Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-06-09
NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAvERY CON.
VEnTION,

IToh1u6nt, odu1uel MAY JT.t III Il : NhhoO
and Aaron NJ. Powell Secretaries. The Liberator
which reports the proceedings only in part, says
tho attendan &c was full and the debates spirited
and interesting.
The Rev. Samuel J. May, Jr, Of Syracuse read
tho "Friondly Remonstrance Of the People of Scot
tand on the subject Of Slavery to the People Of the
United States" Tho Address Is signed by n large
number of the Scottish clergy. acting in behalf of
their respective Congregations, also by many 9TH
or distinguished gentlemen, among whom was Dun
pan McLaren, Lord Provost of Edinburg, MI.
William Smeal and the Earl of Buchan. Among
the clerical signatures I notice those Of the Rev.
James Ballantyne, tho Rev. Robert Forbes, and
many others equally well known, representing the
Free Church of Scotland, the United Presbyterian
Church, the Wesleyan churches, and other reli-
gious bodies. A resolution thanking the sig ners
of this remonstrance was moved by MIR. Garrison,
whereupon an interesting discussion arose, in
which G. G. Burleigh, John G. Cluer, Stephen S.
Foster; the Rev. Samuel j. May, James N Bufum,
oliver johnson and w. l.. Garrison took part
Tire resolution was adopted as followsi
Resolved, That the warmest thanks of the Con-
vention be given to the ministers, churches and
people of Scotland for their Address to the people
of the United States on the subject of Slavery, so
f~raternal in its spirit, SO anexceptionable in its
language. 80 faithful in its rcproof, so timely in
its appeal, that it cannot fail to make a deep i'm
preston on the American conscience wherever it
is read, and that We shall gladly do what we may
80 secure for it a wide circulation.
For the following additional particulars of the
Convention wc are indebted to the N. Y. Tribune:
BosToS, Friday June l 1855.
For three days past during the three sessions
that have been held each day, the Melodeon has
been filed with large and intelligent audiences
in attendance upon the New England Anti-Slavery
Convention.
Last night at a late hour the Convention al.
journed, having been addressed during the even
ing by Wendell Phillips. Esq, who spoke with
great ability and soul-stiring eloquence, and sub
sequently by the Rev. Theodore Parker, who, like
!Mr. Phillips, was enthusiastically received by the
large and brilliant audience in attendance.
During the afternoon session Of yesterday Mr..
Garrison in his speech of mastery ability review
ed tho question Of a Dissolution of the Union,
and Notwithstanding he took the most ultra ground
was frequently interrupted with hearty applause.
The following are some of tho resolutions that
were adopted by the Convention.
Resolved, That the Anti-Slavery movement
needs, no higher eulogy than the fact that the com
bined phariseeism and rufianism of the land are
tiercely arrayed against it-that all that is vile,
filthy, hypocritical, mobocratic and satanic is seek
ing its utter suppression-that it repels from its
advocacy the whole body of Trimmers, Dema-
gogues, Hunkers and Tories in the land, and that
1t gathers around it such as recognize and aver The
eternal principles of Justice, as are willing to be
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such as choose to take their lot with the down trOd-
den and oppressed, rather than with their proud
apd guilty oppressors.
Whereas, The popular religion of the land is
thoroughly impregnated with the slaveholding
spirit, and from the organization of the Govern
raent to the present time has given its sanction
to . Colossal and an ever-enlarging system of rob-
berry, RIGHTEOUSNESS, heathenism and soul-murder,
until the victims thereof are counted by millions
and
Whereas, An extensive revival of this religion
is said to be going on in Boston under the sanction
and with the corporation of such men as the Rev.
Nehemiah Adams and the Rev. DIR. .Blagden, the
defenders Ut Slavery against every assault upon
it; therefore,
"Resolved, That the multiplication of converts
to such a religion, instead Indicating any progress
I'm the cause of Justice, Freedom and Christianity,
or furnishing any occasion for congratulation, is
a sure sign of Moral degeneracy, judicial blind
ness and pharisaIcal malignity, to be deplored as
a calamity and to be denounced as an imposture
and that such a "revival' is only a device Of time
serving hirelings to withdraw attention from the
reforms of the age and especially from the Anti
Slavery movement-to affect o zeal for God for the
benefit of their craft, and to shield themselves
from the condemnation which they deserve for their
sreachery to the rights of man.
Resolved, That the charge brought by Adolf
tionists against the Northern Church that it is the
bulwark of American Slavery finds its justification
in much that transpires in what are denominateo
IL iSiSiOuS @hhhi'cIodiy heOtihSoj III 40 ~ SPO
cial illustration of our meaning w would point It
the prayer meeting in the Winter-st. Church, which
was opened with prayer by the Rev. Nehemiah
Adams, a man standing before the world as the
confessed champion of Slavery and yet retaining
the unimpaired confidence and fellowship of thu
Evangelical $50 called) Churches. 10 such assem-
bles we commend the consideration Of the 18th
18th, and 18th verses of the first chapter u
Isaiah:
Bring no more vain oblations incense is al
abomnation unto me the new moons and Sab
baths, the calling of assemblies, L cannot away
with it is ~iniquity, even the solemn meeting"
"Your new moons and your appointed feasts my
soul hateth they are q trouble unto me am
weary to bear them" ..
"And when ye spread forth your hands I viii
hide mine eyes from you yea, when ye make
many prayers will not hear; your hands are full
of blood"
Resolved, That in our opinion the removal o.
Judge Loring was demanded by justice. humanity
regard to law, and to the faith of Massachusetts
pledged to the slave-that we desire to express oul
profound sense of the high principle and unyield
ing regard to the laws and wishes OF Massachu'
sets, evinced by the Legislature in asking with SC
much unanimity for his removal and that we cal
on heAbolitionist of theCommwealth to remember
that this is no'question of a day or q year, but thai
. law once violated stands violated till the trans
erosion be ftly punished, and that duty 20 Mas
sachusetts and the slave requires that we continue
our demand of each successive Legislature for the
removal of a Judge whoI proclaims his purpose to
defy the laws and noblest sentiment of the State.
Resolved, That in Gov. Gardeners veto of the
Personal Liberty bill and his refusal to remove
Judge Loring viewed in the light of his past life,
we sec no evidence of principle or of conscientious
regard to law, but only the absurd ambition OF q
little mind raised unexpectedly to an undeserved
elevation, and SO intoxicated with the accident as
to deem such elevation evidence of fitness for still
higher place--that had he looked to the interests,
ES honor. the duty or the laws of Massachusetts,,
lhe wQald have c~oncurred with the Legislature, but
expected to become national. he disgraced the
Commonwealth in revealing his own characters
and those recent events which have crushed his
hopes and led him to seek Cancellation with tho An
ti-Slavery he once %despised, hays, only served to
manifest more ~palpably the s~eryile and creeping