Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-26
American Anti-Slavery Society.

The following resolutions were adopted at
the annual meeting of the above named So
ciety. Others were presented, some of
which were not acted upon for want of time,
and some were rejected. We shall give at
another time some of the remarks made at the
Tabernacle on the morning Of the first day,
and make some extracts from the annual re-
port. 1t appears by the Treasurer's account
that the Society is out of debt. Its expenses
for the last year were S9O74 05; its re-
ceipts 9.O77 81.
Resolred, That we find encouragement in
the signs Of the times. both of Europe and
America, and read therein the assurance of
success.
Resolved, That recognizing as VIC do, with
profound gratitude the wonderful progress
our cause has made during the last eighteen
years, and yet considering the effort now
making to impress the community with the
idea that the Church and the land can and
will abolish slavery by its W virtue, and
that the parties are able and willing to Crap
pie with the evil, this Society deems it a
duty TO ~reilerate its convictions that the only
exodus for the slave out of his house of
bondage is over the ruins Of the present
american Church., and the present american
Union
Whereas, an attempt was made in the
District Of Columbia by a large body of
slaves, 10 obtain their freedom by flight, but
unsuccessfully; and whereas, they were
aided, in this design to secure liberty for
themselves and their children by Captain
Sayres and his crew, of the schooner Pearl,
of Philadelphia who are now lying in prison
in the city of Washington, TO be tried as
%felons; and whereas, this occurrence has
caused great excitement in the District afore-
said, and led to a fierce debate in the Halls
of Congress, on the part of the Southern
Senators and Representatives, in which the
conduct of Capt. Sayres and his associates
has been stigmatized as felonious and pratt
cal, and every one who sympathizes with
those martyrs branded as accessory TO rob-
berry and outrage Therefore,
ResOired, That this attempt by the slaves
above alluded TO, receives the cordial appro-
baton Of the American Anti-Slavery Society,
as 1t must of every one who is not a traitor
TO his race, and eXcites the joyful hope that
these are but drops of a coming shower,
which shall cover the whole surface of the
Southern country.
ReSolred, That it is the right of the slave
to escape from his prison house whenever a
favorable opportunity is presented, and it is
the duty of all TO hide the o%utcast, and bewray
not him that VANDERBILT, whatever may be
the consequences.
Resoired, That most deeply do we sym.
pathize with the recaptured, in view of tbs
diretul suflerings to which they will be sub
Iected by their merciless oppressors bu
our sorrow is greatly assuaged by the firm
conviction that though, for the time being
they may have riveted more closely thei
own chains, the effect Of their laudable eX
ample upon the millions of their brethren il
bondage, will be 10 inspire them with a de
termination to be free, and to hasten the day
Of their deliverance.
ResohDed, That Captain Sayres and hi
associates, by endeavoring 10 secure for thes,
slaves a safe and peaceable mode of escapr
on board the schooner Pearl, that they nigh
stand in the enjoyment Of freedom under tn
BF.tIsh flag, IL Canada, and not crouch a.