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

OUR MEETING AT SALEM.
We were disappointed in not obtaining the
Friends Meeting house for our convention
during the time the Yearly meeting was not
in session. We had hoped they would cheer
fully grant it, as they profess to be an anti
slavery society, and very many of its men,
bers we know to be abolitionists. We there
fore proposed holding our meetings at the
hours, of 3 and : p. m. so as not to interfere
with their sittings, but they refused us the
house, so We were obliged to forego the ev-
ening meeting, and hold but one session a
day, or else meet in the forenoon; we chose
the latter. A stand was erected in one of
the public streets, and all necessary provision
made for the accommodation of a large audi
ence.
The first session was mainly occupied in
showing the inconsistency of Friends, and
their pro-slavery character as a society. 1t
was defended, not by any of its members, but
by the Rev. Mr.. Amber, a Methodist Epis-
copal minister, one of these hireling priests,
against whose craft the Quakers so strongly
and pointedly testify, and who himself well
earned at Paris, the title of Reverend Mobo-
crat. We wish the society joy at having
such an advocate, and hope that occurrences
like this, will at length open the eyes of those
who are now blind, so that they may see
what detestable fellowship their pro-slavery
has brought them into. Every Orthodox pull
pit in the land has Numbered its anathe-
mas against the Hicksite Friends, because
they do not believe in the vicarious atone
ment Of Christ, and refuse to recognise the
Bible as the primary rule of their faith and
practice; and therefore, says Orthodoxy, they
are infidels. And here came forward one of
these Orthodox priests to defend the Quakers,
tnhdeis as they are, in his estimation, because
the aRti-slayery of their society suited this
Reverend Mobocrat, and the pro-slavery
Methodist Episcopal church with which he
stands connected, better than Garrisonian alb
Slitionism- Not that be hates in6delity less
but abolitionism more. Not only did he
come forward to defend the society of Friends,
but to justify his own mobocractic conduct
at Paris, an account of which will be found
In the communication of onr friend Flint
He appeared to think that as we were exclu-
ded from the Methodist church and the Qua
ker meeting house, and forced to convene in
the open street, that we were fair game fol
every lewd fellow of the baser sort, and there
fore his Reverence was as pugnacious and
persevering as clerical impudence could be,
not only at the first meeting but at the sever
al subsequent ones; boldly laying down {
principle which put the life and property o
every Disunion abolitionist as much at the
mercy of mobocratic assassins, as does a
proclamation of outlawry the person Of a fu
gitive slave. The Reverend Mobocrat as
serted on the platform, that inlsmuch as W,
had disfranchisad ourselves, WE HAD N,
RIGHTS! We are glad that the people o
Salem have more respect for moral principle
and God-given rights, than this teacher of thu
people who proclaimed us Invested of on
rights, and leaving every ill-disposed fellow
TO infer that he might therefore do as he woul,
TO us; had it not been so, we know not Blu
our home would have been firel, and our live
destroyed ere this. His proclamation of out
.lawry against us, would do very well in Sout
Carolina, but is not suited to the latitude @
Salem, as he has doubtless discovered er
this. A Clergyman from Paris assisted hi
brother to take care of Gods kingdom by de
Tending the pro-slayery sects of the land
This Rev. Mr., Murry, by the way, is the pei
Sonification of clerical QuqtHe6umism, S
Outrageous and moboeratic was their conduct
that some of the citizons, at the conclusion G
the second day, determined to move tn
stand and seats to a place where they woul
not be subjected to the impudcnt conduct q
these men and their abettors. We were eN
cluded from the Quaker and Methodist NEE
ing houses, were mobbed by clericals, an
hooted at by church members. and therefore
iu order to avoid the insults of sO-cahsd chris
tians, who impiously claim to be the amba'
sailors of God, we resorted to the grounds
one whom the church calls iBldel, who ha
700 much self1Fespect to initiate this exampl
of clerical d~oc0noy. and too much christian
y TO be a moboorat.