Newspaper Page Text
TIT
WAIIIIJS It. ROBINSOX, Editor.
"SO DNIOil WITH SLAVEHOLDERS."
EMILY ItOBIKSOIV, I'ublUlilnff Agent.
VOL. 8---N0. 22.
SALEM, COLUMBIANA CO., OHIO, FEBRUARY 19, 1853.
WHOLE NO 380.
THE ANTI-SI.AVEHV Itl'ttLE,
I'cblishsd svshy Saturday, at 8alrm, O.
Ts. $M0 per annum If paid in advance.
91,74 pr annum if paid within the nrst six
months at the suos-rpror's year
$1.00 per annum, it' payment be delayed be.
je iil six month.
T3TW occasionally send numbers to those
are not subscribers, but wlin aro believed
to be interested in tho di'spmiiislinn of nuti
alaverr truth, with the hnpe that they will
ither subscribe themselves, nr use their influ
ence to extend ita circulation among their
inenna.
tafCommtiniratinn Intended for Insertion,
to be addressed to Mahii' II. Kinixw. li litnr.
AU othera to Ekily Horikso.n, Publishing Ag't.
J. 1IUDSOX. PRINTER.
I
I
j
j
THE BUGLE.
Letter from Portage County.
DEERFIED, Jan. 28th, '53.
FaiaD Mariui: Nearly rut nfT from so
eiety, m I am, I should very seldom pet n
peep at my fellow immortals, were it not
far tlioae chatty little friends, the newspapers.
By mesne nf tlioir periodical visits, I rnnliniio
la became, in ennie degree, refreshed up in
the wbnt's mirl how's of mankind. I hnve
experienced many powerful emotions, while
eammuning with these denr fire-side instrnn
tare. They have warmed my lieiirl with
many a holy and exalted feeling; ami wrung
it with many a sensation of deep couiiniser
alien. They have wnrneil me In mourn over
Ilia Buffering of the oppressed ; to hum
wild resentment against ihu fippreasor; to
blush fur the debasement of the sensualist ;
M kindle with indignation at the hollow pre
lencea of the hypocrite, ami lo curl the lip
f contempt at the cringing servility of the
Awning sycophant.
The weekly records have, it is titic,hroiight
ma a lstk catalogue of these things; hut
at ill I each week derive, from tlictu fur more
ileaanre, than pain j for 1 am fully persund
ed that every wrong action ia hut a mistake;
blind groping in the dark mazes of error,
in aaarch of that happiness w hich enn only
result from a harmonious consistency of
living anil acting in full accordance with thu
law of the great incomprehensible, power
f the universe. I have been thinking of
tlioee 14 pure mid primitive tunca," w hull
what ia now deiio-nimitcd Christianity, was
moulding ilaelf into form. What reepectn
Me assemblies were then cnllcd together,
under the term couucila! In thoae limes, if
little idea hupH'ne I to drop into a llislmp's
head, (and I do not think Hint lurgo ideas can
be found in mitred heads.) why, if he had
acquired the rare art of writing he could
erair.h it down on n scrap of dirty parch
ment, and present it under the imposing title
t " the guapul uecording to St. someliody ;'
ami if influence enough could be lioughl up
and paid for, in rich liencfice, or cnrdiuHl'a
hat) why tny Lord Bishop could have the
atisfuctioii of having the Coapel voted into
au amendment, according to hia own sapient
idea.
! 1 suppose the preacnt inquisitive and cav
iling age, will not nllow nuy such liberty lo
be taken with tho book now ! tnke it for
granted, that that dirtiest Saint in the calen
der, King Jnmea, has given it the finishing
touchea, and thut no one now w ill dure sng
geet any addition or ulterution, fiom ihia
time forth, forever. I'ity, though, for I am
very anxious lo hear this text given out Irom
the pulpit, and preached from twice every
week, in every meeliughouaH;
The pnier atudy of Mankind ia .Mnn.'-x.
And why ia nut Si. Alexander, u good a
Saint aa the hen of them?
