Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-08
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Anli.SlavCry Meeting at Edinburgh,

FRIEND RomNsoS 1T was my good fortune
to attend an Anti-Savcry meeting at tho cen.
tire of Edinburgh on Thursday evening last,
October 10th, called for the purpose of giving
Z. c. Burlcigh an opportunity to address the
people on the subject Of American Slavery.
There was a fair attendance (for Edinburgh)
with sprinklmg of the slavery gentry, for
which the place is somewhat celebrated. l saw
fair attendance" for there were MIRO than
double the number ~ 1t assembled {, ooor f,;orl
',.--.nan at the ,anc place in December, AS !;
moro meogrc audience than THAT, believe
never saw. Friend Burleigh's audience would
have been considered SMALL 10y any ono urac-
quaintcd Will. the place. From this cvilcacc
of progress, am inclined to think there is even
salvation for Edinburg, yet fear she will be
saved "as by fire." She would have ''rcpcntcd
long ago in dust and ashcs," but for her pro-
slavery priests, who, ever true to the best in
tcrests of him who "gocth about like roaring
Eon," whenever they find an anti.slavcry
meeting called in the township, are always
pulling back till they arc as black in the face ns
arc their hcarts-and only give over lest suifo-
cation might cnsuc. / will, however, make
one cxccpton-Mr. Burr of the Congregational
Church, and even he has plenty of room for
progress.
Friend Durlcigh commenced with the "hrst
principles as il was necessary to do in such
community, where tho alphabet of anti-slavcry
is yet to DO learned. lie spoke with an energy,
Al =.
and untold horrors aud cnormitics of American
Slavery, with a truthfulncss and carncstncss
that must have carried conviction TO the SOUL
Mothinks can now see the black and terrible
picture which he drew of the slave system
the tramplcd rights, the bloody scourgc, the
separated family, the scanty feed, the baying
blood hounds, the violated wife or daughter
it was picture os dark as night, as bitter as
hell Yc who say that ye have nothing 10 DO
with slavery, should have bcheld this scene,
and pondcrcd it attcntvcly. Friend b. led his
hearers on, irrcsistibly, from point to point,
proving all his positions beyond dispute or ca
viii One gentleman present crdcavorcd to
correct Mr.. BIS quotation Of the Constitution,
but Mr.. b. having read that instrument, lie
soon settled the point, Mr.. GrecnbuTy Keen,
a somowht prominent Frccsoilcr in Portage
County, rose and objected to Friend B.'s course
in CHASING Frccsoilcrs with Wings and Demo
Gratis. Mr.. b. replied by showing conclusivcly
that whereas Wings and Democrats uphold
American Slavery willingly and knowingly, the
Frccsollcrs, through ignorance or misapprc-
hcnsion of the relations they sustain to the
Government, do the same thing. Mr.. X, for
reasons which were apparent to every one, did
not design to reply second time.
To sum up Mr. BIS remarks, it was mas
torly effort, and decidedly the best address l ov-
cr heard from his lips Would that we had
moro such men in the ant-savery vineyard
and would that more such meetings wcic held
IA Edinburgh. Suffice it to say, the people
dispersed better satisfied than when they came,
Yours, always,
ARIEL CASE, ID.
Atwater, Oct. 22d, '5l