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THE COLORED CONVENTION.Their Proceedings.RIMPORT OF TilE COMMITTEE OX |ORGANIZATION.The Constitutioiw-Resolutions Adopted.The Colored Convention met again yesterday at the Baker Street Church, which was well filled, a great proportion of those present belonging to the—fair sex, we were going to say, but halted just in time to abstain perpetrating a bull—so we will substitute gentle for fair, which means all the same in its most delightful sense. Well, the Church was filled, and fashionably filled, too, for not even Smith Nixon's Hall, upon the advent of an Italian prima donna, ever displayed a more imposing amplitude of silken skirts. We must confess to a disappointment—we went there prepared to find something upon which to hang a humorous paragraph, but found ourselves in the precise fix of the infidel, who went^o church to scoff, but remained to pray. The principal speakers were Messrs. Wm. H. Day, John M. LaDgston, Wm. Watkins and P. H. Clark, and, to speak truth, we have seldom heard more eloquence at a meeting than was displayed upon this occasion* The Convention should be noted for its i*$ustry—they met in the forenoon, the afteyiO£% and evening, 'but abrief recess intervSIng at each adjournment.In the afternoon the following^ fro^ the Committee on Organization yras submitted:RfPORT Of THE COMMITTEE.Believing that Vy united and concentrated action, on our part,, we can do much towards securing the immediate and unconditional abolition ol American Slavery, and the removal of the legal and social disabilities, under which we suffer in the State of Ohio, and in the t'nited States. And also believing that such united and concentrated action can be secured in our State, through the instrumentality of a State Anti-Slavery Organization. Therefore,we do hereby agree to form ourselves into aState Anti-Slavery Society, to be governed by the followingcotrsTrrrrros.Art. 1. This Association shall be called the Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society.Art. 2. The object of this Society shall be, to secure by political and moral means, so far as may be, the immediate and unconditional abolition of American Slavery, and the repeal of all the laws and parts of laws, State and National, that make distinctions on account of color.Art. 3. To accomplish this object, the Society shall establish its Head Quarters permanently in the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. There it shall have its office and business rooms. It shall also employ such numbers of Agents and Lecturers as may b£ needed to carry out the object of its creation.Art. 4. Any man or woman may become a member of this Society, by subscribing to itsprinciples as above expressed, and by making such contributions to its funds as he or' she mav be able.
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 25, 1858
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