Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-08
The Business Committee submitted the fol.
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m%itigatod dospctism, basod on the wrestod rights.
the prostrated bodies and b~enigh,ed souls of mvr.
iads OF human beings; and so mus, remain. as
well under d Republican rule, based on the Chica-
go Platform and the declarations of Abraham Lin
coin, as the Democratic administration Of the
present, and the Wing and Federal Par.ieA of tho
past,
2. Resolved, That the laws Of Arkansas and
Mississippi, consigning to ihterhinable bondage,
and their children after them, al! the thousands Of
free colored people in these States, and o%onfsea-
ting all their property to the uses of the States,
unless they flee out Of it, is without a parallel for
injustice and cruelty, in all the annals Of human
depravity and wickedness.
3. Resolved, That when William II. Seward in
his speech in the Senate, on the Admission Of
Kansas into the Union, pronounced those States
better than any foreign State no has seen or
known, he uttered a most bIaspbemous h!sehood
and libel against all the facts of history as well as
humanity.
4. Resolved, That. in the recent election Of
Abraham Lincoln TO the Presidency, we recognize;
not so much a change in the party leaders and
moving springs of the Government, as in the PEG
pie themselves, nor do we expect 80 much q change
In the power on the throne, as has already appear
ed and is becoming more and more NANTES, in the
POWER behind the throne, THE PEorLE THEHsELyrs.
And we confidently assure the Southern seeding
States especially, that the New York Herald is tho
very best newspaper authority they can consult,
as to the determination of the Northern PeoDle to
resist, even unto dt0th, every demand of the Slave
Power; that whatever Congress may enact or re-
peal, or State Legislatures, led by demagogues,
may decree, the people will repeal all Fugitive
Slave Laws" and will enac. and execute, too, all
manner of Personal Liberty Bills, will build and
run a net work of Underground Railroads that
shall people Canada with the best and bravest of
the slaves; will give aid and comfort to every Nat
Turner who rises in insurrection against his tyrant
master; and will honor with Lafayette every John
Brown who goes to his assistance and in every
possible way the Herald has ever suggested thew
will, regardless of all lava, constitutions or dema-
gogue dlctation, oppose, obstruct, and trample on
slavery with a view to its total and eternal de-
struction.
o. Resolved, That coming up to this convention
from among the people, not only of this but adj
joining States, we hesitate not to warn the South
ern States against any soft words from the New
York Tribune, or any other Republican organ, as
to The safety and security of the slave system, un-
NNa ~hi' 0 uuulluletTdtlOn ; IOr tho peOph9
have voted for their President under the solemn
assurance that there is, and is to be-, IAN IRE
PREsslBLE CONFLICT" with slavery till its utter ex-
termination, and that conflict they are determined
to wage, whatever their President! or Party ndyis-
ers may perform to the contrary, till by even
bloody revolution, if other means fail, their glor-
ious object shall be completely gained.
6. Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing reso-
lutiors be signed by the President and Secretaries
of this Convention, and forwarded to the New
York Herald and Tribune, and to the Governors.
If Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi.
I. Resolved, That any administration whatever.
Federal or State, that so far recognizes the worst
features of the bred Scott decision as to limit the
right of suffrage, or any other right, privilege or
prerogasive, to complexion or race, is as unworthy
the respect or support of tho friends of impartial
liberty, as it is below the true spirit and genius
Of the Nineteenth Century, and the law of thai.
"God who is no respecter of persona"
8. Resolved, That in the death of our esteemed
and venerable friend, Richard Glazier, Of Ana
Arbor, Humanity has lost a faithful and devout
advocate, the Slave and his friends, an untiring
and earnest co-worker, and his stricken family a
tender husband and father on whom they have
leaned with unbounded trust, knowing that he
lived for others, with the purpose of leaving the
world better than he found it.
The Michigan Anti-Slavery Society and the
friends Of humanity in this vicinity reverently
tender their deep sympathy to his friends in this
hour of their deep affection.
We attempt to give a general idea of tho re-
marks Of Mrs. GriffDg and Mr.. Pillsbury in sup
port of Resolutions, No. 4 and 5.
Mrs. Gritiug alluded to the present aspect of
the country. That it is more unhappy than ever
is proved by the fact, that the conventions of all
religious bodies are opened by asking God for
peaee-fOr ability to avoid troublesome questions
and to avert civil war. The work of the abolition
lists is not for peace, not for the Union; it is an
unpleasant aggressive work, but it must be done.
The Chicago platform reiterates the Declaration
of independence, yet upholds the right of the
South to keep men in slavery; it declares the in
'ention of the party to return to the policy of tho
fathers. Hands "almost divine" sacrificed the
rights Of GOO 1000, shall we therefore sacrifice The
rights Of four and a half millions? In these days
OF improvement, of the steam engine and the cleo
trio telegraph, shall we 60 back to the policy of
the fathers in the cause of j%usticef The denial of
the rights of the negro is made the bond of Union,
the bred Scott decision is no more Objectionable;
but the people are more radical than their plat
form, they do not understand its position and &C.
cuse the abolitionists Of not doing them justice
The republicans, as men, do not believe the creed
Of their party. Coming up here from among them
We know this to be true. The people are treason
able, and regard the violation of the Fugitive Slave
Law as patriotic. If they cannot act out their
sense of justice in the church and in the state, they
will find other channels. They demand the most
radical action and will have it. Seward sees this,
and with his usual sagacity, presents an opening
for the expression Of the real abolition sentiment
of the people; witness his anti-slavery reading of
the constitution in his speech in Madison, Wiscon-