Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-10-04
NO.. g.
National Mass Convention Of the Friends Of
Freedom.


the reports to have passed off greatly to the sat-
isfaction Of its friends. We condensc from the
True Democrat. President, DIR. T. julius La
moyn Of Pennsylvania. Vice Presidents, Wood
bury Davis, of Maine; L. Tappan, of n. York
w. H. Brisbane, of Ohio; g. NJ. Julian, of In
diana; and s. NJ. Booth, of Wisconsin. Sccre-
saries, D. T. Hoffman, and II. f. Brayton, of o.,
and NJ. Kelsey, of ILL.,
After the Election of Officers, c. NJ. Clay adj
dressed the Convention, till the hour Of adjoun-
ment. Mr.. Clay said, The Constitution was a
declsrssion of neutrity between the Slave States
and the free. 1t demands that the slaves be de-
iivered up-not that they be caught and return
cd. The fugitive law violates this neutrality.
] would rather live under the despotism of the
Autocrat Of Russia-undcr any despotism re-
,cognized among mcmillan the despotism OF
slavery. 1t is the despotism, not OF one man,
but of million petty lords and tyrants. We
can have real liberty in these States until the
power is wrcstcd from the slaveholding infu-
encc of the South. You will struggle in vain to
make labor respectable, while slavery exists in
the South its effects are seen in every avenue
of life, social, civil, commercial, and industrial.
Ho had supported Henry Clay and General
Taylor, but the time had come when he must
separate himself from the Wing Party. a no.
bic army have put their hands to the plow, and
they will never look back, until LIBERTY shall
be the birth right and boon of every son and
daughter OF this glorious Confedcracy.
ARernoon.-Mr. Davis of Maine said lie was
rcjoiccd to hear tho noble sentiments of Mr.
Clay of Kentucky. His name had not been for
gotten in New England. Slavery and freedom
arc antagonistic. If slavery remains all We as
freemon hold dear, is lost. The slave has COM
mon sympathics with ourselves lie feels with
Patrick Henry, the inspiration Of the sentiment
'Gire me Liberty or gre mo Dcath.
. Mr.. Lewis said, there was more Of Anti
Slavery feeling now in the United States, than
ever bcforc-but we wanted unity of action. 1t
is not the business of the Legislature to declare
our rights, but to protect them. Slavery is ar
aggressive principle Liberty propessire
When Louisiana and the other States hold
ing slaves were admitted, we had no legal or
Constitutional right to adopt their slavery. The
people of the United States are responsible for
all the slavery in Louisiana, Alabama, and all
the slave States admitted since the formation
Of the Constitution. Liberty and prosperity go
together despotism and adversely. Slavery,
before the admission of these new slave States,
began to die; and even Jefferson declared that
the time was at hand in Virginia, when slaves
would advertise their runaway masters, instead
Of masters their slaves so improbable had
slavery become in that State. But when we ad-
mitted these new slave States, the more north
crn slave States became breeding States cotton
became profitable, and the great market for
slaves was opened and the horrors of the slave
traffic commenced. Much has been said of the
African slave trade but in point of iniquity
misery and long list of horrors, the domestic
slave trade was far worse. The African, when
taken in his native land, is uncivilized and bar
barous, and this traffic to him is less than
10 those reared for the Southern market in the
slave breeding States. And it said, gentlemen,
the slave States have created this state of things
1t is the free States-our own people. We en-.
dorsc the barbarous system, and we arc infinite
ly moro guilty than the South in MAJ respects.
The South, by their pulpits and schools, say
that slavery is right-their politicians, teachers,
minister and laymen endorse it. We, on the
other hand, are taught from our childhood to
believe that it is wrong. We know it wrong,
yet we tamely endorse it, and bow down to the
political parties which obey, with a willing
heart, the behests of the slave power; and he
1.t l. Z.
righteous God shall visit upon our heads the
same measure that we measure out to the op.
pressed.
The accumulation of slave territory has invi-
ted the slave trade, and it has increased and
strengthened; and slavery has progressed to
such an extent that the great principles of the
Declaration of Independence are no longer re-
garded, but are derded and held up to scorn.-
The wealth of the free States sustains slavery.
Slavery and wealth are united and tho laborer
is thereby the great sufferer 1t is for this rea-
son that Shareholders will not permit the North
TO prosper Our banks and tariffs are built up
and pulled down because slavery wills it. Ii
we prosper under one system of policy, that is
changed, because slavery demands it. Our
prosperity is adverse to the interests of that in
stitution. Neither will the stakeholder permit
the spread of free and correct principles around
him, because they tend to the downfall of slave
~, Equality of rights is denied, and tho laborci
alone suffers.
Mr.. Stanbury of Vermont, believed with Mr.
Lewis, that the Wing Party is rapidly fusinG
itself into the o-slayery ranks The Whin
and Democratic party, have given themselves
up to the slave power They have elected al
who manifested sympathy for the slave. The
Wing Party places property above men. HI
would act with no party, who, when the crisii
demands it, would not act with the right
Evening Sessioa.-Mr. Julian, of Indiana ad
dressed the Convention.