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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
Of Course.

At a meeting of Liberty party men in &C.
auga county, the following resolution was
adopted
ResO!rea, That this convention repudiate
the Mexican war and its advocacy whether
upheld by our Liberty Papers, or members of
the State Central Committee Of the Liberty
Party, and that We will not be drawn into
this unholy war in any form 20 save the Lib
erty or any other party from destruction.
This, l.. L. Rice says, sis uncaIled for by
any past or existing provocatlon. The State
Central Committee will probably unite with
him in the opinion thus expressed.
There is one other fact we wish to state in
this connection. About three months since,
we published, by request of the editor, an ar
ticle from the Cleveland American, in which
he speaks of our quotations from the " Demo
cratic Standard and Wing of 10" designed
to show that that paper sustained the Mexi'
can War. He there uses the following Ian.
guage: I'VE are sorry 10 sag hatMe Bugh''
quotation is to the point"
1t is desirable that l.. l.. Rice should have
a better memory, or else confne Unset
wholly to the truth.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
Domestic Violence.

1t appears by recent intelligence from our
brave army on the Rio Grande, that its SOL
diers. not having an opportunity of fighting
the MeXicans, originated a fight among them
selves. Some fifteen or twenty men were
killed; and taken altogether, it was quite a
respectable skirmish. The victory, we be-
lieve. belongs to the constituted authorities,
whose previous triumphs upon the banks Of
the Rio Grande have been chronicled in both
prose and verse. The defeated rioters, as
they are called, consisted of the members of
u company Of Irish volunteers.
The papers OF the day do not appear to
rejoice greatly over this triumph of the Amer
lean arms, or to chronicle its results with
uProrious gladness. Instead of announcing
a GLORIOUS Victory J" Triumph of the
Americans!! in flaming capitals and with Il
great array Of exclamation points, they put
on a dolefnl air, AMI head their paragraphs
with i modest looking "Serious Military
Riot" 'lnsubordination near Matamoras."
Now for our part, we think if there is any
| fighting TO be done in Mexico, it had better
all be done by those who are so eager to try
1t. Taylor has more men than he knows
what 10 do with, and a general fight among
them would be productive of quite as much
glory as a battle with the Mexicans, and
would certainly be far preferable on the score
Of economy. If killing men gives honor
and the drawer the men killed the more hon
or in killing them; why not put the Amerl
cans against each other, and then, no matte
which side wins, it will still be a triumph o
American arms, a glorious victory which on.
presses can chronicle as an evidence of Amer
lean prowesS.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
Free Produce Association.

Although the meetings of This Association
have been for a lime suspended, Vet il is be-
lieyed that the friends of the enslaved have
not lost sight of the object for which it was
organized. The persevering efforts of indi-
yiduals in the west, and the associated action
in some Of the eastern commercial cities, with
a view 10 multiply facilities for e|nsuring more
adequate supplies of goods, &C., not contain
mated by slave labor or produced by oppres-
sion, 1t is believed clearly indicate the propri-
ETY. OF calling a meeting of the Free Pro-
duce Association Of the West"
The friends of the slave, and advocates of
abstinence from the use of slave grown pro-
duce, are respectfully called TO meet in Con.
v%ention at Salem, Union co., Ia, on the 2sth
of 10Th month next.
WIN. BEARD, Pres't.
9Th mo. 5, 1916.
- Anti-Slavery Editors are requested to
J copy the above notice.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25

