Five Thousand Men And
Women Wanted
To attend the Meetings in
CANASTOTA, Wednesday, Oct. 23d, 10 A. M.
Cazenovia, Friday.
Oct. 25th, 10 A. M.
Hamilton, Wednesday,
Oct. 30th, 10 A. M.
Peterboro, Friday.
Nov. 1st, 10 A. M.
None but real men and women are wanted. The sham men
and women who can stick to the Whig and Democratic parties are not wanted.
These parties made the accursed law under which oppressors and kidnappers are
now chasing down the poor among us, to make slaves of them. Hence there is no
hope of good from persons who can stick to these Devil-prompted parties.
We want such men and women to attend these meetings as would
rather suffer imprisonment and death than tolerate the execution of this
man-stealing law. We want such as would be glad to see William L. Chaplin, now
lying in a Maryland prison on account of his merciful feelings to the enslaved,
made Governor of the State of New York. We want, in a word, such noble men and
women as used to gather under the banners of the good old Liberty Party.
Let us then, get together again, to speak the truth, and to
sing the truth. Those were good times when we came together to hear
warm-hearted speeches for the slave, and to hear Otis Simmons' daughters, and
Rhoda Klinck, and Miss Cook, etc., etc., sing
“Come join the Abolitionists.”
“What mean
ye that ye bruise and bind?”
“The Yankee Girl.”
“There's a good time coming, boys.”
October 10, 1850.
SOURCES: Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Gerrit Smith:
A Biography, p. 212
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