Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-15

evening. III Iact so Outrageous did he be-
Gene, that several found ii necessary to take
him In hand, and try TO cool him down.
The meeting lasted about five hours, and
broke up with much enthusiasm. Two or
three persons spoke against, and one or two
in our favor. III impossible for any person
TO conceive the violence and wrath Of this
Elder. ! told him that | thought il would
pay the Society TO hire him 10 go with us,
in order to illustrate the pro-slavery charac-
ter OF Church and State. | respectfully SUBJ
nit TO the Executive Committee the ~proprie-
ty of entering into negotiations with the
brother to that effect.
We stayed all night with a brother Of the
Elder, a perfect contrast, calm, cool, and
considerate. He treated US with much kind
ness, and subscribed for the Bugle. We
started early to meet the appointment at
Lockport. When we arrived there we found
that the Methodists would not allow the dis
~cussion 10 be held in their meeting house.
The Protestant Methodists have a house,
upholstered and rather open for winter meet
ing. However, a stove was put in, and a
large rumber of persons assembled, although
it rained the whole time. A board of mode
rators were chosen, composed of two Demo-
Gratis and one Abolitionist. Each speaker
occupied half an hour alternately, on the fol-
lowing propositions:
duty to the slave, and fidelity to princi-
pie, demand an immediate dissolution of the
Union" d"
$40 dissolve the Union will result in the
best OF consequences, while to continue it
covers us with disgrace, and will bring up
on US ruin"
Every thing tina. could be done was done,
| have no doubt, to bring out the best men
within reach 10 oppose US. A Mr.. Fuller
spoke twice at the commencement but he
evidently did not know the "A" of the
matter. He drove away about our greatness,
glory, prOwess, &c.,-about the blood, con-
fusion and massacre, that would follow-how
glad England would be, and that we were
all British emissaries, &c. The next was a
IaW student, who commenced by very grave
ly informing us that the Constitution gave
us rights that we were entirely ignorant of,
then stated that the Constitution gave Con-
gress the right 10 abolish slavery at one sin
gle stroke, &c. Then came the reserve
guard, Mr.. Cutler, a lawyer from Girard, a
gentleman Of fine appearance and much ur-
banity Of manner. He corrected his pupil
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not prepared to enter into the discussion, as
he might under other circumstances /; read a
quotation from Washington's farewell adj
dress; delivered quite a %panegyric on the
" GLORIOUS Union )" denounced any man
who dared to allow himself 10 think on such
a subject as dissolution; then closed.
OF course we replied, showing the afirma-
tive of the propositions TO be true, and as far
as we had time met the objections raised,
&c. The meeting continued till dark. The
board of moderators, although it was not done
as part of the meeting, awarded to us the
credit of having the best of The Argument
The people will henceforth discuss this ques-
ton, and although they now look upon dis
union with such holy horror, the word will
become a household one.
On Saturday we started for Spring Corners.
Found a home al the house of Mr.. Hail.
1t seemed very doubtful whether we should
have a meeting or not. We went to The
school house Of the village, where half a
dozen met us. OF course we felt very little
like holding meeting, but the few insisted on
having a talk. Henry spoke TO them on the
profigacy Of the nation, &C., which called
out Mr.. Strutavent, a Justice of The Peace,
and the leading man in the "ChristiaD
Church." He insisted that we did slave
holders injustice in comparing them TO sheep
thieves, &C., for, said he, the law makes ii
right TO hold slaves, and "the Bible COM
mands US TO submit 10 the laws of his coun-
try" That choosing the least Of two evils,
was not doing evil, but doing a relative good.
That no act was evil if it produced good
The meeting, small as it was, became ex-
citing and interesting. He was asked if a
man employed a clerk, and that clerk was in
the daily habit of taking his masters funds
and giving them for benevolent purposes,
whether he would justify the clerk! He
said he would. He also stated that if the
daughters of a city were in danger of losing
their virtue by the influence Of libertines, he
would go in for the erection of a common
brothel and would contribute of his funds to
sustain such an establishment for the use OF
the licentious, that virtue might be protect
ed y! This man a Justice of the Peace
and a Christian! l have seldom met with
such an amount of open acknowledged pro-
figacy and wickedness in one man. A good