Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-06-26
ANNIVERSARY MEETING.

ANNIVERSARY MEETING.
The Annual meeting of our State Society
has been held, and of the hundreds who as
sembled on the occasion many have returned
to their homes with their faith strengthened,
their zeal renewed, their hatred of slavery
deepened, and their vision made clearer
The spacious meeting house Of Friends at
New Garden was crowded during the great
er part of the time, and numbers were unable
TO obtain admission. The meeting was en-
phatically a meeting of abolitionists, of men
very cause, and with minds intelligently pre-
pared to pass judgment upon the questions
that should be brought before them. SO far
as we have been able to learn, but few were
present who did not feel themselves fully
identified with the anti-slave:y movement, a
part of the great moral euginery by which
the letters of the slave are to be broken,
and the boon of impartial freedom bestowed
upon the race.
The Ohio American Anti-Slavery Society,
that ,oas, now the Western Anti-Slavery So
ciety, has moved forward to high and no.
BILE position, has inscribed upon its banner
the motto "No UNION WITH SHAREHOLDERS"
has borne a most emphatic testimony to the
anti christian character Of the American
Church, and condemned, in no unmeaning
terms, the banditti war which this govern
ment is now prosecuting against Mexico
We rejoice in this fact, for it i5 an evidence
of the rapid growth of Disunion doctrine in
Ohio, where but a year since it was scarcely
known except by name, and we have faith to
believe that every accession to the ranks of
its advocates will materially hasten the day
Of the slaves deliverance. We feel proud of
the position it has taken, and we trust that
its Executive Committee will adopt measures
to effect in the coming year, a greater revo-
luton in public sentiment than the past has
witnessed, and that its friends wilfafford an
ample support to sustain it in its operations.
1t was gratifying TO find many in that meet
ing, who, a year or tive since, were devoting
their energies to the creation of a political
party by which slavery was to be destroyed,
but who now seeing the inefiiciency, the in
eXPediency and the immortality Of hat move
mcnt are prepared to unite with the American
and with the Western Anti Slavery Society
in the doctrines which they advocate. "No
UNION WITH SHAREHOLDERS =" it is the hand
writing of God upon the walls OF ,Opprcs-
sion's temple. Church and State alike shrink
from the presence of its characters of living
light, and they need no Daniel to Interpret it
for them. They read its meaning in the tot
tering walls of their institutions, and in the
fearful forebodings of their warmest support
crs.
We cannot pretend to give ever a sketch
OF the discussions which took place upon the
various resolutions brought before the Socie-
ty, which we much regret, as it would prob
ably afford our readers as interesting aud
profitable matter as We can furnish. For the
action the Society took upon the various points
under discussion, we refer them 10 the pro-
ceedings which we publish in this paper
The debate on the Free Produce resolution
occupied the greater part of a day, and was
adopted in its modified form with much una
nimity. In regard TO the resolutions on the
Church, the State, and the war with Mexico,
there appeared 10 be but very little difference
OF sentiment, yet their presentation elected
som startling facts, some strong and weighty
arguments and warm and heart-touching APP
peals. The meeting went almost unanimous
~ for them. All present appeared fully TO
comprehend the %iniquity of the State, the cor
ruption of the Church, and the infamous and
damning character of tho wal with Mexico.
A Peace Pledge was adopted, and although
there was not a good opportunity for its gem
eral circulation in the meeting, yet three hum
dred and fifty names were obtained. We UNI
derstand that it is the design of the Execu-
tive Committee 10 issue an extra Bugle con-
tanning it, and some other documents, and
have 1t as extensively circulated as the oppo-
nen!s of that base and unrighteous war will
aid them in doing.
II the members and friends Of the Western
Society are faithful To their own principles,
IL they become living epistles in which all
may read the doctrines their resolutions de-
clare it will be a happy thing for the perish
ing hondman who now groans in slavery be-
cause an iniquilous government and a corrupt
church wills it SOFT will be a happy time