The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-06

ciearness and ability, with reference to the
character necessary to his people to insure
their success in the social and political
/, scale. He denounced colonization. Libe-
ria was crying out, send us no more OF
SUCH They would not forsake their homes
and their affairs. They would not be driy-
en- away. (Applause) AS for slavery, ii
was doomed. 1t would be abolished by
peaceful or bloody means-he hoped the
former.
VIM. @. Nell, from the Business Com
mittee, then reported preamble and res
olutions
PREAMBLE.
Without being welded to separate con-
ventions- believing that from agitation in
varied phases grows information, convic-
ton and repentance, and that conventions
do assist in creating public opinion, as well
as to concentrate and express that opinion,
being a medium through which we can pro
test against the obstacles retarding our
moral, social, and political elevation, com
pare notes with one another, stimulating
ourselves, each and all, to renewed efforts,
we have convened to-day in this place
within stones throw of the spot where
fell the colored man, Crispus Attuck, the
first martyr in the American Revolution,
March 9th, 1870, and within eight rods of
his yet unmonumented grave, to do our
part in obtaining for ourselves and posteri-
ty the full measure of blessings and rights
which the example and influence of his
foresight, love of liberty, patriotic leader
ship, and martyr death should long since
have secured.
In accordance Herewith the Business
Committee respectfully beg leave to sub
NIT for the consideration of this Conven-
uention the following resolutions, in part
of their report
ReSOlred, That this Convention sends its
greetings to the multitudes in America,
England, West Indies, Canada, and where
ever else assembled, whose grateful songs
and eloquent words unite in celebrating
this, the 25th anniversary of the day lumi-
nous in the worlds calendar, when Brit
tannia's Justice, wealth, and might" severed
at blow the chains from 100000 men,
women and children, in her beautiful
isles of the sea-" which, on that glorious
First of August, 1884, welcomed Freedom
as an angel from above. But while we
rejoice with those who, although in a mon
arch's domain, have abundant reason for
rejoicing, our joy is mixed with sorrow
we must weep with those who, in Republi-
can America" our own loved but guilty
land"-this day weep because Slavery's
CALLING fetters yet clank upon their limbs
whose aspirations by day and dreams by
night are blending offering to the God Of
Freedom that they too may soon greet
their day of jubilee.
Whereas, The Austrian Empire, whose
usurpations against Italy have just caused
the fields of Lombardy to be redeemed with
human blood, yet retains an imperial edict
that any slave, from the moment he treads
on the soil of her royal dominions, or even
merely steps on board of an Austrian YES
sci, shall be free;
Whereas, Our sister State, Vermont,
has, by her last years Legislation, so far
emulatcd Austria that any slave reaching
her soil shall be secure from the clutch of
his selfstyled owner as are the bases of
her everlasting Green Mountains;
Whereas, DESTROYS that the old Bay
State shall be rs free from the sin and
shame of Slavery-that never more, from
Barnstable to Berkshire, there shall be oc-
casion for such scenes as the Latimer war,
| the William and Ellen Craft excitement
the rescue of Shadrach, the rendition of
Thomas Sims and Anthony Burns, and last,
though far from least, the recent one of
Cape Cod captain sending back to slavery
man who had escaped in his vessel
| therefore,
ReSolUed, That this Convention do en-
dorse and urge the masses to sign the peti-
| ton of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery So
ciety, asking the Legislature to put an end
to slave hunting in Massachusetts,
Whereas, 1t being the settled policy of
the administration of the United States
Government to keep in chains the millions
and to oppress and degrade the free colored
people Of this country, and to build up
barriers and create distinctions between
the different therefore, be it
| 1. ReSolUed, That we hold it to be self
evident truth, that all men, irrespective of
color or condition, have a natural indie
feasible right to life, liberty, and the pos
session of property, without prescription
or hindrance, and every species of invol-
untary servitude, except for the punish
ment of crimes, is in direct contravention
to every principle of humanity, justice,
and patriotism.
2. ResOlved, That it is the legitimate
purpose of all governments exercising ju-
risdiction over men, whether they be state
or national, to protect each individual
member in the full enjoyment of every
natural or conventional right which is not
required Or surrendered for the good of So
ciety in general.
3. ReSolued, That the decision of Chief
Justice Taney and his slave-holding asso-
ciates of the United States Supreme Court,
in the Dred Scott case, are marked by
brutality of spirit, daring disregard of all
historical verify, a defiant contempt of