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

we therefore again call upon all who love
liberty, and revere the principles Of Chris
%tianity, to regard them as men who will be
the last 10 come 10 the rescue Of the slave,
and the vindication Of human rights univer-
sally.
Resolved, That we recommend TO the A.
bolltionists a more active support of the Pc
riodicals devoted TO the cause-especially the
Standard and the Liberator-not only by
subscribing themselves and circulating copies
at their own expense, but by d%evoting their
time to soliciting subscriptions from others.
Resolved, That the decree Of the French
Provisional Government, abolish slavery in
all the Colonies Of France, as essential 10 the
honour, integrity, equality and humanity of
the new republic, ought TO cover the people'
OF this country with confusion Of face, who
have made Slavery instead Of Liberty, the
cornerstone of their republican edifce and
thus perfdiously obstruct the progress of
freedom throughout the world.
Resolved, That we will never throw any
obstacle, however slight, in the way Of the
slaves obtaining their freedom in the most
direct and summary manner in their power;
that, so far from counselling them to be con-
tent in their condition, we will spare no eff
tort TO make them the contrary; that so far
from advising them TO bear in patience the
evils of their condition, we will encourage
them, 6y erery rtghte0ns means in our power,
10 escape from that condition, at their ear
lest opportunity.
Resolved, That, whether we consult the
religious or political aspect of the country, in
regard TO the Anti-Slavery movement, we
find opcasion for continual rainirinn and ara
nightly strengthened to go onward until the
last link of Slavery is broken.
Resolved, That in the late national Demo-
cratic nomination of Lewis Cass for the Pre-
sidency of the United States-the man who
has not only got down on his knees to the
slave power, but like a certain reptile. craw-
led on his belly in the dust, accused and ve-
nomous-we see again how profligate and
spurious is the boosted democracy Of the coun-
try-how submissive Is the Democratic par
ty to the mandates of the Southern overseers
land how universal and frightful is the a
postacy to the cause of liberty and equal
rights.
Resolved, That whether the Presidential
candidate offered us as worthy to receive our
suffrages, be Lewis Cass, Zachary Taylor,
Winfield Scott, Henry Clay, Daniel Web
ster, John p, Hale, or Gerrit Smith, we have
but one answer to make to them all--NC
UNION WITH SHAREHOLDERS.
Resolved, That such a fact as the seizur,
and rendition to Slavery in the capitol of thi'
nation, of seventy persons escaping from it
with the barbarous Imprisonment, as crimi
mails, of the men who nobly attempted theil
deliverance, all under the sanction and at tht
instigation ofthe General Government, (wheI
considered in its proper place, in the success
sion of such events as the adoption of the
Federal Constitution in guarantee Of Slave
ry,-the purchase and admission to the Union
of Louisiana-the admission Of slaveholdlng
Missouri, Arkansas, and Florida-the annex
alton and admission of slaveholding Texas
the war with free Mexlco-the unnoticed and
continual outrages, imprisonments and muir
ders of the Northern citiZen-the ignomlnlouc
expulsion from the South of their legally ap'
pointed advocates,) fills up the measure Of
damning proof, that Slavery is indeed tn,
corner stone of this Republic; and here il
view of THIS UBIQUITOUS UNION of free with
slave States, which gives to the conscienc'
Of the STAKEHOLDER the comfort of Northern
participation-to his character the sustenta
ton of Northern companionship-to his arm
the strength of the Northern bayonet-to hi
dungeons and instruments Of torture, tn
sanction of law and national usage-to hi
crime, the currency and excuse of a univer
sal moral degradation-we find it to be on
imperative and immediate duty to raise funds
call conventions, send out our agents, circu
late our periodicals, promulgate our princi
pies, and, in fine, by all possible means, t
agitate the land with hitherto unparalleled en-
ergy for its immediate and utter dissolution
Resolved, That anxious to make the hes
possible use of every opportunity which Pre-
violence affords Of gaining the ear and rousin
the heart OF the nation, we recommend to tn
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to hole
as soon as convenient and profitable, a serie
of ONE HUNDRED CONVENTIONS, to press o
public notice the guilty position of the Stat
in respect to national Slavery,-and to urg
S a dissolution of that Union which there is I
S hope of changing,-which links us to sue
responsibility and shuts up in our jails,
2 the keeping of our agents, the noblest frienC
, of humanity, and best lovers of their kind.
D Resolved, That we pledge to that SocieI
: the funds raised at this Convention, and d
clare that asking for money shall never
out of order at any of our sessions.
Resolved, That the thanks OF the slave ar
: the slaves friends are pre-eminently due
Joshua r. Giddings for his fearless, and u
sparing rebuke of the slave power on the flo
of Congress, as well as for his frank coop
ration with the most unpopular measures
the Anti. Slavery movement in Ohio-that
e no political man is the country so much i
= debted for the recent wonderful change in Il
S tone of congressional debate, as TO him; al
g the only regret that we feel, in regard to h
case, is, that in swearing to uphold a pr
n slavery Constitution, he greatly impairs t
force of his moral testimony against SLAYER
which can be rendered consistent and effe
tual only by his openly abjuring that Cons
tuition as involving all who support it in t
guilt and condemnation Of the slave systel
of "TgEy ARE A STuPIp RACE, MADE TO