Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-03-15
From William Z. LukenS.

March 2, 1851.
DEAR OLIVER 1T would greatly crafty
few of us here, if some of your long g-tricd and
able advocates Of human rights could visit this
pro.slayery, priest-ridden region. I cannot,
however, hold out any pecuniury inducements.
We have some true anti-slavery men, some
lukewarm ones, and great many that have no
| sympathy with the movement. Those who
feel the most interest in the cause are either too
limited in circumstances, or too much alarmed
at the religious heresies of our agents, to con-
tribute TO their support. Amongst the latter
are the COvcnantcrs. They take strong ground
on the subject, many of them have their whole
hearts in the cause, but are painfully fearful of
hcresy.
Immediately after the passage Of the Fugi-
tive Slave Bill, few of us urged upon our
neighbors the necessity and duty Of meeting to-
gether to express our abhoucncc and detesta-
lion of this iniquitous law. But no meeting
could be raiscd until it was clearly ascertained
what the general manifestation for and against
this bill might be. When it was known that
the whole North was agitated, and the most
timid were speaking in tones of manly indigna-
ton, our people vcnturcd to call meeting
and the severcst resolution they could pass was,
that they would submit to its utmost penalties
rather than obey its requirements. This the
Shareholders knew before the law was enacted.
1t could not look very alarming to the udvo-
Gates of the law. BIr. Waddle, q Union preach
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of two Covenantcr cicrgymen, who proposed to
have the names of those who voted for the bill
printed with black lines drawn around thcm.-
lie could not think it would do to say anything
derogatory to the character of the men who
might in future become the Office holders under
this law. SO no black lines were drawn around
their names. and no hard thing--no true thing
was said of the unprincpled being who could
be induced to become q slayecatching tool for
Southern man-thievcs. Mr.. Waddle told his
audience that he had been preaching and ope-
rating in various why's for twenty years in this
neighborhood, and appealed to the audience if
he had not done moro good than any other man
in it. A little like the painter who had to write
over his picture the kind of animal it was
There are subjects on which to speak tamely
and subnissively is worse than not to speak at
all. When such daring and villainous out
rage against humanity is perpctrutcd by whole
nation, it is calculated to excite the most indig
nant abhorrence in every generous and philan-
thropic bosom-a feeling strong and enduring
in proportion to the power arrayed against it,
IA ~, ia tbair
ments of condemnation of this national iniqui-
ty in words Of fire, it would be better for these
diluted, milk water resolutions 70 remain
unsaid.
Our meeting, and the circumstances connect
cd with it, might be compared to city on fire.
The whole city becomes alarmed. Every ap-
pliance is brought to bear against the destroy
ing clement. Strong men, by the use of strong
engines, spout columns of water on the ascend
ing flames, mover daunted by the work before
them, nor alarmed by the dangers that surround
them aiming only to extinguish the destroyer.
But away yonder in some remote alley, out Of
all possible danger of smoke or dust, stand Mr..
waddle and his clerical coadjutors, with ell
der squirts, squirting towards the burning hous-
es, but falling three hundred yards short of
them. Mr.. Waddle cries, Get out of the way
with your harsh engines, you are too severe.
have been squirting about this town these twen-
ty years, and appeal to this people, If am not
the most efficient squirtcr in all this region
But when all becomes calm again, it will be dis
covered that it was the peoples engines, not tho
clerical squirts, that extinguished the flames.
There is one reason why think it somewhat
important that the Committee should send an
agent here. Our paper, which had become
shorn of most of its anti-slayery spirit, Is now
in the hands Of Rev. w, Wallace, man who
has long been in the colonization service, as an
efficient agent in that iniquitous schcme,--
Whether he intends to make it a colonization
organ or not, has not yet boen made public
But that Is q probable conjecture. Tho fact that
attempts are being made all over the country to
galvanize this old body into new life is evidence
that that is his intention. He warmly recon-
mends to the attention Of his readers Rev. Or
vile Dswey's mean and cowardly defence Of