Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-11-24

BUtelcr 1t would be q thousand times more hon
urable and courageous TO stick to the noble sen
timenis of Freedom which lie ayowed in 1888
National Erd
COLONEL RAMSEY.
/ Tho election for Secretary Of State, Comptroller
aud Treasurer by the legislature takes place toaoy
! With o view to njuro Colonel Ramsey the Secre'
tary Of State who is candidate for reelection the
/ Union and AmcTicdH produces report OF the pro
ccedng5 of public meeting, held twcnty.onc
years ago ut Knoxville, to consider the propriey
Of nbolishng Slavery in this State, in which pro
ceedings Colonel Ramsay participated. The Union
and dB,ericaH repuhlished the same report n few
days before the election in 1858, on which occn
sion Colonel Ramsey came out with the tollowin'
triiaguiShcr;
Prom the Nashville True whis Of July 2s 1888.
To tie Editor Of lie TrUs Wig:
In the Union and Apeicaa Of this morning, Ger
tain sentiments expressed by myself and others
at public meeting ut KonxyilIo, in 1884, are
published with the ayowcd purpose Of duplicating
Major Henry, through his friendship for mc, in
whatever may be thought Objectionable in the pro.
ccedings of that meeting. | will not attempt ut
this time, any vindication of !he abstract senti-
ments uttered by that meeting, only so fur as to
show that they we're at that time the sentiments
Of the State and that they were substantially re.
g6irn Cd ty tie Coarenfjon which assembled short
time thereafter. \ number Of petitions, similar in
sentiment TO the resolutions Of the Knoxville meet
ing. were sent up to lhe Convention, from different
parts of the State signed indiscrminately by
Shareholders, asking tbai body TO incorporate into
the new Constitution some plan for the gradual
and conditional emancipation Of slaves The petit
tions were all referred to committee appointed to
deliberate and report upon the subject In that
report, the committee, in arguing against the plan
proposed in the petitions utter this strong alrma-
tion Of the main abstract sentiment Of the Knox
vile meeting The committee do not understand
the Convention as denying the truth Of the proIo
siton which asserts that SLAVERY IS AN EVIL.
To prove it to be GREAT EVIL is AN EASY
TASK;but to tell how that EV VILcan be removed is
question that the wisest heads and the most be-
noyolent hearts have not been able to answer in a
satisfactory manner" (Sce Journal of Conycn-
tiOn, pages 81 and 49, In another part Of the re-
port, the following consolatory language is used
But the friends Of humanity need not despair
the memoralist5 ceed not DREAD that Slavery will
be perpetuated in our hgLly-fayorcd country"
AND again: "If miguided fanatics in those parts
Of tic Lncd States irhere Sarcry docs not nor Ca
Isl will only refrain from iutermedding in q mat
ter in which they have no concern, anc in which
their interference can do no possible good and may
do much positive evil, Slavery WITH ALL IT'S
ILLS, will be extnguished as certainly and speed
lily as the friends of humanity have reason to ex
pect;' and the report, after eaborately setting
forth the inefciency and mex pedency Of the plan
proposed by the memoralists, concludes with, 80
premature attempt on the part Of the benevolent
to get rid of the EVILS OF SLAVERY would GER
tanly have the effect of postponing to a far dis
tant day the plishment of an event DEVO-
TEDLY AND ARDENTLY DESIRED BY THE
WISE AND TUE GOOD in every part of our
beloved country"
This report, containing the abstract sentiment
THAT SLAVERY is AN EVIL, nay, that IT is
ILLS. and that its ABOLITION is AN EVENT
DEVOUTLY. AND ARDENTLY TO BE DE-
SIRED By TIE WISE AND GOOD IN EVERY |
PART OF OUR BELOVED COUNTRY, was
adopted by the authorities of our State, while stand
ing in their highest political attitude and under all
the sanctions aud solemnties Of sworn delbera
tive body, by vote of Al affirmative to 10 mega
tive votes. (See Journal Of Convention, page 100 !
Now, what higher vIndication can any Tennessean
desire than is to be found in the uterance of any
sentiment, side by side with such of her illustrious
dead as Alexander, and Blount, and Burton, and
Cannon, and Cheatham, and Cahal, and Cobbs and
lIuntsman, and Mckinney, and Webster, and
Weakly, and other no less distinguished living CO.
temporaries, Fulton, and Fogg, Gordon, and Hum
phreys and Ledbetter, and Loving, and many 9TH
ers all of whom voted for the report And to i'm
pute any unsoundness to Major Henry, upon the
great Southern question, because he voted for me
after my partcipancy in the Knoxville meeting,
would he as unjust to him as to impute to the Dem
ocratic party the same unsoundness, because they |
elected and reelected one of their party, who had
cen in the Convention and voed for this report,to
q distinguished Office in the Stateor to charge the
unsoundness on President Pierce, for comforting
upon this same individual high and responsible
judicial appointment in our State. had the hon
or and qualification of receiving Major Henrys
vote, at my last election so had the honor and
qualification of receiving the votes Of large ma
jority CT the Legislature composed of both politi-
cal parties; to all of whom feel and acknowledge
my obligations and not one of whom, | will ven
ture to assert,eyer thought Of any position | might
have occupied at the Knoxville meeting
VIII you do me the favor of inserting the forego-
ing, capitalizing as in the Manuscript?
w. B. A. RAMSEY.
July 28. 1858.