T ifE A NIXVSLA.Y lill.Y li UGL E .
ha lee
tho whole house ia tho exceeding familiarity with
which t!i o black servants tro.it their black masters
seldom giving even tho Ambassador anything at
t nle, yyjihout soii.ewrvarli n' impudent comment
on hit wants orupuotit. Thedecided preference
U lint Colored noulos for tbn whitest of tho female
:. Ahnuatt 1 10 in lucoJ -tn frequent their society,
is c 'i! -iJorvd curious. llmt Journal,
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From the Columbus.
"ABOLITIONIST"
" This is lit t'erirl i.f reproitoli applied to nil Anti
SVtVy juiuii indiscriminately, mid applied often
t j"i'.uj-uniliHik.iii without a due appreciation tit
its meaning to those who labor to secure the
Kights of M h ii. By many tin term in regarded as
tho nc plus ultra uf odium -and shame. ; We pro
pose to u.uisider in meaning. We look into Web
ir, aiidtind thnt he defines Abidittoniet" thus:
V". Ji.j. dyijro 'i aboli)) ny thing."
Judged by this definition, ull men are In some
BOtitd " A b ilit itn it,' for nil men desire to abolish
n'.i-.inthiiig whio'i they Ixdievo to be wrong. The
Mam law man believes the traffic in ardcut spirits
1 1 bj wrmij, nuil ha labors to 'abolish' it; the teach
er 'Vnde.ivors to 'nllolish' ignorance j the philau-
tuyiprfrt labors to abolish tho w rongs which lessen
li ii .nn.h.ippiness ; the christian desires to 'aboliuli'
nil 1iil iiinr from hie heart and from his life; 4ie
i I'.rfiOiiai endeavors to 'abolish' what ho believe
t f be wrone in Kovermncntnl policy; tho friend of
irauee strives to 'abolish' tho war enirit, and re
iihvio-.it with lovuand ctiod will to wan ; tho friend
i i' Liberty d-osircs to 'abolish' tho evil of Slavery,
while tho do-.rcit nnd their allies labor to 'uboliih'
Freedom nnd free institutions. 1 bin hint is what
li.i, prorukud tlio ruffian attack of the Missouri
Lion upnn.lhp r ijhta of the seniors in Kansas, and
it in a sympathetic fool i n 15 with Despotism which
lu ui-j ti l1 V'eicu Administration to uphold tho des
pornta, efforts uf liijae oiiiluwt to 'ubulish' Freedom
tin I plant Slavery on free territory.
History record's the chief actions of Ibo two
moi c-promiuent clauses of ubuliiiutiists who have
twined in thu world, we mean the one class which
atpjiuptuJ to 'abolish' Liberty. and the other which
iu.no.1 to emancipate it from thraldom. The first
"are universally condemned, while iba litter are
lield in grntolul nnd enduring ri'inembr.ince. The
g4-u.1l hnart of hiiiiiar.ity vvcry hero csecratos the
tyja.it, Goa1iii', who iiLtoaiplud to 'aboliia' I'rec
ii r.a iu SiH3i land, while it luddn in ovurlastiii
ii.in.v the inniNory of William Tell, w ho dnrud to
'withstand and upaiKC tho tyrannv of his a,;o. In
ir.ojiirn tiuiea tho w.irld will 11, t willingly let
fiio tho n linos ot Wafljii.j;ti.n, Patrick Uenry,
L'liu:n is Jelfors'in, RtnU the men w ho held the
truth of the Declaration of Independence to bo
mOf evident, and in support of w hich they pledged
thuir live, their luitiine., nnd their sacred honor.
It was reservod to the uboliiionixls of Fieodoni iu
(sur own timdi to doii lo thu Declaration, (ihle,
J.iho lo ; Li L speech in the Senate of the United
States, iu .w hich he deoliircdlI1.1t tho Declaration
i;f Iiidepen lonce wn "a aelf-eriduut lio,") tnd the
1'.. Pierce's the Houlac's, tho Atchinson's, the
htrinfullow.i, and tho 114 10 of ruiSin who labor
i i.oxtend Slavery in the 11 a in a of 'Democracy,' act
iipoii Mr. I'ettii's suue.'iion tout the truth is '11
lie.' In opposition 1 1 this view are arrayed the
Republican hosts, w ho havo resolvbd to stay the
inarch of Slavery, and inaugurate Lil orty as the
aiding 'ar, the cutitrolling iuflueiico iu tho Gov
ernuicnt. ., At then thore are various kinds of abolitionists,
,wh 1 w ill bo so l int to nil the teachings of tho fath
ers of tin Republic as to join the Slavery propa
gandists in their eil'oi ts to extend tho 'jicculiar in-e'-ituiion,'
w hen the natural consequent of their
efforts ii tho 'ab.dition' of Freedom, which our
fatheis spent their blood and t -ensure to establish ?
Who, so lont to every foelir g of patriotism as to la-b.-ir
b abolish Freedom in these I'nited Suites!
The Uepublieans aro tho conservators of Fr-iedotn;
their opponents are tho Abolitionists. Their efforts
ten 1 tJ 'abolish' Liberty.
WHO ARE THE REAL DISUNIONISTS ?
