OLD ANTI-SLAVERY DAYS.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

COMMEMORATIVE MEETING,

HELD BY THE

Danvers Historical Society,

AT THE

TOWN HALL, DANVERS,

APRIL 26, 1893,

WITH INTRODUCTION, LETTERS AND SKETCHES.

DANVERS :

DANVERS MIRROR PRINT.

1893.

[COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY THE DANVERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.]

CONTENTS.

Introductory Chapter, or Danvers and the Abolitionists
THE MEETING IN TOWN HALL, DANVERS .
Prayer by Rev. William H. Fish, Dedham
Address and Song by Mr. John W. Hutchinson, Lynn
Remarks by the President of the Society.
Address by Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, Boston
Address by Rev. Samuel May. Leicester.
Address by Hon. M. M. Fisher, Medway.

Original Poem by Mr. George B Bartlett, Concord
Song by the Hutchinsons," Car of Emancipation”.
Address by Hon. Parker Pillsbury, Concord, N. II.
Song by the Hutchinsons," There's no such word as Fail"
"The Slave's Appeal".

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Address by Rev. George W. Porter, D. 1), Lexington

Address by Mrs. Lucy Stone, Boston.

Address by Mrs. Abby M Diaz, Belmont.

Address by Rev. Aaron Porter, East Alstead, N. H.

Address by Mr. George W. Putnam, Lynn.

Address by Mr. George T. Downing. Newport, R. I.

Address by Rev. Peter Randolph, Charlestown

Address by Miss Sarah H. Southwick, Wellesley Hills

Address by Rev. Daniel S Whitney, Southboro'.

Song by the Hutchinsons, "The Old Granite State"

Hymn, My Country, 'tis of thee," offerings, etc.

Mr. Wendell Phillips Garrison, New York, N. Y.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chace, Valley Falls, R. I.
Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Emily W. Taylor, Germantown, Pa.

Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney, Jamaica Plain .

Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dr. W. Symington Brown, Stoneham

Mr. D. L. Bingham, Manchester, (with note about Mr. and Mrs.

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Rev. William W. Silvester, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. William H. Furness, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.
Mr. John M. Lennox, Boston.

Mrs. Martha Waldo Greene, East Greenwich, R. I.
Mrs. Fanny Garrison Villard, New York, N. Y.
Mr. Daniel Ricketson, New Bedford .
Mr. Walter B. Allen, Lynn.
Mr. Robert Adams, Fall River.
Mr. William D. Thompson, Lynn.
Mr. George W. Clark, Detroit, Mich.
Dea. Joshua T. Everett, Westminster.
Mr. William Stone, New York, N. Y.
Mr. David Mead, Danvers .

Mrs. Anne E. Damon (with note about Mrs. F. E. Bigelow), Concord. 91

Mr. J. M. W. Yerrinton, Chelsea.