Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-06

ual voters; therefore
Resolved, That all the Rapes, Robberies
and Murders inflicted upon the 3,OOO,OOO OF
unprotected slaves, under the authority and
defence of the government, are inflicted by
each and every individual voter; and he
should be held as much responsible at the
bar of Justice and humanity, as if he himself
had personally committed these wrongs upon
the most eminent white citizens, male or te-
male, who enjoy the full protection Of the
country.
III. RESOLVED, That Wings, Democrats, Free
Sellers, and all voters under the U. 5. Con-
s%titntion, must necessarily pledge themselves
to their slaveholding confederates, and to one
another
/. That they will sustain the right to hold
property in man, by allowing Shareholders
political power in proportion to the number
of their slaves.
9. That they will never secrete nor defend
the runaway slave from his muster.
3. That they will defend the oppressor
against the oppressed, the spoiler against the
spoiled, the ravisher against the victim.
4. That they will never exert their politi
cal power to abolish Slavery in the States.
). That they will hold every slave respon-
siblc to their government, while they allow
them no protection either in their rights or
persons.
6. That they will sanction and defend vio-
lations of the rights of Property, Liberty and
Life by shareholders, which they will punish
with the dungeon or with death when conl-
United by Observation-Disclosures.
z. That they will regard as crimes worthy
of death in slaves, what i'll their owners they
honor and applaud as the highest virtues.
6. That while the testimony of the slave
shall never be admitted against his master,
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of the master against the slave.
8. That they sanction and will help exc
cute every slave law in every slave State.
10. That there is not and never shall be
one spot of Free Soil" under their jurisdic.
! ton, on which the slave may stand secure
| against the claim of his master.
4 w. That this Convention is full of Joy III
| The declining state of american Religion, as sect
in the absence of Revivals, the dropping con.
dition of all the popular Churches, and the III
ter ertinctiOn Of many ofEhem the shall NUM-
r Der of candidates for the ministry at the The
illogical seminaries, and the frequency VIII
which ministers escape from the sectarian pis
pit into less mischievous and far moro hor sst
and laudable occupations. And we cannoti',lt
hope and pray that, as its terrible sacrap,t4 IS
on the hearts, the hopes and happiness Ol
millions of slaves, whose enslavement it has
81 ioiS ctiiNtiiSo W hp obiBt hc WI
|, mons and prayers, shall end, and it shall sink
! to a speedy and ignominious grave, that then
, it shall be followed by the coming of the
kingdom of righteousness and peace, when
man shall no more lift up the sword or the
: shacklc against his fellow man, when a slave
or stakeholder shall be no more known, but
when, einphatically, Every man in every
, face shall meet a brother and a friend"
: V. RESOLVED, That while it must he record
: ed, to the disgrace Of the town of Berlin, that
it is the only place in the Free States in
which a faithful advocate of the slaves cause
has encountered the martyrdom of a coat OF
tar and feathers, so also will it be recorded tC
its honor, that it was the place in which wa:
held i'll peace and quietness the first grea
@ Convention of the Anti-Slaycry Young Mer
and Women of Ohio and that, in view o
the great change Of public opinion indicated
e by these facts, we are encouraged TO perse
we're in our efforts for the regeneration an,
discnthrulment of the whole land from til,
crimes and pollutions of Slavery.
vi. ReSO'yed, That we unitedly express on
o gratitude to God, that our brother MARtUs II
ROBINSON, who so nobly endured the mar
tyrdom before alluded to, is this day with u
not only in spirit but in person, and ready {
= endure with us the labors and the perils b
Y, which alone the chains of the Slave can b
q broken.
q VII. ReSolved, That, next to the Twin
speaker, the Press is the most potent instu
mentality for the promotion of u moral an
nc philanthropic enterprise that without thi
d. agency it is vain to expect that the publ
nj mind can be enlightened in regard TO til
- evils of Slavery, and the people aroused TO
> sense of their duties to the bondman; an
that this Convention heartily commends III
in .4nii-Si0Uery Bugte to the support of the II
no oIitionists of Ohio and the West, and woul
. urge it upon them as a duty to adopt tn
81 most vigorous measures for extending IFS eli
W ~culation.
VIII. Whereas, The American Anti-Slav'
ny Society has authorized its General Agel
:, Tor the region West of the Alleghanies to co
hc lect from all its friends One Dollar each,
n be expended in the West; and
ers WhereaS, The friends of the Society in Il
los East, when applied to, have generally r
spOndcd to the call and
III Whereas, 1t is of the utmost importance
our cause to keep as many agencies i'll 4
:. field as possible, not only i'll this State al
Western Pennsylvania, but, if the means CT
be supplied, to extend our operations i'll
Michigan and Northern Indiana therefore
Resolved, That we will not permit OF
selves 70 be exceeded in devotion TO I
reu cause by those living at a distance from I
field Of operations, but will cheeriully
en- spond to the call upon us; and we urge
RI cry Abolitionist in the West to contribute
in his power, az least One Dollar for this p
as pose.
Ju- IL. Rssolrea, That while we do not
ct gard the unavoidable use of slave-grown p
tier duce as "a violation of principle, we nevertl
WIS, less believe that our decided preteren
should be given to the products of free lal
the wherever and whenever practicable a
ich that TO refuse to do so, under such circu
OF. stances, does, in our opinion, countenan
and sustain the slave power.