Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-28
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE

IN the afternoon, that the hepuOllcan party OF
Michigan admitted that there were in the Constitu-
of the United States guarantees to Slavery
and that they will abide by the same. was denied
he wished to read from the Platform of the party.
establishing what he had said. lie read a resolu-
of the party, as follows:
Resolved, That after this gross breach Of faith
and wantOn affront to us rs Northern men, We hold
ourselves absolved from all Compromised except
those expressed in the Constitution, for the proter-
ton Of slavery and slave owners that we now de-
mand measures of protection and immunity for
ourselves, aud among them we demand the repeal
of the Fugitive Slave Law, aud an act to abolish
Slavery in the District Of Columbia"
MIR. kanif.-I was in the Convention that adop-
ted the platform. The party is opposed to Slavery
will give it no CONFERENCE.-THE is in favor OF
the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law.
MIR. Burleigh.-YOu claim, then, that the Rerub-
lican party holds that the stakeholder has no con-
stitutional right to come here and take away his
slave?
Kania.-I have nothing to do with the Constitu-
tiun.
Burleigh.-I ask what your party holds in rela-
ton to this?
kanif.-They design to pass n law preventing
the arrest of n fugitive slave by any State off
GERS.
Burleigh.-Do they propose to defend the fugitive
slave against his masterP
Kaniif.-l believe they do not.
Burleigh.-That is all. We have charged the
party with nothing more.
Mr.. Wellman here came to the defence of Mr..
Kanif, but with poor success. lie said that his
friend had conceded too much that the Republi-
can Party, and especially the Free Sellers, as u
body, believed the Constitution to be Anti Slavery,
and against the giving up Of fugitive slaves. lie
said thut j. Il. Giddings was an exception, but that
Chase, and Mann, and all leading Free Sellers re-
garded the Constitution as opposed to Slavery and
the return of i~usitives. When asked for proof Of
this somewhat singular position, he could give
none, except that Chas. Sumner had said that Slu-
very was sectional and freedom national" and
this principle, if carried out, Mr.. w. thought
would protect the fugitive slave though he did not
know whether Mr.. Sumner was of his opinion OF
not!
Further remarks were made by Messrs. Burleigl
and Grifing, showing that Mr.. Wellman was cithc
utterly Ignorant of the position of the Free Sol
party, or was willingly disappearing them, ant
A that so far from those parties having endorsed tn
t Anti Slavery character Of the U. S. Constitution
no Convention, nor any prominent individual
amongst them had ever taken any such position.
e The resolutions presented by the Business Con
d mittee were read by C. C. Burleigh.
James Barnaby addressed the meeting. He sal
the consistent abolitionists had been an are strivin
n to carry out the sentiment embodied in the 4th re
e olution before tho meeting: That we should tres
Slavery as essentially sinful--thinking of it II
thought, speaking of it no word, doing toward
no act, that can give it the least support or count
s nance.
Twenty yours ago there was little such oppos
i ton to Slavery. Three-fourths of the religion
is teachers of the land defended the system as Go
ordained. But about that time, n man appearC
lie who resolved to expose this sum of all villainie
Sc by telling the truth about it. lie told the natl,
of its sin,-tho church of its i~niquity. lie pledg'
id himself at the beginning to be 'as harsh as trut
ii and as uncompromising as justice" 81 am
earnest--I will not equivocate-I will not excuse
o. | will not retreat a single inch, and | wiH be hearo
Ill VIM. Lloyd Garrison has been heard. The mo-
Id ment which he began has exerted and is EXERT
n mighty influence. The nation is aroused. S
he very has now comparatively few open defende
lie if we except such men rs DR.. Lord, of Dartmnu
.es to whom Mr.. Foss has referred, aad Bishop Sou
he and Bishop I~Iedding, Of the Methodist Chur
I'm and Rev. Alexander Campbell, the Christian, a
ry Moses Stuart, of Andover, and DR.. Dewey, "
all would send his mother into Slavery, rather tn
IA endanger the Union by disoheying the Fugit
mn Slave Law. But these are qhoSGy ~exceptiu
nd These men don't defend the system as men, but
M spiritual teachers. 1t is, according to them,
Bible and religion, not humanity and reason t
all sustain it. The people are learning that SLAYER
The contrary to the law written on the human lie
lty whether contrary to the teachings of the Bible
a not--an outrage upon humanity, a crime aga
ave man-whethtr a sin against God or not, as tn
ers pious divines say it is not.
Mr.. Barnaby went on to show the position Of
Ugh American Church, and the duty of abolition
you to net in accordance with the declaration Of the
our olution referred to, tire ting the church rs the enc
md of freedom and humanity-the bulwark Of Amer
EN-, Slavery.
Then adjourned to 10 o'clock, Sunday morn
MORNING SESSION. SUNDAY.
- On motion, a Commi tee, consisting of \
, Fanny Mott, Mrs. Gully, and Laura uayiland,
a. appointed to obtain subscribers for the Anti-ola
Bugle.
Samuel d. Moore addressed the meeting.
argued that the Anti-Slavery enterprise is emp
ically a Christian movement; and that what
W. passes for religion, yet does not advance the C
49, of freedom and humanity, should be r~epudiate
spurious Christianity and false religion.
A. 7. Foss next addressed the Convention, di
ing his remarks mainly to the subject of the
resolution. lie spoke ii the United States ca
~ tuition, as connected with and sustaining Slav
! showing that the slave power in the framing OF
Constitution had its will, in enacting in that in
ment guarantees, without which the hateful
TEN of Slavery could not have lived, and by tn
of which it has been enabled to grow with
growth and strengthen with the strength o
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