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


time and keep the people there until night,
In order To keep the resolutions from coming
before the meeting. Here the same offer OF
half the time was made to Mr.. Prescott, but
this he would not accept. | thought it very
ungencrous in him 10 ask more than this, but
as ours was a free meeting, / suppose he
thought he would make himself very free.
He says this was a picked company; this is
true us far as regards his movements in get
ting people who were here from different
parts of the State to come and vote down
the reception of the resolutions, and no far
Their. But in this dishonest scheme he
was foiled, for notwithstanding this foul
play, the citizens of Salem voted their re-
ception and would have voted their adoption
if they could have had a chance. He is al
SO wrongin imputing to Mr.. Murray a motion
to pass the resolutions without debate; he made
a motion to take them up separately and after
considering them severally to idopt them;
but the meeting cried out tive have heard
them, and understand them, and want them
adopted without debate anticipating in the
meantime Mr.. Trescott's plan of obtaining
the floor and keeping it until the meeting
was Obliged to adjourn. As to his being on
the committee, | think no one was sorry
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what ground he occupied in this movement,
and | trust | now do, and it is a peculiar one
too. Ii is this; | nave it from his own lips.
He says, 81 believe the Garrison doctrine to
be the right doctrine, but | have not religion
enough to adopt it," | leave the commune
ty to make their own upon this
position; it is one | think no one will envy.
He was asked in the committee room to write
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sent to the rest of the committee; this he re-
fused to do at first and suggested that Mr..
Amber should draw up something. Mr..
Amber then asked all the rest of the com
mlttee to present something but they all laid
1t upon him, -he presented some which Were
altered and amended until they suited the
minds Of all but our friend Prescott. We
tried to have him tell us wherein he wanted
the resolutions altered, but he could not, but
said he would write out a minority report. As
to the character Of the resolutions they were
not insulting to any one, nor were they cal
culated to abridge the freedom of the press,
or the liberty Of speech; on the contrary they
were exactly the opposite. One resolution
was especially framed to vindicatc the free
dom of speech. which had been violently
tfampled upon during the progress of these
meetings. Our friend has strange IDEAS of
the liberty Of speech. He seems to think
it is to be confined entirely to himself and
his associates; this idea showed itself very
prominently through all the proceedings Of
the meetings here.
| hope our friend Isaac will not undertake
to give any more accounts Of meetings I'M
less he can give a fiirer representation ,han
he has Of the citizens meeting held here.
ii. w. MURRAY.
The citizens Of Salem who ase rot biased
by their sectarian feelings, understind the
character of the meetings alluded 10 in the
foregoing communication, and il seeIaE scarce
ly necessary for US 10 say 10 our readers
abroad, that the charge that freedom Of
speech was trampied upon by the abolition
lists, is without foundation. 1t is true that
5. $. Foster did refuse to debate with the
Rev. Mobocrat, for his conduct here was
grossly insulting, and he had but recently
led on a mob in Paris, and the speaker co.,
sidered that the moral character OF such a
man did not entitle him to the notice which
he claimed as a disputant upon the a%nti-sla.
very platform-- Ems.