Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-10
1874
Antl.Slavery Convention at Cincinnati.


order by DIR. w. II. Brisbane, of Cheviot. Off.
GERS pro fcm, were chosen as follows: Thomas
Freeman, of Cincinnati, President; and Edward
Mathews, Secretary. The call for the Convcn-
ton was read by the Secretary. Prayer by w.
NJ. Mccullough A committee was appointed
TO nominate Officers Of tho Convention. Com
mittee Christian Donaldson, John De Graw,
and Edward Harwood, Of Cincinnati. DIR.
brisbane, in behalf of the ladies who had called
the Convention, stated its object.
In the afternoon Of Tuesday the following
persons were elected permanent officers Of the
Convention:
Prcsident-I. A. Hinc. Of Cincinnati.
Vice Presi9cnts-Thos Freeman and John
.JollifIe, Of Cincinnati.
Sccyctdyies-Edward Mathews Of Wisconsin,
and Sarah II. Ernst, Of Cincinnati.
The President on taking the chair made an
appropriate address.
The following Preamble and Resolutions
were introduced by tho Committee and by other
members of the Convention. They were dis
eusscd during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day by Messrs. Ward, Nevin, Treat, Rankin,
Readdington, Mathews, Carven, Wambaugh,
Price and others, ard wcro unanimously
adopted.
Whereas, We have assembled at period
when the Anti-Slayery cause has reached
most cveDtul crisis and, whereas, many in
all parts Of the country will be looking TO us
for an expression of our views in this inn
portant stage Of our enterprise, therefore,
this Convention, MS an expression of its scn-
iments, adopts the following resolutions:
l. That Liberty aud Justice are in danger
in the land; three millions of our fellow be-
ings are ia chains; Fugitive Law has been
passed, and throughout the length and
breadth Of the land the Slave Power threat
ems to reign supreme.
2. That noiO, therefore, is no time TO sleep;
II IL no time TO be dead it is the time TO
wake, and work, and live anew in the cause;
il is the time TO do, aud suffer, and il need
be, die; il is the time for every one who
claims TO be friend of the slave to lay his |
all upon the altar; to harness himself anew |
for the conflict TO throw himself into the |
thickest of the fight; and instead of being
discouraged and tempted to lay down arms
by the untownrd events Of these times, 10 lay
himself out TO do still more and more, neither
y
be-not circumscribed in its lmits-not de-
feated in its demands with regard to the Flu.
giiiye Law--not divorced from tho General
Goyernnent-but actually and ,ohoily abolish
cd from The land
3. That, us n great crisis demands great
exertlons, and as, in union there is strength,
the present alarming condition of things re-
qnres OF oil Abolitlonisis, that, so far rs pos
sible, they unite, and stand together, endeavor-
ing, on one common platform, to r-organiSe
the Anti Slavery sentiment Of the country,
and thus 10 enlist the combined energy of all
who hate oppression, in one determined sys-
TEN OF Efforts TO destroy this blighting curse,
ana TO "proclaim liberty throughout all the
land, unto nll the inhabitants thereof"
4. That M carrying on such system of
efforts, Mass Conventions of the friends of
the slave, irrespective of sect or party, ought
io be held in all parts of the country. Lee
iurers should be sent out TO preach tho gOs-
pei Of emancipation IN every town and vii .
lage; anti-sayery books, tracts aud newspa-
pers, should he scattered broadcast over the {
land the question of abolition should he
brought home to every mans hearthstone I
md a continual agitation thus be kept up, >
ill the national conscience shall be roused |
he public beart changed, and, as n necessa-
y consequence, slavery peceably abolished.
5. Thut Liherty and Slavery are as antago-
Iisiic TO each other as light and darkness,
md therefore both cannot co-exist in the
'alne country and under the same govern
ment.
q. That slavery as il exists in the United
States, is the greatest political and civil dcs-
polism on the face of the earth.
q. That slavery is antDgonstc TO the
Christian rpliuinn and ia ifa irrpufnef puautv |
in this country.
8. That slaveholding is practical Atheism,
and pro-slavery ministers and Church mem
bers aro merely inIpostors under the cloak of
religion.
0. That the Fugitive Slave Law passed
and approved last September, is a most fa-
grant outrnge upon the rights of freemen;
most fiagrant violation OF tins Federal Con-
sttulion and therefore it is an act against
which the moral, social and political intiu-
enco of all the people ought TO be arrayed.
10. That the recent delivery OF Sims TO |
bis claimants in Boston, is a demonstration !
Of the utter and hopeless snbseryiency of
The National Administration TO the Slave
Power, aud the readiness of the ruling poll
licians Of our country TO place the whole
North under the despotism of military rule,
10 further the heayen-dnring objects and pur-
poses of the Slave Power.
ii. That our friends in Boston, who so
nobly stood by Graft and his wife, and Shad-
rach and Sims, deserve aud receive the APP
proval and the sympathy of this Convention,
and the friends of humanity everywhere.
IL. That in the growing and increasing in |
hueIce of the Slave Power, we see abnnd-
ant evidence of the need aud imperative de- |
mand of the renewed zeal and energy of
for the overthrow of this ac-
cursed system. For either slavery and kin
dred atrocities must be destroyed, or the day |
will soou come when the North and the |
South, the blacks and the whites, will he |
subjects Of common ard hopeless lot
victims alike of slavery which knows no
parallel.
10. That whatever are, or may be, our
different views and opinions ubout voting,
aud political parties, we arc united in the /