Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-09

altered, the only instrument thought oil was
the torch aud the bayonet-nO longer ago
than in the time of John knoX. Recent
events have shown that the true way TO re-
form, is not to burn the exterior, but TO heap
the Goals of Gods truth upon the hearts of
men. Slavery is coied up in the hearts of
tue electors-ond is deeper than the bottom
of the ballot-box. IL lives in human selfish
ness, and nothing short of Gods truth can
reach it. We must have an anti-slavery lit
eraturc have an anti-sluvery pulpit, with
zeal in it. This overrating the power of the
American ballot has been the damning her
esy of anti-slavcry efforts. Our purpose is
to stamp our principles upon the hearts of
all men. This is the true ground.
Stephen S. Foster defended the princi-
pies and measures of the American Anti !
Slavery Society, and sought with great ear
nestness to bring all the friends of the slave
upon its broad and catholic platform. Scve-
raj of his speeches are represented rs elo-
quent and powerful. 1t was his object to
induce all to unite with the American A. 5.
Society in the grand work of enlightening
and revolutionzng the Public Opinion on
which alone Slavery rests. In this he was
sustained by able coadjutors. The Liberty
Party champions, OH the other hand, con-
tended that Political Action was the great
and indispensable thing, aud that their or
ganzation was the best in the land. The
discussion took a wide range, aud resulted
at last in the adoption of the following reso-
| luton:
Resolved, That we will not impeach the
| sincerity of any persons anti-slaVery feeling
the devotion of any person TO the cause OF
| the Slaye-ether because OH the one hand,
! of his belief, or on the other hand, Of disbc-
| lief, that the Federal Constitution is respon-
| sibe for the existence of American Slavery,
and impotent to destroy II.
| This is well. We are confident that the
| Convention, in spite of oil the faults of its
management, has done great good, and there
fore we rejoice that it has been held.
Mr.. GARRIsoN sent a letter TO the Conven-
tiou, the principal part Of which we copy as
follows:
The existence of slavery in this country,
in the seycnty-fourth year of our national in
dependence, is the most ineXcusable OF
crimes. For people, holding it TO be a
| Scli-cNllclll tlIttt lItn uiC tiNh'S't
equal, and endowed by their Creator with an
inalienable right to liberty, to be literally
trafficling in the bodies and souls of mil
lions OF the human race, aud bending all
their energies 10 perpetuate this terrible sys-
tenn, is the most extraordinary paradox IN
the records of human depravity. Their case
admits of no eXtenuatlor, OF no apology
they are condemned out OF their own mouths
lin the emphatic language OF OConnelD as
'' the greatest OF liars and the vilest of hypo-
critics" Truly, their feet run to evil, and
they make haste to shed innocent blood
But their guilt is intensely aggravated by
their claiming to he Il Christian peOple-be-
, lcvers in Him who came TO be the Redeem
, er and Savior of men, not their enslaver-
to preach deliverance to the captive, and
the opening of the prison to them that arC
bound 1t is enough 10 send shuddeI
throughout tie universe. When think o
what slavery is-the extinction of every vir
tue, the nolrishment of every vice, the abro
CATION OF all holy prccepts and divine com
mands, the eXaltation of the save-maste
= above the living God, the overthrow of th'
: sacred institution OF marriage, the merciles
aud systematic robbery OF the poor and nee
DIV, tie extinction of mind and the ruin o
D the soul--ils yokes and ietters, its whips AM
/, bloodhounds, its thumb-scrcws aud brand
+. ing irons--and that this hcathenish AM
!, irightiul system is Upheld and defended, il
. Whole or in part, by all the leading Ielig
ous and political influences in the land-b
s) Catholics, Episcopalnns, Presbyterians, Bap
Il lists, Methodisis and other sects-by Wings
q Democrats, and lat least so far as the pro
= slavery compromises Of the Constitution ar
10 concerncd) even Free Soilers-l feel ho,
a utterly impotent is language to describe th
r sins OF the American people, Every eulog
N they pronounce upon liberty is a sentence {
" condemnation upon themselves; every dI
D. nunciation of tyranny that falls from the
or lips is woe invoked upon their own heads
III every celebration of their own deliveranC
Of from bondage is public demonstration TO ii
" world of their unparalleled ingratitude All
I'll duplicity.
- know of no other method of putin
in down slavery IA blood nsurection out {
or the question: except by making slave-hol
ing, in all cnses, most despicable al
Iet wicked act. The affirmation must be, wit
er out respect of persous-EvRRY sLAvE-H0L
er- Err IS A MAN-sTEALER,-and hc must
put on level with the basest of men. III
church that will receive him as a Christie
' brother, must be accommodated as herel
all cal in the worst sense. The governme
rt- that is framed to accommodate his tyrann
nd and that accords to him power IN propc
M ton TO the number of his victims, ceases
y deserve allegiance, and must be overthrow
~ There must he no union with slayeholde
me religiously or politically 1t seems to /
he impossible to utter palmer proposition.
ig- on uie part OF lhe SCUM, the cohu'a9n
shall give absolute protection and encol
,ur agement TO the slave system; to this hol
The that condition has been complied with /;
'al- refusal to comply with it dissolves the uni
, to inevitably and necessarily. The time i
ig- come to preach disunion, on the high'
ne. moral and religious grounds. The Cons