Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-09-29
For Tie a. S. Bugk.
cntRRv VALLEY, Sept, l, 1913.
FRIENDS JONES -:

FRIENDS JONES -
Our cause is onward. Last Sunday |
commenced a series Of meetings in Crawford
county, Pennsylvania, at Linesville. Not
knowing any friend on whom 10 call, called
al the tavern, and inquired concerning the
meeting. ] learned that the notice had been
so far circulated as TO create some sensation.
Some were for closing the house against me
some were shocked because | would go desc
crate the Sabbath as to hold an anti slavery
meeting on that day; and | afterwards
learned that one proposed to aid in giving me
' a coat Of "tar and feathers" But after all
| the house was opened, and rather more thah
an " Apostolic number" tardily assembled 10
hear me. concluded that the best | could
do, under the circumstances, would be 10
aim a blow at their nhuman Sabbatarian no.
tons. undertook to show that s%ectarlan
zeal lay al the bottom Of the whole and that
they had no regard for the day further Than
they could make il subserve their party in
~terests. For the few last years II is well
known that no cessation Of labor has been
observed in the national workshops, where
The munitions of the internal Mexican war
were manufactured but at this governmental
Sabbath desecraiion what pious priest or Sc
date layman turned pale, in or round aoou'
Linesvillei Also, most Of the famous bat
Ties of tina, war were fought on Sunday
But did this sscreligious desccratlon oil their
"holy day" cause either the men in black
or their Aocks, of the good place IN question:
to stand aghost! think as put these
questions. and others Of a similar character,
the few listening were struck torcloly WIN
the hypocritical cry Of Sabbath Decoration
tina, had been raised against me. II is evan
~relical, according to the Linesville standard
of orthodoxy, to manufacture the weapons Of
a war waged for the purpose OF extending
the curse of slavery over the fair plains winch
the semi.barbsrous Mexicans-as we taunt-
inply call them-have consecra,ed to liberty,
on Sunday! 1t is perfectly Christian ac-
cording to the same standard, TO plunge those
Sunday-wrought weapons into The hearts u
innocent men, and send a Sunday-wrought
and Sunday-loade bomb shell into a compa-
nv of innocent women and children while
even around the altar, on Sunday! All this
is no violation Of the sanctity OF the Sabbath
Making deadly weapons on Sunday and
with them dealing death to i%nnocent human
beings on Sunday, is no evangelical violation
of the Sabbath But when | ask TO be heard
in behalf of the perishing millions of slaves
of this s.land of Sabbaths,' Linesville is
horror-stricken beyond measure.
The inevitable conclusion which these
glaring absurdities force upon us Is, that the
| church and clergy keep" the day, not
from any reverence for it, but because 1t
: brings great gain to their craftsmen.'-
This was the impression aimed TO leave'
and think I succeeded.
Next meeting in Coneautville. Free Soil
rife here. Found also quite a generous feel
ing among the members of this party
1.-THE Free Soil Advocate" published here,
very generously published a list Of notices.
The Courier also, a neutral paper, pub
lished a notice Of my meeting held on the
evening of the day the paper went 10 press.
Other facilities, such as ringing the bell
furnishing a comfortable house and lighting
it, &C., which were afforded, helped on the
meeting very much.
My effort here was first, to convince the
people that slavery is a terrible sin, and
that Shareholders are terrible sinners. This
l am thoroughly convinced, is very import
ant duty, Notwithstanding the loud preten
sions Of the masses TO anti-slavery. Howev
er | may have succeeded in convincing, al
acknowledged that | had clearly established
that point.
On the second evening I took up the But
: falo Platform, and construed it TO mean, II
the concise language Of ]. r. Giddings
j "that the Free States have the same constl
!, tu,ional rights to be free from all the supper,
n disgrace and guilt of slavery, that the Sout
i has to involve herself in all these" aske
g the Free Soil friends If, according to the
= understanding, ! had correctly construed i
If They all agreed that | had. ! next asked
a they regarded slavery as so great a sin tina
h were this not their constitutional right, the
would 60 for it at the expense of the destru'
d ton Of the Constitution They answere
yes, and could not decently give any 9th
answer, after agreeing that all who suPPo
: slavery are necessarily the greatest of vi
lains.
l then showed shat slavery was a munic
pal institution-that the slave by comiT
North did not thereby become Gree-and thu
consequently, the Constitution Of the Unit
States is a great overshadowlng municip
law, and paramount to all others, wifi