Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-01
RESOLUTIONS

The following are the resolutions adopted at the
Annual Meeting of she Western Anti-Slavery So.
ciety.
Resolued, That in assembling again to consider
our relation with The oppressed, and .ouT response
bilities arising thors(rom, VIC desire to place our
selves as nearly as may be in the slaves stead to
see with his vision and to feel with his instincts
that we may be enabled to perceive clearly, aud
to expose faithfully all those various and insidious
Influences with which u hateful and oppressive
oligarchy has surrounded our people, cou-
polling them either knowingly or unwittingly to
subserve it's tyrannical purpose.
Resotred, That the Anti Slavery movement COM
prises more than opposition to the Nebraska bill,
the repeal Of the Fugitive Slave law. the rcstora-
ton of the Missouri Com promise, the refusal to
admit now slave States into the Union, or the
abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbin
it c~ontemplates the humiliation of the principles
OF chattleism, the remoddlcing of that public SEN
timent which now acts itself out indiferentlv
through pro-slavery laws, or without such laws,
and which can only be eaectually reached by an.
appeal to the moral principle in mans character.
No. 3.
Whereas. the system Of American Slavery ia a
system of remorseless cruelty, nnmitigated inius-
tice to the slave, debasing and demoralizing to the
master, corrupting and dishunorable to the nation
and neutrality-suspicious. of all the laws of the Gov.
ernor Of the Universe, therefore
ReSotced, That immediate repentance and uu-
conditional emancipation is the duty of the master,
OF tho ma ;ion, OF the church, and of all associa-
tons aud individuals who in any way contribute to
fasten his bonds.
Whereas, Our national confederacy was origi-
nally formed by q concession to shareholders Of
their monstrous claim to hold and treat human
beings as chattels, therefore,
Resolced, That it was wicked and infamous in
its original organization.
And Whereas, more than sixty years Of expert
ence in this Union has proved its worthlessness to
protect the personal liberties of those already free
and only adapted to perpetunte and extend Slavery,
| therefore.
R%esolped, That it is the right, and the duty
of each and every non-slavoholding State to se-
cede from the present Union, and form q confedcr-
acy on the principle of mo Union with Slave.
holders"
f Resolred. That each man who forms or enters
into an alliance with Shareholders, on the principle
that the majority shall rule, and the minority
submit to, and help execute the will of the majority
and that the same rights, privileges and protec.
9 tion be extended to Shareholders that are extended
to non-slayeholders, must be by virtue Of his posi-
ton in such a Union, an enemy to justice and lib
cry and must DO held responsible for the conss-
quences, should the government be directed TO
the support of slaveholding, slave-catching and
save-trading.
ResOlued, That as our only hope Of abolishing
Slavery, and of securing the blessings Of liberty
3 to ourselves and our ~posterity, is in the dissolution
of the present Union and the formation of a con-
fcderacy based on the principles Of impartial lib
erty, therefore we will do what We can to get the
States in which we live, to take initiatory steps for
! the formation Of such a government.
No. S.
Resolred, That in behalf Of outraged liberty and
in the protection of our own natural and civil
! rights deeply imperilled by the atrocious conduc ct
Of Judge Kane of the U. s. Court, WE DEMAND Of
the House Of representatives, his Impeachment
tor his unparalleled tyranny in the Imprisonment
Of Passmore williamson.
/ Resotred, That the only Fafe and consist snt
position for our northern churches is one Of entire
and unqualified dis~fellowship of Shareholders both
in politics and religion and Of uncompromising
r opposition to the Federal Government. an admitted
, bul~ark of Slavery--a Government which in the
name of Justice and Liberty, and under the forms
Of law sanctions and perpetuates upon three mil
lions OF our countrymen every conceivable crime.
No. 7.
Whercas, the issue rendered by the Republican
party, OF mo Slavery outside the slave States"-
CONNECTED with its repeated declarations in its
r platforms and by its leaders that Slavery has q right
s full political existence in the States, ID anabandon-
mens Of moral power and principle in efforts for is
removal, and the repetition Of a vain ana oft tried
effort to make peace and effect q compromise be-
tween irreconcilabie antagonisms -Therefore
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