Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-03
ANNUAL REPORT
OFTHE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
THE OHIO AMERICAN ANTT-SLAVE-
RY SOCIETY.

M QUILL
The Committee upon whom, as the repre-
sentatives of the Ohio American Anti-Slave-
ry Society, has devolved the duty of carrying
on the operations of the Society for the past
year, rejoice that we are able, in this our An
nual Report, to speak words of encourage
ment and cheer to those who with us have
been laboring for the redemption of three
millions of our countrymen from the most cru
ell bondage that man has ever endured and
our country from the heaviest weight Of guilt
that ever rested upon any people.
The operations of our Society for the last
year, have been more extensive, and attended
with happier results than in former times =
and we feel a confidence that the great prin-
ciples for which we are contending, are des-
tined ere long to rouse the nation from its APP
athy, and find their way 10 the hearts and
consciehces of the people.
immediately after our meeting Of last year,
we appointed Carver Tomlinson our General
Agent. He, however, acted in that capacity
hut a few weeks; after which Samuel Brooke
was chosen TO ill his place.
Believing an Anti-Slavery paper 10 be in
dispensabie to the efficient carrying forward
of our enterprise, your Committee, soon after
our last Annual meeting, commenced the pub
LEGATION of the Anti-Slavery Bugle. After is
suing three numbres Of this paper, the Com
mittee, under the impression that such an ar
rangement would best subserve the interests
of the Gauss, transferred its publication to a
responsible Publishing Committee, making
provision that while the paper shall be un-
controlled by the Executive Committee, it
shall still advocate the principles of the Amer
lean Anti-Slavery Society.
After the transfer, the paper was placed by
the Publishers under the editorial supervision
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(now j. Elizabeth Jones' and adopting, as it
does, the motto-"No UNION WITH SLAVE
HOLDERS Ut is, we conceive, a highly inn
portant instrumentality for the dissemination
of truth.
The ability of its Editors, and the high nor.
al position which it occupies in opposi-
ton TO a government and union stained witt
crime and oppression, and to a corrupt hypo
critical church, the great bulwark Of Amer
lean Slavery "-have won for it, we believe
the confidence and esteem of many Of lht
friends of the slave; while lis faithful rebuke,
have aroused many to a sense of their owl
and the nations guilt, and have awakened il
them an interest in behalf of the wronged ant
bleeding slave.
The paper, since the time of the ira nsfer
has been issued regularly by the Publishin,
Committee, and is, we are happy to state, in
CTedSlnr us lTCuldliOH-Pdlnll upon III
confidence of the people, and extending it
sphere Of usefulness.
Within the past year, a great and happ
change has been wrought upon the publ
mind in our State. S. S. and A. X. Fostel
b. S. and ]. f. Jones, and other lecturer
from the East, have been laboring with u;
The results of these labors have been trul
cheering. These devoted and eloquent friend
of the slave have ardently and ably defende
the high moral position occupied by the Anne
lean Anti-Slavery Society. They have show
that the Church and Government of this coul
try are stained with the blood of the slave
that these are the great instruments in Il
hands of the slave power, by which it is en-
bled to crush the bondman, and keep him
his chains; and that for these reasons. Il
motto Of every friend of freedom should
"No Union with Shareholders, either reli
iously or politically "That we should
lin the language of the Am. A. S. Society
1857 "separate from them, not in malice
not in anger-not to do them an iniury-n
to cease warning, exhorting and rebnkiI
them for their crimes-not to leave tho pr
ishing bondman to his fate-Oh, No!-B
to clear our skirts of innocent blood-to g
the oppressor no countenance-to signify Q
adherence of injustice and cruelty-to test
against an ungodly compact-to cease st
king hands with thieves and conserving W
adulterers-to make no compromise with