Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-11

to work moved the appointment OF a business M
mistee. Revds. Mitchell, Heron, Miller and Dr.,
Coon were appointed. Samuel uard.nan, James
Brown and II. Mcmillan were appointed commit
tee on permanent organization. After prayer the
Convention adjourned till o'clock, p NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Word having spread throt gh town that Jones
and Wright would make push to get into the
convention as members larger crowd assembled
than in the morning. Every body looked for fun
ahead. The exercises were commenced with sing
ing and prayer. In fact up TO this time, the tem-
porary chairman's intention Of "squeichng" the
abotionists little was quite manifest The
committee on permanent organization reported,
d. p. Mitchell, President. Vice Presidents, Dea-
con Tanner, Revd. A. B. Maxwell Revd Miller,
Revd. Heron and Thomas Pinkham. Secretary,
Samuel Hartman. The President elect being alb
sent with the committee on resolutions, Deacon
Tanner took tho chair. Revd Fairchilds then
stated the history and objects Of the association.
Deacon Tanner spoke An old nigger spoke, bu.
be articulated SO badly he could not be understood
A stranger said something. They all spoke alike
and all said the same thing, and nothing said thus
Mitchell from the committee on resolutions repor-
ted the following:
Whereas, Slavebolding as now practiced in the
Southern portion of this Confcderacy is great
sin, denounced by John Wesley the father of
Methodsm, as "the sum of all vianes," and by
the Presby byterian Church as man-s.eaug, rs utter
y inconsistent with the law of God, and totally
rreconcilable with the spirit of the Gospel of
Christ: Therefore ..i
|. Resolved That it is the sense of this meeting
that all savehoding for purposes OF gain, is both
contrary to the law of nature and the word of
God.
2. Resolved, That the fellowshiping with such
Shareholders in the Christian church is nficting a
great wrong by confirming them in their sin, is
dishonorng to Christ, injurious to the Church, is
= fraitlul source Of infdehty ,and makes the men,
bers thereof partakers Of the sin. ..
Whereas We as Christian Anti-Slavery Con-
ven:ion desire to speak earnestly on the sin Of sa
very in all its positions in our government, and
believing that the Fugitive Slave Law had its csi,
gin in corruption and lust and is also an outrage
on our rights as Christians: Therefore
Resolved, That we will not aid in carrying out
its wicked provisions, but use all lawful and Chris
tan means, to effect it's repeal, and in all cases
where there is conflict between the law of man
and the law of God we will obey the higher law.
Revd. Mitchell took the chair, and did not make
the following appropriate speech:
Gentlemen of the Conventions thank you for
to preside over the deliberations of this respec
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an occasion as the present The church has been
too long silent the oil absorbing question of
slavery. 1t is time she should take a stand, and
batsle on the side Of human rights until the chains
shall be loosed from every bOndsman in our CON
!ederacy. We have but little sin left among us at
home. Our ardent efforts in behalf Of religion,
through the aid of Divine Providence, have puri-
fed our people and now with glowing pride of vir.
tue, We can look abroad and help our neighbors
We shall 90 on-our cause increasing with the
growing years, till there shall be throughout the
North, one mass of sentimental Abolitonism un-
mixed with better matter.
But apart from the crying wrongs of slavery,
here are other causes why we should abolitonize
he church. We must do it to strengthen the cause
Of Repubcanism. We must make man think
le cannot be christian and vote with pro.slaveyy
democracy. We must seize the conscenees of all
Believers and inject tho idea, taat they must hate
slavery before they can go to Heaven--and that
Democracy is worse than slavery. But there is
another reason-stronger than the first. We must
save ourselves. We have among us Infdsls, who
scoff at our religion. They say they are more
anti-slavery than we, and hence they are better
christians We must not any longer remain OBJ
loxious to this injurious charge. The church
cannot stand up against it. Religion is opposed
% Slavery. The Bible is anti-slavery. God is
Inti-slavery. And we must teach inidels that we
,ave the true religion; and that We hate slavery
more than they do. As We relax in our opposition,
nfdelity will gain ground. We must not relax
ur efforts We must preach against slavery
We must pray against slavery. We must sing
ofty anthems of the advancing mellennium of uni
ersal emancipation, when a slave shall not
reathe in America. We must vote against slave
y. We must vote early and vote often and vote
II the time against it, and then triumphan reli-
ion shall shout lite loud songs e victory over
rostrate inhdsity, and unterrifed Democracy
hall tremble as we mako God and the Bible and
ur Faith the watchword of the Republican party"
should have been.)
The Report Of the Committee was accented. A L
igger moved that the resolutions be taken up
em by item and adopted. Mr. Heron said the
esolutions were good enough as far as they go,
ut they don't go far enough. They have no
seth. They don't bite, He then offered some
esolutons of his own The chairman decided
i'm out of order. lie insisted on reading them
9 part of his argument. The chair said, he
ould offer them as substitute for the resolutions
lready offered, but could get them before the
ouse in no other way. Henry G. Wright said,
courtesy he asked permission to point out an in
onsistency. You assert in the preamble that
avery is the Of all vllainies, and in the first
ssoluton you say it is sin to commit the sum of
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