Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-06-21
From The A. S. Standard.
The New England Convention.

was held last week, with the most perfect
and the most gratifying success. We, per-
haps, never had n stronger array of speakers
than at this time. Besides Mr. Thompson
there was Messrs. Garrison, Phillips, Pillsbu-
ry, Remond H. G. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Fos-
ter, G. G. BurIeigh, $. J. May, Edwin Thomp-
son, and many others. The strain of the
speaking was maintained at the highest pitch
of excellence in the various styles of the
speakers, aud in variety and ability they
could not have been egualled in the country.
Aud being exempt from the fatal presence OF
Mayor Bigelow and Marshal Turkey, we had
q perfectly quiet and ediiying time.
The circumstance of our finding ourselves
again, nlter the lapse of seventeen years, in
the small hall where the first New England
Convention was held, in 1884, was an inter-
esting and not an uusuggcstlve one. How
varied and strange has been our experience
since that time How has death aud back
sliding and treachery and deserlion thinned
the ranks of those that stood shoulder to
shoulder with each other then! How have
the vacancies in the ranks been filled up by
newer aud better soldiers After having
carried Funeul Hall at the point of the bay
onct, as il were, and maintained il for so
many years, we are disposscssed of it by the
ofa City Government, and driven into our
original entertainments, for the lack of better.
But is the tide Of time turned back by this
apparent triumph of Webster Whiggcry over
Anti. slavery? Has tie sun gone back upon
the Diul-plute? And because the shadow
marks the same meridian that it did seven
teen years ago. has the world stood still all
that time? Nay, verify. Seventeen revolu-
tons of the earth round the sun have
wrought strange changes in human condi.
/ ton aud human opinion, all over the world
Rcvo Ition and Reaction have shaken Eu-
rope. America has been the scene of that
conflict of Institutions aud Ideas which is
Revolution. And Notwithstanding apparent
defeats aud imaginary successes of the oue-
/ my, there has been no Reaction. The pro-
grcss of events aud the uninterrupted con-
quest of the old ideas of the country by the
new has gone on steadily ever since the
Movement began, twenty years ago. Things
can never be restored TO the position in
which they then stood. The New England
Convention of 1851 stands in an attitude and
occupies position very different from that
of 1891. Ii looks back upon n pathway
slrcwed with the trophies of victory, though
it looks forward to one beset with many dan
gers and lying through many n battlefield
TO be won before the complete and final
triumph.
We have no doubt that we shall have Fan
euil Hall again in due time, if we do but |
persist i'll Our agitation, and rcsolutely him |
der the pacifica,on of the country, for which
Daniel Webster and his retainers sigh. tits
certainly 10 slight sign of progress that MIR.
Thompson could speak in public and express
his whole mind on the matter of Slavery
xvitln,,t p.floltntinn Ii.tttrlNnnrn in tho
heart of Boston. The walls of Fancuil Hall
will yet rG-echo his voice aud resound with
the acclamaions which will drown the me-
mory of its past disgrace. We can wait.
E.Q
The following are selected from resolu-
ton passed on the occasion.
| Whereas, 1t being solemnly set forth in
| the Bill of Rights of Massachusetts, that
every human being has n natural aud an in
ulicnable right TO liberty, and TO defend that
right under all circumstances and at every
hazard; and whereas, all the judges of the
State Courts, all the members of the legal
profession, aud all jurors, are under solemn
oaihs to uphold the Bill of Rights aforesaid
therefore
Resolved, That to place human being
on trial. in this Commonwealth, to determine
whether he is the property of another, is &c
trample the Bill of Rights of Massachusetts
in the dust; and every Judge, lawyer or ju'
ror consenting TO such trial is a selEcOnyc
ted criminal of no ordinary stamp.
Resolved, That when we look at tie over
whelming public opinion and the immense
physical odds arrayed against them, we claim
Tor the rescuers Of Shadrach the same hero
ism, aud the same right 10 the gratitude ant
admiration OF mankind, that history aud tht
country claim for Washington aud Hancock
Resolved, That us liberty is n selfevidenl
inaienable right to every human being, ",
eau have 10 respect for any law or Constl
tuition, any religion or government, or an
) book or being, that sanctions Slavery.
Resolved, That it is as absurd, as wcke
, aud injurious to our social, moral nature, {
, Join with Shareholders to establish justice
: aud secure the blessings of liberty as
would be to seek counsel and aid of liars I
= promote truth, or of thieves to secure pro
= perry, or Of murdercrs and pirates TO protec
{ life, or of dolalors to establish Christianity
, nasmuch as by so doing, we practically re
!, cogniZe the earth's most cruel and unscru
Q pulous oppressors as the lovers and friend
i of Justice and liberty, and practically say I
n the word-Liberty and Slavery may exist j
LOVING harmony, uhder tue equhl pTolectlo
: of tho same government, the same religio
Il and the same God.
J, Resolved, That we owe il as a sacred dl
/ ty to God and man, TO seek the dissoutio
e of Union that in its very nature is houn
n TO extend cqlnl protection TO the slaveholC
c crs nnd the friends Of freedom; TO the in
o pure and ille pure TO the false nnd the truC
d TO the thief and the hottest mun.
b. Whereas, n new, gigantic md nations
= effort is maniiestly about to he made to efle'
i the expulsion of the free colored populatiO
II of this country to the coast of Africa, und
II various dcceitlil and specous guises: ther
o fore:
i Resolved, That the American ColonzaliC
;. Society, in lis origin, its principles, its o
g iects, It's pretences and its diversified mod
/ of operation, is one of the meanest, mo
S oppressive, aud most prO-sayery conspirac