, CUtl A bals was nn oM rocuo. All through hi
xVIlmi. aUrnul uuui iu tmulilet in ttouSIn nnt nnlv
t " . . ...
iJucAiisa tho mass ot tho people followed his exam-1
plo. 'National honor, national virtue, and nation
al religion were all broken dow n, and wavo after
yavo of ruin swept Qicr the land. Elijah, the
prophet, stood up to reprove king and people, llo
denounced the impiety and political corruption of
thu times, nnd sVjwoiI tho connection between na
tional guilt nnd national disaster. "Art thou he
that troubleth lrnol 1" demanded tho wicked mon
arch of tho radical and incorruptible agitator. "I
have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's
houe, iu thnt je hare tursaken tho riht ways of
lli Lord and have followed Baal," thundered the
bol l reprover. Whilo bringing ruin upon his king
dom, by his vices and his idolatry, Ahab vainly
thought Iu shift tho responsibility of that ruin up
on tho" who had remonstrated against tho wrong.
1 lie L nion ot these Mates is Bi-nously threatened
I.irk clouds hnver ominously abovi the horizon of,
ourcountry future. Iho results of blty years of
fc.ieo ntid prosperity are threatened witli destrue-1
(ion dim and sudden. "The ntiti-sluvery agitators
tlio fanatical abolitioniM are troubling tho na-
!" ray the three-hundred nnd fifty tiiousnnd
rl i.vh ,1 !,..;s of tha' South. ' The traitorous aboli-
uuiiiht are hurrying us to disuuiun, is echoed bvi,
the wh'.lo crowd of northern men with southern
f.riiui j.d . t
We ii'Unt the charge upon the men who have re-'
fused to koI ile ibis f laiei-v questimi upon ti e basis
V natiua! justice. 1 hey mo the real disuniotnsts.
And 11 ever the hisu.rian ahull be compelled to re-
tui-d the sundering of this I'uiun by the grent p ili-
eai th'iuakc w hich is Kcing engendered by tho
el ivery ii-iestinii, tho pro-slavery party in the nation
w ill bb 1 esp.'nsiblo f'r it. For twenty voar. they
ha been hurrying us to the brink of "this proci-
)(0:o. They h ive heei coucohing wn itory, politi-
nu power, anu national unpuriiu.ee 10 nil anii-ui'm-o.n-.ilic
i is'.iluti hi which was onco comparatively
foubl'', iiisigniiicant, ami ashamed of itself, it
tin now become y.' uitic, overshadow inc. audao-
i,'Us and imperious. They hooted at liberty and
gioruieu slavery. I dev nave ueuicu tlio eijnality
.; lmni:Ln ruriilnnit h.tUM liiutirA.I n tn..iAa ,.l'l
desiiotism truster tlian that uf Russia i;,i.?i,l,i
lUjivllUan.
RIGHTS VS. WRONGS.
In nur earlier years wo uned to henr a great
dual about ' State rights. But what about State
v-mngif In admitting tholegality of State Slavery,
we give support to ft Siato w rong. Slavery is a
v r.ing a national wrong an individual wrong
w-ion; and only, wrung, and that continually.
Xol'iiug no foul but slavery fosters nothing so
Unclean but slavery revels iu it nothing so mean
but slavery covers it nothing so murdruus but
hiavery perpretrate it. It degrades man and in
sults Llod. It annihilates light, destroys personal
ity, ohli'rrates 111 1r.1l distinctions, and marks our
nation a guiliy and hypocritical beyond compari
son. It is from benoitli, not from abovo. It is
corrupt, mid corrupts all within its reach. It kns
eorrui.to't the Church and tho State, and unless we
i-oee lily give it up, it will work nur national ruin.
We are even now, as a people, almost destituto of
niur il tense on this subject. Three millions of
our countrymen are stripped of the Bible by low
yet we pr.i!ess to rea'd its circulation nmong men
f.s ne.'enary to their 6n!vat!nn. Among 3,000,000
i-i mir population me marriage institution n aooii!iM-!.
Stsvery is on ever a.itive volcano of lust
urn! iitip irity, preading desolation anl death it
ii Mod. mi and G 1111 irrsli combined. Toll in how
ran virtue cVt.jji imr Iienrts, whilo we strike hands
with si tvoholders in Christian and political fellow
'(fTiip! What ij .tin no f Jo we !eleivo in the sa
1 re Itw'n 0!' the marriage institution If Whv not
fciwred, then, to tin sl ue, us well as you f lluro,
then. Is our American slavery. Men whiptto tin
iniid work woinon lashed for obninato virtue
infant children plundered from their parents and
y'el we talk ahiut State right! Well, we will go
as far as any hunf.it man can Cr State rights but
in the name uf virtue and humanity, is it 1101 time
V go against State urungsf Especially against
.this l.irget. hUndiest wrong that a State con osi
Xf suuiait liTrve American.. , ,
Tbe Mivvi!!e (Ky..) B',:le says' a nen miin
w vi kied on We'lni-odiiy last in tho neighborhood
41 Slate, Montgomery eotirity. by a knife in the
"iii-J af p'14 ui it:r,u"rj.h Wsnur, hil cerre t-
i U'-ut-.". .
ANNIVERSARY MEETING.
TheTuiRTEtyTU ANKLiMtTtnooftbe H"to-n
' A it i-Slavery Society was bald at Allianoa,
Stark Co.', 0., oommeociog on Saturday, the 25th
d. y of August, 155.
Tl.o Tiosident of the Society, Abraham lirooko,
hnviiii; called tlia meeting to pided, tha exereiaos
won eoinui'jneoJ by sinjflnj;, "We art comicg."
The following nainaJ persons wore appointed to
nominate such committees ai mny be deemed ne
cessary fur the conduct of the mooting, and to pro"
sent a list "of officers to' servo tha society the ensu
ing year 1 James Barnaby, C, S. S. GrifHing, S
Bown, Isaac Brooks, W, V. Parker Sam'l Harris,
Hauhol Treseott.
