Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-28
THEODORE PARKER.

a Boston Correspondent Of the Tribune, VIII o
attended Mr.. Parker's Church on the next Sun.
day after Judge Curtis had dismissed tho indic
ment against him and others for free speech against
Slavery, sketches a portion of his sermon as fol.
lows:
MIR Parker then made q brief allusion to the
history of his arrest, in November last, for words
spoken in Faneuil Hall and Of his being bound over
TO take his trial on the fifth of March. 1t was the
eighty-hfth anniversary of the first British shot
fired into the American ranks for daring to rebel
against British auth0rity-it was proper that such
anniversary should be selected by American ty-
ranny to discharge the first shot into the American
bosom for free speech. Uncertain as to what n
few wicked men-they we're only a few-might do
toward his conviction, he had arranged his affairs
for a twelvc-months' imprisonment by the assist
ance Of two generous friends, who'll had kindly
preferred their aid, he had arranged to have his
sermons read to them during his Incarceration. and
had actually prepared his first sermon, which he
designed sending to Tue TRIBUNE, to be spread bc-
fore its hundred and seventy thousand readers.
With such an audience he could be content to
preach from between prison walls. lie had also
designed to devote his hours to authorship, as the
%quictude of prison-life he thought well-fttted for
study, and he should have produced q few books
also, and better ones than the world will be likely
to get from him under present circumstances In
announcing the result of the strong efforts made
to convict him and his frienis-of its failure, and
the utter discontinue Of his prosecutors, not an
eYultant word was employed, but words of thank.
fulness that they had escaped the furnace thus pre-.
pared for their reception to God belonged all the
praise he had no feelings Of hardness or ill-will
toward those who had sought his hurt. A brief
prayer closed the exercises, and the large au.
dience which had listened with breathless ate IL.
ton dispersed.
CCBA.-The government of Cuba is strengthen.
ing itself in preparation for any emergency thai
may be before it. A proclamation has been issued
for the organization of sixteen companies of color.
cd disciplined militia the whole force numbering
1000 men. The companies are to be organized il
different parts of the island.
That is an differentiation of Cuba" which vii
not be agreeable to fllibusters. 1t is said the Pres
force just dispatched to the West Indies, men les:
positively belligerent than was anticipated.
A FREE Press SuPrREssED.-The petty despots
of Platte County, Missouri, are still figuring large
ly and most fttingly in behalf of slavery. We
find the following in the Geographic columns of the
Cleveland papers:
ST.. LOUIS, April 81.
On Saturday last, two hundred citizens of Platte
county ssemble at Parkville, and attacked the
office of the Luminary, charged with Free Soil
proclivities, and DESTROYED the fixtures, and threw
the press into the Missouri River. The editor was
absent at Kansas. The mob seized the Junior
editor, MIR. Patterson, and would have tarred and
f~eathered him but for the interference of his wife.
Resolutions were passed, declaring the Luminary
a nuisance, and the editors traitors and if they
found them there in three weeks, they would throw
them into the River; if they went to Kansas, the:
would follow and hang them. They would attend
to all other Free Sellers, and would suffer no Meth.
odist preacher to preach in that county also, tai
and feathers FOR the first offence, and hang them
for the second.
Gov. Reeder arrived here yesterday OH his way
east.