; I dare any ihe Evengelicnl nllinnre ihul
has been (tilling among you, has hy ihia time
convinced all the good people in Salem, (nil
who were firmly convinced Ix-litre, nil lenal,)
that mniikind have nil Inllen Irom grace; that
in their inmost son Is lliey hide Ihe Almighty
existence j and are horn into Ihe world tor
am earthly pur pom!, hut to controvert God's
flaw a, etui outrage imif wrong each other.
wVeil J J envy ihem uol the belief, for I know
Jt is not jiruduclivH of happiness'. I huve
repudiated Ostltudnxy for more Ihuu thirty
jyesrs. I would nut, if I could, suve Pue hu
tiuin being from bis sins, by leaching him lo
rejoice over the eudleas luriuuula of another ;
tld I am belrodox cuougli to Mssve, (hat
inen best consult their own hnppiueNi, when
they seek lo promote that of others; thut
naturally, they are neither at enmity with
God or Man but on ihe contrary, that lo
dor the OmniH)lnt Power, and with all
their souls lo love their kind, are Ihe strong
et impulses of every unsophisticated soul.
That was the law whichChrist taught; that the
law which Otnniioteuce bad engraved upon
Via own nature ! lie read in himself, and
ha persuaded othera to look within, and read
lso. What, in fuct, was his teaching, but
1o bid men study themselves.
' But we are told that men Naturally lova
to grovel in the darkness of transgression.
"Thai must aurelj ba a miatska I 1 thick that
the uuiverntil reatlewueaa of mniikiuil, is ol
itself a rehiialiou of ihia assumption. be
j lieve thut men have tinnnhirn'hf fallen into
tiniisuression hut, who dues not know, that
every human being ia cniistnnlly desiring n
more rxnlled hnppiueasr tiud who, but
those whoso menial vissiou i obscured by
thenlogienl fop, cnli fail to ierceive, thnt
this Ineff icabln deairc for higher good, ia the
true clement thnt will eventually redeem nil
Ihe race from sin ? Trace mnukiml back to
the most remote data of hinotry, niul follow
it down to tlm preaenl day, through every
page this plain, iudestriictahle i I pulse up
wards, is manifest, and every hiatnric column
ia an evidence, on record, of the constant
tendency of humanity, from the leas perfect
lo the more perfect condition. Yet Ihnt hu
manity ran And tlott full in n certain degree,
we have continual proof. Hut let me nik,
if every individual ia not accountable for
his own falling. I lliiuk to. And 1 think,
also, that each one reaps the benefit of his
ow n efforta after progress. Vel it seems thai
this individual responsibility baa also its
connection with tho intercut of society nt
large; for every imlitidunl has a certain
amount of influence upon the humanity that
cornea within ila limits of action, and in that
sense, and in thai only, do I imagine ihe sins
of one to effect many. It is possible, for n
person lo become eminent for virtuous deeds,
and yet he nfterwnrds acted upon hy influ
ences, that precipilntc them down to the low
oat grade of vicious debasement. But no
one ran fall below n certain degree. A hu
manity cannot efface the impressions of its
humanity. Hut neither can human progres
sion soar higher, than is computable with its
present condition. It seoma, that through
all nature one uninform law prevails; nud
and sin is under ibis universal law. This
great luw is n continual transition from less
perfect to more ierfect. But nothing con
he more perfect Ihnn its condition admits of.
The plant cannot become an aniinnl ; thu
animal, cannot become a rrenturc of moral
restonsihiliiy. The enilbly intelligence, ia
not in the present human form, endowed
with ihe capacity to become a seraphic ex
istence; therefore human progression be
yond a certain degree, ia impossible. But
there is no such thing as stagnation. The
humanity that halls in its journey upwards,
of necessity falls downwards; but when it
hns fallen, it is not compelled lo remain in ils
debasement, nny ! it cannot forever remain
there, for there is in ils nature, nil element
of progress thut is dcttined eventually to
lead it regularly onward to light uml life;
and as surely as llic bud brings forth the
blossom, and the blossom unfolds the fi nil,
which eventually ripens and becomes n per
fect form, whose decay produces new forma
of life; so surely will Mankind finally reach
Ihe ierfertion of their human condition.
But it may be argued that the lieu has no
similitude lo man, for it ia unconsciously
subject to immutable law. But I Ibiuk there
is n crfcrt harmony in ihe government of
IniiIi. The condition of Ihe li ce is an inferi
or one ; therefore tho ncliou of lliu law is
adapted lo holh conditions. The more advan
ced condition of animal existence, presents a
higher unfolding of the luw, fur u higher I i lo
hns evolved a new developcmeiil of Ihu prin
ciple. I cannot fail to linlico the infinite
gradations that nature, exhibits betwixt the
vegetable, ucmu of perfection, and the ani
mal in ils most perfect condition. There is
no abrupt step from the different degreel of
unfolding; each seems lo merge easily into
that next above or below it, and yet, through
all these infinite degrees, the perfection of
one condition is only an entrance into what
is still more perfect.
