Chapter 4

OHIO.

The promised land of fugitives--"Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Salem Convention, 1850--Akron, 1851--Massilon, 1853--The address to the women of Ohio--The Mohammedan law forbidding pigs, dogs, women, and other impure animals to enter a Mosque--The _New York Tribune_--Cleveland Convention, 1853--Hon. Joshua K. Giddings--Letter from Horace Greeley--A glowing eulogy to Mary Wollstonecraft--William Henry Channing's Declaration--The pulpit and public sentiment--President Asa Mahan debates--The Rev. Dr. Nevin pulls Mr. Garrison's nose-- Antoinette L. Brown describes her exit from the World's Temperance Convention--Cincinnati Convention, 1855--Jane Elizabeth Jones' Report, 1861 101