Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-14
COMMUNICATIONS.
Notes from the LeCturing Field.

BvNpYsBuRsH, July LIST, 1913.
Advertisements for recruits generally hold
out as an inducement to young men to enter
the " service Of their country" that they will
/" see the world with all its wonders" &c.
II going from place to place is so desirable a
thing, | am sure Anti Slavery Agents have no
cause to complain on that score. They may
say with a good deal of truth,
We have no abiding city here"
And as to seeing wonders, none can go be-
yond them. The most wonderful thing with
which / am acquainted with is man, as exhi.
bited in the various stages Of development.
Few positions present a better opportunity OF
becoming acquainted with human nature than
his. But | did not take up my pen to write
a treatise on that subject, but to give a few
notes concerning our doings in the cause of
the slave.
Saturday and Sunday, cath and 25th, we
spent in Youngstown. We were all kindly
invited to, and entertained at the house Of
Wilson Thorn. The meetings here were We.
~ well attended. We held three in the Pro-
testant NJ. Church, aud two in the Disciple
church. On Sunday especially, the congre-
cations were very large, many coming quite
a number Of miles to attend the meeting. Our
friends Burleigh and Wright spoke with their
usual power and clearness.
On Saturday evening a young gentleman
H. - I L --.-lI.-. -. a. IL.
form in defence of the Constitution. He
gave the Unanswered arguments of Western
Liberty men. Blu, he had evidently thrown
himself into the breach without reckoning
upon the strength of the force to be brought
against him.
This person has just come over from the
Democratic ranks to those Of Liberty party.
IIo could not go Lewis Cass. Yet strange
TO say, he, with others, can support a man
for the presidency who holds the very oppo-
site views to themselves, on the character of
the Constitution, The worst feature on the
part of those who contend for the anti-slavery
character of that document, is manifest dis
honesty. For instance, as in the case allud-
ed TO, that person declared that he did not
know that " all other PERSONS" meant slaves!
Charles, in his own peculiarly clear and for
chile style, completely destroyed the argu-
ment of his opponent, leaving the whole au-
dience, as far as ! could Judge, fully Impress
ed with the sounduess of his position.
On Sunday a discussion Of the Peace ques-
ton was entered into at some length by a Mr..
Porter, | believe, and Henry c. Wight
Never did the Peace principles appear so love
ly to myself, as on that occasion. The idea
of the young man seemed TO be that non-re'
s%istance was nota safeguard against violence
It was shown that although non-resistant'
did not claim for themselves absolute protec
ways greater than those who resort to vic
lerce. understood the Rev. Boardman, o
the Presbyterian church, defended the gallowI
in the afternoon in his own pulpit, charging
us with the awful crime Of infdelity. Thu
same gentleman, who is called TO be a min
lister Of the Prince Of Peace, mounts his wa
horse or muster days, TO pray over a murder
teaching system. The following resolution
was proposed in the evening, and | believe
carried. 1t will show the tendency of lht
public mind.
Whereas, All wal is wrong, an,i-chris
tian, a violation Of Gods law, a systemati
dissertation and destruction Of Gods image
man And Whereas, The government of tn
United States is organized for the very pul
pose, among other things, of carrying on wal
And Whereas, The Constitution gives t
Congress discretionary power to declare wa.
and TO require the President to employ tn
physical force of The nation in the work
human slaughter, and implicitly recognize
1t as in some cases a duty to do SO; An
Whereas, The President, as commander-ir
chief of the army and navy, is required by tn
Constitution and his oath of office, to pros,
cute every war which Congress may declar
therefore
R~esOlUed, That no man protesting to be
christian, or to owe allegiance to the DiyiH
law, can consistently be elected, or vote fl
any man to hold Office under this government
OF in any way make himself a member
this w~ar-waging political organization"
Let the people only refuse to sanction tn
murderOus slavehOlding practices of this q
vsmmenI, and the slave will soon rejoice
his manhood and IN his rights.