Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-05-28
AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY

mortal beings into merchandise and perishable
property be not n sin of the first magnitude, and
a crime Of the deepest dye, then crime and sin
nowhere exist on earth. and there are none to be
called to repentance.
Reso'cei, That, conceding to Southern slave
holders the right to hold slaves on Southern soil,
and affirming that they may, and in many cases
60, exercise the right in accordance with justice,
humanity and tho spirit Of Christianity, is tanta-
mount to a vindication of slavery universally :;
and therefore, in advocating the re-estsblishment
Of the slave system, wherever it has been abol-
ishod at the North, the South acts with strict log
ical consistency, and cannot be met or answered,
except by those who maintain the inherent sinful
ness Of slaveholding under all circumstances
Resolved, That they who have no moral objec-
ton to the existence of slavery at the South can
have none to its existence at the North and that
all such, by their constant defence of the slave
holder from the imputation Of crimnaiity. are, as
far as in them lies, preparing the way for the
introduction Of slavery into every free State.
Resolced, That between the recognition o! the
slave as a man, endowed by his Creator with an
inalienable right to liberty, and therefore entitled
to immediate and unconditional emancipation and
the denial of his common human nature, and his
association with cattle, swine and other property,
there is no hilf-way ground.
Hesolred. That the enormities Of slavery are SO
multitudinous and appaling-in its annihilation
Of all human rights, its sacrifice of all parental
and flial ties, its contempt for all the laws Of God,
its disregard of all the command Of the Gospel
that to resist its imme iiate and total abe liiion is
the most comprehensive method of extending and
perpetuating the kingdom of Satan, and opening
the flood gates of all iniquity.
Resolced, That the friends of the enslaved il
this land have nothing to retract or modify in re-
gard to their charges against the holders of slaves
or thoir electromagnetic the American Church,
and the clergy of the country generally-against
the political parties and their leaders-against the
American Constitution ard Union; based as
those charges are, and have been. upon a broad
foundation of facts, which cannot be refuted, and
which still remain unchanged.
R~esolved, That we cordially accept the tauntiDg
admonition of Southern Shareholders, "Mind your
+ own business" as it is our business to zee that we
neither Cypress nor connive at oppression; that we
reduce to practice the "selfoy;dent truths" of the
we Declaration ofIndeYendence; that we 'hide the
outcast, and bewray not him that VANDERBILT;
that we make our soil free to every fugitive slave
who stands upon it, and that we cleanse ourselves
from all blood outlines.
R~eSolced, That it is the widest incoherency, on
the part Of the South, in one breath to charge us
of the North with m~eddiing with that which does
not concern US, and for which we are not respon-
siblc. and, in the next, to remind us of the pro-
slavery constitutional guarantees we have given
her, and insist upon our fulfilling them to the
letter requiring us to allow the slave hunter to
seize his victims il any part of tho Northern
domains-to recognize slave property in all the
Territories Of the Union-to perpetuate a slave
representation in Congress-to guarantee the sup
preston OF every slave instruction, even by the
. strong arm of the National Government, if need
y be-to consent to the admission into the Union of
as many slave States as can be created, and how
} ever cr~eatei-and to aid in the extension of
slavery ly the acquisition of new territory, OBJ
tanned whether by purchase, bribery, perfdy, in
vasion or conquest.
Resolved, That it is the rightful business and
n imperative duty of the people of the North, with
J. out delay, to withdraw themselves from their
l. present alliance with the Southern traficker in
Ut human fesh-to proclaim the unnatural and guilty
n compact between the free States and the slave
q States at ali end, and to take such measures for
.he formation Of a Northern Union as shall be in
r accordance with the principles of justice, human
h iy and impartial liberty.
Resolred, That we renew our previously de-
clared testimony against the Colonization Society,
,e for the reasons We have SO often assigned, and
will spare no occasion to pass unimproved by
which we may contribute to put an end to its mis-
chiesous spirit and designs, in fostering and per-
r pet%uating the hateful and unrighteous prejudice
: against the prescribed and prosecuted colored peo-
s pie of this country.
ResolUed, That while in direct and ceaseless
o labor for such a revolution in public sentiment as
Q shsR seeare the total abolition of slavery is our
chief and fundamental mission. we recognize in
the recent efforts in Massachusetts, New York and
{ elsewhere, for the unqualified prohibition of slave
8 hunting, q most timely and important work and
e one which SHOULD engage the earnest and ~untirine
d cooperation Of every Abolitionist, and of all who
would have Northern soil truly free and really ian
asylum for the oppressed.
Y Resolved, that We especially recommend 20 the
members and friends Of the American Anti-Slaye,
o ry Society in the several States which it represents
e to at once begin the work of circulating petitions,
e addressed to their respective Legislatures, demand
ing the entire prohibition of slave-hun.ing OF their
soil.
n Resolved. That among the tried and faithful
friends OF the Anti-Slavery cause who have been
removed by death since tho last anniversary of
Q this Society. and whose memories deserve to be
s gratefully and admiring'y cherished for their
8 works sake, ELIs GRAY LoRiNG stands conspicu-
$ Gus. having given the earliest public adhesion to
an enterprise at that time without friends, and
Q sver5~hers bitterly hated and prescribed, and sus-
'aAned At by a life Of the rarest integrity, Of the