Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-13

! I'ECN VI NNihtH WHICH now ttAln tne SOL uI Nam
sas with blood, aud ill its air with shrieks;-and
we here and now, renew our pledge, that We will
never &c parties to any truce. terms, or com pro.
mise with this monster Ul all cruelties and ahumi-
nations: aud will ever protest against the mista.
ken policy of those ~prn(es. ed friends of the Slave
who are striking hands with slavehulders, in State
or Church. and who are helping to sustain that
atrocious Constitution and Union which bind us to
Slayery's service. and which render impotent all
our struggles againstit.
3. Resolved, Tint in carrying out these great
principles into action. every man must, from the
necessity of the case. le his own Judge; but with
regard To questions Of individual duty. we may
say. Let every man exercise the utmost vigilance,
that he is not deceived and betrayed; if lie can
find a Church, unstnined 10y the ilood OF the slave,
faithful in its whole duty to the oppressed, let him
Join it it he will; or if he can find anywhere n no.
iitical party, though in our judgment there is none
which is not striking hands with the tiaveholder,
but is consistently trampling under foot every law
and decree ct Slavery, lot him join that. if he will;
hut, If not, let him dare to stand alone for Justice,
for humanity, and for Gud.-
"They are slaves who dare not le
In the right with two or three"
4. Resolved, That in the Interchangeable truth,
Justice, and importance Of the principles upon
which the Anti-Slavery movement is funded, we
continue to rest our fullest condolences; that we
should register our own condemnation if we man
Tested a want of faith, for the future, tx that
course when INS been 50 hlun1hntIY hleSSeu Nv
Co in the past: and thpt we know no other efec.
tual and certain way for the overthrow Of slavery
save that which This Society. and those with which
it il in fellowship, have maintained and enforced
from the htginning.
8 Rrsulted, That the sure and cfcciunl way to
abolish slavery is for each individual 40 cease to-
do OWL aud learn t, do WELL" lie to seek u,tice,
relieve the oppressed, plead for the iatherless and
the widow" is no longer Ito consent with thieves
aud be partakers with aduliers;" is to come out
and he separate" from mun-stcalers and slavchuld-
ers and from all who iustify or excuse them: is. in
he apostles word, to "hnve ma fell Iwslip with the
uniruitiul works Of darkness hut rather .eprove
then:" is, in Or daily life and conversation, to
remember thojc IN bonds as ourselves Bound with
tlcm;" is, in lricf, tn insist upon n dissolution Ct
the Union If these Northern Suites with the slave
holding and slavetradiug States of the South, and
thus cease to lie partnk .rs Of their sins, and re-,
ceivers OF their plaques.
G Resolved, That the Auti-Slavcry movement
Is dependent upon the success or failure ui no pc
litical party, and will not. We believe, ie greatly
promoted ar hluicred by what may leial them OF
!. either of them; and that. while We caunut feel in
different to the antI.slhtery spirit which partially
actuntes one Of the parties, nor to the entire lack
and scurn # that spirit which characterize the
other tWu--if indeed they are two,- ne nave IL far
more important work To do, Il far more imperative
/ duty to the Slave and to our own souls to discharge
than to be m~ingling in the strife Of 9nIlticiHnS,--
ana mat Work Is, rs IL alWaNS u Is bcet, 70 "" ihllIl-
fully reiukIug the sin OF the Nation IN uphuIlluE
and extending slavery. to he stealri>tly Exposing
the influences which have 50 long GCadchpd the
national conscience, and to pre',nre The way for
the advent of that glorious. aud hapIy and peace
fl cun~summHtiun Of our enterprise, when the
NuYtheru States shalt have No Union 1rith Stare
Hoi3erS, ReijgioHSiy or imiicoUy. and, a. a con
sequence thereof, the priSni-dour of the Slaves
shall lie broken, and they al. shall 50 OUT :rce.
= Ray,1,oJ Tb,. ,,,,,r tLo u,ye ana n,,,nS
by which the State of Ohio renders allegiance tn
the Slave power of this nation is the relic of her
Black Lnws-which discriminate between citizens
"n account of c"mrlrXiuu-pruhililing their exer-
else of the elective ruuchise-their rights Ms
Jurors-nnd. equal School facilities. We there.
) tore earnestly respond t. the eff ,rts now being
made for removing the word white from the con
etiiulinn and her statute bipk-thereby perform
ing an act of Justice to n deserving, patient auG
much abused class Of citizens.
s. Resolved. That Slavery being the only
element Of discnrd between the different common
wealths constituting this republic. cur firm cunvic.
Q ton is that after 81 diss luton Of the Union be
tween the slavehollirg and the non slavcholling
, States, the latter viii, hS Il rniuloi rgI elism.
the love Of freedom. again unite. forming n great
Northern Republic, through which we shall, At
I last. ourselves. enjoy tin blessings Of Utterly,
! equality and fraternity" and shire before the
nations as The bright aud morning star"
A., 9. Resolved, That a nation who can coollv look
on during such nm outrage rs the su-called reudi-
tiom of MlrSnre; Garner, by tbs sovereign State
of Ohio to the slavshuldiLg ShylOck Of Kentucky
i "hO claimed her AS his personal properly, show
themselves to be utterly lost to all feeling Of the
sacredhess Of human rights, of the beauty OF
human brotherhood ara the holiness of human
' love and that though they may weary the ear
, / with their UbtruSi,e professions of sympathy with
the oppressed of other lands, their words are
nothing but the illusions az of a false Republican
sentimentntity, or Of the most unmitiguted cant
and hypocrisy.
Whereas, We recognize the truth Of DR.. Bailey's
assertion in the Nahonai Era of August 2lst,
that re Republican Platform is n Henry Clay
Platform" therefore
10. Resolved, That we recommend to all politicians
vino are in the least tinc:ured with AnIi.Sllycry to
} peru'e the articles written some ten years since by
J DIR. Bailey and other prominent mon in the Liberty
!, Party proving most cunclusivelv that for abolition
lists to support the Henry Clay Platform, would be
) II practical denial of their principles, and that
1t would he far better To incur the charge of
4 electing Polk and arncXing Texas than t. supper,
n Platform which the Era now declares to he ideu-
! teal with the Platform OF the Republican Party.
ii Resolved, That our controversy with the
=, Republican Party is one of vital principle, involv.
ing interests lar more important than the numina.
) ton OK Presidential candidates, or any other oues-
S ton contemplated in the Republican Platform aud
. Whereas, With all its Anti Slavery professions
5 1t still avuwS its constant Diet limitation to observe
sacredly every compromise Of the Constitution re
n latiug t" Slavery, aud tn perpetuate the present
Uniun with the slav holders, re-assuriug them 81
U its fidelity, in every platform it constructs,i in every
) convention it holds,if not in every speech 1t makes
| Therefore,
IL. Resolved. That our duty and determination
5 are 10 oppose the Constitution aud Uni n, auc
q every organization that Sustains them-and t,
hold those parties and individuals who, with AHti
y St1rcIy Professions, sustain them, as the mas
dangerous Influences with which the Anti SLAVERY
0 cause has TO contend.
= 10. Resolved, That if anything we're wanting
. 10 complete lhe evidence of the utter iniatuaIiun o
9 the Republican Party and its delivcrunce over tt
the compromising and corrupting spirit which no
only cbaracterizer tut governs this nation, il il
found in the Bill introduced into Congress by G.