Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-29
For the Bugle.
REPORT.

On Tuesday evening March 9Th, by the kind az
sistance of our friend DR.. J. G. Coates, a meeting
was convened in tie schoolhouse of Navarro in
Stark county, composed in part Of the inhabitants
of the neighboring village of Rochester and Beth.
lehem. This | was informed was entirely virgin
soil upon which the seeds of disunionism had new.
err been scattered hitherto by means of public
MEETINGS. The audience was respectable in point
Of numbers and very attentive to the remarks
offered in recommendation of Revolution as the
only remedy for slavery. AT the close of my ad
dress Il call was very generally made upon a gen.
tleman whose name | regret to say has escaped my
memory and who responded in On exordium declar.
atory of the extreme veneratiun in which he had
ever held "our glorious Union" which presaged to
my Imagination a vigorous opposition to the SEN
timents which had been expressed.
But l was agreeably disappointed by his admit
ting the truthfulncss Of the charge that all politi-
cal action under the constitution necessarily oper.
ated in support of slavery and his endorsement of
disunion by secession of the States rs the true
policy of anti.slavery men. lie was followed by
Mr.. Cross an elderly Englishman once the neigh
Dor and friend of Thomas Clarkson who agreed
~ HNHOuhOihS tHt SJNcIullculd IL pGO-SldNeTy anu
affirmed that for that reason he had always refus-
ed to become naturalized. The meeting separated
in apparent acquiescence with the views promulga-
ted and although no subscriptions to the Bugle
were obtained, nor donations to the cause, the
way was evidently made for future more successful
labor.
On Wednesday the 10th, 1 enjoyed tho hospital.
ty of the Messrs. Frease near Milton and held d
meeting in their school-house in the evening. This
was pretty well attended and our distinctive doc.
trines met with some opposition though in a very
gentlemahly manner and rather inqulringly than
dogmatically, by both Republicans ana ~professed
Radical Abolitionists. Our friend Copeland's la
bors the re during the winter have prepared severa
of the citizens of the place to look favorably upo,
the Goodell and Smith doctrines respecting tn
anti-slatery character Of the constitution. Will
these we should have less controversy if they con
sistently adhered to their protested principles, Blu
when they vote as they all or nearly all appear t
do with the Republicans and for men who propos
to administer the constitution as n pro-slavery in
strument,i it looks to much like a dodge to command
our unreserved respect. There is however muci
genuine anti-slavery feeling in this neighborhood
On the evening of the 10Th L held q meeting il
Weiman's school house, two miles East Of the vii
laGe Of Milton. Although not a large assemblage
it was composed of the substantial part of com
munity and was an occasion of much interest. ]
had been advised before hand that here | would
probably be opposed by II. Stambaugh, Esq. a i man
Of some influence in the neighborhood, but he fol
lowed mo in q full confirmation of NY remarks and
in a brief but vigorous speech, and pressed some
of the most ultra views in favor Of a separation OF
the free from the slave States. However few may be
reckoned the Disunionists of Ohio by those who
are fond of abiding to the small number who
have abs,ained recently from voting at the polls,
such and all others may be assured, that a feeling
in favor of the withdrawal of all political support
from the institution Of slavery rs most rapidly as
suming ascendancy in the minds and consciences
Of our citizens. A. BROOKE.
Marlboro. March 22nd,