In Man. we ncknow ledge the highest order
of existence, of w hich our material senses
can lake cognizance; nud in strict accord
slice with Ilia uniform law, we find that the
nuiro advanced condilinn, has again impell
eil higher principles of government. In him
we acknowledge wa find intelligence
Ihul iucntitestihly proves his highly po.Kcss
ed powers ; ami our innate idea of the pro.
gressivn umlurmity of ihe law, tenches us lo
expert that the Omnipotent plan must confer
some high privilege on the creature of such
high developeineiit. Nor are we ilisap
pointed. Sublime privileges are indeed con
nected wit; ihe distinctive humanity, and
these are like all the gills of the Inscrutable,
lie, exactly suited lo pur condition. And
yet, notwithstanding this high posiliou, man
kind are not happy. But wh) ? Orthodoxy says
because a woman waa fond of contradiction
and atole apples, with which aha templed a
poor, weak minded man. 1 think that all
mankind (including all I be cross grained
women and weak minded men,) have wiljiin
themselves the principle that will work out
for them perfect happiness; but thai they
Lsve hitherto overlooked that inward princi
ple, and blindly confiding in outward appli
ances to produce happiuesa. Not that I
would insinuate that mankiud intend to ba
too neglectful of self; on the contrnry, I
think their selfishness is the great ohstarlo In
Iheir way. And this is why I desire to eee
them dilligemly studying the laws that gov
ern their nature; being fully convinced that,
until we all look inwnrd, nml Ihero learn
what is due to our humanity, we shall in vain
seek lo understand our duly to others.
The slaveholder can never bo convinced
of the enormity of hia irnnsgreasion, the he
llions God-defying character of chnttelism,
until he first studies tho luw thnt is written
on his own nntiire, where in iuefucihle char
acters ho may rend, " Mall seeks too high a
posiliou in God's moral universe, to ho hap
py himself, while ho buhls unlimited control
over his brother." It is in vain lo refer the
oppressor lo books for n judgement against
his sins; for cxnctly as Ihu subtlety of the
lawyers used lo search for the flaws in le
gal enactments, thereby enabling their ch
ants lo cvnde tho obvious intention of the
law ; so can Ihe man, whose misdirected
soul has learned lo love oppression, find
some hidden meaning in cvciy sentence that
limy hu written against man's, enslavement,
nud give it a construction that suits his own
perverted understanding of human duly.
Then, w lulu mankind look no deeper than
tu a laik,ro learn what is duo to themselves,
and for that purpose uso n book, the mixed
uml contradictory character of whose teach
ings render it susseptible of nn endless Va"
riety of construction, nml wbilu they lo not
even rely on their own judgements to com
prehend thnt honk ; but pay salaries to n
privileged order of men to explain it for
them: men whose living depends upon the
breath of those who employ them ; it is not
miraculous thnt even slaveholders should
hold themselves justified hy tho bonk, for
the chief business of the expounders seems
lo have been to search it diligently for all the
m.ilcrials w hereof tu compound healing plas
ters for every self-accusing conscience, that
tbrvalens to disturb the quie of the man
oppressing domain, and then close the bonk,
refusing to examine, and see whether tho
written record did not sny something on
the other side of Ihe question. Maiikiud
have given up their individuality. ' '1 ney
must resume it. They must study them
selves and having found the method which
Christ tmight, of try iug ench action at ihe
home tribunal first, they may afterwards fear
lessly compare it with each other, nr man's
opinion, tjoil s works are nil harmony, mid
Man, his highest uinuifcstulinii must there
fore he harmonious w ith all things, where
ver discord is found, it must be in conse
quence of violutcd law. If man is not har
monious, he is out of his legitimate path. If
he has broken nature's laws, he is become a
monstrous existence. Bui it is not by impu
ting folly to the Wise One; by declaring the
universal existence to be a finite creature,
subject lo all Ihe brutish propensities, where
with mankiud have ilehnsed their own high
natures; thut mini can be rendered belter,
and conseqemly more hnppy. If the luw
has been broken, the law can also redeem.
