Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-28
SALEM coLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO, SATURDAY JANUARY 9 1854

lso in that of Germantown, in 1881 a Delegate to
Congress and afterwards Member of the New
| York Senate Cen Matthew Clarkson, distinguish
ed during the Revolution for his courage and indie
| pendencc-in later YEARS President Of the Amer
lean Bible Society and eminent alike for the nobility
1 Of character the amiabty Of his disposition and
the purity of his life Robert X. Livingston, Of
I Cermont, Chancellor of New York. Secretar- for
Foreign Affairs under the articles Of Confederation.
and Chairman of the State Convention bv which
the Constitution ratihcd-the patron of Fulton. ,
the adyancer OF steam navigation and the warm
encourager of agriculture and the arts; Egbert
Benson, the Judge of our Supreme Court, and a
Member Of Congress, and known also as an en-
| thusiastic antiquarian. whom / we'll remember, at
the close Of his life, coming occasionally from his
home on Long Island to visit at Bedford his
cient felow.collcgian, and co-laborer during many
eventful years.
! All the learned professions the army and the
State, the mercantile classes and the more humble
trades were ftly represented in the Manumission
Society.
The Bench furnished them with Troup and Ben
son and Duane, and in later years with our much
amented Chancellor Kent.
The Bar sent them Hamilton, Kissam, Jones,
! Munroc, Tillinghast, Winter Wilkens, Golden,
johnson, Wood, Baldwin, Yates, Nathaniel Law
renee, Attorney General Boyd, Reese and Cutting
Notares Public and James NJ. Huges Master in
Chanccry.
Columbia College gave them DR.. John Kemp, the
Profcssur of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
r Dr. John Mason, for time the Provost of that
venerable Institution Dr. Moore, sometime its
President and Mr. Cochranc, Professor Of .he Greek
and Latin Languages.
, Tho Newspaper Press was represented by Fran
els Chds, and Hugh Gaines, the old Tory Printer
q The Church added 10 the good cause by her holy
influence. The Episcopal Church. so fully repre-
scnted by her laity, gave also her worthiest and
II chicfest dgnitaries. The excellent DIR. Benjamin
- Moore, Rector Of Trinity, who, during the whole of
the evolutionary War, had faithfully fulfilled the
u duties of his sacred Office. The Presbyterian
y Church furnished the Rev. John Mason, whose ell
Il oqucnt son many Of you will remember and the
" Rev. John Rogers The Dutch Reformed Church
~ DIR. John ii. Livingston, under whom the Dutch
. Churches which had been divided were happily
= united and made Independent Of the Glasses Of
- Amsterdam and the Rev. William Lynn. The
" Rev. John Garroc. Minister of the Church in Gold
> street; the Rev. Elkanah Holmes, and the Rev.
-, John Stanford
The Army. not again to to mention Colonel Ham
% ilton, represented by General Matthew Clark
- son, Major McDougal, Walker, aid to Baron
n Steuben Platt, aid to La Fayette at Yorktown
- General Malcomb and Commodore Nicholson.
= The Medical profession gave to the Society, the
:, eminent DR.. Charles Mcknight, Dr. Edward Miller,
% DR.. John Bard and his equally eminent son, DR..
>, Samuel Bard Dr. Coggswell and DIR. John Charles
n ton.
