Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-20
REPORT OF DISCUSSIONS AT THE ANN
VERSARY.
REPORTED BY JAMES BARNABY.
AFTERNOON SESSION. SATURDAY.
(COntinuea.)

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Parker Pillsbury addressed the meeting. lie
was glad, he said, to be again with the abolitionits
of the West. The faces around him were not
strange to III I'm. 1t was not the first time he had
met those around him and he trusted it would not
e the last. 1t was the first time 10 the case Of his
friend Mr.. May, who had addressed them, and he
was glad to meet him here on this occasion. lie
would indulge in no sen;imentalism on account of
his absence from his friends in the west. Three
years is no great period Of time; he knew not that
it seemed any longer than one year. Those around
him appeared as they did when he had last net
them. There seemed to nave been, with them, no
lowering of the standard of anti-slaycry truth.
lie could not however refrain from expressing his
heartfelt JOY to find the ears of this audience open
to his friends May, Whitson, and others from the
East.
As has been intin ased, we have come into close
relationship with people who, were it possible, would
deceive the very elect. 1t seems as though the
time has come to try the principles aud integrity Of
the abolitionists. A few years ago it was easy to
distinguish between abolitionists and those claiming
the namc who were unworthy Of it. Then as now
we occupied the very equinoctial line of anti s!a-
very; but at that time they were down as it were,
beyond the polar circles where all was frozen
Now those elements have changed somewhat.
Those who were thus distant are coming somewhat
within the charmed circle of our own attraction ;
and 30 near do they approach us, that they seem
to think they have found the true and the real, and
there seems to those who look at the matter super
fcially, to be no great difference between them and
ourselves. But this is the very time when tho
true value of our principles is to be shown.
remember the early days of non-resistance
Sam'l. j. May, was then for consistent action
One day he encountered a man in discussion who
said to him, your doctrines of kindness and for
giveness will be all right and proper in the Millcn-
ium." "This then" said Mr.. May, sis your reli.
gion. You will love your enemies when the mil.
lennium comes and you have no enemies to love-
So when the fugitive slave law passed some non
r~esistants seemed to forget their principles and en-
Outraged the colored people to fight. Then was
The time to test the principles of non-resistants'
now it seems to me with regard to our principles
is the time when We can give the world what it
has greater need Of than even the abolition Of
slavery--the full assurance of honest men
men who cannot be either lured or driven from
their integrity. And if | do not greatly mistake
the test is now fully to be applied to MS; and hence
it was that | was filed with inexprcssible %gratifca-
ton in beholding in the audience such earnest at,
tention to what my friends have SPOKEN. And ]
should not care whether I had been abseat one
year, or twenty years, since ! know ! have come
Ihack 70 find yonr standard still floating ms high