Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-09-07


hearts Of his hearers to the truthfuness Of
Jesus's doctrine Of overcoming evil with
good. Monday at o'clock, r. NJ, ibe Anti
Slavery meeting commenced under the great
ten, which was raised on the public square,
a place well situated for this purpose. A
large audience was in attendance--rcsolu-
tions were introduced and discussed by Par
ker PiIlsbury aud II. C. Wright, and the
meeting adjourned under decidedly fhvora-
BILE influences. In the evening II. G. Wright
again spoke upon the Peace question in the
School house, which is the largest room in
the place not under sectarion influence, show
ing the bloody character ofthe Constitution
and defending God from the charge of plea
surable participation in the wars recorded in
tho Old Testament. The house was crowd
cd TO overflowing, and friends prepared to
judge Of the audience believe an excellent
impression has been made in favor of Peace.
Tuesday morning, 10 o'clock. Met again
under the tent. A large audience from the
village and surrounding country evidently
sympatbising with the Slaves in their oppres-
sion by this wicked nation. Opportunity
was given for public vocal prayer, aud
volunteer Ant-Slayery Choir sang, al dream
of all things free" Parker Pillsbury then
addressed us upon the importance of pro-
per understanding Of the reforms Of the prcs-
ent age-that progress is inevitable to every
free spirit. His appeal to the young wns
eloquent and impressive, urging them to I'D
vance, to go up higher than the platform of
our Fathers of the Revolution, which was,
Give me liberty or give me DEATH leaving
the slave in his chains--to the idea of equal
and exact justice to all, Slaves as well as free
men. Most scathing was his rebuke Of the
churches and political parties, who, proies-
sing the largest liberty" and exemplary pie
ty, hold in Slavery's Calling choins three mil
lions of their brethren, equal in rights, though
not in infamy; for by their religious obliga-
tons with more than the solemnity of a civil
oath are they bound to bewray not him that
VANDERBILT" and by their oath to the Consti-
tuition bound to return the fugitive TO his
claimant Strict fidelity to either requisition
fixing the damning guilt of perjury upon their
souls. Mr. Pillsbury having spoken until
the hour Of adjournment, after n song by the
Choir, aye spirits of the free" adjourned
until one o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Meeting was called to order by the chair
man, and "Hail Columbia" was most hor-
moniously played upon several instruments
of music, exhilerating the audience and
preparing them for the singing of the Mar
sailes Hymn, arranged TO anti-slavery words,
'fe sons of freemen, wake to sadness Abby
i X. Foster then took the platform, and after
an appropriate introduction, said she feared
the audience did not fully comprehend as
they ought the enormity of Slavery, and the
reason why they were invited to attend our
meetings and cooperate with us in the de-
liverance of the oppressed. She then pro-
ceeded TO describe Slavery as it exists in this
boosted land of liberty, with all its churches
and ministers and Bibles. Missionaries from
this TO foreign lands never report from their
: fields of labor horrors and cruclfies that will
compare with the sufferings of our Slaves.
The picture drawn was awlnlly thrilling
Momentarily, I" the veil was removed" and
we saw the Liberty auction-block and the
accursed merchandise in the bodies and souls
of men. Youth and Innocence were sold in
the SHAMELESS where love of gain and hellsh
lust were sanctioned aud sanctfied by Church
and State. We saw the torturing lash as it
fell on woman's flesh, shedding innocent
blood, and heard her stihcd groans going up
TO the Eternal Throne, Witnessing against us
for our indifference or direct participation in
the crime. There were no studied arts Of
oratory, no effort to win applause by rbeto-
rical display Of classical quotations., beautiful
SMILES and wel-rounded periods, (which
play around the head but come not to the
heart Woman, with her Kindness and love
and deep sympathy, was earnestly pleading
the cause of the down-trodden and oppres-
sed, speaking from the iulness of her heart
and remembering those that are in bonds as
bound with them. Her appeal was irressti-
BILE. We felt its force, and swore anew eter-
nnl hostility TO the dark spirit of Slavery
Extracts from Southern newspapers were
reud advertising fugitive slaves, and those
that have been captured marked by the lash,
the knocking out of teeth, cutting the ears,
gun shot wounds, branding irons, iron collars,
and all the hellsh paraphernnlia of Christian
Slavery.
A most affecting narrative was given of the
escape from J. c. Calhoun, some years since,
of q brave husband and wife, and at this point
she paused for the singing of a soug descri-
bing this event, written for this occasion, aud
sung TO that plaintive air, "Are we almost