Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-03
Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti
Slavery Society.

The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the above
named Society was held at Norristown on the
10th, 10th and 18th of the past month. VIM.
Lloyd Garrison, Sydney Howard Gay, and c.
L. Rcmond were present at the meeting, and
these, together with Lucretia Mott, Mary Grew,
]. NJ. McKim, C. NJ. Burleigh, and the host of
true and long-tricd Abolitionists of Eastern
Pennsylvania who took part in the discussions
and deliberations, must have rendered the meet
ing a profitable and interesting one.
The Trcasurer's report shows the amount of
money received into the Treasury within the
past year to have been $5Ol6,57, which amount
has been expended in carrying on Lccturing,
Publishing, and other Anti-Slavery operations
in Pennsylvania, and in aiding the parent So
ciety.
The Constitution of the Society was so amend
ed as to change its title to hat of "The Penn
s~ylvania Anti Slavery Society,"" 1t has here
tofore been "The Eastern Pennsylvania A. S.
Society"
The following are the Resolutions discussed
and adopted by the meeting:
l. Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Anti
| Slavery Society having for its sole Object
as its name imports,-the abolition of slave
~, has no controversy with any religious sect
or political party on any other ground or for
any other purpose.
2. Resolved, That this society, in choosing
means for the attainment, of its object, feels
bound to eschew all that arc not consistent
with a pure morality, and to prefer such as,
while being most efficient for their purpose
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moral growth and highest interests of those
who use them.
3. Resolved, That in pursuance of this
policy we utterly repudiate all eXpedients
which involve a participation in the politics
of a slaveholding government and approve
such only, as are of a moral kind and have
the sanction of Christianity.
Resolution No. A, was then taken up dis
cussed by James Martin, Cyrus NJ. Burleigh,
w. L. Garrison, J. j. G.. Bias and Harriet
Hood of New Garden, Chester Co, and adop-
ted, viz:
4. Resolved, That the American Church,
as a body, being in league with the oppres-
sor, is an enemy to the slave, and so far from
being worthy to be entrusted with the appro-
pirate work of christianity-giving deliver
ance to the captive ;-it has proved itself, by
its character and position, to be the most bit
ter and powerful opponent of those who are
seeking to apply the principles of christiani-
ty to the horrible system of American slavery.
Resolution No. 5, was advocated by Mary
Grew and Lucretia Mott, and passed, viz:
5. Resolved, That we regard the Anti-Sla-
very Fair of Pennsylvania, as a very impor-
tant instrumentality in the carrying on our
enterprise, both in its moral and financial
influences, and that we earnestly recommend
- To tho ,nan,horS onI fr;onI, % th;S Sncia-
ty, trusting that it will receive that attention
and substantial aid which it deserves.
6. Resolved, That the history of the late
Free Soil Party, during its brief existence
furnishes striking proofs of the inutility o
political organizations, as instruments for the
promotion of moral reforms, and should serve
as an etlectual warning TO abolitionists.
Z. Resolved, That inasmuch as the twt
great political parties of this nation are, from
the necessity of the case, and by their owl
intrinsic character, allies of the slave power
we regard them as hostile TO the cause G
freedom. as obstacles to the advancement
the anti-slavery enterprise, and believe tina
in them there is no hope for the slave.
8. Resolved, That from the first hour tina
the AbolitiOnist espoused the cause of tn
slave, they necessarily, as a matter of princi
pie, dissolved their connection with the slave
holder, religiously and politically; and if an
of them are still found clinging to churche
which give the right-hand of christian fellow
ship to shareholders or acting in government
partnership with the trafickers of humal
flesh, it is either because they are yet blin'
to their whole duty, or seeing it, are guilty Q
betraying the anti-slavery cause by the com
promise of their principles.
8. Resolved, That the shortest and mos
e~ffectual way to make the Bible abhorren
and contemplate is to insist las do the grea
body of the American church and clergy,
that it sanctions the foul system of slavery.
10. Resolved, That whether the Bible sane
tons or prohibits the enslavement of an,
portion of the human race, it still remains
self evident truth that all men are createC