Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-17
PENNSYLVANIA ANTI-sLAvBRY
SOCIETY.

the annlVersarY OF the Bennsylvanla Antl"Sla7ery
Society at Kennet,, l have been suffering from a
severe attack Of bronchitis; and though at the
present time it is considerably mitigated, l an uu-
der positive medical prohibition, in reference to
public speaking, for some time to come; hence l
must again disappoint my Pennsylvania friends
most deeply to my own regret and loss, for their
magnetic presence is ever most delightful and
strengthening to my spirit. l can only beg to be
affsctionately remembered to them all, and invoke
upon their deliberations the blessing Of the Inf
mite Father.
Twenty-Five years ago this evening | was in n
cell in the Leverett street jail in this city-a de-
vice Of the city authorities to save my life against
the murderOus designs Of an Infatuated mob Of leo
called) gentlemen Of property and standing" on
account Of my nu,i-slavery principles. Previous
TO my imprisonment, | was iu the hands OF the
rioters fJr q time. who tore ,he clothes from my
body as they dragged me through the streets, and
who made the most desperate efforts to take me
where they could apply a coat Of tar and feathers,
and commit such other outrages as their ungov-
ernable m~alignitY might suggest. Rescued at
last, by the mayor and his posse, il was deemed
indispensable to my personal safety TO commit me
TO prison This was the only governmental pro-
lection that was vouchsafed to me. You remem-
Der all the circumstances of that memorable event,
and | need not repeat them. Nearly all the prom
inent actors therein have been called to their final
account, but the sacred and glorious cause which
they madly attempted to overthrow is how shaping
the destiny of the nation.
So far as the North is concerned, a marvellous
change for the better hos taken place in public
sentiment in relation to the anti-slavery move.
ment. The struggle for the freedom of speech
and of the press has everywhere been fought, and
the victory won. A general enlightenment has
taken place upon the subject of slavery. The
opinions Of a vast multitude have been essentially
changed, and secured to the side Of freedom. The
conflict between free institutions and slave insti-
tutions is seen and acknowledged to be irrepressi-
ble-not of mans devising, but of Gods ordering
and it lie deepening in intensity daily, in spite
Of every effort of political cunning and religious
sorcery to effect n reconciliation. The pending
Presidential election witnesses a marked division
between the political forces of the North and of
the Sot th; and though it relates, oBtensibly, solely
TO the question Of the further extension Of slavery,
il really signifies a much dee2Hr sentiment in the
breasts Of the people of the North, which, IN pre-
cess Of time, must ripen into more decisive action.
So far as the South is concerned, she has appar-
emily waxed worse and worse-grown more and
more desperate-revealed more and more Of saw
age brutality and fendish malignity, until her
crimes and atrocities, not only as perpe.rated up
on her dehumauized slaves, but as inflicted upon
Northern citizens and strangers within her limits,
have become too numerous for record, and almost
TOO horrible for belief.
But all this is the sign that the end is rapidly
approaching. Pesceably, or by a bloody process,
the oppressed will eventually obtain their free
dom. and nothing can prevent it. Trusting that il
may be achieved without the shedding Of blood, /
remain,
Yours. for liberty and equality for all mankind,
WIN. LLOYD. GARRISON.
j.. MILLER McKIM.
1.-THE resolutions adoptedted by the Society are
the following.
l. Resolved, That we regard with great salts
faction the agitation that is now rocking the coun-
try to its centre on the question of slavery, conf
dent that its effect will be such an enlightenment
of the public mind and change of the public heart
on that nomentous issue, as must eventuate in the
overthrow Of the system.
2. Resolved, That in the action Of tho various
ecclesiastical bodies of the North, we SEQ indubi-
table evidence of the power with which the anti
slavery sentiment of The community presses upon
them, sometimes extorting from them faint and
unwilling testimonies against slavery, and some
times eliciting hearty denunciation thereof; and
that, in the course Of such clergymen as DR.. Chez
yer, we see Indications of a regenerated and puri-
fed Church, against which Anti-Slavery Societies
can have no controversy.
8. Resolved, That as long as the fugitive bond
man may be recaptured and re-enslaved on Penn
sylVania soil, Pennsylvania cannot be called a free
State; and that, for tho honor Of our Common
wealth, for the sake of justice to the slave, for
the love Of the absolute Right, we will earnestly
strive to obtain from our Legislature the enact.
ment of a law which shall protect the personal
liberty of every human being on its soil, when
than liberty has not been forfeited by crime.
4. Re.oi ed, That ono of the most importan mt
signs of the times which the last year has deveI-
oped, is the sympathy with John Brown, which
has extensively perVeded the North, and found
expression in the pulpit, on the platform, and
through the prese; indicating that, whatever theo-
ries men may hold respecting State rights and
constitutional obligations, there lives and burns il
the Northern heart a genuine admiration of hero
ism, and a genuine sympathy with tho victims of
oppression.
5. Resolved, That while we hail, rs a token of
greatly improved public sentiment, tho existence
of the Republican party of the United States, and
while we rejoice to see men coming up into it from
the other political parties, we protest against the
Inconsistency of Abolitionists giving il their sup
port; first, because such support involves a pledge
20 return the fugitive slave, and, second. because
che Presidential candidate of the party is b heartily
opposed to the political enfranchisement of colored
me ia in favor of n fu1isiua alava s,at,.o -
though be has very distinctly made up" his mind
that Congress possesses the constitutional power
to abolish" slavery in The Distric. Of Columbia, yet
is not in favor of such abolition, excepting with
the consent of a large number of Tho Shareholders