Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-21
MEETING AT SYRACUSE.

We have received the following circular for pub
%licotion. We are happy to see any movement
on foot which shall agitate this nation on the stu
penduous questions of freedom and slavery. IL
our friends can form an effective union with slave
holders for the overthrow Of Slavery, when thc
slave States refuse to abolish it, very well we
shall rejoice at their success.
TO THE RADICAL POLITICAL ABOLITlONISH.
We are few-but VIC are not, therefore, to cease
from our work. Work for a good cause. be that
cause popular or unpopular, must be work to the
odd.
Our undertaking, as radical political abolition
lists, is to remove slavery from the national terrific
RIGS by means of our national political power, and
to remove it from the States also, by means Of
the same power, whenever the States shall them
selves refuse to remove it. For the success of this
undertaking, we must depend, under God, upon
ourselves. OF all the political parties, there is
but one to give us countenance-and that one 's,
in point of numbers, quite insignificant.
The Wing and Democratic and Know-NothinG
parties are each made up of slave holders, as well
as non Shareholders; and hence, the condition of
their continued existence is, that they shall not
attack slavery. Members there are, of each of
these parties who are opposed to slavery. But
for any one of these parties to assail slavery
would be to dissolve itself. The Free Soil or In
dependent Democratic party is, we checrfully adj
nit, an anti-slavery party. Nevertheless, it denies
the rights of the Federal Government to touch
slavery in the States and, sad to say, it admits
the Constitutional authority of every stakeholder
to claim every State Government for his slave cath
or. The American Anti-Slovery Society, or Gar
rison party, like ourselves, lnbors, within the linn
its of moral suasion, to abolish slavery but, un.
like ourselves, it employs no political power to this
end. What is still worse, i. seeks to separate the
Free States from the slave States, and to leave the
slave States, so far as concerns the political power
of the free States, at perfect liberty to continue
their oppression and torture of the black man,
The Liberty party is the only political party in
the land, that insists on the right and duty to.wield
the political power of the nation for the overthrow
of every part and parcel Of American Slavery,
That little party not only claims that there is nc
law for slavery, and can be no law for that most
sweeping of all piracies, but that the Federal Con.
stitution demands the abolition of all American
Slavery, State or national.
Circumstanced as we are, brethren, is it not oul
duty to come together, for the purpose of cnlight
ening each others minds, and cheering each other;
hearts, and strengthened each others hands? We
believe, that it is, and hence we take the liberty
to propose, that a Convention of the radical politi
cal Abolltionis of all parts of the country be held
in SYRACUSE, n. Y, on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, the Goth, 9th and 2Sth days of next
June.
We think it especially important, that the Con.
vention be attended by all, who are.accustomed to
lecture in behalf of our princip les, and by ali
who are disposed to embark in such lecturing.-
The occasion will be a very favorable one for rem
dcring themselves more able and more useful in
this department of labor. Nearly twenty years
ago, a Convention of Anti-Slavery Lecturers was
held in the City Of New York, with very good
effect.
1t is to be hoped, that measures will be adopted
at the proposed meeting for obtaining means to
sustain lecturers, and to extend the circulation of
periodicals devoted our cause.
LEWIS TAPPAN. WILLIAM GooDELL.
GERRIT SMITH. S. 5. JoCELYN.
W. +. WHITING. JAMES McCuNE SMITH.
GEORGE WuIrpLE. FREDERICK DOUGLAS.
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