Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-10-25
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
affirmative, the balance of the audience nearly
all voting in the negative

affirmative, the balance of the audience nearl,
all voting in the negative.
Resolved, That II was judcious on the part OF
the people of the United States to introduce in.
to their Constitution the clause prohibiting Con.
gress abolishing the Foreign Slave Trade un.
til 1908.
Sojourner said SHE knew something of the
Union-she had felt it the scars of it were on
her back, and she would carry them to hel
grave. The Union was not sweet to her, IL was
very bitter, and If others would taste IL in the
same way, they would think it was bitter.
! c. c. Burlcigh closed the exercises Of the
first day with one of the most eloquent and og-
cal speeches we ever listened to. lie showed
that our fathers must have been in terrible
state, II the best thing they could do under the
circumstances, was to become, by their own
showing, PIRATES; and then went on and prov
ed most conelusively that il they had refused a
union with South Carolina and Geoi gia upon
the conditions proposed and accepted, tho for
eign slave trade would have been abolished
much sooner than it was, and the North would
have retained its conscience.
On Sunday morning J. w. Walker gave an
account Of a meeting held that day week OF
Bsinbridge, of the proceedings at which full
statement will probably be furnished for the
columns of the Buglc, so it needs not here to be
dwelt upon. c. c. Burleigh occupied the re-
maindcr of the forenoon in considering the pres.
ent aspect of the anti-slavery cause, and the du-
ty Of every lover Of freedom in relation to il,
referring to the fact that that assembly were
engaged in the kind of worship most acceptable
to God-the worship which the Priest and Le-
vite did not perform when they neglected the
man who had fallen among thieves, but which
was understood and pructised by The despised
Samaritan.
In the afternoon Sojourner Truth gave brief
account of her treatment and her feelings while
slaye-she also said she could not explain very
clearly the difference between Frcesoilers aud
Garrisonians, but she could feel it. She re-
menbcred how they used to hackle flax: some
worked by-the-day,-b e-day,-the
speaker while saying it swinging her arm as
slowly as though affected with rheumatic pnins)
and Others worked by the job, by the job job,
job, (making her arm go as quickly as she well
could.) The Freesoilers worked mighty slow
by--the-,day. but the Garrisonians worked by
the job, job, job.
The remainder of the afternoon was occupied
by c. c. Burleigh, showing how abolitionis,s
could most efficiently act. Moral truth was su-
perior to paper ballors Gerrit Smith, with his
hoarf a,l olo -, H. g.il ~r
moral warfare counted Gerrit Smith, but at the
ballot box he counted just as much pnd no more
as the drunkard from the ditch who staggered to
the polls and voted a ticket without knowing
whose name was on it. He showed that those
who wished to leave pro slavery Union could
do so, for there was TO power could compel
man to do wrong unless he consented. He re-
ferred to the strength Of the slave power, but oh
the side of freedom was God that though the
oppressor now bore rule, he should be crushed
as the Almighty had made Babylon a desola-
ton, and brought Egypt to the dust because of
their iniquity, so would he sooner or later deal
with this nation unless it repcnted. The abo-
litionists might be called upon to suffer martyr
dom, might be led to the faggot and the stake,
yet Truth and Freedom would ever be onward
and il such should be the fate of the enemies OF
rlavery, it was far better to suffer oppression
with the despised children of God, than enjoy
for a season the wages of iniquity.
Toward the closo of the meeting the follow
ing resolution was adopted with but four OF five
dissenting votes, and Sojourner explained that
those who voted in the negative did so because
they knew Daniel Webster, but did not know
God.
Resolved, That we would rather be the men
who now lie in Jail awaiting their trial for trea
son, than we would be Daniel Webster or
AIillard Fillmore.