The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-07-07
GREAT AntI-SIavery DemOnstra-

Great Anti-SIavery DemOnstra-
tiOn.
Mr.. EDIroK:-The Fourth Of July 1855,
was a great day in Tinnicum. Eighteen
thousand seven hundred and fifty, warm
hearted, philanthropic, negro-loVing slavery
hating fusionists met there in Mass Conven-
tion-so says one Of their standard bearers,
the bellows attachment OF the party. The
grand Carnival of Freedom" exceeded the
most sanguine anticipations Of the "Regen-
cy" and the Anti-Slavery demonstration
assumed physiognomy decidedly practical.
Attn early hour in the morning the ''in
itiated'' began to congregate. Delegation
after delegation wheeled into line and took
up their positions according to the program
me. A: ten o clock the procession was in
motion, senators, citizens and soldiers, bands
of music, nodding plumes and waving ban
ners, moved towards the designated rendez-
vous
"To hero boune for battle-strifc,
Or bard Of natal la!
T'were worth ten years Of peaceful nfe,
One glance at their array"
During the progress Of the meeting, II
was officially announced from the stand, that
o negro from Virginia, who had purchased
his freedom by his industry, was present
seeking pecuniary aid to purchase his wife
and family, from slavery--that he now need
ed but 5000 to effect the purchase--that q
committee had examined his certificates and
ascertained their authenticity, that he was q
proper object eff anti.slavery sympathy, and
liberal contribution was requested, that
those who could not personally contribute
to the negro could deposit their money at
the stand, = on the evening
of the fourth day of July 1855, that poor
toilng slave, husband and father, who with
throbbing heart and fearful eye had read
with so much interest and hope, the flaming
hand-bll, the boasting circular, the impos-
ing programme of the doings of the "sons
of freedom" of the Carnival Of liberty
and had trudged on weary foot 80 many
miles, to ask of them pittance for the free
dom of his family, he that had been official
iy announced as the proper object of aboli.
ton sympathy, on that evening, found him
self just 0~7- S24 cents richer than he was
before nnounced-sevcral of the most en-
thusastic of the members and who had re-
ceived or expected nominations had gener-
ously given him cent
Let d. F. WADE the champion of the
freeman of Ohio," when he returns to
Washington, boast in the halls of Con.
gress, at the levees Of the President, or ia
the coterie Of abolition members at the
club, that his constituency in Mass Con,
veEtion, in his own loved neighborhood, on
the fourth Of July abounding in patriotism,
prodigal in their bounty to the oppressed
children OF the generously and mag
unanimously, without hesitancy or regret, in
an assemblagc of over 10000 people, donat-
ed almost one entire dollar in money, and
thousands Of dollars in sympathy, to assist
fellow man to purchase his wife, and chill
dren from slavery!
This, and their locking the door of the
Court House, against the soldiers of 1912,
who had an adjourned meeting there from the
9Th of January last, were the only two incl
dents worthy of note that occurred here on
the 4th.