Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-21
From lie Pennsylvania freeman.
Orr Animal Meeting.

abolitionists of Eastern Pennsylvania who
were unfortunately prevented from attending
our annual meeting, and, also, to friends
abroad, that the meeting was fraught with
deep interest, that it betokencd a healthy
state of feeling in our ranks, and promised
good to the cause. We wish that all our
fellow laborers in this field, those who are to
share with us the tolls of the ensuing year,
had been there to participate in its invlgor-
ating Influences. A more satisfactory meet
ing has, perhaps, never been held by this
Society. Its numbers were estimated to ex-
coed those Of the very large gathering OF last
year. Although this was not its most I'M
portant feature, it is valuable, as it disproved
the prediction, originated by the hopes of OPP
posers, and the fears of timid friends, that
the position taken by the Society at its last
meeting would greatly diminish our numbers,
and reduce to an unenviable minority, those
who adhered to its principles. Had the de-
v%elopements of the present year proved the
truth, instead of the falsehood, Of this pre-
d%iction, our confidence in the wisdom and
truth of the Society's position, would have
been, in no wise, diminished. But while
we firmly believe that, by adherence to a
righteous principle, one may chase a thou
sand, and two put ten thousand TO flight" we
think II a cause of greater JOY, when the ten
thousand are won 10 the truth, and join with
us in its propagation.
Not the least interesting feature Of our
meeting was the general harmony which pre-
vailed in its councils. The result Of the last
annual meeting having determined the cha
tacter and position of the Society, the stern
or controversies needful then, to the estab-
lishment of a great principle, were not now
required, and the Society, having already
laid the foundation for good works." pro-
cecded 10 build a fit superstructure thereon.
Several fellow laborers in other States,
who desired to attend our annual convoca-
ton, and give US a word Of sympathy and
cheer, were unable to do so. Our friend
Adm Ballou, of Massachusetts,, was present,
and his assistance was highly valuable. The
friends of the cause, at home, brought with
them to the meeting those most important
requisites for carrying on a moral enterprise,
warm hearts and energetic purposes.
The first session of the meeting was held
in the Friends Meeting House at Old Ken
nett, butt the rapidly increasing audience made
it necessary to adjourn to the yard around
the meeting house, where, in the shade OF
the spreading trees, the remainder of the SEES
sions were held. They were continued three
days, and the interest was undated 10 the
last. The subject of raising funds for carry
ing on the operations of the next year, claim
ed the early attention of the meeting, and the
result of this attention was the collection OF
a much larger amount, in cash and pledges,
than was obtained last year. The duty oil
abstinence from the purchase and use of the
products of slave-labor, was the topic Of dis
%cussion during a considerable part of one
session. 1t was faithfully and zealously
urged by many speakers and found few OPP
ponents.
The Society did not neglect the duty oil
recording its testimony against the present
war which our country is waging against
Mexico, for the extension and perpetuation
of American slavery. The opposition Of a
few individuals-we ought rather to say OF
a single individual-to the resolution pro-
posed on this subject, did not avail to win
the Society from its integrity, or to blind its
eyes 10 the true character and design of this
infamous war; a character so plainly in.
scribed upon it from its commencement, that
he who runs may read it.
That theory of eTpcdicncy, as it is some.
times termed, which denies the existence o.
abstract right and wrong, and of any immuta
BILE moral principle-a theory as morally per
n%icious as it is philosophically false-wa,
occasionally ad anced in opposition to reso
!, %lutions involving som rigid principle, but i
5 met with severe and merited condemnation
| and rebuke.
Our meeting closed salts f%actorily and plea
. sanity. The parting words of our highly es
5 teemed brother, Adm Ballou, sank deep int
/ many a heart, and will be treasured for futur
use, in hours when the pleasant and healthfu
stimulus of anti-slavery meetings may b
wanting, AN the path of duty may seem wea
risome and long.
e From our meeting we argue good to tn
cause. 1t has doubtless reused the faggin
y zeal of some, and enlivened the hope an
g strengthened the faith of others. We nee
l. these occasional gatherings, not only for tn
transaction of business, but to invigorate OF
spirits by communion with fellow-laborer
and we come from them better fitted for II
l. newed toll. From the spirit evinced at ii
meeting, we believe that the friends of Il
cause went from it with hearts prepared
S. carry into operation the measures adopted al
suggested there, and to sustain the EXecuti,
Committee whom they have re-appointed
a their agents for the ensuing year. That cor
40 mittee desire to put in operation the most e
tensive and efficient plans of action WIN
the treasury of the Society will permit, al
they trust that their constituents, in CO
t~ributing to that treasury will remember t
necessities OF tne cause, as SET l0Tlh al o
e. meeting, and will remember, also, how gre
he ly they are blessed above their e~nslaved bret
ID rem. Will they not prove by deeds, by sc
sacrificing deeds, if need be, the love tn
u bear the captive! The work of another VI
a lies spread out before us. Are we ready
es meet it? 1t is not such toll as awaits {
enslaved brothers and sisters, in the ri
swamp, and on the sugar and cotton plan
IN ton. We may faithfully meet it, or timid
oh shrink from it, or idly neglect it; we may
a it, or leave it undone but Mey-they m
Va toll on, day after day, in cold and heat,
storm and sunshine, unaided and uncheeI
by the healthful incentives furnished to
De- luntary and benevolent labor, but urged e,
rs, onward by the relentless scourge, by the
te. rants frown. A weary lot is theirs! ]
in us muse on it awhile, ere we address o
selves to the labors of another year, and
it'll we rise from the contemplation, it may
to that a deeper vow of self-consecration to