Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-30

IN any instance, nor denouncing slavery as a crime,
but only vaguely abiding to 'those moral evils
aud vices which it is known to promote; and
Whereas it is manifestly designed, BY this
Report, to give neither offence to the slaveholders
OF the South nor countenance to the anti-slavery
movement of the North, but to quiet agitation in
the ranks Of the friends and patrons of the Tract
Society, by administering an opiate prepared with
all possible priestly cunning and skill; there
fore,
Resolved, That we ~renewedly boar our testi-
mony against the American Tract Society, as in
%herently pro.slsvery and thoroughly time. serving,
and, therefore, destitute of Christian integrity
and common humanity 70 that to contribute tn
It's funds, or to give it any countenance whatever,
is to be guilty OF q moral offence Of the first mag
Ditude.
Resolved, That, in continuing on it's Publishing
Committee Rev. NEHEMIAH ADAMS, of Boston, the
author OF that Surprisingly audacious and wicked
work entitled A South Side View Of Slavery, che
American Tract Society had ~deepenod it's guilt, and
revealed its moral %deiormity 30 plainly that they
will henceforth be utterly without excuse who
shall continue to bestow their patronage upon
it.
Just at the close Of the meeting, when the vote
on the resolutions was about to be taken, Mr.. Gar
rison said that as there had been no time for the
discussion Of the above resolutions, he would with.
draw them. Accordingly no vote was taken upon
them.
During the same day Mr.. Pillsbury offered the
following relative to the Republican party:
Resolved, That in John P. Hale of New Hamp.
shire, Nathaniel p. Banks and Henry Wilson Of
Massachusetts, and the NeD York Tribune, we rec
ognize full and fair opponents and Representatives
of the acknowledged leaders Of the Republican
party and,
Whereas one OF these boasts Of having support
ed q stakeholder for the Presidency, and that he
would do the same again and another boldly as'
serts that he would to-day "intrust the interests OF
the country to q Palmetto man" (mesniDg a South
Carolinian). and then adds. II would in Gods
name say, give US q Palmetto man always. forever,
because wherever there IL u Palmetto nan there
is always a wilp': another said in the Senate Of
the United States that the Republican party il
prominently the party Of State Rights, and tn,
other also declared to the Senate and to the South
that the Republican party is emphatically thu
party of Union, and that, were it in power, every
Disunionist should die q traitors death ant
leave a traitors name in the history of the Repub
lie therefore,
Resolved, That until these men repent of thes,
declarations, or the party r~epudiate these measure
and brand them as they deserve. we shall hold tn,
party and their leaders as really more ~dangerou
to the cause of Liberty and humanity ,har
! any party ever formed since the foundation of tn
Government.
The resolutions were adopted in q body. afte
which in answer to an inquiry the president state,
that these resolutions were included 10 the numbe
adopted.
Mr.. Burloigh moved a reconsideration Of tn
vote adopting tho resolutions, with a view Of op
posing those offered by Nj. Pillsbury.
The motion to reconsider was carried, when Mr
Burleigh opposed them rs false in logic and falls
in fact.
After some further discussion the resolution
with the exception Of Mr.. Pillsbury's wer
adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Phillips these las, wero lai,
on the table.