Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-12-19
COM M~UNICATI0NS.

Pursuant to a call addressed to the Adolf
tionists of Southern Ohio and Eastern Indi-
ana, who were favorable to the formation OF
an Anti-Slavery Society, auxiliary to the A.
merican, a Convention was held in Clncln-
natl on the 18th of November.
The meeting was organized by appointing
Hiram S. Gilmore, Chairman, and Thomas
Wickersham, Secretary. The object OF the
meeting was stated by Samuel Brooke, who
was followed in some remarks by Stephen
S. Foster and Abby Kelley. On notion,
Samuel Brooke, Abraham Allen, and Mary
Donaldson were appointed a committee to
prepare a Constitution for the consideration
Of the meeting.
A Constitution was reported, and adopted,
and officers chosen.
The following resolutions were offered by
Samuel Brooke, taken up, discussed one by
one, and adopted; the Society adiourning from
dav to day until the Goth, when it adjourned
without date.
ResJlred, That as the Constitution of the
United States requires that the fugitive slave
shall be given up to his pursuing master
that the military and naval power of the. ma
ton shall be employed to suppress slave ln-
surrections-that the Federal Government
shall protect the slave States against foreign
invasion, even though the invader should
bear in his hands the boon of freedom to the
slave-that slave claimants shall be allowed
a representation for their slaves in the Ma
,;,r.l I n~i- Lot ,r anra1 IN fhrap-6ttnS OF tho
same number of free PERSONS; to fulfll these
| stipulations is to involve us in the guilt of
slaveholding, or to swear in person., or ap-
point another to swear as our agent to fulfill
them, at the same time not intending to do it,
is to swear falsely, therefore
Resoired, That we cannot take an office
or appoint another, by voting for him, to take
an office under the Constitution requiring an
oath to support that instrument, without in.
volving ourselves either in the crime of slave
holding or CT perjury, or of both combined.
ReS0kceI, That the Churches, 10 a great
extent, form and control public sentiment, and
that those which embrace slave claimants
and the legaliZers of slavery among their num-
Der, form that public sentiment which Is en-
bodied in the laws Of the land; and that We
cannot hope for better laws, or a better gov
eminent, until these Churches become anti
slavery, or the influence exercised upon the
minds of the people by them is broken or de
stroyed, therefore
ResOiced, That those persons claiming to
be Abolitionists, and maintaining connection
with slaveholding Churches are responsible
for the influence exerted by those bodies, ant
that such persons by remaining in slavehold
ing Churches, and recognizing them as chris
tian, stand in a position which gives an in
fuence for evil to those bodies which they
could obtain from no other source, and pos
sess, under no other circumstances, hence the,
stand more in the way of emancipation thar
the Shareholders, or the man who makes NJ
profession of Abolitionism; therefore
ReSoloed, That the only true and consist
ent position for Abolitionists to occupy, ant
the only one in which we can be free from
guilt, is TO sever our connection with the op
pressor both in Church and in State, and oc
cupy the ground, and the ground only, o
"No union with Shareholders"
The FORGING is but a meagre sketch of til
proceedings of the Convention referred to-
The official record which we designed furn
nishing you. was ina valise of S. s. Foster
which was lost or stolen between Wheelin.
and Lloydsville, SO you and your reader
mus! be content with what | have here given
S. BROOKE.