Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-23
Nee ing at FanCnil Hall.

return of a fugitive from that city John
Quincy Adams in the chair.
Resolved. That the first duty Of all 90
vernmpnt l. IN guarantee the personal SAFETY
Of every individu | NJ on its soil and that
tho renewal, by fuud or frrce, Of any person,
beyond the jurisdiction Of the laws. espp-
cially with the purpose of preventing inquiry
into the rights of snch person, by the COM
petent tribunals, is an insult to the dignity of
the sovereign power. and a violation, as well
Of the rights of the government, as of the
immedilte victim Of the outrage.
Resolved, That we recognize nothing in
the institutions or laws Of any foreign state
or nation which can justify or excuse any vi
citation of the smallest right or privilege Of
the humblest individual within the borders
Of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and
whatever may be the rcquiSition of foreign
governments upon persons found within the
reach Of their legal process, here. Mt least,
shtll the equal laws Of our venerable Com
monweilth be respected as supreme and in
violable.
Resolved, That the spirit of justice and
freedom will be dead amongst Us. when an
injury done 10 the least individual. shall cease
TO be felt as a wrong to the whole commu-
nitv.
Resolved, That the late Selling and abb
Quoting into slavery, without any pretcnre of
legal authority, Of n man found in the rXer-
else Of his freedom in the streets Of the city
of Boston, should be felt as an alarming
III mace against the personal rights ard safety
of every citizen.
Resolved, That every person, who by ac-
tive % tacit evaporation his aided or abct'rd
in Kidnapping this individual aud cirryi ing
him into slavery, deserves the stern reprobI-
ZION of q community wbi.b hts SplpmHlv
branded the slave trade as equivalent to pie
racv.
Resolved, That we call on the owners of
the bark Niagara, who have been charged in
the public prints, by Captain Hannum, the
immediate nbductor Of the Individual in Qups-
ton, with having aided ia and consented to
this illeg i and shameful act, publicly to dis
avow all participated in 4 pr.cecdlng 81 "a
tai to- their character rs merchants and as
men, or to make all the rcparltjon ii their
power, by r%escuing the individual sufferer
from the fortunes to which thelr ship has lie
eally borne him back, at whatever expense
of money and effort to themselves.
Resolved, That this meeting recommend
the formation of a committee Of vigilance,
whose duty it shall be TO take all needed
me lsures to secure the protection of the laws
TO all persons who may hereafter he in dan
ger of abduction from the Commonwealth.
A Vigilance Committee Of thiry-lour was
appointed.
Great enthusiasm prevailed among those
assembled, and a number of speeches were
made on the occasion. We can only spare
room at this time for two of them.
WENDELL PHILLIPS said the resolutions
did moi go far enough they did not come up
to the tone which should emanate from Fa-
neuil Hall. He was reluctant TO obtrude his
own opinions, and had therefore very rcluc-
family come forward TO speak this evening.
lie alluded to his own CXeriious in the cause
of anti-slaveTy, for the last nine years, aud
denied that the an'i-slayery feeling of the
people-the mass of the peoptc-was as
strong as was supposed. 1t that feeling
was as strong as we sometimes dream
it is, such an outrage as that we are con,
sidering never could have taken place.
But the law AMI the Constitution was
what he objected to. it was a fact, that i
Captain Hannum had only had in his pos,
session a small slip of paper. signed by the
owner of the slave, he could have done wha
he did do, and we should, according to til,
Constitution aud the law, as propounded by
the Judges, have been Obliged TO stInd b,
and witness the outrage, without the power
w. " WI i' W va ~ A''Nis \
the captain should now place himself within
reach Of the law, the law and the C"nstilu,
ton would not pronounce him free. On 50
Der second thought, he almost thought tina
the captain would be acquitted by ppbii
opinion.
Mr.. Phillips attributed this outrage to tn,
laws and religious and social institutions b,
which we are surrounded, and he wante,
this meeting to say something more than wa
said In the resolutions; he wanted the peo
Pile to do something more tn an merely To h1'
the slavp-hunter out Of the State. lie al
luded to the Declar ltion Of Independence, an,
asked if, when even the Slavc-hun'er coul,
use the soil of Massachusetts, for his hunting
ground, it was not time for another disSolu
ton from the parent country.
The resolutions did mt go far enough
The time is come, il it is ever coming, TO
us to 90 further than declare we will SUSAN
the law. The Union was nothing to him
compared with the knowledge that as a mem
Der Of the Union he had contributed to kee
a fellow-man in bondage, or do a fellow-ma
a wrong. IL was the duty of Massachusetts
to tell her sister States that they have pu
constructions upon the Constitution that it
trainers never drPampt of. He asked. VIII
is the ConsIitution-and where is 1t written
And he answered, it is written on the bac
Of the bill Of sale Of The first slave you met
in South Carolina. He would have the pee
pie come up to the point and say Law or II
Law, Constitution or no Constitulion-Hr
manity shall be paramount. He would sen
out a voice from Faneuil Hall that shout
reach every hovel in South Carolina, and sa
TO the slaves, come here and find an asyluI
of freedom, here, where no talon of the Nj
tional Eagle shall ever snatch you away.
Rev. THEODORE PARKER said
LIZ (hni,nann nd EsNn1n CiL:zers The