Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-05-25
NO. 81.
Anniversary PROCEEDINGS.


AnH-Slavery Society at its recent Anniversary
which we would be glad to insert at length
but as our columns are very much crowded, W,
shall give only extracts as will supply the de-
ficiencios in the report published last week
from The Tribune.
At the Business Meeting on Tuesday after.
noon, May 7th, Mary Grew of Philadelphia
was appointed Secretary pro tenn.
A Business Committee of Forty was appoint.
ed-wendell Philips Chairman; and Com
mittce to nominate officers-E. Quincy Chair
man.
wm L. Garrison read the following rcsolu-
tion.
Resolved, That the Anti-Slavery movement,
instead Of being infdel," in an evil sense Gas
Is falsely allegcd), is truly Christian, in the
primitive meaning of that term, and the special
embodiment in this country of whatever is 10y
al to God and benevolent to man; and that, in
view Of the palpablc ononnity of Slavcry--of
the religious and political professions Of the
people-of the age in which we live, blazing
with the concentrated light of many centuries
indifference or hostility to this movement in
dicates a state of mind more culpablc than was
manifested by the Jewish nation, in rejecting
Jesus, as the Messiah eighteen hundred years
ago.
Abby X. Foster proposed the following reso-
lutions:
Whereas, It is an undcniablc fact in the po-
litical history Of this country that there has
been going on, for the last half century, con-
slant struggle between tho interests OF free
dom and the interests of slavery; and
Whereas, Slavery has always bcon victor-
Gus, from the struggle for the Embargo to the
struggle against tho Wilmot Proviso, at each
succeeding conflict meeting with less resistance,
and
Whereas, In cnquiring for the means by
which an inconsidcrable minority OF southern
Shareholders have been able thus to make "tho
preservation, propagation and perpetuation oil
slavery the vital and animating spirit OF the
National government" we find it in the pcculi-
ar character of slave property, which, where 1t
exists, is of transccndant importance, and rem
ders all other property comp mparatively powcrlcss
and which, because of its great importance, in
separately binds together, on ali questions vital
to itself, the entire South; and yet still more
do we find it in the Constitutional compromise
by which the posscssor of this property ac-
quircs vast political power on his investment; {;
therefore,
Resolved, That the history Of American Sla-
very, its present aspects, its nature and its po-
sition in the groundwork of our political in
stitutions make it evident that so long as it re-
mains n constituent element of this government,
itmust be omnipotcnt, and every other inter-
est must necessarily bow before it.
And whereas, while politicians who really de-
sire the overthrow of Slavery, or at least ITS
restriction, have thought to accomplish their
object by entering the government, thereby sus-
tanning all its compromises, but have found
themselves, on all occasions, most signally de-
f,ated, the Abolitionists, on the contrary, re-
pudiating these compromises, and standing out
side the government, have gone on conqucring
and to conquer, till they have recovered the
liberty of speech and the press, the right of
peaceable asscmblage and petition, and have
redeemed almost the entire North from the
ravagcs Of the slave hunter, thrown into confu-
sion and put to route the political parties, and
broken the ranks of tho more thoroughly or
ganized and better disciplined pro-slavery
churches, and compelled their bitterest enemies
to acknowledge the justice of their cause, by
protesting to desire the abolition of Slavery;
therefore,
Resolved, That this Society has renewed
cause, on this its sixteenth anniversary, to ret-
crate its oft-rcpeated conviction, that renova-
ton of public sentiment, regeneration of the
national heart by the preaching of the gospel
of glad tiding, dcliverance to the captive, and
the opening of the prison to them that are
bound, is the remedy, and the only remedy, for
Slavery.
Tho meeting having been interrupted while
these resolutions were under consideration, no
vote was taken upon them. They are Zone the
less true or important, however, on that account
and we are certain that the great body of Abo-
ltionists will heartily respond to the sentiments
they SO happily express.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
The Society convened at No. $50 Pearl street
On motion of Edmund Quincy, the following
resolution was adopted:
Whereas, The meeting of the American Anti
Slavery Society was this day riotously broken
up by Mob; and whereas, no public room
could be procured for the Business Meetings
and whereas, the Executive Committee have
called this Special Meeting of the Society for the
purpose of transacting its necessary business I;
therefore,
Resolved, That this Meeting now proceed to
the election of officers and the transaction of
other business, in the same manner as if the
Annual Meeting had not been interrupted, all
irregularities being, in our opinion, cured by the
necessities of the case.
On motion of Henry G. Wright, it was re-
solved that the Executive Committee be in
structcd TO prepare and publish an account of
the riotous proceedings which interrupted tho
morning session of our meeting.
On motion, Resolved, That Wm l.. Garrison
anu OuuLlcS ". outicibh pc OOinullttco 70 pre-
pare resolutions upon the same subject.
On motion of Samuel Brooke, Committee of
three were appointed to collect donations and
pledges of money to the American Anti Slavery
Society. Abby X. Foster addressed the meet
ing on the Importance Of expending Anti-Slave-
ry labor in Eastern New York, Connecticut and
Vermont.
The following note, addressed to one of the
Executive Committee, was read;
"Pleaso consider me down for 800 to the
State Society, and 800 to the National-$25 of
which should ike devoted to reporting the
speeches at the Anniversary, as we are only OPP
posed because our doctrines arc not known
The masses are too true to the right to be against
it knowingly. If 1 have anything to say to the
Convention, it is to continue earnestly and hope
fully to spread our views before the people. In
this lies the salvation of our country. We are
sure TO triumph in spite of the perverseness of
the press in their constant misrepresentation of
ua or of the Church in har llnfaithfnlnasa