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

tAOANOs
LIST. Resolved, That the browning excellence and
glory of the anti-slavery enterprise is that, while
its first grand design is the redemption of the
Ethiopian of the South from chaheI bondage, it is
also, through the genius and power OF Eternal
Truth, hberating and e~levating universal humani-
~ above all the behests of custom, creed, conven-
tionalism or constitution, wherever they usurp un-
righteous authority over the Individual soul; and
thus, while our first caro- is the emancipation ofthe
Southern slave, we are, under the Divine economy,
a. the same time working out our own salvation,
and Fastening the triumph of Love and Liberty
over all forms Of oppression and cruelty, through
out the earth.
End. Resolved, That the grand cause of the
continuance of slavery in this country, is the total
loss or absence of il dividual, personal sovereign
ty, and fense Of responsibility, and the subsection
of the soul and conscience to the authority Of in
stitutions and laws foreign to, and outside of them
selves; making that Right and Respectable, which
constitutions and statutes support, and the popu-
lar, recognized Religion sanctions and sanctifes;
be it the Guilotine or Gallows beiit Slavery orWAr,
the degradation and disfranchisemen of Woman,
or legalized Despotism in any of its numberlcss
forms.
Bird. Resolved, That the great want Of the pres.
ent hour, not only for the overthrow of chattel sla-
very, but for resisting every other popular evil, is
o class of men and women, who recognizing and
compromising in themselves the divine laws of
Life, Liberty end Love, and daring TO assert the SOW
erignty Of the soul over all merely human authori-
ty, will plant themselves serenely, but self-reliant
ly, on the great principles and laws of that sover-
eighty, and never more to be, to do, or 10 suffer,
of any State, ConstitutionLor Statute, of any
Churches Greed or Catechism, Of any party priest,
book, wife, husband, or any human constitution
or arrangement whatever.
4th. Resolved, That Shareholders. as such, have
no rights which any human being is bound to re-
spect; and ak their State governments, $50 called J
are but organized bands of thieves and robbers,
whom Capt. John Brown, or Gen. Lafayette might
lawfully e%1terminate, by every principle Of our
own Declaration If indie pendence, or of that code
Of philosophy and morals which regards resist
ance to tyrants, as obedience to Cod
9Th. Resolved, That a governmental union and
confederation with shareholders, either with Of
with )u, constitutional compromises and guarantee,
for slavery, is without warrant IN any human ne
cessity, and ever must be in daring defiance of the
laws of nature and of God; for if thirty ruGians
may not band together to commit highway robbery
on the land or piracy on the seas, no more may
thirty millions c~Onspire, under the good name o.
government, to rob other millions of all the rights
privileges and prerogatives, which distinguish mar
from a four-fOoted beast.
9Th. Resolved, That the absurdity Of protesting
to hold to an anti-slavory Interpretation of the
constitution, while standing on the Chicago plat
form and supporting Abraham Lincoln for Presi
dent, is too mOnstrous for description; and car
only be attributed to a weakness of intellect thai
should dis9ualify men for exercising the right o.
suffrage, or to a hypocrisy and depravity worthy
only the scOrn and detestation of mankind.
7th. Resolved, That in our criticisms or ceuaure,
of the Republican party, we do not forget how
many brave men and true friends Of Freedom are
contained in it-nor do we deny, that theie il
great meri. in we'll directed effort to limit the ex
tension of slavery--bu: as long as the domestic
slave trade is as cruel and Infamous as the foreign
and slavery in Arkansas, is as black and bloody a.
it could be in Kansas, and as long as the Republic
can pariy-candiiate is pledged to do all foEslaverJ
WAere ii is, and as IL is, that any party or Presiden.
ever mas uOuet hhu lurOuSu III lnOueanu organs
is constantly re-assuring the south and the country
that all those pledges shall be most s~aciodly kept
we are constrained to pass upon that party, as
body, our severe condemnation; and 10 hold it, or
account of its auti-slayery pretentions, as ever
more dangerous to the cause Of liberty. if posi-
BILE, than even those distracted, Democratic fac
tions, that now constitute It's most important ri
val.
sth. Resolved, That in the language of Mr.
Keitt Of South Carolina, the doctrine of Stat,
Rights includes the right of any State to Withdraw
from the Union but whether il be SO or not, til,
right to make a anion with slave-breeders. slave
traders and shareholders, was never delegated t.
mortal men; and since Republiesnism has demon
strated what the old Wing party slmOs proved
that the Union is desired by the South only as ,bt
safeguard Of slavery, we sOlemnly protest agains