Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-01

ever the advooates of our radical measures and
| opinions have gone, their labors have been remark
, ably successful.
During the last year G. G. Burleigh attended
with others, several large and effective Conventions
in Ohio. During the last spring, William Wells
Brown visited Ohio and spent several weeks in
lecturing just previous to the Annual Cincinnati
4 Convention, which was heid with it's usual inter
osts and good results. Mr.. Brown was with us
], az the Agent Of the American Anti Slavery Socie-
ty, but sustained by those ever active and devoted
friends of the slave. the Ladies of the Cincinnati
Bazaar. From the same source the Ant. Slavery
BugIe received also a liberal contribution.
Josephine and Charles s. S. Grifing. Rev. Leon
ard Grifing of Connecticut, James Barnaby and
Giles b.. Stebbins, have been employed for short
periods of the past year as agents Of the Society.
Mr.. Stebbins services were rendered in Western
Pennsylvania. The others while agents Of this
Society we're employed in Ohio and Indiana.
A most cordial cooperation in labor has exist
ed between US and theAmerican society and its aux
ilares, especially with the Michigan State Society,
vita whose Executive Committee an arrangement
was effected that the agents employed should labor
within the territory allotted to each. as might upon
the whole seem best Il pom consultation Of thu COM
mites, and that each committee should be respon-
sible for the salaries of agents for the time they
were tailoring in their respective localities. AS
the great majority of tho supporters Of our Socie-
ty in Ohio are agriculturalists, and the failure of
the crops the last season put it out OF their power
to contribute with their accustomed libcrality to
its support, it was thought best that n greater por-
ton of the labor of eur agents should be spent in
more western fields, where abolitionists were
better able to contribute, and would be induced to
be more liberal in their contributions. if the labor
was expended and it's results seen Immediately
around them. Accordingly Mr.. and Mrs. Grifhng
have spent several months of the year in Michigan
and Northern Indiana as the agents Of the Michi-
/, gan Society. Mr.. Barnaby also spent several
weeks in the same service, under the same direc-
ton were also The Agents of the American Socie.
ty Messrs. a. T.. Foss, and G. G. Burleigh. From
the accounts we have received from these Agents,
as well as from the friends OF the cause in the
numerous places they have visited, we Judge that
their labors have been remarkably successful.
The people under tho influence of discussion and
investigation which their radical principles have
never failed to excite, have obtained more correct
and enlarged views of the principles and tenden-
cies of the abolition movement. They have learn.
ed to understand more thoroughly the deceits and
subterfuGes of Slavery, and under the influence
Of appeals to their conscienccs, enlightened by
facts which they had previously overlooked or mis-
conceived, some have been Sand ready to aban'
don a church and a government which gives sup
port and fellowship TO the sum of all villainies
Others Onorc numerous) have been brought on
ward in an anti ,slavery direction, though not We,
ready to abandon old institutions which yet t.
some extent they see to be complicated with this
= wickedness. During the past year, more than al
most ever before, cur agents have found the
churches, guided by the ministry. to be the bull
warks of Slavery. The ministers, churches, oficer
and prominent members in the four most promi
neat denominations-P sbyterians, Methodist
Baptists and Disciples-have volunteered as thu
= opponents, and in many cases the almost exclusiv,
ones Of our agents in towns and villages they hav'
visited. The demagoguisn of the Slavery lovin,
:. democracy and old fogy ~whiggery has. stood bacl
in modest silence, while Jealous church member
- and sanctimonious divines have plead for politica
union in slaveholding and the glorious privilege 0
, church fellowship and communion with kidnap
pers and pirates. They have well nigh monopo
. lized the defence of Slavery and opposition to til,
advocates of freedom. On the other hand the worl
of exposing and denouncing those churches whicl
have ~wickedly become the defenders OF siayehold
ers and whose members are among their mos
Jealous confederates, has devolved far more exclu
sively than we Gesire, upon the Disunion Abolition
lists. Almost all other slasses of Anti Slavery mel
either seek fellowship with those who fellowship
'; Shareholders, or so partially expose and rcbuk
their crime-or exposing it in one direction. fellow
~ ehtN - IN 10th IN tkot thosr raLnlno e.,
either to provoke the opposition or excite the repen
" lance of the guilty.
4 Abolitionists will not shrink from their dut
> in this particular, because their numbers are fey
,e and their labor great, but they do most earnestl
q invite, and will most cordially welcome the coop
GRAFTON of other Anti-Slavery friends, in this in
dispensible work of exposing the church as it is
ID one of the chiefcst bulwarks of Slavery.
he The American Anti Slavery Society has durin,
the past year commenced the publication and era
4 %tuitous circulation of anti-slavery tracts. In tn
n early days of anti-slavery, this method of agita
10 ton was vigorously adopted, with incalculabl
ar good results, and the Committee hail with Joy
~ recurrence to it, after its long comparative disuse
,e The Executive Committee have added one to til
ce excellent publications of the Parent Society an
st a Depository has been established Mt Salem, 70
the supply of the West. If the abolitionists, wit
n zeal, will enter upon the work of their distribution
m supplying in their own localities all who may rea
RS them, great progress may speedily be made j
IT, enlighiening and converting the community I
lie more radical principles of freedom. We are Ell
couraged to find among some of the abolitionisi
ms of The West n suitable appreciation of this worl
One lady, about to travel to Wisconsin, sends for
re large supply, expressing a desire, if possible, 't
he leave one in every ~door-yard she should pass on he
route. A Justice of the Peace writes, that "fc
Is. the last time he has sworn to a lie" ~(alluding
N his oath to support a pro-slavery Constitution, an
of wishing to make some amends for his past supper
err of slavery, he sends money to, prepay the postae
of on frelre pounds Of tracts, for circulation anon
:. tLosn nhn Ind nlacted him 10 oHice Let nthel