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Anti-slavery Meeting

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Day
7
Month
August
Year
1843
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Public Domain
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An anti-slavery meeting was held n the Court House in Ann Arbor last Monday evening, persuant to previous notice. Rev. S. B. jtf oble was called lo the choir. The meeting was opened by prayer and singing sevecal anti-slavery pieces by Mrs. AbeJBrown. The following resolutions vvcre presented by Dr. Hill, and were unanimously adopted. Resolved, That the sentiment expressed n the resolution recently offered by Lord Morpeth to the World'8 Anti-SIuvery Convention in the city of London, and unanimously adopted by that Convention, is in perfect harmony withthe feelings ofihe Liberty men of Ann Arbor - viz: ''That we viw with extreme interest the important position reJative to the cause of human freedom how held by the venerable John Quincy Adumn, formerly President of the U. States; and while admiring the moral heroism with which de hns thrown liimself into the breach, we will notcease our prayers to the giver of all good gifts, that his hands may be strengl hened for the great work to whïch he has give:i himeelf, nnd that his valuable life may be mercifully prolonged, until he shall Witnfiss the abolition of slavery, ttot only in his own country but throughout the world." Resolved, That Daniel O'Connel!, in his poeech of Mny lOlh, denouncing Americnn Slavery as a bloody institution, not to be tolerated by the sons of the Emerald Isle, has mnnifested {o the world :he consistency of his principies: and we hail him as a true apostle oF genuino rational Liberty - and while we rejoice in his syinpalhv for the poor American slave, it will be our delight to see exact justice meted out to Ireland. Rev. Abel Brown, of Albany, then addressed the audience for a considerable time upon the responsibility of northern men in refere nce to the continuance of slavery, show that it is created by law, and that he who sustains the slave laws, is virtuolly a flaveholder. - The ineonsistency, or as the speaker contended, the hypoorisy of those slavehoMers and their abettors, from John Tyler down to the village politicians, who make glorious speeches in favor of Irish Liberty, whose sympathies are so readily excited by the wrongs of a people S.0Ü0 miles off, while they sustain the most girevous out rages upon their fellow counlrymen, was ably exposed. The house was completely filled, and the audience manifested their approbation of the speaking and inging by repeated bursts of npplouse. Mr. Brown's lectures have had a very favorable effect in this vicinity.

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Signal of Liberty
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