Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-03
West Middletown, Pa, !
June Sd, 1916. !
MEETING AT YOUNGSTOWN.
C.. NJ.

MEETING AT YOUNGSTOWN.
My DEAR FRIENDS The campaigns now
fairly begun. We have just held a two days
meeting in this place that cannot be in vain.
Larger audiences | have often seen-but more
solemn and attentive ones, never. Our OK
cellent friends, Samuel Brooke, Henry II.
Hatch and myself performed most Of the la
Dor.
All the first day and evening, to a late
hour, were devoted to the Mexican war
The guilt of this nation was fully exposed
and though we strongly urged the friends Of
the war to meet US in discussion, no one APP
| peared. No wonder. 1t is one of those
strange and monstrous barbarislns that cam
not be defended. We did not ask them to
prove their title to the banks of the Rio
tirande; we did not ask them to prove that
Mexico was the aggressor; We did not ask
them to show that Texas was honorably free
of Mexico, and had a full right to negotiate
for admission into this Union. All this, and
much more, for the sake of argument, we con-
coded. We only asked them to admit what
John C. Calhoun and Mr.. Secretary Upshur
both declared when in the Office of Secretary
of State, that 1'eras acas required for the er-
tension end con'inuaace9f Slavery. This was
not denied. Was ever anything more afro
cious then, than that this unwieldy nation
should seek additional territory for a pur-
pose like this? The generation is yet to
be born that will see the country, as il was
before, peopled to any suitable extent. We
talk about the rapacious g%raspins Of more
territory by Great Britain. This day, the
State of Virginia is larger than all England
Ohio has thousands of square miles more
than Scotland-and our Missouri is twice as
long as the Danube, that sweeps through al
most all Of Europe. The Ohio is six hun
bred miles longer than the Rhine, that stretch
es from the Alps to Amsterdam. The meek
little Hudson has a hundred miles more navi-
CATION than the Thames, the Grand Depot of
British commerce; and it is farther from
Mexico to Madauwiska, than from London to
Lower Canada. Our country pillows its
head on the SHOWS of the north, and reposes
its feet on the perpetual flowers of the ever
sunny south. Its left hand grasps the rising,
and its right the setting sun and yet we are
snatching lore territory, at the very lannon's
mouth, on which to plant the internal Upas
orchards of slavery. Towns must be sacked,
men murdered, women ravished, orphans
multiplied nature must weep, heaven mourn
and hell rejoice, that the horrors of slavery
may become more universal and more e.er-
nal. All this was shown at the meetings in
this place. 1t was a solemn scene, and one
not to be forgotten.
The character of the leaders OF this nation
both in Church and State-will descend
to p~osterity with infamy as black as the mid
night gloom Of perdition. Its religion is as
a~trocious as its politics. The proAigacy and
violence of the State, finds parallel nowhere
but in the shameless hypocrisy of the Church.
On Sunday it throngs its forty thousand tenn
pies, and with solemn circumstance, p~retends
TO worship its God and Saviour; on Monday,
it seizes that same God, in the person of his
children, and swaps him for dogs and swine,
On sells him at public auction to the highest
bidder. And this impious blasphemy against
the Holy Ghost, it dares to baptize by the
name Of Christianity.
We told the people of Youngstown all
about this. AMI SOME Of them believed. A
part of the ministers heard ii, and were chal-
lcngcd to deny. But they had the wisdom
to be silent. | venture TO predict that some
who have paid them in time past, will do so
no more.
Let the "Bugle" blasts be loud and clear.
1t is a gallant little sheet, this of yours. 1t
has the best wishes Of every lover of Truth
and Humanity. l like its name. 1t is a
trumpet of no uncertain sound. Perhaps ]
may wish to blow it again.
Yours for the conflict
PARKER PILLSBURY,
".4rmy IF OccuPation," Youngstown,
June 26ih, 1916.