Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-06
The Berlin Convention.

Inc proceedings of the Convention of Anti
Slavery Young Men and Women. held in pcr.
lin on the 2lst, 22d and 23d. ult.. will bc found
III our columns this week, and will challenge the
attention alike of the friends and the enemies of
the Anti-Slavery Cause. On the score of intel
hgencc, zeal, devotcdness and numbers the Con-
venton answered our highest authorizations,
while It's spirit, as indicated in the resolutions
discussed and adopted, was worthy of tho
Young ADolluonism of the West. The Young
People were there in great numbers, and porti-
cipatcd to the full extent of their wishes in the
proceedings and yet it will be perceived that
the convention was no mere Bows and Girls
afinir-nor was it intended to be. Men and
Women of all classes felt themselves Mt home.
and every true anti-slaycry heart was acknow-
lodged as bearing the seal of immortal youth,
even though the head were whitcned with the
frosts Of many winters.
All ages mingled thcle; the veteran, [shcd,
With thin white locks, DER his Scared temples
whose winters numbered mans allotted span;
And he from whose full eve and noble head
Inc grace OF conscious manhood had not fed;
And he whose helmets lifted vizor showed
Achcek still tingcd with youth too fleeing rcd
There was very little formal spcech-making.
The members of the Convention evidently felt
that they had come together, not for an %oratori-
cal DISPLAY, but for the serious consideration, the
earnest advocacy, and tho efficient and fearless
PRONUNCIATION of principles of fundamental
righteousness and eternal truth, transccnding
alike the limits of party obligation and the mar
row boundaries of sect. Not as p%artizans and
sectarians, but as MEMS equal human beings
responsible not to each other nor to any hui
man tribunal-thcy felt, they saw, they heard,
they discussed, they resolved. We have never
attended a Convention in which the spirit of
Universal brotherhood was more visibly or de-
hghtfully manifested. Thousands shared one
common impulse'-a thousand natures were
moulded into onc'-a host of free spirits moved
in complicated unity =
"NNith vision unconfned
BY petty barriers, they felt how grand
The fellowship of God with human kind"
The responsibilities assumed by voters under
the U. S. Constitution were dwclt upon with
much carnestness and with convincing power
and arc very logically and lucidly set forth il
the resolutions relating to that subject. W.
think our Free Soil friends will find it dificul'
to pick a flaw in the chain of consecutive propo.
sitions adopted by the Convention.
The guilty agency of the popular Churchc:
of the land in the enslavement of millions Of
to a fact of so much importance and Significance.
The Convention, it will be seen, expressed its
joy at the comparatively declining state of that
Religion which wars against Humanity, and in
whose ears the clank of the slaves chain is not
a Gss4idden, nor even I'm unwelcumc sound.
The Convention took one step in advance of
any hitherto taken by any similar body. We
refer, of course, to the resolutions on the sub
iect of "a New Confederacy of Northern States,
which were adopted with great unanimity, and
in full view of all the responsibilities involved
in such an act. The Address which accompa-
mics these resolutions, from the clear head and
the vigorous pen of PARKER PnLsBuRY, super
sedes the necessity OF farther comment at pres
cnt. We commend both the Address and the
resolutions to the serious consideration of Abo-
litionists in every part of the country, and par
t~icularly to our contemporaries of the Anti-Sla-
very Press. Let the subject be carefully scruti-
nizcd and discussed by the ablcst speakers and
writers in our ranks and may God prosper the
Right
We wish it were in our power to describe the
scene presented on Sunday afternoon, when the
resolutions referring to the mob which took
place in Berlin in 1887 were under considera-
ton. Inadequate to that task, however,
were pencil, pen or Tyre MARIus r. RoBIN-
SON, the victim of that mobile on whose head
was visited itS direst vcngeance-was there
Obcying the spontaneous call of the Convention,
he took the platform and made a speech which,
for cloquencc and power, we have rarely heard
surpassed. None but a prophet painter could
trace the words of fire which flowed from his
lips, or
Give the soul that through those feature.
glowed.'
The whole assembly sprang spontaneously t.
their feet, and were for the moment absorbed
thrilled, electrified!
Zen the Sadducee
Had owned the deathlessness that spirit showed!
1t was then that the Convention received
baptism holier than any ever administered b
pricstly hapds-eyen a baptism of the Hol
: Spirit from on high, whose influence was signal
t ly manifest from that to the parting hour.
f TIL hospitality of the friends in Berlin WI
: above all praise. The stain affixed to the tow
in 1887 was wiped out by the generosity al
: kindness manifested by her citizens in ls49.
Q The wind, in the exercise of the largest libc
o ty, played some of its oquinoctial pranks wi
o the great tent, and one or two showers on Il
last day were a little troublesome, but the