The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-10-05
THE nErHoD1srs on SLAVERY.
WARSAW, N. Y, Sept. IS,

WARSAW, N. " Sept. IS, 1854. =
The Genesee Annual Conference, Method
ist,) composed of the ministers of Erie, Mag
ara, Orleans, Monroe, Gepesee, Wyoming,
and AlIegany counties, closed a session of ten
DAYS at Warsaw, Wyoming county, on the 14th
instant Bishop James presiding-about 100
ministers being in attendance.
The Conference unanimously adopted very
strong and able report, presented by commit
tee headed by Dr. Chsmberlayne, which will
be forwarded in due time to the Tribune for
publication. The report concludes with the
following resolutions, which were adopted
unanimously:
l. ResoIved, That obedience to the Fugitive
Slave Law is not obligatory but that, on tho
contrary, we are bound to spurn it, as shame
less and wicked attempt to impose on Us
bondage even more degrading than that to
which it requires our aid in reducing the hunt
ed fugitive; that by the grace of God we will
never contract the guilt of completely with the
stealers of men, infinitely preferring to abide
the penalty of noncompliance to the enduring
infamy of either passive or active scquiescence
in the most insulting exaction ever thrown into
the teeth of men possessing the least respect
for themselves, the laws of the Creator, and
the equal rights of their fellow men; and we
hereby exhort our people, as they have oppor-
UNITY, 60 Hollow our
Q That the late action of the United States
Congress by which the section of the Missouri
Compromise prohibiting Slavery in the terri
tory known rs Kansas and Nebraska is 20
pcaIed is fragrant and shameless perfdy to
sacred compact, which, while it abates the
obligation of ell kindred compromises, we will
never cease to oppose by all constitutional
means, till its exeorable object is defeated.
g. That while We are unalterably opposed
to the acquisition or admission of Territories
as States into this Confederaey on other grounds
than those of the utter and everlasting exclu-
sion of Slavery, we are equally opposed to the
organization of Churches or Conferences on
other than the same grounds.
4. That in the judgment of this Conference
it is competent for the General Conference so
to construe the general rule on Slavery as that
it shall prohibit the holding of human beings
in involuntary servitude by the members of
our Church and that the General Conference
be requested, at its next session, to declare
such construction, and to provide regulations
for its application and execution, with the least
possible injury to the parties to be affected By
it, and in the most effectual manner.
5. That inasmuch as political evils require
appropriate political remedies, We will vote for
no man, for any State or National Office. who
is not firmly and explicitly pledged against the
further aggression Of the Slave Power, and in
favor Of retaining those rights and powers
which have been usurIed by it, and whose
personal character is not q guarantee that he
will act accordingly; and that we earnestly
advise our people to follow our example.
6. That on the ground Of the want of strin-
geney and definiteness in the resolution of the
Troy Conference this Conference do hereby
non-concur In that resolution.-N. Y. Tribune