Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-07-27

many such ns yOl 10 De eief"Nu ~.
not very comfortable or complimentary
Applause and misses.
Now. then, (though would not by any
means reproach even you, for | think more
blame lies at the door of your religious and
your moral teachers than at your own,) il
may be well 10 remind you that you have
not read carefully the history of that period
and have unfortunately reckoned yourselves
| i'm the wrong category. You have supposed
yourselves the friends of liberty, whereas
you come into such meeting MS they used
to have in Faneuil Hall, in the outset Of the
Revolution, and camor, or try TO clamor
such n meeting down. There were those
who clamored aud Kissed in those days, and
who thought that Washington, Adams, and
Hancock were very great fools and fanatics,
as well rs traitors. Aud if there were in
that day any .Ncic York Herald, (which God
forbid,) or Boston Bee, or Times-and there
is paper which some say (slanderouSly !
trusi) is even worse than thcse-l mean the
Boston Herald Three cheers for the Her
ald.l Very well, every one TO his taste, and
in his own vcTnacular. (Laughter.l IT
there were such papers MS these IN revolu-
tionury times, Gust the things now TO hang
in Kimbalps Muscum,) they were doubtless
branding the American patriots as traitors
who ought to be hssed, hooted and hung (;
and IL there were women who could make
cartridges for their husbands TO fire at the
enemy womcn,--whose luxury it was to go
without the enjoyment of tea,-suppose
there were Posts aud Mails that could talk
about the 'Aunt Nabbes,' and Abby kel-
ley Folsoms,' who would be better at home
mending their stockings ] do not knoiC
that there were such there might have been
we have them now.
was romarking that those who clamor
down tic cause of freedom now, would
have done the same then; and ifyou choose
TO occupy position like that, do not envy
you your choice.
The reason why this is sucb great day
for Boston is, that there is such spirit
waking up among the people that it is neees-
sary for the enemies to thus manifest their
displeasure. The time has come when the
ear of the people of Boston is again OPEN
What have we seen to-day? Tho most
eminent clergymen, the most popular edi-
tors, the most distinguished professional
gentlemen of every description, throngng
the Meodeon, listening hour alter hour to
sihc advocates otafrcedom, nnd listening with
an attention so profound us that II required
no very annoiniod eye TO see that the Genius
of Liberty was lowering over that mighty
assembly, and that the rustic of his wings
was tanning into glowing flame the few
sparks of love of liberty and justice that
still glimmered upon the nltars of so many
souls, where the fires of freedom had al
most been extinguished. Prolonged ap-
plause.l | say it was glorious TO witness
such glowing demonstration. And it
was so glorious, that even looked upon the
disapprobaton with high satisfaction for
| knew it would not have been manifested,
but for the majestic display ON the other side
of the long-slumbering spirit of justice and
freedom.
1t is n great day for Boston, when the
Bcechers and the Buckingbams, the Street
ers, the Vintons, and the Ballous, and the
clergy in multitude, of high as well as OF
low degree, throng the Anti-Slavery meeting,
and hour after hour, instead of reclining up
on their dumash couchcs, as at home or in
their own pulpits, could stand onthcir feet in
our rude aisles the whole half day together,
apparently with the most profound sensa-
tions of satisfaction and delight. And are
these the young men to clamor down dis
cussion which the very elite of your city
listen TO with such deep emotion? why,
young men, you have forgotten yourselves
You will not do that again. could not help
| ulilti1 'hSy
know not what they don
1t is q great day for Boston-and yet it is Il
day when it becomes us 10 review the past
l could not but think, this afternoon, what
our nation had been doing for the last twen-
| ty years. | ran my eye bnck TO 1880. II
was that mIlenial season, when the Spirit o
God, so the Church called it, came down as
in Pentecostal times, Il like rushing mighty
,,lr.i.s
stable, and from the Atlantic TO the water;
of the Mississippi, the whole land was redo
lent with reviyals,' aud the clergy and the
church exclaimed, 'The wilderness and the
solitary places are blossomng like the rose
and tie desert is shouting for joy And the
ministry thought they saw the rising sun o
millena glory. | was an humble actor in
those scenes. | lent the little influence
had, though scarcely more than arrived a
manhood to carry ON what seemed to me
the final victories Of the triunphing Church
and the sinners, as they were termed, wer'
found flocking in crowds 10 the Enquiry
meeting,' and from thence TO more stcra
mental scenes. Then was the day when th'
ways OF Zion no longer mournod; for TIN
multitude flew as doves to their windows
: into the ark of salvation. Aud the churcl
I lived whole eternity of Joy in the brigh
and prophetic contemplation.
That was the history of ten years, from
1880 TO 1910. Such season the world ha
never witnessed. Never did the Church s.
strengthen itself. But whit was the histO
ry of the succeeding ten years The churcl
had grown stronger. She had planted tn
banner of the cross in almost every yilng
and hamlet this side the Rocky Mountains
There was glorious triumphing Of Ameri
can religion. There was mighty ingather
ing to the American Church. The Gospel
as il came from the American pulpit, seem
ed clothed'with power divine. The lips o
the ministry seemed touched as with a liv'
coal from off the altar of God. And YET
what was tho history Of the ensuing tel