The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-05-19

Divine blessing, n the accomplishment of the
! great and appropriate work on hand. The
Society to seek to move the church, the minis
try ecclesiastical bodies, benevolent and reli.
| gious societies; TO do their duty, and purify
themselves from the faint of slavery, or from
giving it, either directly OF indirectly, their sup
port; to stimulate political parties to right nc
ton, and more particularly give its influence
and aid to any party which seeks by legitimate
means, and upon right principles, the abolition
of slavery. The Outline recommends that,
while promoting the Anti Slavery cause in its
moral and political bearings the Committee
leave each member Of the Society in the enjoy
ment OF his private opinion and rule of action
10 all matters, provided the Constitution of the
Society, In all its integrity, be accepted.
Resolutions adopted at the public meeting of the
Amsriedn and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society
!. Resolved, That it is subject Of congratu-
laton and thanks to God that notwithstand-
ing the iukewarmness or opposition the Anti
Slavery cause has received from large portions
OF our countrymen, it has been widely extended
and prospered until it is now the theme of gen.
eral inquiry consideration, and socitude
throughout the country and the world, and, in
the opinion, not only Of its friends, but of MANY
of Its enemies, destined to certain and COM
plete triumph.
2. Resolved, That the destruction of Ameri-
can Slavery is retarded by political parties,
who, in their strife for the spols of Office repu-
date the principles upon which the Govern
ment was established; by religious parties, who
for the sake of proselytism and the favor of the
world, set aside the first lessons of Christianity
and the claims Of humanity by commercial
men, who, IN their eager pursuit of wealth.
trample upon both tables of the Law of God :
and by shareholders, who, in their wilful igno-
rance OF political economy, their disregard of
the rights of the enslaved and their audacious
attempts to usurp the prerogatives of the AL
mighty, run "upon the thick bosses of his buck
| Ter" and that we owe it to these misguided
men, as we'll as to the victims of their Injustice
to perseyere in our efforts with undated zeal
and efficiency.
B. Resolved, That while it is perfectly con-
slstent with the diabolical policy of the slave
States to attempt the prolongation of slavery,
/ by increasing the rigors of the Slave Code,
trampling upon the rights of the free people of
color, and endeavoring to drive them from their
native land, the subserviency Of the free States
to the slave power, in the enactment of oppres-
sive, unrighteous and unconstitutional statutes
designed to harass and expel this class Of citi-
gens from their limits, merits the contempt and
exeoration of every friend of humanity.
| 4. Resolved, That the crueltes inflicted upon
the people of color, the attempts to disfranchise
them, the numerous prosecutions they suffer
and the untold prejudices and disabilities which
surround them, are chiefly owing to the spirit
of caste, which obstructs their elevation, and
controls the policy of the Colonization Society
in driving them to foreign shore, rs a choice
OF evils; and that while we sympathize with
our insulted and deeply-wronged brethren we
would exhort them to remember that an i'm.
partial and just God will fulfill his promises by
bringing them out of the furnace of affection
and getting them "praise and fame in Ithel
land where they have been put to shame
5. RESOLVED, That while it ia not a matter of
surprise that editors of venal presses pander to
the slave power, or that those merchants whose
god is Mammon and whose Bible is their ledger,
bow down and lick the feet of Southern Gus
toners, or that servile authors, publishers, and
booksellers, tremble beneath the frown of
Southern despots, it is a cause of grief and as.
constituent that the AMERICAN Tract Society
and AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION persist
in refusing to publish sentence on the sinful
ness of slavery, while they expurgate foreign
publications of sentiments favorable to emanci-
patton, before they dare issue them for circula.
ton in the slaveholding States.
6. RESOLVED, That we deplore the fact that
tho AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR
| FOREIGN MISSIONS and the AMERICAN HoME
MISSIONARY SOCIETY continue to sustain mis-
sionaries who gather churches composed in
part of shareholders, who are admitted and
treated rs Christians in good and regular stand
ing and that the GENERAL ASSEMBLIES of Tho
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, the BAPTIST CHURCH
Es, the episcopal CHURCH, etc. invite slave
holders to their membership, hold them elgibl,
to all Offices and appointments in their gift
believing as we do, that this fraterpization o
men denounced in Scripture as men stealers,
and deemed by a large portion of the tru
Church OF Christ to be unworthy of Christian
fellowship, is an obstacle to the prevalence @
sound piety and the conversion Of the world.
7. Resolved, That in the opinion of intelli
gent patriots and Christians, the advance O
freedom, the spread of republican sentiments
and the diffusion Of Christian principles, ar,
greatly retarded by the fact that in this "mode
Republic" upwards of three millions of the
people are held in ignomnious bondage, in de.
fance of the glorious truths taken from the
Bible and put forth in the Declaration of indie.
pendence, that all men are made of one blood
and are created equal, being endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights, among
which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap.
plne's.
s. Resolved, That notwithstanding the dis
couragemcnts and obstacles that lie in our
path, We have undated confidence in the
promises of God, in the efficacy of prayer, in
the ultimate cooperation of tho wise and good,
in the honesty and intelligence of the masses
in church and state; and believe that, when
once undeceived as to the character and de-
signs of those who have misled them, they will
be true to the instincts of humanity the prn-
ciples of republicanism, and the precepts of
Christianity, and evince their change of feeling
and sentiment by dscarding the leaders and
teachers who will have proved themselves to be
unprincipled demagogues and false prophets.
| 8. RESOLVED, That we have evidence OF On ap-
preaching change in the masses Of religious
and political men, in the formation and pros
perity Of Anti-Slavery missionary, book, and
tract societies; in the more frequent and out
spoken sentiments Of the religious and secular
press in the multiplication of newspapers de-
voted to Free Democracy in the discussion of
| Anti. Slavery topics in numerous independent
papers, in the rapidly increasing demand for
nti.SIavery publications, greatly stimulated
| by the perusal, by 10 many millions, of Uncle
IONS CaDin, ana their Inspection OF the"key"
to the American Baste; in the labors prayers
and remOnstrances Of our Canadian and Brit
ish brethren in the attention paid to free-labor
sugar and cotton in the beneficial results of
emancipation, wherever it has been accompa-
MED with appropriate aids; in tho increased
number Of educated and talented persons of
color and especially in the power of Truth,
which is mighty, and, with Gods blessing, will
prevail.
TO- Resolved, That our strongholds, under
God, are the Bible, the divine charter of civil
and religious freedom, and the Constitution of
the United States, which contains recognition
by our fathers of the same principlcs-the first
teaching that the Creator hath made of one
blood all nations Of men for to dwell on oil the
face Of the earth y that ha il M resnecter Of