Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-08-27
SALEM coLUMBIANA COUNTY ONO SATURDAY AUGUST

ter (or the present of course,) with the conscences
and the God of them that heard me. Toward the
close Of the meeting was impressed to repeat the
language of the prophet Isaiah, as applicable to
our society at the present time: "The leaders Of
my people cause them to err, and those that are
led of them are destroyed" It happened that |
staid over night with one of our recommended
ministers, who told Inc should not have spoken
one word more after d. Steer told me to dcsist
and that the last time in particular, when using
the language Of the prophet, was entirely out Of
order, throwing out hard sentence on the heads
of socicty--that must remain dumb before the
elcrs-they were the heads of society: land o
course | must be somewhere near the tail they
were possessed Of the true spirit of judging, but
was in possession of the spirit of the devil
here tried to slip in word or two, but he forbade
and told me again must romain dumb, that it wa,
my place to listen when an elder spakc and obey
without beginning to reason that he was not goinp
to reason with mc that MUST not, emphasizing
the words strongly, read anti,slaycry books and
papers; and much more Of like character | sa,
and heard him through, and the moment he wa.
done he left the room, but soon returned to perform
his family devotions by reading chapter from III,
testament 1t may well be supposed that wa,
perfectly dsgustcd with his hypocricy and igno
rance.
1t appears to be the intention of the organization
that the elders shall rule and they do rule, and
the people love to have it so. If they in an oicia
manner say, yea, the members must say Amen
whether the saying recommends itself to the con
science as truth or not. The heads in a ycarl,
meeting capacity say 1T is true that slavery /,
confined to II section Of cur country. and is no
under the control of the national government
which is nothing short of lying hypocris, or down
right Ignorance, when the leaders know that th,
whole country is hunting ground for the slave sys
TEN, ard that the national government pays fol
the chase They know that the arms of the nation
yes that the very bones and muscles of its citizens
arc all pledged to the South to enable them to keeI
their slaves in ,hcir chnins and to carry on thei
inlrUman traffic in human flesh, separating hus
bands from wives, parents from children, and ever
the tender babe from the arms of its ds;racte,
mother. They know that the national governmcn
allows, yes more, authorizes the slave system I,
| poll three votes for every five slaves Thus tn,
national government is and ever has been oierin,
a premium ON slavery. And yet in view of al
these connections Of the national government will
slavery together with more than sixty years of pro
slavery legislation yearly meeting of orthodo
Friends, held in New York in 1852, can boldly as
sert, that the national government has no contro
over the system of slavery. And when a membc
in unity with that society dssents from this false
hood, and feels called upon by higher power t
expose it in public meeting, hc is ordered to taxi
his seat, with the tounting assertion that it was no
IN onti-slavcry meeting and they did not want t.
hear an abolition lecture. had supposed that i
society was anti-slavcry enough to issue docu
mcnt purporting to be ant-slavcry it ought to b.
willing to have it commented upon by its member
in collective capacity But it seems was mistaken
for the elders say it is my place to be dumb
Whether | obey the bchcst, time will disclose.
Thine for pure religion and true humanity,
SAMUEL D. MOORE.