Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-20

.ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING.

ANTl-SLANE cry MEETING.
Pursuant to a public call, a meeting of
those opposed to American Slavery, conven-
ed in Salem, March lltl, 1916; whereupon
Jacob Heaton was appointed Chairman and
|. Prescott Secretary of the Convention.
A Committee ofLen was appointed to pre-
pare business for the future sittiRgs of the
Convention, viz; NJ. II. Ur4uhart, Samuel
Brooke, Danl. McCurdy, Jno. Harris, A. G.
Kirk, Caroline Stanton, Mary Holloway, Hem
rietta G. Marshall, Maria Garrigues, Jane NJ.
Prescott, were appointed said Committee.
The business Committee reported the fol-
lowing resolutions, which, after discussion
from Nj. III. Ur1uhart, b, $. Jones, J. T..
Jones, WIN. b. Irish, ]. Heaton, ]. II. Pain
ter,1 Mcmillan, Samuel Brooke, DR.. STAN
ton, /. Prescott and Others, were adopted
Rss1lred, That in the judgment of this
meeting, Slavery, or the holding property in
man, is a gross sin against God, a g%rievous
wrong 10 man, an unmitigated curse to the
community in which it oxists-calling in
thunder tones to every friend Of God and hui
mainly to be dlligent in the use of every IN
strumGntality that may be rightlully applied
for its entire overthrow.
ResOived, That the existence of Slavery in
a protested Christian land, and in a govern
ment based on the self-evident truths of the
Declaration of Independence, and regulated
by n Constitution ordained for the purpose of
- establishing justice and securing the bles-
sinr. OF liberty" is a deep disgrace to the
professors of that religion, and the citizens Of
that government, from which none can be de-
llvered who are not engaged in earnest aud
unwearied efforts for its removal both from
Church and Nation.
ReS0!ced, That the great parties, in whose
hands has heretofore been placed the admin
i~stralion of our governments Of the state of
Ohio and National, by their. entire subservi-
ency to the slave power, have forfeited all
right to the countenance and support of those
who entertain correct notions of their moral
and political responsibilities.
R~eSo!red, That Slavery in itself is a helm
Gus sin against God, IA gross outrage upon
man IN the beginning, continuation and end
ing, in all its parts aud relations; because il
is a flIgrdnt violation Of every item in the
decalogue proclaimed by God from Sinai for
the government Of man.
Res0ired, That the amount of information
which has been diifused, the incontestable
truths which have been spread out in start
ling array before the public, showing with
vividncss the nominations incident to the
slave trade and slave holding-the sad and
terrible consequences to all the sacred rela-
tons of human life are such that no man is
g%uiltless who continues ignorant of the wretch
edness of the slave, the relations that he sus-
tains to the bleeding bondman, and his duty
to labor for his deliverance.
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio has promised
protection to her citizens, who owe her allie
gience, and has failed TO furnish that protec-
ton to the lamented Jno. b. Mahan, and more
recently, the three citizens abducted and i'm
prisoned i'm ParkcrSburg Jail
And Whereas, these persons, thus unjustly
thrust into prison, were exposed TO vexatious
and costly litigations;
And Whereas, Thomas, Gardner, and Lo-
rain, are poor men, who have families DEEPEN
dant on them for supports;
And Whereas, our brother Mahan has left
a widow and fatherless children, who are
now dependant on the cold charities Of the
community, the husband and father having
expended all his property, about $500, in
defending his liberty in a foreign court, where
he was dragged through perjury; and the
shameful haste of delivering him up, by the
authorities of the State of Ohio, having failed
J 10 furnish the guaranteed protection, therefore
, Resolved, That we therefore pledge our
/ selves to continue to petition the Legislature
from year to year, until the State shall do JUS
tice to these much injured fellow citizens.
5 Reso!ved, That although the friends of TIN
!. slave may differ in relation to the requisitioni
8 of the Constitution, and their duties under tn,
United States Government, yet we wish GU
friends both at the Sonth and the North dis
$ tinctly to understand, that whether we ar
C Liberiy men, cOme-Outers or stay-innerS, WI
: will not aid the sidUe-cldiman to recover IN,
fugitive slave, but we pledge ourselves I
assist him in his flight, or protect him Will
among us-that in case the slave resists tn
n authority of the master, should we be Gale
upon by the government under a construction
of the Constitution, that we ought to assis
the master against the slave, we will in n
e such case comply with the requisition.
Resoiued, That so long as the fearful cor
- test is waging in this country between libert
u and slavery, and until the last foul blot c
OF oppression is obliterated from our statut
n books and Constitutions, and until the publ
10 sentiment in relation to slavery is purihe
d, and redeemed, we re-pledge ourselves to us
y all the power that we conscientiously can,
CT redeem our country. politically, morally an
d. religiousIv, from the curse of slavery.
.ir Resolved, That the Secretary write out Il
:. proceedings of the meeting and offer them f
. publication in the Village Register, with
request that the Buglc and Philanthropy
ed copy. 4,
he The following resolutions were offered b
xt not passed.