Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-05-07
T H E B u G L E .
Cincinnati Anli.Slayery Convention.
SECOND DAY.
tCOniinued.1

Convention met at OF clock. prayer oy heV'
Mr.. Yancy. The resolutions of last evening
were called up and discussed by Judge Steph-
ems, NJ. r. Robinson, Rev. Mr.. Worth and J.
Langston.
MIR. Langston said: / am anxious every
word utter, shall be as a colored man,
yet on account of my complexion, do not
ask your sympathy. The great contest is
between liberty and slavery. l thank God
that in this contest am of necessity placed
on the side of anti.slavery. Had | been
white man, and inherited the condition and
property Of my Father, might have been
pro slavery man TO day. | stand as the
advocate of the American slave, aud from
my connection with him, can speak with
some freedom and bodness.
1 ask your consideration of n few thoughts,
and the first is, that American slavery is the
"sun, of all villnnies." 1t is So because it
-outrages the physical nature of the slave
You have heard time aud again, of the lashes
he receives from his overseer; but slavery
would be tolerabe ii it stopped with these.
" uOtS nOt sup tncit' Aho p'uSN "'""i
though he has black skin, is intellectually
and morally man. The same intellect as
the white man, aud the came sort of sensi-
bility, which is when cultivated as tender as
his. He has the same executive will ioo.--
Now, if he has these, nnd slavery strikes
them down, il must he the sum of all william
les. How can n man develope his intellect,
when he is denied the use of his intellectual
nature ? Can | understand the Christian
Religion, unless have freedom of thought?
1t is worse than futile aud absurd to suppose
thnt the slave can cultivate his spiritual and
moral nature, aud grasp the great truths
necessary to his salvation. Slavery denies
anything like n full knowledge Of the teach
ings Of the Bible. No Southern man dare
tell the slave that he is creature of God.-
The moment it is done, slavery tars and
feathers, md exiles him. 1t does not stop
with the slave. There is class of people
in the South Of youi own color, who are
as badly off as the colored man. See the
poor white man, Ignorant, drunken, and de-
graded, used as the shareholders tool.
II stops not here either. II comes into the
Northern States and makes slaves Of the
colored people. / stand here to-day with
invisible manacles upon me have not the
freedom that you desire me to have. The
prejudice against us embodies itself in leg
isIation. Have you forgotten MIR. Cushing's
Bill, that renegade Wing, disowned by the
Gazette and the Cleveland Herald, nnd the
Wing party, mean as it Isl The people of
Ohio are too Anti-Slavery to enact such a
law. will not review :he characteristics
of that bill. Why should be driven out
of the State? Have we not labored for the
support Of the government ever since its
formation, and your benevolent institutions
and with all, of your penitentiary? For we
have all the virtues and vices of other men.
Yes, we have helped to support YOUR poor,
but you have refused TO support OURS. We
have done the same for your blind and in
sane, but you have not for ours.
This spnt does not stop in this State; il
goes into Illinois and enacts a bill as bad as
Cushing's. The colored citizens OF that
State deserved no such treatment as this
They are respectable, and possess the char
acteristics of other men. Why then this
inhuman and outrageous law; not only on
them, but upon those States which regard
colored men as citizens? Let Mr.. Remond
go to Illinois and remain ten days, aud oil
the eleventh day he will be taken up and
sold to the highest bidder.
American slavery does not stop with strik-
ing down she colored man in the Morrill,
Where are your statesmen-D Daniel Webster
Henry Clay, andsThomas Corwin? They
were and are under the thumb and in the
fstters Of slavery. Can you see them thus
and not be earnest and active in your effortl
TO overthrow the corrupting system7 i