Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-05-28
COMMUNICATIONS.
Meeting of the American A. 5.
Society.
New YoRK, 18th May, lsi7.

NEW YORK, 10Th May, 1871.
DEAR FRlrNp:-
We have just closed the Anniversary Of
TIE most important movement Of the age
Almost every $50 cahed) benevolent enterprise
in the land. with q national organization, con-
trives to crowd a meeting into this grand Go
moran, during this week; so darkening the
city with the sable coats and d~isfigured faces
of clergymen, that Bennett, of the n. Y. Her
aid, in %satirical %aIlusion TO their hypocrilical
pretensions, distinguishes the occasion by the
term Holy Week"
1t is remarkable that there is but one ma
tional enterprise in which "men-stealers,
adulterers, and sinners of the first rank -
may not participate. And that is the Anti
Slavery enterprise ;and which, by tho vay,or =
ly claims to be, not a christian, but a moral
and philanthropic movement, to whose plat
form, Jew and Greek, Barbarian and Scythi-
an, Turk and T%unisian are invited, and bet
ter yet. invited not in vain.
The Bible Society meets, and the Mission
dl1 DOdlu1 dlu liG 1TdCb ASSOCldllOH d, anu
the whose-mongers and brothrel-kesp ers of
Virginia and Carolina, come up to preside,
to preach, 10 pray, to make eloquent speech
es, and 10 deposite their gifts-the price Of
woman's virtue and woman's children, sold
in the market-in the treasury of the Lord.
Slavery greets them all as It's bulwarks.-
II nhpnrfrllu no-pporatoc .ritb tbap, l. ,,;tl
sell a family of a dozen, (%parents and chill
dren.) into as many different States, at any
time, to replenish their treasures. 1t will
come all the way from New Orleans TO pray
them a prayer. preach them a sermon, or make
them a speech. And the New York Oh
server will make report of it, as a most godly
breathing of piety and pure devotion.
But the Anti-Slavery Society is not thus
blessed. Slavery comes in to curse it. and
goes home to dread it, and seek lis destruc-
ton.
We have had a magnificent gathering, the
argest | have seen since the glorious division
1910. Most of the prominent actors in tie
ave OCCH pltotil, nU1t Vi WnOI0 |
ave been more warmly greeted than the del
CATION from Ohio. The resolution relating
o the Western Anti-Slavery Society was
'assed with much enthusiasm. If that So
iety does not deserve so high ~panegyric, let
t earn it this very year. 1t certainly has at
aimed a splendid growth for so short a time.
cannot but congratulate you on your expect
ed visit from the Liberator." He is to be
accompanied too, by Douglass, BufIum and
others. trust the month of August
will witness a most august movement on the
Reserve. Such men as your Gid
iings, Tilden and Corwin can be shown that
if they would earn the appellation of defend
ers of Liberty, they must earn il like Han
cock and Adams, in the storms of a Rovolu-
ton. Not a Revolution of blood-blood has
to do with purchasing Liberty or any
thing else, or defending it either; and never
had. Revolution is but another name for re-
pentance. 1t is only ceasing to do evil, or
TO submit 10 evil, or to aid in doing evil.
This Government is a conspiracy against
1t never was anything else. The
is but the "%Shipping papers, of
the crew Of a pirate ship. To vote under it,
is to write ourselves, individually, guilty of
all the woes of slavery, and the wailings and
blood of the Mexican butchery.
hope those who have attended this Ami
versary will 90 home with strength renewed.
The speeches of Philips and Douglass were
every way worthy of the men. The whole
city has been astounded with our audacity in
denouncing the Government, the Constitu-
ton, and the Mexican butchers, from Polk to
and from Taylor to the tail Of the
whole swarm of banbit,i. Shades of Bona
parte and Alaric, forgive me, that | ever call
ed them soldiers, or their atrocities in Next
co, lrar.
Some OF the prominent newspapers of the
city endeavored to stir up a mob. But it
availed nothing. At an Anti-Capital Pun
ishment Meeting last evening, DR.. Elder, of
alluded in deserving terms to
the outrage upon Mexico. A few vipers hiss
ed when ins'anter, the moral indignation was
aroused, and a hurricane of applause from the
immense assembly, withered the Kisses and
the forked tongues that darted them, into OBJ
insignifcance. We heard no more of
them.
lours as ever,
PARKER P~ILLSBURY.