Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-20
NEw-YoRK ANTI.sLAvERY SOCIETY.

The first annual meeting of this body was held
last evening at the Tabernacle. LAUREN WETMoRE,
ESQ., presided. The attendance was very numer-
Gus and enthusiastic. Tho objects Of this Society
are briefly explained in its fundamental principles
as laid down in the report viz; first, that Slavery
under whatever circumstances it may exist is n
sin against God and wrong against man I; and
second, that immediate emancipation is the right
of the slave and the duty Of the master. The
meeting opened with prayer offered by the Rev.
SANL. MAY, after which one Of the Secretaries read
brief statement Of the objects Of the Society.
The Rev. THEODORE PARSER was the first speak
er. His address was very long and elaborate,
being rcplete with statistical details and extracts
from the southern press. Its delivery occupied
about two hours; we can therefore, only give an
outline of the discourse. After giving n minute
description Of the geographical features of the
United States, its immense wealth and boundless
undeveloped resources inhabited by race mainly
Anglo Saxon, and just perhaps, sufficiently tenn
pered by those other families Of the human race
to improve the qualities of the parent stock. lie
said that this vast domain was republican in its
form of government, and its people democracy
Here there was no born priesthood to stand be-
tween the nation and its God no Pope to entail
his nephews on the Church; no Bishop TO claim
divine right over the people and stand between
them and their God; no king to ride upon the
nations neck, and no noblemen, except such as
God had made, to monopolize the Government
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out Of that revelation which God himself has given
them. The people are king and rule over them
selves. The people arc their own noblcmen, fjr
they possess the earth, make the laws, and choose
the magistrates. Industry is free, thought is free
speeGh is iree' here mere arc no shackies to
Weigh DOWN ne human MIND. we are nation OF
farmers mechanics, miners ana merchants; not Il
hhtoh OF soldiers loung Us TINS nation IS, she rs
the richest IN the world, save one-Engand. But
lar above the other features OF the country rises
lhe great American political idea-a selteydent
truth lhat cannot DC proved because anterior to
all dem0nstratlon-that every man is endowed
with CERTAIN natural and inalionable rights, among
which are, that all men are equal and that on this
great principle government must rest. Above
this mighty groundwork, this accumulation of
numbers, industry and wealth Is the great Amer
lcan religious idea that there is but one God, that
Christianity is the true religion, and that the pure
worship OF God consists IN love and piety toward
Him, and in morality, benevolence and philanthro-
py toward man. What glorious spectacle does
all this present to the toregner-thc Swiss, the
German, the Scandinavian and the lrishman, as
each OF them views 1t at distance! But, alas !!
how different is the spectacle when they come here
and the actual state Of our political relations
When they land here, with all their high hopes
and generous aspirations, what must be their
amazement and disappointment when they see half
the land black with Slavery When they see one
eighth of the entire population of the country
counted as cattle, not citizens Mt all, mere human
material property, animals, things, to which the
ordinary rights of humanity must not be extended
The speaker then proceeded to show the immense
area which Slavery covers, and that its baleful
influence was so widespread that there was not in
reality ar inch of free soil in the land. The Stars