Zanesville Anti-Slavery Convention of April, 1835

              LOHIO ABOLITIONiSTS  AT THu,  ZANKSVILLK  CONVENTION,
APRIL,   183 5 f  WHICH FOR MUD THE  OHIO ANT1*SLAVeRy
society]
Prom William Birney*s
James G* Birney and His Times
D. Appleton & CO. New York, 1890*
Lp. 163] The prominent abolitionists of Ohio were anxious
that he Ijames ti. Birney] should be present at the formation in April [1835] of the [Ohio] State Anti-Slavery
Society; and the Tappans and Joshua Leavitt were urgent
for his attendance at the May anniversary of the American
Ahti-.Slavery Society, to which he had been appointed delegate from Kentucky*
Yielding to these requests, he left home for Cincinnati, reaching that city April 17, 1855, * ■ • .His arrival
was announced in the daily papers. He was met at the hotel [the henry House] by several prominent anti-slavery
lecturers, and he remained there more than two days, during which time he he received a large number of visitors,
among whom were Salmon F. Chase and Dr* (*[amaliel] Bailey©
  ... In company with# the Hamilton County dele
gation, he journeyed by sta^e-coach to Zanesville to aid
in the formation of a State society* The local societies
in Ohio had generally been independent, each acting on Its
own plan*
The convention consisted of one hundred and ten delegates, representing Anti-Slavery societies In twenty-five
counties. Among the societies not represented were some of
t$ie oldest in the State* They had been established without
concert, at different times, under different names, and
with constitutions framed on no common model; and never