Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-09
BLANCHl RD'S MEETINGS.

We hardly know how much or how little
TO say about the three meetings which Joni-
than Blanchard held in this place. The
Methodist Meeting house was opened to him,
and this fact probably called out many whose
faces are set against all moral truths which
do not come through the pulpit, or through
some other part Of the church machinery. He
was Of course cordially received by The cler-
Fy Of the town, one of whom even went so
far az publicly to declare in DIanchdrd's Sc
cond meeting. that he iook shame unto himse T
Jor his remisSness in duty tOward The sLqpe.-
We have long been telling the clergy that
they 0u.hi to he ashamed # themselves for
their lukewarmncss and indifference in this
holy cause, and the Rev. Jacob Coon now
publicly declares in effect, that we wee right
in this, and that he is ashamed of himself Tor
his rrlnissnpss. Lest this remark should lead
some 10 expect that he will now be more zeal
Gus and faithful, we will state that the srnti-
ment was merely uttered in prayer, and every
one knows-or should kuow-that at such
times admissions are made which mean moth
ing, and assertions which are designed to
have no weight.
In the first meeting which Blanchard held.
he dwelt upon fundamental principles, and
gave a good, lain lecture. His second adj
dress-or sermon, rather-was given on Sun
day evening, and in it he confined himself
mainly to slavery considered as Bible ques-
ton. OF these meetings we have but little
to say, but design to offer some
upon the highly objectionable course pursued
on the last evening. He uttered a Treat truth
In the commencement of his di>course-
which he had announced would he nm the du-
ty Of christian citizens la relation to govern
ment-i"r he said he ex ected to make bunu-
ling work of it, and he did, for d weaker ar
gumenl In favor of the Constitution We new, r
l'stened TO from one who was anything of IA
public speaker. The weakness of his arnu-
me"i' aid not however, prevent, him denounc-
ing Disunion as y Uumbug. or declaring that
those oi us advocates who said they paid tax
to the government as they would yield their
property to a highwayman, did not themselves
feel 1t TO be so. The audience probably did
not know what he and we were perfectly
aware Of; that we had talked with him upon
this point IA day or two before. and had assur-
ed him that we so regarded the payment of
'aHes' and to be thus accused of-cdll it lying
or what you chlose-was not what we look
ed for from that quarter.
In the commencement Of his lecture he
made professions Of great liberalily, said he
Judged men by their actions aud not by their
belief, and soon after in his comments upon
the tiIhers Of '76, denounced those who de-
clared they were hypocrites. and referred to
the sentiments of George Washington, Pa
trick Henry, Thosnas jefferson, &c., to show
now exceedingly anti-Slavrry they were.-
Apply Jonathan Blanchard's rule of iudr-
mtni, and what WAS The ir chdracterl WASH
ingion held on 10 his slaves as Iong as he
could held on 10 anything; he sent an agent
to New Hampshire to recaptu. one of his
fugitive bond wome and when Edward
Price, a mild and gpnllemanly Quaker mcr-
chant Of Liverpool, wrote him a letter soon
after the close of the revolutionary war, tell.
ing him tina, now having gained his own fec
d m, II would well become him to give liberty
to his slaves he inSuIrirgly enclosed the let
ter in a blank envelope and returned i, TO its
author. Patrick Henry lived and died a slave
holder, as did also jefferson, who, il is said.
left his own p~osieriry in bondage. Charles
Carol, OF Cdrrolton, was the pnssessor Of
one thousand slaves hen his life passed from
him, and his death brought no Jubilee to any
one Of them. We might enumerare other Of
the slaveholdlng fathers were it Necessary,
but we have named enough to show that the
acts Of some of those who boosted SO loudly
Of their love OF liberty, were those of the ty-
rant and ensl .ver. In the contamination of
these llluslrlous Ten, the speaker forgot his
rule of judgment, his reverence became ex.
cited, and he exclaimed, Z" Iwould rather take
my chance with Washington, in rhi. world
and IN the world 10 come, Than with those
who call him a hypCcriie." This is a queer
WY Of Judging men by their ac,Ions. A sin-
cere, honest abolitionist, whose daily lie il
a testimony against slavery, believes WASH
ington was a hypocrite, and Jonathan Blan.
chard would rather take his chance a, the
judgment seat of God with that STAKEHOLDER.
than with this abolitionist. 1t seems then
there is a sin, even greater than tina, uf slave
holding' and tina. IS, s~s,eemiug Washington
a byPGsnts. /!