Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-10

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big Tent" preaching practical righteousness.
The exercises Of the meeting were intersper-
sed with singing, which added greatly TO its
interest. As there were quite a number of
Friends in attendance, she alluded to the
well known prejudice of the members Of that
Society against this mode OF enforcing truth,
and among other things, we understood her
TO say in substance, that it was customary TO
have singing in Friends meetings, though of
a different kind and she queried whether
those who had been attending the Yearly
Meeting within the past week, had not done
as much to encourage singing there, as the
aboliiionists were doing in their convention.
She thought that Friends were so accustom-
ed to singing from the gallery, that they
hardly knew how to get along without it,
What she had felt called upon to say to them
in their late annual gathering, was regarded
10y many not as prcaching but | Gu ing, be-
cause it was not delivered in the peculiar
singing tone.
In the first meeting Garrison adverted TO
the progress Of the cause, spoke of the many
objections which the opponents of the move
ment had in times past urged against it, and
how they had one by one been dispe'led by
the clear suE-beams Of truth, and that the
present cry of infdelity with which the
churches had endeavored to arrest the onward
march of this reform, would share a like fate;
that abolitionists would live down the SLAM
der. and prove by their practical love for hu-
manity and for the principles of eternal right,
that while infdel to a corrupt, pro-slavery
church they were true to God and man.
The impression he made during these NEE
iings, so far as we can learn, was very good.
The sincerity of his manner, the deep earn
estness Of his language and his soul-movinr
appeals, must have done much to remove the
prejudice which existed in the minds of some
against him, and given assurance even to
those who differed from him in sentiment,
that he was true to his own convictions of
duty.
We shall not pretend TO give a report of all
that was said in the convention, much as we
should like to do it. Douglass speech on
the Union was worthy a fugitive slave whose
great soul had felt the bonds which this 10
vernment had fastened upon him, and his de-
nunciations Of that Union by whose power
three millions Of his brethren were now held
in bonds, were no less eloquent than true
and his s~cathing rebukes Of the npholders of
that religion which prays for the perpetuity
of the Union, and which with blasphemous
lips blesses the system which makes bru ties
of men and calls it heaven-ordained, told
with good effect. And not only did he show
in words of soberness the horrible infidelity
OF the American church, but he held up in a
mastery style to the derision of that large
audience, the canting and whining, the hol-
low pretensions and hooking ceremonies O #
its hypocritical leaders
Who preach and kidnap men,
Give thanks and rob Gods own afflicted
poor,
Talk of Christ's liberty, and then
Bolt fast the c%aptives door.
AT the close of the meeting on the first
day, White, the Methodist Episcopal minis
ter of this place, came forward as the defen-
der of what he impiously calls christianity.
He asserted that Christianity had been as
sailed there; not so however, thought the au-
dience, for when Douglass requested those
who agreed with the accuser to raise their
hands, but four persons did so, while almost
the entire audience voted that christianit,
had been vindicated. 1t was the first time
we ever saw White, and a rarer specimen of
prlestly impudence and clerical blackguard-
ism we never Witnessed. He raved and ram
ted, and poured forth his foulest ISLANDERS
with astonishing celebrity, and no doubt the
poor man mistook, or fancied the people mis-
took his speech and action for eloquent dec
lamation, keen wit, and biting sarcasm. 1t
would perhaps be invidious to draw any
comparison between his talents for villilying
and those of his quondom brother priest, vet
we could not but think that his efforts were
UNNECESSARILY less intellectual. PERHAPS it
is asking too much of the man that he should
manifest common d%ecency and common hon.
esty, for there are som so constituted as to
be unable 10 bear much responsibility, and
whose education has been sadly in fault
Weakness is not wickedness, and we do not
desire to confound them. Perhaps he is not
so very much to blame if he does possess
prlestIy imPudence. He may have been
taught to believe that the priest is not hui
man, but divine; that his rights are superior
to the rights of men, and that when he speaks
all should reverently listen. White has been
acting for some time as though such was his
belief, uttering the blacklist ISLANDERS against
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