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CE.ti chHe:an*AM1-8LAVERY MEETINGS. tilFrom the accounts on our first page of Anli-Siavcry Meetings, it will be seen that Ohio Aboli-tionists are active. They have lately held a greetiI meeting in Xenia, of which the editor of the FreeMbeth«tiesion.fob♦onlolineePress thus speaks:The Abolitionist# ol Oreene county hare had acatAtcoicla‘feast of reason and a flow of soul” for the pastnotweek. Besides the invited speakers, Messrs. Boylenof inand Eastman, they were providentially favored with ..the presence ef C. C. Burleigh, an eminent lee- riturer from Eastern Pennsylvania, whose fervid elo-inc-wasberch,qttetice delighted and enchained his audience for several hours, in three addresses, on one day. Since then Mr. Boyle has been lecturing in different places in the vicinity. On Wednesday last we werefavored with two addresses from the Rev. J. Bian-byeelErchard, of Cincinnati, who in the energy and pathos of his appeals to the heart and the conscience ise orting | *n our opinion, not a whit behind Mr. Burleigh The introduction to his first address was peculiarly appropriate. It will be found in another column.r n scdthaWilloseolu-thatum.The audience in attendance at out Anniversarywas much larger than at any preceding one. This is a cheering indication of an increasing desire amgfortheBna tliamAnmong the people to investigate the important question of human rights, which should encourage eve* ry friend of the cause; for to enlist the “pure inexhodeFrop-lded I on lhe of liberty, nothing is necessaryified a understanding of the question. Ano-hant ^avora^e indication is found in the fact thatfun. th® weeting was held in the court-house. Heretofore the Abolitionists have been indebted to pri-'*? vale citizens for the privilege of their door yards to hold thetr meetings in. On this occasion they | wlt; ■ enjoyed the right granted to all other societies, that1that I meet'11f 'n *^ie tcoiple of justice to plead the cause of the oppressed.• * I wthey Duringand after the evening meeting on the 16th, olheittonpro- a few of the usual arguments of the pro-slaveryre- party (eggs and stones) were used, but without sed SO' .rions effect. These are the weapons of their war-torn-1 fare, ami they choose a peculiarly appropriate rea-no tv Ison for their application. Even the wild beast of for j forest knows how to pounce upon its prey under I the | cover of the night. The darkness of night mayhide these violators of law from the observation ofrtjthInshanscCOnt) not | their fellow men, bnt not front the eye of Him to | pethat whom, “the darkness is as light,*’ft11 *m ** ,l1 ■ ■th
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The Philanthropist
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Sep 03, 1839
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