The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-09-17
Abby Kelly

And her pnocheia ami, s. s. Foster, held forth
in Cadiz on Friday, Saturday and Sunday last,
on blackguardism generally and abolitiOnism par
ticularly. Miss Kelly is woman of extraordi-
nary intellect naturaIly,--she has read much
and observed much, and has a memory which
appears never 10 prove treacherous. In size she
is rather above the medium height; her features
are rather handsome; when animated, her eye is
brilliant and full of language. A phrenoIogist
would be pleased with her head; she possesses
all the organs necessary to make her great wo-
man-perceptiveness concentrativeness, ideali-
ty, causality, comparison. benevolence, venera-
ton, and firmness. Those who have thought or
may still think that she is insane, are greatly |
mistaken. Fosters appearance is altogether diff
ferent; he is man of considerable genus and a
ready debater, but he is fanatic out and out.
His forehead is small and contracted, the hair
growing almost down to his eyes, and five were
travelling with him in stage coach we would
be sure TO keep our hand upon our pocket book!
The immense crowd that gathered to hear the
individuals speak each day clearly showed that
the citizens of this vicinity took no little inter-
est in the subjects discussed by the speakers
We shall not attempt to give report of the
speeches made, as our time and space will not
permit. Their arguments were mixed up with
wholesale denunciation of every body but them
Iselves-they were saints, all else beside were
devils! They abused the government i'll the most
villainous and reasonable manner, and the fra
mers of the constitution were assailed as pirates,
murderers, cradle plunderers, baby thieves, rob-
bers, liars and adulerers! Every citizen of the
country, north and south, had the same epthets
: applied TO them; and even the citizens of our
own town were frequently branded as cradle
punderers, liars, adultorers, pirates, thieves, &c,
Christs ministers and church members general
Ily, were called agents and ambassadors of the
devil, and they declared that every man and wo-
churches, we're walking the downward road to
hell! We rather suppose that this kind of Ian
guage is not very we'll calculated to convert peo-
pie 10 abolitionism. To cap the climax of folly,
Abby and Stephen presented petition for the
dissolution Of the Union, and fol- the privilege of
Iaffixing signature thereto, they charged TWO
=, CENTS! We learn that some six or eight persons
: signed the pettion-we have not heard their
names, or else we would publish them to the
u world, and hold them up as marks for scorn ''to
point her slow moving finger at" Dissolrc the
Union! !--bistered be the tongue that could utter
: the words! DissolDe the Union! n!--may the hand
that would attempt such thing be struck witt
: paralysis! Dissolpe the Union! !--may the hear
that could conceive the thought be torn from it:
resting place and thrown to the dogs!
" Abby Kelly and S. S. Foster belong to the
: moral suasion (?) branch of the abolition party
= If to denounce men ndscriminately--ou own
10 citizens, too-as cradle plunderers, pirates, rob
- bers, aduterers, and the like, is a specimen O
moral suasion, may heaven preserve us from sucl
:, moralists! We have not learned that these per
:" sons have made either friends or converts whiIs
- here; but we do know that they have disgFace
- themselves and injured lhe cause of the oppres
VI sed very much, Abby Kelly had better 60 hom
and mend the holes in her stockings, and if sh
, is wealthy (as we understand she is), she Nigh
~ devote her surplus funds to the relief Of the vic
u ow and fatherIess--the distressed millions sh
" Isees around her almost every day, begging
y, penny to buy bread to sustain existence Thi
- would seem TO us to be more in accordance wit
- the teachings of Christ, than desecrating III
- Sabbath day with uncoureous and unlady-lik
. department. AS for Foster he had better go an
make an honest livelihood at his trade of ca
IL penter. Wherever he may go he will acquire tn
y Reputation of pretty we'll informed blackguart
'0 Until hislanguage and conduct approach to some
10 thing like that of gentleman, he will neve
- succeed in making proselytes.
We understand that the abolitionists of tn
place and vicinity repudiate Abby Kelly. 1t ina
be So She belongs to the progressive abolitio
;. party, and they do not! That's the difference
" We should like to read what Moses says of h
7 very particular friends.