Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-20
CHRISTIAN ANTI-sLAvERY CONVEN-
TION

The following are the resolutions adopted by
the above named body, which met in Columbus
last week.
l. Resolved, That the natural law, giving to
every human being the right to live, to that liberty
which is necessary to cherish and protect life, OBJ
tain knowledge ard prepare for Heaven, is but
the clearly revealed will of God.
2. That to enslave innocent men and women, par
alysing the moral faculties, shutting out she light
Of truth from the understanding, and compelling
them to drag out an earthly existence amidst the
gloom and darkness of moral death, constitutes
one Of the most aggravated violations of Gods
will, one of the most momentuous crimes presented
to human consideration.
8. That the t~urpitude Of this crime rests on all
who capture, enslave, import, sell, purchase, hold,
re-capture, or re-enslave human beings on all
who aid, encourage, pass. approve, or enforce en-
actments for the capture, enslaving, holding, re-
capture, or re-enslaving Gods images, and the
persona thus offending will be held responsible at
the Bar of God.
4. That governments are constituted among
men to secure the enjoyment Of human rights, and
: they hold no authority to violate the will of God
Q by depriving the humblest individual Of his liber.
r to that Congress in passing the fugitive slave ac
J of 1850. conferred no right upon slave catchers tt
r capture or enslave, to re-capture or re-enslav'
o men, nor did they impose upon any person, thu
. duty TO submit to such capture or enslavelDent
n nor is the law Of God, nor the inalineable RICH
Of man, changed or modified by such enactmentt
nor are our christian duties to feed the hungry
Il clothe the naked, protect and defend tue iuws nm
liberties of ourselves and fellow men, impaired
changed by the enactment.
S. The said Fugitive Slave Act does not con
mand that which is right, nor does it forbid this
n which is wrong it comes within no descrlptio
g of law and possesses nc essential element Yflaw,
d is an assertion of the will of shareholders, and no
o tho will of God it is the mandate of ~despotisr
D., and not the statute or the LAW of q Christian pee
pie ; to MAINTAIN it is to uphold slavery in it's wors
e and most revolving features-to permit its enforce
10 ment on the soil of Ohio, constitutes a surrend
J. err of the rights and dignity of our State and tn
Ii berties Of our people.
6. That irrespective of political organization.
we will vote for no man for Office who hesitates t
assert and to the extent of his religious, moral an
political influence, maintains The right of on
N State and it's people to be entirely Illustrated an
exempt from the expense, the guilt and disgrac
of supporting the slavery of other States.
7. Resolved, That it is the duty of Christian
and of Christian ministers to bear faithful test
mony against the sin of slavery ecclesiastical!
socially, and politically, through the pulpit an
the religious press, and to carry the wrongs of tn
oppressed to the throne of grace in importunat
prayer, that God may speedily deliver them thu
are in bonds.
ho 8. Resolred, That to have any voluntary agency
f icial or otherwise, in the recapture or renditio
of a fugitive slave, is incompatible with Christia
character, and unless -epented of, should be pur
= ished by excommunication in the case of an
church member guilty of the crime against human
iy ana God that this Convention do therefor
approve of the act of excision passed recently b
: the Market Street Baptist Church Of GAINESVILLE
Muskingum county. against a member who, in tf
~ capacity of Deputy U. S. Marshal, restored a Fl
=. gitive to his claimant in Virginia.
9. Resolved. That The example of the Oberli
Wellington Rescuers in patiently suffering a lor
Imprisonment for their noble disregard OF the u
constitutional and unchristian Fugitive Slave Ae
not accepting deliverance on any terms that wou
compromise principle and weaken the moral efe
of their act and testimony. and finally trump
IVY ing over the Government, and gaining a relea
honorable to themselves, but disgraceful TO thu
prosecutors, and humiliating to the slave pow,
meets our hearty commentator, and calls for
our gratitude to God, whose wisdom guided Al
ybosa ora.e anatain than.