Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-26
INDIANA CORRESPONDENCE.
AxooLA. indiana. May 10. 1855.

Of Cincinnati.
But this inoficiency Of our management, cannot
be obviated, until we can procure and pay report
ere, whose only object shall DO, to make a report
Of proceedings, commensurate with truth-and
not tho wants or wishes, of Proslayery, CONNER
cial, Social, or Religious interests.
Tho design and object of abolition Conventions
which is to tr9ise public sentiment, in certain To-.
eslitios, to diffuse into. and thoroughly permeate
community with the highest and broadcast view of
human freedom is measurably lost, by any at
ts,apt to suppress-either in the discussions of
such Conventions-o in thoir report, through the
press, the largest liberty of thought and speech
I am the more induced to these remarks, from n
notice of the very imperfect and fragmentary re-
report Of the Cincinnati Correspondent, for the
Anti-Slayery Standard, of last week for which
however'th the Convention is in no way responsible.
A report, which, as it appears to me, not only dis
credits the. Convention, and the anti-slayery COM
immunity of Cincinnati, but is positively miscl,icv-
Gus in its tendencies upon the public mind, which
had a right to expect at such a time, and from such
aplace, so lately demonstrating determined action
in favor of freedom, an enthusiastic meeting, of
breadth, and depth of character, such as the grow
ing public sentiment demands.
Such reports found in any but the Anti Slavery
papers, would perhaps need no criticism; and if
such reports are in truth, tho most creditable that
can be given, then is it not questionable whether
the time and expense Of such Conventions are at
all warrantable, as the public demonstrations, of
Anti-slavery Ministers. Lawyers and Judges in
that community-and the heart of the people gem
erally--give IA better, broader aud more hopeful
viau nf nyr tbnn cnn11 lao u,tbnral from,
such representations, on such facts if they exis-
ted.
1t is true Lelieve, ard tho opinion of some
others who attended the Convention corroborates
the view, that the real position sustained by that
meeting was not Of the radical and determined
character which would now be sustained by the
most intelligent Anti-slavery sentiment of that
city and of the north. and this perhaps may be
said of any, and all, the Liberty Conventions that
have been held during the last year. Still the An
ti-slavery Convention of Cincinnati, was by no
means the tame and soulless thing which a natur-
al inference of the Cincinnati Correspondents view
presents. For, upon its platform the most ultra
and dissimilar views of the question, brought be-
fore the meeting in the resolutions presented by
the business committee, were not only tolerated
but welcomed, by a majority Of the Convention,
who saw the ~propriety and even the necessity of
covering the utmost limits of the question, in their
discussions, from the fact, that nothing is found
in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, too holy,
or too sacred for the support of American Slavery.
at the hands of recognized ministers of the gospel,
and most Reverend Doctors of Divinity both north
and south. fH'
It is also due the Convention to say that it sup
~nrkoJ tko ,,n.k t,st ,,I c;tIf,l o.ao,:t;,, o-l
criticism, of the disastrous results of fusing Anti
slavery, with Whigsery, and Democracy, and the
moro dangerous poll zeal element Know-Nothing-
ism, that has yet, fallen under our notice; a fact
which has perhaps had some agency in the color
ing of the published reports of the meeting. and II
point which.in the present history -four movement
is overshadowing in Importance, and marked with
fatality, to the principles of abolitionism in its re-
suits. To Mr.. Julian, of this State, who was
chairman Of the Convention, we we've mainly in
.debted, for the manly, and able argument, which
fastened conviction upon so many minds, of the
baseness and perfdy Of this pt ltical element.
Many other things des erve notice, as rejecting
character, and interest upon the Convention such
as the attendance, and manifest sympathy, of sew
eral prominent Lawyers and Ministers, together
with Judge Parker, whose late decisions in the
Slave, Rosetta's case, so emiiently distinguished
him, from Judge Loring, in the Burns tragedy,
and Levi Coffin, the Isaac T. Hopper of Cincinnati,
whose life. though unwrittcn, by u Maria Childs.
is an epistle, known and read Of hundreds of wan
dering fugihves; who have shared his willing pro-
lection, and Inequalities, and have found his house
a refuge from the pitiless, Lioodthirsty maH-hunter
and his more rapacious hounds, the good ciiizens7
of Cincinnati; when for obeying the high law of
his nature, he was u criminal, before the law Of
the land.
These things, which may seem to the casual OBJ
server,to possess little intrinsic merit, denote a con-
centration of forces, which actualises to some extent
our ideal of the "good time coming right along
when all "shall see eye to eye" the criminality OF
American Slavery, and shall resolve all e~xpedien-
cey, into the true and divine test, of sacred human
ity.
On our way home we held q meeting at Win
chester, the county seat of Wayne county, Indi-
ana. noted for its strong minded, and strong
armed, women, who caused, about a year ago, the
streets of Winchester to flow with wine and bran
dy, which in the gross estimate Of some, is even
more precious than milk and honey" These if
ty.four women, have all been indicted for tresspass,
and found mt guilty" The expense of these
,trials-lncluding also that of their husbands-has
been to the County more than six hundred dollars,
an amount most tellingly expended for the crea-
ton Of Temperance Sentiment, in that and the
adjoining Counties, which are now better prepared
to sustain the new prohibitory Law of the State,
than any others in Indiana.
We were glad to meet again our warm hearted
friends, ~ko so cordially welcomed, and earnestly
cooperated with US, in our former visit to that
place, two years ago. in company with our esteem
cd friend, Parker Pillsbury; whose seif-sacri6cing
labors there, have produced most healthy results.
and whose name is still cherished with grateful
remembrance hR all who knew him. Where too.