The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-05-11

From The TI1< DeuocrHf.z
szrY Yf,arrfson--Grenf Debate--L.ewis,
ITALIAN, kc.,
-, CfscIsNaTTI, Thursday.
= -, ...vvav on .->no ultra-no abotonisf, no /
,.sa so;Ier in the technical fense. hate slavery.
/ hate IL all sround and through-in its hideous
,a,t Of black or in It's smoother coil Of white.
bste i 10 any and every form. am for the man
wherever born having all. and being all. and doing
n which bis nature. Goe- given, should have. or be-
Or do. / place him therefore; first, in society,
first in politics, FIRST, in education, first in every
thing. put all material interests, all money max
ing or money getting or money securing as secon-
dary-not VI inportsnt. n' t 70 be neglected QUITO
be- regarded, made stable.heid under the law ana
by the law, mainly as they may help on. ana up
humanity. Hence when the heart beats iono ',f
freedom, and bear the words leap from living ups
all fire 10 its Defense and behold action all tense
and strung to spread or secure it. am ready 10
sbout ont for very Joy. / see the divine in man
then feel it myself.
Wednesday was great day in the convention
Garrison spoke to his platform and upon 1t. tie
stood up, ike an impregnable fortress, frowning
defiance upon oNCfy koOS ohA SSO'-AS-J -
compromise. need not report his views You
know them. The country knows them The
constitution he holds to be covenant with death
and an agreement with hell.
His speech was able: full Of terse thought and
close logic; conclusive, granting his premises
What right. he asks. has one man to sacrifice an
other to save himselfl What right had our fatb-
ers to immediate the rights of others to secure their
sown! Il is high handed viainy. The word slave
or stakeholder is not in the constitution. That Is
.sur calamnity. The naked devil who would cure
all. Heis dangerous only when he comes in the
earb Of an angel of light. But he is there; there
ia all bis vilieiny. Said he, repeating:-
1 affirm the CO tuition TO be a covenant with
death and an agreement with hell; that in the
language Of a prophet, 1--WE have made lies our
REFUGEE For more than sixty years all public bod
les have agreed in constituting this instrument 10 The
same manner. Did not Washington, Henry, Mad
jsop and all the fathers understand the constitu'
fion they adoptedl To make it anti-slayery you
must accuse them Of this folly.
No! no! continued Mr.. Garrison, an an'i-slaye-
nv construction of the Constitution would bring
about disunfop. If Free Soilers had a meJorfy IN
Cougress and should proceed on this construction
tha Sonth would arm as a man. Itisa bloody coH-
strt,ction: ours is a peaceful one: we acknowledge
the bond and we have this alternative, to swear to
support it or stand outside. But you support ii as
: vol, 1understandya; that is game two can play
at. Garry a out out and your constitution is nose
of wayl If the stakeholder can get tbs power, he
wiz understand it as he pleases.
apd ahpaxy re-
made by Messrs. Moore, Garrison, Hamlin, Black
well, &C., &C.,
Every courtesy was shown the Nesior of the
North; but his resolutions were rejected.
Better rot beneath the sod.
Than be rue 10 Church and STATE and false to God.
Said the brave old hero. Yet he stood manfully
alone: not alone in spirit; not alone in sympathy;
the great meeting was one here, gorousy ONE;
but alone in sentiment and mode faction. His
resolutions were rejected, and those of the busi-
ness committee adopted.
Rssoired.s that the nearest duty is the first duty
to be faithfully aud energeticay performedh by ab-
olifiousts--that before expending the force ofthe
denunctations upon the saveholdipg South they
are bound to grappIe with wnareyvr s;ssa.iA.
sor pubic sentiment mauifests proscrip,iye ant
styrannous spirit against the colored man in tbs
State where they live; aud to make its suppress
ion their rconstant aud Immediate concern.
Resolued, Therefore that the political disfran
chisement of the coored citizens of Ohio. being q
most unjust and proscrptive act and dark stain up
ou the escutcheou of the State. and furushing as il
does, weapon to the sIavehoder to strike dowr
the rising spirit of emancipation, should be vgor-
,ously denounced and held up TO popular conden,
a nation until it ceases to exist. = -
hears that! He caught and captiyated the assem-
bly,; moulded is to his truthful will; sped his right
eous aad manly feeling into IFS heart: lifted 1t up to
bis glorious level We were all delighted with
hini-he.is an. American. But Samuel Leris, hal
stout old champien-scarred all over with wounds
yst vigorous youth: with an eye never daz-
zled by falsehood, yet like lightning when truth
is flashed forth; with heart soft as wo,nans
where suffering is, yet of iron port, and bard as
granite, when right is at stake-SAMUEL LEWIS
how IoftiIy he loomed up in his closing speech
No report of that is or can be given. The sou
Is gone, in the skeleton published He gave Gar
rison his hand and his heart like man, and diff
fered from him, in christian federation, like
It was great; great in sou great in action. sent
you that skeleton. Give it if you will bat say, il
is only the skeleton.
The Convention closed, all the papers. and al
parties in Cincinnati praislng it for its order, lof
tness of bearing nobility of action toleratinu an,
lnanliness. 1t has sown the seed. You will ye
see the frnit. Yours.
A Nuisance Abutcl.
Weare rejoiced to see that the abominable abus
of "Extra Compensation, to subordinates abou
the Capitolat Washington, which had grown I
such an ntoierabie evil, has last received its qui
etrs. and at the instance of a free democrat, tn