The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-12

sible; one that we do not feel we'll assured Sc
| forehand can never be carried, or that, betsl9
carried. would leave the Slavery Question Ssh
stantialy where it now is-the slave still in tiis
chains, his friends discovered from him, 'iis-
abled, discouraged and powerless.
IL. Resolved, That, whether there be few or
| many of the friends of Liberty who unite on
the true ground, the power of the Anti-Slavery
movement will be mainly and emphatically With
| them, and they will pioneer the way for others
who will come after them. Thus it was in the
| Temperance cause, in which those who stood
almost alone in advocating radical measures,
though derided as "impracticables," were after
ward found to have pointed out the only prac-
ticable course.
Is. ResoLued, That while we believe much In
moral suasion, as persuading to efficient action,
we also insist that without such action it loses
its value.
IA. ResolUed, That in the suppression OF
crimes against society, moral suasion and po-
litical action must go hand in hand and that
this truth (once spurned from the Temperance
ranks, but afterward welcomed) is destined TO
find similar favor with the hosts of Freedom,
and to achieve still more glorious triumphs.
Is. Resoloed, That since the prevailing reli-
qion of country, or its cant of religion, de-
cides of necessity its political ethics, and thus
determines its destiny, We earnestly implore the
cooperation of all Christians and Christian rsin-
listers in our holy work of liberating the en-
shaved and we would remind the friendf of
Liberty of the importance of MAINTAINING a
consistent position in their ecclesiastical as 'ell
AS political relations.
l6. Whereas the non-slaveholding plan ers
of the South deserve the sympathies of Akoli-
tionists, and whereas those sympathies can
in many cases be most effectually exter ded
through the medium of commerce; therefore,
ResOlped, That it is desirable to manifest our
sympathies for such planters, by encouraging
the culture of free-labor productions, in prefer
ence to those produced by the labor of slaves.
H. Resolved, That we regard the German
settlers in Texas and elsewhere, who are Guilt
waiting the soil by their own free labor, as espe-
cially deserving our appreciation and the 500
bales of free cotton produced in Texas last gear,
as an indisputable argument in favor of Gree
labor In the South.
Is. ResoLUed, That we look with interest UPON
all well directed efforts in the non slavehoeing
States, for raising products which may success
fully compete with slave products; and chat
we regard it as particularly desirable that the
culture and manufacture of fax by free men
should, if possible, be brought into successful
competition with slave-grown cotton.
l9. ResotUed, That our enterprise calls for
liberal and selt-denying sacrifices, both of la
Dor and money; that the largest liberality in
this case will prove the most rigid economy in
the end; and that, with the Divine blessing on
our Gberality and labors, judicious and time
ly expenditure of half million Of dollars, in
peaceful struggle at the ballot bor to preserue
and regain Liberty, would probably save a
hundred fold that sum, and countless lives in
efforts to preserve and regain it by violence.
FL. Resoloed, That recognising, as we do,
the fact of mans equality, as the foundation
principle which underlies the Ant-Slasery
movement, we ahhor, and will use our every
effort to annihilate, that abominable spirit of
caste, the development of which is calculated
to crush the energy of the colored man, aow-
ever aspiring, drive him from the land g. his
birth, and put far off the good time comi.+g :"
%. ResOlUed, Tust, as Abolitionsts, it il our
duty TO practice in our lives what we profess
with our lips; and therefore we will, by our ex-
ample, prove the vincibility of that prejudice
against color which in this country drives the
colored nan from the workshop, the counting
room, and the polls, making him a kissing and
a by word a miserable outcast, the efscouriDg
of the earth.
%. Resolued, That as rad cal Abolitionists
we cannot shut our eyes to the peril which the
cause of Freedom inures in Kansas, nor to
the faithfuness TO the common cause manifest
ed by those who have thrown themselves as a
bulwark of Freedom into that Territory and
we call upon all who sympathize with US and
with them to contribute, God may direct, TO
aid those noble men, by an accession to their
numbers and to the means whereby they may
be permanently established in their new home.
"a. Resotoed, That we consider it the duty
of the Legislatures of the several States to
pass laws torbidding, under heavy penalties,
the arrest of any person as fugitive slave, or
under the so-caled Fugitive Slave Bill.
%. Resolued, That this Convention recon-
mend the organization of efficient committees
10 every county or Congressional district, whuse
duty it shall be to raise funds, by holding public
meetings or otherwise, for defraying The legal
expenses and liquidating the fines Of such per-
sons as may be prosecuted for violations of the
Fugitive Slave Bill.
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