Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-11-30
THE QUESTION OF THE DAY.
PROM TIE AsHrABuIA (oHIo) rxLEonArH.

PROM TIE AsHrABULA (oHIo) rxLEsaAra.
ABoLITIoNIsM, MULTIPLICATION, AND DIsuN1oN.
When it was universal feeling among the people
Of Ashtabula county and the entire North to ridi-
cule and denounce the notification and disunion
crusade of South Carolina, it was little suspected
that among ourselves party was worming itself
into the hearts of unsuspecting men having the
same ends in view as those laid to the charge OF
the Southern chivalry. At this day there is no
class of men so bent upon the overthrow of the
Union-the disruption Of the States-as the party,
working under various names, but known by their
peculiar stripe as .dboifionists. True, any nten-
tons of sedton and treason are denied because it
might be dangerous just now to give the true name
to the thing. Elsewhere, by speech and in print,
the plans of the faction are openly avowed and as
they may not be at all known here, their republi-
cation may open mems eyes, and kindle indigna-
ton not little. The eighteenth annual report
presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Socie-
ty, by its board Of managers on the 23d Of Janua-
ry last, gives history of the preceding year of
abolition agitation. This report announces the
objects of the abolitionsts distinctly and without
reservation. The lapse of Time" say the board
of managers, I" and the progress of events, have
but served to confirm our deliberate and often
recorded opinion that the only exodus for the slave
from his bondage-the only redemption of our
selves from our gully participation in dies
oper the ruin Of the american State and the fine
rican Church. The work which the
American Abolitionists have undertaken is no light
one. They aim at nothing less than reformation
in the religion and a revolution in the Govern
naent Of the country"
But again. Among the resolutions presented at
the annual meeting of the American Antislavery
Society, held at the Tabernacle, in the city Of New
in ho fo1l
"Reoled, That that which is giving strength extension
and perpeuiy to slavery to wit USroS being
thrown by peaceful withdrawal from it by the
holding States for conscience sake and for self
must necessarily weaken limit and e1tipate slavery from
the American soil Therefore
"esolued, That the motto of every Christian and every
Patriot should be, No union with Shareholders either reIgi-
ously or poEticaAy.'"
In Ohio great Anti-Slavery Convention was
held at Berlin, Mahoning county, beginning on the
2lst and ending on Sunday, the 23d September,
ls49. It was held in the great tent which is the
anti-slavery tabernacle of Ohio, and the attend
ance was estimated at from FIVE to six thousand.
1t is represented as an enthusiastic and unanimous
assemblage; it was addressed by numerous speak
ers and the sense of the meeting was ultimately
embodied in the following terms:
SnCc our UoVcInment mas DoCOm6 tnus OBSTRUCTIVE
of the ends Of liberty, engine Of and slavery
millions, compelling the entire people to be shareholders or
saues has become right and duty to alter but
abolish it. and to institute government laying its oun
datons such principles and organizing its powers in such
FORM shall seem most likely to full equality Of
the blessings Of % liberty and the pursuit of happiness
and with full confidence in the integrity of purpose and
the justice Of cause OURSELVES
THE ENEMIES OF THE Contribution UNIoN AND Govrpr-
aEST THE UNITED STATES, and the friends Of the new
Confedeacy of Northern States, where there shall be NO
UNION SHAREHOLDERS, but Where there shall epr be
fee-so free labor, and And from this great and
glorious Convention proclaim it unaAerabk pur
and determination to live and to labor for dissolution
IF the present Union by all lawful and just, though blood
less and pacific MEANS and for the formation of North
Republic that shall be SUCH in name only but in full
living reality and truth
And do hereby invite and all the young peo-
pie Of Ohio, and the friends Of justice, humanity, and true
liberty all the states to unite with in laboring for
glorious and holy object"