed, and
strongly urged. at the very next session of Congress. The whole North ought to wake up, and
rise as one man against it; and thus show to the
South that there is one subject on which we can
present an undivided front.—Ib.