Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-06-11

might be tnelr meOlO8lCdi OpIhiOhS, "N'
views of church forms and ceremonies, to be
careful not TO exalt these above pure religion
and indebted, not to make idols OF them, in
the worship Of which they should neglect the
worship of God by deeds of righteousness
and acts of benevolence.
The subject of abstinence from slave pro-
duce received a considerable share Of atten-
ton. 1t was brought up by Henry Grew, of
Phila., introducing a resolution declaring the
use of such products to be morally wrong
The duty of abstaining was advocated by the
mover of the resolution, Lucretia Mott, and
Nathaniel Southland, and opposed by 5. S.
Foster and Wendell Phillips. Some who
spoke in favor Of the resolution insisted upon
abstinence as a matter of principle, yet all adj
mitted they were guilty Of doing,t 10 a certain
extent, " hat the resolution declared 10 be mo-
rally wrong, and as a consequence were as
guilty as the shareholders. 1t was urged that
although we might not be able wholly TO abb
stain, that was no reason why we should not
avoid the use of it as far as practicable-that
it was better 10 be a lille soilcd than to be CO.
vered all over with wrong. The remarks of
Foster and of Phillips-the latter, by the way,
fully endorsing those anti-ffee-produee doc
trines which have made the former so odious
in the estimation of some of the friends of the
slave-w We thought clearly showed the imprac-
t~icabilily of sustaining, the unsoundness Of
the doctrine which bases 1t as a duty upon
the ground Of principle, and the palpable in-
consistency Of those, who, while insisting up
on it as a moral obligation, confessedly vio-
late ii a HHe MISUNDERSTANDING observed
there is no lille in morals" After a full
discussion Of The merits of the resolution
which was what its friends most desired
it was laid upon the table.
1t is, perhaps, hardly. necessary or desira-
bic to attempt to enumerate the various sub
jects that came up for consideration, for the
readers of the Bugle all know that such a
meeting would, Of course, have its testimony
to bear against the continuation, as on a pre-
vious occasion it did against. the origin of the
Mexican wdr-to expose the character of that
Sectarian Humbug, the Evangelical Alliance
TO hold up TO public view the rottenness of
the State and the corruption of the Church.
to again reiierate the doctrine of 'Disunion,'
a doctrine as generally odious and as intrin-
sically righteous at this time as it was in the
first Era of the American Revolution.
The Unitarian Convention, which was in
session the same week, was so fearful lest it
should 90 = too fast and too far that much
to the surprise of many who put greater faith
in lis christian character than it deserved, ut
lerly refused 10 declare that it would not elect
a STAKEHOLDER to any official station in the
church. Theodore Parker, Saml. May, Chan
ming, Stelson, and Russell, some Of the most
prominent of the Unitarian Reformers, spoke
in the Anti-Slavery Convention on a resolu-
ton congratulating the world upon the de-
cline Of American religion. Frederick Doug
lass, much to our disappointment and that of
his numerous friends, was necessarily absent
from the meetings on account of sickness,
which, though not very serious in its chardc-
ter, incapacired him from taking part in the
proceedings.
We found the meetings fully as interest
ing as we expected, and we expected much,
for you know that the New England Con-
ventions are regarded as the most important
Anti-Slavery meetings in the country. They
certainly call together a greater amount Of in
tellectual power than any other, and are COM
posed Of men and women whose devotion 10
the cause of Humanity, and whose spirit of
self-sacriGce have been tried and not found
wanting. There were the battle-scared vete-
rams of the cause, and there the fresh recruit
whom Truth had drawn from the home Of his
party and his sect-there youth and venora-
Bile age joined hands with each other. On
the same platform stood The Honorable Seth
Sprague-h0nOraJle, not so much by virtue
of offices he once held, but made SO by his
righteous acts-and the little boy Wendell
Phillips Garrison, whose heart, like those Of
all other children, beats true to Freedom
The former has out-lived almost three gene
rations-he heard the sound of the first gun
that ushered in the revolution of the past CEN
tury, his mind is familiar with the entire his
tory of that contest, and as "DIsUNIoN' was
his watchword then, so it is his battle-cry
now. The Constitution, which was born
long after he came upon the stage of exist
ence, he hopes to sec buried before he shall
himself descend to the tomb.
We did not hear much Of Liberty party
when in Boston, for aught we know it may
have held large and frequent meetings. AL
we were able to learn Of its public demon
STATIONS was, that it designed giving a break
fast a la England, as did its friends at New
York during Anniversary week. The party