Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-30
NINTH ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
Western Anti-SIavery Society.


: to celebrate tho Ninth Anniversary Of the West
crn Anti-Savery Society. At the appointe
r hour TRrMAx CASE, one of the Vice Presidents
} took the Chair. The exercises of the occasion
were introduced by a song from the Heightons
On motion;
Resolved, That the Chair appoint Commit
tee of ten, to prepare business for the action o
the meeting,-also
Resolved, That Committee Of eight be ap
! pointed to nominate eficers for the ensuing
year.
G. G. BuRLEioH then spoke, reviewing th,
history of the Anti.Slavery enterprise, and tn,
signs Of the times. Showing, that, although
the efforts of the slave power were desperate
and unprecedented in enormity. Their very
desperation furnished ground for hope. 1t wal
one of Mr.. Burleigh's most successful efforts
full of the inspiration Of truth and feeling
The President then announced the following
Committees
BUSINESS COMMITTEE,
p Pillsbury, sallie Holley, Oliver o. Brown,
Benjamin Down, Mary Whiting, Joseph Hegh-
ton, Lydia Irish, c. Burlcigh, Samuel Myers,
James Barnaby and J. T. Smalley.
NOMINATING COMMITTEE.
Lewis Morgan, John Gordon, Cordelia l..
Smalley, Samuel Brooke. Horace Case, X. G.
Thomas, George Garretson.
Rev. w. II. BRsDANB Of Cincinnati follow
cd, in most eloquent and effective address,
We are quite sensible of inability to do justice
to its merits. We cannot however refrain from
presenting a meagcr outline Of his course of re-
marks. He said;
have been introduced here as Carolinian.
But if patriotism consists in loving the Goueyn-
n'eH OF ones country, then am l no patriot, for
feel that the government of my native State,
is more despotic than that which sustains Rus.
sian surfdom. But love the spot where was
born, and therefore 1 shall not repudiato tho
name of Carolnian, although 1 have been
wronged by the Government of my State. l
stand here an exile from my native land-exiled
for opinion.
Some there arc, who suppose they arc inh-
dels, who are assembled to do tho work we pro-
pose to-day. This is called an infdol move
mont, because it desecratcs day dedicated to
the worship OF God. AS minister Of tho Cos
pei, declare, know no better worship, than
that which elevatcs man, and thus acknowledge
cs the supremacy of the throne of God. Thus
Jesus labored on this day, and in this work.
What accomplished the American revolu- |
tions Suppose you it was the swords of WASH
ington or Layfayett. 1t is a mistake. Honor
to the names who in an unenlightened age,
(and this too, is yet an unenlightened day,)
would defend human liberty by the sword and
the bayonet. But it was not the sword or the
bnyonot that achieved that revolution. 1t was
the great moral sentiments they uttered. The
declaration that all men were created free and
equal. With this sentiment they would have
triumphed without the drawing of single
sword or the discharge of single gun at Bunk
or Hill or Yorktown. Why after eighteen hun
drcd years, are there so many without the Cos
pei Of Jesusf 1t is because men haze sought |
to propagate it by carnal weapons.
Men may go into the pulpit and preach from
a text, and suppose they make converts, bat
have learned from my own experience, that
Often indeed these converts do not acquire the
first principles of godliness. Forms, rights and
ceremonies are not true religion. They are
worthless. Religion, pure and undeiiled in the
good old book, is defined to be that which visits
tho widow and the fatherless, and keeps ones
self, unspottod from the world. Tell mo not,
that man prays or breaches, and is devotional.
Let me know if he feels for the oppressed
Let me know if he goes about like the Lord
Jesus Christ, to comfort the mourner, and heal
the broken hearted.
We arc here to-day for holy purpose. To
labor as Jesus did to redeem men from oppres-
sion. To preach deliverance to the captive
Are you not engaged in a christian work, when
you labor to break the bonds of the oppressed
and release the slave i-call such infdels if you
will, they arc my brethren, because they labor
for the poor oppressed slave, and / am taught
by Jesus to do the same. Who now represent
Christ upon the earthi Is it tho Pope OF Romo
or his Arch Bishop in Cincinnati. Or the
clergy of all denominations in the land. Some
representatives arc among them, trust. l
look upon the poor outcast, who flies from
slavery to liberty-unclothcd, or clothed in
rags, barefooted and hungry-by night guided
by the North Star light, he calls at your door,
tells the story of his suffcrings, and shows his
Scared and furrowcd back. I then remember
Jesus, who was also scourged and beaten, and
then read the christianity Of my Saviour, who
as N servant was rejected Of men, and by his
suferings redeemed such wanderers as you
have just driven from your doors. While am
Christian, will speak, work and write for
the Slave And when I see others making
themselves of no reputation, and subjecting
themselves to detracton and abuse, for the
sake Of tho suffering, tell me not they arc inf
dels.
Our great work is to break the shackles from
thrca millions of slaves in our own land, and