Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-25

Bapust churcn was IN a very unsettled state
that the communion had not been observed
for a long time, SOM of the anli.slavery
members declaring that they would not COM
mune with the others. NOTWITHSTANDING
that, Elder Foote, their minister, is an excel.
lent commander; yet some of the church
seem disposed to resist his authority, and
question his infallibility. On one occasion
he told his church it was enough for them to
look to him, and he would look TO Christ
He claims to be anti.slavery says be has
been so for forty years, and although he new
er breaches against slavery, we were told he
voted with Liberty party. Some tinre since
he called a meeting 10 order to give his
views on the subject, and his reasons for not
denouncing the system from the pulpit. In
the course of his remarks he said that when
he went into a place and took charge of a
church, he wanted its members to iook Ia
him, and mind him-that when he told them
to do any thing, they must do il, and when
he told them not TO do it, they must not do a..
He said that when Gen. Washington once
commanded an officer to perform some duty,
the officer asked his reason for such a COM
mand. "Can you keep a secret!"-asked
Washington. "Certainly," replied the Off
Ger. $50 can l." responded the General
''This," said Elder Foote, ''iIlustrates my
position, | lay my plans in secret. and | keep
them TO myself-H is enough Jor you 10 obey
MES
We occasionally see a copy of the Cleve-
land American, and found in a recent num-
Der a crippled explanation Of what the editor
meant when lie said he rejected Fosters
reasonable TO find fault wish US because we
believed his assertion, that he rejected the ar
ticle referred to because Of the abusive Lam
guage contained in the first paragraph-he
even thinks it was mean (though he does not
quite say SOY in us not 10 know and to state
that it was not the first, but some other para
graph 10 which he referred. We will take
good care not to believe the assertions of l..
l.. Rice in future, for it seems (by his own
declaralion) if we do we shall believe false
hoods, and furthermore shall be censurcd by
him for so doing. As to his refusal to pub
fish S. S. Fosters communication being a
God-send, we advise him not 10 fatter his
| vanity too much, lest he should meet with
the fate Of The frog who strove to swell him
self to the dimensions of the OK. 1t is an in
cidcut, useful by way OF illustration merely
"a straw to indicate the quarter whence the
wind blows. Strange that he who casts the
straw should cxult as though he had created
the wind that blows it 10 and fro.-EDRs.
Since we wrote you last we have had som
great meetings, and others of a less interest,"
ing character. Our appointment at Union
vile was 4 failure. We were told that there
were many in the place who would like to
attend an anti-slavery meeting, hut who were
unwilling to take upon themselves the res
possibility Of getting one up. The spirit of
slavery seems 10 be in the ascendenl, aud
hold in fear those who claim to be the friends
Of the oppressed. 1t was at Unionyiile our
friends Foster were held in durance for sell
ling anti-slay.ry books on the Sabbath. ia
son ODDS, a Congregational minister who
lives a short distance from the village. and
hiI wife, were the first persons who visited
them after their arrest. We spent a dav
with them at their pleasant home, and found
them to he true friends Of freedom and low
ers of christianity. They spoke with aGec-
Tomato remembrance of the Fosters, aud APP
peaTed much interested in their welfare.
Al Knoxville, the place Of our next appoint
ment, the friends did the best they could for
us, but were unable to furnish any room but
a small house used by the Wesleyan Metho-
dists, and which some pant Of the time was
densely crowded. There is a comfortable
Methodist meeting house in the village, but
sectarianism refused to open it, and fearing
we should get in by some other means than
through the door, it nailad down the wir-
dows, and for aught we know, stopped up
the keyhole lest wilch-like We should ride
through it with a broom-stick for a charger.
Poor s~ectarian Methodism! it recently recei-
we'd a great shock in Montyille. On a GER
tain occasion one of the preachers of that de-
nomination attempted to establish an anti-sla-
very character for the NJ. L. Church North,
and asserted it had no connection with slave
ry although at the very time he was speak
ing there were four slaveholding conferences
attached to the church, in which were slave
holding class-Ieaders & slaveholding preach
ers. One Of the members of the AIontville
church, not having the fear Of the clergy be-
fore his eyes, nor being a believer in their in
ialliblllty presumed to say, not in the NEE
ting house, for that would have been sacri-
lege, but after adjournment, that what the