Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27
AFTERNOON,


Frances Titus, Jacob Walton, phcbe II. Merritt
son appointed to obtain subs ,ribers for .ht
Anti-Savery Bugle.
Jacob Walton moved the appointment of Com
mitee of five to nominate officers of the Societ,
for the coming year. Thomas Chandler, r.. b
Merritt, Harriet Do Fuller, and s. s. Foster were
appointed
Henry C. Wright then took the platform in sup
port of the resolutions offered by him in the fore
noon
Ii. G. Wright said, slavery IS n wrong which nc
power can make right. When l made up my MIND
that this was truth, gave up all care for the de
cisions of Church aud State opposed to the prin
ciple. Many abolitionists, when they embraced
the principle, did not see where it would lead
Many, when they saw it, gave out. He wished
abolitionsts to count the cost now He could re
cognize no man as an abolitionist who will not sac
rifcc NIL that sustans slavery. Mep must be true
to themselves, 1t is safe to do right.
There are two battle grounds of savery-thC
moral and political.
Comeouters plant themselves upon the
moral ground. There is no place on earth where
systematzed robbery is carried OIL as under this
Government. Nowhere such reckless disregard of
justice-nowbere is woman so outraged and wrong
ed. You, the people of Michigan, perpetrate this
wrong through the Government. You hold the
victims OF the shareholders, while they perpetrate
their outrages upon defenceless innocence. All
this comes, because at the commencement you con
sented to u union with Shareholders. Your al
ance with them has resulted in the bunting of ali
your moral sensibilities. tits right to meet sla
very on political ground. 1t is right to vote We
are not opposed to voting but opposed to voting
for slavery. We are opposed to mixing our vote,
with the blood-stained votes OF Shareholders es
pecially while the shareholders vote, in consequence
of his slave representation, counts more than
yours.
Mr.. Burleigh explained that each individual
STAKEHOLDER has no more votes than each man in
Michigan, but that the slaveholding States had Il
larger representation in Congress in consequence Of
their slaves.
Mr.. W. resumed. There are two political meas
urcs-national and state. He maintained that it
was useless to attempt to meet slavery on the ma
tional arena, because The very first step you there
take is to recognize the rght Of the STAKEHOLDER to
place in the Government And if slavery has a
constitutional right to exist in the Government,
you can of course have no constitutional right to
exclude Shareholders from it. All you who would
do any ythng for the overthrow of slavery must go to
work to array the state of government against the
national slaveholding Government. | am talking
treason here. But every man who embraces the
doctrine that slavery is sin, is a traitor. How
can you do it? First, you must decide that no ma
tiona officer shall execute the functions of his Office
in the State. Second, you must make it impossi-
BILE for any man to be put on trial on the question
is he man or is he chattel. Michigan did well
when she gave the alleged slave trial by jury
and the right to the writ of habeas corpus. But it
Is an outrage to try man on this question. You
now agree to give him up if the jury decide he is
a slav,. Blot out this law, and put in its place
one that shall deny the right of any man to call
mans liberty in question.
One step further. You can resolve to elect no
man to office who will swear to support the United
States Constitution. You should move for con-
vention for the organization of confederacy Of
free States.
The shareholders will not tolerate Brigham
Young because he is polygamist. But you will
fraternize with Southern polygamsts A voice.
The Shareholders will not fraternize with the Re-
publicans,) Mr.. Wright-Well, if they will not
you Republicans will fraternize with the slave
holders.
The resolutions were further discussed by
Messrs. Burleigh, Philleo and Eli Lapham, after
which, on motion OF Thomas Chandler, they were
referred to the Business Committee.
5. 5. Foster presented tho following resolution ::
Resolved, That as abOlitonists we do not and
cannot regard the Republican party as entitled to
our sympathy and support; on the contrary while
we duly appreciate the honest intentions and ear.
nest zeal OF many of its members, we be-
levo the party itself to be devoid of principle the
ally of the Slave Power, and one of the most for
mdable obstacles to the progress of the anti-sla-
very cause.
Mr.. Foster said this would help US to decide
whether we agreed in reference to our action for
the removal of slavery The first thing was to as
astertain what was to be done. He was no poll
tcan, but he called upon politicians to act against
slavery. We must first settle the kind of political
action, before there can be union and concert in
our efforts. There is a kind of political action
which believe is not anti slavery action, and |
cannot unite in that. He recognized no party as
ant-slavery which would act under the National
Government, with its present popular interpreta-
tion Of the Constitution.
Mr.. Foster continued his remarks, at the close
of which tho meeting adjourned till 7 o'clock,
?. NJ.
EVENING SESSION.
Meeting called to order by the President.
Aaron NJ. Powell said, am an abolitionist
because slavery chattelizes human beings. If such
be slavery, what is the character of that church,
that party. that government which sustains sla-
very? 1t cannot be otherwise than most eminent
ly guilty. Mr.. Powell proceeded briefly to exam
inc the position of the Republican party.
Isaac G. Mott. in reply to Mr.. Powell, explained
that it is the duty of the States to give up the
slaves-passively, not actively-hat the slavehold-
er nigh, come and take his slave, but could not