For The Signal Of Liberty

Messrs. Executive Committee.-- Havïng just returned from a visit to Ibe south part of Ohio, and resuming my labors again as agent of the Michigan Wesleyan Anu-blavery Society in our belovcd State will you permit me to !ay before the readers of the 'Signal'some incidents which occurred duriug my trip? They may be ot sotne mierest to your readers, as they appertain to thejsubject ofabolition. My visit was to that city in the Queen State famous for mobocratic violence at the opening of our late spring- the city oí Dayton where my friends reside. I arrived there ust in tune to witness an abolition exciteaent, and, to some extent, an abolition triumph. 1 arrived on Tuesday, and on Ihursday of the same week an appointnent for an anti-slavery lecture bv a Mr.1 homas, of Hamilton, was announced in the city papers . The Daily's were teemmg wiih many fearful prognostics of the consequences which should result froai so bold au introduction of abolition inlo the place, and so soon after thcir late troublcs by riots, &c. Especially the Transcript, a daily paper edited, as I was infurmed, by a Universalist preacher, was very profuse with matter, well calculatcd to ignite the combustibles of which a mob is gènerally made up. The city council were petkioned b one hundred aud eighiy signatures, to prohibit the lecture. The ciiy council had now an opportunity of redeeming the reputation of this olherwise noble city. They did do il ! They immediately made a formal report to the citizens; a valuable document, with but one exception, and that was an allusion to the objeclion uow perfectly stale, where abolition is known, that of Amalgamation. The document as I judged t, was calculated, with respect toihis particular, to leave the impression that amalgamation, was au element of abolilionism, and designed as one item of consummation, by abolitionists. Why this was Iugged into the report I could not teil - -Í could see nothingin the circumstances of the occasion to require any opinión, or even aüusion to it. 'l'he remaining part of the document simply announced that tbey possessed no cor.stitutional right to prohibit the lectures, and that they were bound by their oaths of office to protect the liberiy of speech, and should do it to the extent of thcir ability. No sooner was this determination of the city council published in the papers, than the elements which were belore lashing themseives into a sufiicient fury to riot at noond&y upon the person of some defencele?s friend of the slave, immediately subsided into a law abiding calm. VVhatever may have beentnis orhcial iault heretofore, il ts certain the conduct of the Mayor, Marshal and other city officcrs, in the announcement they made of their ful] purpose to sustain law, and their presence at the anti-slavery meeting was worihy of note. Suftice it to say, that the hour arrived for the meeting, and with it carne not only the speaker for whom the appointmentwas made, but alao our distinguislied friend, James G. Birney. Mr. Thomas's and Mr. Birney's addresses were listened to with profound attention. They were eloquent! Mr. Birney's remarks were principally upou the righteousncss and rigktfulncss of the late dceision of the Supreme Court of Ohio, which declared that with the consent of nis master, the moment a shive "louched the soil oí' Ohio, that moment the shackles fall." It was iruly a tlieme for such a mind as Mr. After the audi encc was kept in attendance upwards of tvvo hours, i made a few remarks, and closed with prayer. I feit it to be a pleasure in the place where 1 have spent childhood and you;h, the most interesting portion of human life, and where Í have the best of eurthly friends, to plead the cause of the oppressed.While n Dayton, I visited ihe prison I and conversed with the unfortunate colored man who stands indicted for murder in the second degree. The particulars of the añ'ray, which resulted in the untimely deatli of a young man, have bcengiven in the anti slavery papers generally. 1 think prejuuice is giving away to some extent, agamst him. Repeatedly was it said to me by citizens of worth in the place, that were he a white man it coitld easiiy be detertnined what wotild be tlie result of the case before the civil court, The abolitionists ofDayton, what few there are, arein the best sensc uf the popular phrase, "good men and truc." The meeting above rcierred to was held at ihe dweiling ofMr. Luther Bruin, one of the earliest citizens of the place, and one of the first to espouse and defend the 'oppressód.' I should have noticed tho presence also of Mr. Augustus Vattles at the lato meeting above named. Ie tarried some days in the city for the benefit of a sick -child and I enjoyed the Ieasurc of hearing him relate the success f his (nission for the instruction'of the colred people of Mercer county, Ohio. Jleinformed me that much proüciency was made by a number of his scholars, and j inuch prosperity attended his eflforts, all things considered; aqd every thing would move on in ihe colony to a charni, were t j not for a dissatisfaction cxisting in tlie I minds of some white inhabitants beeause I they live in tie same countj' wilh I selves, and some of them professors of iho I religión of the Bible. Professors only, of!course, thoy must be. Few persons, even among abolitionists know what such meu as Augustus Wattles and Hiram Wilson,of Canada, are suffering in consequence of prejudice against color, by certain pale faces, as the Indians cali them, who happen to reside near their respective fields of labor. For the present we can only bid them look for 6afety and support to that God who has made of one blood all nations ihat dweil on all the face of the Earih.