Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-29


fuse any longer adhesion to this ~unrighteous
compact.
w. l.. Garrison followed c. G.. Burleigh
in support Of the following resolution:
Whereas, the uncompromising Abolition
lists Of the United States are accused of being
infdels and disorganizers, by the religious
and political leaders Of the people therefore,
Resolved, That when tn, future historian
Of the Anti-Slavery movement shall give to
the world an impartial sketch Of their inhdel
and disorganizing conduct, it will be found
to have been marked by the following traits
They strenuously defended the Bible against
the charge of sanctioning or conniying at the
enslavement of any portion OF the human IA
mily-they affirmed that man-stealers, man
buyers, and shareholders, were "%sinners of
the first rank" and therefore not Christians
they insisted that the Church of Christ
could never be a slaveholding church, but
must necessarily ever be found on the side Of
the oppressedAthey denied that those cler-
pymen were the ministers Of Christ, who held
their. fellow-men in bondage, or who received
into their fellowship those who made mer-
chandize of human bodies and immortal spi-
rits, or who resisted the immediate and total
abolition of slavery, or who refused to open
ttiGlI HlOutuS lI ttlt SulCllbS " NhC Nhiib
they held that a man was of more value
than a sheep, and therefore that it was a
righteous act to e~xtricato him from the pit of
cruelty on the first day of the week, even
though called the Sabbath, as well as on any
other day-they taught, that loving mercy,
doing justly, walking humbly before God,
undoing heavy burdens, and letting the OPP
pressed 90 free, were duties infinitely tram
scending the performance of temple worship,
religious rites and ceremonies, and the OBJ
servance of days, times and Seasons they
maintained that the Government which held
a large portion of the people in chains and
slavery, was essentially despotic and insup-
portable, and ought to be instantly superse-
ded by a free and equitable Goyernment-they
represented it to be a wild and guilty expert
ment, to attempt TO unite the foes and the ad-
vocates Of slavery in one political compact,
because such discordant elements never could
c%oalesce, nor exist peaceably together under
the same Constitution-and finally, that a
compact, which was framed in accordance
with the wishes of the most relentless OPP
pressors, and continued only by faithful ex-
ecution of its Ubiquitous provisions, was, in
the expressive language of Scripture, ga
covenant with death, and an agreement with
hell"
i 1 IlSuulJ dlso plSSoltsu d Oooiu
ton, and spoke in its favor. 1t is as follows:
Resolved, That this Society r%eioices in the
present declining state Of American religion,
inasmuch as it voluntarily comes forth to
baptize AMI to s%anctify slavery, which Ma
hommedanism abolishes, and Catholicism
condemns and that it will endeavor to warn
the world, particularly the so-called heather
portion of it, against its influence, especially
as being extended by the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, whose
definitions and defence of slavery have proved
the depravity of that body to be unparalleled
in the history of the nations they are laboring
to convert.
The closing speech Of tho session was
made by Abby Kelley Foster. She was how
ever interrupted, and the audience dispersed
by an alarm Of fire, which proceeded from some
"incendiary" matter beneath the stage, and
which was without doubt ignited by an in
cendiary. Adjourned to 4 o'clock, p. M.
AFTERNOON SEssIoN.-Meeting convened
at 81 o'clock.
William Lloyd Garrison, the President, in
the Chair, ]. G. Hathaway was appointed
Secretary pro tenn.
Edmund Quincy, Henry Bush, Lydia
Mott, Paulina S. Wright, Edwin RUSSELL,
Samuel Brooke, Loring Moody, were APP
pointed to nominate officers of this society for
the ensuing year.
The following persons were appointed a
Committee to prepare business for the meet.
ing:
Parker Pillsbury, Abby Kelley Foster, S.
S. Foster, c. G. Burleigh, Caroline Weston,
w. l.. Garrison, Edmund Quincy, Otis r.
Potter, Francis Jackson, Isaac Winslow,
Emily Winslow, Thomas Donaldson, Samuel
Rr0oEp- Kelsey (NoNyla Ipcppb (Narnnptor =
H.. Gay, Robert Purvis, Edwin Russell,
Grace Ann Lewis, j. G. Hathaway, Loring
Moody, Thomas L. Stone, Oliver Johnson
G. L.. Remond, Abigail Mott, James Munroe,
Mrs. Merriam, Arson IL. Steward, Leonard
Mitchell, Lucia Weston, William Shew, Mr.
Patton, Thomas Van Rensselaer,, George
Dougherty, Jeanette Brown, Paulina S.
Wright, Mary Ann Johnson, ]. NJ. McINim
Z. NJ. Davis.
Loring Moody, Samuel Brooke, and Jacot
L.. Paxson, were appointed a Committee on
the Roll and Finance.
Letters were read from the Executive Com
mittee of the Pennsy lvania Anti-Slavery So
ciety, from Jas. G. Cleveland, and Thomas
Earle. The two last were referred to tho
Executive Committee. The following wa;
read
PHILADELPHIA, May IL, 1916.
TO the ETecuiiue Committee Of the american
.Hnti SIdUery Society
DEAR FRIENDS, N Fellow LABoRERs
On behalf of tho Executive Committee o
the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, ]
have the pleasure of transmitting to you tn,
enclosed sum of two hundred dollars. Gu
Committee deeply regret that they will no
be represented at the Anniversary meeting
and desire TO express their continued inteies