Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-23

meaning of which polished and classic terms we
were entirely unacquainted. Our excellent and
active friend, George Roberts Of Brighton,i in whose
fathers family we were made to feel quite at home,
having met US ut Milford, we proceeded with him
Lowing another appointment for the next week, in
order to give our pious friends an opportunity to
explain, and ourselves time to comprehend their
extraordinary language. The evening Of said ag.
pointment being exceedingly cold, and as we were
some seven or eight miles distant, and as neither
Mrs. 7. or Mr.. Powell were in very good speaking
order, from fatigue and colds, Jacob Walton and
myself took to ourselves the honor of closing the
contest. On our arrival at the place of meeting,
wo found the Hall crammed full of Methodists, and
Baptists, bunker Wings and Democrats, and their
especial friends and hackers, the rubbish and rablc
of the community, together with a comparatively
small number Of decent citizens. Notwithstanding
the signs were ominous Of evil, | managed to attach
to each position taken, so much seriousness, and to
guard it with SO much care, as to preserve quiet
and order, for something more than an hour. At
last, however, our Methodist brother could contain
himself no longer. When the application of prin-
ciples came to be made, endurance ceased to be q
virtue. The spirit of the (Methodist) Lord came
nightly upon him, and, if noise and foam, are
indications of effect, he must have slain more than
a thousand Abolitionists with what seemed as
much like the jaw of a certain animal, metioned
in Scripture, judging from the sound, as anything
l can think of. Certainly l think I never heard
such fearful cursing from the lips of more than
one or two mortal men. He drowned all attempts
of the rabblc to cheer him on. Aside from his un-
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intelligence, and some considerable knowledge Of
the position Of the Church. But he could not
have failed to impress all just and fair minds
present, with the most deliberate and unparalleled
tout Of the church, dishonesty. The very grounds
on which he attempted to justify the Church, were
such as Satan himself would have been ashamed to
urge upon a respectable audience.
The Baptist brother, also, became very much en-
ragged, several Hunker politicians, apparently
caught the contogion, and tho hackers, (rabble)
ready to go with the current, took up the chorus,
and between the rawlings Of the Methodist, the loud
grumbling of the Baptist, the threatning of the
Hunkers, and tie bowling of the mob, our bones
seemed some of the time, in danger of being
broken. The meeting finally broke up in con-
fusion, and the lights were extinguished before we
left the platform. The fury however expended it
self in rawlings, and no bones were broken.
The Church and the parties were appropriately
defended, and no doubt, rejecting men will draw
instruction from the revelations that occurred.
This meeting was the one exception referred to,
in my allusion to the Ann Arbor meeting. But
my communication is already too long. l must
leave the account of the remainder of the tour, till
another time. AS ever,
Yours, for the right.
j. Ii. PUILLEO.