On motion, James Barnaby was appointed to-report
tba discussions and speeches of the meeting
for publication in the Bugle.
Iaac Trcsootl offered resolution, No. 1, which
beiug seconded, was nilvx'ated by tho mover.
Pending its discussion, Committed on nominations
reported tho following named ft-room to const!
tute a
Business CoiiniTTtt M. R. Robinson, S. S.
Fostor, M. J. Burleij-h, A. M. Powell, Jaoob Wal
ton, M. F. Morso, II innali L. Brooks, Jas. Barna
by, Wui. K. Lukcns, John JI. Iloluies.
The discussion of resolution Xo. 1. was then re
sumed, and itsadoption oppesed by S. S. Foster, S.
Myorfand E.lwood Patterson. On motion, it wad
referred to Iiu.-inc's Coaitnittoo fur consideration
nnd revision.
. .Business Couiniiltnn roported resolutions No. 2,
which wero advocated by A. M. Powell of New
York.
rocil, That w hen we adjourn this evening, we
adjourn to meet at f o'clock to-morrow morning.
On motion, adjourned to '2 o'clock this after
noon. Afternoon Session. Tho Society mot. "Oh
weep, ye friends of freedom woep," was sung.
Tho annual Ueport of tho Executive Committee
being called for, it was read by tho corresponding
decretory, M. II. Uobiuson.
On motion, the report was accepted.
Tho discussion upon resolution No. 2 was re
situiod, and continued until the hour of adjourn
ment by S. S. Foster am! E. Pardee.
On motion, adjourned.
CCith. Morning Session. The mooting was open
ed by singing "Gjod morning," and "I dream of
all things free."
Tho nominating Committee reportod the follow
ing ;
AfDiTiNG Cojimittf.e, John Qjrdou.J.Jumes Bar
naby.
Financial Committee, C. S. S. Grifling, 'Wm. F.
Parker, Benj. Bown, Humphrey Hoover, Mary
Gilbert, Cordelia Small y.
Ucoi.e Com jiittkf., Rachel Treseott, Ilaunah L.
Brooke, M. IX. Kobiuon.
Business Committee reported resolutions No. 3
and No. I, after which S.iml. Mywe, and James'
Barnai v spoke upon the subject matter contained
therein and in tho resolutions previously reported.
Tho following rofolution and letter, reported by
the Business Committee, wero adopted by a unani
moiu and emphatic ay.
ictfaaea, i oai uie ioi:owuig communicaiion oo
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entered upon our minutes, nnd a copy thereof
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signed by the officers of the Society, bo forwarded'
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bo
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w our impi-isoueu ieiow laoorcr.
ALLIANCE, Ohio, Aug. 26th, 1855.
. admiration.
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U are aware that you are imprisoned, for no
violation of law, ei.l.er human or divine, but sim
tion ! ply to gratify tho slave power, w hich sought to
j .,, llon3Kty nnj lru0 independence with
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. ,,nlt8, ft"d ,jars- Vmr recratioii has taught,
and is teaching the American people that there is
no safety for their own freedom whilo the slave
I power vue8lbat wllii it ;5 J t10 ascendancy
J ... , ... , , . . .. , . , .. ,
lnw W,U J0 PJusV,uled t0 d l,dd,.n8- nJ 1,1
'he name of justice the grossest enormities pcrpo
t'cal trtttcd.
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h U not often that to a"J one V' nob
an ri,ortu"i,J for a world-wide testimony against
Tho members of the Western Anti-Slavory Society
with other friends of freedom attending its thir
teenth anniversary, at Alliance, Stark county
Ohio, to Passmore Williamson, iu Moyamonsing
prison, Philadelphia.
Fclluw worker in Ike cause of Humanity i
Three thousand of us have coniened on this
Sabbath day to labor for the redemption of our op.
pressed brethren, to strive to drive slavery from
our midst, and secure freedom to every inhabitant
of the land. From the grove in which we have!
tscmbled we would send to you a voice, not uf
sympathy alone, but of warm approval, of high
judicial wrong ns is scon in your case; and wo re
juice to believe that you aro equal to Its deuiauds,
and that Judgo Kano hes found in your consistent
firiunoss, nn instance of fortitude as unexpected as
it is unwelcome.
is unwelcome.
The press has borne to all parts of the civilized
' world a record of the
particulars which led to
your imprisonment; they w ill he discussed among
tho more enlightened portions of the European
people, ns well as among tho loss intelligent; thoy
are fit subjects cf consideration for prince and poas
4i.11 1 ; they intcrcjt both liberal and cousei vntivo.
Judge Kane imprisoned you without trial for
nn alledged contempt of Court. From his decis
ion you have appoaled to the groat court of hu
manity, to the common instincts of tho peoplo.
Your appeal has been entertained, and Judge
Kane is himself now on trial before the world for
oontempt of justice, of truth and of right. Sionor
or later an impartial verdict will be rendered,
which shall be as terrible as was that which caus
ed the power to pass from the hands uf Bolshaz
iar. For that verdict, and for that time, you can
well afford to wait.
With a belief that yours is a conrngo not to be
daunted by piison bars, a determination that is su
perior to juuicinl persecution, we remain your
friends, and hoarty approvers,
On behalf of the assembly aforesaid.
ABRAHAM BROOKE, Pres.
BENJ. S. Jones, Secretary.
