Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-06-28
ExEourrE COMMITTEES meets July 9Th.
Industrial Congress.

and quito q number OF important resolutions
were adopted. A stormy debate ensued upon
the presentation Of the credentials Of Samuel
II. Ward,-a small minority, desining to cx-
clude him on account of his complexion. lie
was however triumphantly admitted only six
votes against him. Isaac 2. Walker was unan-
mously nominated for the Presidency and it
was resolved to make land REFORM the sole issue
for the present, avoiding all other embarrassing
questions.
correspondent of the True Democrat, la
bors to vindicate the propriety of this course
from the Importance Of the proposed reform
from the probable fact that if the question is
left unembarrassod, the Democratic party will
adopt it as party measurc,-tAat they shall
have the aid of eminent southern statesmen, as
Brown of Miss, Houston of Texas, Nicholson
and Johnson, of Tenn, Hilliard of Alabama,
Benton of Missouri and others'-and that all
efforts to repeal the fugitive slave law will be
Intellectual and any modification that can be
effected, undesirable. For these reasons he calls
upon rcformers to unite in this, as the great
work of the present,
We Odh W to JUN III TINS CNnOft0uOn
of present abandonment of the slave question,
or other measures Of reform. But to those
who sec it TO be the first great qucston-or the
one which can now be most successfully pressed
we say by all means prosecute it. But our friends
reckon without thci host, when they calculate
on aid from the slave power-or the Dcmocra-
tic party. Brown. Houston and Hilliard in COM
mon with the whole power of the South, make
the interests of slavery to override every thing
else. And they are not so mole-eyed, as not to /
see that land reform, from its very character and
tendency, urged as it is by the entire radicalism |
of the North, will be if adopted now but q
stepping stone to emancipation. 1t is useless
sheer folly to attempt to divorce any thing that
concerns the interests of the whole country, |
from the question of slavery. Church and |
State have done little else for the last fifteen |
years, but to labor for this result With what |
success let their past history and present condi-
tion tell The evils and wrongs of slavery reach |
every where The friends of tho system will |
not not now accept of neutrality or silence as
the terms of cooperation in any work of COM
mon interest, however important. There must
be aid and comfort direct and palpablc, afforded |
TO the system. 1t will not be enough that they |
refuse to ngitate on tho subject of the fugitive |
slave law. They must give it their hearts ap-
probation and evincc it by obedience to its most
revolving rcquisitons. The Industrial Con-
gross has already gone too far to effect the pro-
posed coalition Their act of manly indo-
pendcncc and justice, in admitting their worthy
their convention, is such q rebuke 10 slavery
and prejudice rs can never be forgiven If they
desired or expected to cooperate with South
ern Statesmen and their sorvle handmade, the
Democratic party, they should have followed
the advice of their Philadelphia correspondent,
and the worthy New Yorker who left them in
disgust, because they recognized manhood in a
sable garb.
Land freedom we believe to be indispensable
to personal freedom and social happiness, and
land limitation such as the Congress proposes,
is incompatible with chattcl slavery. But the
argument of impracticObility is quite as good
against this measure against the repeal of the
fugitive law. Men retain slaves because they
are property and they love it. Will they re-
linquish their moro PLAUSIBLE, if not more just
claim upon the soil, while they outrage all the
dictates of reason and the impulses of their
own nature by approptiating their fellow be-
ings as propertyl 1t is manifest to us that we
can accomplish most Greatly, if not apparently
by striking at the principles of slavery in its
grossest form. At least we cannot see the pro-
priety of abandoning our present work for the
cooperation of those who arc pledged by their
private interests and public declarations to
maintain their Southern institutions.
The folio wing resolutions on the subject of
education were adopted by the Congress. They
are admirable, and present the system of edu-
cation that should be sustained by the govern
ment
Resolved, That all human improvement is
tho Q ct Of physical and mental elevation, and,
accordingly, we place the education Of the peo-
pie as the basis of all human progress.
Resolved, That every child has a natural
right to the best education which the science ;
and wealth of the age can provide, and reform
ers should not cease their labors in the i'm
proyement Of our educational system until eve ,
ry school house shall be peoples college,
where thorough physical and mental discipline
and complete education can be obtained by s
every child.
Resolved, That We do not distinguish edu- )
cation by sex, but believe that both the male
and female child should receive equal educa- !
tional advantages and enjoy precisely the same {
means of mental discipline and development. i
Resolved, That VIC recommend the establish
ment in every State of the Common School
Library System of New York and Michigan, by c
which the children are made the messengers
of intelligence to thousands of destitute fami-
lies. c
Resolved, That while We would not oppose =
the establishment of high schools for the most