Let us return ! oliedience, and endeavor lo
apply ihu self-redeeming principle to hen'
the wounds that have been Hindu by hu
manity's injustico lo itself. But you arc,
weary, and 1 must bring this long rumbling
talk lo an end.
In full sympathy with humanity,
Believo me yours,
A. CLARK.
A Letter.
The following letter was rend at a recent
meeting of the Worcester Co., Mass. A. S.
Society. It gives counsel of rare value.
FITZWILLIAM, Dec. 17, 1852.
Mr Good Fiiie.no, A. A. Bent i
Gladly would I be wiih you at your Ami
Shivery Convention. Gladly would I mingle
my prayers and exhortations with the faith
ful who may hu present on the occasion.
Hut, alas ! I am under the limitations of lime
nud space. I have not the wing of n bird;
and iIikii, lime is wanting. We huve board
ers and scholars w ho demand our attention,
mid we cannot leave.
Talk boldly on the occasion ; talk truly,
and in a good spirit. Try lo enlighten pub
lic conscience set men and women a think
ing place beliire them facta appeal lo Iheir
benevolence, lo their sympnthies--give tho
Iieojilo light. We are tuo much in Ihe habit,
think, of treating men ns though they were
nut only wrong, hut wilfully mid wickedly
w rong wrong with inuhicemid forethought,
This is undoubtedly Ihe case with some, but
not, nieibinks, with Ihe majority. The mass
are ihougluloss, ignorant. The many need
eiiliglileuineiil, require patient leaching line
upon line and precept upon precept here a
little and there a little. People want a right
education. The principles of liberty and
freedom should be impreissed on the young;
they should be taught lo loathe lyruuiiy, op
pression, war, cruelty, vengeance.
1 sympathize very much wiih the Anti
Slavery Society of Massachusetts. It has
done jnuch to correct public sentiment in
regard to Slavery. But it has still a great
work lo do. 1 rejoice that it ia disosed 10
do it. 1 hope and pray that it may uot for a
moment falter. Let it work. Let it work
in lis own way, and with such instrumentali
ties na it sees lit. 1 w ill not find fault ; I will
not pesumn to dictate, so long ns I sie in it
a true, sclfsnci dicing, enruest spirit.
Ilavefailb! Have faith in spiritual wea
pons in love, truth, charily : huve, faith in
words fitly spoken, hi works nobly dons ;
hnvn faith in preaching, praying, sinpiup,
talking; have faith in the hardest and most
obdurate old sinners you can find. Now mid
then, you will bo astonished to find tlm
slauncbcst ronservalive.lbu bitterest old hun
ker, come directly over to the faith mid prnc
tire o ami-slavery. We do uot nlwnya know
hy outside iippearnucn, wn cannot judpo by
a man's associates, or by his words, what he
is. Truth may ho doing ila woik iriVim,
while the outside crust is us hnid as flinty as
ever.
O, ves! hnvo faith in man mid in yourself,
mid nlMivs nil, in God. He is now overturn
ing, and sooner nr later, in Ibis century or
the next, the riuhl w ill be uppermost.
Very truly yours,
J. S. BROWN.
Resolutions of the Massachusetts A. S.
Society.
1. Resolved, Thnt whoever maintains the
rightfulness of Slavebubliug ia n self con
ceited bvpnerite; for the law of Liberty,
w hich God has stumped upon his soul, len
ders iliKitpimrtable thu thought of his own
enslavement, mid thereby convicts him of
Ihe foulest injustice, in consenting to n simi
lar debasement of tiny of the human race.
V. Itesulved, That 'the Anti-Slavery cuter
prise is morn Ihnn a crusade, moral or polit
ical, ngaiust Shivery extension, by purchusu
of territory or by seizing il in wins uf con
quest; it is mine than n vindication of ihe
right of speech, of ihu preps, or of locomo
tion ; it is morn Ihan a controversy about
Ihe constitutionality of Fugitive Slave Laws,
or tho writ of Habeas Corpus, or the light
of Jury Trial for fugitivo Slaves; il is tin
open, direct, exterminating mid everlasting
warfare nguiust the doctrine that man ever,
under any pnssihlu or rniirciv ihlu circiun
slinices, ran hit mailt; the goods mid chattels
of bis lellow man.
