Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . health in June, 1866, and having now, in the Spring of 1867, a little leisure in this great metropolis, I have thought it a very favorable opportunity for completing the work so long contemplated. C. D. C. London, May, 1867. THE ADDRESS OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN LIBERTY CONVENTION, HELD AT CINCINNATI, JUNE II AND 12, 1845,* TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. WITH NOTES BY A CITIZEN OFPENNSYLVANIA. !AVING assembled in Convention asfriends of Constitutional Liberty, whoa believe the practice of slaveholding tobe inconsistent with the fundamentalprinci
Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . health in June, 1866, and having now, in the Spring of 1867, a little leisure in this great metropolis, I have thought it a very favorable opportunity for completing the work so long contemplated. C. D. C. London, May, 1867. THE ADDRESS OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN LIBERTY CONVENTION, HELD AT CINCINNATI, JUNE II AND 12, 1845,* TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. WITH NOTES BY A CITIZEN OFPENNSYLVANIA. !AVING assembled in Convention asfriends of Constitutional Liberty, whoa believe the practice of slaveholding tobe inconsistent with the fundamentalprinciples of Republicanism, of Religion, and ofHumanity, we think it our duty to declare franklyto you, our fellow citizens, the views which wehold, the principles by which we are governed, andthe objects which we desire, by your co-operation,to accomplish. We ask and expect from you a can-did and respectful hearing. We are not a band offanatics, as some foolishly imagine, and others slan-derously assert, bent on the overthrow of all Govern-. See note 1 in Appendix. 76 CINCINNATI merit and all Religion. We are citizens of the UnitedStates, having our homes in the West and the South-west, some in the Slave states, and some in theFree, bound to our country by the most endearingties and the most solemn obligations, filled with themost ardent desires for her prosperity and glory,and resolved, so far as in us lies, to carry forwardand perfect the great work of individual, social, andcivil elevation which our fathers nobly began. THE REVOLUTION. The American Revolution was not a mere politicalaccident. It was an inevitable result of a Ions; trainof causes, all conspiring to make men impatient ofoppression. It was a necessary battle in the pro-gress of the great conflict between Despotism andFreedom, between the Aristocratic and the Demo-cratic principle. Our fathers so regarded it. They claimed forthemselves no new or peculiar rights: they onlydemanded security in the enjoyment of those r
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