Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-18
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN
ANTISLAvERY SOCIETY,

I
very Society just issued from tie press, pays the
following tribute to the memory and services Of
our departed fellow laJorcrs, JAMES W. WALLER
and CyRus NJ. BuRLEfGu
The small band of our Anti Slavery agents has
been made yet less during the Last two years, by
the hand of death. On the 18th OF April, 1894,
the cause in general and particularly III the West,
sustained a severe loss in the death of JANEs W
WALKER. lie was or c OF the Few that have ieit
their humanity stronger than their seciarinnism,
aud he gave himself with rare self devotion to what
he regarded as the FIRST religious duty Of an Anne
rican. Enthutiistic in bis temperament, impetu
ods oad f1cyll jim his o'oll>n;a, singul1rly dlsre-
gardtul Of his personal interests and safety where
there was a work to do, he probably contracted
Che disease of Which he died, in the Anti Slavery
field. Possessed of eminent personal and moral
courage, no dangers disIcartcned him, and no sac
riiccs seemed too great to make in a cause Of.
duty. His period Of Auti-Slavery service, though
it did not extend over many years, was full OF nc
tivity ard Of results. II memory will be ever
cherished by all who knew him, for the purity,
disinteIcstcdnes and energy Of his character, and
for tho many souls lac won over to Autl-Slavery
truth. The Resolution ofascd ut the Annual
Meeting, of May, 1851, written by Mr.. GARRIsoN,
and which will be found in Tie Account o its Pro
c%ccdings, in the ApIendiH, will be recognized by
all who had watched bis course, as no more than
an adequate testimony Of his worth.
On the 7uh Of March last, the cause lost one OF
H. IlDsl bllllItl hhh NuiNNlNC ~ ~
M. BuGLEiGn. He died Mt Sunnyside, Chester
Co.., Pcnnsyleania, of Il pulmonary consumption,
ut the age of thirty.fyc. Ills life had been de
voted, from his earliest youth, to the Anti slavery
cause, and he had rendered it good service in the
lecturing field, and more recently, as editor OF the
Pennsylvania Freeman. This arduoUs and impor-
tant post he filed most uselully and acceptably
for several years, with little relaXatlon, except
Anti-Slayery lecturing excursions, until the tall-
ure of his health compelled him to give up active
re, IL. ti,,n aud ,n1,,,I. l, trnyn nhNppInllV IN
the services Of those that had none to help them.
Ills cheerful and friendly spirit won for him the
affection and friendship OF those who knew him
best; while his constant and faithful public
services secured him the respect and esteem OF all
who knew anything of the American movement
against Slavery. Though he was called upon to
give up life and It's dearest re<&ions in the very
prime and flower Of his age, he met death with
all the lrGasss =ri composure a good conscience
end : stcaf-st k0ge could supply.
Our r~e4.s-s 2--s fail &c be obliged TO Us fr
copying H. --zS &C III. Report v1:a
by the way sA.zl. be n 1s ecslaaal1 cE cvgrg
abvlitiyu..t II lie s.a
cez-1
Itis someih.a- 1aet lln1 q uu1liia ID & pmIuig
since the Aa--rs11 Mzzlut1a 1r 1H Aa--Jpt
Of Slavery on tLe y~.l1Eg4E 81 .ImH1lDt LuslaG-
patton, was set u !1lt ty Ny GLIf-4s Ill nal'-
ly tweuty-ihrce years sl-st -1ls Soar! was ca-1.
crel. Inc 4Es<ll--A---- FI--t -A-A- -AAe atAA
10 thai c1T % sEl4 -EGEE til-s Hf1r lHLrT
changes IN 1la w1rlt A-.IlL. LutmlT sHlF ulu4u
4n-ny &C lh-u IL tina ElCI 10 liHIr lUutf- Iilah.
