Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-10
ANNUAL MEETING
Massachusetts, Anli-Slarery Society.

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This meeting convened mt the Meionaon Hall,
in Boston, on Thursday, the 25th ultimo, at 10
o'clock, A. NJ, the President, Francis jackson, in
tho chair.
The General Agent, Samuel May, Jr., read an
encouraging statement OF the operations of the
Society for the past year, giving a brief notice Of
tbs labours of the various agents employed. and
urging the Importance of keeping many such faith
ful servants constantly in the feld. The action of
Bosom, under the direction of its NInyor and other
oihcors, in the Burns case, was plainly and severe.
~ but justly commented upon, rs were also the
special iabours of Rev. Drs. Lord and Nehemiah
ADAMS IN behalf tho endangered despotism. Mr..
Mays statement concluded with an impressive tri.
butte OF respect to the late John NJ. Fiske, of West
Brookheld, who had long been a faithful friend and
officer of the Society.
On motion Of Edmund Quincy, it was voted,
that tho Report of Mr.. May he referred to the
Board of Managers for the ensuing year but he.
fore this motion was put, John c, Cluer wished to
make a suggestion.
Mr.. onincy's motion was unanimously adopted.
Mr.. Garrison, Chairman of the Business Com.
mittce' presented the following resolutions:
i. Resolved that while we rejoice in every indi.
cation OF an approximation. on tho part OK public
men, or OF religious or political bodies, to the
standard OF uncoinprom sing Abulitionism, and
arc ever ready to give credit to whom credit is due.
Tor any real service that may be done to the anti
slavery cause, we nevertheless feel constrained to
admonish all men and all parties that no inciden.
'i iaDour, no partial issue, no struggle AGAINST
slaveholding nggressiuns upon the rirbts IF tho
Norm can DC "a substitute for the duty of seeking
the immediate aud utter eXtirpation of tho sI,vc
system, ana separating ourselves from ell partici.
pancy in the guilt thereof.
2. Resolved, That institutions arc for mon and
not men for institutions therefore, all institutions
whether in Church or State. that cannot exist viii
out ensia'lnS men ought to he, and must be- dos.
troyed. "''
Mr.. Garrison spoke of the general charge made
against Aboiitionists that they are upchayilabe !.
but he believed they were always ready to do JUS
tice to anynlan who should do any true auti.sla-
very work, in whatsoever way he might do it. W,
arc eontending, however, he said, with a united
and uncomproiaisinS Desrotisni, and we must be
NJ incorporating as that. 1t was n good thing
to be opposed to the Fugitivo Slave Law, the Ne
braska bill, and to give succour to fusitives; but
commenddble as these acts are, genuine anti-sla-
very covers broader ground than this and those
who make the charge Of uncharitableness should
remember that it is not a question of charity at all,
but OF right. Abolitionism, he insisted, is to hate
slarery for others, as we should hate it for ourselves
and to repudiate and oppose whatever upholds sla-
very.
Mr. Phillips said, if we accept any halfway
antl-siavery without criticism, we shall fail to meet
the demands of the time. lie would acknowledge
many things as n gain to tho anti-slavery cause,
that could not be regarded as at ali nm anti-slayerv
triumph. The political action needed is not that n
great deal OF ground should be gone over superb
c!aliy, but that some one thing should be done thor
oughly. He asked for the result Of the partial
anti-slavery of the country. 1t is the Fugitive
Slave bill, and the Nebraska bill, and it will bye
and by be Cuba. Under its influence the country
was lost to freedom the Slave Power has the
control, and Senators and Representatives can only
Intellectually protest. lie insisted, therefore,. that
the great need is an example of anti-slavcry: n
commonwealth or q city that should be a model for
the world. Tho true policy is to keep before the
country our ultimate ends, and this is tho only
methcd of success. The question is not whittier
Mr.. A. or b. is a great man, an eloquent man.
but whether he is an nncompromisinr abo!itionist.
Reform movements arc necessarily aggressive, and
they should draw up every mans method to the
ring-bolt of q rigid scrutiny. When our a~nti.sll-
very enterprise shall become tame and uncompro-
missing 1t should be put out Of the way.
Francis jackson, in the absence of the Treasur-
eT, Mr.. Philbrich, read the Treasurer's Report, as
audited from which it appears that the receipts
of the past year were S8,735.27. Expenditures,
sS,066.7 6
fetcd, 10 accept the report and publish it.
Mr.. Garrison thought, that notwithstanding all
the labours Of the Abolitionists, there are few who
comprehend the magnitude of the anti-slavery
movement. This movement at first was simply in
behalf Of the three millions of slaves in our land
but now it is far wider in its scope and Object
The slaveholding spirit is the universal spirit of
the land therefore it is that the Government and
the Church are pro-slsyery. The first thing to be
understood, then, is human nature md the rights
OF man; mans superiority to all institutions; and
this is what the anti-slayory movement, in the Pro-
violence of God, is emphatically and imrressiyeiy
teaching the nation. Whatever institution outlaws
men, we must so treat it that it shall outlaw US TOO.
This thought he enlarged upon i'll his usual search
ing and effective manner.
Henry G. Wright responded to Mr.. Garrison's
remarks, and said he would belong to no i@nstitu-
ton that outlawed man, but would labour for the
overthrow of all such institutions. The great
object of the anti slavery movement is to rescue
man from the thraldom of institutions. These
views Mr.. Wright enlarged upon for a short time
and was listened to with attention and evident
interest.
Wa. Wells Brown said that the Slave Power
had, from the first, used all its resources to sustain
itself and its character for responsibility It's
policy has been to Joy up whatever stood in its
"ay-poiiticians and ministers especially. lie
instaneed DR.. Nehemiah Adams as an illustration
Of the way in which the South buys mp the minis
tiers.
air. Brown thought he knew about no much Of
slavery as DR.. Adams. and could give quite as ac-
enrate a view of the subject. lie had been a slave