Narrative of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against the Liberty of the Press, in Cincinnati

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Excerpt from Narrative of the Late Riotous Proceedings Against the Liberty of the Press, in Cincinnati: With Remarks and Historical Notices, Relating to Emancipation Fellow Citizens: The Executive Committee of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society owe, not only to themselves and those whom they represent, but also to you, generally, an impartial exposition of the late proceedings in this city, with which they have been connected, and which have ended in undisguised outrages on private property, and in a public assault on constitutional right. In order to make this statement as intelligible as possible - to place in a clear point of view the object of our association - and to enable you to comprehend the whole extent of present danger to our free institutions, it will be necessary to recur to facts in the early history of our country: - Facts, which from their ancientness, it might, at first view, seem unnecessary to introduce, but which will be found, when well considered, to have an intimate connexion with the state of things now before us. During our colonial dependence, the states were all slave-holding states. They did not, as colonies, possess the power of legislation independently of the control of the mother country, exerted either directly or indirectly. Had they desired, ever so much, to abolish slavery, they could not have done so, by their own independent legislative act. But, it is believed, that prior to the enlightened discussion, and the full establishment of the great principles which led to the American Revolution - principles which are embodied in the Declaration of Independence - the desire was but feeble, in most of the colonies, to see slavery extinguished. It is true, that Petitions were presented to the competent authorities of the mother country to restrain the further importation into the colonies of slaves from Africa - but none, to abolish, or to mitigate slavery, as it already existed among the petitioners themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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