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That a lecture should be repeated in New York is a rare occurrence. That a lecture on Anti-Slavery should be repeated in New York, even before a few despised fanatics, is an unparalleled occurrence. But that an Anti-Slavery lecture should be expected, night after night, to successive multitudes, each more enthusiastic than the last, marks an epoch and a revolution in popular feeling. It is an era in the history of liberty. Niblo's was crowded last evening, long before the hour of commencement. Hundreds stood through the three hours lecture. We give a full report of the words, but only of the words.The press of the country everywhere made unexpectedly strong and favorable notices of the lecture, and it was reprinted in hundreds of journals. In speaking of its delivery in Metropolitan Hall, the National Era, at Washington, said:
Mr. Sumner closed, as he had continued, amid loud and protracted applause, especially at the point when he said that the Fugitive Slave Bill must be made a dead letter. The audience seemed wild with enthusiasm. Handkerchiefs waved from fair hands, and reporters almost forgot their stolid unconcern.Count Gurowski, writing from Brattleboroa, Vt., in his enthusiastic style, said:
I have just finished the reading of your admirable Oration. I am en extase. I was near to cry. You have thrown the gauntlet once more to the ‘Gentlemen from the South,’ bravely, decidedly, and pitilessly. Don't be astonished if they shall send you, covered with laurels as you are, to Coventry. This, undoubtedly, they will do.Being invited to deliver the same address at Auburn, and pressed so earnestly that he could not refuse, he was introduced to the audience by Mr. Seward, in these words:
Fellow-citizens: A dozen years ago I was honored by being chosen to bring my neighbors residing here to the acquaintance of a statesman of Massachusetts, who was then directing the last energies of an illustrious life to the removal of the crime of human slavery from the
