Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-24
THE A~NTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

when they found the Wesleyans had opened
their doors, and that public opinion was
against their ~exclusiveness, took the respon-
sibility, without consulting either us or our
friends, of giving public notice that our meet
ing would be held within their walls! We
were glad of the evidence which this Incl
dent afforded, that they are not Indifferent to
the rebuke of their %neighbors. Our meet
ing, though not large, was deeply interesting.
We spent a night near Flat Rock under the
roof of Caleb Wickersham, a venerable and
leading member of the Orthodox Anti-Sla-
very body. He possesses a clear head and
a sound heart, and is greatly tried by the
narrow spirit of the sect to which he belongs.
The character of the Disciple church at
Flat Rock may be inferred from the follow
ing facts. Fanny Cliff and her husband
William Cliff are members of that church.
They were both originally from Kentucky.
Fanny, at the time of her marriage, was the
owner of a woman and two or three children,
whom she afterwards sold for 100000, using
the proceeds to purchase land and a family
carriage. The woman was complained of
for this piece of villauy, and the church was
agitated with the subject for a considerable
time. The complaint was, "that a sister in
the LORD had sold a sister in the Lord to a
brother in the Lord" After a long conflict,
it was decided that the sale of human bodies
and souls was not an act that deserved the
on,e,,ra of fl,o GbttroI and tho connY1o,napt
were politely informed that they might take
their choice between holding their tongues
and being accommodated as 6 troublers in
Israeli All but one submitted to the gag
Elijah Martindale is the minister of that
church, aud the whole proceeding received
his sanction. Dc you wonder that such a
Church should be afraid of Anti-Slavery
preaching? This, be it remembered, took
place in a Free State!
From Flat Rock we went to Dublin, where,
ON Sunday last, we held a crowded meeting
in the Universalist chapel. A more atten-
tive audience it has never been my lot to adj
dress, and | have reason to believe that the
truths we were enabledto promulgate made
q deep and lasting impression upon many
minds. 1t was our object here, as elsewhere,
to wean men from their attachment TO creeds
and forms, and to enlist them in works of
practical righteousness. From Washington
to this place we had been attended by an
aged and somewhat eccentric old man named
JONATHAN HUDDLEsToN. He was foremost
among those who persuaded us to undertake
the campaign, and his more than youthful
courage and vigor of spirit, contrasting with
the physical marks of old age, were a con-
slant source of encouragement to us during
the whole trip. Dublin was his home, and
the residence of his tribe numbering now
nearly one hundred souls. AT his special
request, a large number of his tribe assem-
bled at the house of one of his sons-in-law.
Pleasant Johnson, OH Sunday evening, where
we had n free and exceedingly pleasant in
terview, and discussed the great topics per
tanning to mans highest happiness and wei
fare. The sight of this aged patriarch and
his companion, surrounded by their intelli-
gent children and grand children, with not 9
slight sprinkling of prattling great-grand
children, was enough to compensate us for q
much longer journey over even rougher roads
(if that were possible) than those which We
encountered. OF all the phenomena that
have ever witnessed, nothing seems to me
more beautiful than that of an old man
or woman, whose spirit, in spite of the bo-
dy's decay, is perpetually growing and ex.
panding under the influence of truth. Fa.
ther Huddleston's heart on this occasion was
almost too full for %utterance. His descen.
dants, with few exceptions, are sincerely
devoted to the cause of Human Progress
Never to my dying day can l forget tha'
meeting, in which even the ties of consan.
guinity were absorbed in that higher ant
nobler affection which is yet to bind the
whole family of man together in one com.
mon Brotherhood. On Sunday forenoon
attended Friends meeting in Dublin, and
bore my testimony against the sectarianisn
which has crept into the Society. At the
close of the meeting some of the bigots ex-
pressed a doubt whether | was a member,
when l informed them that they might salts
fly themselves by writing to the Clerk of the
Salem Monthly Meeting.
Our last appointment was at Richmond,
the great centre of Quaker influence in In
diana. 1t was here that our Green Plain
friends were subjected to the fires of eccle-
s~iastical persecution, and the spirit of bigo-
try and intolerance is still incarnate in the
leaders of the sect. We had concluded al
first to hold no meeting here, but at the ur-
gent solicitation of a few friends, consented
to an appointment for Monday evening"
The Methodist Westinghouse was opened