when the kernel and the ear are gone.  Rome’s loudest shout for liberty was when she murdered it, and drowned its death shrieks in her hoarse huzzas.  She never raised her hands so high to swear allegiance to freedom as when she gave the death-stab, and madly leaped upon its corpse; and her most delirious dance was among the clods her hands had cast upon its coffin. Free! The word and sound are omnipresent masks and mockers.  An impious lie, unless they stand for free lynch law and free murder, for they are free.

“But I’ll hold.  The times demand brief speech, but mighty deeds.  On, my brethren! uprear your temple.  “Your brother in the sacred strife for all,

“THEODORE D. WELD.”

David Paul Brown, of Philadelphia, was invited to deliver the dedicatory address, which, with other exercises, occupied the mornings and evening of three days, and included addresses by Garrison, Thomas P. Hunt, Arnold Buffum, Alanson St. Clair, and others, on slavery, temperance, the Indians, right of free discussion, and kindred topics.  On the second day, an appropriate and soul-stirring poem by John G. Whittier was read by C.C.  Burleigh.  The first lines will give an idea of the spirit of the whole poem, one of the finest efforts Whittier ever made:—­

    “Not with the splendors of the days of old,
    The spoil of nations and barbaric gold,
    No weapons wrested from the fields of blood,
    Where dark and stern the unyielding Roman stood,
    And the proud eagles of his cohorts saw
    A world war-wasted, crouching to his law;
    Nor blazoned car, nor banners floating gay,
    Like those which swept along the Appian Way,
    When, to the welcome of imperial Rome,
    The victor warrior came in triumph home,
    And trumpet peal, and shoutings wild and high,
    Stirred the blue quiet of th’ Italian sky,
    But calm and grateful, prayerful, and sincere,
    As Christian freemen only, gathering here,
    We dedicate our fair and lofty hall,
    Pillar and arch, entablature and wall,
    As Virtue’s shrine, as Liberty’s abode,
    Sacred to Freedom, and to Freedom’s God.”

The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women was then holding a session in the city, and among the members present were some of the brightest and noblest women of the day, women with courage as calm and high to dare, as with hearts tender to feel for human woe.  The Convention occupied the lecture-room of Pennsylvania Hall, under the main saloon.  A strong desire having been expressed by many citizens to hear some of these able pleaders for the slave, notice was given that there would be a meeting in the main saloon on the evening of the 16th, at which Angelina, E.G.  Weld, Maria Chapman, and others would speak.