Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-11-07

and OF giving the slaves ldir heiu " "N"'N'N "
deyerance from bondage. - =, -
5th. Resolved, That it is the duty Of the Slaves
to strike down their tyrants by force ana arms
whenever the blow, however bloody, can be maui
effective to that end, unless Washington was :
murderer and the American Revolution SID ano
crime against God and man. ,
9Th Resolved, That whenever wo behold tneip'
10 the battlefield of Freedom, we Will give thein
every aid and comfort in our power IN the salne
spirit which brought La Fayette and kosciusko
to the support of our Revolutionary ancestors Ia
their struggle TO achieve their rights.
SERIES 8.
1st. Resolved, That the time has fully arrived
when n due regard for the preservation our own
individual liberties and those of our posterity.
equally with our duty to the cnslaved millions of
America, demands Of Us the organization OF a.
Revolutionary party outside OF the Federal UoVs-
ernment designed and calculated to effect its over
throw
2nd. Resolved, That from the peculiar char
acter of the political system under which we live,
the friends OF freedom labor most efectually to
accomplish their object by means adapted to the
withdrawal Of individual state soveregntes from
the confederacv, leaving the future confederation
of these sovreignties to the guidance of eircum--
stances.
SERIES 4.
Whereas, The union of these states is, and ever
has been, based UPON proslayery Interpretation OF
the Constitution and whereas, the character and
consequences OF that union cannot De aHecteu Dy
the opinions which private individuals may enter
tain of the proper Interpretation of that nstrument
and whereas we have to do with the contitution
as interpreted by tho Judiciary and not some.
of may think it ough to be interpreted, there-'
fere,
Resolved, That this Convention would consider il
misrepresentation of its time to listen to argu-
ments the object of which is to prove that the peo.
ple of this country have neveryet understood ther
own Constitution and that the government has
nj
tions.
LETTERS.
The following are the Letters referred to abo,s.
CENTREvILLE, 1ND, Oct. Oath, 1857.
Rev. T. W. HIGGrNsoN, Dear Sir: duly recev.
ed your letter of Oct 10Th, in behalf of the COM
mttee of arrangements for the Northern Conven.
tion to be held at Cleveland Oct 2Sth. inviting
my presence and cooperation. Owing to crcum-
stances not within my control, cannot accept your
invitation; and it may not be amiss therefore,
at your suggestion, to say a word as to my own
course of action, and the reasons that have led me
to adopt it. Perhaps this will best define NY posi-
ton respecting your proposed convention Ito con.
slider the practcability, probability and expediency
of separation of the Free and Slave States"
Like yourself, l have hitherto acted with the
Republican party. My hope is still with that par.
ty. am in favor of its early and thorough re-or.
ganization on the basis Of the Philadelphia Plat.
form, believing that basis to be sufficient, rs an
enunc iation of essential antislavery truth. Fairly
interpreted by its obvious letter and spirit, it as.
serts the principle Of congressional prohibition Of
slavery in our territories the non admission Of
any Slave States to be formed out of them ;
the abolition of slavery in the District of Column
ba, and in all places under the exclusive juris.
diction of the Federal Government the repeal of
all Federal enactments in favor of slavery and
the active and jealous espousal by the Federal
authorities, of freedom everywhere outside of the
Slave states 1t goes still further. by referring au.
thoritatvely, and by way of example, to the poll
cy of our republican fathers" on the subject of
slavery for that policy, by abolishing it in all
Federal territory and in seven Of the old states
by cutting off the foreign supply which all par
ties understood TO be the lifebood Of the system
and by private emancipation rapidly going on
during and following our revolutionary era, under
the growing anti-slavery sentiment of the people,
clearly contemplated the extinction of slavery in
all the states 1t was through the firm belief of
our fathers that the evil was only to have tran.
s:ent sufrance, brief hospitality, and then quiet.
ly disappear from the country, that they were ir-
which compromised, to some extent, the freedom
of the colored race. The Republican party there.
fore, whatever pretended leaders or organs may
say stands fairly committed to the policy pf di.
yorcng the Federal Government from slavery,
and to the prosecution of that policy as an unmis
taxable protest against its existence. 1t demands
the restriction and national Encouragement Of
slavery, as the iorerunner Of other measures NOR
al or POLITICAL which shall work out its peaceable
cverthrow-as a clearly authorised and famisr
method of attacking it in its strong holds, and not
as its shield and defence. AS an incipient remedy
for our great national maady the principle of
Limitation is recognized essential part Of the
whole process of cure, just the first desa Of
medicine given to n sick man forms part Of the
general treatment FOR his recovery.
! Such is the Philadelphia platform. The men
who made il did not turn deaf ear and averted
face to the millions in chains Breathing the spir-
it of our fathers, they disowned the thought Of
permanent union Of such antagonistic elements as
slavery and freedom under the constitution. They
believed the Battle Of the Revolution was to bs
crowDed with no such dabolical folly. 1t is true
they did not avow the doctrine of Federal in-
reference with slavery in the states They did not
avow the opposite doctrine. They laid down few
clear principles, and propeundsd a few practical
measures. made necessary by the state Of the
times and yet sufficiently broad and catholic for
all anli-savery men who believed in the use Of the
ballot They declared themselves in favor of .'the
union of the States and the rights of the Satss.h
but they gave the people definitions whilst there
was manifesty something dearer in their eyes than
either union state rights. They expressed
their reverence tor our,athers.and announced prn,
cpes that in their working must put end TO-
slavery; but they dealt not in specifics as to, the
mode. They did not anticipate the Dred Scott dc,
cision, making slavery no longer peculiar, but 10
all intents and purposes rational institution. nor