Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-05-25
WHOLE NO. 245.

declined, and which, fortunately for the in
domitable Captain, this present writer did
not hear of till after the meeting, otherwise
the city would have been at the expense
Of that gentleman's board and lodging for
few hours.
But that neither Garrison, Francis jack
son, Isaac Il. Hopper, nor any other of the
persons on the platform would strip for a
kDock-down was a notion that at length made
its way through Rynders's hnir, and gradual
ly into the souls of his followers. They
looked down upon them with concentrated
| rage and scorn, but the fact remained the
saline, not fight could be had. They were
on the very eve of a most ignominous de-
feat in spite of tile count, n nee of Police
Capt. Raymond, when tall aud quite seedy
looking individual with one hand tied in
not very clean piece of co ton cloth, rushed
TO the rescue. lie thought himself quito
competent to do the talking and by talking
u wus clear the matter had TO he settled
lie was accepted as the champion of the
losing party, perhaps partly because il was
llobson's choice with them, and partly be-
cause talking nationally was a thing us ensy,
and no easier, than flying. Indeed none OF
them did or would attempt any thing much
beyond the mere uriiculatc brute sounds
with which on all such occasions they prove
their affinity with other animals, except
Capt Rynders, and he is so Titled removed
from complete jackass that his friends are
no doubt aware of his incompetency as "a
speecl-making or rational being. Order nj
length being in some measure restored, Mr..
Garrison finished his speech with only oc-
casional Interruptions il being understood
that Mr. Grant should have the right Of re-
ply.
Mr. Furness, however, Tollowed Mr.. Cor
rison Immediately. Ills friends may perhaps
have felt tliuta clergyman entirely unaccus-
toned TO public speaking except ia the re-
pose of Sabbath meeting would hardly do
himself justice when surrounded in a popu-
lar assembly by such distracting and tuniul-
tuous elements. The first tones of his voice,
however, the self-possession of his manner,
the firmness of his stand and tile perfect
ease OF his whole bearing, must have dspcl-
led, in moment any such apprehension
Had he done nothing for the last dozen years
but lecture on Slavery, and been accustomed
to such scenes every month, he could not
have better apprehended the relations in
which he stood. The speech in itself was
most chnste and finished production, us full
OF beauty as II was of truth, but through tho
purity and elegance of its dicton, and its
clearness of thought, shone the beauty and
truth of its spirit, and the influence which
went out frnm the speaker diffilsed itself al
most at once over the whole assembly, falling
like healing balm upon a recent wound.
penetrating like pleasant sunlight into dark
places, descending like summer showers on
hot and parched and perisling eanh. 1t
reached even the rude men who stood ready
to fssail the meeting, and magnctiscd them
into quiet though its words Of wisdom so
simply and so clearly expressed could not
probably penetrate TO their dull brains IL
turned altogether the current of the meeting,
or rather sent onward with resistless force
the current already turned.
And then came Mr.. Grant lie prides
himself evidently on being 'nothing if not
critical and the audience were inclined to
take him at this valuation, and decided un-
equivocally that he was not the latter His
speech was meant TO he replete with scien-
tho lore, with comparative anatomy, and
analytical science, but did NOT seem TO be al
together satisfactory to his client Rynders.
who could very easily understand, il lie un-
derstood nothing else, from the peals of
laughter with which the audience greeted
the orator, that they very speedily decided
that he was making fool of himself and
that II he was rs loud as n drlInl-wbich
went for much with the 'boys' at the outset
that he was also as empty. lie began
with theory OF mans nervous centre,--
which he was good enough to tell his hear
ers they probably did not undcrstand--and
then deduced, through bivalves, aud unival-
yes, vertebre, the Jenus homo, aud elliptical
tlDe, that the negro was nearly allied TO the
Chimpanzee, aud therefore not being whito
man, was necessarily and properly slave.
lie reminded us OF Dumas reply to the inn
pertinent fellow who inquired OF his descent,
ana who was informed that his (Dumas)
grnndiather was monkey his race having
commenced where the lnquirers ended
The audience were evidently OF our way of
thinking,