Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-04-29
From the Columbian.
THE CONVENTION AT CINCINNATI.

We had the pleasure Of attending the Conven-
ton ut Cincinnati, last week, the second day Of
its sitting. 1t was Convention Of great interest,
and must have been productive Of great good in
disseminating important truths, and giving new
impulse to the sentiments and action which are to
redeem our country from the great evil and gigan-
tic wrong which has hitherto ruled over it. An
unwontod interest was manifest among large clas-
ses who have heretofore given no attention TO the
movement Of Ant-Slavery men. We have never
before been SO well convinced Of the universal hold
which the Ant-Slavcry cause has taken, of all
classes and grades of Society.
The Anti-Slayery men and women who have so
long and so assiGuousy labored in the organiza-
ton which is commemorated by those anniversa-
res, were ON hand, with their usual zeal and earn
estness, their countenances bcaming with unwonted
delight at the unusual interest Of the multitudes
about them. They were successful in calling to
their aid some Of the best talent in Ant-Slavery
field. But the best Of all was the united purpose
to work diligently, and altogether, for the further
ance OF the common cause, unrcstrained and un-
disturbed by any known or imagined differences
Of opuion, and such perfect freedom of expression
on controvcrtcd points--wih an entire absence of
Jealousy or elimination Of motives we never before
witnessed. G. G. Burleghs and Lucy Stone S
assaults upon the Constitution, for its pro slavery
features, were applauded by one moiety Of the
great assembly, without hiss OF token Of impa-
tience from the other side while Frederick Dou-
drew forth applause as loud from one side and toll
erance as perfect from the other. The shafts were
all aimed at actual American slavery, however and
wherever it exists and the purpose was its over
throw, however and whenever II can be effected.
The speakers had higher purpose than to wrangle
aboutthe origin of it. while the practical question Of
its remedy is pending.
We have seldom heard more eloquent speech,
or mastcrly argument, than that Of Douglass We'd
ncsday evening, mainly in defence of the designs
and the work of the founders of the constitution.
Lucy stones speech, the same evening" on the
scarcely less interesting specimen Of high appre-
citation of wrong, and indignant rebuke Of the toll
erance Of wrong.
But altogether the most effective aud heart mov-
ing speech we heard, was that of poor African -
an old man, entirely unearned, who could hardly
speak the English language intclligibly; but
whose simple narrative of the wrongs of Slavery
in his own case, rivcted all attention, and effected
all hearts. He was stolen from Africa when
young man, and brought 10 Charleston, S. c.:
whence, after great variety of experiences and
he was taken to grand Gulf, Mississippi
where, by extra labor after rendering the usual
service of a slave to his master, he had four times
earned the means of purchasing his freedom, but
hree times, by the rascality or msfortuncs Of his
several masters, under the operation of laws that
nave no recognition Of the rights of the black man,
vas cheated out Of it, The fourth time, by the
I'D Vf some white men who had learned his strug-
sles for freedom and befronded him. he succeeded
n obtaining free papers, and hastcned hitherword
o lay his old bones in land at least nominally
rec. The narrative exhibited thirst for freedom,
md purpose, cherished for long years, under the
most discourageing circumstances, of dying free,
{ he "ded in five minutes after being Free" as he
expressed it which moved and melted the heart of
every hearer.
Greenwood Hall, crowded to its utmost capa-
Y, contained n Of
hose who crowded to the evening meetings. The
German element, for the first time, to our observa-
ton. formed a considerable portion Of the audience
showing that the recent Native American and
pro-slavery demonstrations Of the party to which
they have heretofore been chiefly attached, has
over-reached itself; and that the Intelligent fro
eigners in our country are to be no longer deuded
by the hollow cry of Democracy, when the sub
stance of that very essential and excellent princ-
pie is totally wanting.