Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-27
TWBNTY-EIRsT* ANNIVERSARY
OF TnE
AMERICAN ANTI.sLAvERY SOCIETY.

TUE Twenty First Anniversary Of the American
Anti-Slayery Society was held in the Broadwa,
universalist Church, on Wednesday, NAV lOth
The church, at the hour Of moctirg, was well filled
After voluntary on the organ, the President, Mr.
GARRISON, called the Society to ordcr aud an
nOunccd that in accordance with the programme
selections would now be read from the Scripture
by the Rev Samuel J. May, Of Syracuse.
Selections from the Scriptures were then read b,
Mr. MAY who also offered prayer; after which
the congregation united in singing a hymn com
posed 10y Mrs. Follcn.
FRANcis JACKSON, the Treasurer Of tho Society
then gave tho following abstract Of the Annua
Report, which. lac said, certified by JAS. 5
Gibbons, cashier of the Ocean Bank.
RECEIPTS FOR rus YEAR.
frum Donations, sale Of Pamphlets &C., and Sub
scrip,iOns TO Anti-Slavcry Standard,
and balance from last year .....,Sll los %
EXPENDITURES ron fHs YEAR
For Locturing Agents, Publishing Anti
Slavery Standard and Pamphlets. S,i20 OO
Balance on hand ,,,,,.,.... S2,3IG %
Yhe report, bv unanimous consent was laid upon
the table, to be taken up at the business meeting.
Mr. GAAHIsoN then said:
LAbiks AvD GENTLEMEN This is the twentieth
anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
do not propose TO 20 into any extended prolimi-
nary remarks, but simply to say at the outset, that
the object Of this Society remains unchanged, and
our purpose is as it was at the beginning. We
make no side issue with this nation, or with the
slave power which governs it, as absolutely any
plantation at the South is goyerncd but, declaring
our eternal hostility TO it, entering into no comprO-
misses with 1t, and making no attempts at cOncia-
ton thereof, we are resolved its utter dcstruc
tion yindicating in the slave every human being
living on the face of the EARTH undauntcd by any
lbtnr that u,n eron,ipf,1v in r., Of
power to which have alluded and resolved to
continue to the end, come what may. We know,
and you know, and the Shareholders know, and
the slave, and all in this world and in heaven, and
in hell, know that are right in yindicating the
rights of man for every human being on this earth;
and that only the base, the blind, or the bigocd,
or the unscrupuous or the tmc-scrying, or the
bloody-mindcd, are against Us and our glorious
position.
In regard to the work to be done, there arc hun
drods of thousands Of slaves that have been added
since this Society was organized, to the old stock
who are waiting for deliyorancc at our hands. At
this moment the last great crime of the nation is
about to be pcrporated; but the end is not yet.
The liberties Of this country have been betrayed,
sacrificed, trampled in the dust. No man can
stand up in any part Of our country, and say be-
fore God, truthfully, 81 live in free land where
i enjoy all the rights which God vouchsafed to me
10y my very nature" On all hands there are those
who are conspiring to cruelty liberty and to seal
this nation over to destruction. ii is for you, and
me, and all Of u.s. TO that such traitors arc met
that those enemies Of God and man are unmasked
that no compromise, in any shape for any purpose
or for any time, is made with the demon spirit o
Slavery in this land. In regard to all in thu
Church or in the State found sympathizing will
tho oppressor our duty is plain-n the name o
Jesus Christ to declare they cannot be Christians
and in the name of genuine ropublicanism to affirm
that they belong to those who sympathizo onl,
with the despots of the human rrcc in all parts o
the world.