Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-08

on the report OF the Business Committee, present
ed to the AnttSlavery Convention at Alliance on
Sunday, Sept. 4. 1869
Mn. CHAIRMAN The resolutions which have
been presented by the Business Committee have
been accepted unanimously. This society never
met on so important an occasion-not on account
Of the cause itself, for this remains the same but
because Of the power against which we are making
var. The telegraph has just brought the news
from New York that three boys have been taken
from that city and carried back into slavery >-ar.
other home made desolate, another mothers heart
broken. Another item of simiaar import: the
ship, Neptune's Bride, bound from one Of the
seaports Of the South to New York or Boston
finds among her cargo the dead bofy Of u negro,
who, it would seem, longing for the sweets Of lib
erty, had secrcted himself in the hold of the YES
sci when in a southern port, firmly hoping to es-
cape from the land of chains, but dts, on the pas.
sage Of the vessel, either from sufocation or star
walton. / wcnder how it is possible for mo to an
nouncc a fact like this ir such cool blood. / WON
der how the members of this convention can lis
ten to such an announcement without tho chills
OF death rushing over them. There is not another
country under the whole heaven where an event
like that can occur. Talk Of the barburism of the
savage nations-of the dospotisms Of the hall
civilized people of other countries; but there is not
a press that sends forth to the world such deeds OF
death and despair, as does the press Of this coun-
try. What floods of sympathy we have poured
out over Kossuth and other liberty loving sons of
the old world, who have made efforts to escape
from the power of the tyrants And yet, what
is all they have ever done compared with the he
roism and tragedy Of the result Of this slave es-
Gaping, and p~erishing in his attenpt2 Take the
words of Patric Henry-"Give me liberty or give
me DEATH" and here you have an instance where
they mean something-where the words are Of
some import. lie got both, liberty and death, but
he only got liberty in deth. In addition to these
cases there comes another report of a recent slave
capture in the city of Cincinnati, a FREQ citizen Of
Ohio carried off Ito interminablc bondage. Where
is your safety as citizens of this State? If /
were a colored man l never should feel safe for
q single moment. | would not live in the South
ern portions Of this state, being Of my complex
ion, no more than / would live in the jaws OF Mil
tons hell / wish the kidnapping had to be d.
vided between the whites and the culored in pro-
portion to the number of the population Of each,
The North would then feel that they have some
interest in this question and act accordingly.
There seems to have been a three-fold object in
view in passing the fugitive slave bill. Not only
to capture the fugitive, but to kidnap the free
man of color and also to humble the North, As
they punish their slaves sometimes, so this slave
bill was designed as a whipping to the North-so
teach it not to get above its place; and to make
kidnapping easy. Free papers are no protection
now. Many slaves have been bought with money
and free papers given them but under the work.
ings of the fugitive slave bill, free papers art
worth no more with written characters upon them
than are blank papers. This law makes kidnap
ping easy and cancels all free papers and opens
up our very hearths.ones to be free hunting
t ground on which to capture and to kidnap men.
Had the drafting of this bill been given to me
| would have made its title Kidnapping made
easy" That is tho objec. of it and as such
it should be published to the world. But under
this bill they do not stop at capturing the fugi.
tigc--they go into your families and take your
childron-into your social circles and take your
men and women they have no need of going to
Africa for slaves. What difference does it make
to the stakeholder whether he gets his slaves fro
the banks Of the Congo or the Ohio And now
they come into your own territory--into Oterliu
} and you make a resistance, and what is the end o
E it? Why, the result Of that matter shows iba
OHIO is a great kidnapping conspiracy. The Re
g publican party has been in the ascendency here
: and what has come Of it? Must we prose tina
t this party is the most dangerous party that tn
r anti-slavery cause has to contend with Whe
d the Democratic party is in power, all are on th
rnt.h oil ora lnnlip1 for soma 1iu hulica1 Jaoar
for we know they serve the devil under his ow
flag But when the republican party is in power
they sail under the STARS and Siripes"-but ther
> are a kidnopper's papers in the cabin. l come nc
here to speak smooth words-I come to utter fact
and woe be to you if you allow ialsity or fallac
to minglc with my facts. Senator Hammond c
e South Carolina sal that you freemen of the mort
are the "mudsills Of society" This is in fact tn
sentiment of the whole south-it is their stock i
trade-the currency of the slave Slave power.
i matters not to them if their victims come from th
Preside of northern freemen, or from the banks
: the Senegal, or the coast of Guinea.
= We have met here under moro solemn consider
e atoms than our fathers met under in the city
: Philadel phia. when they uttered their Declart
s ton of Independence, and we shall prove oul
selves unworthy our descent if we do not utter
Y Declaration that shall put that one to silence. w
ought to see liberty extended to all, and hear u
$ tered again those memorable words, I'll is faisl
ed, "and renew our faith under a livelier and holie
d dispensation than the world has ever known b.
h fore. ! fancy that many professed an,i-slaver
h people here to-day have come up to this mee.in
as they would como to q Thanksgiving or to
Christmas G altering, to have a good time and
It transfer of kind words and social greeting. W
u are not yet sufficiently in earnest in our efforts
n abolish slavery. ! tell you before slavery is abo
ished, we shall probably renew the age of th
j. martyrs. We talk about being Abolitionists-w
% cling The song"-"I am an abolitionist, | glory
Ie the name" as the ministers preach from the te,
d I'll determined to know nothing among you br
Christ and him cruciied." When these word
% were uttered, there was a meaning to them a
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