Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-14

defiant saeerdotals, crying " Great is Diana Of the
Ephesiansl'
On the following Wednesday we held a meeting
at Orland, a considerable village about fourteen
miles from the county seat, noted for its piety and
anti-slavery sentiments, which so cordially wei
coined the faithful a%gitators, Mr.. and Mrs. Foster,
to their sympathy and their pulpits, when several
OF their church members we're under indictment
for aiding fugitive slaves, and where churches had
before been freely opened to us-but now their
sympathy, anti-slavcry. piety and pulpits .sere only
found among the things that wcre--so formidable
had our Infdelity grown before their bloatcd Wis.
ions-which had inverted the mountain of their
position into a molebill. Only the Seminary could
be procured, which, though large, was we'll filed.
For though their temples built " hands were too
holy for our Infdelity, the priests and people, who
should be temples of the living God-boldly brook
ed, and strange to say outliyed our shocking con
summation.
They however uttered their protests against the
use of their churches for anti-slavery meetings
where free discussion was admitted upon their re-
lation to slavery, calling it abuse, and q TRADE
against the church.
They however made no attempts to disprove the
facts which were alleged, and the Baptist minister,
the pastor of a free mission church, demonstrated
our charge against that church, of marked incon-
%sistency and support ,of slavery, by confessing
publicly his willingness to accept the money of
Shareholders. for the purpose of christianizing
IIayti, and also Of his connexion with the Bible
Union, among whose life members are such men
as Theodore Clopp, Richard Fuller and Alexander
Campbell.
The meeting, which was very excitable, closed
near midnight, with an appointment for another
one, to be held one week from that time.
The following Saturday night and Sunday, we
held meetings at York, in this county, and were
opposed by two stupid Disciple ministers, who re-
ceived but IL small share Of sympathyfrom a large
audience, who could neither be 'edited" nor econ
yerted" by such preaching of the Gospel.
Messrs. Fuss and Griffng attended the meeting
at Orland, which was their last before leaving the
State. Not being present myself, l cannot specify
in regard to it, and VIII therefore send you a no.
tice Of it, and the previous meeting by a specta-
tor.
Last Sabbath Mr.. Hutchinson, the resident
Methodist minister of this place, reviewed the abo-
litionists and their meetings here. Near the close
of his discourse, he threw i. n classic embellish.
ment, by way of illustrating his subject, which
may serve to show the scale of refinement and
spirituality of some of our modern clergy.
He said a man once owned a horned sheep, which
had an unwarranted propensity Of butting every
thing that came across his path, much to the an
noyance of his owner, who, after many unsuccess-
full attempts at his redemption, hit upon the plan
of hanging up before him a swinging maui, and
leaving him in open combat through the night.
lie found in the morning the sheep all minus, ex-
cept the tail, which was still wriggling. There
upon, a prominent lawyer of the place challenged
him to meet the tail-using his own fgure-which
he did not accept.
Thus the preacher gained his point, and enforced
his subject. lie afterwards announced that he
would soon preach a series Of sermons upon the
" Divine Origin of the Bible"
Last evening, a colored man, once the slave of
John Depp, of Virginia, who emancipate his slaves
in 1887, spoke in the Courthouse to a very large
audience. upon prejudice against color. Mr.. Depp
for he follows the condition Of his master. in the
inheritance of his name-is u man of good native
ability, and in cultivation of mind and manhood.
would suffer no loss in the comparison with many
of the more favored Anglo-Saxons, who are re-
ceiyed as the public teachers of this age. He had,
however strong proclivittes towards the church, be-
ing himself a Baptist minister and most sanguinary
hopes through the bail ot-bux and the musket, and
believed Garrisonians to he Infdels. He was
therefore received into the pulpits at Orland, from
which we were excluded.
His lecture here was very good, with few excep-
tions, and the people showed their willingness to
aid the colored man, by a liberal contribution.
We have been faithful, earnest and truthful in
our criticisms of the church in this countv-rivinn
due credit for anti-sIavery sentiment wherever we
have found it-and with equal business exposing
their pro-slavery positions. to which their senti-
ment bows in allegiance, thus submitting to the
- lower law" and installing institutions to dominate
over humanity.
But with our criticisms of censure we have nj
ways applied the criticism of creation. If we
have torn down, we have also built up. When
we have said that the present developments of the
American church in regard to Slavery, the greatest
and most popular sin of the land, make it unwor.
thy our confidence and worse than useless-we
have endeavored to attract the conceptions of the
people to the more sublime and practical teaching
of Jesus, which opens the prison doors to the bound
and lets the oppressed go free-which is the en-.
~forcement of the Golden Rule and is the great
harmonizer of a human brotherhood. Our conyic.
tons in regard to these criticisms are, that
"Where the share is deepest driven,
The best fruits grow"
Yours, for earnest labor,
JOSEPHINE g GRIFEJNr