Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-25
THE RIGHT TO PROMOTE IESURREC
TON.

THE following Resolution was read and discus
sed at the meeting held in this place on Sunday.
II will probably come up for further discussion
and action at a future time.
Resolved. That we endorse US true, each of the
following propositions : !. e..
/. That individual shareholders, as such, have
no rights.
2. That Slayeholding States. as such, have no
rights.
8. That slaves, as such. owe no duties.
4. That instruction, to obtain their freedom
and to anuihilate the power of their enslaveis, is
the right and duty of the slaves.
5. That it is the right and duty Of the people
aud states of the North to incite slave. to resist
snce and Instruction against those who enslave
them.
6. That conspiracy and inrasion to FREQ slaves
and crush the power that enslavcs them, is the
right and duty of the people and States Of the
North.
I. That the people Of Ohio and Of all the NORTH,
owe it as q sacred duty to God and Man. to COM
bine to deprive Shareholders Of their property, 80
far as it consists in the bodies and souls of human
beings.
8. That the people and States Of the North are
sacredly bound by the fundamental principles Of
their religion and government to conspire With a
view to overthrow the social political institutions
of the South, so far as they sanction, or are based
upon slavery.
Q. Tha, Conspiracies, Invasions or Instruction
to free the enslaved and crush the power of ensla-
vers, involve no trespass or aggression upon human
rights, but are acts Of j~ustifable Defence against
kidnappers, robbers, and pirates.
10. That the God Of Nature is ever inciting and
srousing slaves, and freemen to resistance and re-
bellion against shareholders and slave-holding
Religions and Governments.
IL. That it is our duty TO use all means to free
slaves and to crush the power that enslaves them,
which We would use, in our behalf, if we were
slaves.
Resolved, That we will never cease our efforts
to actualiso the truths contained in the above pro-
positions so long as a slave or a STAKEHOLDER exists
10 our land.
Resolved, That we will count all laws as null
and void. whether enacted by Congress or by State
Legislatures, which are designed to brand and
punish as criminals and felonious Combinations,
COsspiracies, Lnrasions, and Instructions to free
slaves and annihilate the power that enslayes
them.
Resolved, That in the language Of S. A. Dou-
glass, the causes which produced the ~larpe.'s
Ferry Invasion are in active operation, and that
they must and shall continue to exist 10 full and
increasing force. till the property and institutions
of slaveholdibg states, so far as they consis! in or
are based upon slavery, are utterly and forever
destroyed.
Resolved, That We will never leave the people
of any state, free to form their own institutions,
II by this be meant what Douglass, and the
Democratic and Republican parties mean, that We
are to let such state or states ''retain slavery as
long as they please, and abolish it when they
please"
Resolved, That any and every social. religious
or ~political combination in the North, with q view
10 abolish or prevent the extension of southern
slavery is q conspiracy with the intent to t"rade'
o,saa, or molest the government, Inhabitants, pro-
psrty and institutions Of Virginia, Maryland, ken-
tucky and Of every slave.holding State; and that
such conspiracies are i~nstigated and commanded
BY a great and impartial God, and there is not an
attribute Of the Almighty that can take sides
against them.
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