Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-03
CONCENTRATIONS.
Notes frCm the Leciuring Field.

Notes frcm the LeciuriDg Field.
Since ] last wrote, ! have changed my place
Of residence from Leesville, to New Lyme,
Ashtabula Co., the latter being now my pos,
office address. There are few places of the
same size where there has been as much ag-
itation aud discussion on the question Of lu-
man rights, as the first named village; the
effect Of which has been to bring quite a nun
Der of the inhabitants TO look upon the in
fraction OF human rights as the greatest crime.
Just in proportion as the spirit Of liberty has
spread its purifying influence over one por-
tion of the people, another portion have la
bored to encase themselves in the most in
vulnerable coverings their imaginations could
invent. The history Of sectarianism in con-
nection with the ~Anti-Slavery movement, for
The past five years, would unveil an amount
of wickedness, intolerance and treaclery, sell
dom seen, | think, in the same length Of
time in any part Of this %"totally depraved"
world. J have sometimes thought would
write, could ] find time, a concise history Of
the progress Of the cause in that town during
the few past years. There would be the in
PRODUCTION of the anti-slavery questionable
formation of a large society, principally by
the Methodists-,he breaking up Of tho So
ciety by the advice of the Conference, urg-
ing all its members to withdraw from aboli-
ton societies, and to :" refrain from all aboll-
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ton Movements" Then Their Introduction of
the question, and the formation Of the Wes-
leyan church-the deadly opposition grow
ing out OF the formation of said organization
the fraternizing of the old Episcopal church
and the Protestant Methodists, to put down
the Wesleyans, because they were causing
many to withdraw from both and finally,
the introduction of comeouterism' by my
self and others, with the whole procedure OF
fierce, dark, malicious persecution which has
followed. The most curious part of the whole
would be the blending of Wesleyans, Epis-
copal and Protestauts in one loving Cor hy-
pocritical) brotherhood TO put down "lnfidel-
ity" as manifested in the separation from a
pro-slavery church and government. We
may with truth say in the partial language
of holy writ, I" The Episcopal and Pro,estants
have done gloriously, but the Wesleyans
have excelled them all; :" of course this will
not refer TO all the latter, although there are
but very few exceptions. The spirit Of Free
dom has done a great work-there are scores
that can never again be brought under tbs
proscriptive pro-slavery influence of a corrup
sin-sanctifying church.
> have been thinking Of collecting the mo
raj, religious and political letters and chain
, that used TO ~enslave those liberated minds
! as a kind Of black and bloody curiosity, wor
thy of preservation. But times are altering
even the church will now pass diluted anti
:, slavery resolutions and make loud profession
of love tor the slave. Yetwe who have com
4 PEELED them TO do this, are still infdels. Fe,
s sermons have been preached by any sect. fo
a year past, but what have included awfu
warnings TO The elect, against the ~infuenc
of our doctrines. 1t is curious, really, 10 Sc
the spasms into which "brethren and si:
tiers" will work themselves on this subiec
y The great difficulty seems to be, that no prize:
h could reap the usual amount of harvest i
10 great %revivals that they used to. I heard on
'e of the shepherds lamenting in the pulpit SON
u time since, that it was a fact that could nj
be denied, that no lambs were born into tn
flock. suppose he thought of the wool an
mutton. However, they were taken a sho
- time ago with labor pains in the old churcl
and determined they were that they woul
n no longer be childless-but how they coul
Sc secure the blessing so much desired was II
= difficulty. They at last resolved that the
would have all done privately; So they al
ID nounced that The time for the enlargement
ye the family was fully come. They had the
:" protracted' meeting, several reputed Phi.
s~icians were present, but they would adm
p no infdel none but the chosen could see II
* operation, and these must obtain tickets Of a
mission from the senior practitioner. Not