Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-08-27
Annual Meeting
For The Bugic.
Of The Pennsylvania A. s.. Socie,y.

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"The Tenth Annual Meeting of the Anti.
Slavery Society Of Eastern Pennsylvania
on VIII hear from that meeting through the
papers, but possibly a friends account of the
impression left by it upon her own mind,
might not be unacceptable.
AT the appointed time and place (le 4th
OF August, and in Norristown,O the friends
OF the cause were seen gathering in from all
directions; and a goodly number we had
much larger than at any meeting of the kind
(%annnal meeting Of the society ever before
held in that place the beauty of which cir
cumstance was, that this increase in numbers
resulted from the attendance of those from in
and around the place, there b, ing-as | was
informed by a resident-fewer persons from
a distance than usual. We had Garrison
there, with-with himsejC-what better can |
say! For who can think of him without the
association Of power, Of earnestncss and de-
votedness that have marked his course in the
cause of humanity
We had Douglass, too, whose sympathies
for his suffering race have not been weaken
ed, nor his labors in their behalf turned aside
by the adulation of Britain's aristocracy.
We had there many noble and true, among
whom we should do great injustice to class
only the public characters, the eloquent
speakers, and the hnown workers in the cause.
Not less do we value and venerate the quiet
humble labors of those who, unknown save
in the circle which surrounds them, shed
there an influence like that of the brook,
known only from the greenness of its Dor
ders. Not less true heroism is required by
and manifested in their daily struggles than
in those upon which the world pronounces
its eulogies.
The meeting was not opened by formal
prayer, but some eloquent and forcible re-
marks upon the subject by Lucretia Mott,
proved that, TO one mind at least, the spirit
OF prayer was not wanting, and the attention
with which they were received spoke one
deep response.
Garrison then passed over in review the
labors of the last fifteen years, their first lone
~, feeble efforts feeble so far as human
agency was concerned-and the gradual in.
crease of force until now, when the whole
nation confesses the agitation that has been
produced, and legislative bodies are obliged
to respond 10 the increasing voice of the peo-
pie on the subject.
Douglass did not arrive until the second
day.
The usual plan Of resolving was gone into,
and ere the close Of the meeting resolutions
had been passed upon almost all the different
points of peculiar interest to our cause at the
present time. In them we had congratula-
ton for the success, so far, of the enterprise
we had expression of entire confidence in
our present means (moral s%uasion) and in
that only-and, in connection with that, an
earnest and decided, though not unkind, en-
preston of disapprobation of political mea-
sures-that is, of a political party.
The subject of publishing anti-slavery
tracts for graluitous distribution received the
attention of the meeting, and a sum of mo-
ney was voted to be appropriated to this pur-
pose. This idea seemed to have been de-
rived from England, where intelligence is
circulated in this manner very extensively,
and at IA much less cost than by lecturing.-
The course of the editor of the /" Era also
received some attention, and a resolution
was passed disappearing of it. The motto,
"No union with slaveholders,'' was again
proclaimed-free produce was encouraged,
&C., &c.
The subject of compensation was discuss.
ed, and while the opinion was expressed that
emancipation, when it did take place, would
be, in some measure, through that means, as
had been in other countries, yet it was urged
as the policy and the duty of abolitionists to
adhere strictly 10 their doctrine of the injus.
tice of any claim on The part of the slave,
holder 10 reward for his slaves-that it is oul
duty to uphold the standard of right, while
others talk of eXpediency. Abolitionists
were discouraged from giving money to re.
deem slaves, as an injudicious appropriation
of funds, as so much more might be done fol
the cause by the same amount employed in
circulating information on the subject, and
also as our aim is to destroy the slavehold.
ing spirit rather than TO redeem a few indi
viduals. The resolution upon this subjec
compensation in its various forms-wa.
laid over 10 a future meeting.
But for the detail of what was said anc
done al Inc meeting, refer you to the min