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

cd than TO attempt TO hold q mere fragmentary
one, he 30 expressed himself. Then however he
supposed there was time, by using all due dill
gence, to notify the friends 10 the west of the post.
ponement. After the postponement was agreed
upon. notice was tclcgraphed to him, but tho mes
sage was never received and he first learned of it
by letter on Thursday last, too late to give the
information 10 many who designed to attend
lie however published IL with the reasons assign
ed and in the language Of his informant. As it was
then impossible that the information should reach
many in the West who designed to attend, he
thought 1t was indispensable that a convention
should be held and took all possible means to give
information that one could be held.
s. s. FOSTER, said he wished to censure no one
on account of the putting of Of this convention
Censure is for men who have done intentional
wrong. lie believed that nobody had so acted in
this case. lie wished however to express his very
decided opinion against tho judgement of these
men, and he hoped their mistake might be 80 re.
ported to the public as to warn them and others
against the commission of similar faults in fu-
ture. But he knew, and he wished it borne in
mind, that the West is to blame in this very mat
tor. They attach far too much Importance to the
presence of Wendell Phillips at conventions such
as this. Mr.Garrison and others doubtless thought,
and truly, that great dissatisfaction would be felt
by the Western people il Mr.. Phillips should not
be in attendance, and he had no doubt but that
this consideration had much to do with determin.
ing the committee in favor of a postponement.-
With regard to Mr.. Robinson he did not suppose
that his n0uraa had ms hno:.- - a. -.
AT any rate, the committee had no right to con.
suit him,as he had no authority in the matter, and
they did wrong to try to get his sanction to the act,
and thus to divide the responsibility.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
After some remarks by G. L, Remond and Hen
~ Willis in favor of promptness in conducting the
proceedings Of the Convention -
AARON Nj. POWELL, of New York, addressed
the Convention. lie declared himself in favor of
the immediate and absolute dissolution of the
American Union and though this convention was
not the one contemplated in the original Call, it
declares its object to be to carry out the same
purposes, and hence we should all be ready to
participate in it, and make it available for the
overthrow Of slavery and a slaveholding union
We ought not to come together here, and separate
again, and tho fact not be made publicly known
that We are in favor, with our whole hearts, of a
dissolution of this guilty union. 1 rejoice in this
convention because in it the friends of the present
National compact have the same freedom to give
their reasons for honoring and UNFOLDING the un.
ION, that we have to express ours for d~etesting and
dsnOuncing. it and demanding its speedy and en-.
tire destruction.
1t is q selfevident proposition that between lib.
erty and slavery there can be no union and that
the experiment to form such a union, wns O wild
and foolish one at the start. My friend Re.
mond said this morning that we must dissolve
the union between freedom and slavery. l believe
there is not, and never was any such union. 1t is
at best but nominal freedom, not actual, that can be
in union with slavery. In a national sense there is
no freedom in this country. 1t is slavery and only
slavery. The slave power sits triumphant on the
throne, and freedom is impossible in the nature d
the case. We have not in New York a foot OIL
ground on which our friend VIM. Wells Brown
could, for a moment stand and be secure, if he had
not in his pocket q deed of his freedom, given him
by the noble and philanthropic women in England
We are then not for a dissolution of the union be
tween freedom and slavery, but for a separation Of
the states of this confederacy. Prominent Repub
lican leaders declare that in the union may be found
the only safeguard of slavery. We believe thii
doctrine to be true, but unlike these Republicans
we labor for its dissolution /; while they 20 for it,
preservation. We would take from slavery it's onl,
support. 1t is true that the South threatened dis
union, in the event of Fremont's election to tn,
Presidency. But what is the condition of the Soutl
to-day? Can the South stand alone? Wendell
Phillips sometimes says of South Carolina, tina
''she has not money enough to buy her crutches OF
which to hobble out OF the Union! Take ava,
Ohio, and Pennsylvania and New York and SLAYER
falls to the ground.
We are in favor of disunion because we believ
the Union to be wicked. 1t violates the eterna
principles Of justice. 1t is therefore not onl
practicable" and "expedient" but il is RIGHT tina
there should be a dissolution of the Union. TIL
truest expediency is always the right. We believ
the sompact between the North and South to be
conspiracy of tho vilest character; and that ever
man in this convention who refuses to enroll him
self as a disunionist, is q conspirator before Go,
and his fellow men. We believe in driving thi
matter homo, and bringing men to a sense of thei
responsibility.
am a disunionist because l believe it will abol
ish slavery. 1t ia sometimes said that we are de
sorting the main issue, when We enter into tn
question of dissolution. l view it otherwise. B,
virtue of the compromises of the confederacy tn
people of the North stand by the Southern tyrant
and give them strength to mold the slave in hi
chains and l demand that the northern peopl
rhall cease to occupy this ungodly position. Tn
slave-owners are at the South but the STAKEHOLDER
are as we'll in Ohio as in South Carolina, in th
, Republican party as well as in the Democratic
The editor Of the Cleveland Herald says we a
ought to be hung. There you have it. This de-
~larstion Shove where the guards of the slave plar
%tations are. Find a man that is not a disunioni,
and you find a stakeholder; even though he claim
to be q Garrisonian or a Gerrit Smith man, stii
if not a disunionist, he is stakeholder, If this J