Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-27

Mrs. G.. A. L. Stebbins.
After appropriate remarks by the President,
Giles Stebbins addressed the convention, upon the
object Of the meeting, and assured them Of the
faithful, and able advocacy of Anti.Slavery, to be
expected from Parker Pillsbury, of New Hamp-
Shir'' and Josephine S, Grifing of Ohio, speakers
who were present.
Mrs.. Grifing OCCURRED the attention Of the con-
vention, by q striking contrast of the Anti.slavery
sentiment of lS54-5, when che last visited, and
labored in the State, with the present aspect Of
the country and called the attention to the fact
that politically, we had ignored anti-slavery alto
gether in the recognition Of the right Of slavery to
exist by virtue Of Law, anywhere in the States !;
and we're, therefore, politically, and morally. pow
erless to oppose slavery in the South, or injustice
in the North, and cited as illustrative the late ter
riblo revelation of Sing Sing by Mr.. Matsell,
Chief of Police, of New York city.
Mr.. Pillsbury resumed the subject and sold we
need not go South, to do the work of abolitionists.
Massachusetts and Indiana. Sing Sing and our
Luna,iC Asylum, present a full scope for their I'M
firing efforts; and to give culture to individual life
and action, was his highest ambition, and his only
hope for the slave.
The Convention adjourned to meet at o'clock,
P. NJ.
The evening session was opened by the
reading Of a series Of Resolutions, NO. l, ., 8,
4, by Parker Pillabury, Chairman of the Business
Committee.
Josephine s. Grifiug spoke in support of the
hrst Resolution, assuming that no work had been
done, nor struggle met, which had failed to
achieve its full value, in the development of free
dom and strength in the actor, and in so much at
least, was effective Anti-slavery work. She also
maintained the right of the slave to his freedom,
against all Law and Constitution; and the right,
wish, and intention, Of the tTuest men and women
of the country, to interfere with slavery wherever
il exists in this U MON, by the incubation of wis.
dom and virtue, by presenting ways and means
for deliverance, depreciating his chattel value by
free labor products, and by providing security
upon the soil of the States for the Fugitive Slave,
and, if need be, for his pursuers and kidnappers
also.
Parker Pillsbury followed with q faithful and
foroibls deliniation Of the fact, that the grand
cause of the continuation of slavery is the absence
of the Individual, Personal Sovereignty, and sense
Of Responsibility, and the subsection of soul and
conscience, to institutions and laws, foreign to,
and outside of themselves. Making that respecta-
bic and right, which the customs, laws, and relig-
Ion of the land support, without regard to its bear
ing upon human character, or human happiness.
He assumed that the essential want of to-day, is
the men and women to recognize and comprehend
the Divine life, and power within them, and the
faith to push to its utmost limits the application
of that power, in the abolition of slavery.
His speech was listened to with the marked at
tention, that only genius and talent can command,
and drew from the President a hearty approval.
The meeting adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock A.
NJ. According to adjournment, the President
called the meeting to order. Mr.. Pillsbury, chair
man of the Business Committee, presented another
series Of Resolutions, No. 5, 6, 7, 8. Mr.. Fox OIL
orland, offered Resolution 9!h.
Mr.. Stebbins, Of Michigan, opened the discus
sion of the Sd and 9Th Resolutions, in a clear and
faithful exposition of facts, and their relation t.
the politics and morals of the people, impressing
the audience that he understood what he spoke
and believed IN it's practical application. Parker
Pillsbury followed, taking up the 9TH Resolution
giving the Anti-slavery men Of the Republican
party full credit for their intention to be true t.
their principles, in spite of their Platform, and, t.
QlleCt pOllllOdl W llulll luc tAleu6lOt
of slavery in the Territories though in his opin
ion, the concentrated power Of that party, was al
fully pledged to slavery, as was the Democratic
party, and 10 the support of Mr.. Lincoln, no mat
ter whst a mans intentions are, his Anti-slayery
sentiments, are no more necessary, than in thC
support Of Douglas, and would probably be as full
expressed, in the administration of the one as thu
other. lie called the attention Of the people tC
the late speech of VIM. II. Dayton, candidate fol
Vice President with Fremont, delivered at Cooper
~Institate, in New York. A speech which the N.
Y. Tribune especially recommends to conservative
men but upon the political privacy Of which, Mr..
Pillsbury ventures to infringe, for the benefit Of
Republicans, who are not very conservative, liv-
ing in rural districts, where the Tribune's forty.
hvo thousand Dalies, are not in absolute demand
in which speech, Mr.. Dayton proves that the Re.
publican party is not fAnatical, radical, nor revo.
l~utionary by the Resolutions for the admissic Z
of Texas, which actually provides for the admiS
sion Of two more States, out Of that portion of hei
territory, south of 369, 800, with or without slave
~, as the people Of such State may desire also
that the Republicans in Congress, on the first day
of April, 1858, by their vote on the Bill for ID,
admission of Kansas, submitted the whole ques
lion, whether it should come in as a State with OIL
without slavery, to the voters of her people. III
also brings Mr.. Lincoln's testimony, found in biz
debates with Douglas, in which ho says, (27th o
Aug. 1885, Il do not now, nor ever did stanC
pledged against the admission Of any more slave
States into the Union" but adds "If slavery shall
be kept out Of the Territories, during the Terrific
rial existence of any one given Territory, and then
the people shall, having a fair opportunity and a
clear field, when they come to adopt the constilu-
ton, do such an extraordinary thing, as adopt a
slave constitution unin6usnced BY the actaal pres