winter, and this, by the way, was also claim
ed as a Liberty party triumph. Our readers
are acquainted with the circumstance 10 which
we refer, and as We have mentioned the time,
they will doubtless fix the scene in the New
Hampshire Legislature, and name Governor
Colby as one of the most prominent persons in
the farce then played. The poor, gulled, be-
fooled rank and file had expended hundreds
Of dollars and travelled thousands Of miles to
prevent the election of Colby to the Guber-
material chair, when 10! the very men who
had been begging them for their votes, and
telling them what a sin it would be to vote
for the candidates Of the other parties, when
they were comfortably seated in their Lecis-
lative chairs, and in the receipt of their per
diem pay, voted for and elected the very Col
by whom they had just before SO bitterly de-
nounced T. b. Hudson, a prominent Lii
berry party lecturer, told US a short time since,
that Colby was an independent candidate,
and that it was no violation Of principle for
Liberty party Representatives to vote for him
"a more shallow political trick was never
resorted to, and we hope that no honest mem
bers Of the party will be deceived by so sense
less a device, no matter who retails the sto-
ry.
Taking, then, these facts into considcra-
ton; the unsettled state of the anti-slavery
clements here, the pro-slavery ecclesiastical
position which the party has assumed, its
course in reference to the Mexican war, and
the elasticity of conscience which allows it
to coalesce with the other parties when ii
thinks such union desirable, our calculation
in regard to the increase or decrease OF It's
votes in Ohio would be mere guess work.
Of one thing, however, we feel well assur.
cd that from among those by whom Disun.
ion doctrine is understood, who see the pro
slavery character of the Constitution. and the
true position of Liberty party, no vote will b,
procured. If, however, the party SHOULD
greatly increase the number of its votes, il
would by no means be an evidence of an in
crease of strength, for Gerrit Smith will tel
you that in Madison co. the Liberty party i:
dead, although it may poll many vctcs; bu
having forsaken its principles, lie has depart
ed from it and what, we ask, is the charac
ter OF an anti-slavery party worth, whose heat
and embodiment is a chief corner stone in til,
bulWark of American slaveryl
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25

very members Of that meeting can show
that they got any more than an address and
a committee, and that they did not practically
yield the ground in relation 10 Green Plain
which they won last year, contenting them
selves with less than they then obtained, we
will admit that our conclusions in these res
poets were wrong, but it will take stronger
facts and better logic than 3. d. Davis has
produced to convince US of it.
For aught we know 10 the contrary, the
feelings of the pro.slavery members of the
Ohio Yearly Meeting, may have been great
ly softoned, and a better spirit may have
prevailed among them generally; this would
not be strange seeing that the public senti-
ment is continually undergoing a favorable
change, of this we have nothing 10 say (;
we spoke Of the action of the meeting, and
that action we did and do believe was less
favorable TO the cause of the slave this year
than last-would that we could think other
wise.
In conclusion we would say to our cores
pendent, that we did not pen our editorial
without having before US what we deemed
sufficient evidence to warrant US in saying
what we did. We have, however, no idea
tlat he would have drawn from it the %conclu-
sions we were compelled TO; for s%ectarian
prejudice and a desire to harnonize elements
eternally opposed 10 each other would blind
him TO us power.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
B. B. Davis letter.

We do not intend 10 enter into a controvcr-
sy with friend Davis, for in cur opinion such
a one as his letter invites would be endless
and proitless. While he stands where he
does, and looks through the false medium Of
s%ectarian bias, we do not expect him to see
things as we do, or to draw similar conclu-
sions from the same facts. We will make a
few remarks upon his present communica-
ton, and then-unless we should see good
cause to change our course-leAve the sub
iect for him and others to dispose Of as they
see proper.
As to the Yearly meeting progressing back
wards, how stands the account Last year
it appointed an anti-slavery committee, re-
fused to correspond with Indiana Meeting
because Of its unjust treatment of Green
Plain, and as it was so uncourteous as to decline
receiving an espistle from the latter meeting,
it disclaimcd all ownership Of the document,
or right to dispose of it. This year it con-
linues the same committee and issues an ad-
dress to its members at large it resume its
COllCSIOIutlC WIN luuldllu dItllONHh liil
meeting continues to pursue the same un-
iustifable course towards Green Plain, and
mark you administers not one wOrd Of re5uke,
speaks not in the Lowest 1Uhisper IF lis past
and present trGrsgresSion! - b. b. Davis
docs not consider this act as extending the
hand Of fellowship 10 a pro-slavery body
and such we regard Indiana Yearly Meeting
but compares it to our sending an anti
slavery letter to George McDufie. He has
a very superficial knowledge of modern Qua
kerism if he does not know that such an act on
the part of a Yearly Meeting is rightly con.
strucd into an evidence of christian unity with
that body with which it corresponds. Butan.
other item is to be added to this years account
The meeting refused TO receive the epistlc
from Green Plain, and also a respectful ad-
dress from a convention Of anli-slavcry
Friends in Eastern Pa, but nevertheless
assumed the light to dispose Of these docu'
ments as it saw fit! So stands the accounts
and we are willing 10 leave it for unpr, jul
diced minds to determine whether the meet
ing of rs or that of &c was the most anti
slavery in its action. If they decide al
we think they will, the most formidable o.
the nine counts in the indictment which oul
friend Davis has presented is disposed Of
The others relate 10 matters of opinion which
do not affect the main question at issue, ano
we shall not stop to prove what appears t.
us a self-evident truth, that "scceders arr
always odious to body MEMBERS" or to con
vince our correspondent that a recognition o
the rights of Green Plain would nave beer
} of infinitely more importance than the issu
ing of an address. And when the anti-sla
*The address on slavery-if designed 70
the members of Ohio meeting, as we wer,
l informed was the case-was sent 10 Indians
l with the ~espistle as a mere item Of news, a
information of what Ohio Friends had done
and was not designed as a rebuke to tina
meeting and will not be so received. Conse
quently, what our correspondent says upol
this point is nothing, is worse than nothing
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
Two Queries.

