Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-09-14
Meeting at Palnesyllls.


we closed a most exciting, but not very profta-
BILE meeting here in Paincsvillc. We have al
so held Conventions since last wrote, at Balm
bridge and Cleveland The former well at
tended, and the interest well sustained through
out-the latter less so, owing to want Of suit
able notice, which made most Of the meetings
very small indeed.
Our meeting here has been we'll attended.
but chiefly by Frccsoil men; the political Phar-
isces of the age, who fancy that "they are
righteous and despisc Others They have en-
tire control here; the sheriff and part of the
Commissioners being leading spirits-and yet,
when we went to the Court House, We found
ourselves locked out, and so commenced our
meeting in front Of IT,
1t was soon announced. however, that the
Court Room was open, and we adjourned into
it. Somebody with ladder climbed to the
chamber window, and by breaking out two
very large squares of glass, made an entrance,
and then forced the door. Ofthis we knew moth
ing, or, for one, never would have entered
never will be accessory to any such proceedings.
The Frecsoil sheriff, having charge, had gone
out Of town, and found room in his pocket to
carry the key with him. Some one promptly
notified him of the felony, and he Immediately
wrote back his manifesto, holding us, or those
who forced admission, responsible. do not
know how the affair will be adjusted.
We were invited there by, (as we afterwards
lcarned,) Freesoil men, and for Frcesoil purpo-
ung hut mo, n q. I. A.
well as others, full justice. We invited discus
sion, but had no opponent, until after nine
o'clock of the last evening Then a LAWYER
from Cleveland, by the name of Tifany-a
stranger to me though we'll known, 1 believe,
on tho Reservc--rosc as lie said, to show that
our positions touching the Froesoil party were
utterly false and untenablc. We had been
showing the guilt of the party in swearing al
lcgiance to the Constitution and Union; thus
conniving at, or rather perpctrating, the MUIR
der and plundcr of the $4,000 Mcxicans, and
now sitting in Congress eight or ten months,
with the other two parties like three infamous
pirates, deliberating and quarreling how they
shall divide and appropriate their booty.
We had evidently made deep impression on
the crowded audience. Every car seemed
open, every eye was on the speakers. We had
cited Joshua r. Giddings, Judge Mclean. DIR.
Bailey, Martin Van Buren and the Buffalo Plat.
form, to show what was tho real position of the
party. Mrs. Fosters argument would have
honored the loftiest Senator, her appeal would
have made the pulpit immortal. l also contri-
butcd my morscl as best / could.
And our positions remain as yet unshakcn,
our argument is not even attacked. For Law
yer Tiffany, skilled and schoolcd as he is in po-
litical tactics, avoided the question wholly that
had been under consideration, and undertook
to show that if our ground was the true one,
then we by paying imposts, taxes and postage,
were just as bad as those are who make the
government, aud compel as all to submit 10 IL on
pain Of death. 1t is believe in the jurispru-
dence of Freesoil only, that such principle OBJ
tains. Only at its bar are the robber and
his victim held and adjudged alike guilty.
After he had made this point clear TO the
humbiest capacities, he proceeded to deny utter
| ly that VIC had truly represented the Frecsoil
party. He did not say, nor could he say, that
our conclusions were not perfectly Just, view
| ing the party as it must be viewed in the light
of the authorities VIC had quoted But he
claimed that the party had advanced, and now
held the Constitution as strictly anti-slarery! !
unblotted by single slave compromise-that
slavery was every where illegal-that Congress
could and should abolish it every where. that
rery night that it was only on these grounds
that he electioneered for Mr.. Giddings, that
he asked no man to vote for AIr. Giddings only
as he would act out these sentiments and that
unless he would carry them out to the utmost,
he would never give him his own vote or sup
port. He was asked when Mr. Giddings and
the party had been thus rcgcneratcd- no
did not fix the date of the marvellous, tho mi
raculous conversion. 1 inquired if he had
read Mr.. Giddings's speech of the 18th of Au-
gust. lie said he had not told him thought
that speech was full denial of all he now
said, at least up to the time of its delivery. But
he still persisted in his position.
1 told the audience it was clear that IL we had
truly represented the position of the party
they were as guilty as the other parties in sup
porting the government and as our opponent
declined meeting that issue at all, it was very
evident, at least to my mind, that no fully
agreed with us.
Ihavo just written to Mr.. Giddings at Wash
ton to inform us whether he is the pcrjured trai
tor to tho government that his friends at Paines
vile must believe him, as it seems to me, if h
was truly represented by his friend and advo
cate, Mr.. Tiffany. He swears his allegiance Il
the South as well as the North, to Shareholders
as well as others, to the Supreme Court of tn
} United States, the recognized expounder of tn
Constitution, and to the God he worships-t
! all these he swears-that he will support an,
} obey the Constitution. He takes the nation
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