Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-06-04
From he National "A. 81 Standard.
Thirteenth Anniversary Of the AmeTi-
can A. s. Society.

The Thirteenth Anniversary Of the Amrri-
can Anii-S)rvery Society, was held in the
Tabernacle in the city of New York, Tues-
day, May II, 1917.
Tho meeting was called TO order by the
President, VIM. Lloyd Garrison, at 10 o..
clock, A. NJ, who opened the exercises by
reading portions of the ID aud 18th chapters
Of jeremiah.
Prayer by Rev. Samuel May, Jr.
The Annual Report was read by Sidney
Howard Gay, and referred for further consid-
Grafton to the business meetings Of the Soci-
ETY..
Wendell Phillips then addressed the nee
ting On the following resolution
Resolved, That the duty of every Ameri-
can is to give his sympathy and and to the
anti-slavery movement: and the first duty of
every citizen is to devote himself TO the des-
t%ruciion of the Union and the Constitution,
which have already shipwrtcked the expert
ment Of civil liberty, and bid fair to swallow
up the hopes Of every honest man in a worse
than military despotism; assured that out Of
the wreck, we may confidently eXpecta State
which will unfold, in noble proportions, the
principles of the DECLARATION Of lndepend-
ence, whose promises made us once the ad-
miration of the world.
Frederick Douglass then came forward and
sustained the following Resolution
Resolved, That Slavery is a system so de-
moralizing and inhuman, so impious and A.
,heistical, so hostile to the cause of Liberty
and Christianity throughout the world, that
to seek its immediate extinction in this and
every other country where it is tolerated, is
the right and duty Of the people of all ma
lions, by all proper nstrumentaiitie THAT
this Society, as the representative OF three
millions Of American slaves, proflers its
acknowledgements to the Christians and phi
lanthtopisis of England, Scotland. Ireland,
and Wales, for the powerful testimony they
have borne against the sin of slaveholding,
under all circumstances, and especially in a
lard b%oasting of its civil and religious liber-
ty--for their warm approval Of the anti-slave.
ry movement in the United States, and those
who are its unfinching advocates,-and for
the charitable aid they have extended TO us,
in various ways, from time to time;-assur-
inc them that they have neither labored MOI
spoken in vain, and invoking them to conun
: ne thtir cooperative efforts until the las
= slavelnn the American soil ia free.
T{ssnAY AErReNooN-MAv 1lih.-Th
rs Society met in the Apollo Rooms at 3 o
clock. J. C. Hathaway and ]. EIizabet
n Jones were appointed Secretaries. J.
q Bullnm, Samuel Brooke, G.. b. Stebbins
and e. n. Hudson, were appointed a Com
s mittee on Finance.
d business CommiNcc.-Wendell Phillips,
o Elizabeth Jones, c.. i. Remond, Olive
If Johnson, f. NJ. Davis, Samuel May, Jr., J
y w. Walker, W. w. Brown, PauIina S
n Wright, Edmund Quincy, Robert Purvis.
; Illuminating CommiHee.-Parker Pillsbu
: ~. Edmund Quincy, Jonathan Leonard, Slo
cum Rowland, J. Miller Mckim, Benjamin
: S. Jones.
: On motion Of Oliver Johnson, the Annua
, Report and the Treasnrer's Report were adop
. ted and ordered to be printed.
The President of the Society read an Ad
y dress from the members of Cuffe Lane TEN.
perance Society TO their countrymen in Amer
1 lea, on the subject of American Slavery,
). signed by John Spratt, D.. D., the Presiden
4 of the Society. James Haughton, and eigh
hundred and eighty others.
During the absence of the Business Com
miitee, the meeting was addressed by tn
President, Frederick Douglass, J. n. But
fun, and others.
The Business Committee recommends,
=, that its numbers be increased TO that of fort
, as a Conference Committee, 10 take into cor
y. SlutldllOu llG iHltlCSlS VI lut ptCltl1 an
make arrangements for the coming veal
whereupon the following names were added
, All persons interested in the cause were il
n viled to meet with this Committee.
g Parker Pillshury, Simon Barnard, Carolin
Weston, Anne w. Weston, J. n. Buffun
~ Francis jackson, Amy Carroll, ]. G. Hail
- away, Joseph Carpenter, J. Miller McKiH
of Isaac M~endenhall. Dinah Mendenhall, SyC
r. ncy II. Gay, Elizabeth Gay, Mahlon B. Lii
NJ ton. Joseph Harland, Eliza Houpt, f. |
al Hudson, Samuel Brooke, Phebe Darlington
be G. B. S,ehbins, George Doughty, Robe
N Purvis, Robert Forten, WIN. Lloyd Carr
no son, Ludlow Patton, Thomas Van Renssi
laer, Abigail Mott, Joseph Post, Mary Pos
" Henry Willetts, Daniel Mitchell. Lucia We.
is ton, Frederick Douglass, Louisa Symme
III Sarah D. Barnard.
!, On motion of Edmund Quincy, the me-
of ting adjourned to meet at 7 o'clock this ev
ms ming.
ST. TUESDAY EVENING. MAY llth.-WiIIia
es Lloyd Garrison read the following resell
sr- ton, which was advocated by ]. w. Wall
,e- err, of Ohio.
IS Resolved, That if it be a selC-evids nt trut
in that all men are endowed by their Great,
ed with m Inalienable right to liberty, then it
he a truth equally self-evident that all those wi
III enslaye their fellow men, or who Justify ar
rs. connive at their enslavement, are sinners
re- the first rank-guilty Of the highest kind
ii, theft men-stealers that if it be 4 pirate
act for any American citizen to seize or pu
chase a native-born African, in Africa, wi
the design of making him a slave, then it
equally %piratical to seize or purchase a n
ed tive-born American, in America, for a simil
re. purpose: That if the African slave-trader
,as instly deserving of capital punishment,
ner matter what may be his defence of his co
vas duct, then the American STAKEHOLDER as jus
~, " deserves the same punishment-for
Of claims an absolute right to possess, buy. al
sell human beings, and stimulates the foTeiI