Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-05


The annua! meeting of the Worcester County
South Division Anti-Slavery Society, was held at
horticultural Hall in this city, commencing on,
Saturday evening last, and continuing through
Sunday afternoon and evening.
The following resolutions were adopted, after
discussion by Andrew I. Foss William Wells
Brown, Stephen S. Foster, Samuel May, Jr., and
David A. WATSON, viz
Resolued That in the interchangeable TRUTH justice and
importanee OF the great principles upon which the Anti
cry movement is founded, have the iupl
confidence; that we should write condemnation
il man Tested want Of faith for the future in thai
which has been abundanty blessed by Col in
tine past and that know and conceive Of no way
for the oyerhrow Of slavery eectual and certain
that which this Society, and those with which in fell
loHehp have maintained and enforced from the begin
ming.
ResolUed That the eectua and omnipotent "Way,, to
abolish Slavery is to cease do evil and learn to do
we is to seek justice, to relieve the oppre
for the atheress and the wdow longer toconsent
with thieves and be parakers adulterersn is 'to
come out and be separator from oppress0rs and man
steaers, and from those more guilty men, who excuse
and justify the mansteaer is in the apostles words to
have no fellowship with the unfrutu works of darkness
but rather reproye them; is. in daily life
sation ito remember those 10 bond bound with them
to dissolve coparnership with those whoever and
wherever they may be, who uphodng and extending
Slavery, the Sun Of all vaines;n is in brief to make
the great principle Of the Society the practical guide
our own lives, VIZ: mo UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDE
RELIGToUSLY OR POLITICALLY"
ResOlusd That in carrying out these great principles
foundation principles Of tho government of God every
must from the necessity and the right of the
be his own judge. As Society, can only say, with
regard to Of individual duty, et every be fully
persuaded in his mind, if he find a church un-
stained by the blood of the slave faithful in its whole duty
to Gods poor, let him join it, he be minded if he
can discover political party which is not strKing hands
with the Shareholder which consistently trampng
foot every law and decree of tyranny and oppression let
he will Init Oh LOT DOR 10 efar
alone fer justice and for God.
"They are slaves who dare not be
In the right, with two or three"
ResolUed, That while we cannot but view with interest
the struggles with the slave power going in Kan
zas, Congress- and elsewhere whether based upon sell
fish, or private interests upon mistaken policy yet in
view Of the fact that the majority of the people in the
nominaly Free States to this day the side of the
slave power, and pledged to its protection and support
We feel that our duty to labor here for the conversion
the people Of New England to true AntSlavery princ-
PIES rather than join any conflicts with the slave power
In Kanzas or elsewhere made up any small Elusive
Issues by men pledged to submit If the slave power pre-
dominates.
Resofusd.That the idea of starving slavery to death
by combining it within its present limits, is in view Of
the fact that the larger part of the territory already
cured to the slave power is yet virgin soil which
can grow and atten for ages to come most dangerous
| deusion.
RESOLVED, That we, the GGrisOnian, or as popularity
styled Do-nothing abolitionists are not doing many
things which protested ab1litonis are doing viz:
do not unite with them in the recognition of slave
holders as Christians; we do not join them in solemn
oahs to protect and defend slavery in the States where L
exists, in order to obtain the right keep out of the
Territories, If they outvoe the Shareholders but
protect and defend 1t there in Kanzas if tbs
power outyote them. But actually do that, which, Il
all who protested the OF anti-slavery would join is
in doing, would break the yoke from every slave, e..
removing our own feet from the neck of the slave, and
practically dissolying union with shareholders.
Resoped That in Judgment, the dissolution Of the
present Union with the savehoding stat presents the
only pesceabe remedy for the evils Of slavery, aad the
surest pledge Of its entire aboon inasmnch as then
the Shareholders, unable alone to hold their slaves,
devise Immediate measures for emancipation aud the
| men OF the North will longer be obliged 10 take VI
arms TO suppress seryile Instructions, return fugtVt
slaves or fly 70 the rife and the revolver to defend he
own territory from The runiansn Of the aave nnwnr