Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-23
Peace Convention at Marlboro, Ohio.

ent periods during the meeting, reported the
following resolutions:
Whereas, The people of the United States.
through their Constitution, have empowered
Congress "to declare war, issue letters of
marque and %reprisal, raise and support ar
miles," &c.; And Whereas, They have made
it obligatory on Congress to resort to arms
and bloodshed in two specific cases, viz 'to
suppress instructions and repel invasions,"
Therefore
Resolved, That no member of the League
of Universal brotherhood, nor of the Ameri-
can Peace and Non-Resistant Societies, nor
of the Society of Friends, nor any person who
believes war is wrong, cam, without the guilt
of violating his W acknowledged principles
of right and wrong, be a Congressman, or
vote for others to that office.
Whereas, The Office of President of the
United States is a military office, and no man
can hold that office without swearing to exc
cute its duties, Therefore
ReSOlred, That no man who believes that
war is wrong, can, without an utter abandon
ment of his avowed moral and religious prin-
ciples, take the Office of president, or vote for
any other man to hold it.
Whereas, A soldier is a man who hires
himself out to kill men at the bidding and for
the benefit of his employers, without regard
- Tho oharonfor nf shoca tuho nm ho bile and
without asking whether it is right or wrong
to kill them, even though he believes it would
be murder to kill them, Therefore
Resolved, That it is opposed to the s%elf-evi-
dent truths of our nature for any man to be-
come a soldier, or a member of any military
company, and whatever asserts that it is right
for a man to be a soldier is a self-evident
falsehood, because it is opposed to s%elf-evi-
dent truth.
.Resolued, That institutions are for men, and
not men for institutions, and that all institu-
tions, whether religious or political, which
cannot exist Without the destruction of man
ought TO be instantly and forever abolished.
Resolred, That the war power is a source
of robbery, murder, piracy, anarchy, and Of
most if not all of the violence, bloodshed and
social disorder perpetrated by man upon man,
and those who plead for this power plead fol
the existence and perpetuity of all the disor'
ders, murders and outrages that flow from it
Resolved, That it is a sin against God and
an outrage upon justice, mercy and humanity,
for man to take the life of man in self-defense
or as a penalty for crime.
RESOLVED, That it is the duty of all who be-
lieve that wal is wrong, to com out from al
church and governmental organizations tina
sanction the principles and practices of war.
The resolutions were discussed by Messrs
Myers, Smith, Walker, and others; but prin
cipally by the able and uncompromising ad
vocate of peace, Henry G.. Wright. He reaC
from Chancellor Kent, who says, "A declar
alton of war by one nation, is q declaration
of war by every citizen of that nation agains
every citizen of the other nation; and all tn,
subjects OF the one are the enemies of all tn,
subjects of the other" This being true, i
is evident that a declaration of wal strike
a deadly blow at christianity, and all the OBJ
legations of human brotherhood, by transform
ing men into infatuated demons, and legaliz
ing robbery, murder, piracy, and the commits
sion of every crime.
He showed clearly that those clauses O
the Constitution which say, Congress shall
have power to declare war, to raise and sup
port armies, TO issue letters of marque an,
reprisal," were equivalent to saying and lite
rally mean, Congress shall have power {
annul the Christian religion-Congress shaI
t have power to subvert the laws of God, an
abolish all moral government, order and hor
! esty. Congress shall have power to rob, I
. steal, to commit piracy, to kill women an
, children and tear their bodies in pieces."-
. That the mar who takes an oath to suppo
: = the Constitution of the United States, and
execute its provisions, virtually swears to d.
t throne God, to trample upon the sacred obi
cations of Christianity, and to fill the cart
with violence and drench it with blood. II
u showed that the soldier is a man who hirt
himself out to butcher his brother, not catll
a nor sheep, nor wolves, but his own huma
species, that he is not only hired to kill me-
= but innocent human beings, as nine tenths
all killed in wal are innocent. He is to Xxi
d them at the bidding of his employer, witho
J. regard to sex or character, even though
/" knows them to be innocent, and believes
would be murder to kill them. That the m;