Business Committee reported rosolution No.
and Xo, 0, the former of which was discussed, and
on motion unanimously adopted.
Discussion upon the resolutions previously re
portedwas continued by S. S. Foster.
On uution, adjourned to 2 o'clock P. M.
' Attornnon session. "Clear the way, . was sung
nt the opening uf the meeting; after which E. Pur
dee continued tho discussion which was postponed
by the morning adjournment, and was followed by
S. 8. Poster, and E. Patterson.
Business Committee reported resolutions No.
and No. 8.
On 111 iti n, aljonrned to Pi 0 click lo rovrow
28ih. Morning Seion. Tha reading'uf resolu
tion No. 6 was called . for by. A. M. Powell, who
spoke at soma length in' its advocacy.. , v
Tho Finance Committee propo4 taking up con
tributions in behalf of the oaut-e, kud the meeting
was nddressed upon the need of funds, and the du
ty of the friend' of liberty oontiibuting liberally
by Ja. Barnaby, M. U. Uobiuson, and U-CVright
after which, II. C. Wright. S. S. Foster; Barclay"
Gilbert and others discussed tho subject matior
contained in the resolutions reported by the Busi
ness Committee.
Business Committee . elated they had not
amended or reconstructed resolution No. 1, but
they handed it to the Secretary, that it mlgbi be'
called up by any one w ishing to do so.
Afternoon Session. The Treasurer presented his
roport, to which the, report of the auditing Com
mittee was aunexed; on uiotior, brth were accep
ted. '.
The meeting was thon addressed by J. E Jones,
Wm. Mjers and Mary Grew.
Thtf'nomiuating Committee presented tho fol
lowing report, which was adopted, and the persons
thorein named elected to their respective offices in
the Society.
BENJ. S. Jones, Secretary. President-ABRAHAM BROOKE.
Vict Prtiitltnt'i Benj. Buwn, Euiily Robinson,
Geo. Garretson, W. F. Parker, Christian Donald
son, A. M. Clement, Jacob Walton, Sarah Otis
Ernst, Wm. Watson, Lot Holmes, Lydia Irish,
Marscna Miller, Marcus F. Morso.
'. Ilecurding Secretary Benj. S. Jones. :
Corresponding Stc. Murius R. Robinson.
Treasurer Joel McMillan. . ..
Cvtuwellor Lewis Morgan, Esther Harris,
John Gordon, Isaac Treseott, Josephine S. Grilling,
Sarah Bown, James Barnaby. . ;
On motion, the reading of the resolutions repor
ted by tho Business Committee, after some slight
amendments, were severally adopted.
Financial Committee reported in part : thoy
had collected $105,75, a small portion of w hich
was on old pludges.
Some dixcustion then ensued respecting the po
sition of the M. E. Church, after which, the Socie
ty, on motion, adjourned without day.
BENJ S. JONES, Recording Sec.
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
TO THE WESTERN ANTISLAVERY
SOCIETY.
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In reviewing the events ot the year which clo
se! with this Anniversary; the Executive Commit
teo find much cause for encouragement, and have
only to regret that tboir means have been so lim
ited and their laborers so few. They find in the
succoss of their labors, and in tho condition of the
anti-slavery cause, tho most nbtindant reason to
continuo with unswerving fidelity their testimony
against nil compromise wilh alavory and all com
plicity with slavo holders.
The last year's experience has added strrngth
to their Qiiction that to be the most efficient
friends of freedom, we must make no concessions
to slavery, as having U''dt-T any circumstances,
I nt t .KtP,,l Avijlnui.n Vnrll, f.r Siintli Wfl TnllMt
'"J ' h ' -
hold no fellowship with its works of darkness but
everywhere by word and deed rprovo thorn.
As will be seen by the Treasurers report, our
receipts this year are less thnn usual. Donations
j - - i ..i .... i i r i 1
lilul IIC i-h:.-:it3 naiu urn." tun in iiuiuuli, nuv.
. n,,
many of the old pledges remain unpaid. The con-
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tribution of the ladies of tho Cincinnati Bazaar,
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under most
circumstances of tho ladies of the Salem Fair, to
gether with a part of the formor liberal contribu
lions of the lamented Asa Davis, w hich have been
undo available, littvo enabled the Committee to
keep up their operations notwithstanding the de
ficiency in the ordinary contributions nnd in the
receipts on subecription to the paper. Though
they have been compelled greatly to curtail their
lecturing operations in this State on account of this
deficiency; pai-t experience having taught them that
it is very unwiso to suffer a debt to accumulate
against the society.
Now that the earth has yielded to the husband-
man nn unexampled abundance of her treasures.
we confidently expect that the friends of the slave
and this society, will come forw-nrd with moro than
their former liberality, and put into the hands of
the Executive Committee, they are now about to
appoint, tho means of carrying forward the work
in a manner somewhat commensurate with its im
portance. Tho Society will see from thu Treasurer's report
that an alarming discrepancy exists this year, be
tween the receipts and expenditures of the Anti
Slavory Bugle. Last year the receipts on sub
scription to the paper were a trifle more than its
expenditures. This year they are only between
onu-third and one half of that sum, nnd yet the
number of subscribers is not greatly diminished.
