Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-11-19
ANTI-SLAvERY BUGLE.
SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ANTI-sLAvERY
SOCIETY

The Pennsylvania Ant-Savery Society convened
In its Sixteenth Annual Meeting, in Odd Fellows
Hall, in Norrstown, Tenth no. 9th, 1858.
We intended to have given more crcumstan-
tial account Of this interesting meeting, than our
room will now permit. James and Lucrctia Mott
Thomas Whitson, Oliver Johnson j. Miller McKim
and Samuel Aaron, were among the speakers
The following are the resolutions adopted;
l. Resolved, That the American Anti-Slavery
enterprise is one of personal interest to every in
divdual of this nation, inasmuch us the liberties
of each, and the prosperity Of all, involved in
it and as slavery is not sectional but national
crime, it is a duty which all owe to themselves,
their posterity and their country to labor for its
immediate overthrow.
2. Resolved, That the Statute popularity called
the Fugitive Slave Law is bold and impious de-
nial of the rights of Man and the authority of
God that it corrupts the Judiciary depraves the
Pulpit and debauchcs the Conscience OF this ma
tion and therefore, ii is sin on the part of any
individual to attempt to enforce it, or to obey it,
and our obligations of obedience to God and love
to Man require us to protest against it by earnest
words and brave deeds.
3. Resolved, That in the scenes of barbarous
cruelty recently enacted in Wilkcsbarrc, and in
the judicial proceedings consequent thereon, in
which officers of the United States government
tramplcd ON the plainest principles Of law and
justice, offered gratuitous insults to orCerly and
peaccable citizens, and outraged the common SYM
pathies of humanity; we see the natural results of
the execution Of this infamous statute, and the
danger which it threatens to the liberties Of every
American citizen.
4. Resolved That gladly welcome to her
home, and to the place which she has 80 long and
so usefuy occupied in our ranks, our beloved
friend, SARAH PuGu. the Treasurer of this Society
and that, while we have felt the need of her coun-
sos and her labors in carrying forward the opera
tons of the Society, We rejoice i'll the conviction
that during an absence of nearly two years, she
has rendered invaluable service to our cause in
foreign landi
s. Resolved, That we have heard with deep
interest and satisfaction, the account given by
James Miller Mckim, the able and faithful Cor
responding Secretary Of this Society of his recent
visit to Europe, and especially to Great Britain
and Ireland and that we tender him hearty
thanks for his disnterested abors to promote u
better understanding between the abolitionists OF
this country aud those on tho other side of the
Atlantic, and to awaken among the latter deeper
as well as more intelligent interest in the great
struggle for the abolition of American Slavery.
q. Resolved, That renew, with increased
emphasis, the expression of our longfclt abhor-
renee of the spirit and principles of the American
Colonization Society," Society which, for duplic-
ity, misrepresentation, falsehood, and inherent
wickedness, is unsurpassed by any or all of the
numerous instrumcntalitics which are brought to
the support Of American Slavery; and that we
regard it the duty of abolitonists, in their
eral localities, to wage an uncompromising war
upon u Society whose principles and measures are
repugnant alike to humanity and justice, and an
outrage upon the rights Of the colorcd people Of
this country
7. Resolved, That this Society rejoices in view
Of the announcement that the American Ant-Sla-
very Society will celebrate the Second Decade
Anniversary of its formation in the city Of Phila-
delphia, Oh the 3d. 4th and 9th of December next
and that we hereby express the hope that the
Aboltionists of Pennsylvania, as well as those OF
other States, will be largely represented on that
occasion.
The following sketch of J. Miller McKim's &C
count of his recent visit to England, will give oui
readers q fair though condensed view of the state
of anti-slavery feeling and effort in that country
We copy it from the Pennsylvania Freeman.
James Miller Mckm then gave brief account
Of his visit to Europe.
He had been absent from the country nearly siS
months, having left ON the Both of April, and re
turned on the 18th of October. With the excep
ton of about five weeks, his time had been spent
in Great Britain and Ireland. He had not been
sent any official mission, but had gone at his
own expense and chiefly for his own qualification
nevertheless he had devoted himself as assiduously
to anti-slavery work while he was abroad as he was
accustomed to do at home. This he had done moi
more from sense of duty than matter Of
England Scotland and Ireland and had held meet
ings, public or social, in most of them; he hat
had interviews with committees, and with private
individuals, as to the best means of promoting the
cause, and had availed himself of all suitable ways
that offered TO impart information, to correct mis-
apprehension, to remove prejudice, and to do what
ever else was in his power TO bring about bette
understanding and more cordial cooperation
between the friends of the cause in both countries
in the great work of emancipation. He had rea
son to believe his efforts were not altogether un
successful. He had had many assurances iron
friends in all the places he had visited, that hi
coming had been opportune, and his testimon,
acceptable and effective At first he had beer
somewhat discouraged. lie arrived in LondoI
during the week of the Anniversaries, and wa
present at the Annual Meeting Of the British anC
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, which was held il
Exeter Hall. 1t was grand meeting in point o
numbers and enthusiasm, and evinced higl
degree of anti-slayery feeling on the part Of thu
English people; but some circumstances connected
with the meeting, and others having nothing to dt
with it, excited the fear that this feeling unde
the control of not duly qualified to turn it t.
the proper account, or to give it the right direction
In other words it seemed at first sight as thougl
the New Broad Street Committee were in fact, a.
well as in form, at the head Of the antislayery
,teErrise in Great Britain, while, at the same time
IL was evident that the members of this committee
however upright, and sincere and religiously con
scientious they might be, were nevertheless no
men Of sufficient comprehensiveness and lberalit.
of spirit TO be qualified for that position.
The meeting was the largest that had been hell
on any SIMILAR occasion for many years this fact
as Mr.. MdKim afterwards learned, MS well as mos
81 tho enthusiasm which was elected, was OWN
~ the presence Of Mrs. Stowe, the amiable an