The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-09-22
ABOLITION CONVENTION IN CoLUMBIANA
COIINTV

DenuncGtOn Of the ioig c0nspirGt0rs-C decLa.
tons and his fasetcOds s-mporant Developments &C.
A great abolition convention off at New Lis
bon on the 7ih September. Some 800 persons were
present. The following account we take ffoma let,
ter in the Statesman, dated N. Lisbon. Sept g. Read
it. 1t shows up COrwn's prospects prospects in that
quarter.
"The first business in order was the adoption of an
address to the electors Counbiana county, drawn
up by Wm Pearce, liberty candidate for the assembly,
Judge King thsn took the stand and for some three
hours enchaned the attention Of his auditors lie
dwe long and earnestly on the Importance of all alb.
oltionists voting for none other than sound liberty men,
Next came the Rev Ed,Uard Smith, late of the Pitts.
burgh Conference. he spoke with grea force, and at
considerable length. He urged the necessity of poti-
cal action on the part of the liberty sad they had
been taken in and bamboozed by the wings in IS4O,
and the game was attempted to be played off at
the present time thathe wings were greatn the man.
ufacure Of cisesand that at every cri'is they beow-
ed forth to the abOitioniSs hsp whip the dem.
ocras this time and then shall be with you'll" That
this game played in l840-the wings manufactured
crisis and then called upon the aboonss for help.
The assistance was extended-the democrats were fog
ged- and the abolionsts themselves who assisted In
achieving the victory, were left spawling upon their
backs The speaker alluded in terms ofscorching
rebuks to the manufacture of the present crisis &C,
compishing which, (he declared in tones of huhder)
the wings had aimed death blow at Republican Gov
pie of democratic lberty And it was in such crisis
tina. the traitor wings again called upon the liberty men
for support Althouhh hitherto connected with tho
whg party. The speaker declared he had always been
SO far democrat to believe in the inaienable right
of the majority govern. His phlippc hurled at tho
traitors in The Legsloure operated like an electric shock
throughout the large assembly the poor devils of
coons trembled in their shoes at his indignant denunca~
tou. The Rev. gentleman then held Henry Clay up
to the contempt and rdlcule of his auditors This
l.l.taE G.. H.
set gull trap catch abolition yotes by publishing GER
tfcales of his having, some ten years ago, manumtted
three or four old decrepid slaves But itsn GO The
democrats Also in for scoring, but they have
never made professions of friendship to the aboonsts
they escaped the unenviable charge of dupciiy and
treachery.
Ehen spoke the Hon. Samuel Ls,Us late one of the
most prominent Wings in Cincinnati and the way he
laid whggery bare was caution to coon skins! What
made the matter worse was, the declaration with which
he set out-ha heretofore he had always co-operated
with the whg party, in the hard cider campaign of
1s4O He rererred to the nomination of Judge King
said that whig members Of the Legislature had called
upon the Judge and himself and mplored them not to
nominate Liberty candidate for Governor, and pedsed
themselves that Judge King should receive the nomina.
ton of the whg 22d February Convention. Mr.. Lewis
further stated that Gov Corwin pledged himself to him.
with a solemn ASsERVAFION (which Mr.. yLswis
would not rspcatl thaunder circumstances would he
be candidate for reelection. Yet Notwithstanding
stion King for the purpose of rescuing n the last
ditch the dropping fortunes Of that extensive slave deal.
er Henry Clay Mr.. Lewis further stated that this Vi
oation of his pledge, solomnly taksn had blasted
the political prospects of Mr. COrwin forever; and az
tor Cowins defeat. Clay will be forced from the track
and was this inevitable consequence which occa.
sons the desperate exeons ofthe wings to sustain Corr
win which induces Kentucky orators perambulate the
State of Ohio, and which will bring TO Dayton lin the
shape of PIPE LAYERS) thousands Of the people of
TnnV- lsl
selves if King would withdraw, he should be the
whig candidate for Governor, but that the Judge
was made of TOO and too pure material 10 lend
himself to such an unprnciped bargain and sale. Mr.
Lewis then referred to the forced dissolution of the Leg
islaure-hs said il was deliberately determined upon
for the purpose of producing an exetementa crisis
in the hope Of ocing The Libsty men into the Clay and
Corwn traces-that many Of the wh!s 10 the Legsla4
ture wre honest and honorable me but had been
urged to the damnng Decd by these desperate poi,ici-
| ans Thomas Ewing, Alfred Kelley & John c. Wright,
who consummated their treason in midnight caucus in
| Columbus Mr.. Lewis fnhsr mentioned that letters
had been written from Cincinnati to Columbus stating
that extreme meastire must be adopted by the
wings, or that King would beaE Corwn in the State,
and hence in a great measure, the dissolution Of the
Legislature. Mr.. Lewis wound up with an appeal to
the Liberty men be longer edaway by coon skins
and cider barrelsthat those miserable artce had had
their day ihat the people were now resolved reason
and reflect, &C. sts
AT the close OF The Convention, MI. Pearce, one OF
the Liberty candidates for Assembly, stated that he had
heard, from good authority that Governor Corwn de-
clares the Liberty should be put into the mad house
Mr.. P. then challenged the wing candidates in Coluln-
biana county meet him on the stump and lehe peo-
pie also throw the gauntlet Of Defiance and challenged
any one to meet him in debate. But Of his old al,
! lies saw proper to accept his invitation,
| None Of the Liberty men claim less than Eve hundred
votes 10 ,Columbiena county We shall sec. Il
In great hasto, truly yours, a.