Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . CT^h HESE are precisely the same notes that*^aa were appended to the Cincinnati Addressin 1845. But could similar notes, sta-tistical and historical, be brought downto 1860, including accounts of the passage of the Compromise Measures ; of the infamous FugitiveSlave Law; of the lynchings and murders ofnorthern citizens in the Slave states: of the burningsof negroes; of the massacres of the peaceful settlersin Kansas, &c, &c, they would present a picture ofhorrible barbarities [hardly paralleled on the page ofhistory. Note No. I. The Southern
Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . CT^h HESE are precisely the same notes that*^aa were appended to the Cincinnati Addressin 1845. But could similar notes, sta-tistical and historical, be brought downto 1860, including accounts of the passage of the Compromise Measures ; of the infamous FugitiveSlave Law; of the lynchings and murders ofnorthern citizens in the Slave states: of the burningsof negroes; of the massacres of the peaceful settlersin Kansas, &c, &c, they would present a picture ofhorrible barbarities [hardly paralleled on the page ofhistory. Note No. I. The Southern and Western Liberty Convention, heldat Cincinnati, on the 11th and 12th June, 1845, wasthe most remarkable Anti-Slavery body yet assembledin the United States. The call embraced all those whowere resolved to act against Slavery, by speech, by thepen, by the press, and by the ballot. It was not there-fore exclusively a Convention of the Liberty party; andaccordingly not a few were in attendance who had notacted with that party. The whole nu
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