Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-26

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2 Resolved, That they who are for su2pressine
Inc antislavery agitation are really laboring fol
the complete supremacy and enduring sway Of the
slave Power that they who are deploring tho OK.
citement OF tho times arising from this question
are really lamenting that there is any manhood or
moral sentiment lef. in the land, and avraignine
'ho Almighty for inspiring the human mind with
a uetestation OF robbery, injustice and oppression
D. Resolved, That to compromise with the
dealers in human flesh, to aocede to any of their
demands, to enter into an alliance with them from
which they shall derive strength and security, to
acknowledge in any manner the rectitude or
necessity OF their course, is to participate in their
guilt to insure general Generalization, to lose the
power OF q virtuous example, and to betray the
cause OF freedom universally.
q. Resolved, Tha. this Society entirely acoords
with the Richmond (va.) Enquirer in the senti.
ment that two opposing and conflicting forms Of
society cannot, among civilized men, co-cxist and
endure the Que must give way and cease to exist,
the other become universal; if free society bo
unnatural, immoral and unchrissian, it must fall
and give way TO slave society : or the reverse of
all this must inevitably follow.
5. Resolved, that he who asserts that there is
not an 'irrepressible conflict between freedom
and slavery, between free Institutions and slave
institutions, between tho spirit which abolishes
human chattelism and the spirit which perpetu-
aies it, but that these are harmonious clements, or
by compromise ard forbearance can be made such
IN the same government, and can be brought into
collision only by the efforts of fanaticism T sedi-
ton, Is either idiotic, morally speaking, or q self
convicted demagogue, intent on nothing but the
qualification of his own desperate ambition.
=. Resolved, therefore, That the party which
talks of the glorious Union existing between the
North and the South, and of the duty of maintain.
ing 1t as an object of paramount importance, is
smitten with judicial blindness, talks of what has
never been, and in the nature Of things can never
be possible, is either The dupe or the ally Of C stu
pendous imposture, which an insane and criminal
experiment of three score years has demonstrated
is working the overthrow Of all the safeguards of
freedom, and, consequently, is q party neither to
be trusted nor followed.
I. Resolved, That, in tho words of the lamented
Judge Jay, the Union is "a most grepious moral
curse to the American people to the people Of
the South, by fostering, Strengthening and extern
ding an Ubiquitous and baneful institution; to the
millions among us of African descent, by riYeting
the chains of the bondman and deepening the deg
radiation of the freeman; to the people of the free
States, by tempting them to trample under foot
the obligations Of truth, justice and humanity,
for those wages of iniquity with which the Federal
Government. rewards apostates to liberty and
righteousness
8. Resolved, That the glorious Union ever
since its formation, has %signifed nothing but the
supremacy of Southern slave oligarchy, who have
always dictated the policy of the nation, and
who claim a divine right to rule, according to their
pleasure, alike the slaves on their plantations and
the people of the free States, without remonstrance
or interrogation, and as the condition of the per-
p%etuation of the glorious Union aforesaid.
Q. Resolved, That the privileges accorded to
Southern citizens sojourning or travelling in the
North, under this Union, are these To speak
with IMMUNITY whatever they please against free
institutions and free society to advocate slavery
and the slave traffic as worthy Of universal extern
sion, without interference, menace or personal
danger and to an unlimited extent; to hold any
meeting or publish any journal they may choose
in which to assail the Incorporating friends of
freedom as fanatics and traitors, and to glorify the
lords of the LASH as the only true friends of their
country and, in short, to threaten, bully and
oalumniate, ad h6aHm, whatever or whoever is
deemed by them to be adverse in spirit and senti-
ment to che sum of all villanies.'
10, Resolved, That the privileges accorded TO
Northern citizens sojourniug or travelling ia the
South, under this Union, arc these: 10 wear mad
locks upon their lips to foreswear their manhood
by bowling down to the Moloeh of Slavery to
speak in behalf Of tho enslayed at the peril Of
their lives to be tarred and feathered if thew
are suspected of cherishing anti-slavery senti-
ments; to be thrust into prison and sold as slaves
on the auction'block if they are of African descent.
to be scOurged, branded, lynched and driven ont
by mobocratic violence even while in the prosecu.
tion Of their legitimate business, simply because
they are Northern men.
ii. Resolued, therefore, That the motto of tho
Anti'SlGvory Society, No Union with
Shareholders ommends itself to the reason, con-
science and hearty adoption Of every man claim
ing to be loyal to the Declaration of Independence.
and it becomes the solemn duty Of the North to
carry it into immediate practice, as demanded he
every instinct OF sell. representation, and by all that
is obligatory in the claims of justice and human
ity.
IL. Resolved, That of all the Congressional
of the present session, no one is more
dangerous to the cause of the enslayed in this
nation than the speech of Senator Seward of New
York, on the admission Of Kansas to the Union
and regarding its author as at present a most
prominent candidate for Presidential honors, il is
all the more significant as a declaration of sonti.
ments-a platform Of Republican party Gaith-and
a toreshadowing Of what shall be the character of
bis administration in the eyOnt Of his success.
10. Resolved, That when. in the very exordium
OF that speech, he promises and hopes to allay
the national excitement and then proceeds ia
eoncede everything to tho South and nothing to
the North, and least of all to the slaves, softeuinp
the words Slarery and SlareholdiRg into Capitai
and Capitalists, reafirming and resubscribing
every constitutional compromise ever claimed by
Calhoun or endorsed by Webster, even the com.
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