3. Kceolvcd, That however much we may
rejoice in the rhaugn in public seiilimeiil,
ns it appears in thu refusal on thu part of
Ihe people to execute tho Fugitive Slnve
L'tw, in so many places nt tlm North, or to
visit its penalties on those who resist il, even
though I hey take the lives of the kidnappers,
and ns also appears in thu relusnl to iionii
mile for the Piesidenry those who hud been
must active iujtrciiriug its passage, nml, us
further nppears in (be occasional triumphs
of Iho Free Soil put ly, slill wo must never
forget that nil lhes are but Iho results of
our faithful mid inflexible ndhercuco lo our
original and fundamental principles, mid
that il is only by continuing thus faithful
th it wo can hope to w iiness still greater re
sults, ami ihu final ciiiaiicip ition of every
slave.
4. Itesolvcd, That the declaration "Slave
ry is Sectional nud Freedom National," is,
first, in direct opposition to the historical
and actual facts of the case; mid, secondly,
a ilistiiicliuu equally absurd and impractic
able. 5. Resolved, That wiih three millions and
a half of slaves crouching beneath thu
American flag, to w hom no protection is
given cither by tlio laws of tho laud or by
local statutes; who cull inako no appeal to
Ihe Fliited Slates Constitution lor any right
or privilege whatsoever, hut me doomed hy
its guaranties to he reckoned as Ibree-lilibs
uf human beings tu augment thu political
power of their tyrauicnl owners, to hu hunt
ed like wild beasts through till thu land if
they shall seek to repaid their freedom by
flight ; and to he mtiKsacred whenever they
shall attempt to break their chains by revolt;
whose numbers may bit increased indefinite
ly, subject lo no limitations by Congress,
mid whose posterity is fated lo run thu same
horrible career of chattel servitude; to talk
ol Sluvery ns Sectional niul Freedom ns
National, is lo outrage common sense, and lo
give an opiate lo the consciences of a peo
ple " ladon w ilb iniquity."
(i. Resolved, That with more, than one
half of our national territory cultivated by
slnve lalior; wiih fifteen States of the I'nion
directly interested in thu breeding, buying,
selling, nud wot king of slaves; with the
right conceded lo any mid every one of thu
Suites, nl its own fovereigu pleasure, to in
troduce nud perpetuate Slavery within ils
own limits; with nine slnveholdiiig Stales
already ndded lu the original number; with
Ihu slave power exercising absolute swuy
over Ihu manners ami morals, thu religion
ami politics uf iho country, lo nl'tirui ihnt
Shivery is Sectional and Freedom National,
is n terrible satire upon thu very iiiiiuo uf
rcpulilicuiiisni.
7. Resolved, Thut Iho exact and sober
truth is, that Slavery is National uml Free
dom nowhere; that no muii in this country
can exercise freedom of speech and of Ihu
press, irrcspeclivu of geograpbicul distinc
tions, any mnru than in Austiiii or Russia;
thnt we are nil living under a bloody and
exterminating despotism ; Ihnt wo have no
common country Ibr freemen, excepting for
those who forge Ihe chain nml wield tho
lash, mid thai us great a revolution is needed
here, to secure individual liberty, us in tyrant-ridden
I'urnpe.
8. Resolved, Thnt oa there are no elo
meuts in the universe more suliigoiiistienl lo
each other than Liberty and Slavery, il is us
pluiu a proposition us can ho submitted to
the huuiun understanding;, thnt either Liber
ty or Sluvery must rulu thu land ; thai they
cannot co-exist on ihe same soil amonir ihu
aame people, and under the same govern
ment ; Hint ireemoii ami slaveholders cannot
legialute together, nor enter into " solemn
league and covenant " with each other
therefore,
!. Keaolved, Thnt the American Union,
authorizing, aa il does, the trailic in human
flesh lo an enormous extent, and making Ihe
1st system its peculiar, distinctive, and all-
continuing iunituti hi, is an experiment of
madmen lo make fire and gunpowder en-d-escc
i simply a deceptive b-rin lor TliF.
SLAVE POWFll. everywhere miking Jus
tice, Humanity, Relipiou, subservient to if
fiendish designs mid, ronsi ipienT.v, is le I
lo be preserved, but lo be ex-crated and
assailed, in tlio mine of t' e Great G nl. of
Christ the Redeemer, nml of M n iho snll'.-r-er,
until uot nun stmic of il is b it upon nu
mber, anil 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 upon ils ruins is erected u
glorious Temple of Freedom for nil, willionl
regard lo complexion, clime or lace.
