Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-25

For The BugIc.
BRIcurox, Mich. Aug. 10th, 1855.

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lishmau, came up to the door and ordered me, and
young man whom he mistook for my brother, to
20 home. My friends asked him why he was SO
impcrtinent. lie repeated the command a dozen
times, wh'n finding us slow to obey. he begged us
to 30. The following dialogue ensued.
c.. We don't want you here; if you will go |
will drive your carriage around to the door and
help you off with pleasure.
X. We intend to 60, after distributing a few
tracts.
g. Pshaw! you're q pretty fellow, trying to re-
form q quiet, christian neighborhood; your mo
tives are not good; you're only to raise an hup
roar. have heard Of a family out northwest,
that harvests wheat on Sundays, and the sons send
their father out to husk corn on the Sabbath. You
had better go home, and observe the Sabbath, and
reform yourself before you try to reform others.
Several gentlemen. lin substance) Mr.. Craw-
ford would do well to heed his own advice
r.. Will you take a tract Mr.. Crawford?
C. No, ! won't; they are not fit to read. (llere
followed a vulgar expression, which no decent man
would make Go home!
r.. / will, on one condition.
c.. What is that l will comply with it if pos
sible.
r. That you shall take this tract and read it.
c. will. Takes the tract.) Now start; you
said you would go.
II. 1 wil-whon l get ready. I did not say
uhen. The whole company. 1Ia, ha, ha!
C. You said you'd go nov. III scear 10 ii. l
would have no objection to an anti-slavery lecture,
but you don't come for that; you speak against the
churches.
Mr.. Giddings. cousin to Joshua r.. Giddings.)
The man has said nothing but the truth. For
Christians to hold slaves is abominable; and for
northern professors to uphold them in it, is outra-
geous.
: G. lie wants to tear everything upside-down.
lie SAYS he would as soon swear to murder the
people of Milford, as he would swear to support
.be Constitution. He wants to break up the Union
he does.
Giddings. Many good men, Christians too, &C.
.cupy the same position.
II. Do you love to lie in union with shareholders?
c.. / won't have any union with such a fellow
as you are. No sir EE.
r.. You have not answered the question.
c. If YOU undertake to speak in this house,
you'll have trouble. If l get at you, you'll find
somebody besides old Padley to deal with.
AT the conclusion of this valiant speech, the
bully went away, and left us quietly to accomplish
the object of the meeting. lie would be unwor'
thy of notice, were he not a member, in good stan
ding. of the Methodist Church, which circumstance
riyes him some character and influence. The
priests, to whom he listens, are Benson and Pad
lev, who in virulencc, are on a par with their iricno
Crawford For deliberate meanness, towards the
advocates Of an unpopular cause, perhape MIR
Benson has no equal in this vicinity. On one oc
cssScn, while l was giving notice OF an Anti-sia
very meeting, he interrupted in these words, wi
come one, near the door, open 1t aud let the con
rreraton pass out p Yet this same Benson /
much irritatcd when boys leave the house while h
is speaking.
Mr.. Padlcy wants to debate with me on som
,ceek day, when he will give mt jessey to my heart
content. 1t must be on ,reck day, that he may in
dulre his inclination to joke and make fun.
There is only one issue between us, viz. Is
right to support Slavery and the Constitution Z
Elder Padley has already argued the affirmative
lie admits the pro-slavcry character of the Const
tuition, yet sustains it, and belongs to the Demo
cratic party. lie calls slavery a sin in the sigl
of God, yet cxpatiates enthusiastically on its BILE
sings when administered by pious masters. II
has rcpeatedly treated Wesleyans and other Alb
lit;onists will, the utmost insolcace. lie compare
the latter to a whifet barking at the moon; viii
he himself merits, and very justly receives IL
name applied to a larger and shorter necked spec
men of the canine species. At an anti-slavcr
meeting held in Mr.. Padlcy's ncighborhood
month ago, when my brother commenced the clio
iag speech, Elder Padley said he must leave, f
he could not sit and heer such stuff; but instead
leaving, he walked up to the desk and commence
n personal exhortation to my brother, accompa
led by a most oratorical aourishing of fists. Wi
- -. &C N cauv rovrdioa he finally succpp
ed in breaking up the meeting. To add to I
confusion a ribald rufian INDUCED in language
indecent to quote.
The Elder would not own him for n hacker.
But why not. lie, like the most of such char
tiers, has been through the revival mill. Tr,
they arc called backsliders, neyerthel ,s they re
Ger the Church essential service in r~etarding 1
progress of reform. Mr.. Padley says the Chur
has excluded the extreme Southern States on
count of slavery. When asked why they did
exclude the Shareholders of Maryland and Virgin
he replied, " They could not 90" C) AT the sal
time he assured me that they would exclude
horse thief Notwithstanding he refused to 60.
What ought honest men to think of a church Il
excludes a horse thief, but welcomes the man tn
to its communion? Can Abolitionists expect a
aid or sympathy from a Church so devoid Of shan
SO utterly corrupt. and in such fraternal uni
with shareholders?
The idea is far too prevalent, that to within
religious and political fellowship from the sla
holder, is to treat him uucharitably and deny
common brotherhood. As well make the same
mark in relation to the horse thief. 1t is for
Shareholders real and eternal interest to cease fir
his %iuiquity Immediately; and whoever participa
in his guilt and encourages him in it, does him
greatest wrong. Whoever is in union with sin
not the sinners friend.
Yours for the slave,
GEORGE ROBERTS
SLAVERY A BESEFIT.-The Hon. Henry Sta
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