Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-10-16
PennsyIyanIa Anli.Slayery SOsIsty.

The time has arrived for the Executive Com
mittee of the Pennsylvania Anti.Slavery Soci-
city to summon its members and friends to its
Fifteenth Annual Meeting. Notice is therefore
given that that meeting will be held in the
Horticultural Hall, in West Chester, on Mon
day. Tuesday and Wednesday the 25th, 16th
9th Of the present month, commencing at 10
o'clock, A. NJ.
IL can hardly be necessary for the Committee
| to present in formal array the reasons which,
in their judgement, ought to secure full meet
ing of the Society the present year. Those
reasons will naturally suggest themselves to
every earnest friend of the cause. Experience
has taught us that these annual convocations,
If not indispensable to the life Of the Society,
arc invaluable for the opportunities they afford
for a ro.ext mination Of fundamental principles,
for survey of the past history and present
condition of the cause, for free interchange of
opinion as to the best mode Of carrying it for
ward, and last, but not least for the facilities
they present for the cultivation Of those fratcr-
nal symrathics which bind US to each other
and to the race, aud promp: us to labor as in
dividuals and as a Society for the dclivcrancc
Of those who arc cns!avcd.
The cloud which hung, over our pathway at
the time of our last Annual Meeting, threaten
ing us with the traitors doom as the penalty
for aiding the bondman In his fight, has happi-
ly passed away; but the Fugitive Slave Law,
which our rulers thus vainly attempted to
make the instrument for rcviving the odious
doctrine Of Constructive Treason, is still in
force, and the two great political parties of the
country tell us that it is and shall be, in connec
ton with the other measures Of compromise
passed by the Thirty-frst Congress, an ire
| pealablc 'finnlity'-a settlement, now and for
ever, of the whole question of slavery as per-
taining to the States Of this Union. And those
parties have pledged themselves to each other
and the country, the one to resist all attempts
at rcviving, in Congress or out of it. the
agitation Of the slavery question, under
whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made" and the other to dscountcnanee all
efforts to continue or renew such agitation,
whenever, whenever, or however made"
Al SNNh NhNhiiSNollNNFg NHtH NnC lCuulnk poll
iticians Of the country avow their purpose, in
behalf of slavery, to nullify the Liberty of
Speech and the Press, it is fitting that VIC
should come together to consider our response
biltics, and to decide whether VIC should cease
to plead the cause of the oppressed, or lift up
our voice moro earnestly than ever in their be-
half. In the din and turmoil of Presidential
canvass, while the political parties arc spending
their money and taxing their energies to secure
the emolumcnts of Office, it becomes us to show
to the world that in cause appealing TO oil
that is noble and godlike in human nature, and
which has in view the doliverance of millions
of our fellowcountrymen from chains and sla-
very, we arc not deficient in zeal nor wanting
in tho high resolve, the inacxible spirit, the
calm trust in God, which, in the face of every
danger and in spite Of cvory obstacle, presses
on to victory.
To friends of the cause in other States We
extend cordial invitation to meet with us and
aid us by their counsel and cooperation.
JAMES MOTT, President
J. NJ. McKM, Cor. See.