Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-10-30

ed constitution; we canaot say as 10 this facts il had
however, only organised informally when il adjourned
Tue city is yet under great excitement oh we an.
prchend no disturbance of the peace We have Just
informed that the members Of the convention gone
TO fetriboro Madison county, with the intention or
ie-organ'zing and completing their business.
Posiseript-7 o'cioek p. M.-Wc have ust learned
that the printing materials of the Standard x Democrat
Mice the abolition paper in the city, have been thrown
out oil the windows ON the walk
tFrom the New York comn,ereiai.l
An interesting letter from highly respectable gen.
tlrman in Utica, enables us TO furnish The reader with
full 1orna,ion touching the proceedings of the Adolf
"UrlcA, Oct 81, 1885
'.1he long agony is over The grand State anti
Slavery Convention has met, 6ourshcd it's little brief
hour, and adjourned die. IL was called to order
about O'clock, and Judge Brewster. OF Gcncsscc
county was chosen Chairman, pro cmporc aud the Rev
Oliver Wetinorr, OF this city, Secretary A Constitu-
lion Of State Anti Slavery Society then produced,
hastily read, and mem. adopted.
"a declaration Of the opinions and creed of the con-
vention was then produced and the reading of COM
mtnctd BY Lewis Tappan, Esq The doors, which had
heen shut, up to this time, opened by crowd
81 the friends of free discussion, who had 6een com.
PEELED to remain outside and WHO, in their progress
through the vcsiibue, freely discussed sundry black
eyes, knocks; and left two ko, u combat and
lis owners very like all in their shirt sleeves
some antaeciitionists who the door, inter
Tered aud induced the free dsputants to suspend farther
proceedings. But the doors were now open. and tue
house was instantly filled with those friends OF good
Ser, who are never excep. about the first in
November and the mode and place of whose existence
during the rest of the year, has, for time past been
riddle to inqnrng philosophers.
- The house in perfect uproar Cheers
gioans yrs ana all manner of strange noises cnsued
The reader, Mr. Tapran, continued most inanfully
reauing at Tie creed, though he could make his
mex neiglbor hear word of what he said Ai,cr
having gone on in this way twenty minutes the
committee of the citizens OF, Utica entered the bousc
headed by the honorable Chester HAYDEN first Judge
ct Oneida county, and requested a hearing from the
Conventions. The uproar and confusion trc-
inendous Cries from all parts of the house, hear
the committee, mingled with yells and misses
and all the while Mr. Lewis Tappan ste sdiastly per-
forming his pantominc reading OF his screed' The
Chairman at length induced Mr. Tappan TO desst and
the meeting to order hear the conmu nication
Of The committee from the meeting of citizens at the
court rooin IL was read by MIR. J. Watson Williams
after which Judge Hayden addressed the Convention
ana on behalf OF the citizens cntrcuted it adjourn
us the only possible of pre- venting dreadful re-
suits. lie assured it, that the lust read
mad einanaed not from mob, but from the worhiest
and most reputable inhabitants of Utica and that il
embodied sentiments entertained by large body of the
citlzens MIR, Lewis fappan then moved that com
mtee OF ten be appointed to prepare suitable resolutions
ior the convention and respectful reply the citizens
OF Utica Alvan Stewart ESQ., of Utica then seconded
MT. iappans resolution, and undertook To say some
thing; but the friends of free discussion were so free
IN expressing their opinions and talking Just as they
listed, and each man for himself that the gentleman
speech was dumb show to all but the speaker lie
therefore wound it up very briefly, and sat down
me Honorable Samuel Beardsey member of Congress
rom ms county, then got up upon bench and
i the convention could reply to the committee
The Convention had heard the commu nication of the
czens and he was anxious 10 know what had got to
To tins city and insulting it by making the place of its
deliberations He (he Congressman deemed the insult
one OF the most aggravated nature, &c. When Mr. |
benrdscy finished his pacific address, which he did amid
Cheers orras and yes of his constituents Judge Hay
aen again rose and endeavoed to nay the excitement of
tue meeting and urged the necessity and proprrty of
waning quietly the answer Of the Convention Ia the
meantime the leading of the Convention held |
short consultations and determined that was best TO
Journ SINE dtc The vote accordingly put and |
unanimously carried, and the Convention declared ad
Jonrned The difficulty not, however, entirely over
mar kaIf he. III.
really adjourned and Mr.. Bcardsley wished TO extract
from the Convention that it would never
meet again. llnwevcr, after the lapse of half an hour
the whole assemblage fairly vacated the church, with
few instances of disturbance as could have been expcc
Gu Inc members OF the Convention have, we believe,
" no case received personal ndigny, but it has been
several owing the interference and protection Of
gentlemen opposed to them in sentiment that they have
not met with severe treatment at the hands of the popu
lace 'F
at is most fortunate circumstance that it should
have passed off as It did without dreadful consconcas
Ihe excitement in the church exceeded all belief |
FOR some time there noenarily reason to fear an
oubreaking of actual violence which would have been
uhconuoiabie. Ropes were at one time fixed around /
the house on the vestbule of the church. and there were
frequent calls from without for gentleman whose
name was peculiarly odious with the populace The
convention acted most wisely adourning they did
Tor no other could possibly have prevented The
destruction OF the church, and probably loss of life Much
more wisely would its members have acted had never
been caled--or called at time when the public mind
was not alarmed upon the subject TO perfect frenzy
" he members of the Convention after the adjourn
ment began to leave town and many had zone when a
PROJECT was started by some of them TO again at
eeroorough, Madison county, and finish their delbera
ions he remainder accordingly left town for that
pace about three clock this afternoon The city now
'reins quiet and we shall probably no farther dis
tufbance l am persuaded that they could not have
dreamed OF the excitement they were causing or they
would have believed that though such an assenblaGe
was awful, yet with ST Paul that all things law lu are
now. "
have no doubt that the second Prcsby torian church
would have been torn down. il it had been for the
itlpe ;nt,
the Convention, which gave them reason for adjourn
ing.
1T is inournful TO think how great the tendency Of
good mcn IS TO utraism when their minds become ex-
ced II Is understood that Gerrt Smith invited the
convention TO PetcfboTo and | presume il is SO: us
Gerrt is friend and believer in Immediate emanci.
patton, though coonzlionst he believes that az
ds The best hope Of attaining the prevalence Of the
former doctrine - ~
u cannot learn that Thompson was in ovn and pre.
sumo ne was not The mob cut few pers this az
Tnoon: ABOUT $, they called upon Captain Clark to
cear MS temperance house of Abnousts in twenty
minutes which order lac complied with They have fred
sumo cannon and wooped ubont the streets little tut
nave not done much mischief; and think as il rains
pretty smary now, Is O'clock there is little probability
1t VIII do much more. /
ALVIN Stewart called for by the mob Gust |
manu- out old Stewurt, and pass bin Out, I'VE want
stewart, odd Stewart Were frequent cries"
Abolition MEETiso AnoLIsnED-The abolition mar.
~ New York, after drumming up recruits for the last
inonih or two, were enabled gather at Utica some Two
OF rce hundred The given of their recepfion
az utca ny one Of The Editors Of the Journal Of Com
e'ce' wh" attended to report progress annexed As
oeetaing rom Journal not favorable the election
o. r van Buren,, the part ascrbed in TO the friends
OF tins gentemanp particularly Mr. Bcardsley who has
been hascly bv he