Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-16
CONVENTION AT PENNINGTON, MICH.

land Co., Mich, on Saturday afternoon Nov. Goth
and organized by the unanimous appointment Of.
the following persons for its officers viz.
Pyest3ea,-CYRUs FULLER.
Wee P,esiienf-Abran Power, Richard Q. Gla-
zier, Laland Green. Edwin Fuller.
Sscrettrg-Jacob Walton,
Business CommUc-Andrew 7. Fos,, Josephine
S. Griling, Norton Lapham, Thomas Chandler,
Harriet ID. Fuller.
Finance Commi1e-Joscplinc S. Grifing, Rich.
ard Glazier. ir.
Andrew T. FOES, one of the Business Committee
the following resolution, viz:
Resolved, That the Anti-Slavery cHuse is in this
age, the principal test Of manly, aud Christian
Character.
Mr.. Foss took the G5or in support Of this r~csolu-
ton and proceeded in a clear and forcib!e manner
to shoH the relation the Christian Churches of the
land sustain to American Slavery. The Church
said Mr.. y. has always opposed the reforms Of its
day, the Prophets of olicn timcs, Jesus Christ and
his apostles, Martin Luther and the Rcformers Of,
modern times in which they lived; so in our day
it is the Church that most violently opposes every
reform. Who was the GrcOtest Orposcr Of the Ten
perance movement a few years ago? 1t was the
Church, with her ordained IN ministers and Doctors
of Divinity But no suuncr had the temperance
movement became popular than these same D.. Dis.
could find text upon text to prove drunkenness n
IcinouS crime, 50 it would be with the radical anti
slavery movement, though Low GisowIod al per-
secuted by the Lev. Divincs Of the present In
the future they will search the records to find
something by which to claim Wm. Lloyd Garrison
md Ttl .i,t In ,n.n t,n,It &,Ilr,th S.innl =
They will claim S~thcphcn S. Foster, Parker Pills
bury, and Andrew 7. Foss because they o-co were
preachers. Mr.. !. reviewed at length the relation
the Church sustains to the State, aud Of both
Church and political organizations to the ~anti-sla-
very cause. TO he a consistent advocate Of the
latter was to fulfill our duty to other moral obliga-
tions, upon the principle Of Mathematics taught
him when a boy that the greater always includes
the less.
john Lowcry Of Lodi, took exceptions to some
remarks Of Mr.. Fuss in relation to the character
Of the Constitution and political action in gen
cral.
The Convention then adjourned till half-past sis
O'Clock this evening.
EVENING SESSION.
at The time adjourned to the Convention was
called to order by thaprcsident.
A, 7. Foss on behalf Of the business committee
read the following;
Resolved. That Slavery is a state of war; which
for cowardire. meanness and brutality, stands in
The history of the world, unparalleled aud alone.
Which upon motion was accepted for discus
sion.
C.. S. S. Grifing occupied the platform in vindi-
cation Of Tie principles set forth in The resolutions.
Mr., Lowry of Lodi, opposed some remarks of Mr.
Grifings, in relation to the Interpretation of the
Constitution. Mr.. Tuss followed in supper. Of the
resolution showing that Slavery in this Country is
a state Of war, and the meanest and most cam
temptible ofull wars. Itobliterates rs far as possible
every germ Of the intellect and every faculty of the
soul lie then spnke Of the Constitution ortlrc United
States and proved that the persons who formed it
we're not capable of forming any other than a PRO
-lavery Constitution, he went on to speak of the
Foreign Slave trade, the three filhs rule, and til
clause for the return of fugitive slaves in the con
s,itution as evidence Of its pro-slavery Character.
lie, Mr., Foss would not return q fugitive slave
though Constitutions were piled high as Bunker
Hill mluumen;, YES high even as Heaven and
.isnej WITH tie bloc d all the men that ever lived.
Arthur Power wished to shy a few words in
yindiration Of the United States Constitution
from the charges brought against it by Mr., Foss.
Mr.. Griff y called the attention of the Conven-
;ion to tie Madison Papers and read extracts from
diem.
After n song from our Friends the Grifings.
the Convention adjourned till 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
SUNDAY MORNING, NovEMBER &c.
The Convention was called to order by the Pres
.ilent. EEfT
a. 4. Foss on behalf Of the business committe
read the following resolution.
Resolved, That the Churches Of this land in
proirs ing that the Bible is the word of God and
the only light which can guide onr feet in the path
of life. and yet denying it to one-scventh of
The popu,ation Of this land in protesting to be-
.Iieve that the marriage relation is an ordinance Of
God. appointed for the pulity and moral elevation
of the human race. and yetdenying it to the slave:
in protesting to believe in the supremacy and en-
tire snvercigntyof tie law Of God, and ut the same
n'nent yiel ling to 4 system which contemns the
law Of God, and sets itself up rs God; have de-
mnnstrated to the world IL character for hypocrisy
and INSCRIPTIONS Atheism which excites pity.
disgust, and luathing in the minds Of ali good
men.
Mr.. FoSs then proceeded to read, and briefly
comment on portions of the Jewish and Christian
Scriptures. OR notions of Col cannot affect the
Divine Character Every Golm Of worship can at
most but affect our fellow men. Jesus Christ never
made n formal prayer. lie had known all the anti
slavery or practical Righteousness prayed out Of Il
popular religious meeting.
Josephine S. GrihinG then came forward and
addressed the Convention on the nature Of true
and false worship and claimed that it is always
wisdom to yield the lower to tho higher forms OF
worship. She reviewed at length the course which
the church, especially the Southern portion of it,
pursued in relation to slavery. Religion said she
as taught by the popular D. D. shuts ont the
light, s%lultifos, cramps, and letters, every faculty
of the soul, to cLri5tianiz, a slave increases his
value; but what a sacrilege to brutalize n man and
then baptise him in the name Of the Father aud
,ba S,n apd II,ly Ghnrt Sba brie0v shnual the