Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-01
Yours for q better humanity,
JOSEPHINE S. GRIFFING.
w0MAN's STATE TEMPERANCE C0NNvE.
TI0N.

DAYTON, Sept. 22 1853
DEAR MARIUs: We arrived here on our way to
Indiana, just in time to attend the Woman's State
Temperance Convention. have but moment
amid fatigue and hurry, but will give you and your
readers ON idea of the character and spirit Of the
occasion. ---'-.s-'. -..-l. 'H
Dayton is the last place in the world to entertain
such meeting; any meeting, except on subjects
stereotyped in Noah's ark, and stale and moudy in
the days of Abraham and Moses. 1t is beautiful
and thriving little city and had we only to eat,
drink and die, sCt could hardly wish better place
in which to fulfil four mission Nature was in her
best mood when she got the country Up, in this
region, and besides, must have had some experience
in that department of creation and production
But, with the poet Burns, Judge
"she made the men with prentice hand"
We are told there is Temperance Society here
with four hundred members But there is an ex-
press condition that none but white persons shall
bo saved by it. The colorcd drunkards tif there
be any, must b6 saved in some other way. Per-
haps they are more temperate already than their
white brethren for we could hardly suppose if they
were drunkards, or in any danger of becoming
such that the good people Of the city would not be
willing to try to save them l trust they did not
refuse them, until they saw them safely out of the
reach Of the monster.
And then this large society refused to be repre-
sented in the Convention held yesterday. 1t had
its own reason also for this An undelegdted lady
told the meeting it was because the State Society
was understood to allow men and women to speak
and act in behalf of the cause, on the same
platform! do hope the people here will all
be saved from Intemperance. But really they are
most fastidious, as to the means.
Tho Convention, however, was a deeply interest
ing one. 1t seemed to me at one time, that the
Hamilton County influence, Joined with that OF
Oberlin, had some designs upon the freedom of the
platform And there were others who spoke OF
Antoinnette Brown, and the Reverend Ruiianism
she encountered lin the Hemisphericol Convention
at New York, as though they might have at least
taken lessons of Gen. Carey.
The two Resolutions following were introduced
by Josephine Grifhng!
Resolred, That we regard the tyranical and COW.
ardly "coNFoRMATION TO THE UsAoEs OF socfETY, ,
in thrustng Woman from the Platform of the late
(so called, 6t miscalled) Worlds Temperance Con
vention, as most daring and insulting outrage
upon all of Women Kind-and il is with the deep
est shame ana tnut we learn tnaJ Oul
own State of Ohio, furnished the delegate to ofhci
ate in writing and presenting the Resolutions, anC
also presiding at the session when the desperate
was accomplished.
ResoIoed, That our thanks are due to the Hon
Neal Dow of Maine, the President of the Conven
tion for SO manfully and persistenty deciding anC
insisting upon and in .farOr Of the right of all thu
friends of Temperance duly delegated, TO seats ant
participancy in all the proceedings.
i There was motion made Immediately and will
some spirit, that the Resolutions be laid on thu
table. The lady making ii said, it must be voteC
forthwith, or we shall see here all the disgracefu
scenes they had witnessed in New York" lie
fears were all groundless, for neither DIR. Hewitt
DR.. Marsh, Lor Capt. Rynders were present, no
any of their minions.
, The motion to lay on the table was At once vote
| down. Then followed brief but spirited discus
sion, at the close Of which, the first Resolution wa
f adopted by large majority, and the second ,ot
bat a single dissenting uOte. The question was dec
ded upon both, by rising; and loud burst of al
plause from all parts of the house, in which both
and women joined, ratified the just decision.
' In the discussion, a lady said she "heard Ger
{ Carey say last evening in Urbanna, at larg
s meeting, that the women were not excluded in tn
y New York meeting because they were women, bu
because Of The drcgu'arity or Wegality Of their cr