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

The following resolutions were adopted at
the recent Convention of New England Abo-
litionists, in Boston, where for three days,
the tried and true-hearted held their great
annual festival.
Resolved, That the Anti-slavery move
ment has been, is, and is yet more 10 be, the
means, under Providence, for the regenera-
ton of the United States and that its vital
power is in Incorporating assertion Of the
principle
That every human being has a God-given
right to manhood, and the conditions of a
manly life, and that it is the duty of mankind
collectively and Individually, TO insure the
%unimpaired enjoyment of this right 10 every
member of society.
Resolved, That, confirmed in this princi-
pie by the sanction of the Divine will, as
made known in all ages.-by the common in.
sIincts and matured judgments Of the human
race,-by the life and words OF Jesus Christ,
and the confessions of the Christian Church,
and finally, by the Declaration of lndepen-
dence, the Supreme law of this Republic
the American Anti-Slavery Society has but
TO discharge its plain duty in calling upon
the people of the United States, throughout
their religious and political organizations, and
every power of their social or personal ac-
ton, TO unite in putting away, Immediately
and forerer, the inhuman, unchristian, anti
republican,, destructive and disgraceful usage
of Domestic Slavery.
Resolved, That the %accumulating expe-
r%iences of every year and week are proving,
that in declaring the Bond Of Union between
the States broken and annulled by the An
~nexation Of Texas and the Mexican War, and
in summoning the PEOPLE of the U. States,
in their sovereign capacity, to form a New
Union OF FREEMEN, the Anti-Slavery Socie.
ty proposed a course of conduct in the high
est degree consistent with obedience TO God,
Christian integrity, loyalty TO this nation, and
had been followed, War would have been
stopped, Texas made free, Slavery paralyzed,
and the nation redeemed by the adoption of a
policy worthy of Christian freemen.
Whereas, this nation, through the action
of its national and State Legislatures, the
intrigues of its political parties, the passive
ness of its religious communities, the tame,
ness of its press, the supine connivance OF
its people, has yielded itself up 10 the gui.
dance of the slaveholding oligarchy, which
has usurped control over the Congress, the
Executive, and the Judiciary of the United
States and
Whereas, Notwithstanding all these dis
couraging proofs of national degeneracy, there
are manifest signs in the South as well as
North, the West and East, of the revival o
f a more humane, just, free spirit among GU
religious and political bodies, and in tn
heart of our communities therefore,
, Resolved, That it is our urgent duty t.
seek out and propose some practical plan
! whereby good men and women in all tn
5 States may cordially cooperate in removing
; root and branch, the fatal institution of Slave
> ry, which blasts our nations prosperity, peac
: and growth.
Resolved, That, we commend 10 the in
slant, earnest, and thorough consideration {
u all Anti-Slavery men and women Throughout
: the United States, the promo lion of a
NATIONAL REDEMPTION SOCIETY:
e whose objects shall be,
l. The total abolition of Slavery through
out the United States;
= .. Indemnity to our brethren and sisteI
held as slaves, for their wrongs, suffering
and degradation;
e D. cuCn dlu 10 SHAREHOLDERS, III eSCdplH
from their present false relations, as justice
collective responsibility for the national 81
IF of slaveholding, and a true feeling OF brothe
a ly kindness, may warrant.
Resolved, That the people of the Unite
States will never redeem themselves fro
t, the shame of past hypocrisies, inconsisteI
a. cies and crimes, reclaim a rightful position
8 honour among civilized and Christian State
t. until by some act signal, public, unanimou
Sc they cancel the slaveholding concession
so the Constitution, the Missouri Compromis
and all similar compromises whether in Il
il spirit, letter or execution of national laws
is make atonement TO Mexico for the outrag
IT. inflicted upon her in our wal of slavehOldir
e, aggression,-and form a new Bond of Unto
to under a new Constitution, worthy of a Matte
in of United Freemen; and that we look fc
ms ward with confident hope for the coming
or the day of National Reform, truly the day
i'll National Atonement, when our prophet
ID, motto of "E pluribus Unum" will mantle
A. indeed a glorious reality.
if Resolved, That in the upward progress
public sentiment on the subject of emanciI
Sc. ton. we see in the spirit and conduct of t
Id; great body of the American clergy, nothi
lp- but persevering impenitence and p~alpahle !
Is pIety the rEofessed "embdssadOI9o Of Chr: