The southern press., 1851-04-23
CScIsSArI, Wednesday, April l6.


The ANTI.SLAvERY CoNvENTIoN AT CINcIN
NATI-ADyoURNMEyr.- Anti-Slavery Con-
venton last evening adopted resolution de
claring the Fugitive-slave law fragrant outrage
upon the rights Of the federal Constitution, and
therefore it is an act against which the socla
and political influence of all the people should
be arrayed Cassius M. Clay, Of Kentucky,
was called upon, and remarked briefly that the
Fugtive-slave law ought to be repealed. Ad-
journed till tomorrow morning.
Thursday morning-The convention having
reassembled the following resolutions were dis
cussed at length, and finally adopted:
RESOLVED, That in view of the present condi-
ton of the slaves, this is no time to sleep. 1t
is time to wake, and work, and live anew in the
cause. 1t is the time to do and srffer, and, it
need be, die. 1t is the time for every one who
claims To bc .licud SLAVES, tn lay his nit
upon the altar, and throw himself into the thick
est of the fight and instead of being discouraged
by untoward events of these times, lay himself
out to do still more neither giving nor taking
quarter, until slavery shall be not only circum-
scribed in its limits, and defeated in its demand
with regard to the Fugitive slave law, but actu-
ally and really abolished from the land.
Resolred, That the recent delivery of Sims to
his clai ant, is a demonstration of the utter and
hopeless subserviency of the national Admins
traton to the slave power, and the readiness of
the ruling politicians of the country to place the
whole North under the despotism OF military
rule to further the slave power.
RESOLVED, That whatever are or may be our
different views and opinions about political par
ties, we are united in the declaration that any
man who votes for the friends of the Fillmore
kidnapping law, ought to be regarded as po-
litical enemy to God and humanity.
hat fh1, ia tn N
sponsible for the existence of American slavery
the people of the North are the real slave
holders They HAYS the power to strike tn
system instantly dead. 1t exists only by their
diffidence, and therefore there can be no hope
of peaceable extinctions in this country until
the public sentiment of the North has been rad
ically and fundamentally changed.
Resolred, That We consider the Fugitive
slave law nothing in treaty compared with the
institution which it was passed to uphold. 1t is
therefore no mark of the true Abolitionist
merely to oppose and seek to repeal, or even to
dsobey that law, bat all men are bound to strike
ut the root whence that springs, and not to rest
contented until they have destroyed the life Of
the parent itself.
Several other resolutions were adopted, but
the above includes all the leading points. The
thanks of the convention were returned to the
persons VINO laDOreu III pcHail VI VIC iuBithe
slave in Boston. ..... ...
This afternoon the consttutionality of the
law was discussed, and the same subject is I'M
der consideration this evening. The convention
is expected to adjourn sine die tonight.
FRAUDS IN FRElGHr.-1he New Orleans
Crescent of the 4th instant has the following
comments:
"Such Of our merchants and Others who are
in the habit Of receiving goods from the NORTH,
and fail to use the precaution to measure the
packages in which they are put up, before pay
ing freight, are often made to pay twice as much
as the bill of lading could justly demand. The
goods are measured at the North, just before
going on board Of the ship, and either so care.
lessly, ignorantly, or fraudently, as to entail
heavy losses on the consgnee. If the thing
were not of such frequent occurrence, and the
amounts involved, in many cases, so onerous, we
should strongly incline to the belief that it was
partly the result of accident; but, under exist
ing circumstances we cannot persuade ourselves
that it is not, for the most part, the work of de-
sign. 1t bears peculiarly hard on merchants up
the country, who receive all their goods from
the North through this channel, which are often
sent directly from the ships to the steamers at
the levees, thus precluding their agents here
from testing the accuracy Of the freight bills,
when appearing exorbitantly high. The con.
signees of the ships here are not at all to blame.
and do all in their power 10 correct the evil, but
notwithstanding the frequent reclamation made
on them by the overcharged, and the commrni-
cation Of the facts to the culpabe parties, the
thing continues of almost daily occurrence"