Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-06-16
NEW ENGLAND ANTGsLAvERY CON.
VENTION,

iul OCCASION. Tho attendance was as large as
walls would allow of, and the speaking Of q very
high order of excellence. y y
The Rev. DR.. Cheever, we regret to learn, was
hinderod from coming to the platform at the open.
ing session by the physical impossibility of making
his way through the dense mass of the audience.
This is the only time in our history that we have
Lad occasion to lament the size Of our auditory,
or, more properly, the lack Of a private entrance
to the platform. His engagements elsewhere
prevented his attending any other of our proper
sessions. But on the second evening. which we
had resigned to a meeting to protest against the
Imprisonment Of Mr.. Hyatt he appeared and
made a speech of great energy and eloquenOe. We
trust that we shall often have an opportunity of
listening to his powerful rhetoric and earnestness
of appeal to the reason and the heart, upon the
Arti'Slavery platform. This meeting was as
large as it was possible to be-, and it's proceedings
will be found a 6t rounding of the doings of the
Convention it closed. The previous session, much
Of which was devoted to the memory of Theodore
Parker, was one of singular interest \ X n
thus this great event in our annual Anti-Slave.
~ lives has passed away attended with the most
brilliant success, and:leaving las we are sure, an i'm
P'N"'ANh va thO Bitdt mass VI mlDu Wltnl0 T6dcO
of its influences CT the most permanent and bon.
e6cent character. We have constantly to repeat
that each successive gathering Of the hosts is the
most multitudinous and the most triumphant that
has ever been. IA. s.. Standard.
The following resolutions were presented to the
Convention by the Chairman Of the Business Com
mitteo.
l.. Resolved, That with the slave trade freshly
revived among US with the cOunivance of the Gov.
eminent and in defiance of law; with all the great
scots and political parties regulating the Anti
Slavery movement, WI feel the reed of oil the
moro earnestness and the most radical utterance
in our protests against slavery as q foul sin, and
o system ola Nominations to be Immediately abol-
ished, and against Church and State as syna-
gogues of Satan and covenants with Death, to be
anuulled and dissolved.
Whereas, no elements can be more antagonisti-
cal or more irreconcilable than those of Liberty
and Slavery; and, therefore, no experiment more
insane or more disastrous than that of attempting
to ama!gamate them in the same Government, and
within the same Union; and,
Whereas, in the formation and adoption of the
Constitution Of the United States, it cannot be de-
MED to quote the language of John Quincy Ad-
ans, the Slaveholding lords Of the South prescri.
bed, as a condition of their assent to the Constitu-
ton, three special provisions to secure the perpet-
uity of their dominion over their slaves, namely,
an immunity for twenty years of preserving the
African slave trade, the stipulation to surrender
fugitive slaves, and the e~xaction, fatal to the prin-
ciples of popular representation, of q representa-
tive for slaves, for articles of merchandise, under
the name of rersaps:' and thu entire military and
naval power Of the nation was pledged to the sup
precision of every form Of domestic Instruction;
and,
Whereas (again to quote Mr.. Adame) in the
articles of Confederation there was no guarantee
for the property of the stakeholder, no double rep.
reseDtation Of him in the Federal councils, no
power of taxation, no stipulation for the recovery
of fugitive slaves; but, when the powers of gov.
eminent came to be delegated to the Union, the
South refused their subscription to the parchment
till it should be saturated with the infection of Ella.
very, which no fumigation could purify, no quar-
antine could extinguish; the freemen of the North
giving way, and the deadly venom of slavery be-
ing infused into the Constitution of freedom. and
thus reduced to the alternative of departing from
the vital principle Of their liberty, or ~forfeiting
the Union itself, they averted their faces, and with
trembling hand subscribed the bond ; therefore,
2. Resolved, That (again to quote tho same
high authority the bargain between Freedom and
Slavery, contained in the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States, is MORALLY AND POLITICALLY VICIOUS.
inconsistent with the principles on which alone
our Revolution can be justified, cruel and oppres.
sive by riveting the chains Of slavery, by pledgiug
the faith of freemen 70 maintain and perpetuate
the tyranny of the master, and grossly UNEQUAL
and impohtic by admitting that slaves are at once
enemies to be kept in subsection, property to be
rescued and returned to their owners, and persons
not to be represented themselves, but for whom
their masters are privileged with nearly q double
share of representation. The consequence has
been, that this slave representation has governed
the Union; Benjamin, portioned above his breth-
rem, has ravened as a wolf; in the morning he has
deVoured the prey. and in the evening he has d.
vided the spoil
3. Resolved, That, in consenting to the adop-
tion of such a Constitution, the people Of the
North have made "A COVENANT WITH DEATH. AND
WITH HE'LL ARE THEY AT AGREEMENT insanely de-
claring that when the overlooking scGurge shall
pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we
have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood
have we hid Ourselves.' Therefore,
4. Resolved, That the cry should go forth from
the heart aud the lips of every one who processes
to revere God, TO hold the principles of justice and
the claims OF suffering humanity as of
Importance, to regard chattel slavery as the sum Of
all villanies, and liberty as the inalienable birth.
right OF every human being, THIS COVENANT WITH
DEATH MUST BE ANNULLED, THIS AGREEMENT WITH
HE'LL MUST NOT STAND no matter what commissions
may follow, or what interests may be temporarily
affected by it; for il this. be not done, then to this
nation God proclaim, Because ye dcspise this
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and stay thereon, therefore THIS INIQUITY shall be
to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in
a high wall, whose breakinO nometh spddanlu n,