Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-01-28

him Responsible iOr the man $ Hoou OeHd-
viour and support il he should free him, a
responsibility he was unwilling to
We offered 10 stand between him and the
laws, and bind ourselves 10 him that he should
not suffer pecuniarily by any Kentucky law
by the act. But no, he would not emanci-
pate; he chose to cling TO the slave entailed
upon him, and we leave others to say, wheti-
er he is not a STAKEHOLDER in principle as well
as in fact.
MEETiNG AT WILMINGTON.
At Wilmington, the county seat of Clin-
ton, our meeting was small for the size Of
the place, and would have seemed cold even
to a moral Nova Zemblaian. The audience
appeared to have hardly as much life as Thorn
has thrown into his group of Tam O'Shan-
ter statues. When gazing upon the latter
you feel surprised that Tam does not drink
of his cup of foaming ale, but the wonder
we felt in looking upon the former was, that
there was actually life enough in them to
breathe and occasionally move. There was
no audible opposition made, no questions as
ked, no vocal assent given. Our voices ech-
oed throughout the space in the cupola above,
and returned TO US as though they could find
no resting place; could we but have had a
hearty methodist amen" or an INDIGNANT
''not true," We should have felt as though
some living person was present. Whining
ton is a beautiful specimen Of county tow us
the heartlessness of such places is there
fully developed. The place is SO full rIork
and preachers that there is no room for prin-
ciple. Money-making and religion-not
Christianity, but American religion are re-
cognized by it as "the powers that be-" and
auy one who goes there on a moral mission
will not question this, although he might
query as to t0hat God had ''ordained" them.
A QUESTION ron Discussion.
The next meeting we attended after Will
mington was held in a school house at Lib
erty, which a Quaker Liberty party school
director refused the people liberty to occupy.
They however assembled, and it appears had
adopted for discussion the question "Can
Abolitionists or Christians vote or hold Of
flee under the L. $. Constitution !" This
not only threw upon us the necessity of dis
cussing the pro-slavery character of the Con-
s~titution, but also TO show its anti. christian
features in other respects. The meeting was
called for discussion, but the debate which
ensued was pretty much like the lIishman's
reciprocity, all on one side.
BURLINGTON
Was our next stopping place, where we held
four meetings in the Wesleyan church. We
found there a strong Liberty party influence,
and some of the leaders either could not, OF
did not choose to understand US. We have
never been in a place where we found SC
much misapprehension and misrepresenta.
tion in reference to Disunion doctrines and
measures. General remarks were received as
though designed for personal application, and
construed into personal insult-unfair infer.
enees were drawn from what we said, and
from what we had not said, and passed from
mouth to mouth as though they were our as
sertions and not the mere inference of others.
AT our first evening meeting a Liberty party
lawyer from Xenia, under our usual invita-
ton extended to all 10 combat any of our po-
sisions or reply to any -four arguments, came
an and occupied the time until nearly Q o.
clock in replying TO a few things we had said,
and to a great many things he anticipated we
would say. We did not think it exactly the
thing for Liberty party to use up the time Of
our meeting in this way, even for the purpose
Of presenting in full the claim of that party;
but could have borne it with commendablt
patience had not the last half Of the speecl
been a 2nd. edition of the first half without
revision or improvement.
Whether or no the speaker designed ii ST
to be, the latter part of it was certainly I
speech against time, and its conclusion wa:
at so late an hour that We had to postpone Ell
tering into a review OF his argument on thl
Constitution until the next evening. Liber
ty party men are not sufficiently generous
and do not love free discussion well enoUgl
and often DO not allow US to speak at all
repeatedly have we been gagged by them
1t is no wonder then that men of such prin
cipleS aud such conduct are so meanly SELLS,
as to come into our gatherings aud occupy
not only the time we grant them, but thai
which we have reserved for ourselves. Al
i%nfring ement OF the rights of those around VI
is quite as censurable as an invasion of tht
rights of the slave. The meetings at Bur
aington were well attended; but whether TN
druth fell upon any better ground than tin
anay side Of political strife the future mus