The southern press., 1851-04-30
From the Cino;anati Gazette.

AHTISLAyERY CONVENTION AT CINCINNATI
Pursuant to notice the friends Of the anti-savery
cause assembled at Center hall, on the evening Of
April IA, 1851, and were called to order by DR..
w. H. Brisbane. of Cheviot. Officers pro tenn.
were chosen as follows Thomas Freeman, OF
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-
nent officers of the convention. Committee
Christian Donaldson, John De Grsw, and Edw.
Harwood, of Cincinnati. DR.. Brisbane, in behalf
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 presidents--Thos. Freeman and John Jol-
life, of Cincinnati.
Secretaries--Edward Mathews, Of Wisconsin,
and Sarah Fl. Ernst, of Cincinnati.
The president on taking the chair made an APP
propriate 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 al period when
the anti slavery cause has reached most eventful
crisis, and whereas many in all parts Of the coun
try will be looking to us for an expression ofou
views in this important stage IF our enterprise,
therefore, this convention, as such an expression
Of its sentiments adopts the following resolutions:
1. That liberty and justice are in danger in the
land; three millions OF our fellow beings are in
chains; a Fugitive. law has been passed, and
throughout the length and breadth ofths land the
slave power threatens to reign supreme.
a AZ Il "a e..
no time to be dead; il is the time TO wake and
work, and live the cause; II is the time TO
do and suffer, and IL need be, die; il is the time
for every one who claims to be friend Of the
slave to lay his all upon the altar; to harness him
self anew for the conflict; TO throw himself into
the thickest Of the fight, and instead Of being dis
couraged and tempted TO lay down arms 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 in its limts--not defeated in its demands
with regard to the Fugitive Iaw--not divorced
from the general government-but actually and
whoiiy abolished from the land.
3. That, as a great crisis demands great exer.
tons, and as Gin union there is strength, }" the
present alarming condition Of things requires oil
all Abolitionists, that, SO far as possible, they
uniie and stand together, endeavoring, on one com
mon platform, 10 re-organze the anti slavery sen
tment of the country, and thus TO enlist the com
/ bined energy Of all who hate oppression in on,
determined system Of efforts TO destroy this blight
ing curse, and to proclaim liberty throughout al
the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof"
4. That in carrying on such system Of efforts
mass conventions OF the friends Of the slave, ire
spectve. Of sect or rarty, ought to be held in al
parts Of the country. Lecturers should be sen
out TO preach the gospel Of emancipation in ever,
town and village; anti-slavery books, tracts, ant
newspapers should be scattered broadcast ove
the land; the question Of abolition should b
brought home TO every mans hearthstone; and .
continual agitation thus be kept up, till the ma
tional conscience shall be reused, the public hear
changed, and, as necessary consequence, slave
ry peaceably abolished.
| S. That liberty ana slavery are as antagonist,
to each other as light and darkness, and therefore
both cannot co-exist in the same country and un
der the same government.
6. That slavery a. it exists IN the United States