The editor of the Liberty Advocate-T. d.
Hudson is the nominal editor-in comment
ing upon the communication of a correspond
ent in relation to the pro-slavcry position OF
the General Assembly of the Old School
Presbyterian Church says:
Tho question still arises, What is the 1u-
ty of Anti-Slavery Prcsbyterians under pres
ent circumstances! Shall they still retain
their connection with the General Assembly
Church, or withdraw from her communion !
We have no hesitation in saying, the latter Is
the only alternative, if Abolitlonists wish to
maintain their integrity as honest christians,
or their influence as friends of the Slave
This conclusion we have arrived atalter long,
serious, and mature elaboration. duty Is
ours-consequences, Gods
We should like to have the editor answer
US one or two questions with this declaration
of his lying before him.
First: Is not the Methodist Episcopal
Church as pro-slavery as the Old School
Presbyterian!
Second Can Samuel Lewis maintain his
integrity as an honest christian, or his iniu-
ence as a friend of the slave, so long as he
retains his present ecclesiastical connection
with that pro-slavery body of which he is
a clergyman
6rThe communications Of l.. l.. Rice
NJ. SutliGf, II. Cree and b. n. c. ahall ap
appear next week.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
Cincinnati High School Concert and
Exhibition.

During the six weeks vacation of the Gin
cinnali High School, commencing August
9th, the Select Choir Of the School, accom-
panied by the Principal, will visit different
important points in the State.
Their list OF appointments through Ohio on
their return are as follows:
Saturday, Goth, Mansfield.
Monday 2Sth, Mt. Vernon.
Tuesday, 29th, Patterson's Meeting house.
Thursday. LIST October, Bloomingsburgh.
Friday, Cd, Wilmington.
Saturday, Sd. Springboro.
The nett receipts will be devoted to the
Beneficiary Department Of the Institution.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
The Friends Of Mental Liberty and
Free In0uirv.

At a recent convention at Shalersvillo call
ed by those who have adopted the above title,
a very great liberty was taken with Parker
Pillsbury's name, and this, we presume,
without free inquiry, or any other inquiry to
signify. We allude to the following reso-
lutions
Resolved, That this Association shall APP
point lecturers, and agents to 90 through
community to diffuse by public addresses,
the distribution of Tracts and Books, and
other means, information on this important
subject, &c.
On motion, Messls. L Woodwork, Ma
RUS r. Robinson, Parker Pillsbury. and Mrs.
Rose were appointed lecturers, and requested
to act for the Association.
We are unable TO divine the motives that
could have prompted its members to such
action. If they knew Parker Pillsbury, they
knew he was not one with them if they
did not know him, they certainly had no
right to connect his name with their proceed
ings, and appoint him a lecturer for their as
ISOLATION when be was in New England,
especially when they were unable TO induce
him tic attend and speak at one of their con-
v%entions while he was in Ohio and not far
distant from its place of meeting. The &C.
ton of the convention is indeed extraordina-
ry. 1t is the commencement of a new era
in society management. A man is taken
ignorant of the honor about to be conferred
upon him-and without being asked whether
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
IT - . II TFtNNEVT INTi
YET NO A~BoLIrIoNIsT.

The Steamer Gen. Lincoln was yesterday
employed to serve the ha5eqs corpus on the fu-
gitive, but after pursuing the Niagara to sea
she returned without hIIn. Whether he was
on hoard the Niagara or is 10 be put on board
off Cape Cod we do not know. but we fear
the disgrace OF Boston is consummated.
We aPprthend that this fugitive having
been on Massachusetts soil. and been carried
eff by 10 process Of law into slavery, the yes
sci which carried him, by United States law,
is liable to forfeiture. The only shield Of
MessrS. John II. Pearson q Co. in this fla
grant wrong, We think will be want Of ade-
quate testimony. We hope the law will not
be allowed TO sleep.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
Forty Slaves Bap.i2cd.

