Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-01
Speech of Parker Pills bury,
N The Fifteenth Annual Meeting IF the finer
lean .3nii-Siarery Society.

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The following resolutions were introduced
by Edmund Quincy, at the morning session
of The Society, held in the Tabernacle
1. Resolved, That (in The language of
Rev. DIR. Young, of Perth, Scotland.) "the
grand error of the American churches was
opening the doors Of their fellowship to the
admission Of Shareholders. L, was this
which, by an obvious moral sequence, So
phisiicated their consciences, lowered the
tone of their testimony, led them to talnper
with the Word of God, and involved them
in AZ their present troubles. They excluded
the thief or the robber, who happened 10 have
secular law against him but the legalized
in theft and robbery, whose guilt was far
greater, they took TO their bosom as brethren
in Christ. This was their error-their great,
their primary, their supplying error; and
till this error be retrieved-tiIl they are bro't
TO feel and to act on the feeling, that the pure
morality of the gospel is opposed, and oppo-
sed alike, 10 every "want of conformity to,
or tfansgression of, the law of God,'' their
recovery is hopeless"
2. Resolved, That from the first hour that
The Abolitionists espoused the cause of the
slave, they necessarily, as a matter Of princi-
pie, broke their alliance with the slavehold-
~ , Ahh - any VI tlltlIl are lOUnu cIlIlnInn 10
churches which give the right hand of Chris
tan fellowship to a Shareholder, or opposing
the doctrine Of Disunion, il is simply because
they are yet blind to their whole duty, or,
seeing it, are guilty of betraying that cause
10 which they sacredly pledged themselves.
3. Resolved, That if, at the close of our
revolutionary struggle for independence, when
the fire OF Liberty was burning brightest in
every breast, and but a half million of slaves
were on our soil, the American Union could
he formed only by throwing around Slavery
and the slave trade NATIONAL guarantees of pro-
lection; 1t follows that, with a Slave popula-
ZION of three millions, the number of slave
States more than doubled, and the national
conscience scared as with hot iron by a long
and lrightful career of oppression, the Union
can be maintained only so long as those guar
antics are recognized as binding on the whole
country.
A.. Resolved, That that which is giving
strength, extension and perpetuity to Slavery
to wit, THE UNION-on being over
thrown by a peaceful Withdrawal from it by
the non-slaveholding States, for conscience
sake and for selEpreservation, must necessa-
rily weaken, limit, and speedily e~xtirpate Sla-
very from the American soil. Therefore,
5. Resolved, That the motto of every
Christian and of every Patriot should be
I" No Union wiM shareholders, either religious.
iy or p0Htic0Hy."
6. Resolved, That this is not a question OIL
eXpedlency, on which action may be limo
Gently deferred "till a more convenient sea.
son." but one Of absolute morality-of ODE,
dience 10 God and fidelity TO mankind-to be
met and carried out to the letter without de.
lay.
PARKER PILLsBURY.-Mr. Chairman, why
| am to address a meeting at this time is no
to me so clear. My name was not announ.
ced in the programme, but The names Of somt
who certainly are older and better soldiers il
the cause than myself. | suppose, however
it is on the principle Of sending the ligh
troops forward to the onset. Ant
! always feel called upon TO submit TO what
ever may be demanded at my hands, having
enlisted long since, and having consecrateC
myself TO the prosecution Of the cause Of An
ti-Slavery.
The Resolutions which have been read co
yer much ground. The questions presented
in them for our discussion may well be sal,
to be before us to-day, and for two or tire
subsequent days.
There is one idea 10 which | would main
ly direct the attention of this audience, and
is this Slavery does not exist in our coun
try so much on account of The love of it i
the hearts of the people at the North, as fror
the fact, that lie great mass Of The people q
me North are as get utterly unacquainie
tcih lis character, and with Mer oton re{d
hons 10 ii. There is enough of talent and {
influence, enough of education and of mors
power in this assembly TO overthrow the In
siitutlon OF Slavery, within twelve month;
But the grand difficulty will be to make hi
audience believe that II is their appropriat
work. The mass of you, l fear, have Assem-
bled this morning as you would gather &c
gether at a perlormance-lrom motives mucl