Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-30
From the L0nd0n Patriot.
The An.i-Slavery League and the
Evangelical Alliance.

In England, it is vain to attempt in a pub
lie movement, TO evade the influence of pub
lie opinion. The Evangelical Alliance was,
by unwise counsellors, betrayed into making
SO prcposterous an attempt. 1t has failed
Already, on one point, at least, it has been
arralgned at the bar Of the public, tried judg-
ed and condemned. We refer to the manner
in which the subject Of slavery was trifled
with in the recent Conference, and TO the
meeting called by The Anti-Slavery League
in EYeter-hall, to review the proceedings of
the Conference in relation to that question.
The verdict Of Exeter-hall has gone against
the Alliance. The meeting was publicly
called f; admission was not by shilling tick
cts. but perfectly free the parties, whose
conduct was about to be reviewed, were spe-
cially invited to attend the Rev. John Bur-
net, whose name is a security for caudor and
impartiality, was in the chair; the Hall was
crowded in every part; every one who claim
ed a hearing was heard and yet when the
following resolution was put to the six thou
sand persons present, it was adopted, with
only two dissentients
Finally, Resoice3, That the conduct of the
Evangelical Alliance, recently held in this
city, first, in adopting a proposition, declar-
ing that men might be Shareholders without
any fault Of their own, and from DISTINGUISHED
motives; and then, to crafty the pro-slavery
spirit of the American delegates, erasing on
their proceedings all reference to the subject
Of slavery, in order to prevent an explosion
was at variance with the uncompromisin.
spirit Of Christian truth; and a virtual ap
prevail Of the acts Of those, who. while the
profess to be followers of the great Redeemer
make merchandise of slaves and the souls o
men,
MO oro not curnrisoI nt ,bis raen1t 7, a.
no more, but rather less than we expected
and we are persuaded that it is a decision
which will be confirmed by any town in tn
three Kingdoms to which the A~nti-Slavcr,
League may think it advisable to appeal.
is exceedingly painful to find such Language
used in characterlzing the proceedings t
which some Of our friends have been parties,
and the more painful, inasinuch as we arc
constrained to admit that the condemnation
is but just. One of the members of the Ali
ance Conference, present at EXeter-hall, haC
the courage to offer a lew words for that DO
dy, intended as a defense, explanation, O
t apology, but terminating in a plea Of guilty
Mr.. Preston said, When the Report came
. up on Saturday night, which entirely eXclud,
{ ed shareholders from the Alliance, we though
the question was settled. But there was af
, forwards a general dissatisfaction The A
. mericans We're dissatisfied, because the reso
e luton condemned slavery and slaveholding
t and the British, because it condemned then
so slightly. (Cheers.) was astonished a
the subsequent results; but so the Americans
would have it. CA voice. Why did you lie
e them have it?) am sorry to say the Ali
ance were overpowered. When the q%uestio
e was mooted as TO whether the resolu ton G
- Saturday could be rescinded, the Chairman
c (Sir Culling Eardley smith, replied that
a could, but if the Alliance did it, they woul
p sluItily themselves. | inquired of one Of tn
', principal members of the Alliance-not bein
lie myself a learned man-what was meant b
- stultifying ourselvesl | understood it
n mean, making fools of ourselves. (Laught
of and cheers.) | assure you the greater pa
- of the assembly were stuItified for the
ut knew not what they were nor where they weg
We (Laughtor.)
at Some things said by Mr.. Garrison we
)" deemed excessively severe; and certainly
" ~justifes the character given him by his
Sc deUant coadiutor in the cause OF The slave, Il
a. Rev. DR.. Samuel Cox; but neither Mr.. Ga
Oi rison nor Mr.. George Thompson appears
10 have uttered anything more severe than tt
cs candid testimony of this frank eye-witnes
is And the worst OF it is, that every one, or nea
Of ly every one, will say that Sir Culling Ear
va ICY M 40 pNllNN''t li-H' N
II. it, said the honorable Baronet; 'but il W
at do it, you will s%lultify yourselves The
c. did do it.; and, to use the translation of pla
y, Mr.. Preston's learned friend, they did NAL
fools of themselves.
er 1t must not be supposed, however, that
or present are responsible for this deplorable :
W suit. As Mr.. Garrison intimated, there we
rs three Americans, and as many lflshmen, wi
"a dissented from the whole of the proceedin
dc in reference to slavery and, although
e. would appear that all the Englishmen we
&C. betrayed into a temporary acqulescence IN
la compromise adopted on Saturday, yet \
sh have authority to state, that when SIT u
ly ling Eardley Smith announced from the CHI
ny that the resolution to rescind the whole
m the proceedings taken on the subject }
he been carried unanimously, the Rev. Or. y
gs of Hackney, rose and minated, that the k'
~ Thomas Kinney and himself were d~lssentle
o. The .rsSdhr was, that the vutc VAS cnleI