Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-20
MEETING Al ALLIANCE.

We we're not aware until we arrived on the
ground, that the Convention called to meet at AL
lance last Saturday, was expected to hold more
than one day, or we should have made arrange
ments for staying longer than we did.
A pleasant grove had been fitted up with seats,
and a band OF music secured to give variety to the
entertainment. The Convention was called and
conducted by colored persons, and we are sure the
thing would not have been better done had their
skins been white. After the preliminary arrange
ments had been settled, the forenoon session was
occupied by an address from Jehu Holiday, who,
rs one of the prescribed race, could feelingly speak
of the disabilities to which he was subjected be-
cause of the colored skin which God very unwise-
" and mistakingly gave him-disabilities which
he suffered, not in a SLAVE State, but in a free
State not in the Democratic State Of Illinois, but
in the Republican State of Ohio and among them,
be enumerated taxation without representation"
a principle and practice against which the fathers
fought for seven years.
In the ~forepart Of the afternoon meeting a num-
Der of toasts were read, each of which was &C.
com panied by a brief speech from those who were
mostly novices in public speaking. and we arc not
sure but this part of the proceedings savored some
what of Woman's Rights, seeing that one of the
speakers was a girl. After the toasts were dis
posed of, we were unexpectedly called upon"
and spoke at some length, but as we took no notes
of our speech, we fear it will never be reported
to our readers. and still less reach posterity.
We we're informed that the speaker who fol.
lowed US was a convicted felon, one who had VIC
lated the laws of his country, and had been tried
and sentenced as a felon. His name is recorded
upon the criminal calender as Charles II. Langs
! ton and although tie speech he made before thu
, Court which sentenced him is worthy to 90 dowl
to posterity beside that of the immortal Emmett o
3 Irish renown, yet he is none the less a convicted
: felon IN the estimation of American law, and VI
: NAV add, ia the estimation of American religion
: His remarks were plain, practical, and eloquen
s with common sense-there was more keenness ii
= his logic, thar flowers in his rhetoric. In tracing
1.-THE history Of human rights in this country, h
= alluded to the unhealthy, morbid reverence which
peor le feel for names and characters unworthy o
such unbounded respect. lie pointed to Jefferson
as his pen traced the immortal declaration o
mans equality, the reputation of which has be
II come world wide, and yet at that very time on tn
plantation of that statesman at Monticello, hi
slaves were driven to their labors by his overseers
lie showed Washington, fighting on the ba.tl
' field for his his own rights and for those of hi
white fellow citizens, while at the same time hi
human stock was toilipg unpaid upon his Vigini
plantation, aud without hope of freedom. lie de
sired that men should be judged by their deeds
and in the light of such judgment, Washingto
was no Christian. Jefferson no patriot.
u Toward the conclusion of his remarks he OF
Il served that be had intended to speak OF the i'm
prisonment OF Bushnell and himself as convicte
} criminals, and of the thirteen untried ones VIII
u were recently discharged from Imprisonment, bu
" all that seemed a mall matter in comparison wit
. the condition of the four millions enslaved. Som
E" allusion to the thirteen being subsequently mad
J one of the audience called out envy them.
Il do not" emplatically responded Langston. I"
envy no man who obtained his liberty by such
y disgraceful c. mpromise. Their release was but
triumph Of the slave power, and l would have atai
in prison as long as that power could have KEY
me there. rather than have taken my liberty upo
such TERMS"
, Charles brother, John, followed him. but as W
were obliged to leave soon after he
= speaking, we had TO loose his speech, as we'll
. the rest Of the proceedings of the meeting.