Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-05-21
THE RESOLUTION NOT ADOPTED.

"'S' 'S Oii u OOOlStN IClubtu v
adopt.
WHEREAS, The African slave.trade is contrary
to the first principles of the Gospel and humanity,
is condemned by all Evangelical Christians, civil
ized and enlightened. nations and Whereas,
There are indications that this trade, with all its
crimes and horrors, already is, or is about to be,
re opened by adventures from this country and
Whereas, The only barrier, to this trade is the
mora! sense, enlightened by the Gospel there
fore,
Resolved. That the Publishing Committee be
directed to issue during the present year a tract OF
tracts calculated to arouse and concentrate the re.
ligi0us sentiment Of Evangelical Christians against
the slave'trade, and to set forth its wickedness be-
fore the nation.
In order TO smooth over the matter somewhat, O.
touch it off aisy'' resolution was subsequently
adopted. though it was with the utmost difficulty
that a hearing could be obtained for those who
wished to advocate it. DR.. Bacon, in the course
of his remarks upon the question of its adoption
said.
This Society has a tract on the evils Of tobacco,
and yet one of the venerable brethren has this
morning handed out a paper and asked me to take
a quid. Laughter l think i, is time to end all
this foolery, l venture to call it. Yet we are told
the business of the Society is to circulate tracts.
1t circulates tracts against the use Of tobacco and
the culture of tobacco yet how many of these
venerable men who handed US the regular ticket to
vote to day, how many Of them are there on whose
conscience rests the deadly sin of using tobacco
Great laughter. We MAINTAIN that this Society
may have opinions, and can circulate them, which
If they were to be universally adopted, how great
would be the desolation sent through all The lower
counties of Virginia, and all along the banks Of
the Connecticut, from WhethersfeiG to Sufield !
Great laughter. But we are not to have an opin-
ion at all about q certain wickedness which the
laws of the United States for more than 10 years
have pronounced to be a crime against human ma.
turc PIRACY. CHEERS, great applause and Kisses,
and cries of Good" "Good."l We should use
a little common sense, and walk right through the
cobweb moshes of such speeches as these. You
doubtless remember the words of him who said
Eye who find heavy burdens, grievous to be born,
and lay them upon other mems shoulders, yet will
not touch them with one of your fingers" Sir, is
there any member of the Executive Committee Of
this Tract Society, just re elected, on whose table
sparkles the red wine ? Iknow there is =! GCheers,
cries of Good, /" and Kisses Is there any mem.
Der of that Executive Committee whose oarlors
echo to the feet of the merry dancers 1 knop
there IS! More cries of Good" cheers and
misses. Yet here we arc binding these burdens
about dancing, and tobacco and wine drinking,
and laying them on mems shoulders when our
shoulders do not bear the least part of that bur.
den. Is it not tine to have done with such tom
foolery as that, and address ourselves to the
weightier matters of the law, such as righteous
- Lgreat cheering mercy renewed cheeringl,
and truth =? Sir, l have heard to day as | heard a
year ago, what l consider ISLANDERS upon the South;
and though a refu;ation of them has been given
here to-day, still, I must speak of what | know.
A few years ago | had a friend at the South
a son in fact, one Of the little Bacons-who
spent some time in New-Orleans. 1t was at the
time when ttat celebrated work, q "South Side
View OF Slaveey," was issued by this Publishing
COMMITTEE. lie went on q pilgrimage to the
book stores Of New Orleans to see if it could be
found. 1t was not there, but wherever he went,
he fouud Uncle Toms Cabin" Immense up.
plause.
lie then charged upon the Society and Execu.
tive Committee that they had been faithless in re.
gard to the South, and that the statements in re.
!ation to the lack of Anti Slavery feeling at the
South were in fact SANDERS upon the best por.
tons Of the Southern States.
D During this portion of his remarks DR.. Bacon
t was interrupted and almost silenced by continual
Kisses, cries of "Qiestion, " "Order," with shouts
of $50 on" "Go on"
. A VoIcE-GO on Go on! Why don't you 60
on?
DR.. BAcoN-t will go on presently.
G ANOTHER VoIcE-Well don't kill yourself If you
do!
DR.. BAcoN-No, l don't mean to. The Aft.
t can slave'trade That subjecta year ago would
have been called an abstraction. A year hence it
will be a political question We are now upon
the narrow isthmus between these two positions.
Great Cheering In a year or two more we may
have ministers preaching here in New-York, as
some gray-head quoted over there. go and buy
niggers of the heather, if you want them"-that
is Of the Africans. Here DR.. Bacon's voice was
lost for a few moments amid the great confusion
of cries, cheers and Kisses l do hope that DR..
Springs resolution will be carried now, and that
even that faint testimony of the moral sense Of
this American Tract Society may not be obliterat
ed. [Shouts and continued cheering, with
Kisses
TYLER AGAIN.-WAsHINGToN, May IL The Gov
ernor General of Canada, through the British Min
lister here, has made a demand upon this govern
ment for the surrender Of Deputy Marshal Tyler,
who shot the Captain of the American brig Con
cord. of Cleveland, while lying in port Sarnia, in
Canada.
Tyler, a short time since, was tried in Michigan
and convicted OF manslaughter. They now de.
mand his surrender under the AshburtOn Extradi.
ton treaty.
There are questions Of law involved in this case