Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-13
MASSACHUSETTS ANTI.sLAvERY
SOCIETY.

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The Old Pioneer AMI. Slavery Society held its
twenty.seyenth Anniversary in Boston last week.
Ii seems to have been q harmonious and enthusiasts.
tic gathering, with no more tendency to falter in
it's course, than during the enthusiasm and zeal Of
its earlier DAYS. Its high and holy purpose is yet
unattaiued. Its friends therefore will not un.
buckle their harness, or relax their efforts. 1t is
theirs and ours wisely to adapt the demonstration
and application Of our principles to the present
Developments of society around us, so that the
sinners of today, shall most effectually feel the
power of the truth we tell. Well did Mrs. Foster
say: "There is yet a work FOR us to do-and with
out this, nothing will be effected. AS Napoleon
justly said, nothing is done while any thing re-
mains to be done. We cannot trust to Republi.
cans; compromise is running them"
In the same wien, Mr.. Garrison, in reply to the
objections that our labors were ineffective AM that
men would not hear or regard our efforts, said, 1T
is our duty to speak the truth even though we
know men will not hear-God warned his own
prophet,-'They will not hear thee, for they wRl
not hear me-neverlheless thou shalt speak my
words unto them 1t is our duty to declare the
truth itself and we are not responsible for the
manner in which the people receive or reject it,
lie added ave show Massachusetts her sin and
her shame, through her connection with the slave.
holding States; we show her, and she sees, her
powerlessness to protect her own citizens, or to en-
force her OWN laws in her own streets against q
solitary virginian slave.hunter; and We demand
Of her, in the name of the living God, that sbe
break this base, disgraceful chain, and stand erec
and selfrespecting, L, this not work TO do. and
work e~noughY"
Aye and Just this work il is that has been efec
tive IN rousing this nation to it's present pitch o.
excitement on the subject of slavery. Let thi,
work be discontinued and the whole nation viii
subside into passive compromisers, and willing Ella
very. 1t is not true that our work as preachers o.
righteousness has been or is Ineffective, and i
cannot BIO true while man has a moral nature OF
God a moral government.
RESOLUTIONS.
From the list of Resolutions, VIC commend tn,
following to the careful attention of our readers a.
admirably descriptive Of the two great politica
parties now dividing the country, and as enunciat
ing in conclusion the grand moral and politica
remedy for the slaveholding crimes Of this nation
Resolved, That in the Democratic party of thi
country, we see powerfully concentrated the dema
gogueism and depravity of the North, in %conjunc
ton with the rufianism and villany of the South
Tor the one overnastcring purpose OF strengthen
ing. extending and perpetuating the bloody an
s~Onl-imbrutlnS system Of slavery, and overthrow
ing all the free institutions Of the country-a pal
~ which, with the boldest audacity and the mos
shameless proDigacy, makes use of a noble teri
and q sublime idea, DEHOCRACY, as a veil benin
which to perpetrate the most shocking outrage
upon humanity, the blacklist acts of perfdy, an
the most diabolicnl atrocities-a party whose ar
~propriate symbols are the slave-fetter, the yok,
the whip, the branding.iron, and the bloodhound
/, and whose guiding spirit is thoroughly Internal.
O. Resolved, That while. in the Republican party
4 we see, in many cases, an bonost and sincere syn
pathy with the oppressed, and q desire to brea
4 their letters; still. its aim is simply geographical
its policy q shifting sand.bar. it's spirit weak D,
i:s course downward, ls issue impo5tn
: against fhs designso0 of the Slave Power; and Il
awfpt responsibility through it, allegiance to th
q Constitution OF the United States, with %referenc
r to the four millions of fettered slaves at the Soutl
IS and through its support of this blood stained Unioi
g is exactly equal to that of the Democratic party.
Resolved, That there is but one great, vital, al
d com prehensive issue to be pressed upon the undo
standing and consciences of the people of tn
q North, and that is, "No Union with Shareholder
religiously or politically"
In a preceding column will be found a report
Mr.. Pillsburys speech. In our next we intend
give our readers one Of Mr.. Phillips master speed
es on the occasion.