Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-18
For The .4nti-Slarery BugIc.
Meeting of COlOrCd People.

NNA'AhC VI
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The following resolutions were adopted at
a Mass Meeting of colored people, held at
Hanover, Columbiana County, on Sunday
the 18th inst.
~ Resolved, That wo collectively re-
gard it as a duty, to form ourselves into one
common body, for the purpose of advocating
the cause Of Temperance, and to exert our
influence for the amelioration of our Breth-
ern in bondage.
(2.) Resolved, That all intoxicating Lii
quors are injurious to the whole human IA
mily, when used as a beverage and not on
ly injuries the physical man, but tends to de-
moralize and corrupt the firm feelings of his
nature, and degrades him to a position but
little higher than the brute.
(3.) Resolved, That it is the duty of every
true citizen, without respect Of persons, re-
CARELESS Of circumstances and position in
life, as benevolent and honorable men, 10
lend us their aid and influence, in the fur
iherance Of the great temperance reforma-
ton.
(4.) Resolved, That any person who is
not willing to assist in reforming the intern
perate, and to lend a helping hand in ame-
l~iorating the condition Of our brethren in
slavery, is no Philanthropist, and not wor-
thy of the confidence of this Society.
(5.) Resolved, That we unhesitatingly,
and with feelings Of the strongest i%ndigna-
ton, repudiatc a"y and erery scheme of Co.
lonization, either at home or abroad and
when we take into consideration the origiua-
tors Of African Colonization, the very name
Of it is enough 10 damn a universe.
(G.) Resolved, That we hale with enthu-
siasm The eradication of part of the hellish
Black Laws, of the Stale Of Ohio. and look
upon that act as a true index of a better day
coming.
(7.) Resolved, That we do not agree with
those who say we have nothing 20 do with
slavery in the southern states. We assume
the high perogative, law or no law, that we
hare to do with slavery in them and the
law that conflicts with reason, liberty and
Justice, either North or South, we trample
under our feet.
49, Resolved, That the bondman's final
triumph rest upon the speedy Dissolution of
this Union, and the destruction of the pro-
slavery churches and those who are daily
laboring 10 accomplish such a lautable un-
dertaking, shall have our appreciation, our
prayers, and our money.
(9.) Resolved, That we believe all wars
are wrong and incompatible with The teach
ing Of Christ; and we endorse that lofty
sentiment uttered by that distinguished ad-
vocate of universal brotherhood, and friend
of every country and cline, Daniel O'Con-
nell-when he says that No reformation is
worthy of shedding one drop of human
blood"
(I0.) Resolved, That no consistent Chris
tian can vote under the pro.slavery Gonsti-
tuition of these United States, without pro-
wing recreant in the highest degree 10 the
principles they have professed TO the world /;
and when he votes or takes Office under said
Constitution, his religion not only becomes
theoretical but practical atheism in the es-
timation Of every intelligent and rejecting
mind.
Ol.) Resolved, That in the judgment of
this Convention, we feel it TO be our duty as
well as our high privilege to cherish with
feelings Of enthusiasm those sentiments ut
tered by Thomas Jefferson, when he says,
"that resistance TO tyrants is obedience to
God"
(l2.) Resolved, That we have no inter-
est whatever in The perpetuation of this or
any other government that sanctions the
odious crimes of trading in the bodies and
souls of those with whom we are identified
by the dearest ties of nature, bone of our
bone and flesh of our flesh.
(I3.) Resolved, That we recommend to
our DISTINGUISHED brethren throughout this
pro-slavery government to cease from sur
porting the prc-slavery Churches Of this
Country, and give their money to the sup
port of those that are pleading in behalf OF
the millions Of native born Americans, that
are crushed in the lowest state of degrada-
ton, and kept so by the unjust and inhuman
laws of the country.
G4.) Resolved, That the resolutions that
were passed by the Presbyterian Church in
1915, among which was that slavery as ii
exists in the southern states of this union, is