Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-05
CINCINNATI
TI-SLAV ERY CONVEN TION
WEDNESDAY MoRNINc.

WEDNESDAY MORNING.
! Convention organized at 10 o'clock by callin
/ Geo. w. Julian to the Chain On motion Messrs
Ernst, Donaldson and Coffin were appointed
Committee to nominate the remaining officers 70
the Convention The comittee nominated tn
following
! For NIcE PREsIDENTs.-Dr. Brisbane, Pete
Clark, Daniel Parker, Mrs. Harwood, Mrs. Sara
] o. Ernst.
SEcRnrAREs.-CharlesS S. S. Griffng Mrs. Mar
dc Graw, Miss kesiah Emory.
BUSINESS CoMMITTEE.--Dr. Wm. Henry Brisban
VIM. Wells Brown, Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman, Rev
Samuel >. May C. Donaldson. Wm Lewis.
! FINANCIAL CoMMITTEE-A. ii. Ernst, Edwart
llarwood. The report cf the Committee was &C
ceptcd and the nominations approved. The Vice
Presidents then took their seats on the platform
and after the reading by the Secretary, of the cal
for the Convention the President arose to explain
more fully its objects.
ADDRfss OF TIE pRssibeNt.-Th convention
he remarked, was not Freesoil or GarrsohiAt
convention but gathering of the free men of the
West, and 1t struck him as being particularly called
for By the present crisis public affairs. The ole
political organizations that had numbered the
ground and cursed the cause Of freedom were
failing into fragments and it was believed by many
that the dawn of universal lberty-the period ot
Peace on Earth and good will to men-was nea,
at hand. Under these circumstances, it was fl
that they should come together and inquire how
much OF the recent political movements had been
from sincere sympathy with the cause of free
dom, and how much had been brought about by
party schemes and the spirit of faction, (Ifere
the big fire bell on the Institute began to ring
violently, and for fifteen minutes nothing could be
heard. As The fire was supposed to be near, many
persons left the Hall to see it, After the alarm
subsidized the President resumed The Anti-Sla
very cause, he remarked, seemed to be understood
The cause Of human rights was not one to be
hawked about in The political market. They dis
honored their cause when they suffered it to min
gled with the common ephemerai questions Of thu
day, for it was great moral, not political
question. 1t was essentially a christian move
ment. The equality of all our brethren on earti
before one common Father in Heaven. One God
one humanity, one love for all this was the plat
form Of the AboliIionists Here on the groa
rock of christianity, and on nc narrower fraile
foundatica should they build their altar.
The obstacles that opposed them, arose from
contempt CT humanity, and were the very ones tina
had opposed every moral advancement Throughout
the worlds history.
They had been branded as ihRdels, but they
would say to the world that they waged wal
against slavery because they were christians. They
had been reproached with having but one idea, but
they found that idea in the New Testament, and
it was the one fundamental idea throughout that
book. They had been charged with undue zeal to
this they would reply that they found slavery the
bodest denial of christianity, and the hugest sys-
tenn of ungodliness and oppression in the world.
He alluded to their numerical weakness, but
claimed that Heaven pledged to their success.
In conclusion, he expressed the hope that harmony
might prevail in their deliberations, and good be
done that should tell for the advancement of the
great cause.
On motion of A. II. Ernst, it was resolved that
the regular hours of session should be from A.
NJ. to 10 NJ, from . P. NJ. to s. and from 4 In
the evening to such hour as the convention saw
proper to adjourn
Mr.. Ernst, from the Finance committee then
cents would be made for admission to the evening
meetings to defray expenses, but the meetings du
ring the day would be free.
The Business committee not being prepared tC
report the convention then adjourned to o'clock
PM.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The attendance at the afternoon session wa
much larger than in the morning. The Convention
opened by singing one of Gerald Masscy's song
called "To day and Tomorrow" After some brie
remarks from Mr. Clark, of Western New York
the Business Committee presented the following
resolutions, as part oE their report.
RESOLUTIONS;
Whereas, Life, liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness are the inalenable rights of man, and he can
not justly be deprived of them wthouta forfetur,
by some act Of his, thereof.
|. Resolved That the institution of chattel sla
very which exists in the Southern States of this
Union is q piratical scheme against humanity, tina
has no parallel in the history of civilized nations
and ought to be Immediately abolished.
8. Resolved That American Slavery is antago
nishc to the principles of christianity and true
Democracy; therefore all attempts to reconcile
them or to make them co-exist in harmony, under
the same social, political and religious institutions
is an insult to God and an outrage upon man.
g. Resolved, That the church or clergy whicl
gives to the stakeholder the right hand Of christian
fellowship, aids in throwing around the Infamous
system moral and religious character, that does
more to sustain and uphold the institution than al
other causes combined.
These resolutions were advocated in brie
speech by Mr. Brisbane, the chairman of the com
mitee.
Wm. Wells Brown was then introduced to the
audience. lie commenced by saying that we were
here to comment on the doings Of our fathers. II
his audience thought he referred to black fathers
they were mistaken did he refer to white
fathers. We we're mixed people (Mr, Brown is
light Mulatto, with broad nose, but except this
ond tho kink in his hair NOT of decidedly African