Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-17

ana JudiciaIly declared to have no rights that
Wh,e men are bound to respect and whereas, the
load OF guilt entailed upon us through tie recreap.
cy OF tIuse who led in the Revolution, and who
determined the couree Of events, threatens 10
whelm this nation in destruction, by its increas-
ing weight therefore,
/. Resolved, That, instead Of ~glorying in the
deeds Of our fathers, and burning incense at their
shrines, it becomes a solemn duty, on n day like
this, to confess their shocking inconsistency, to de.
plore their w~ickedly compromising spirit, to blush
for their selt.evident injustice, to shun the evil ex.
ample they set, and to leave posterity no cause for
%loathing our memories, through a still more signal
%treachery to the cause Of inn atrial freedom on our
part.
Q. Resolved, That it is time all Boosting should
cease in regard to Lexington, Concord, Bunker
illll' Saratoga, and Yorktown; for the struggle of
No. IN spite OF the glittering generdlitjes' con.
tanned in the Declaration of Independence, was
not IN vlndication Of the rights of human nature,
but only for colonial independence, on a selfish
basis, III the spirit Of complexiUnal cnste-as eich.
ty-two years have demonstrated, by myriads Of
hnmihdting facts, by the legislative and judicial
action of ali the States, by the whole course OF the
national government. by the all prevailing senti.
ment OF the country even to this hour respecting
The colored population, whether bond or free.
3. Resolved, That tho 18th of July. l776, was
a day OF transparent hypocrisy, of political dissem,
bling, Of utter selfcouGemnation, on the part OF
those who affixed their signatures to the Dsclafa.
ton Oh lndependence-many OF whOr were then
holding, and through lite continued to hold multi
tudes OF their iellow.men in a bondage, 'one hour
Of which according to the admission of Thomas
Jefferson, was lraught with more misery than
ages of that which they themselves rose in rebel
lion to oppose and therefore, to deem them wor'
thy OF reverence, under such circumstances, is to
be partial in judgement, and to inflict a grovious
wound upon the cause of justice and righteous
ness.
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and Jefferson, and Madison and Patrick Henry,
and Pinckney, were slaveholders,-and because
Hancock and Adams and Franklin and Hamilton
and Roger Sherman were willing to strike hands
with Shareholders, and to sacrifice principle to ex.
podiency, in order that the link which bound them
to the mother country might be severed that the
land is now cursed by the sway Of the Slave Pow
er. md the cause of freedom is treated with con-
tempt; for bad those men been loyal to the self
evident truths they enunciated, emancipated their
own slaves, and insisted on liberty being PRO.
claimed throughout all the land to all the inhabi.
tants thereof as Il matter of elfrespect and NOR
al consistency, and to avoid the merited derision
and indignant reprobation of a witnessing uni,
verse, slavery could not have survived the Revolu-
tionery conflict. Therefore,
5. Resolved, That all attempts 20 hide their
criminality, or to apologize for their conduct, nre
equally futile and immoral; for they stand coudem.
ned out of their own mouths, and ~fearfully illus.
,rate how evil and bitter IA thing it is to depart
from the living God in compromising the princi-
pies Of eternal justice. substituting a selfish expedi-
ency tor the higher law, and making the end sane.
lily the means.
Whereas, the stream cannot rise higher than
Its source and whereas, the Constitution Of .he
United States was framed and adopted by a slave
holding and slave. trading people, both in their
State sovereignty and by mutual compact; and
whereas, determined rs they were to hold their
slaves In bondage as marketable goods and chat
ties, and to prosecute the African slave trade under
the American flag 5or at least twenty years after
the adoption Of the Constitutions; and whereas, to
quote the language of John Quincy Adams, the
lreemen Of the North, reduced to the alternative
OF departing from the vital principle Of their lib.
crty, or of f~Orteiting the Union itself, averted their
faces. and with trembling hand subscribed the
bond, and thereby made the preservation, propa-
CATION and perpetuation Of slavery the vital and
~animating spirit of the national government
thus constituting a privileged order Of men ia the
community, more adverse to the rights of all, and
more pernfcious to the interests of the whole. than
any order Of nobility ever KNOWN and whereas,
from the hour Of its adoption to the present day,
the Constitution has been understood, INTERPRETED,
accepted and enforced in accordance with this
view of its slaveholdirg compromises, by ell
parties, all courts, all judges, all legislative as
%semtlies, all the Presidents from Washington to
buchanan, Congress and supreme Courts, all the
Heads of department, and all the States, singly
and col!ectivelv,-thu placing its real SCOPE and
intention beyond MI reasonable doubt or denial in
these particulars; therefore,
6. Resolved, That any attempt, however sin.
cere or well meant, to argue or prove that the
Constitution Of the United States is, and was de
signed to be, an Anti-Slavery instrument, and
therefore in direct conflict with the slave system,
is he yeGiesr special pleading--is verbal uuibbling
and hair-splitting sophistry-a useless waste Of
time and an utter perversion of the truth--a con,
vonient subteriugc, behind which to take refuge
from rho inn y ri ya p,nrnl date % 800 .,
and secession. and of joining in Libertv's rallving
cry of NO UNION WITH SHAREHOLDERS"
I. Resolved, That as it was n sin and a shame
for the n orth TO comply with tho immoral condir
tons imposed upon her by the South. in the for.
nation OF the Constitution, it is no less a sin and
Il shame Tor her 10 remain in that unhallowed
L nion, on any pretext whatever and that, come
what may. she ought to organize on a free and in.
dependent basis, and to withdraw all countenance
and support from slavery,-thus precipitating its
immediate downfall, by making it a geogra phical,
physical and moral impossibility for the South to
maintain her control over her slave population.
q. Resolved, That the flag under which four
millions OF sa yes are kept securely in their chains.
beyond all hope Of n peaceful deliveranco, and
which gives Immunity to every piratical slave ship
that floats upon the deep, through the connivancc
OF the general government, is a flag to be abhor.
red, dlsowned and trOdden under foot BY every
true friend Of freedom, every advocate Of the on.
pressed, and never with his consent to 10 again
unGurled to the breeze.
These resolutions constitute an Grafton ct to be
pronounced on the fourth of July in the ears of
hypocrites and tyrants who enslave and traffic IN
the souls Of four millions of their countrymen.
and do IL in the name of humanity and religion
and with laudation Of the Sublime truths of the
Declaration Of Independence aud tLe Sermon on
the Mount.
ANOTHER INNATE OF A VIRGINIA pRN1TENrI,Rv
we have no means of knowing how many nor
thern citizens are now dragging out their lives in
prisons in consequence of humane
efforts attempted to aid the noble and heroic fugi,
tlVes in their efforts to escape from bondage. They
are however numerous and constantly increasing.
A lew days since, Captain Bayliss Was sent To tho