Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-13
S~UPERLATIVELY MEAN.

We have not had a very exalted opinion Of
the controlling members Of the British and
Foreign A.. S. Society, since we heard of tho
manner in which they treated the delegates
whom the American Society sent to represent
it in the pseudo Worlds Convention in l9 10.
And although their conduct since that time
has been in perfect keeping with the opinion
we then formed Of them, we confess we were
not prepared for such lille meanness as that
narrated below by the editor of the Free La
Dor Advocate.
In order to show still more plainly that the
preservation of the external appearance of
unity, is the primary object in the view Of
our English Friends, to which they hold truth
and consistency in subordination, | will now
relate Il fact which has not hitherto been made
public.
In order that it may be seen in its true light,
| will notice that it is well known to all abo-
litionists that the Executive Committee Of
the British and Foreign A. S. Society issued
n call for a general or Worlds A. S. Conven-
ton to be held in London in the 9th month,
1913. That Committee was composed of
Friends and others. VIM. Allen, who sign
ed tie circular as Chairman of the Commit
tee, was one OF the most noted and influential
Friends in England, and ] think at least four
teen others of the Committee were Friends;
Josiah Forster and George Stacy among them.
The circular contained an earnest appeal to
she friends of the slave throughout the world
TO send delegates to said Convention. No
thing OF a s~ectarian character appeared in the
call. The Convention was expected to con-
slst OF .25OhionfS!s of any or every denomina-
lion, as to religious profession, or Of no de-
nomination al all. The Indiana State A. S.
Society responded to the call by the appoint
ment of Charles Osborn as its delegate TO
the Convention, who at that time was a mem
her of Indiana Y. NJ, it being previous to the
separation. The separation, however, took
place previous to the time for his leaving
home, and the news thereof, and of his APP
pointment as a delegate, reached London
SOM time before the Convention met
Whereupon, these same Friends, who were
the most active agents in issuing the circular
which had caused his appointment, met, with
others, in the capacity of a Meeting for Suf-
ferings, and appointed a Committee to meet
Charles Osborn at Liverpool, after having ira
yelled over half a continent by land, and BRAY
ing the pefils of the great deep 5000 miles in
extont, in order to mingle with kindred spirits
as he thought, in their endeavors to remove
one Of the greatest evils the world ever saw,
And what does the reader suppose was the
object Of this appointment and of the intended
visit to Liverpool to meet him on his arrival
Methinks ! hear the response, "Surely i
must have been to receive him with the 1T
most cordially, to welcome him to thei
shores, to see that all his wants were attend
ed TO, after his long and p%eril'us voyage
aged and infrm as they knew him to be, anC
10 conduct him to London in the most cas-,
and comfortable manner" This is, indeed
a most reasonable supposition. But il wa
far otherwise! The object of the deputatiol
was to meet him at Liverpool and to advis
him to return lone without attending tn
Convention. Charles Osborn, as is wei
known, left home to attend the Convention
and after travelling nearly 200 miles was pre-
vented from pursuing his journey by bodil.
infrmity and thus was saved the endurance
of the Undesirable modification and pal
which must have been the consequence G
such a reception as was preparing for him
Liverpool. There, doesn't that g cap the eli
maxi"
Let none say this is an abolition falsehoo
II had it from the mouth of George STAG
himself, in the presence Of several witnesses
We received tho information shortly after tn