Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-24
NO. So.
Convention at Akron.


been siven--no place providcd-owing to a mis-
take. Notice was issued by l2 that meeting
would be held in the Universalist Church in tho
evening. Accordingly a meeting was held last
evening. J. w. Walker, Parker Pillsbury and
myself, with goodly audience were present.
The following Resolution was introduced last
evening:
Whereas, The Constitution of the U. s. did
provide for tho hopeless bondage in chattel
slavery of very large portion Of the people
who are by birthright free And Whereas, BY
the conditions OF this instrument we the people
of the North, are made responsible for the con-
tnuance Of Slavery, bound as we arc to return
the flying fugitive, to shoot down tho insurgent
slaves, who might, like the Hungarians or our
Revolutionary fathers, seek TO obtain liberty, by
resort to arms, or TO butcher whatever Indians
and Mcxicans the shareholders can induce the
government to make war against; therefore
Resoired, That tho Constitution Is and should
be held, especially at the North, as aconspiracy
against Liberty and Justice and a declaration of
high treason against the Sovereign Ruler ofthe
Universe, and as such, should be repudiatcd,
abandoned and execratcd by all who would not
be enemies Of God and OF the human race.
This was offered and advocated by Parker
Pillsbury, and much interest was excited.
1t is now 8, p. NJ, Parker Pillsbury is spoak-
ing to great effect. Wei met at 10 this forenoon
in the Church where VIC were last evening. It
is greatly to the credit Of the Univcrsalsts that,
amid such opposition, they have determined
their house shall be free to all questions of Hu-
manity. At the opening of the morning meet
ing introduced the following Resolution.
Resolped, That opposition to a Government
and infdelity to n Religion that sanction slave
ry, are duties imposed on us by Justice and
Humanity, and we should count It an honor to
be found worthy to be called enemies to such
Government and inidcls to such a Religion.
Washington, Hancock, Adams and their
compeers were traitors to the Government, to
which, in their blindness they had sworn allc-
glance. We have far more cause to be traitors
to this Government than they had to be traitors
to the Government Of Britain. Christ was an
infdel and blasphemcr against the religion
and gods of tho Jews and Gcntilos We have a
far moro justifablo cause to be- inidcls and
blasphemers to the Religion and God of this
nation. Our hopes of Heaven depend on our
scorning the Religion and rejecting the God of
this Republic. Whyf Because that religion
and that God sanction slavery.
A lawycr-Wm. Woolcott-appearcd to
show that the Disunionists were as guilty as
those who formed the governing power of this
nation; /. e. that those who submit to unjust
laws arc as bad as those who make and execute
them that those who submit to wrong arc us
bad as those who inflict it that the slaves are
rs bad as the Shareholders and the victim as bad
as the robber or the assassin. Now this was
the nmount of his position, as / understood it.
The following notice is III theBeacon of to-day.
CHRnrrAN ANTI SLAVERY CoNvENTIoN-All
Christians of Summit County, favorable to the
holding such Convention for the purpose of
discussing, responding to, or taking such other
action as may be deemed proper, upon the re-
solutons adopted by tho Christian Anti Slavery
Convention held at Cincinnati on tho 18th OF
April last, arc requested to meet at the I'd Cong.
Church in Akron, on Wednesday, Aug. 2S,
1850, at 10 o'clock A. NJ"
Over 40 names are attached to this call
among whom are Wigs, Democrats, and Free
soiiers. Look at it. Men who vote for slave
breeders and slave traders, for the highest of
fees in the nation, and men who swear by their
God that they will kill the slave if he attempts
to escape from resist his master, or to get his
freedoms men who mean to pcrpetuate theft
robbery and murder; meet as Christians % to
see how they can act in Christian way to
abolish the evil they arc sworn to support
Christians, as that word is understood by tho
priests and churches of this nation, can do moth
ing as Christians to abolish slavery. How can
theyf Slavery is not opposed to what is here
called Christianity. Tho Christianity of this
country lives and ilourishes as well with slave
ry as without it. 1t is not the religion which
Jesus taught and lived. These Christians of
Summit Co., must meet as MEN, or they can do
nothing However l am glad they mect.-
COMEOUTERS will be there to give direction
and energy to their sayings and doings. 1t viii
be a stirring time.
JAsPBR Moss is now trying to defend the
slave holding religion of this nation. lie is an
accomplished blackguRrd. He says he has spik-
cd our cannon and silenced our battery-the
only person in the house who thinks So There
is a general opposition to Moss. To bring Moss
to order DIR. Cowles was appointed chairman
The chairman decides that the quickest way to
get rid of Moss is to let him alone. The au-
dienoe has voted nearly unanimously that they
aid not want to hear Jasper Moss any longer at
this time, whcreupon said Moss gave notice
that he should review Abby X. Foster in Mo-
gadore and took his hat and walked out of the
house.
Abby X. Foster is now speaking, to show
that every member of this government, as a
part of tho governing power, becomes so by his
ovn consent. A man from England comes for
ward and asks" If swear to support the Con-
stitution, and thus become apart of the govern
ingpowOr, do pledge myself to the support and
pcrpetuity of Slaveryp
This meeting is having potent influence on
the minds of those present. Abby is arraign-