Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-23
FREEDOM IN KENTUCKY,

A few weeks since the Rev. John G. Fee, a ma
tive born citizen of Kentucky, of a singularly pure
and gentle, yet brave and resolute spirit, was in
%terrupted and silenced when attempting to deliv-
err an address on the subject of Slavery to the
citizens of Lincoln county of that State. The out
rage awakened much public indignation and meet.
lngs were held at various parts reprobating the
transaction and the actors in it
: Among other meetings was one held in J~assamine
county, at which Cassius NJ. Clay made a three
hours speech, and the following resolutions were
passed.-Leoder.
eat a large meeting of the citizens of Jassamine
county. Kentucky, called without distinction OF
party, May l6, 1855, James England, Esq, was
made President, and George Black, Esq, Secre.
tary. G. M. Clay, after a speech of three hours,
which was listened to throughout with great inter
est and respectful attention, offered the following
resolutions, which after challenging discussion and
negative votes were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, BY the citizens of Jassamine County
and State of Kentucky, in mass convention peace
ably assembled at Little Hickman, according to
the time-honored usages of American freemen,
that we invoke the calm judgement of the people
to our conscientious avowals.
Resolved. That the libery of speech, the free
dom of the Press. the u~ntrammeled utterance of
religious opinion and the undisturbed exercise of
the worship of God are inalienable rights of man,
and by the guarantees of our National and State
Constitutions are our political inheritance.
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men by which we are deprived of these rights, or
punished for the alleged abuse of the same with
out legal procedure, is a gross usurpation of power
and practical despOtism, to which we cannot sub
nit without dishonor and the loss of all other
liberties.
Resolved, That mob law, Lynch law, or any
other attempted exercise of political or civil power
outside of the regular channels of justice and law
which result in injury to person, destruction of
property or loss of life, cannot by any sophistical
plea of necessity or self-defense be otherwise
characterized than as violence, robbery and assas
%sination, the liberation of which must Of necessity
lead to retaliation, anarchy and civil war.
Resolved, That the act of a portion of the citi
zens of Lincoln county by which, in March las
the Rev. John G. Fee, a citizen of Kentucky anG
of the United States, was interrupted and silenceC
in the utterance of his political and religious sen
timents and opinions, whether they be good or bat
and which we neither intend to indorse or de
n%ounce, was a usurpation of power unknown t
our Constitution and laws, anarchical and revolu
tionary, and which ought to be resisted by all hon
orable means, by appeals to the Courts Of Justice
and all other means failing, by ~repelling force by
force!
"Resolved, That we stand by the citizens of tn,
Glade, in Madison county, and the citizens O
Boone's Fork, and of Green's School House, il
Rockcastle courty, in their public resolves to main
tain the supremacy of the laws and the liberty Of
the citizen. no matter what may be his party Of
principles.
"Resolved, That the newspaper presses of al
parties, under whatever pretense of patriotism anC
public interest. who invoke or sanction Lynch law
cannot be viewed by true and sensible men and
honest Republicans, in any other light than as the
base tools of party, or the hireling followers o
power!
"Resolved, That the times demand calm judg
ment, fixed purpose, courage, devotion to duty ant
heroic patriotism, such as called our fathers t
the field in l776, in the maintenance of the liber
ties which they bequeathed US; and to the defens
of the Constitution of the United States, and tn
Commonwealth of Kentucky, we pledge ono
more, 'our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacrf
honor
Resolved, That these resolutions be signed b.
the President and Secretary of the meeting, AM
have due publicity given them.
JAS. ENGLAND, Pres't.
"GEo. BLAKEMAN, Jr., Sec'y.