Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-23
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE, SALEM, O.
COMMUNICATED.
From the Field of Labor.

NV last lett me dIIlVeu dl OuInelu, nutS-
day, Jan. 18th. Found that the school-house
where | was going to lecture was the head
quarters Of Methodism, and that a revival
meeting was to commence in it Saturday eve-
ming, to continue as long as there were indi-
cations Of good. So l spoke Thursday and
Friday nights with reference to ~revivals of
pro-slavery religion, and at the close Of the
last meeting, told the people that if the Me-
thodist meeting the next night was to be a
free one, as it ought 10 be, | would attend
and take part in it, but as it was not going
to be such a one, l should hold meetings of
my own, both that night and the next day, in
another school.house near by, and should ex-
nose the wicked religion of the revivalists,
and warn everybody against it. | did so, and
had as large an audience as the Preachers
Sunday night the house was so full before |
got there, that a great many had 10 stand up,
and they kept coming in for a long time after.
BY the time | had spoken an hour, they be-
gan to be disorderly, talking, laughing, and
making so much noise it was difficult 10 pro-
coed but on my taking up the Bible, and
telling them ] would read what God said
about going to meeting, they were silent for
half an hour, when it began to be all buzz
again-so much so, that in a short time very
few in the house could hear what | said,
though l talked as loud as could. All at
once there was a general break up, and a rush
for the door from all parts of the room the
lights were exiinguished /; | was hustled in
to the street in short order; and cheering en-
sued which was heard by people in their
houses a half mile off. Monday evening |
spoke at the centre of the town. Debated
the question of d|isunion with a man by the
name of Thorp.
Tuesday night spoke in Brimfeld, in the
Baptist church, and appointed a meeting in
the sam place for the next evening, but the
rain prevented its being held. Staid in
Brlmfield till Saturday noon, writing. Put
up with H. l.. Carter, formerly one of the
pillars of Liberty Party in this county, but
now engulphed, swallowed Up, lost, in the
Free Soil movement. Quite a rapid descent
has he accomplished from the comparatively
high position he occupied in lS40-alone
with 1000 who could not vote for a slave
holder nor pro-slavery man, Chat is, p@ro-sla-
very in the political parties, for they all voted
for those who were pro-slavery in the church
esq 10 his present depth in the mud and mire
of slavery, along side of 800, 900 sothers
laundering in the same black morass, and
almost burying themselves beneath its sur
face in their attempts to elevate to the first
office in the nation, a man who goes in for
the continued existence Of the whole system
Of slavery both in the fifteen States and in
the District of Columbia. And why this de-
scent ? 1t was for the sake of these 3 1000, 900
5 that is, for the sake of " arailaJiHiy." And
, why was Gen. Taylor nominated at Phila.
delphia? Simply for the sake of this same
" availability" So the members of the old
Liberty party are guilty of the same recrean.
cy to principle for the sake Of success which
= they charge so Justify upon the northern
Wings for their support Of old lack, and
even go so far as to guiph down the whole
, bitter pill of slavery undiluted, for the paltry
consideration of 100000 votes against its fur
ther extension. If this is not a reproduction
on the stage of the old tragedy of Jonah in
; the whales belly, only with new names for
the actors, | do not know what could be-
Why can't the Liberty men see that they are
moi ropton1inn Cr Lolf CO Dnrob nou, N, H.,
= were eight long years ago? And why. CAM
4 the Free Sellers all see that while they are
q refusing their consent 10 slavery extension,
: they are at the same moment giving it to sla.
< very eriStence Why can't they see thai
their votes just as much say that they will
: preserre slavery in fifteen old States, as that
they will not create il in tlCO nelU ones ! WIZ
T. can't they see it is no worse TO hold a few
= slaves a thousand miles Off, than to bind
j. 5000, 900 at our very doors And even il
o the Free Sellers did not vote for the ~continu.
@ ance of slavery where il already exists-even
c if they all considered the Constitution anti.
slavery, and cast their suffrages for a man
who, like Gerrit Smith, would carry it out as
such, thus voting for immediate abolition, vet
why can't they see that even then they would
e not manifest so strong disapprobation of the
system as they would by separating from
those who are guilty Of it, and SAYING 10
n those monsters of wickedness, "come moi
near to US, stand by yourselves, we'll have
nothing to do with YOU! Why can't all
men see that "No UNION WITH SLAvE1oLp.
ERs y is not merely the only consistent posi-.
N lion Of those who are opposed to those slave.
holders, but is in itself the only real opposi.
IT tiOn, every thing that comes short of il beino
&c approval, since voluntary association necessa.
= rily implies approval?
This same Ii. L.. Carter used to be a Co
u lionel, but resigned some years ago, and now
- calls himself a disciple of Elihu Burritt-
whose Christian Citizen he reads-and
non-Tesistant A fine snerimen &c