The deficit has arisen in great part from the delay
of subscribers in paying (heir aocounts. The
Committee have waited on them with prtience,
awaro of the difficulties of the past year. They
should not, however be compelled to wait longer,
It is proper that the Society should be apprised
uf the fact that if there was not one delinquent, the
present No. of subscribers nt tho present sub
suription price, would not meet the curront ex
pei.scs by from five to six hundred dollars per an
num. And yot the expenses of tho paper aro tho
most economical the Cummittce can devisefar
less than those of any other paper with which they
aro acquainted, of tho same size nod the same
amount of reading matter. The truth is, the price
of the paper is too low. Lower thnn that of most
other papers containing nn equal weekly amount
of printed matter. Oilier papers published at a
less, or at the same price are largely occupied with
advertisements, or are compiled from daily papers
witnout tlio expense or setting up the type exclu
sively for their use. It is exceedingly desirable
that the paper should stand solf-sustnined on its
own basis, and not absorb any of the contributions
uf the society.
These, when swelled to their utmost extent, arc
trifling, compared with the work to be done in the
lecturing field; the publication nnd gratuitous dis
tribution uf documents and in other departments.
When they are curtailed for the support of the pa
per, a yery meager sum is left at (he disposal
toe committee lor tnese important purposes. Per
haps it may no well tlicretore for tho friend
the Society uud the paper ti consider the propi-ie
ty of following the example of mnny publishers
during tho last row months, and increaso the price
of subscription and thus place the paper in a self-
sustaining position
And we especially commenj to all delinquent
subscribers the faot that their delinquency has
compelled the Committee the past year, to with
hold the fund designed for lecturing purposes
irom tne olysot to wnicb they should bar been
appropriated and apply thou to the publication
the paper and in cousequonce our agents bat been
compelled to go to other parts of the country; and
meetings and conventions have, during -the Inst
!sr been in Ohio, unusually few.
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of
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The Executive Committee hare ecm during the
past year, on every hand, abundant work to do,
but unfottunately have beets, exoept to a limited
extent, without the tneanstoaoooinplishlt. , Wher
ever the advocates, of our radical measure and
opinion have gone, their labor have tioon remark
ably successful.
During the last year C. C. Burloigh attended
with other, several large and effective Conventions
in Ohio. During the last spring, William Wells
Brown yieited Ohio and spent several weeks In
lecturing just previous to the Annual Cincinnati
Convention, which was held with it usual inter
ests nnd good result. Mr. Brown wa with us
a the A gout uf the American Anti-Slavery Socie
ty, but sustained by those ertr aolive and devoted
friend of tho slave, tha Ladies of the Cincinnati
Bazaar. ' From tha same source the Antf Slavery
Bugie received also a liberal contribution.
Josephine and Charles S. S. Gritting, Rev. Leon
ard Oriffing of Connecticut, James Barnaby and
Giles B. Stebbina, bare been employed for abort
periods of the past year as agents of the Socioty.
Mr. Stobbins scrvicos were rendered in Western
Ponnsylvnnia. - The others while agents of this
Society ore employed in Ohio and Indiana.
A most cordial co-operation in labor has exist
ed betwoon us and theAmorican society anditsnux
ilarics, especially with the Michigan State Society,
with whose Executive Committee an arrangement
was effected, thnt tho agents employed should labor
w ithin the territory nlloted to each, as might upon
tiro whole seem best upon consultation of th'. com
mi'tces, and that each committee should be respon.
sible for the salaries of agents for tho time they
were laboring iu their respective localities. As
the grent majority of tho supporters of our Socio
ty in Ohio aro agriculturalists, nnd the failure of
tho crops the last season put it out of tboir power
to contribute w ith their accustomed liberality to
its support, it was thought best that a greater por
tion of the labor of rur agents should be spent in
more western fields, where abolitionists were
better able to contribute, nnd would be induced to
be more liberal in their contributions, if the labor
was expended and its results seen immediately
around thorn. Accordingly Mr. nnd Mrs. Gritting
have spent several months of the yoar in Michigan
and Northorn Indiana ns tho agents of the Michi
gan Socioty. Mr. Barnaby nlso spent several
weeks in the saiuo service, under tho same direc
tion wero nlsoho Agouts of tho American Socie
ty Messrs. A. T. Fobs, and C. C. Burleigh. From
the accounts we have received from these Agents,
as w ell ns from the friends ot the cnuso in the
numerous places they have visited, we judge that
thoir labors have been remarkably successful.
The people undoi tho iufluenco of discussion nnd
investigation which their rndical principles have
never failed to oxoito, h:tve obtainod ma ro correct
nnd enlarged views of the principles nnd tenden
cies of the abolition movement. They have learn,
ed to understand more thoroughly the deceits nnd
subterfuges of Slavery, nnd under the influence
of npoeals to their consciences, enlightened by
facts which they had previously overlooked or mis
conceived, some have been fjund rendy to aban"
don a church and a government which gives sup
port nnd fellowship to the sum uf all villainies
Others (moro numerous) have been brought on.
ward in an iiiiti slavery direction, though not yet
ready to abandon old institutions which yet to
some extent they aeo to be complicated with this
wickedness. During the past year, more than al
most evor before, rur ngents have found the
churches, guided by the ministry, to lie the bul
warks of Slavery. The ministers, churches, officers
and prominent members in the four most promt
neat denominations Presbyterians, Methodists
Baptists and Disciploi hnvo voluuteorod ns the
opponents, nnd in many casos tho almost exclusive
ones of our agents in towns and villages they have
visited. The dem.igoguisai of the Slavory loving
democracy nnd old fogy whiggory has. stood back
tn modest silence, while zealous church members
and sanctimonious divines have plead fur political
union iu plaveholding nnd the glorious privilege of
church fellowship nnd communion with kidnnp
pers nnd pirntes. They have well nigh monopo
lized the defence of Slavery nnd opposition to the
advocates uf freedom. On the ulher hand tho work
of exposing nnd denouncing those churches which
have wickedly become the defenders ol idnvehold.
ci's nnd whoso members nro nmong their most
zealous confederates, has devolved far more exclu.
sively than we desire,upon the Disunion Abolition
ists. Almost nil other cdossos uf Anti-Slavory men
cither sock fellowship with those who fellowship
slaveholders, or so partially expose nnd rebuke
thoit crime or exposing it in one direction, fellow,
ship it in another, so that their rebukes fail
cither to provoke the opposition or excite the repen
tance of the guilty.