10. Resolved, That while, on the ground
of principle, wo are compelled lo I ike the
ground nf Disuniunists, we, nt tlm sune
lime, claim to bo the only tun' and onlv
consistent friends of L-iw and Order, nf
Government and I'nion, in Ihn absolute sip.
nifirntioii of lliosn terms; nml m.iiutaiu thai
they niti the disorgunieis nml anarchists nl
thu day who urn for perpetuating their
"rovrnnut with dentil nud Iheir iipreemcnt
with hell," miscalled the Americnu I'.iion
the lieuveu-wide and c vei Instill-.'- distinction
between them mid oinselvea la-ing this
that w bilu they me for preserving n govern
ment which outlaws nud ruslavrs every
sixth person under it, mid uomisbes n system
which admits of no arraignment nr exami
nation, excepl tinder the pi unities uf Lynch
Law, nn me liir n government which shall
render ihn monstrous ciime of Mnveholdiiip
mi impossible net, nud enable eveiy Drill lo
sit under bis ow n vine ami fip ireo w ith
Iiiiiiu In molest or make bini nliaid.
11. Resolved, That ever muco Slavery
has been ill our puilty l.unl, its heait-biokeu
uml lettered victims have been m iking their
inutu appeals In thu American Chinch Ibr
succour mid di-livcrance ; hul, instead ol'
coming up to Iheir rescue in iho u-ime of
Ihe Lord God and his mioinicd Son, it h.is
perseveiiugly mid impiously mnseiitcd to
their enslavement, entered into Ihe pmrli.ise
and ownership of iheir bodies mm mills,
and hnMly justified this hith linmli il villi.my
from tlm Scriptures ns divinely ii'ithoi ii-d.
11. Resolved, That Ibr mom than n seme
of Jems tbn American Chinch bis scornfully
nud malicimisly resisted nil die admonition,
and win tiinps, nud nppeiils, of ihe hicuds
and advocates of the enslaved; closed its
doors against lliem, wbiln openiup llicui lo
Ihu npiilugists and defenders of shivery as a
liiblu Institution; nud nctivt ly excited nil
her powers to crush all sympathy for those,
who are draw n imtu death, ready to be thiin :
therefore,
1;J. Resolved, That thoroughly steeped in
blond nnd pollution ns that Church is, il
becomes ns lo turn from it with loathing
nnd nbhurreucc lo waste no time in at
tempts to bring il lu repentance but lo enl
upon till thu Irieuils of God mid man, irre
spective uf religious professions, lo rally for
the niter nnd eternal overthrow of Auieii
enn Slavery.
1 1. Rcsulved, Thnt tho object of this So
ciety is now, as it has nl wins been, to con
vince our countrymen, by arguments addres
sed In Iheir hearts, and consciences that
Slave holding is a heinous crime, nml that
ihe duty salcty nnd interest of nil concerned
demand its iuiiucdiutu abolition w ithout ex
palliation.
15. Resolved, That, since the ei il men do,
lives after them, and because dread of the
verdict that history will record against them
is one of tho strongest holds we liavu on un
scrupulous leaders, il is thu imperative duty
of nil guod men lu put nsido the li ar of man
mid nil fulsu delicacy, nnd utter frankly Iheir
deliberate mid grave disapprobation, even
over the graves uf those who have misused
high stiilion mid prostituted high I. ileitis In
Ihu injury of mankind ; that this is u duly
w hich inen ill the posiliou of the Abolition
ists most especially owe to historic truth, tu
justice, to humanity, nud tho slave; and
Iheir well-known fidelity to il is one source
of je power lh y wield, us well as of Ihe
odium which they incur.
lti. Resolved, That in tho death of Web
ster, Clay, mid Calhoun, we hail Ihu remuval
of three grunt obstacles to freedom ol
tbuught mid the Anti-Slavery Cause; nud
men being no lunger chilled by Ihe shadow
of their baleful names, wo may reasonably
hnpe Ibr htnnaticr counsels in the nation,
mid u more puliunt bearing, ul leust, fur bet
ter men.
