Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-06-18
SALEM, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1917.


an obligation to bear testimony against the
unrlghteOus Observation-Disclosures
Resolved, That we repudiate the doctrine,
lllat slavery as a system. or institution, or
mag existing IN the form Of law. is sin, while
the STAKEHOLDER, for whose benefit the law or
Institution is framed, and who is directly the
perpetrator of the wrong. is innocent. and is
entitled to be received into society, and even
into the church, as a respectable and Chris
tIan man. In our judgment, this doctrine IN
wolves the monstrous principle that sin ceases
TO be sin when sanctioned by human law, aud
interviewer with the texture Of socictv-a
doctrine which would, under similar circurn-
stances, Justify polygamy, piracy. idolatry or
any other sin that should Obtain the sanction
OF a legal enactment, or be elevated to the
dignity Of a social institution.
Resolved, That we heartily agree with
John Wesley, that 'men-buyers are exactly
on a level with men-stealers'-that mo man
living has a right TO use another as a slave.
even setting revelation aside'-that neither
war nor contract can give any man such a
property in another, as he has in sheep and
oXen'-and that liberty is the right Of every
human creature, as soon as he brcaihes the
vital air; and no human law can deprive him
Of that right, which he derives from the law
Of nature
Discussed by ]. C. Hathaway, and WV.
Brown. of Pennington, n. v, l.. Moody.
VIM. l.. Garrison, Henry Grew, and Elder
Cheney. Of K. J..
On motion Of John NJ. Spear, of Boston,
Voted, That all persons present, or who
may he present, be invited to participate in
the discussions Of this Convention.
Wendell Phillips, on behalf of the business
committee, reported the following resolutions,
viz:
L. Resolved, That we hail as a good omen,
the unanimous refusal of the clergy to link
their names with the Evangelical Alliance
IA movement, the cowardice, imbecility, and
ime-s%erving of which has made it the scorn
and laughing-stock of the world since we
see in their conduct, the evidence that the
Anii-Slavery cause has gained so sure a hold
on the hearts Of the people, that this, the most
prudent class Of the community, dare not risk
its displeasure.
.. Resolved, That the speech of Daniel
Webster at Charleston, South Carolina, in
the very streets from which the venerable
agent Of the Commonwealth was so lately
and SO insultingly driven-if il be looked up
on as any thing else than the loose talk of a
fawning iiice-seeker-is grossly false, so far
as It undertakes 10 represent the sentiments
of Massachusetts, and is such as no worthy
500 Of the State would have uttered, with the
history OF the last ten years fresh, as il should
be, in his memory that Mr.. Webster's cra-
ven silence, there and elsewhere, on the great
subject which now darkens the national hori-
zon-dreading TO call things by their plain
names, and seeking under cover of ambigu-
Gus phrases to avoid the censure of either Sec
ton of the conrtry--makes him unworthy the
name of a statesman. and shows him a man
willing TO sacrifice his own self-respect, the
welfare of the country, the claims Of humani-
ty, and the true honor of the nation to per-
sonal ambition and party success and that
his course, giving as it does the weight Of his
name to false ideas and false hopes, mislead-
ing the Southern mind, and buoying it up
with rash confidence on its base and cruel
policy, stamps him not only a traitor 10 the
principles OF the Free States, but the real enc
my of that Union which he processes to dore
AS the one whose timid seliishnesS and
false counsel contribute to its overlhrow-and
this influence would be more extensive, but
that his long and well known servility while
it has lost him the confidence of the North
has been met at the South with the contemp
, it deserved and that his awkward hypocfi
} sy, on the eve of a Presidential election, de
ceives no one but himself.
! Adjourned to meet at % o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
! Net pursuant TO adjournment. Franci:
Jackson in the chair, the President being alb
sent.
= The resolutions offered by Mr.. Garrison
were unanimously adopted.
The resolution No. |, from the business
committee was taken up, and discussed by
D.; Henry Grew and Wendell Phillips.
=, A fugitive slave was introduced by Mr.
s Lovejoy, who addressed the assembly, as die
also Lewis Hayden.
The following resolutions were presented
from the business committee:
Whereas, Nothing in history is more Ger
tain than that the present wal against MeXl'
r co is a war of aggression. invasion and con,
quest, waged expressly for the gigantic and
internal purposes of giving security, extension
and perpetuity to The Southern slave system
therefore,
: 3. Resolved, That to rejoice over the VIC
= tories won by the American forces in Mexico
: is 10 take delight in murder, Taplne, robbery,
and the most dreadful tyranny aud TO APP
plaud as heroes those who are leading those
forces to commit all these horrld crimes, Is TO
hold out n bribe for men to become the mon
sters Of their race, that they may be covered
ID by laurels, and elevated 10 the highest station
in the land.
Resolved, That treason TO the country is
seen in its blacklist form, when she is coun'
at tenanccd in the prosecution of a war like the
r; present, and that they are the most shame
le less traitors to the county-lrom the present
occupant of the Presidential chair down Il
=, the lowest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. profit gate
a motto is, Our country, right or wrong.
u. Discussion continued by William A. White
A; and VIM. l.. Garrison.
a Adjourned to meet at -.
d EVENING SESSION.
to Met agreeably to appointment. EdmunI
o. Quincy, one Of the Vice Presidents, in tn
or chair,