Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-09-05

After we had moved our stand, and the
Rev. Gentlemen had learned that while our
platform was free to all, the proprietor of the
ground on which it stood was determined
that all who spoke should be decent and or
dorly, Mr.. Amber proclaimed that they were
gagged, and he and his friends commenced
erecting a stand at a little distance from ours,
and called a meeting one hour previous to
that appointed for our afternoon session.
There were some who went there out of Curl
osity, among whom was our friend Isaac
Prescott of this place. By some fatal over
sight he was appointed on a committee to
draft resolutions which had of course already
been drafted by the Reverend Moborcrat.-
When presented to the committee, Trescott
| opposed them; they were however reported
to the meeting, where he also opposed them.
Considerable management was resorted to in
order to stave off a discussion of their merits,
but Amber was completely outgeneraled,
and the meeting finally adjourned in confu-
sion without adopting them. We have not
been able to obtain a copy of these resolves,
and do not expect to, but have been informed
they condemned the Garrisonian Disunion-
lists; asserted that they came to spread inf
deity; that they had insulted every woman
at their meetings in this place, by using the
most disgusting and obscene language; that
they had perambulated the state, and were
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lem; all of which measures the citizens of
Salem highly disapprove. We were not
present at the scene, but from what we have
heard we should Judge it was exceedingly
rich. Ambler's pro-slavery hobby, we sus-
pect, carried him rather further than he in
tended, until in fact, the hero of the Paris
mob was in about as bad a predicament as
was the renowned hero of Cowper's celebrat-
song, for
"Away went Amber neck or nought;
Away went hat and wig;
He little dreamt, when he set out,
or running such a rig"
On Monday and Tuesday when the meet
ing was held in a public street, there was
considerable confusion, which is to be attrib-
uted to our clerical ~visiters, the audience
though large, generally behaving well. One
Of these s~o-called ambassadors of Christ, so
far forgot his dignity as to give utterancc to
a clerical BAH! that being his chosen mo lc
of defence at that time. Our mee;inrs on
Wednesday and Thursday were more order
ly, as the disorganizers had drawn off their
forces, or else felt that Salem rebuked them.
The principal speakers of the side of freedom
were S. s. Foster, Benz. S. Jones, and J.
Elizabeth Hitchcock; the subjects discussed.
were the pro-slavery sects, the servility Of
the North, Liberty party, and the Constitu-
ton. Abby Kelly was too unwell to take
much pant in the meetings, or indeed even to
attend more than one or two sessions, and
Giles Stebbens was recalled home by the
intelligence of his fathers illness and death.
That many of those who attended our meet
ings, were deeply interested there is no man.
ner of doubt, and that the priests acted as
though they felt we had come to torment them
before their time, is equally certain. Those
who expect that devils will be cast out Of
men without the unclean spirits resisting, ev-
en- to the very uttermost, are sadly mistaken
as their experience will demonstrate if they
are faithful in rebuke. No reform ever ha.
been, no reform ever can be accomplished
without agitation and excitement, and the
deeper seated is the evil, and the more wide
ly spread its influence, the mightier must BIZ
the force that tears it from its hold. 1t would
: be worse than vain to expect to destroy slav
cry by any other than the most uncompromis.
ing measures, and he who hopes so to do
will be disappointed and find his labor vast