Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-08
RADICAL ABoLITIONIsTs

The Convention Of Radical Abolitionists, which
met at Syracuse Aug. 29th, nominated FOR the
Presidency, GENRIT SMITH Of N. Y, and for the
Vice Presidency, SAMB. MCFARLAND of Pa. The
following resolutions indicate the character Of
their platform.
Whereas, The sole legitimate end Of all true
government is the protection of human rights, the
execution of equal and exact justice between q
man and his ~neighbor, and whereas, the parties
whose nominations are already before the people
do not even profess shis'as their great object, but. on
the contrary, are forward to assure Shareholders,
who trample on oil human rights, that they will
protect them in so doing, therefore,
Resolved, That the friends of Government, as
opposed to disorder, violence and outrage, have no
other alternative but to make a new nomination
for President and Vice President of these United
States.
Resolved, That while We regard with unmitiga.
ted adherence the dogma Of the Breckenridge
party, that slaves sre,by natural law, the property
of their masters, and hence to be protected as
property in the territories; still we are sensible
that this position is the only one which any can
consistently take who refuse to hoist the flag of
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see ell who now occupy the compromise positions
Of the Douglas and Republican parties, or the non
%committal platform of the Bell party, to ultimately
range themselves uuder the piratical flag of the
universally Of the rights of slavery, or the only
righteous one Of the entire extinction of the mon.
ster.
Resolved, That for Abolitionists to vote for a
candidate like Abraham Lincoln, who stands
ready to execute the accursed Fugitive Slave Law,
to suppress Instructions among slaves, to admit
new slave States, and to support the ostrs.
cism, socially and politically, of the black man of
the North, is to give the lie to their professions; to
expose their hypocrisy to the world; and to do
what they can to put far of the day of the slaves
deliverance.
Resolved, That the almost infnitesmal amount
of anti-slavery professions made by the Republican
party are entirely made luate to cover or excuse
the uoaven-defying effrontery with which it pro-
claims its intention to quiet agitation upon the
subject of the slaves rights to liberty.
Resolved, That in refusing to protect the people
from the desolating scourges of The rum traffic
where it not only has the power but an admitted
right to do 80, it has demonstrated that a party
that allows the rights of the black man to DO out,
ragged cannot be relied on for protection to the
white population.
Resolved, That as rights are not governed by
the accident Of color or condition, SO, too, 40 we
deny that difference of sex causes difference in
rights; that woman hos as perfect social, property
and political rights as man.
Resolved. That we demand, at the hands of our
National Government, a Homestead Bill, which
shall not only leave every landless settler the op.
portunity to acquire a nome without money and
without cost, (save the cost of t~ransfer,) but we
also demand of it q statute against land monopoly.
Resolved, That for the present wide spread cor
ruption in public and private life, the general in
difference to the rights Of the weak and helpless,
and for the ruin which, as a nation, stsres US 10
the face in consequence thereof, the popular reli-
gion of this country is, mainly, responsible.
Resolved, That until a religion of Love to God
and Man, manitesting ~itselfin infexible adherence
to the known will Of the former, and unyielding
regard for the rights and interests of the latter,
takes the place OF the solemn shams and imposing
nonsenses which is now palmed off upon the peo-
pie as the true religion, we shall continue to be
cursed with the rule of slavery, rum, or whatever
embodiment of selfshness and pride happens to
be most potent in its influence upon the popular
mind.
Resolved, That Radical Abolitionism possesses
a strong temperance element; and it is the design
Of the Radical Abolitionists to recommend strin.
gent Legislation on this subject, and to withhold
their political suffrage from all the opponents of
Temperance.