Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-10
r E s o L u o N s

EsOLUTIONS
Resolved, That in the signs of the times as read
and seen in the present daring and desperate de.
mands of the Shareholders, and the willingness Of
the Federal Government to yield to their every be-
hest and in tho fearful apathy of the people in
church and state on the whole subject of slavery
and slavery aggression. including the already re.
opened African Slave Trade, VIC are more and
more assured at this our 18th anniversary, not on.
~ that our work is not done, but is becoming more
and more important, more and more pressing
demanding greater faith and fortitude, mole in.
tense self conservation, and Of that spirit Of mar
tyrdom which has always distinguished the march
OF every real reform and trusting in the sacred
ness OF our cause and in the power of truth and
It's great Author, we will with augmented zeal and
hdeiity, pursue our warfare with the despotism
which rules the land, till victory perch upon our
banner, or we perish (as SO many have already
beneath it.
whereas the fundamentally which holds the
slave in his bonds is the physical force, concentrate
ed through the Constitution in the government of
the United States, and which is composed of the
united strength of all individuals Who voluntarily
supper. it-be, 1t
Resolved, That the claim Of freedom from par
ticipa'iug in the sin of slaveholding is unfounded
in every religious organization which ~tolerates in
its members the holding Of Office, or voting under
the United States Constitution.
Whereas, By the condition of the American
the entire national power is pledged
to suppress any instruction among the slaves,
therefore,
Resolved, That should the slaves, in the true
spirit Of the Revolution of l776, ever unsheath
the sword of rebellion and attempt by violence to
OBTAIN their freedom, our wishes, our hopes, our
hearts, and cur hands TOO, leo far as we believe
they can DO righteously employed,) shall be
always on the eide Of the oppressed and against
the oppressor. in defiance of all Constitutions,
statutes, demands or decisions to the contrary.
Whereas, 1t has been fully demonstrated In
the recent Oberlin Wellington Rescue Case that
the State government has either no authority or
no power to protect the citizens of the State from
the outrageous aggressions Of the stakeholder I'M
der the Fugitive Slave Law, therefore
Resolved, That il has become the right, and the
most solemn duty of the people themselves to Sc
cure such protection to themselves and families
from the %prowling kidnapper and Slavehunter, and
from acknowledgements his ever faithful serv-
asGod and nature have put in.their power, and
by all means which in their judgment, are approx
ed by righteousness and true religion.
Resolved, That in view Of the Anti-Slavery pro-
LESSONS of theRepublican party and the influence
which it possesses through these professions to
mislead the honest bnt ill informed masses, and
employ in Me'support OF slavery the efforts intend.
ed for its orerthrop, and almost to even deceive the
very elect, we feel called upon in this our annual
assembly, solemly to renew our protest against the
principles and policy of the Republicans, as the
most efficient and most dangerous obstacle to the
completion of our labors.
Resolved. That were there no other charge to
be preferred against the Republican party, its
action towards the free people of color in the
northern states and territories is sufficient to cover
1t with shame and condemnation ; ministering as
it does to the general 'prejudice against color"
that testers in almost every religious denomina-
ton. and literary. or social,o or political, or scientific
it is emphatically what it calls itself,
the white mans party !" and proving by its
action that it is that and nothing more, we must
brand it as wholly below the spirit of the age, the
wants of humanity, or the respect and co-opera-
tion Of any honest and impartial lover of man.
kind.
Resolved, That the African Slave Trade is al
ready re-enacted. in fact, if not in form ; and the
failure OF the government to even fulfil its treaty
to prevent it, or provide any vigorous
measures for its arrest, or to punish as it's own
provides, the most desperate and daring pirates
who carry it on, affords but another evidence that
we live under a despotsm the most fearful that
now curses the earth, and that cannot too soon be
hurled to the deepest and most irrecoverable des-
Resolved, That the dishonorable manner in
which our petitions to the last Ohio Legislature
for q Personal Liberty Law were met By that body
shall not deter US from UNFORTUNATELY demanding
its enactment, until it is secured, and until Ohio
is made as safe and secure to the fugitive from
southern slavery, as it is already to the less fortu-
nate exiles from the governments of the old world.
Resolved, That in all the agitation against slave
ry, by political parties, pulpits or churches, while
fidelity to the constitution and confederacy is main
tanned, we see, instead of hope for the enslaved,
only a melancholy exhibition of the degeneracy,
the moral wickedness and blindness of the age,
and incapacity to grapple with the great Problems
and Reforms which should be lis honor and glory.
And while recognizing and rejoicing in every well
word or &C, from whatever source, in ear
nest protest against the great curse and crime of
he country, we would still, as the forlorn hope of.
he Bondman, press forward in our stern battle.
'ver true to our glorious motto-"No UNION WITH
SLAYEHoLDERs".
RESOLUTIONS.
Presented to the Business Committee, but not re-
by it to the meeting.
BY HENRY C. WRIGHT.
Resolved, That Slavery is a wrong which no
in the universe can make right therefore,
t is our duty to resist, by such means as each
mo deems right and expedient, all laws designed