Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-25
The Buffalo Convention

tias met anu aoJourneo, or rdtner tne DdhdIo
Conventions, for there were two, a nominal
ting convention consisting Of between four
and FIVE hundred delegates, and a mass con-
vention which numbered perhaps twenty
thousand, perhaps fifty thousand. The gath
ering on the 9th was undoubtedly a great
one, and it is to be hoped that all who were
there will henceforth be as faithful in the
advocacy Of their principles, as they were
then frank in their avowal Of them. The
platform of the Free Soil party is so much
higher than those. Of the rotten, broken down
platforms of the Wings and Democrats, that
lis erection is a cheering evidence of pro-
gress among the people, and is an assurance
to those who are greatly in advance, that the
faithful preaching Of the ,Uhoe truth will lead
to yet more glorious %reselts.
The National Reformers have dropped
their own regularly nominated candidate to
go for Martin Van Buren, and Charles Fran
els Adams. The Liberty party papers are
wheeling into the ranks. and such wholesale
dessrtions are taking place from that party,
that soon it will not have even a name to
live, though we suppose its ghost will wan
and. blood as any political organization ever
was. We would not wonder if it should
even claim to have swallowed up the Barn
burners, the National Reformers and the
Wing boilers and MAINTAIN that the 9th Of
August nomination was the nomination Of the
Liberty party. The "Aurora," we perceive,
Liberty ticket"
At ONE future time we may have more to
say of The Convention. Here is its platform.
The Platform.
Whereas, we have assembled in conven-
ton as a union of freemen, for the sake OF
freedom, forgetting all past political differen-
ces in a common resolve 10 maintain the
rights of free labor, against the aggressions
of the slave power, and to secure free soil fol
d free people:
And Whereas, the political conventions re
Gently assembled at Baltimore and Philadel
phia, the one sitting the voice Of a great con
stituency. entitled to be heard in its delibera
tons, and the other aband oning its distinc
tive principles for mere availability, have dis
solved the national party organization here
tofore existing, by nominating for the chic
magistracy of the United States, under slave
holding dictation, candidates, neither of whom
can be supported by the opponents of SLAYER,
extension, without a sacrifice of consistency
duty and self.respect:
And, Whereas, these nominations so mad,
furnish the occasion, and demonstrate tn,
necessity of the union of the people, unde
the banner Of free democracy, in a solemn AM
final declaration of their independence of III
slave power, and of their fixed determination
to rescue the federal government from its con
troll
Resolred, therefore, That we, the people
here assembled, remembering the example {
our fathers in the days of the first declaratio
of independence, putting our trust in God fc
the triumph of our cause, and invoking hi
guidance in our endeavors to advance it, d
! now plant ourselves upon The national Pla
, form of Freedom, in opposition TO the SCI
tional platform of slavery.
R%esofred, That slavery in the several STATE
i OF this union which recognize its ~eXistenc
8 depends upon state laws alone, which cam
be repealed or modified by the federal 90
ernmrent, and for which laws, that governmer
is not responsible. We, therefore, propo
!, no interference by congress with slave
within the limits of any state.
ResOired, That the proviso of Jefferson,
prohibit the existence of slavery, after l6C
ID in all the territories of the U. States, sout
ern and northern the votes Of six states a
rs sixteen delegates, in the congress Of l7s
for the ~proviso, to three states and seven {
h. leQates against it: the actual exclusion
I'd slavery, from the northwestern territory,
the ordinance Of 1887, unanimously adopt
by the states in congress and the entire h
tory of that period ; clearly show, that il "
I'd the settled policy of the nation, not to exter
nationalist or encourage, but to limit, loo
ur ize and discourage slavery (; and to this pc
cy, which should never have been depart
m from, the government ought to return.
ReSoiued, That our fathers ordained
constitution of the U. States, in order, amo
ng other great national objects, to establish i
tice, promote the general welfare, and sec,
- the blessings of liberty but expressly den
VI to the federal government which they or
US ted, all constitutional power to deprive a
its kperson of life, liberty or property without {
legal process.
hr ResOived, That in the judgment of
" convention, congress has no more power
10 make a slave than to make a king mo m
A. power to institute or establish slavery, Il
m 10 institute or establish a monarchy =
nc such power can be found among those sp,
-. fcally conferred by the constitution, or d
we'd by any just implication from them.
J. ReSoIped, That it is the duty Of the fed,
Rn government TO relieve itself from all resp
sibility for the existence or continuance
slavery, wherever that government posses
constitutional authority to legislate on
a subject, and is thus responsible for its 9
ew tence.
j." Resofped, That the true, and in the il
- ment Of this convention the only safe me
;" of preventing the extension Of slavery