Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-06
SUNDAY IN A

GLASGOW, Won~ddy.-Yesterday Glasgow was
placed in what may be termed an extraordinary
fix" by the entire stoppage of the cab and omni-
bus traffic throughout the city and suburbs. 1t
appears that certain city missionaries have been
labcring for ome time past among the cab and
omnibus men in Glasgow and suburbs, of whom
there are about five hundred and fifty, and they
have Mt length succeeded in convincing them that
so long as they continued to drive people to church,
or anywhere else, on Sundays, they were them
selves driven to perdition. a declaration was ac-
cordingly issued a few weeks since, to the effect
that the conscicnces of the cabmen would not rer-
nit them to follow this unhOly traffic any longer,
and that on Sundays, for all time coming. begin
ming with yesterday the 18th, they would restirom
their labors.
Although this intimatlcn was publicly given,
the Inhabitants paid little attention to it, as they
could not believe that the men were in earnest in
their intention of stopping all carriage intercourse
on Sunday in n city with four hundred .thousand
inhabitants, especially as the principal use of the
cabs and busses was to convey people from distant
parts of the city, or from the suburbs, to the vuri-
Gus churches. The result showed, however, that
the men were perfectly in earnest; for Yesterday
with the exception Of a few private carriages, the
streets Of Glasgow were as free from the rattle of
wheels as those of PUmpeii or Ephesus. The in
convenience and annoyance resulting from this OK.
IRENE measure of Sabbath observance are indescri.
bable. Lame and infrm people could not reach
lht tnNlNh NNN'llullH " lltAI uSuul WONT. sur
geons and physicians unless they kept private
carriages) could not visit their patients: and
fir ends and relatives living far apart could not Wis.
it each othe" upon their USUAL day Of leisure.
a lady was taken ill in enc of the churches,
but not a cabman could he found to con-
vey the patient home, until her husband produced
Il doctors certificate. Hundreds of respectable
families have Of late years built themselves hand
some little country houses in the pretty suburban
villages of Patrick, Pullockshields. &C., on the
Firth, that they might have II regular communicn-
ton with kirk and market by means of the ON
nibuses, but yesterday these inhabitants we're
placed beyond the pale Of Glasgow society alto
gethcr, and those Of them who were unable to walk
long distances along dirty roads on a winters day,
were compelled to fOrcgo attendance nc church.
This "strike," by which carriage locomotion is ut
terly prohibited on Sunday in a great city, and in
the name Of religion, is regarded with rcprobation
by the great masses of the intelligent inhabitants.
The enlightened clergymcn are quite averse to these
extravaganza proceedings, but they dare not de-
nOunce them, otherwise they themselves would be
denounced as lukewarm, goddess, and time-serving
by the extreme section Of Sabbat,rians, who,
known as the "uuco guid," though a small
minority, subject the community in this matter
to Il species of moral terrorism. 1t is only fair tC
state that the bulk of the cabmen, though going
upon strike" in the name of religion, admit-thut
their real grievance is that they are compelled tC
do seven days work for six days pay. Their
masters can remedy this; and if they fail to do so,
measures will be taken TO find a remedy in another
way.
1t is incOnccivable that a city like Glasgow is to
be thrown back a couple of centuries in its social
amenities, and that it should become ut the same
time the scorn and laughing stock of strangers by
a Sunday deadlock to locomotion, such as that
which now exists.