Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-05-05
Cincinnati Anti-Slavery Conven.
ton,

An Anti-Slavery Convention of an unusual
character was held at Cincinnati, on the 10Th,
10th and 2lst of April. 1t was called by the
Anti-Slavery Ladies of that City, and appears
to have been attended by all the different classes
OF the opponents of Slavery, and in great num-
-bers, who tremendously mingled in the spirited
discussions, which are represented to have char.
acterized the occasion. The President was The
old veteran Liberty man of Ohio, Samuel Lewis,
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Geo. w. Julian of Ind-
ana, c. L. Remond of Massachusetts, Mrs. Err.
nest and Mrs. Guild of Cincinnati, were among
the Vice Presidents, and gentlemen and ladies'
were placed together on the several Committees.
The leading speeches, which were by Lewis,
Garrison, Julian and Remond, we've character
istic of the speakers, bold and eloquent, and
were listened to, it is said, by numerous throng,
who, beside the regular delega,es. crowded the
house, attracted by the interest felt in the sub.
ject under discussion, and the novel character of
the Convention.
We have read the proceedings Of this Con
vention, and observed its character with nuch
interest; for in them we think see sign of
the times foreshadowing what is soon to be
brought about by the course now beng tuken by
the old political parties. The opponents OF
Slavery have heretofore been divided among
themselves, and employed quite as much in
controversies about the mode of the warfare
against the institution, as in the war itself; and
the consequence has been that few advantages
have been gained. These divisions have in
great measure been, caused by tho course taken
by the two great political parties in the North,
in reference to the Slavery question-of'en ia
king, in different sections, grounds against
Slavery sufficiently strong to draw off from their
respective organizations, large portions of the
protested anti-savery men, or to induce them 10
vary and soften down their own Platforms with
tho hope of PROSECUTING, all which has had the
tendency to keep them divided, to lead to recrn-
ination, and foment dissentions, that have pre-
vented them from making half the progress to-
words their protested common object, which
they otherwise, and by united effort, must obvi.
Gus have made. But the action of the old par
ties last summer, at their National Conventions,
in adopting an undisguised common pro-sIavery
Platform, together with the inaugural of The new
President, and the evident disposition OF both
these parties to sustain the present administra-
ton in carrying out those Platforms are fast
putting it out of their power to keep the differ
-ent divisions of the anti slavery men any longer
apart, or preventing them from acting in concert
and efficiently for the great object they have all
been professedly aiming to advance.
Such result, though not probably foreseen
by the movers, must inevitably flow from the
open adoption by the old parties of common
National Pro-Slavery Platform, and the meas
ures they are now untedly taklug to sustain Ii.
And we esteem it one of the most favorable
auspices OF the times for freedom that such
state OF thlngs has obtained. 1t will bring all
tne different antl-slavery elements together,
unite them for harmonious and efficient action
ana al the same time constantly increase them
from the candid and uninterested of all parties
until the army Of freedom, already the first in
a's moral power, shall be second to no marty in
numerical forces "