=. " Among the Merchants and other citizens Of the
~ first responsibility who were enlisted among the
- members of the Society or aided it by their ntO-
- ence NAV be named MelancthOn Smith, the old
~ Revolutionary Whig, who took active part in
., our Convention for the ratification Of the Constitu-
. ton Abiiah Hammond, Thomas Barrow and Dam
!. icl Smns6ury. both booksellers Robert Harper,
!, Secretary Of State; William Duer, the father OF
~ our present learned and accomplished Judge, and
= his brother the late President Of Columbia College
u Morgan Lewis, afterwards Governor of the State
Andrew lIammersy, James Rcnwick, Thomas
:, Mumford, William Dunlap, father Of the Historian
l., Noah Webster, the Lcxcographcr; Walter Browne
, John Aspinwall John Hone, Gabriel Furman
y Henry Post. Nicholas Fish, John Aisop, Walter
~ Rutherford William Constable, John Deafeld j
y Wainwright, Comfort Sunds, Walter Livingston
o. Richard Varick Anthony L. Blcccker J. Wadding
< ton, Samuel Ogden, Marinus Willctt, Henry Rem
/: sen Henry Rutgers, William Nelson, George Duy
;, ckinck, James Beekman, Cornelius Roosevelt
y Richard c. Moore, Daniel c. Verplank Corneliu,
j. Bogezt Pierre Van COurtlandt, John Ray, Jas
VI Roosevelt, II. Mulligan, Isaac Ledyard John vii
x kes ~ Popham, and very many others, whose son
OIL and grand sons now constitute the substantial par
i,GG of this community.
Ia Nor were the various trades without their repre-
ls sentatiyes Mingled with the statesmen and war
nc rors of the Revolution with the luminaries Of th
Bench and the Bar, the magnatos Of the Pulpit anC
'o- the rosrum, with the merchant princes Of th
~ u, Young Emporium, were the brewers, the watch
eu makers, the cabnetmakers, the shocmakcrs, th
re hatters the carvcrs and gders of that day and b.
NC an entry in the Minutes Of 9th November, l1S6,
m appears that the quarterly meetings OF the Socet
'a were changed to accommodate several members VIII
~ were engaged the same evenings at the meeting
ne of "the Hand in Hand Fire Company"
' Last in our enumeration but first in that gorou
nc work. its earliest promotcrs-its most faithful sell
ne DENYING persevcring and consistent prosecutor
, through long and weary, against bitter opposition
~ and cruel slanders-wcre the members Of the Soc
IlS ETY. of Friends; and so long as New York shal
w pwc constitute sovereign State and liberty and pro,
oo pcrty shall crown her citizens, 50 long will sh
ss hold in the warmest remembrance the names 9
We those who first resO red to Danish Slavery from he
hu borders and to elevate the Negroes into men.
re- All honor to Robert Browne, to the Murrayi
oS father and son, to the Lawrences, and Embree,
w. Goforth and Seaman Cock, Shotwell, Robbins an
W. Matlack, and their worthy coadjutors who carrie
lat on the good work which had been begun by thos
,es apostles of their faith, Benezet and Wooman
,rS Nor in closing this imperfect notice of the men
nh bers of the Munumission Society and the citizeI
M who aided their efforts, should omit all notice
Ice the Honorary members Of the Association in 70
rIv eign parts. The Marquis dc La Fayette and job
~ Pierre Brssot de Warville of France Granyil
tbe Sharp, Thomas Carkson and Thomas Hoare
ow England, and those able dvines OF our own countr
on. DR.. Ely Styles and DR., Samuel Hopkins of Rhoc
n Island.
yo. The review VIC have thus taken Of Slavery
ay New York and its abolition possesses for us valu
er and Importance beyond the mere interest great
ING il NAV be- which we naturally feel IN the progres
ion of 80 grand a work the eradication OF SLAYER
the and the slave trade from great State, and the 81
o SSTTg SSm S ops opUrossed and helpless people
for Il has for us higher, deeper interest both II
his the nresent and future as dsposing OF what,
many, ma + has been stumbling block in the way
INK manly efforts for American freedom, by discosir
the tho views and conduct upon this very question
I'D. Abolition, of the great men VINO % ;no nS NJ
hen their labors in tho Manumssiqn Society oi ne
dis. York assisted in forming the Federal Constitution
the stamped upon its features hoimpress Of their cie
md intelIects and steady patriotism and by their ol
be ouence secured its adoption against an active aE
Yors determined opposition
,ver Tho dark problem of this century ana TINS 70
tinent, upon which hangs the destiny Of the Anne