Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-27
Liberty Party Convention.

Committee reported the following series of Re-
solutions, which were adopted:
I. Resolved, That righteous civil govern
ment is an indispensable agency for blessing
and saving the world and that every politi-
cal party, which does not identify itself open
ly and heartily with such government is un-
worthy of confidence and support.
2. Resolved, That righteous civil govern
ment is impartial towards all its subjects, aud
redresses all the wrongs within its reach;
and hence it disowns the policy Of removing
one evil and neglecting another, and of do
ing justice TO one portion of its subjects aud
leaving another TO groan under injustice; and
that, more especially, it dsowns the policy
of removing one evil by means which coA-
firm and perpetuate other evils, and of bene-
fting one class OF its subjects at the expense
Of sacrificing another.
g. Resolved, That righteous civil govern
nlent enacts no laws, eniorces no laws, obeys
no laws, knows no laws for slavery
4. Resolved, That the "fugitive slave law
is not law-that there is no more real, obi
gntory, and authoritative law in it than there
would be in any other law for robbery and
murder; aud that the members of Congress,
who voted for il, and the President who
signed it, and the Judges who uphold it, and
the officers who execute it, and the polti-
cinns who are constrained to swallow it, aud
the Doctors of Divinity who are its cham
pions, are as much pirates as IL their war
against humanity were not carried on under
the screen aud cover of law--that law being
MS destitute of all the elements and authori-
~ Of true law, as is any other wicked and
blaspbemous enactment OF any other wicked
aud blasphemous men.
). Resolved, That the chief reason why
laws for enslaving the being made in the i'm
nge of God, are not held by oil persons TO be
as absurd aud as void as would be laws for
enslaviug God himself, is that all persons do
not appreciate the Immortality of man and
the glory aud honor with which his Maker
has crowned him.
9. Resolved, That not only is it true, that
neither the Federal Constitution nor any
other paper can authorize slavery, but it is
also true that the Federal Constitution does
not attempt nor claim TO authorize il.
4. Resolved, That in order to promote the
overthrow of the whole system of American
slavery no time should be lost to disengage
| the Federal Government from the service OF
slavery, and to reduce its patronage and
power 10y making the far greater part of its
officers, and especially the office OF poslmas-
ter, elective.
8. Resolved, That inasmuch as every
slavehoding government is piracy, it follows
that whether il he Cuba or South Carolina,
Brazil or Georgia, that pirates invade, there
Is no more reason for sympathizing with the
| invaded than with the invaders.
Q. Resolved, That there is reason to hope
that the present strife for the rule of Cuba
that the present collision between American
| scoundrels and Cuban scoundrels-may re-
suit in the delivernnce Of the slaves of Cuba
! and thus furnish another verifcation of the
ndage that "whcn rogues fall out honest men
get their dues"
10. Whereas, Notwithstanding kidnap-
pers are the guilticst of the guilty, and the
basest OF the base, the American press is
teerning with denunciations of the PenDsyl.
vania black men who recently shot several
kidnappers; and whereas, il these black men
were white men, they would, instead of be-
ing denounced, he praised aud glorifed ioI
their brave aud bloody defense of their God
derived, invaluable, aud unforfeited personal
freedom Resolved, therefore, that these de.
nunciations add another to the already innu-
nerable glaring instances of that deep injus-
tice aud shameless hypocrisy, and sham re.
pnblicanisIn, and sham Christianity which
characterizes the American public.
III. Resolved, That righteous civil govern.
ment will not violate, aud will not suffer to
he violated, the right TO the soil-that right
being as natural, absolute, and equal, as the
right TO the light aud air, and land monopo.
ly being as worthy of condemnation as would
be the attempt to monopolize the light and
the mir
IL. Resolved, That whilst land reformer,
are gratiied and encouraged by the enact
ment Of "homestead exemption laws" moth
ing short of"land Limitation laws" can ol
should satisfy their just demands.
13 Resolved, That righteous civil govern
ment will not permit the traffic in intoxica
ting drinks, inasmuch as this traffic impose.
uncomfortable burdens of pauperism on the
sober, and renders life and property fright
fully insecure by its production of innumer
ablc madmen.
IA. Resolved, That righteous civil govern
ment recognizes the one brotherhood of tn
human race, and does, therefore, call for u
unrestricted a trade, and as free an eXchang
Of the products of industry between the peo
pie of different nations as between the peo
pie of the same nation.
is. Whereas, II is the boast of Christia
nations that their improved religion and in
proved civilation are indicated by the i'm
proved condition of woman Resolved there
fore, that no religion, aud no civilization, an
no government are worth boasting OF, whic
do not recognize the measure of hnina
rights to bo the same in the case of wonal
as in the case ef mae.
f6. Resolved, that whilst we have no col
troyersy with colonization, be its subject
black or white, or its colonies in Africa {
elsewhere, we nevertheless condemn the A
merican Colonization Society as most lynn
and malignant, and murderous enemy to III
Observation-Disclosures and nourisl
ing ar il does the spint of caste-denying q
it virtually does, the men, who are black,
choose their homes aud traducing and viliG
ing, us il does, such Of them as choose the