Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-26

heavenly temper you have assaulted the
frowning fortress of Slavery and bombarded
the most impregnable of all castles, the hu-
man Conscience scared by the long practice
of cruelty and crime, and fortified by ccntli-
RES of corrupt legislation and the m1xims of
worldly expediency. 1t is for your iutrepidi-
~ and unfaltering courage in this moral war
fare that we love aud honor you--ior this
that we would cheer your lsart anI strength
en- your hands by our approving smiles.
II only renains for mo, in bslialf of the free
heats here convened, to give you this RroHr
HAND or WELCOME. Accept 1t as a sym
bol of our confidence in your integrity, of our
grateful appreciation Of your services in the
caus, OF Freedom aud Humanity, aud of our
warm sympithy for you under all the trials
and discouragenents which ever wait upon
those who seek to bring Nation to repent
ance for its crimes We believe with the
lamented CHASNISG, that " l' it is good
thing to houor dead saints and the heroism
of our fathers, il is better thing to honor
the slints of to-day, the live herosm of men
who do the battle when the battle is all
around u.s." The tyrauts of the land may
hate nndp ,rsecute you polite Il traitors aud
pries,ly parasites nlny brand you as a fanatic
aud an 'iucendihry'; You my be scorned by
all that is mean aud vIlgw and mobocratic
in the country; but let not these things move
you. ais it not enough for the disciple that
Ie he as his master aud the servant as his
lord?' It they have called JESUS Belize
bub, how much more shall they call those
who in our age aud generation attempt TO
follow in his lootsteps' You may not live
to witness the triumph of the cause to which
so much of your life has been devoted but
grateful posterity will do justice to your
memory and water your grave with tears of
thanksgiving:
"And, where the South wind fingers
On Carolina's pines,
Or falls the careless sunbeam
Down Georgia's golden Mines
Where now beneath his burthcn
The toiling slave is drivcn,-
Where now n tyrant's moekory
Is offered unto IIeayon,-
Where Mammon hath its altars
Wet ocr with human blood,
And pride and lust debases
The workmanship Of God,-
There shall thy praise be spoken,
Redeemed from falsehood's ban,
When the fctters shall be broken,
And the slave shall be man."
Mr.. GIDDISos then proceeded to address the
M,otinU To 10 far tya hau
the subject of the Peace Measures $50 callcd)
of the last Congress, particularly the Fugitive
Slave Law, and was listened to with intense in
tercst by the crowded auditory. The officers of
the meeting regret that no reporter was in attcn-
dance to give the whole community the benefit
of speech so rcplctc with sound and noble
sentiments and instinct with anti-slayery life.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Gddings's Speech,
the Business Committee reported the following
Resolutions, which were adopted by the meet
ing By unanimous and hearty vote:
Resolved, That in Joshua Il. Giddings we re-
cognize the bold and able champion OF human
freedom.
Resolved, That he has said no moro in the
American Congress than any man free himself
and representing frecmcn would have said that
We have no fulsomo praise to bcstow upon him.
satisfied that he has simply discharged his duty
and in saying this We convey all the censure and
indignation we feel upon those representatives in
that body who have fallen short OF him in manly
rebnkes of slavery and its encroachments.
Resolved, That we look upon the American
Congress rs completely under the savcholdmg
influence, and rs n necessary consequence, rs
essentially corrupt; that the people have it in
81, o;r t,,s rbas raloo
national character, both by moral saasion and
through tho ballot box.
Resolved, That we view recent law Of that
body known as the Fagitiee La'e" or " Stare
Catching made Easy" as the most infamous act
OF any Legislative body, and for ourselves, with
all becoming nlOdesty and difference to the opin-
ions OF the Stuarts, Websters and other worthies,
VIC will soar above them, choosing rather to obey
the Higher LalO."
Resolved, That the recent effort to put down
agitation on the subject of slavery presents not
only to the aboitionist but to the friends of free
government an alarming prospect, that imperi-
ously calls upon the friends OF freedom TO lay
aside all differences of opinion in regard to
modes of action, and unitcdly and individually
use all their influence to enlighten and purity
public sentiment, so as to secure to themselves
and their posterity the inestinablc right to free
dom of speech and the liberty of the press.
The question coming up, whether the people
of this community will suffer any of their citi-
zens to be carried into slavery, the following
stanza was read from the Hymn sung at the
commencement of the meeting, and it was adop-
ted as the sense of the meeting, by unanimous
and hearty vote:
Yet if our Southern neighbor
Shall follow here the track
OF 'fugtives from labor
WE WILL NOT GIVE rHRM BACK
No laws OF Congress ever
Shall blood hounds make Of us,
For we will barter never
Mans rights for slavery's curse.
On motion of William McClain, vote was