Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-08-11
First Of August at Randolph.

The meeting was organized by appointing
SAMUEL MYERS, Of New Lisbon, Chairman,
and Truman Case, Secretary.
Oliver Johnson first took the platform, and
commenced by stating that he should read
from the "gOod od Book" the following We.
ry pertinen, and applicable portions Isaiah
j. l-20; lviii. LIZ lix. Ills; Luke XII. as
So; x. 25-37: which were responded to by
the audience. An opportunity was given TO
any person who should deem it a duty or
privilege TO offer prayer. After a short pause,
the Roo,stown Choir leading, the audience
sung with much animation "GOD SPEED
THE RIGHT."
Oliver Johnson then addressed the meeting
in a speech of more than an hour in length,
which, for clearness of thought, facts con-
densed, and happy delivery, is seldom equal
led.
Jacob Heaton, Of Salem, then, in a very
earnest manner, addressed the meeting, pre-.
senting statistics showing the safety of Eman-
c%ipation in the West Indies. A committee
Of three were appointed to draft resolutions,
viz: o. Johnson, Ann Eliza Lee, J. F. Small
ley. The Choir sang, "There is a voice
among the Mountains" Adjourned.
Met again at o'clock. Song" Awake,
we Northern Freemen." The following res
%olutions were presented on behalf of the Com
mittee by H. c. Wright:
Resolved, That we have assembled on this
occasion 10 testify our gratitude 10 the God
Of the oppressed for the emancipation of $780,
600 human beings from the CALLING letters of
Slavery, 10 rejoice with our brethren thus
made free, and to consecrate our best efforts,
our noblest exerlions, to break the chains of
3,0e0, 900 of American Slaves, made such by
the Constitution and Laws Of our country.
Resolved, That slavery is a violation of
the natural laws under which men exist as
social beings; is opposed TO the self-evident
truth that Z" all men are created free, and have
an inalienable right to liberty )" that it is
the sum of all villany," and that there is no
power in the universe competent Justly 10 au-
thorize its existence for single hour.
Resolved, That slaves owe no obedience
nor service TO their masters that they have a
right 10 run away from their oppressors and
to aid them in their escape, 10 use the horses,
carriages, boats, clothes and money which
Shareholders have obtained by the unpaid Toll
of their victims, and to come to Ohio or to
any Northern State and that it is the duty
of the people of Ohio and of all the States, to
give food, shelter, employment and protection
TO fugitive slaves-the constitutions and laws
Of the Federal and State governments to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
Resolved, That it is the duty of Abolition
lists TO be vigilant to arouse the people of the
North TO resist every proposition to compen-
safe shareholders for giving up their slaves;
and that in justice they have no more claim
TO compensation than other thieves and rob-
bers have for ceasing TO steal and ROB.
Resolved, That the slaves of the South are
the rightful owners of the land which they
have watered with their tears and enriched
with their blood and toll and that when
freed, as they must be, in Kentucky, Mis-.
sonri, or any State, justice demands that, in.
stead Of being expatriated to Africa or to any
other country, they should be allowed to pos
sess, without money and without price, and
cultivate so much of the soil of the States by
which they have been enslaved, as shall be
necessary for their subsistence and comfort.
Resolved, That the doctrine that God has
distributed millions Of the children Of Africa
among Christian nations 10 have them con-
veTted 10 Christ, by means of Shareholders
and their apologists, and then sent TO the land
from which they or their ancestors were sto-
len, TO ~civiliZe and chrislianize their fellow
men in said land, is a libel on justice and hu.
manity f; and the being who could do such a
deed ought not TO be worshipped as God, but
scorned and treated as a fend and that all
plans to chrisiianize slaves, while they are
held and used as ch%attels, are pro-slavery pre-
fences and delusions, designed, not TO bene6,
the slaves, but 10 cover up criminal indifrer.
ence, or malignant opposition 10 Anli.Slave-
ry.
Resolved, That this meeting heartily re-
spends TO the proposition for holding a Con-
vention OF the Anii-Slavery Young Men and
Women Of Ohio during the coming Autumn,
and would express the hope that the Execu-
tive Committee Of the Western A. S. Society
may issue a call for such a Convention at as
early a day as practicable.
|. The afternoon was spent in an interesting
and spirited discussion of The above resolu-
tions. in which j, w. Walker, II. G. Wright,
J. F. Smalley, Truman Case, Oliver John
son, Jacob Healon, William Steadman, Isaac
Prescott, and DR.. Smith. of Mecca, participa-
ted. The audience was large and attentive,
and the hsppiest spirit prevailed.
SAMUEL MYERS, CA'm'n,
TRuNAS Case, Sec'y.