Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-05-26
BRIGHTON, MICHIGAN.

BRIGnroN April &c, 1855.
EDITOR OF THE BuGLE: This part of Michigan
has been the theatre of great REVEALS. Different
churches have We'd with each other in making
prosolytes, but the NJ. f.. Church has taken the
lead. Elders Benson and Cosa,t have lately
closed a protracted meeting in the district where !
had been teaching. They prayed some of the
most terrific prayers, and preached some Of the
most outlandish sermons that could well be imag-
ined. Elder Benson said one evening. that this is
IL world of mercy, but the future is a world Of judg.
ment. As far as this corid was concerned, we
could not see one particle Of justice in the govern
ment of God. Said he, If God dealt out strict
Justice to the children of men, he would hurl the
~rumseller and the stakeholder into Eternity in Il
moment. He gave liberty for any one to speak.
| commenced exposing his inconsistency, in giving
he right hand Of fellowship to matchieSS ri1dins.
who, he said, owed their present existence merely
To the injustice of God. when he called ont that he
would hear me some other time. Accordingly, soon
after, | gave notice that in the afternoon of tn"
next Sabbath, | would hold an anti-slu,ery meet.
ing and expose the great SIN of the American
Government and Church. l did so, but Benson
was not present to fulfill his promise. The conce,
ndent season had not arrived, and probably never
will. In the forenoon Elder Cusart read the ebay.
ter that commands men to submit to kings, and
servants to submit to masters with all fear. lie
said many would join IL rich and popular church
who had no affinity for a church of humble preten.
sions,-a church that admitted to membership the
lowly, the poor, eren tie poor stdre,-a church in
which master and slave meet on a perfect lerel
His meeting was prolonged till the hour for the
anti-slavery meeting had arrived, when the shep
herd and his obedient sheep fed, and left only a few
to contend with the wolf. Among those who lef
was a member of the Republican party lately con
verted to MethOdism, who wishes he had q few
"dawkies" to work his "fom," and regrets that the
law denies to Northern men privileges which
Southern men enjoy. His brother owns numer
Gus slaves, and treats them we'll. just as he would
we're he allowed to own slaves in Michigan. IL,
said if abolitionists could only see how happy thu
slaves are, they would have no more to soy in favo,
Of emancipation. The name Of this extraprdinar,
man is Zabriskie, a descendant, | believe, of one 0
the kings of Poland.
felt that those .sho left were the ones who mos
needed the teachings Of antislavery truth how
ever the meeting was well attended by earnes
non-professors, who seemed to think it no more
tran right that the church should be con
demned for supporting the greatest crime Of thu
age and nation. said that church members wore
not tie only tncs to blame. Eee'y man IN tia
house ,ods teagued niM oppressors. i know of bu
one man in Brighton who was ready to ALLURE thu
u. S. Constitution, to refuse to obey its internal re
quirements, and trample it under his feet. A hall
II dozen voices said g You had better 90 TO Canada
A singular idea. that a man must leave the coun
try in order to rebel against the Government. A
gentleman said, slavery was very bad, but he die
not think one set of men ought to bear all the
blame. lie said the speaker had seemed to cas-
all the blame on M. Z. Church. He seemed t.
tear a spite against that Church. He seemed tC
be afraid the whole town would turn Methodists
if he didn't do something to stop it, Methodist
held bnt few slaves, compared with other churches
They were but a small body Of Christians. How
could they abolish slavery, with all tho othel
churches and the world against them? ! replied
that one humble Nazarene had been able to shake
the world. Thousands of public teachers among
the Methcdists claimed to be his disciples. II