Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-08-22
Correspondence of the Free Democrat.
State Convention of Anti-Slavery


State Convention of Anti-Slavery
women.
To the Ami Slarery Women Of Wisconsin.
DEAR SISTERS The cry of grooming mil
lions which burdens every southern breeze is
calling US to action. 1t has called us long
How willing we have turned our to list I'M
to the pleading voice-how ready we have been
to nerve our hearts 10 contest sore in the great
battlefield of Freedom, our lukewarm zeal, our
apathetic life, to which the upbraiding voice of
conscience constant points, attest 10 ALL
Were we to track our pathway back, and
search the hidden cause of our inaction, faith
less as it might prove us, we should find the
secret in the fact, that we had never learned to
" cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils ,
and trust alone in the Lord Jehovah For
many OF us, at an early day, acquainted our
selves with the vile abuse-the untold WRONGS of
the bleeding Slave. We cannot plead ignorance.
But what man has almost exclusively monopo-
llzed, and custom long sanctioned we have come
to consider as Sanctified-we havc exalted and
deifedit. So that all the higher aspirations, the
most ardent emotions, the most ennobng sem
timents, nave been cast down at their bidding,
to wither and die beneath their influence, as the
devotee Of Brahmnsm casts his living, acting
body beneath the ponderous wheels of Jugper-
naut.
The discovery made, could we by strength d.
vine, but scale the heights, and firm fixed upon
the rock of Truth think, devise, speak and act,
as the voice within shall teach, no string of harsh
and grating sound would vibrate on the ear
The mind in harmony with itself-its rightful
Deity enthroned-could enter into conflict with
opposing powers, nor heed the din and clamor of
busling crowd. The deep throbb ings of the
heart wonld;then find vent-and woman, weak and
powerless woman--ind herself invested with
moral power, which, would she WELD, might
make earths verest tyrants quail--might turn
TO ashy paleness, the 6O0,0U0* Shareholders of
Americas proud epublic--shake to its found
alton, the great Bastile of American Despotsm,
where lie, enchanted despoiled, imbrured, three
millions of free Americas own children, a pow
er to elevate to the rank of sentent beings
chattels personal--a power to restore to his in
herent rights, him who was created little low.
err than the angels, but who has been levelled
with four-footed beasts and merchantable COM
modities-s power to dry up the deepest, the wild
est channels of human misery ever excavated
by human sufferings.
In view of the condition of 100000 of our
sisters imploringy extending their hands to us for
help, in consideration of the widespread and per-
manent character of woman's influence, and with
the most mistaken conviction that every little
rill of Anti-Slavery influence will aid in swell
ling the tide which shall, ere long, engulph the
dark prisOn-house, we would suggest, whether
a Convention of women, held at some suitable
place during either the month of September or
October, might not be advisable.
Anti Siarery uomen of Wisconsin What
say you l.? Shall we meet, and look each other in
the face, and take each other by the hard, and in
the name of God and humanity, pledge our CO.
operation in this self-sacriicing, heaven APPROX
ing, man-redeeming labor? VIII you not speak
out? If in heart you reply, Aye cheer then
the hearts OF the anxious and hoping, by sending
that Aye TO the Press, and letting your response
be known. This, if not our only, is our most
ready medium of communication, and from the
liberal sentiments entertained by many of its con-
ductors, we have no fear of being denied q place
in their columns. Should any prefer some 9TH
err mode OF communication, who, nevertheless,
are willing their name should be appended to a
Call for a Convention, let them forward their
address to the President or Secretary of this
meeting
Bat in the mean time, let those whose hearts
are throbbing with anxiety, in view of their man
itest Indifference TO humanity call at this impor-
tant crisis, avail themselves of the priyilcg the
Press presents, and urge upon the women of the
State the necessity of earnest and combined
action.
In behalf ola meeting of Anti-Slavery Ladies
of DGlevan.
ELIZABETH E. LA BAR, Press.
Lucy DUDLEY, Sec'y.
Deevan, August 9th 1851.
u Other papers of the State are respect
fully requested to give the above one inser-
ton.
*Ths number includes the wives and children of Slave
holders Ed.