Abolitionists will not shrink from their duty
in this particular, because their numbers are few
nnd thoir labor great, but they do most earnestly
invite, nnd will most cordially weleomo the co-op
eration of other Anti-Slavery friends, in this in
dispensible work uf exposing the church as it is
one of the chiefest bulwark of Slavery.
The American Anti Slavery Society ha during
the past year commenced the publication and gra
tuitous circulation of anti-slavery tracts. In the
early days of anti-slavery, this method of agita-,
tion wbb vigorously Adopted, with incalculably
good results, and the Committee bail with joy a
recurrence to it, after its long comparative disuse.
The Executive Committee have added one to the
exccllont publication of the Parent Society ; and
a Depository has been established at Salem, for
the supply of the West. If the abolitionists with
zeal, will enter upon the wurk of their distribution,
supplying in their own localities all who may read
them, great progress may speedily be made in
enlightening and converting the community to
more radical principles of freedom. We are en
couraged to find among some of the abolitionists
of the West a suitablo appreciation of this work.
One lady, about to travel to Wisconsin, sends for
large supply, expressing a desire, if possible, "to
leave one in every door-yard she should pass on her
route. A Justice of the Pence writes, that "for
the last time he ha sworn to a lie," (alluding to
his oath to support a pro-slu very Constitution,) and
wishing to make some amends fur his past support
of slavery, ho sends money to prepay the postage
on tuelce pounds of tracts, for circulation among
those who bad elected hiin to office. Lot others
imitate those and similar examples, nnd let aboli
tionists burden the mail to circulate their tracts by
the pound. It w ill be more profiublo to tha " De
partment," and far wore advantageous to the
moral and freedom of the country, than to load
them wilh the frauked, pro-slavery electioneering
matter w ith which demagogues and office-seekers
crowd them. " The Committee look with great hope
to the extended usefulness of thl department
during the ooming yoar, and earnestly entreat the
vigorous co operation of all abolitionists
One method of slavery extension our Southern
master have, during tb past year, manifested
especial teal in carrying forward.' Thy have de-
a
torniincd t.. maintain their right to hold their slaves I
transit through the frei State. During the
last toason, hen fur month the Ohio River .'as
not navlgahlo, very many slaves, aa w . bare
reason to believe, were carried through Ohio on j
our railroad. The oloeing proceedings of our
last Anniversary Tory fittingly gave freedom to
one of these, a child of tender years, who was.
boing transported as a slave across our territory,!
from North Carolina to Tennessee. Thi emanci
pated child is now rejoicing in her freedom, and
enjoying the benefit of our pnblio schools. An
other youth was also roleased in Ouernsey county,
soon after, on a writ of Habeas Corpus, and two
other efforts were made in other cases, without
the same satisfactory result. The most remark
able case, howover, in our own State, was that of
Rosetta Armistod, claimed as the slave of Rev.
llonry M. Dennison, Pii"tor of a Protestant F.pis
copal Church in Louisville, Ky., and son in law
of Kx-Prosidont Tyler. Soon after tho girl' arri
val in Columbus, Judge Jamison, of tho Probate
Court of Franklin county, on a hearing nf a writ
of Iiabeas Corpus, pronounced fror free ; and, as
sho was a minor, oppointod L. 0. Van Slyko, Esq.,
of that oity, her guardian. The Ilov. Pastor left
his Kentucky flock, and proceeded to Columbus, to
docoy his property back to slavery. The girl pre
fering liberty, the Kov. kidnapper procured a
warrant from slave Commissioner Pendery, of
Cincinnati, and sent two of Ins kidnapping accom
plices to Columbus, who by fraud and falsehood
succeoded in seizing the girl nnd male all haste to
drag her on board the cars, nnd proceed to
Cincinnati. Fortunately, dospite especial plots to
the contrary, Roscttu's faithful guardian gut on
board tho soma train, nnd proviuus to her hearing
before the Commissioner, be obtained a writ of
Habeas Corpus. The two trials proceeded, the
one with a viow to establish her freedom, and the
other to consign her to slavery. Senator Chase
and Judge Walker distinguished themselves as the
advocates of Rosotta, and of tho rightful suprem
acy uf the Constitution of Ohio over the slave
laws of Kentucky; nnd Judgo Parker, who issued
tho writ, docided, quite, in conflict with the recent
decision of Chief Justico Lewis, of Pennsylvania,
that
" Upon writ of Habeas Corpus issued by Courts
of n State, the Court might nnd would look into
the legality of the detontion of persons held under
process of a United States Court, and if such de
tention was found to bo illegal, would grant a dis
charge therefrom."
Judgo Parker did look into that decision, found
the detcntiun under Commissioner Pendery's war
rant illegal, and confirming the decision of Judgo
Jamison, -pronounced the girl free.
