Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-26
Reception Of ], R. Citdings

Tho meeting held in this place on Tuesday to
give a Public Welcome to Hon. JosHuA r..
GiDDrNos was attended by a vast concoursc Of
people from this and adjoining places. The
spacious Methodist church was packed almost
as closely as the hold Of a slaves ship, and hun
dreds were obliged to retire without being able
50 much as to look in at the door. The official
record Of the proceedings will be found in ano-
thcr part of this paper. Of Mr.. Giddingss
Speech it is enough to say that it was worthy Of
the cause and the man. After brief but feel
ing response to the welcoming Address, he pro-
ccedcd to review the proceedings of the Thirty
first Congress so far as they were connected with
slavery. He gave a rapid but exceedingly in
tcrcsting history of the Peace Measures, so cal-
led, and held up to view the trcachery Of those
Northern Representatives who abandoned the
Wilmot Proyiso and voted to pay Texas &c.,
100000 for stealing large part Of New Mexi-
co and in favor of the Fugitive Law. Tho utter
subscrviency to the Slave Power Of the Wing
course of Fillmore, Webster, Cass, Winthrop,
SC. were exposed in their true light, greatly to
the cdifcation Of the audience. Mr.. @. held up
to deserved contempt the threats of the South
to dissolve the Union and the efforts of the Old
IIunkers to save it. lie said the bill pretending
to abolish the Slave Trade in the District of CO.
lumbia was mere sham-that that trade was
now carried on there as briskly as before, with
only this difference, that the gangs of human
flesh were brought in in the night instead ofthc
day time. Mr.. G. also spoke of tho scenes he
had witnessed at Washington in connection
with that trade-thc case of the Elmondson
girls and others; and while he dwelt upon these
things the sympathics of the audience for the
slave were deeply moved. He spoke of tho
popular religion of the country, and denounced
It as the worst form of infdclity. He would
much sooner give the right hand of Christian
to Hobbies, Voltaire and other avow-
I'd skeptics than to those clcrgymen who had
prostituted themselves and their calling by at
tempts TO vmdieais The Fugitive law.
But we can give no report of the speech,
which delighted and electrified the audience
DE Iorns Brooks, Esq, oil Now Lisbon, inhor-
posed from time to time with various questions
and remarks, intended to blunt the edge of Mr..
Giddings's censure Of the Whig party; but he
only succeeded in getting both himself and the
party moro eifectually used up.-Mr. g. closed
with some excellent remarks on the many
cheering indications of the progress of the anti
slavery cause, and cxhorted his hearers to be
faithful to the end.
We arc persuaded that this meeting has given
fresh impulse to the anti slavery spirit in this
region. The manly dignity and unbending
frmness of Mr.. q. won all hearts. We venture
to say that no other public man in the United
States possesses in so high degree the conf
doncc of the true and good. No ono, after Sec
ing him, can be at any loss to understand by
what means he has met and vanquishcd the foes
of Liberty on the floor of Congress, or why his
presence should fill them with alarm.
We regret that no reporter was present to
give to the public in general the speech to which
the multitude who heard it listened with SO
much interest