Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-24

OathS the MOST gross uUu icNoiiie1 So"i
manded us to get out. We were too unwell
10 contend with them, and accordingly got
out of the stage. They then commanded us
TO get on the top Of the stage. This we de-
clined doing, and told the driver to hand
down our baggage. This the stage
agent declared should not be done, crTsing
us all the while in strain which would
have reflected credit upon highway robber
or blood-thirsty pirate. We manifested
but little concern for our trunk, believing, ms
proved to be the case, that the insolent vii
lain merely resorted to this as a means of
compelling us TO get on top of the stage. He,
at the last, caused our baggage to be thrown
down upon the pavement, just before the
stage moved of, leaving us behind. We
then called upon the agent to refund the
money which we had paid him the day be-
fore for the use Of the seat from which we
had been abusively driven. This request
only called forth new abuse and additional
threats fom the petty robber. lie swore
TINT he would not return the money, anu
told us that we might as well clear out. This
was a height of injustice and outrage, such
as we had not expected even from tllat
source, corrupt MS we knew It TO be, NOT
content to drop the matter here before leav-
| ing Columbus, we authorized lawyer TO
| sOlleCI TIC utnOult. lDtlhk ohbe t'h 'aNs's
! the stage, we were compelled to hire pri-
vate c9rriage at considerable expense, in
order TO reach GAINESVILLE in time for our
appointment there.
On arriving ut GAINESVILLE, we found that
the agents of the stage company there had
been instructed, by telegraph or otherwise,
TO exclude lis from stages on the entire route
to Wheeling. Upon this display of malice
and prescription, comment is scarcely nc
cessary. We were not, however, to be kept
in GAINESVILLE by the wrath and power of the
stage agent Our friend MIR. Lukins OF
New Concord, kindly afforded us convey
auce of some twenty-six miles, to Cam
bridge, where we were brought into contact
with another stage line, where we were not
only treated with Justice, but with civility
and kindness, during the whole journey froin
that town to Pittsburgh.
OF our Pittsburgh visit, extensive notices
have already been copied into the North
| Star; and, in conclusion, we will only allude
10 one or two circumstances which seem to
require special mention.
There is in Pittsburgh n Wesleyan Meth
odist Church, made.up, doubtless, of honest
and fair-minded men and women but, un-
fortunately, that church hpa, in.its commun-
ion, aud officiating IN itspulpt asa inlnister,
a man as false as Judas lscariot; and that
man Is Rev. Lewis Woodson. IL was our
privilege TO tell him so TO his face. On
reaching Pittsburgh, our friends applied for
the Wesleyan Methodist Church, for us TO
hold meeting. The house was refused us,
solely through the hypocritical agency of
this Reverend Lewis Woodson. Gu nppl-
cation being made for the house, he address
ed the church on the subject, aud opposed
the granting of it, in speech characterized
by misrepresentation and jesuitism TO de-
gree unsurpassed. His first position was,
that Messrs. Garrison, Wright, and Foster,
were infdels, and that we belonged to the
Garrison school; that he had been TO New
York TO attend the anniversaries; that he
had returned home disguised with what ho
had there witnessed among the abolitionists.
lie stated that the tendency of GarrisOnlsm
was, to destroy good morals; and instanced
the case of Thomas Van Rensselaer,, whom
he said he had seen, from the window of his
own boarding -bousc, playing at billiards on
the Sabbath day, in the uppr story OF ST.
Charles Hotel. OF course we believe this
statement TO be false, and mention IT here
that Mr.. Van Rensselaer, may know what Is
being said of him, and may, if he please,
deny the charge.
These representations of Mr.. Woodson,
with his inferences, had the effect OF eXclud-
ing us from the Wesleyan Church for
time; but finally the doors were thrown
open TO us, and we held several excellent
meetings within their walls. 1t should be
known that this Lewis Woodson Isl colored
man and that he is the same who, no long
er ago than last May, again and again, solicit
ed It's TO unite with him in an effort Tor ille
improvement and elevation of our people
and that our name now stands side by SIDE
with his in tn association formed by our mu-
{ tual cooperation. We supposed that we
were about as odious as we could be III
New York, and are at loss to know why
the same man who solicited our society IN
; New York, should be so Mortified by contact
!. with us in Pittsburgh.
As this article is already extended beyond
the limits which we had proposed, we leave
! it for the present, and shall recur TO the sub
,, iect again, should nothing of more impor-
lance iake its place. Our visit to Pittsburgh
was Notwithstanding the treacherous, con
duct of Woodson) one which we shall long
: remember with emotions of high satlsiac-
!; tiOn.-F. d.