Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-15

total failure, having from its inception 10 the
present day, tended to tho moral and social ruin
and degradation Of the American people,
s, Resolved, That rs the present American
Government has thus, not only failed to accom-
plish the ends for which it was created, but has
been a great and positive curse and calamity to
the American people and to the Human Race, 1t
is the right and duty of the people OF once to alter
or forever abolish that Government.
6, Resolved, That the people Of the non.
Slaveholding States owe it to themselves and their
posterity, and to the acknowledgements llu-
manity, so long and so horribly outraged by the
present American Union to call Town, County and
State Conventions to consider the expediency of
forming a union on the basis Of No Union with
Shareholders.
I, Whereas, The American Church while
claiming to be the exclusive and divinely appoint
ed conservator of morals and of pure religion, still
treats tho stupendous crime Of Slaveholding, as
either a venial offence or a Christian virtue rep
resenting the yilest perpetrators OF the crime as
living embodiments of the spirit and prime ples of
morality and religion, therefore
Resolved, That such a Church is false to the
most obvious principles of Justice, h pocritical to
its pr Professions Of Christian love, ~fearfulIy corrupt
ing the morals of the nation, and pre- eminently
responsible for the continuance of Slavery with
all its attendant crimes and Uncomfortable suffer
ings and wretchedness, and that it is therefore the
duty of all, who would not be partakers with con-
" NV 6hiio ihhOh iVhet, ' ~ LII uNl |
Happiness, to abandon such a Church ms the Syna-
gOgue of Satan and the enemy of all Righteous
ness.
s, Resolved, That in view of the condition of
the enslayed women of America-Slaves in a two
fold sense, first, as human beings to the will of
fellow human beings-secondly, as women, to the
debasing passions of men that therefore every
woman in these United States, is imperitively
called upon to utter her indignant protest against
a systam which robs the feminine embodiment of
our great humanity of all its g%lory-Uf all its
power, to save the race, and perverts her as the
most efficient instrument of its destruction.
Q, Resolved That the unequivocal and undis-
Iuiscd pro.Slavery position of the American and
Democratic parties, and the shameless subser-
viency to Slavery which has marked the livos of
their candidates, compel us to look upon their
supporters in the Northern and Western States, as
the blind dupes or the unprincipled allied Of Slave
holders.
10, Resolved, That we recognize as true, the
assertion contained in an article in the editorial
columns of the National Era of August 21st, that
The REPUBLICAN PLATFORM Is A HENRY CLAY
PLATFORM - ard after reading the proof therein
adduced in support of the proposition, we can
fully adopt the language of the article refei red to,
out any disagreement between these views of Mr..
Clay and those of the Republican party, as en-
braced in their Platform, and in the letter Of Col.
Fremont, accepting the nomination.
Resolved, That we to all
politicians who are in the least tinctured with anti
slavery to peruse the articles written some ten
years since by DIR. Bailey and other prominent men
in the Liberty party, proving most conclusively
that for Abolitlnnists to support the Henry Clay
Platform, would be a practical denial of their
principles, and that it would be far better to incur
, the charge of electing Polk and annexing Texas,
q than to support o platform which the Era now
Q declares to be identical with the Platform of the
Republican party.
81 IL, HheycaS, We have the testimony Of Francis p.
Blair, President of the Pittsburgh Convention
which embodied in form the principles. on which
l the Republicans installed their national organi-
! cation, THAT there was not one in that COnven-
q ton who looked to its action as q means of abol-
ishing Slavery in the Slave States. On the con-
' trary they looked to it's action in restoring the pac.
l ifcation which bound the States together as a Sc
+ curity to the States ,che,e ii nop ~erists." And
Whereas, We have no reason to question the
n truth of his testimony concerning the Philadelphia
n Convention, "that nothing could be more revolving
to the prevalent sense of that body than the gen
eral anumissi of the Slaves in the South anC
putting them on a level with the white race ;
n therefore
Resolved, In the language Of the same distin
u guished political leader. that 1.-The Republican
,e party aDjures tho idea of intermedling will
Slavery whore it exists, or interfering with it il
any State which may hereafter establish H."-"Tha
Wv pliph tblb IL lstDiplICuH ! o a IL uDOIIllUi
party, is an dudactonS Hbel."
K 10, Whereas, The end and aim IF the Republica,
he party, according to the testimony of Hon. Nathan
iel p. Banks in his recent speech in New York, 81
not that we shall legislate on the question of the
Fugitive Slave Law, or whether in the future ex
n tension of our territory Slavery shall be prohibite,
or no. THAT this is all zoe ask, no more no less
~ no better and no worse,-that the spirit of the act
of 1920 and 1850 shall be made good in 1856
Us Thus removing II question of agitation and givin
IN again to the country the peace it enjoyed in 1852.
ve and
ID Whereas, We are assured by the same Reput
:, lican leader that in the event of the success of tn
Republican party, Before another year is passed
W the question between the North and South, wi
not be one Of Slavery but it will be a questio
of the Pacific Railway and the trade of 700, 900, 90
of people. and
of Whereas. We believe it strictly true a
~ also afirme by Mr.. Banks in his speech in New
burgh N. Y, Sept. 30th--"We the Republicans
ee interfere with no rights of the South, we stan
lie, exactly where we have always stood in the oil
Ii. organizations, except in regard to the Missoul
Compromise line" and
Whereas, The old organizations have Away
Oh been the faithful friends and allies of SLAYER,
an and
Whereas, We the Abolitionists "stand exact
&C. where are hare Arrays STOOD" demanding JUST
rn. for the Stare, therefore
Resolved, That we can have no more FELLOWSHIP
ble and yield no more support to the Republican par
than to those old organizations whose image ar
-a' character it bears, and that it is our duty to rebul
ct- and deuounce the party which announces ar
of defends such opininions and purposes as in thel
in respects the ally of Slavery, and unworthy of o,
N confidence and support.
Of l3, Whereas, Judging from the platform of ii
party-from the declarations of its candidates, an
from the expositions of its prominent advocate
M 1 ua hnua uar ~. 70 lie thak kLa-o -,
ciples will control the administration of the par
il successful therefore we C annot hope that ar
such success will be of any reaal advantage
the cause of our enslaved countrymen.
Resolved, That in these humiliating CO
cessions and wicked Compromises Of the Repu
lican party. embracing almost all the An
by Slavery politicians Of the country, many of who
bIa are measurably and sincerely The onnonents