Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-20
The Cool Spring Meeting.

: large concourse of people from the sur
, rounding country, most of them doubtless
) attracted by the prospect of listening to the
feryid eloquence of Amy KELLEY Foster.
, The meeting-ho house being too small to ac-
commodate even one-half the throng, the |
windows on the North side were removed,
and the speaker taking her place at one OF
the apertures, was heard with great case as
well by those on the outside as by those
within the walls. ~.
Mrs. Fosters subject in the forenoon was
the Popular Religion of the Land-the spu-
riousness of its worship and forms, contrast
ed with the pure and undeied Christianity
of the New Testament. She spoke with
great power, and with an unction proceed |
ing from the heart and from deep sympa-
thy with struggling humanity. The large
audience listened as if spellbound for up |
wards of two hours, aud we are confident
that deep and abiding impression was
made on many minds. At the conclusion
of her address, several questions were put by
DIR. Evans, and De LORNA Brooks, Esq! of
New Lisbon, which, for want Of time before
adjournment, were not fully answered. Af-
ter few remarks by Henry G. Wright the
meeting adjourned till o'clock P. NJ.
The trends of the cause having reason to
believe that concerted effort would be
made to throw the meeting into confusion,
determined to organize at the commence
: ment of the afternoon session by the ap-
pointment of chairman TO keep ORDER
: Five or ten minutes, however, before the
hour appointed for opening the meeting,
|, vagrant bufioon and rowdy, calling himself
{ DIR. o. c. Evans, took his place near the
stand and commenced a characteristic
! speech. When the hour of 2 o'clock had
arrived, Samuel Myers mildly requested him
, to dcsist, but Inc refused to do SO in the most
insulting manner, and proceeded with his
harangue, being encouraged in that out
, iageous course by few rowdies as vulgar
I as himself OF course be had no more
right TO speak at that time, in defiance of all
: order and of the wishes of those who had
i called the meeting, than he had to pick the
If pockets of those assembled; but all appeals
4
y cency were alike vain; he had como TO the
70 meeting resolved that his voice should be
" heard, not in a peaceable and orderly man
y ner, but in such way as to produce all pos
=, =, sibe confusion. lie was told that If he
i would suffer the meeting to become organ
> zed, he should have the floor at once but it
$, was Of no use. 5a
;, Seeing that remonstrnnce was vain, the
anti-sluvery friends appointed their chair
y man, quietly removed their speakers stand
B 10 the South side of the house, and lcft the
- - brawler and his congonial spirits to them
selves. The creature then played tho buf-
" foon for an hour OF more for the ammuse-
y nent of his cronies, who, enveloped in the
h h smoke of burning tobacco, doubtless thought
they had achieved great victory over the
% Aboitionists and saved the Union and the
r Church from destruction! That the noise
. of the rowdy Doctor-for he ronred like a
: : very bull of Bashan land the loud jeers
! of his boon companions, did not annoy the
/, friends of order, It would be too much to
J say; but the disturbance was not such as to
/ interrupt the progress of the meeting. Able
d addresses were made by ii. c. Wright aud
= A. X. Foster. William ID. Ewing ofNew
Y Lisbon, a sort of amateur Freesoiler, came
n forward in manly way TO vindicate the
10 Constitution and the Union, but we cannot
n honestly say that he helped the cause he
- sought to defend. De LORNA Brooks, an
n, out.snd-out Wing, who believes that the
of 'selfevident truths of the Declaration O
RI Independence are transparent lie-whos,
IN highest rule of morality is that Power give
'sr Right and who wouldn't mind holding
Sc slaves and raising them for market If th
nd lais only allowed it--eontroyeFted alike tn
70 views of the Abolitionists and ofMr. Ewing
ho He admitted, however, that the former wer
,Ie consistent in opposing the Union and Con
stitntion,S believing as they did that SLAYER
was a sin and that II was crime TO aid 4
'or uphoIding II. They were both pretty efiecl
Nv uuIiy used up by A. X. F. .as h llsli
I'D Tho meeting on the whole was a gran
&c, one, and we believe that the good seed 5
ow freely sowh win produce on abundant hal
Ihs vest, S,.a iN'i4 iifimt slli
Re- I'VE haye understood, and see man
'fS' reasons for believing, that Dr.. Evans W.