In contempt of this decision, U. S. Marshal
Robinson seized upon tho girl by virtue of his old
illegal warrant, nnd brought hor beforo the Com
missioner, who contented himself with asrerting
his Commissioner's Court ns superior to all the
Courts of Ohio, and then gravely but singularly
dociding that Rosetta was free, not even accepting
his Jice d dlnr fee,
Judgo Parker thon imprisonod the Marshal for
contempt of his decision, in seizing a frco person
under protection of tho Court without legal process.
Judiie McLean, of tho U. S. Court, issued a writ
of Iiabeas Corpus, nud thereon released tho Mar
shal from confinement, asserting the paramount
authority of the Fugitive Slavo Lnv to the Cou
stitution of Ohio, nnd of the U. S. Marshal nnd
Commissioner Pendery to the whole judiciary uf
the Commonwealth. And thus the matter stands,
an open question with nn excellent bnsis for
future serious differences between the Federal and
State authorities. One characteristic feature dis
tinguishes this from tho case of Passmore Wil
liamson, now pending in Philadelphia. Judge
McLean, the slaveholder's ngent for the interpre
tation and execution of the slaveholder's Constitu
tion, was most prompt ana uccnieif in rescuing
Marshal Robinson from tho consequences uf his
zeal iu serving slavory, and in bumbling Stato au
thority under slnveholding usurpation, while Chief
Justice Lewis utterly rofusos to oven inquire into
tho propnetyof the imprisonment of P.issmuro Wil
liamson.tbo friend uf freedom, or into tho indignity
which theCominon wealth bus suScrod in the outrage
upon liberty in the person of one of hor citizens
And the whole Supreme Bench aro taking whole
days to deliberate, not whether they shall re
dross Mr. W illiamson's wrongs, nnd protect thu
State from a gross and bofore unheard uf usurpa
tion, and shww themselves able and willing to pro.
tout the personal liberty of thoir fellow citizens
for which they especially bold their office ; but
their grave inquiry of days' and weeks' delibera
tion is whetl.er they shall oven issue a writ to 111
quire into the legality of Judge Kane's high-hand
od outrage against justice, when even hi weak
and ridiculous pretenco therefor has boon swept
away, as is manifest to ull the world, friends and
foes of freodom.
And this is the last, nnd a very fair illustration
the value of our boasted Union "for the more! per
feet establishment of Justice, and the security
liberty to'oui selves and our posterity." The senior
Judge of the Federal Court pronounces a slave-
catching Commissioner' warrnnt in authority
above the whole judiciary of the State while
Judge Kane, knowintr no law of Pennsylvania
which deprives slaveholders uf their peculiar
property when they come into her territory, !m
prisons a man without inquiry or form of trial
without bail or .mainprise merely for the offence
of Informing a widow and her urphnn children
thnt on Pennsylvania's boastedly free soil they are
free from the control cf their master. When such
is the protection which tho Union affords to the
personal liberty of Northern free citizens, we msy
be justified in demanding to be released from its
support. But when wo add to this tha inconceivably
greater a-rongs it daily inflicts upon it three
and a half million of slaves tit the South, whom
it unites all Its member to crush, how earnest and
indignant should be our outcry against all such
guilty union with slaveholders.
The people of this nation should be aware thnt
there is a systematic and general' effort now in
progress to establish slavery by judicial decision
nnd form of lsjv, not in Kansas, that work, not
without reason, they consider already done,- but
in the nominally free Stntes, in spite of their con
stitutions, their legislative provisions, and thoir
long-standing judicial decisions. Our State citadels
are already stormed by the slavery extension ista,
and Republican and all other political men are
behind the urgent needs of the case, and fatally
neglectful of most prossing danger, when their
narrow platform only contemplate resistance
the slave propagandist in Kansas. Miserable,
mistaken defenders of liberty are they, however
honest their motives, who when slavery sots up its
authority in our State invade our very bouso,
buld and Imprison their Inmates, instead of re
peating the cry of defiant invasion make every
stump and newspaper under their control the ve
hicle of announcing their meek intention,; net
disturb the constitutional right of tiaAeholding
,h ft a'f-s
In tho political w orld, the Us year e
in peolally remarkablo for the breaking op of old pro-
slavery association arm ine urf-iniiu m -1
with partially anti-slavery principle ana purposes.
The intolerable outrage of slave holder .through
the general government, upon th property, liber
ty and right of the people of the north, have at
lrngth aroused them to some show of resistance
The nowly orgnnizei Republican party ? arraying
itself as it does against Slavery extension, jt an
important event, ns a mnjorily of Its member aM
from the old parties, which have scrupled at no
service however infamous in behalf of Slavery.-
But the all prevalent pro-slavery power is manifest
most lamentably, in the sacrifice which the more
anti-slavery of the party w ith other are compelled
tomnketothe reigning nationnl Divinity.,, The
are compelled as member of that, party to sink
their abolitionism, to forget th fugitive slave law
and all the other nationnl outrage of slavery, to
ignorc'the slavo' cause to take side with the
slaveholder in all of the organized State of tbtf
Union by conceding their constitutional right to
their slaves, at the same time avowing their deter
mination to sustain the Constitution and Union,
thus solemnly compromising away the snored
rights of justice and the liberty of the slave. -
While therefore we look upon (he combination of
a large number of people, hitherto pro-slavery for
the restriction of the system, as hopeful and en
couraging, our expectation are small of the ulti.
mate good which the party can accomplish while
thus yielding strength and power to the enemy. ,
In theso mischievous concessions' to the sfa6
power by its declared enemies, we see . new
evidence of the utter im practicability of
taking, and tho absurdity of attempting any thor
ough and consistent anti-Slavery political action
under anttionnl Constitution a pro-slavery a
the Republican party admitB ours to be. And the
Western Anti-Slavory Society, hns in this devel
opment, new occasion for remonstrance against
this concession to uur national iniquity, and new
occasion to call upon all who would not be psrta-
kors of the iniquity, to come out from among thoso
who trade iu "slaves and the souls of men" and to
cry aloud and spare not, against the incongruoua
and absurd union, of despots and Republicans for
the "establishment of liberty."
