Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-13
Meeting in Frsed's Grove.

meats. We reached here at sunset from the
meeting in Frced's Grove, which is not as
might be supposed, the title Of any particular
town, village or neighborhood, but simply a
"piece of woods" one Of Gods first tenn
PIES" beautiful grove of beech and maple
trees, dedicated to humanity by the proprie-
tor Mr.. Geo. Freed.
In hot and sultry day one almost thanks the
Westinghouse people for their close shut doors,
and rejoices in the ample space, tho fresh air,
the green trees Of the "grovo," only as Mr..
Pillsbury said, the grove was ga mile from any
Vhere, and many miles, from many people.
There was not a large number of persons
present yet earnest looking men and women,
all. They seemed eager to imbibe tho full inn
port Of the great ideas, and the grand truths
uttered by Messrs. Pillsbury and Walker. Az
ter an A. s. song, Mr. Pillsbury opened his re-
marks by saying that our meeting house was
somewhat out of proportion with the audience
that was convened init.
Ho then conducted his hearers by the fairest,
simplest reasoning, through most indisputable
facts to the conclusion that the professed chris
tian churches, of our land are not doing, and
probably never pia do the work of reforming
existing wrongs and evils.
He said the business Of religion is to make war
upon wickedncss, unrightoousness and sin, and
when oil these arc done away the work of re-
ligion is done. Religion is a war of INVASION
and the church should be an army of inUGders,
but instead Of heing such, of being aggressive,
It exists only for self defence and the world is
alarmed when it is acting in any way but upon
the defensive. The world is invaded by war.
rapino, oppression and injustice, and the busi-,
ness of the church is to muster her forces and
go forth to attack and fight to the very death,
until these abominations are every one of them
subdued and driven from the world. And If
the Church is not doing this she is not doing any
thing. She ought not to be called the church.
and do not call any thing but what does this
the church and wherever 1 find a company
doing this battle, that call the church of God.
that the sacramental host.
The churches daro.not attack war, intomper-
ance and slavery, for they are the war, the in
temperance, the slavery themselves. Our coun-
try is filed with their kind of religion, and that
is the reason VIC have to hold Anti-S Slavery
meetings in the woods. Wehavc fity thousand
churches and as many ordained ministcrs.-
Why don't til ey do something We have got
three millions of slaves and three millions Of
church members. He insisted that the church
ought by the moral power, by the very strength
of her religion, in virtue of it, to have freed
every slave long ago.
Tie address was full ofsublime thought, and
beautiful illustrations, and it is exceedingly TO
be regretted, that so mnager and imperfect
sketch-only frightful skeleton beside the fair
and living speech-should be all that is furnish
cd for the readers of The Bugle. At tho close
Of his address, Mr.. p. related very affecting
story Of the extreme grief of little emigrant
girl, among kindest strangers whose mother was
dead, and she utterly refused to be comforted.
And wish it might be the good fortune Of eve
ry body TO have their hearts touched and warm
ed by his eloquent appeal, in behalf of tho little
ones all over the South, that are suffering
"heart-breaking, home-siekness and pinine
loneliness" whose mothers are not dead, but
they arc torn from them and dragged away to
endure tho hsrshness of unfeeling strangers in
American Slavery.
Mr.. Walker pursued the subject Of the hy-
pocricy of the Churches, and gave a clear prac-
tical exposition Of the precepts of Christianity
AS listened to the palpablc truths. taught
by these men, and advocated with SO much
fairness, with such candor and sincerity, and
with an unnch lovn 7 uondarod that ,xoo,, Al =.
good men should hate them SO; and most Of
ALL am astonished at the universal misappre-
hension Of them and their motives, and at the
garbled extracts that every where appear, of
their speeches. But the people arc yet to hear
and decide for themselves.
Yesterday, p. NJ, our party arrived in New
Franklin. and were told that no church or school
house could be obtained for the, meeting but
that shoemaker had agreed (for a oonsidera-
tion) to open his shop for the purpose.
AS we alighted at the door, the shoemaker
arose, took off his apron, and piled his lasts
and other implements of trade on the shelves,
showed his bench to ono side. sprinkled and
swept the floor; boards were brought in and
seats hastily constructed for the few persons
present to occupy them.
Mr.. Walker opened the meeting by pertinent
remarks, and was followed by Mr.. Pillsbury,
who said i; We are told the Ministers and Peo-
pie here are afraid of our Inidelity, and for this
cause have closed the Churches against US. lie
then went on to say that the professed Chris
tianity ofthe American people, allow its pro-
fessors to make Others, what they would rather
die than become themselves to do to Others
caiidr9n what, they would sooner follow their
oon children to the grave, than have done to
them and he defined the Infdelity of Aboli-
tionism, which really does to Others as we would