Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-08-27
ANNIVERSARY MEETING.


ANNIVERSARY MEETING.
The Anniversary of tho Western Anti.
Slavery Society was held in New Lyme, Ash
tabula CO., o., on the 18th, 10Th, and Goth oil
August, 1917.
The meeting was called 10 order by the
President, Lyman Peck, at 10 o'clock A.. NJ.
who gave notice that silence would be observ-
I'd a few moments, to afford opportunity for
any who might apprehend it their duty to
open the meeting by religious exercise, to do
so.
J. Elizabeth Jones presented the Annual Re-
port of the Executive Committee, which was
adopted by the meeting.
The following Committees were appoint
ed;
Nominating Com.-Slml. Brooke, Benz. S.
Jones, DR.. X. G.. Thomas, DR.. Richmond,
Henry Putnam, Lydia Irish, Harriet n. Tor
rey.
business Com.-Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Jo-
seph A. Dugdale, Frederick Douglass. S.. s..
Foster Maria Giddings, ]. w. Walker, j..
Elizabeth Jones.
w. l.. Garrison addressed the meeting on
the rise and progress of the cause in which
he had so long been engaged, in a very elo-
quent and impressive manner.
The choir then sung tho following piece
written for the occasion:
Welcome
To Garrison, Douglass, Bgfum,% and Foster.
Welcome, thrice welcome, ye friends Of the
slave,
To our hearts and our homes in the wide
spreading West!
Your spirits are free as the waters that lave
The shores Of our Erie and whilen its breast.
Oh, not as to victors from batle-felds red
With the blood of tho slaughtered in hatred
cut down,
Nhers the sieed of the foeman has trampled
the dead,
And the beautiful earth with destruction is
stfown;
But as men who are feaIlessly battling for
Right
With the sword of the Spirit, and breast
plate of Love,
Whose wa,chwords of Freedom, and Justice,
and Light,
Are the waichwords of g%loriied spirits
above.
Then welcome, thrice welcome! Age, man
hood, and youth,
All unite in their welcome TO heart and to
home,
For they honor untiring devotion to truth,
And are friends to the friends Of the crush
ed and the dumb.
We rejoice to have with us the man who has
The bold pioneer in Humanity's cause,
Who attacked single handed our national sin
En'renched in its strong hold of pulpit and
laws.
Right bravely he bore him. With standard
unfurled,
He demanded full freedom for body and
mind, j
His motto "My Country, Gods beautiful
world :
va SNui'' hNh III VIZ UclOlR l uldH- 6
kind" s
And cur hearts are made glad by the presence
of one
Who was chattelized, beaten, and sold in
our land;
Who is guilty of naught, save that Africa's
sun
Pressed his ancestors brow with too heavy
a hand.
He can tell of The woes that have gnawed at
his heart;
or the lash that has left its deep scar on
his back;
How the tenderest ties arc torn ludely apart,
And the soul and the body both doomed 10
the rack.
And we welcome him too, who with knowl-
edge and zeal,
Piles facts upon facts at Humanity's call,
And is making the cowardly oppressor 10 feel
IT'S by facts that his system is destined to
fall.
And he who returns unto us as a friend
Who has scattered the truth where the
field is now white,
Will net doubt Of a welcome, but ioyfully lend
His labor 10 gather the Harvest of Right.
Then welcome, thrice welcome, ye friends of
the slave,
To our hearts and our homes in the wide
spreading West!
Your spirits are free as the waters that lave
The shores of our Erie and whiten its breast.
Frederick Douglass then came forward and
spoke until the time Of adjournment, when
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