Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-02
a PLATFORM.
The Erie True American publishes the following
as its platform:

The Erie True American publishes the following
as its platform
"Al men are created equal"
Man cannot hold property in man.
No Slave Territory.
No Slave States.
No Slavery.
No law for Slavery, any more than a law for
murder
The Constitution is on Anti Slavery document
and should be welded in behalf of Human Rights.
Slavery is not the creature of State Law Or Local
Law-t is the creature of Lawlessness.
Man cannot make Law-it emanates from God
alone, and human Legislators can only discover
and apply it TO human necessities.
Hence if you please, we believe in Higher Law
1t is the only Jaw.
No bargains with Slaveholders-no such bar
gain ever yet proved advantageous to Freedom
No hunting for Men as property.
No putting man on trial to ascertain whether
he belonga to himself or to some other self.
The Northern apologist for Slavery is as bad as
the Slaveholders-mcdHer, If anything. for be has
more light, better education and q less tempta'
ton.
1t is as easy to conceive Of christian thief as
christian Stakeholder.
The Church that iellowships Shareholders IS un'
worthy the fellowship of Christians,
Man stealing is quite diabolical as dancing
''eyangelicaY Societies to the contrary notwith'
standing. -
No Issues" in Anti Slavery politics. Treat
Slavery as an Outlaw, and exterminate 1t, and we
shall not be bothered with Texas annexatons, u
gitiye Slave Laws, bred Scott decisions, and Kan
sas mbroglios.
No man can he excused from working in the
field of Reform, even though he belong to an Ortho'
dox Church.
No strychnine whisky,
No whisky at all.
No grog-shops-they nre the manufactures oil
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No liccncing moral men to carry on an I'M
moral aHA infamous trade.
Alcoholic drinks, put on sale MS beverage,
are confscate and should be abated like any 9th
er nuisance.
There should lie public sentiment in every com
manity that would tolerate a rum seller in 1t no
sooner than a burglar or an incenuiafy.
The spirit of war is the spirit OF the pitt shouIa
| he discouraged and suppressed, =,
To this end. we would abolish the Army and q
good portion OF the Navy,
No man has better natural right to Gods green
earth than his Deighbor.
Land monopoly is crime-as wicked, as pre-
sumptuous and as absurd would be a monopoly
Of the water We imbibe or the atmosphere we In
spire.
God never made human being without plac
to put him.
sNe ask for the Freedom Of the public Lands
b. ED on the great moral principle of an equf
right to the soil
4 We believe that women have "rights" from tn
| fact that they have an existence.
The laboring woman that earns as much, IN th
sane line of Industry, as the laborlng man, has
| right" to receive the same compensation.
| She has a very proper right" to heal the sck
and also to ''speak in the churches" notwithstand
| ing Bachelor Paul's notion TO the contrary.
Nor do we fully see why she may not as wei
vote as pay taxes--why she should not have the
same right" to make laws as to be hung Tor break
ing them.
We believe there are some women who have
lived in this country forty Eears, who understand
the workings and the wants of our Government, as
we'll as some Irishmen who have just landed on
our shores and have already entered into partly
Politics.
partment. We have carried mails for Shareholders
long enough.
Until it is abolished, we advocate the election Of
Post Masters by the people The people OF any
neighborhood know whom they would prefer t(
entrust with their Post Office concerns quite al
well Buchanan or any OF his Cabinet;
A .olish the Franking privilege. Legislator
and loungers in fat Offices can as easily pay then
own postage as the plebeians can.
| Our National Expenditures should be reduced
one half
! Hanging for crime is unchristian. unoivilize'
and unnecessary. Man may not rigLtiully destro.
what he cannot create. .
We ask for an amelioraton OF the condition O
Prisoners and Criminals. Let them be taught, an
treated like unfortunate and wandering ones. LIE
the only object be-Reform
righteousness exalteth q nation, but sin is
reproach to any people"
1t is always expedent to do right.
The most perfect freedom of religious opinion
should be tolerated.
We believe nothing that our reason condemns
and, indeed no man really does.
believe me, there is more virtue IN an hones
doubt than in half the creeds."
i "He serves most the Father no best serves man
and he who wrongs Humanity wrongs Heaven.
! Sectarianism is wrong and detestable. NOR
truly practical Christianity should take the piae
of cast iron, speculative theology.
If a few God animated men did not carry thing
too far" the masses would not carry them ia
enough. -
"Agitation" now and ever No heed to resolt
tions to ''resist" or "discountenance" 1t.
Success to treason" as against dcspotism. tn
world over. -, 4,
Moral character, and not money, should be tn
, basis of Responsibility.
Snobbery is pusillanimous pestilenae. NO ma
should put on "airs" so long as he has rag
any y.hing else to put on. :,
l Educate the people in all lknowledge-especlall
in Animal Physiology, and Hygiene what al
| now set down as "dispensations OF providence
are often only the "dispensatons" OF drugs, pateI
medicines and doctors.
A Above all, we believe in Progress--"let the go
o of yesterday be the starting point OF to-day