To seek withsirigliriCFF of vtfdSc,r,hd I n )io
misiny fidelity, with the ceaseless vigilance of love
nnd the uncompromising sternness of justice, the
emancipation of.evory American slave-such is the
work of the Western Anti-Slnvety Socii ty ; to it
they are called to address themselves with new
vigor and self deninl for the coming year.
MARIUS R. ROBINSON
Corresponding Secretary,
RESOLUTIONS,
The following are the resolutions adopted at the
iiuuh1 Meeting of Sho Western Anti-Slavery So.
cioty.
No. 2.
Resolved, That in assonibline attain to consider
our relation with 1 he oppressed, nnd tuur rosponsi-
bililies arising thorsfrom, we desire to place our
selves as nearly 11 may be iu the slave's stoad ; to
see wiiii ins vision and to fuel with Ins instinot
thnt wo may bo enabled to perceive clearly, and
to expose faithfully nil those various nnd insidious
influences with which a hateful nnd oppressive
oligarchy has surrounded our people, com
pelling lliciu oither knowingly or unwittingly to
subserve its tyrannical purpose.
icesoicea, lliat the Anti Slavery movement com
prises more than opposition to the Nebraska bill.
the repeal vt the ugitivo Slave law. the . restora
tion ol the Missouri Compromise, the refusal ta
idnut now slave Suites into the Union, or the
abolition of Silvery in the District of Columbia;
it contemplates the annihilation of the principle
of chattlui.-m, the rcuioddleinn of that oublic sun.
timont which now acts itself out indifferently
through pro-slavery laws, or without such laws.
and which can only be effectually ruauhod by an-
appeal to 1110 moral principle in man's character.
No. 3.
Whereas, the system of American Slavery is sv
system of remorseless cruelty, unmitigated inius-
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iicb m me m.tvc, uenasiiij; aim aemoraiizilig 10 tne
master, curruiitine and dishonorable to tho nation.
nud unblushing-defiant of ull the laws uf the Gov
ernor ol the L inverse, therefore
Uesolocd, 1 hat mime li ito repentance nnd un
conditional emancipation is the duty of the master,
of the nation, of the church, nnd of all associa
tions and individuals who in auy way contribute to
fasten his bonds.
No. 4.
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Whereas, Our national confederacy was origi
nally funned by a concession to slaveholders uf
their monstrous claim to hold and treat human
beings as chattels, therefore,
lttsolccd. That it was wickod and iufamou in
its original organization
And Whereas, mure thnn sixty years of experi
ence in this Union has proved its wurthlessness to
protect the persona! liberties uf those already free
and only adapted to perpetuate and extend Slavery, -therefore,
Resolved, That it is the right, and the duty
of each and every non-s)uvvholding State to se
cede from the present Union, and form a confeder
acy on the principle of "No Union with Slave
holders." Resolved, Thit each man who forms or enter
into an alliance with slaveholders, on the principle;
that the majority shall rule, and the minority
submit to, and help executo the will of the majority
and that the same rights, privileges and protec
tion be exteuded to slaveholders that are extended
to non-slaveholders, must be by virtue of hi posi
tion in such a Union, an enemy to justice aud lib
erty and must be held responsible fur the conse
quences, should the government be directed to
the support of ilavoholding, slave-catching and
slave-trading.
Resolved, That as our only hope of abolishing
Slavery, aud of securing the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity, is in the dissolution
of the preseut Union and the formation of a con
federacy based on the principles of impartial lib
erty, therefore we will do what we can to get the
States in which we live, to take initiatory step for
the formation of such a government. ,
No. 5.
Resolved, That in behalf of outraged liberty and
in tho .protection of our own natural and civil
rights deeply imperilled by the atrocious conduct
of Judge Kane of the U. 8. Court, wi pssund of
tho House of Representatives, his impeachment
for his unparalleled tyrauny in the Imprisonment
of Passmore Williamson.
No. 6.
Resolved, That the only rafe and consistsnt
position for our northorn oiiurohea is one of entire
and unqualified disfollowship of Slaveholder both
in politics und religion and of uncompromising
opposition to the Federal Government, an admitted
bulwark of Slavery a Government which in the
name of Justice and Liberty, and under (be form
of law sunutium and perpetuates upon three mil
lions of our countrymen every conceivable crime, '
No. 7.
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Whereas, the issue tondereJ by th Republican
party, of "No Slavery outside the slave State"
oonneoted with it repeated declarations in it
platforms and by its leaders that Slavery hat a right
ful political existence in the States, is nnabandon
ment of moral power and principle iu effort for it
removal, and the repetition of a vain ana oft tried
otfort to make peace and efloct a compromise, be
tween irre.-onuiluble antagonisms Therefore -'
Resolved, That wo cannot consent to waste our
euergiea or compromise our principles' by voting
with that party however estimable may le it
candidates and however desiratde 11 union rf all
opponents of Mnverv sjtcpiiea,