Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-16
FRIDAY EyENING.

FRIDAY EvENING.
Meeting convened according TO adjourn
ment. The Chairman being absent, ON
motion DR.. A. Carey was appointed TO ell
his place.
On motion, J. ID. Cattell, and Dr. J. STAN
ton were appointed Vice Presidents, and A.
Hinchman Assistant Secretary.
The Committee OH Resolutions reported
the series given below, which, after being
separately discussed at considerable length
by a number of persons in a spirit and man
ner befittng their importance, and after
few amendments made thereto, were UNANI-
MoUsLY adopted by the meeting.
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, An emissary of certain Slave
holders in Virginia has recently been prowl-
ing in our midst, in the odious capacity Of n
spy, for the purpose of ascertaining the resi-
dence of some of our colored fellow citizens
aud neighbors, who are said to he fugitives
from slavery, and with the manifest inten-
ton to win their confidence, and Judas like,
to betray them into the hands of their for
ner masters; and
Whereas, The visit of the said spy was inn
mediately followed, on the 5th inst, by the
arrival in our midst oftwo avowed Slavchold-
ers, named ARCHIBALD PAUL and SAMUEL
mitchell, of Wheeling, Va, whose conduct
while here, in connection with reliable in
formation from other sources, leaves no
room TO doubt that they were concerned in
the execution of n plan to seize and carry off
by force or stratagem, the persons whom
they aledge to be fugitive slaves; or to incite
some hindrance to their capture with view
to prosecute some one under the law of '93
for their value; and
Whereas, Such occurrences in the midst of
peaceful and prolesscdly Christian commu-
nifty, at the noon of the Nineteenth century,
aud among a people claiming to be the
friends of universal Freedom, should not be
suffered to pass without some expression of
the Indignation and horror which they must
ever excite in the breasts of those who eth
er revere God or love their fellow man (;
therefore we, the people of Salem, without
distinction Of sect, party or sex, being con-
vened in public meeting, do adopt the fol-
lowing resolutions:
l. ResOlued, That we regard the enslave-
ment OF one human being by another, as one
of the most neiarious crimes ever committed
by man; or, in the language of John Wesley,
as 'THE SUM OF ALL VILLAINY.'
2. Resolped, That we do most solemnly
deny than man can eper be the property OF
man, and maintain that every human being,
by virtue of his constitutional and natural re-
lation TO God and his kind, is the supreme
gunner, against the iporLd, of his own body and
soul, and therefore, that it is the right, and
when possible, the DUTY, of every slave in
the xunrA IN xyb bo
him as n chattei.
3. ResOlced, That slapeholding is as much
nieaner and baser in the United States, than in
other countries, as our professions of tope for
humanity and freedom are more conspicuous
than those of any other people on the face
| of the earth.
4. RESOLVED, That the fugitive Slaves OF
our own country have claims upon our COM
passion and sympathy, far stronger than any
that can be urged by those who have fled
from the crushing despotisms ofthe Old World
and that il is cause for deepest humiliation
and shame, that while the people of the land
receive the latter with open arms, and would
resist unto blood any efforts of their former
oppressors TO drag them from our shores,
they yet conspire under the solemn forms OF
idt0, TO betray the former into the hands OF
those who are seeking TO reduce them again
TO chains and SLAVERY.
S. Resotued, That if there be any class OF
people among lis better entitled than another
10 our kindness and protection, il is those who
have made their escape from Southern Sla-
very and if there is any crime that ought to
awaken deeper indignation, or excite pro-
founder horror in our bosoms than another,
u is that of attempting, by whatever means,
TO re-ensidue them.
6. Resolped, That the moral indignation
exhibited toward the slape eatcheys by those
of our citizens, who were apprised of their
presence, and of the crime they were con-
spring to commit, was crsditable to them,