Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-25
Anniversary Of the Vigilance Committee.

Last evening this Committee and the
friends Of Abolition held their Anniversary in
the Chutch corner of Prince and Marion sis.
The meeting was well attended by whlie and
colorcd people. The evenings exercises
were opened in prayer by Rev. Mr.. HALL,
after which MIR. CHAs. b. RAY, Secretary.
read The Committees Report, from which We
extract the following, the crowded state of
our columns not allowing us TO publish it en-
lire:
REPORT.
Committees Of Vigilance, for the protec-
ton and assistance Of lugiiives from the Land
OF Chains, are too well known in these re-
Eions, in their character, objtc cts and work to
make II necessary 10 Tcsiaie them. The old
Commune in lis time performed a great and
glorious work. LIS hIsluIy. through a period
of ten years, is written in the personal llberr
~ of Two thousand Of our lellow-men. IT,,
and the men Of lis times-some OF whcm are
reapirg tlcir rev ard in The Spirit-land, and
Others in the Consciousness OF having done
What they could-are embalmed ia The CRATE
iul hearts Of thousands Of our now iIse and
happy brethren.
The New York State Vigilance Commit
tee, whose first Anniversary we now cele-
brate, intends, in its enlarged sphere Of use.
iulness, 10 be not a whit behind its i|llustri-
Gus predecessor. All that was welI-limed
and glorious In the iCImer, will be imitated
by the latter. At no period in the history of
Committees of Vigilance, for the bondman's
benefit, did ever so many hearts beat in his
behalf as now. Never were so many hands
ready 10 come 10 his help; never were his
claims better understood or needed. At no
period has legislation thrown around him her
shield TO such an extent as at the present.
Never have laws been enacted in so many
States making it penal for the citizens there
Of TO aid or abet in The capture Of the fleeing
fugitive as now. And YET, at no period has
there been more work 10 be done Than now.
In the District Of Columbia the Slavehold.
ers tremble at the growing sentiment there
and at the bold stand in Congress in favor OF
the Abolition of Slavery in that DISTRICT
And fearing The result, they resort as an of,
sci to such a result, TO a removal with ihei.
slaves farther into the heart of the system, OIL
10 a disposal Of them 10 the traders. The
same is also true OF the Northern Slavchold
ing States.
The Commitlee, in shaping their conrsC
for the future, find that other things, besid,
receiving, protecting and providing for Tho
fugitive as he comes among us, demand thei
attention. They have been led TO take a new
view Of the case. ObserYalion and invesli
cation have pressed upon their attention lht
fact, that a large number of persons elaine,
and held as slaves in The slave States, are
on various grounds, entitled TO their freedom
by the laws of those States, and all that i,
wanted TO secure that freedom is a proper in
vesligation into their case, attended probably
by a suit in the Courts; and in either even
at very small expense. This work the Com
mittee regard as peculiarly their WORK, am
they have determined, as funds may be fur
nished, to investigate such as may come Il
their notice. Already the suit of nine sucI
persons has been commenced by the Com
mittee in the Courts Of the District Of Colum
bia, of the result Of which there is no lega
ground TO doubt, but it will secure to the pei
sons their freedom, at an expense of a fey
hundred dollars.
The whole number of persons having bee
provided for by the COMMITTEES during tn