17. Resolved, That, in our opinion, their
constant mid systematic sacrifice, life long
mid on all occasions, ol juslicn nud human
ity, Ihu plainest principles uf law, tho most
vital provisions of our national Constitution,
mid Iho weltiiru of three, million of human
beings In their own sefish ambition nud the
demands of tho Slave I'nwcr; their sculls
nl the siicruduess of individual conscience
mid God's luw ; their hitter sneer or bitter
opposition ul every effort lo rouse this nation
lo mcicy nud justice, fundi) Iheir influence
ami lives a rurso lo the country, nml iniiiked
them Iho foes not only of the slave, but ol
Ibis experiment of sell-goveinineiit nud of
republican liberty ui:d human progress thu
World over.
18. Resolved, That wn do not look upon
Mr. Web.-ter's speech of the 7ili March, IfM,
us tbn fall of u man before thut hived uml
trusted; but, on the contrary, we know no
hoir of his I i lo, when Ihu Abolitionists
placed the least confidence in him, and no
Anti Slavery word he ever uttered which
we did lint feel, nt tho lime, to bo meru
empty rhetoric or n clumsy attempt to make
gain out of Ihe generous impulses of better
men than himself.
li). Resolved, That, in hehulf of the mill
ions enslaved on our soil, this Society grate
fully acknowledges, thu aid rendered lo their
cause hy their transatlantic friends in public
meetings assembled in Edinburgh, Glut-gow,
Dundee, Belfast, and many oilier pluces,
and, b) various addresses liuiii lurgo tsulics
of philanthropic men and women in the Old
World, appealing lo all Christians in the
I nited Slates in llie mime of a common
Christianity, to wash their hands of ull par
ticipation in Ihe awful criino of slavuliohling.
SO. Resolved, Thai, ns an auxiliary of ihe
Anicii 'an Auti-Sluvcry Society, this Society
gratelully proffers it heartfelt acknowledge
ments lo the phibii.l'iropin friends of tho
si ivn in F iplimd. Sci.tl mil uml Ircl mil,
w hose hcuutiful tu d munificent contributions
lo ihu Lite National Ami-Slavery llazmr,
in I'ostnn, a hied rn much to its value, ele
gance, nml productiveness, ns well ns lo nil
h ire in tiii4 country who co operated in
llie sune beneficent woik for !ie same glo
liniisend. VI. Resolveil, That wo In.il if in nppear
'Ifcnl'a In-rt- periodical in England, entitled
''.. .1nti-S'iircri . J.roMf, designed, ns it is,
lo disseminate accural" iiitcllipenco f.f th
Slave System in Aneirici, uml lo I iy be lorn
Ihu people of that country accurate report
of tint nim, purposes nud luho.s of Ihn
American Ami Slavery Society, especially
ill view id' the shameful fact ihnt, lor ihn
last twelve years, the Very existenee of that
Soe'.ely has been ignored in The Uritthand
orc'c 'i . nil S'nrtry lltpm ttr, or, if ever al
luded In, then only Ibr Ihe purpose uf giving
it n ib ailly n-eiain.ii t'.i, ns uuwoilby uf
lhocoiifidcncoLt.il stippeit of o religious
people!
VI. Resolved, Thnt our ncknnw ledpemeiits
mid warmest thanks nre due to Tur. llnisTOL
ami Ci.ikto.n LaiiifV Amti Si.Avr.nv Soci
n v for ihe thorough nnd mirsterly exposure,
Hindu in t lit ir recent Report, of the narrow
policy nml sectarian spii it of TllK Ran ml
A.M I'oHI K.N A.MTI-Sl.AVKIir S CIETV, US
.xbihited in Ihn almost total suppression, in
Iheir publications, of i, II information relating
lo 'I in: A.mkiiica.i A.Mi Si.Avrnr Sotir.Tr
r.lul its opi rations in constant hut seen I
aspersion of ihn member mul friends uf
ihul Society, nt homo mul n broad nud in
imilci iiiimh d ( flints lo disparage mid injure,
in llie estimate of the liiilish public, even
those fiipiiivi! slates whom necessity nnd
danger have diiveii lo British soil, nnd who
have there dared lo express iheir crnlitmla
nml fiieml.-bip lo any of lliose men and
women rniiucrtwil with Mm America
Ami Si.avf.iiv Suciktt who have protect
ed them mid nidvil them in tlitir perilous
flight.
