Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-06
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= the Young People of Ohio, on the FOrma-
4 lion Of O Northern Republic,

ANah@ AtVHAt u VhtVf VII - L vi hlu
Ia lion Of O Northern Republic,
AT an OVERLOOKING Convention of Young
ttople and others, held at Berlin, in Maho-
,Abs County, on the twenty-first, twenty-sec-
md and twenty-third of the present month,
tle following Preamble and Resolutions
We're unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The pcrpetuity and extension of
the Slave system in the United States have been
md still arc the highest Consideration of the Fed
eral Government; and
WHEREAS, To accomplish these purposes, ma
fy millions of dollars have been extortcd from
Ahe North and expended upon lands for Slave
states, or in the butchery and Punishment of
thousands of Indians from their homes, that
their soil, too, might be plundcred for the same
unhalowod design; and
WHEREAS, This nation, in all its political par
tics, and in all the leading denominations of re-
shgion, has sanctioned and sanctificd these fear
ful atrocities, by accepting the spoils and OK
tending over them the bloody shield of the A.
mcrican Constitution; and
WHEREAS, The political parties arc all united
in their stern determination to maintain this
blood-staincd and blood-cemcnted Union with
tyrants and mm-stealers, "however bounded"
or wherever Slavery may be extended; and
NibNLAo, IN Icll8lOuS DOOuCS ulu luiuCu-
ces of the nation arc equally true in their loyalty
and allegiance to this Confcderacy, so foul with
many nominations therefore,
Resolred, LIST, That we, the Young Men and
Women of Ohio and elsewhere, in Convention
assembled, deeply and ~solemnly impressed by
the fearful degeneracy, the alarming disregard
of justice, the entire prostration of national con-
science under which such evils have been perpe-
trated, and earnestly DESTROYS to save ourselves
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guilt under which the Northern States have so
long suffered as a consequence of their unholy
alliance with Slavery and the South, we do now,
in the presence of our God, here build an altar
to JUSTICE, LIBERTY and HUMANITY and on this
altar we consecratc ourselves to the great work
of elevating Universal Man to the full enjoy
mcnt of all the rights for which his nature and
constitution were formed: firmly resolved that
LinktAisN work NC will never tire until victory
shall crown our labors or death release us from
them.
And Resolred, ID, That since our government has
become thus destructive of the ends of Liberty,
an engine of torture and slavery to millions,
compelling the entire people to be Shareholders or
Siaues, it has become our right and duty not to
alter, but to abolish it, and to institute a new go
vernmcnt, laying its foundations on such prin-
ciples, and organizing its powers in such form,
as shall seem most likely to secure a full equali-
ty of the blessings of Life, Liberty and the pur-
suit of Happiness and with full confidence in
the integrity of our purpose and the justice OF
our cause, WE DO HEREBY DECLARE OURSELVES
THE ENEMIES OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNION AMI
GOVERNMENT OF THESE UNITED STATES, and the
friends of a New Confedcracy of Northern
States, where there shall be No UNION WITH
SHAREHOLDERS, bit 'chere there shall crer be
FREE SOIL, FREE LABOR AND FREE
MEN. And from this great and glorious Con-
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and determination to live and to labor for a Disso-
luton of the present Union by all LAWFUL and
JUST, though BLooDLEss and PACIFIC MEANS, and
for the formation of a New, Northern Republic
that shall be such not in name only, but in full,
living reality and truth.
And we do hereby invite and cntreat all tho
young people of Ohio, and the friends of Justice
Humanity and true Liberty in all the States, tC
unite with us i'll laboring for SO glorious and no
ly an object.
And Resoired, Sd, That this Preamble and these
Resolutions be signed by the officers of thi'
Convention, and forwarded, under the direction
of a Committee for that purpose, to such of the
principal Editors of public Journals, Member:
of Congress, and other officers in the govern
mcnt, and to such other persons as shall b'
deemed proper, IN erery part cfhe Union.
And it was farther voted, that the subscri
bers be a Committee to prepare AN ADDRESS
to the Young Men and Women of Ohio, ex
pressive of the views of the Convention OIL
I mis- most important and momentous subject
In the discharge of this solemn duty, we d
most deyoutly invoke Divine aid and illumi
nation.
t Born as we have been, in a land boastin
of Liberty, and bloody with despotism, an
living in an age rocking with revolution
G prophetic of a new and brighter dispensatiol
a Millennium of Freedom, for which the III
tons have long waited, and assuming I'll
q high trusts of moral and intelligent being
d which necessarily devolve OIL each succe
II sive generation, we cannot be insensible tn
U the claims of our age upon us, are of no o
binary character. How to discharge the
Ie in a manner honorable to ourselves, and a
ceptable to that Power to whom all Domil
ions arc accountable, should he a most 50
if emn inquiry.
r We have seen orr government prostitute
TO the dark and desperate designs of SLAYER.
until, in the language of John Quincy Az
ans, "slauehoLding, Siape-breedi,,g and stdU
e trading hare formed he ,chot foundation Of 4
Or policy-and a knot Of shareholders giUe The Ii
ID and prescribe The policy ofhe country"
= There is no time nor need Tor enumer'
ting the unhallowed demands of the sla'