From a document published by Rev. C..
c.. Jones, of Liberty County, Georgia, we
learn that the Rector Of Charles City Coun-
ty, Va, reports that in one household forty
co!ored children Were baptized. They 'were
instructed in the doctrines and duties of reli-
gion by their mistress, VINO presented them
by the request of their parents, and appeared
as their sponsor" According to the Episco-
pal service the officiating Clergyman proposed
to the mistress the following question 'Dost
thou in the name of this child renounce the
devil and all his works, the vain pomp and
glory of this world with all its co vetous de-
siTes of the same and the sinful desires Of the
flesh so that thou wilt not follow or be led by
them She answers, 81 renounce them all,
and by Gods help will endeavor not 10 fol-
low or be led by them"
What else is this than a most solemn farce!
A woman who claims forty little children as
her property !enounces in their name ''the
vain pomp and glory Of this world" This
part at least of her promise she will doubtless
fulfill, for little OF this worlds glory will
those poor children ever know.-UniOn BIS
sioAayy.
The Rev. c. c. Jones from whose annual
report the above fact is taken, has figured
somewhat largely as a missionary among the
slaves, and has prepared a catechism for
them on the "Orll instruction on the duty Of
servants in which occurs these questions and
answers:
80. Is it right for the servant to run
away, or is it right TO harbor a runaway?
"A. No.
90. What did the apostle Paul 10 Ones
linus, who was a runaway Did he harbor
him, or send him back to his masterl
"a. He sent him back 10 his master with
a letter.
lie relates the following occurrence as a
part ofhis missionary experience, which well
illustrates the character Of the religion he
teaches, and the benefit the slave derives
from it:
IL was preaching 10 4 large congregation
on tie EDisth 10 Philemon, aud when | insist
ed upon fidelity and obedience as Christian
virtues in servants, and upon the authority Of
Paul, condemned the practice Of running
aUat, one half Of my audience deliberately
rose up and walked of with themselves, and
those that remained looked anything but sat
isfed. either with the preacher or his doc
trine. Afer dismIssion, there was no small
stir among them soma solemnly declared
that there was no such epistle in the Bible;'
others, that | preached to please the mas
tcrs; others, that they did not care If they
ever heard me preach again."
-
PoLYGA.IY.-At one Of the Missions of tn,
American Board in Africa, a polygamist wal
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25

EigM Slaces, belonging TO Abel James,
Wood CO., Va, ran away last Sunday eve
ming week. So says the Marietta hteNigen-
Ger. Mr.. James takes the matter cody
Old Jess" he says, has earned his free
dom, and as for the rest, If they will do as
well as one who ran of some three years ago,
joy 90 with them. That ''one'' has contrivcd
10 secure a valuable farm near the Like
Gin. Herald.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
From he Chronoippe.
Kidnapping in South Boston !---Piracy
In Boston HarbOr

we stop the press to announce one of the
most aggravated cases Of bounding for the
saNenoldefs that We ever had the misery 10
record and one which, if successful, will
wrap Boston IN iouier disgrace than rests up
On 'he coast Of Guinea, Charleston or New
Orleans.
There arrived, sccrcied in tho Brig Otto
NAM oil John h. Pearson's line Of New Or
crSmn' I'ch.'s' on Tuesday, a fugitive slave
hom the 'peculiar insttuton." The Can
tam having become aware Of the FACT sent
MN IN a boat 10 SPECTACLE Island, to be de-
tanned uil the sailing of the next vessel for
New Orleans, that he might be returned TO
his "owHerS,' our sovereign masters. The
boat having reached the Island, while the
Keepers Of the fugitive were off their guard.
on shore, he put OFT, set sail ami made for
South Boston. They procured another boat
aud pursued him. But so skillfully did he
manage his vessel, that he reached he shore
and ran for life.
BY the time he had nearly reached the
bridge his pursueTs overlook him, and charg-
ing him with having stolen a pocket book
bore him off from a great crowd. But instead
Of taking him TO court they took him back 10
the boat and put off. And they have kept oil
cruising out of sight waiting for the sailing
Of the Barque Niagara in which their poor
victim is To be sent back.
FoGr boats with proper writs were out all
night in pursuit Of The p~iratical boat, named
the WARREH, to bring the kidnappers before
the proper authorities. Thus far the search
has been in vain.
4 LIBERAL REWARD,
is offered to any person who will rescue the
fugitive from his unlawful captors, and give
an opportunity for Massachusetts, law TO ope-
rate in his behalf.
The Ottoman, if we are not misiHformed,
is the property of John II. Pearson. Ii we
are correct, we call upon him, as he regards
the honor Of Boston and the welfare of man
kind. 10 stop this internal game. We trust
he has been ignorant Of the deeds that were
doing on board his property, and that he will,
on being made aware Of them, show himself
a citizen Of Massachusetts, and not Of Louis
lana.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25
4 LIBERAL REWARD,
THE PIRACY IN BOSTON HARBoR
To the Editor Of tie CArono'ype.

