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From the Cincinnati Whig.

CINCINNATI UNION SOCIETY OF COLORED PERSONS

At a meeting of the Cincinnati Union Society held on Monday, August 1st, at 12 o'clock M., to take into consideration the situation of the colored inhabitants of this city--

The President having taken the chair and called the Society to order, the following Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously adopted:

Whereas, We have, for the last ten months, witnessed the efforts making by a few misguided and fanatic men amongst us, styled Abolitionists; and whereas, we have become convinced that the means they are using have a direct tendency to injure the interest of the colored population of the free States, by exciting the suspicion of white inhabitants; and we believe to rivet more firmly the chains of the slave.

Therefore, be it Resolved, That we disclaim in the most positive manner all connection with the Abolitionists, and hold in horror and contempt their theory of amalgamation as degrading both to the white and the colored man.

Resolved, That the publication of the Philanthropist and other abolition papers and tracts in this city, have had, and we believe will continue to have, an injurious and prejudicial effect on the interests and well-being of the colored population.

Resolved, That if Mr. Birney and his associates have, as they pretend, the well-being of the colored race at heart, they will cease their misguided efforts here, and leave us as they found us, to work out our own salvation.

Resolved, That we will consider the further publication of abolition papers in this city, as an attempt to excite against us angry feelings and the personal violence of the anti-abolitionists.

Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the President and Secretary and the members of the Society, and published in the Cincinnati papers.

DENNIS HILL, President.
George Tasrot, Sec'y.
E. Forte, Treas.

BOARD OF MANAGERS.
Saml. Lewis, Anderson Wheeler, A. McDaniel, Robert Patrick, P. Lush, Severn Weeks, Stephen Irwin, Wm. Smith, A. Downing, Joseph Short, Thos. Hawkins, Reuben Hawkins, Henry Blue, John Williams, Jas. Bolden, Wm. M. Johnson, John P. Johnson, Saunders Lewis, Louis Ratter, Adam Griffin, Wm. Lee, John Griffin, J. H. Alexander, John Liverpool, Jas. Liverpool, Sen., Jas. Liverpool, Jr., Reuben Madison, Archibald Taylor, Wm. Simms, Reuben Bond, Philip Toliver, Isaac Morgan.

We the undersigned have been for a length of time acquainted with Dennis Hill and Presley Bush, colored men, the owners of the Grocery Store on the corner of Columbia and Elm st. that was destroyed by a mob on Saturday night last, and we believe that Hill and Bush are as respectable, orderly, quiet and industrious colored men as any in the city, and have always understood that the Grocery Store kept by Bush was conducted with as much prudence, care, and quiet as any similar establishment could be; and know of no conduct on his part, or of any thing done at the Grocery, calculated to irritate or induce the transactions of the late mob.

August 2, 1836.
Milton N. M'Lean, D. Griffin, Wm. P. Rice, Mich Jones, A. M. Benson, Jas. E. M'Clelland, Wm. R. Tate, J. York, B. Urner, S. C. Ogden, Jer. Butler, Geo. H. Hartwell, J. R. Common, J. O. Clark, J. A. D. Burrows, Joseph Graham, D. Burritt, John Reeves, Isaac Reynolds, B. B. Snyder.

The undersigned have been acquainted with Henry Blue who owns the property at the corner of Columbia and Elm st. and have been somewhat acquainted with the occupants of the row of buildings adjoining, believe they have all of them been respectable industrious people, and know of no conduct on their part calculated to irritate or induce the transactions of the late mob that assailed their houses. As regards Blue we speak with confidence with his neighbors we are not so well acquainted, yet believe we are not mistaken in their being decent, peaceable people.

August 1, 1836.
Brooks, Charles Whipple, John Tatem, John E. Williams, B. Smith, David Price, Jos. L. Morris, J. Storry, Francis Rambo, Charles Ryan, B. Urner.
From the Cincinnati Whig

Great exaggerations and misrepresentations relative to the late violent proceedings in this city will no doubt be heralded abroad. Already the Louisville papers have come to us detailing the most erroneous accounts. The Journal states that guns, dirks, knives, pistols &c. were most freely used, whereas but one gun was fired at the mob, and no dirks, knives or pistols were used. A correspondent of the city Gazette, (no doubt an Abolitionist,) gives a long account of the affair, which also abounds with gross misrepresentations. This veracious writer states that not more than 1500 or 2000 persons were collected about the printing office when it was demolished, whereas there were at least double that number. He then goes on to abuse our excellent and discreet Mayor for not quelling the Mob. The resolution passed by the citizens' public meeting on Tuesday shows that the Mayor was generally approved. Had he taken the course recommended by this writer, it would have been utter madness to have attempted by force to arrest the dispersion of the printing office. All the police that he could muster would have been a mere handful compared to the strength of the mob and the thousands that were ready to join it. Had the mob been opposed by force, it would probably have been the commencement of a scene of violence and bloodshed never before witnessed in the West. The people appeared to be determined, almost to a man, that the Abolition paper should be stopped: and although every body was opposed to mobs, yet almost every one seemed to rejoice in the destruction of the Abolition printing office.—Such was the feeling upon this subject, that scarcely any force could have been mustered to have opposed by violence that part of the action of the mob. The Gazette's correspondent says: "But we have truly a Horse of a Mayor; and on his shoulders may with justice be saddled much of the blame, that the real estate of Cincinnati is now worth less by half a million or more of dollars, than it was two or three weeks ago." Did any one before ever read such mendacious nonsense and misrepresentation? Everybody here knows that the course of the Mayor is entirely sustained by an overwhelming majority of the people, and that real estate has not fallen a single cent.