Of them VITO begun n -AH beginning ant 1uzt
rerseyereI una. 1ilf 4lnlEIrBGT Ntt3t- unau
tuts a sors u maufu'e ss lht fiiilsrnf ID Eua4s
CFin1n FIR die List fga lu1 lEG-1g gHl-F- +
they nIrt-t 20 ths Nl.-slar :. 1ETF1s a.. III
fercns ro5n,s 20 Eki-A lie Gte1i k-Tss had rl.sa
In iiS-re1c ysars. e. their memories and their CO.
tenP1-aT rs9orts furnish aEerEing monuments Of
the dJNiuss and the eJbingsof that vast tide which
sweers nations on to glory Or - ruin. They had
no Ii.inet iIel Of the work that lay before them,
or OF the Instruments by which it WAS to be accom-
,lishel. They merely di-cerned the crying sin
of the Nation, and thought, good easy men, that
ullthat was necessary was u letthe Nation know
what it was about, when repentance and Eeforma-
would follow as the night The day. Of course,
their FIRST thoughts and their first appeals were
made to those who had in charge the souls Of the
american People, and whose especial business 1t
WAS to briUg them FROM sin uuto righteousness
Being earnestly religious persons themselves, and
having taken up arms against This form that the
inCmy Of Souls had assumed, they never dreamed
that those works OF HE, which looked so black and
horrible to them, could appear yeuial to any Of
the Shepherds of the Lords Sheep, still less that
lie could ASSUME to them, in this shape, above all,
the garb Of an angel Of light. But it did not take
many years 10 disubusc them Of these decisions.
The Anniversaries Of the American Anti-Slayery
Society have been faithful types Of the condition
of the general mind. In the earlier days, the
Platform bore the weight Of II large proportion Of
Clergyman, Of various denominations, within its
ample verge. They were not, as a general thing
tho most eminent, in rank, and their denominations
were rather of the humber and democratic, than
Of the wealtiicr and aristocratc descriptions.
The very lev Clergyman OF worldly distinction,
that were betrayed into q temporary sympathy
with the Movement, in its earlier days, soon dis
covered and retraced the false steps they had made.
The honest gentlemen who held by the Platform
for awhile, land we believe the most Of them ioe,t
honest then, whatever they might have become ne
forwards saw in the Slave Population a field foi
Missionary labor, unhappy fellow men, deprived
81 Gospel privileges and condemned 10 heather
darkness, in a land Of Christian light, and they &c
copied the AnttSllyery movement as a new sor
OF Domestic Missions, which was to convert Mas
tiers and Slaves to tue particular form OF Christi
anity they received. And we include in this cate
CORY many l.aymen Of piety and zeal for religion
who used to swarm upon the Platform. But, il
due lime, the Great American Church gave al
these to understand, by the most unequiyocal in
dicauOns, that such was no part of its Creed. The
were told, in significant signs or by emphatic 81
ience, that any doctrines which went to unchurcl
the communicates and unfcock the minister's q
ono half the,Country, wore damnablc hercsies-tha
tsho Church was the frat love of the Lord, and tina
he would take measures for the redemption Of thos
black confessors at the South when he could fn'
leisure from the conversion OF the superior elias
OF sinners, who were better worth saving.
and so occasion was found, OF made, to with
b. draw their conntenance from oar Platform, an,
they went their way and we saw them no more
fte saints par rmsheRce retired, and they who b.
gieysd @ black soul Of as much value as a Hhit
nns, and wke wei inGdeis 10 the Christianity whic
would cacluse them from its banefts on accouI
of the way that their Creator had bsea pleased I
make them, were left IN sole possession OF II. 81
sini Il stood as they etoed on 1t, ana managed
nIfs themselves heard ny tba aatioz and ii
zseriG. Hbcn ther. were those VINO were closel
aaraea 5y political sympsthies sGS aJRnities to on
or tfe other of the greet Parties, EslO had take
yefnee pp rur raft afssr the Amt Mae0Bic Par
4rrt6 into oieess, or " ere lHiHled 10 tbisk fbat 81
very oosld bs GttaeNed sne ossgtlrrowa withoi
acasfirg risher % the Parties which are ita Sod
thsrg we're no. q f-y e saoh who werd back Of
weifrS with DC no sngrs, w-ieE they saw Hshitn
1hey nsva. ssets "a ysfh sn- Gtaefs. aEaln, vi
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