10 me EGit0r y Me ChrOnOiype:
The Barque Niagara, Capt. Thos. Mcllea,
cleared on "Wednesday for New Orleans, and
was lowed 10 sea 10y the r. b. Forbes
This vessel is owned by John IL. Pearson
& Co., Long Wharf-who are also the own
ers Of brig Ottoman, On board Of which the
slave was found.
Perhaps some of your Yankee readers can
''guess" why Pearson g. Co. employed
steam to take the Niagara 10 sea, when the
low freights in New Orleans, the head wind
and heavy sea in the bay are any thing but
incentives TO despatch. The pirate boat
Warren is at her accustomed place, Long
Wharf, this morning, after an absence Of a
day OF two, and we hope 10 see the black
hearted boatmau who owns her, (and who,
by the way, is not many shades lighter than
his poor prisoncr,) made to suffer the penal.
ty Of the law for his part in this internal
kidnapping Transaction.
If Mlessrs. Pearson g. Co., or their tool,
was u party TO this lransaction, they should
be held up to the scorn Of every true-hearted
northern man.
a FRIEND TO TIE PERsEcuTRD,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-25

Jusfsi with eggs, and was so much injured
by the missiles Of the mobocrats that he was
d]elirious a part of the succeeding night.
Qy- DR.. Bailey says;
"Slavery is regarded by the Liberty men
as the paramount question for the dellbeTation
and decision Of The American people. They
cannot show their sense Of its importance,
and their adherence Of the evil, more conclu-
sively in any other way, than by refusing all
political support to its upholders."
Refusing all political support 10 its uphol-
ders would certainly destroy slavery, and as
certainly destroy tie Union; for while the
people Of the North remain bound to The
South by the ties Of the present Federal Com
pact, they give their political support to the
upholdcrs Of slayeIy-ihey become in fact
its upholders themselves.
Upon whom does the South mostly rely in
time Of dangerI To whom does it "es-
Peciahy' look as a safeguard against i%nsurrec-
ton! TO those pledged citizens Of the North
ern and Western States who have promised
to stand by her in her extremity, 10 fight her
battles, 10 subduc her slaves--who have pro-
missed this in return for what the South gave.
them, and have written down the pledge in
that most veneratcd Of all political documents,
the Constitution Of he Ufited States.
TRIAL FOR MURDER.-Our readers will re-
member that a few months since, we gave an
account Of an ARRAY which occurred at an an
ti-slavery meeting Of A. Blcr's, and which
resulted in the death of David Officer. Da.
vid Mains, his murderer, has been tried
and convicted Of murder IN the second de-
gree. The punishment for the offence is life
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
------
PETiTIONs.-Wc have ON hand a lot Of Pc
titions which we intend to distribute rs soon
as possible. They were prepared BY the Exec
utive Committee of tho Western A. 5. Soci-
ETY., and embrace such subjetcs as its mem
bcrs desire most to agitate. We shall have
more to say about them next week in the
meanwhile those who want them had better
apply soonlf they are not previously supplied.
We shall send some out by mail next week.
TAKING TINE by II Observation-Disclosures
G. Birney, in IA letter addressed 10 the Liber.
ty party and published in the last number o
the Signal of Liberty, declines in advance
being that party candidate for the Presidcn
cy.
JAMES MuLLEg, of Dslton, will act as agen.
for the Bug!c.