Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-16
L II E B i G L E
The Pioneer Society.


The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society,
the Parent of all the other Associations in
the land, founded upon the principle of I'M
mediate Emancipation, held its Eighteenth
Anniversary in Foncul Hall, Boston, on the
23d, 9th and 25th ult. We have before us
the official report of the proceedings in The
Libeator-an editorial account from Ed
mund Quincy, in the Stdnddrd-and de-
scriptive letter from J. NJ. M'Kim to the
Pennsylvania Freeman. All these accounts
concur in representing the meeting to have
been numerously attended and deeply inter-
esting. Garrison was absent most Of the
time on account of illness, but came in on
the third day and made speech, in which
he showed no lack of his accustomed fire.
Phillips, Quincy, May, MKim, Lucy Stone,
Parker Pillsbury, and others took part in the
discussions.
The Resolutions adopted by the Old Pi-
onccr Society are even better than usual, and
that is saying enough to justify us in present
ing nearly all of them to the readers of The
Buglc. If we were asked to guess whose
pen traced the following series, offered by
the Business Committee, the answer would
he Just us easy as il is TO write the name of
WENDELL PHILLIPS:
l. Resolved, That surprised US VIC arc ut
the simplicity of the Northern press and
Northern members of Congress, in urging so
necessarily upon Southern Disunionists that
their course will defeat their object, since in
the Union and under the Constitution IL the
only security for the permancnce and quiet
enjoyment of slave property, we are still more
disgusted nj the unbushing impudence with
which these same editors and politicians rise
from their seryle knees TO ask of the abol-
tionists the support of that very Instrument
which they have Just proved TO be the cor
ner-stone of bondage, and a comfort to the
oppressor..
2. Resolved, That we look upon it as one
source of rejoicing even in the atrocious sys-
tenn Of slavery, that the agitation for its over
throw seems destined TO waken to life the
torpid conscience of the nation, 10 quicken
it's sense of Justice, and to recall pure religion
TO the desecrated temples and whited sepul-
chres which have SO long passed for its
shrines.
3. Resolved, That one chief reason why
we eutef our TcDukc uBuiust THE Shbheh 10,
that having so long scattered the seeds of re-
form, she sits still, now that the fields are
white for the harvest that she disowns the
principles which have sprung from her bo-
som, brands them as infidel, and gathers into
her fold those timid sheep, whom she can
still govern, lest they be corrupted by the
running TO and fro, and increase of know
ledge which her prophets have foretold;
that, claiming TO have on the breastpate of
righteousness, she refuses 10 have any thing
to do with the battle claiming to hold the
sword of the Spirit, she keeps il nicely
sheathed, while other men contend for the
faith once delivered 10 the saints; and in
view of these facts, we pronounce her claim
10 be the Church of Christ ON idle blasphe-
my.
4. Resolved, That, in view of the nnti-sla-
very progress of the past year, it must be
matter of surprise to all coming time, that in
nation sprung from English and Puritan
ancestry, the political arena should be the
first 20 awaken to its duty on great moral
question, and that an agitation like that of
anti-slayery should owe its progress and sue
cess far more to the forum than the pulpit,
10 the selfish broils and time-serving mo-
tiOns at Washington, than to those who u.s.
sumo to fill the pulpits of Cooper aud May
hew, and to teach the Gospel of Christ.
S. Resolved, That we look on the present
session of Congress as the most useful since
the organization of the Government and con-
slider It's character the result not only Of the
virtue and independence of few leading
minds there, but of that awakened public
opinion of the free States, of which Wash
ington is but the echo; and this conviction
gives fresh animation TO the zeal with which
we set ourselves again TO the work of reed
ucating corrupt and besotted people.
6. Resolved, That we seek a dissolution
of this union, first as a measure of individual
duty TO cease from sustaining a great evil (;
secondly, to secure free action and expression
for that degree of anti-slayery feeling which
even now exists in the nation, and which is
either soothed by the pride, cajoled by the
professions, or intimidated by the power OF