Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-03
WIEN sLAvEHoLprNG NAY BE ToLER.
ATED.


The State Republican Convention Of New York
met recently and adopted the following resolutions
as expressive of lite views on the subject Of Slave
~.
Resolved, That the Democratic Republican party
OF the State of New York adheres with infexible
hrmness to the doctrines Of the founders Of the Re.
public; that the true end of government is the
maintenance of human rights, and the test of q
JUST administration the extent to which il carries
that doctrine into practice.
Resolved, That IL ia a contradiction Of terms to
call that man a Democrat who believes in the right
oil one man TO enslave another or to designate
tbat a Democratic Government which carries Slave.
~ wherever it goe..
Resolved, That the State of New York will new.
or ALLOW any human being to be held in Slavery
within her borders unless he be a slave escaped
from smother State and reclaimed under the Com
stitution of the United States.
Resolved, That the opinions Of the majority of
the Judges Of the Supreme Court of the United
States in the case Of bred Scott. and tho letter of
the President to the memorial of clergymeu on
affairs OF Kansas, contain doctrines 10 which the
The people of this State will never assent, be the
consequences what they may.
This is the full extent to which anti-slavery can
20 under the Federal Constitution, and very etrik.
ingly exhibits the inconsistency Of any ~rrotenee of
anti alavery in a national party" in this Union
Tbebe Resolutions truthfully affirm that the true
end OF Government lie the maintenance of human
rights, and that the test of character for all pre-
tender, to the administration Of Government is the
extent to which they carry this doctrine into prnc.
sice. Let US see do Rcpubli sans merit confidence
Re an snti-slavery party, judged by thi, ruler They
are for the protection Of human rights with an i'm
portant eIception,-whers slaves are held under
A.. E.Iar.l r,..k.A... A. - -.
the way in which they may be 80 held. Thus
svowedIy they annul Gods Law Of liberty, by their
constitution. Thus they practice treason by their
own statement, against the supreme law of FREQ
dom. Can the slave trust a party which thus SETS
at nOught his rights, in order to maintain its fdeli-
~ to- wicked compact with his tyrant master p
And by the way, it would have been we'll if thes.
Republicans when their hand was in at making res
olutions, had added one setting forth the way in
which the General Government was to be divorc
ed from slavery, whilst, a. the Kidnapper's agent
it was reclaiming fugitive slaves. 1t might alst
have been we'll to have added another, showing
how New York herself, in her State Government
could be said to be divorced from slavery wher
Republicans in authority should fulfil their acknowl
edged obligations in holding the slave which tn,
constitution had seized
Again, these Republicans tbink it ia absurd t
call q man a Democrat who believes in the RICH
Of one man to enslave another. We agree will
them, and on this account pronounce the Republi
can party not only undeniocrstic but pro.slaver.
since it proposes to hold tho most heroic and nobl
of all the millions of ohattelized Americans, tn
Anthony Burnses. and Margaret Carriers as slave
upon the soil of New York and Ohio. for the con
venience of their political ccnfederates, the Gain
seq, tho Netherlands and Gorsuches Of the South
One point here and always we wish to impress UP
on our r~eaders-that while they are confederate
with these williams under the constitution they ca
do nothing better or more consistent than thes
%sbsurdiy contradictory resolutions propose. As W
intend to give full vent to our snti-slavery impul,
es without limiting them by constitutional disclaim
srs, We 60 for mo Union with Stakeholder.