Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-24
NO 81.
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GARnErsvILLE. July 9Th, 1916.
LIBERTY PARTY, No. ,.

LIBERTY PARTY, No. ,.
The resolution introduced into the Anni-
versary meeting Of the Ohio Society in 1874,
by leading Liberty party influence for the
purpose of destroying the society, met with
decided opposition from such liberty men as
were still at heart abolitionists.
But the expressions of hostility on the part
of Liberty party men in Northern OHIO con-
WINGED me that it was unsafe to hold the next
anniversary meeting within reach of them.
Granville, Licking co. was therefore selected
as the place for its next meeting. To this
the Elk. Committee assented.
At the same time that the notice of the An
n~iversary meeting to be held at Granville in
1915 was published, there was a notice pub
lished of a series Of Anti-slavery mectir gs to
extend throughout the entire length of tho
state.
This series of meetings included the ami
versary meeting and one in Cincinnati on the
llth of June.
These meetings were announced by my
self in the Office Of the Corresponding Sec
rotary of the Ohio Anti-slavery society, and
to the published notice of them his nam was
officially appended. Thus these meetings
including the one in Cincinnati for the 18th
Of June were called by the Ohio Anti-slavery
society as Anti-slavery meetings. DR.. Bailey
sometime after the call, assured the Anti-sla-
very public that the meeting in Cincinnati
was to be an Anti-slavery meeting, and the
notice of the first call of this meeting as one
of a series of Anti-slavery meetings was kept
standing in his paper up to the time fixed for
holding it. A meeting was also held in DR..
Bailey's office, sometime previous to the 18th
OF June, to make some preliminary arrange
ments and also arrangements to procure a
building TO hold the convention in. attend
ed this meeting and was assured by those
present that the convention to be held on the
llth Of June would be strictly an Antl-slav-
cry Convention. 1t was also stated that inc
use of the Tabernacle was refused to all po-
litlcal meetings, but because this was not to
be a political meeting it was confidently ex-
pected that it could be obtained.
The lllh Of June at length arrived, a very
large assemblage collected at the Tabernacle,
and the convention organized by appointing
a President, Vice Presidents, and a business
committee al! Liberty party men, except one
man who was from a slave state where no
liberty party was organized, and some Of
these were the prominent leaders of that par
ty. The business committee reported a Sc
ries of strictly Liberty party resolutions
which were accepted for consideration and
discussion. AT this stage of the proceedings,
ii. l." Preston inquired of the President az
to the character of the meeting, and received
a reply in no equivocal language. We then
discovered that although this meeting had
been called officially by the Ohio Anti-slav-
cry society as an Anti-slavery convention,
and although DR.. Bailey had stated in his pa
per that it was to be an Anti-slavery con-
v%ention, and although the meeting in DR..
Bai!ey's Office for making preliminary arrange
ments declared that it was to be an Anti-sla-
very convention, yet it was in fact designed
by some 20 be strictly a Liberty party con-
vention, and this was the character given to
it, and some Of those, if not all, who were
spokesman in the meeting in DR.. Bailey's Of
fee, and who declared there that it was TO be
an Anli-sIavery meeting, helped to make it a
Liberty party meeting without one word of
explanation or giving an excuse for the de-
ception that had been praciised.
Previous to this, Liberty party men had
frequently entered our Anii-Sldvery meetings,
and tried TO introduce Liberty party subjects
and sometimes Liberty party business. This
course was resisted by II. l.. Preston and
myself, on the ground that it was a violation
of good faith, when an Anti-Slavery meeting
was called, to seize the opportunity and force
upon the people Liberty views, or any other
eXtraneous subject. Liberty party papers
persisted in adDertiSing our Anti Slavery
meetings as Liberty meetings, and would
speaf of them as Liberty meetings, ard in pub
fishing accounts of them, would state that
they ,Oere Liberty meetings. All these cir
cumstlnces, together with the efforts of Lib
erty men to kill off Anti-Slavery societies.,
conspired To render me suspicious of their
influences upon Anti Slavery meetings. But