The southern press., 1851-04-25
From the Cincinnati Gazciie


ANrI-SLAvERY CONVENTION AT CINcNNATI.--
Pursuant TO potice the friends of the antislavery
cause assembled at Center hall, on the evening o
April ID, 1851, and were called to order by DR.
w. II. Brisbane, Of Cheviot. Officers pro tenn
were chosen as follows Thomas Freeman, O
Cincinnati, president, and Edward Mathews, sec
retary. The call for the convention was read by
the secretary. Prayer by VIM. M. Mccullough
A committee was appointed to nominate perma
nert officers Of the convention. Committee
Christian Donaldson, John De Graw, and Edw
Harwood, of Cincinnati. DR.. Brisbane, in beha
of the ladies' who had called the convention, stated
its object.
In the afternoon of Tuesday the following per
sons were elected permanent officers OF the con-
vention.
President--L. A Hine, of Cincinnati.
Vice presidenis-Thos. Freeman and John Jol-
life, of Cincinnati.
Secretaries-Edward Mathews, Of Wisconsin,
and Sarnh II. Ernst, of Cincinnati
The president on taking the chair made an ap,
propriste address.
The following preamble and resolutions were
introduced by the committee and by other mem
bers Of the convention. They were discussed
during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday by
Messrs. Ward, Nevin, Treat, Rankin, Redding-
ton, Mathews, Craven, Wambaugh Price and
others, and were unanimously adopted.
Whereas, we have assembled at period when
the anti-slavery cause has reached most eventful
crisis, and whereas many in all parts Of thecoun-
try will be looking to us for an expression ofour
views in this important stage IF our enterprise,
therefore, this convention, as such an expression
of it's sentiments, sdoptsthe following resolutions:
|. That liberty and justice are in danger in the
land; three millions of our fellow beings in
chains; a Fugitive law has been passed, and
throughout the length and breadth of the land the
eirve nower threatens to reign supreme.
g. That nor, therefore, IS no time to sleep; it is
no time to be dead; it is the hme to wake and
work. and live nnew IN the cause; 1t is the time to
do and suffer, and il need be, die; II is the time
for every one who claims to be friend Of the
slave 10 Law his all upon the altar to harness him.
self anew for tho conflict TO throw himself into
the hickest Of the fight, and instead of being dis
coursged and tempted to lay down aims by the
untoward events Of these times, to lay himself
out to do still more and more, neither giving nor
taking quarter. till slavery shall be-not circum-
scribed 10 ito limits-not defeated in its demands
with regard to the Fugitive law--not divorced
from the general government--but actually and
schot'y abolished from tks ismd
3. Tbats as great crisis demands great exer-
tons, and AZ Sin union there is strength" the
present alarming condition Of things requires OF
al Abolitionists, tha<, - far ~ possible, they
wSits and stSa3 tegetAsy. endeavoring, on one
mon platform, to reoreapize the anti slavery sen
timent Of the country, and thus to enlist the com
binsd energy Of all who hate oppression ia one
determined system of efforts to DESTROY this blight.
ing curse, and 70 proclaim liberty throughout all
A,e land, unto all the inhabitants thereof
L.. That in carrying on sueh system of efforts,
mass conventions OF the friends Of the slave, ire
speetvs Of sect rerty, ought to be held in all
parts Of the country. Lecturers should be sent
out 70 preach the gospel Of emancipation in every
town end village; anti-slavery books, tracts. and
newspaper should be scattered btoadcast over
the land, the question Of abolition should b
brought home to every mans hesrthrtons; and Z
continual agitation thus be Kept cp, sill NE pa
tonal conscience sAah be reused, the psblc hsart
changed. and. - .ess'sary consequence, slave
| ~ Psacsably abolished. -.