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Political Action In Ohio

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
July
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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- We nrehappy to place on record the foilowing testimony, coming as it does from a strong friend of the old organization. We quote from a letter of E. D. Hudson, giving an account of the anniversary of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, published without commer.t in the National Anti-Slavery Standard. What opportunity the writer had forascertaining what proportion of the Ohio abolitionists are friend3 of the old organization, we cannot guess; but we are sure we may now reasonably ask some people not to charge all the ludicrousness of third party upon new organization. - The liberty party is neutral ground in regard toihe unprofitable controversy which has split the anti-slavery body. It is the ground where the great mass, East and West, can and will meet, and act with a peacefuland overwhelming efficiency. - Heaven bless the abolitionists at Ohio, no matter of what organization.The abolitionists of Ohio are fierce for independent nominations - and stil! ninctenths of them are decided and uncompromisingfriends of ihe old anti-slavery society, and contond for its broad platform. - Their sympathies are, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, with the American Society. They are firmly and fiercely in favor of equal rights-- of all, men and women - as of political organization. Now organization and political organization are uot synonymoua here, as in the eastern states. Neither do they contend that political organization must be the "living principie" oí an aboütionist. As a body, they are firm friends of Garrison. Even those who cali themselves non-resistants, believe it to be the most expedient course of those who go to the polls, to organizo ihemselves into an independant party - at the same time not so far committing themselves to their own party, but that they would make the candidates ofotherparties their own. Political organizationists in Ohio are altogether of a different character and sentiment from pulilical organizationists in the Eastern States. They are democratie; willing every one should act as he (or she) thinKs fit; anti-sectarians - uncompromising advocates of equal rights, of men and women, and opposed to all proscription for opinion's sake. The re was a perfect fanaticism among the abolitionists with regard to politics - fierce for the onset at the ballot box. The consequence was, (which I believe to be inevitable tendeney of entering this or any other moral quostion into the political arena,) the convention assumcd more of the political than a moral character; and the moral question of slavery in the main had the go-by. Still I must say it vas good for me to be there. There was a noble enthusiasm and spirit of philanthropy, which I never before wilnessed, in most of the members of the convention. Young men and women carne up thirty, forty and fifty miles on horseback, to the gathering. One four-horse team, with a long wagon, (a low, black schooner, swift sailer, called the "Liberatoh," consttinily engaged in transporting "happy slaves frorn Virginia Kentucky, to Victoria's land,) carne up two hundred miles, loaded down with men and women, to the convention. It was a grand sight,and nob'ler still to witness their enlire devotion to the cause of human liberty, and their "go ahead" spirit in every human and philanthropic enterprise. -