Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-04-27
Anti.slavery Convention in Cincinnati.

The Convention met at Greenwood Hall,
on the 18th. From the papers we extract
the following as part of the proceedings.
Free negroes, Penitentiary convicts, Back
sliders and Woman's Rights advocates form
ed the chief characters:
Resolved, That slavery interferes with
the rights of the citizens of free States to
an extent that in many instances amounts
to the grossest oppression, and if for no 9TH
err reason, we ought TO labor to have it
speedily abolished.
Passed. Great applause.
Mr.. Burr then took the platform. This
gentleman was arrested in Missouri in com
pany with George Thompson, charged with
aiding slaves TO escape. They were tried
condemned, and confined five years, in the
Missouri penitentiary. He narrated his
sufferings and the anti-slavery crusade lie
preached while there. 800 slaves escaped
from the neighborhood Of Jefferson City
while he was confined there, and they were
going yet; l3 passed his house in Illinois
few days since, and left word for him that
they had known him while in prison. The
personal narrative was very interesting
He is now colporeur in the ant-slavery
cause and lives in Bureau county, Illinois,
The loss Of the use of his right hand by an
accident while in the penitentiary, prevents
his following his trade Ga carpenter. y
Among other things he said that sectarian-
ism should be kept out of all conventions
like this. For his part he would 1Cork Nth
The Devil eren, he uere a good ajoliiionis'.-
A man had handed him dollar some time
ago for the cause, and on being asked what
church he belonged, he replied, II belong TO
the Underground Railroad" [Appause
Another convict, Alanson Work, an cma-
ciated martyr in the cause of fugitive slaves
came forward and Told his story of two years
imprisonment in the Missouri Penitentiary
He believed that it was remorse for his
(Work's) prosecutions that drove the then
Governor Of Missouri 10 suicide. Sensa-
ton.
The next speaker was perfect type Of
the African--he spoke very imperfect Eng
lish-he had the flat nose, the long upper
lip, the large protruding mouth, peculiar to
his race-his head was white and his teeth
perfect, but very large and projecting. He
said: Some call me Geo. Purnell, from man
belonged 10, Lawyer Purnell, but my name
is George Luther, is one your stolen prop
erty, is; Is not 'merica born, was stole
from Africa.
He described his first sight of a white
man. He thought they were man-eaters,
cannibals. When put on board the ship he
thought the cooks galley was the place where
he was to be boiled after they had killed
and cut him to pieces.
He was brought to Charleston. and taken
thence to Kentucky, and finally to Port Glib
son, Miss.
He bought himself three times, aye,
fouth time, but in the last case had the pre-
caution to have writings drawn.
One day gentleman said to him, George
get your things and come with me-" "What
dat for, NASSAU" why I've bought you,"
said the man. "sar, you too late mother
gemman bought me-" "Aye, who?" why
gemman called George Luther that was
me. bought myself did"
He described The final payment and the
receipt of his free papers.
Den say my head be mine; my foot be
mine; my blood be mine; de veins in my
body be mine; in fac my whole body b'long
TO myself. George free. Gle jumped up
about foot above the stage, and the audi
ence shouted apparse.)
where's your wife?" shouted voice
from the crowd. The answer from this
question brought out some strange facts in
regard to slave marriage in the South, He
had had two wives; the master Of his first
wife said, George your id rascal
and mustn't come here any more to see Di-
nah. il you do I'll shoot you:"
That was the cause of his divorce from his
first wife.
Lucy Stone was glad that the sincerity Of
their zeal in the cause was to be tested by
what would cost them something. Our
lives are devoted to selfish purposes. The
young man rises up early to get gain; the
old man to count his stock, and the young
girl to make herself look pretty, while there
are three millions of slaves in bondage in the
South, and four hundred new born babes in
creasing their chattel interest every day.
Poor woman! She's always talking
about young men and bobies,]
Mrs. Josephine Grifing, of Coumbiana
county, came forward upon the platform and
spoke of the influences of human slavery and