VU. Resolved, That in regard lo tho Colo
nisation eulrrpiise we make no issue on any
ul the following points whether Africa
ought not lo bu 'reclaimed from baibarism
mul idolatry ; nor whether black missiona
ries arc mil belter ml iplcd tu its climute Ihnn
white ones; nor whether it is wrung lo as
sist voluntary emigration to the shores of
Ihnt continent ; nor whether llie Shire Trndo
has uul been crippled or ihiven from their
localities by Ihu colonies ulrcady established ;
i:ur whether the se.tlemeut nt' Liberia hns
mil nt tin i i it't, in the mime period, ns high a
position ns did tbn Plymouth or Jamestown
colony; nnr whether the condition of lh
free coloured people ill this land is not ono .
of great hardship, mul surrounded by many
nflliciiiig circumstances; nor whether, lo
those who are held in I oudiige, exile wiih
penniless freedom is not pieleriiblu to a lite
of chatlelied servitude; bin it is, whnl are
tbn doctiiiics designs mid measures of The
American Colonisation Society, nud is it
w ui ihy of thu cnimteiianeo nnd support of
civilized nud Christian people?
VI. Resolved, Thnt we abhor nnd repu.
iliutu Thu Colonisation Society for the fol
low ing among other reasons: (1) Hecsuse
il sanctions thu infernal iloctiiun, thnt innii
enn rightfully hold properly in Lis fellow,
man. (I) H-cau?c ii is miiuageil nnd con
trolled ly slaveholders, whoso aim it is to
give ipm-nnle, security ami value to the slnve
system by ihn removal of the free blacks'.
(Ii) ll.-c.iuso it declares iho leprous spirit ul
ciiiiipli-Moiial prejudice is iiaiuriil, nnd not
in In: p-movcd even by Ihn operations of tha
Holy Ghnt upon tint heart. () Hccause it
is the hitler, miillgunnt nnd nelive enemy of
Ihe Ami Slavery enterprise. (5) Hucnuse It
stimulates ami sanctions ihn enactment of
suul-crushing laws mid prnscriptive edicts
iig.iinsl our lien coloured population, under
the pressure nf which they shall find il im
possible to stain! erect no ibis their unlive
soil, nnd may, therefore, bu induced lo end
prate lo Africa. ((!) IWeiuise llie motives it
avows, Ihu sentiments it inculcates, tho
means il uses, ihu meas'iri-s il sanctions, nra
base, cruel, demoniacal nnd (7) Because,
limn its institution to tho present lime, tha
objects of ils professed commiseration l ava
micensinpty Imjiiiu iho strongest testimony
against it us uncalled fur, hateful, persecta
ing nud iiminlural.
V5. Resolved, Thnt the ri-ccnt net of a
large majority of Ihe V. S. Senate, proserih
inp Messrs. Hale, Sunnier nnd Cluise from
nil Ihe Committees in thai lunly, on the
L'riiuuil uf iheir luil belongiiig lu mi.V " heal
thy political urgauiaiiuii " meaning ihul
they mo mil ennnccted w ith cither Ihe Whig
or Democratic party, mul nre opposed lo tha
" CuiupioiiiirU measures, iiicludinp ihe Fus
gilivo Slave l.tw " is unparalleled, for
meiiimuss and baseness, in thu bistury ot
political bpishit'ou, us gross nil insult as
was ever nili-red to honourable men, nn net
uf dining usurpation, nml n precedent of a
must idariu'mg nature, w hich, if lamely sub
milted lo, fuieshiiduws, wiih oilier udinoni.
lory events of the limes, ihu ullimnte uslab.
lisbmenl of a military despotism over tha
w huh- country.
Si!. Resolved, That while the pro slavery
senility uf one of ihe Senators fiom Ihe
Common weiilih made him shrink from leg,
isleiing n manly lesiiiuiiiiy ngninst this das
tardly and tyianuuiis act in ihu name uf Ihe
sovereign Slalu of Massachusetts, which ba
was sent to ( 'impress faithfully to represent,
wu had n ripbt lo expect from ihe Anti Sla
very prulcssams nud positions of Ilia other
Senator, tl.e Hon. Charles Sumner, who
wlis one uf the proscribed, something mora
than a dumb nud nn iiighuiuus sileuco on
that occasion, mul yet no sound waa heard
from bis lips, and Massachusetts wna allow
ed to hu spit upon with impunity.
27. Resolved, That the people of ihia
Commonwealth, without distinction of par.
iy, have n tight lu expect, on tho part ot
their legislature, now in session in tin city,
n prompt uml Meru protest nguiust the vir
tual disfranchisement of Massachusetts if
the Senate of the United Statoa. ' - "
