Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-15
The New England Convention.


THIS great event in our annual Anti Slavery
lives has just passed away, attended by the most
nuspicious circumstances and the most brilliant |
success, and will leave an impression on the |
great mass of mind within the reach of its inau-
ences of the most permanent and benefccnt |
character. 1t is a common observation of Abo- |
litionists, and one that has its foundation in the
nature of things and the constitution of the hu-
man mind, that each successive gathering of the
hosts is the most numerous and the most tri-
umphant that has ever been known. Itmust be
so, of necessity. This country is living very
fast. 1t is crowding as much history into year
as used to suffice for ten. Thanks to the inhu-
ence of the Anti Slavery movement, now most
cmphatically acknowledged by those that deprc
cate it most, the issue with Slavery is becoming
daily more and more distinctly understood. The
wise policy of silence is become impossible. The
ancient reign Of darkness is broken up. All the
conjurations of the wizards of the South joined
to the spells of the magicans Of the North can
not bring back the reign of Chaos and Old Night
All their incantations have failed to blot out the
Sun of Truth and Righteousness from the Uni
verse. The transient clouds they have raised
abide but for day.
"To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,
And warns the nations with rcdoublcd ray"
/ Slavery being thus ever busy in its works of
darkness, and Anti-Slavery being equally busy
in exposing its denominations, the public mind is
kept in that state of cxcitation which is an es-
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ton to normal state of moral health. To this
/ we owe the gathering and increasing interest of
our public meetings Every year supplies some
new topic to serve as the rallying cry OF the oc
casion. Now it is a stride of Slavery towards
the South to lay hold of the now worlds it is cv
or sighing to conquer. Now it seeks to lay its
gripo on the throat Of the North to choke down
the accents Of rcmonstrancc and silence the emo
tons of pity and indignation. At one time it is
an escape from Slavery, tho circumstances of
which make plain to the dullest minds and the
hardest hearts the horrors of the condition which
was more dreadful than the tortures and almost
certain death which were braved for the chance
of delvcrance from it. At another, some
Northern Statesman or Divine has made his es-
cape from the influence of the institutions of the
land of his birth, and delivered up himself a
willing slave, to grind in the prison-house of the
oppressor, or to keep guard over his fellow
slaves. But at every hour, almost, of our histo-
ry, we arc met by facts issuing forth from the
, bosom of Slavery and returning thithcr again,
CHASTITY or grotesquc appearances, which serve
to keep its existence and its power alive in the
minds of men.
Tie recent treachery of Mr.. Webster, the fu.
tile attempts to bolster him up, the widespread
Indignation so broadly uttered from tho sterr
, denunciation of Garrison to tho softer spoken
: dissent of pulpits and religious presses, wai
Y what gave the keynote to the trumpct-cal that
: summoned this Convention, and to the blast thai
issued from it. We have always filed up the
places of our assembly long before we have fin.
y ished our sessions; but, this year, We begar
} with full house which never was less thar
full from the beginning to tho end. As man!
! minds were addressed as the capacity of tn,
rooms VIC had to use permitted to he present.
= If we had had Faneuil Hall, the only propc
4 place for our meetings, (f possible to be obtain
ed) both from its size and its associations,
would have been filed from the beginning to tn
end. Under all the disadvantages of having I
use three different places of meeting, the crowd
followed us about with the Irresistible allinit
= of steel filings for the magnet. And the news
paper reports, imperfect and malicious as mo-
! of them were, helped to keep alive curiosity an
nj even to circulate our sayings. We mover ha
10 collected together stronger force of the able
r Anti Slavery speakers, and the number of steel
y nical" Abolitiorists collected was never large
IN In short, there was never a more favorable OF
O. portunity of making an impression on the Al
1i o. ti-Slavery and the general mind of the countr
~ and never was favorable opportunity better in
cd proved.
od For the specific details of the several session
~ the order of subjects and the succession of spea
n ers wo must refer our readers to the official
by count of the Proceedings. The Resolutions W
Of well repay careful perusal They contain
VIC little the pith and marrow of the Anti-Slave
TO- movement at the present stage of its existenc
They were examined illustrated and enforced
their different ways, and with their diverse gif
eu by Messrs. Garrison, Phillips, Theodore Pork
", Foster, Pillsbury, H. C. Wright, c. c. Burleig
nal W., TT c,hann;n, John T pussoi M
zen Mrs. Foster and many Others All the N,
70 England Abolitionists were rejoiced to take
lali the hand and listen TO the voice of James '
Walker, of Ohio, who was for the first til