Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-12
BENZ. S. JONES, Rec. Secretary.
RESOLUTIONS.
SERIES no, |.

SERIES NO, /.
l. Resolved, That the daring and determined
aggression of the slave-power increasing in fire.
quency as well as atrocity, and yet Housing no
spirit of stern resistance Oh the part of the North,
but rather a more willing and craven submission
to and completely in the curse and crime of Slave
ry, adds new motive to us as aboliti0nists, to con-
tinue with never firing nor abated earnestness
our onset upon it, under the only war-cry worthy
the conflict, No Union with Shareholders.
2, Resolved, That it is of the highest impor.
lance to guard against the mistake of supposing
opposition to the extension of Slavery, or to the
Fugitive Slave Law, or the bred Scott Decision,
or any other incident of the Slave Institution, as
necessarily opposition to the system itself: mas
much as we often see all this, connected with real
devotion to Slavery where it is, and most idola-
trous attachment to the Union, on which alone 1t
must depend Tor it's existence.
8. Resolved, That it is now fully time to regard
al political action under the Union and Constitu-
tion, as essentially Pro. Stave1y, however specious
its professions to the contrary-and especially
would we regard the Republican Party, that makes
its continual declarations of fidelity to Slavery
phcre ii is, as q Peace Offering to the Shareholders,
for opposing it phere ii is not, whether in Kansas
or elsewhere, as the worst foe to be encountered
by the friends of freedom and humanity.
4. Resolved, That in the declarations and do
irgs of Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, Senator
Hale of N. Hampshire, and Gov. Chase of Ohio,
to say nothing of N. p. Banks and other most
prominent leaders in the Republican party, there
is a recklessness of principle, and a bending to
the unhallowed behests Of Slavery and despotism,
to rebuke which, as it deserves, is utterly beyond
the power of human language.
SERIES NO. 2.
Resolved, That the recent Developments in the
more popular and powerful denominations of tht
American church, have been such as fully to Just
ify our former severest apprehension and condemn
alton of it-and to demand a renewal of our testi
mony against it, Especially has the action of tn,
Methodist Conferences north, and the American
Tract Society been such as most clearly to demon
strate, that all their pretended hostility to slavery
has been a base and hypocriticvl p~retence only, t.
preserve the Peace, without promoting the Purit,
of these organizations or Fastening in the leas
possible degree, the abolition of Slavery.
Resolved, That in the New York Independ
ent, in Rev. DIR. Cheever, in Henry Ward Beeche
and others like them. we recognize not the bold
manly apostolic energy and power, to rebuke sin
such as the times demand; but q craven, compro
missing, succumbing spirit, which, while it venture
to utter many stern denunciations Of slave breed
ing and slaveholding priests and professors of re
ligion, dares not or does not separate from them
as from more unpopular, but not moro guilt
pirates or robbers on sea and land.
Resolved, Ihat hOlulhg such q position, the
inevitably make themselves more dangerous oppt
nents to pure and and undeflcd religion than thos
who openly and daringly defend the slave syster
with all its denominations from the Bible as we'll a
The Constitution, and from Abraham and Paul, a
well as from Jefferson and Washington.
/ SERIES NO. 3.
Resolved, That we hold the doctrine Of, "Compel
sation to the Shareholders for Emancipation" ,rnd'
any circumstances, as both unjust and immoral
the highest degree. But especially do we regard ii
constitution Of the "Compensation Society" recen
ly organized at Cleveland. with particular abho
renee, for the following among other reasons
]. Because it wholly ignores the sin and gui
of slavery, the only appropriate remedy for whic
Is deep repentance and humiliation, on Tie part
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