Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-08
SUNDAY MORNING, OCT. 5th.

SUNDAY MORNING, OCT. 9Th.
The meeting assembled according to adjourn.
mont, ut Peninsula Hall.
A pathetic prayer for Divine aid and guidance
was offered by Joseph A. Dugdale, who afterwards
addressed the meeting on tho power of love and
its adaptation to tho practical duties of life as fol-
lows:
1t is very gratifying to mo to see the beautiful
spirit which prevades this meeting. | am aware
there are those present who are well able to enter
tain and please this audience, perhaps more so than
myself, but | felt a strong desire to express q few
thoughts, and they may not be Improbable. In
illustration of my IDEAL would compare a beauti-
full mind to a beautiful stream of water, with its
fountain high on the mountain side, and men are
trying TO dam up the waters, but it only gathers
strength, and if confined too long, it will break
forth in the majesty Of its power, and sweep away
tho puny arm that obstructs it. Both tho Catholic
and the Protestant Churches are trying to dam up
the waters. But the new religion demands free
thought and action. | was very much Interested
in the account Of Bayard Taylor. In his travels
in the East he found on the wall Of one Of the
mohomedan Mosques the following inscription,
God is the light of the Heavens and Earth. His
wisdom is n light on the altar in which burns a
lamp covered with glass and the glass shines like
a star, the lamp is lit with the oil from a blessed
tree. No Eastern, no Western oil; it burns for
whoever socks light"
What a sublime thought. His lamp is lit with
no eastern no western oil, but the light is free for
whoever seeks it. We need not fear for truth, it will
sustain itself. Sectarian institutions only fear the
iirbt Nh I lilac H. I,GnI,D T,,Io, 49, l.. 500
tains the truth.
We need tho gospel that comes with healing on
its wings. We need a gospel that will open the
prison doors and break the bonds of the oppressor,
for before the midnight hour the bridegroom COM
eth. Let tho wrong deer therefore repent before
the lamp is blown OUT. God speaks to man through
the reason and the intellect.
| cannot forbear an expression of The power Of
love. l have often thought, when l have seen
those who were doing wrong, Of the almost Infinite
power Of love in reclamation. l have sometimes
been ready to say there is no one SO degraded as
to be beyond its reach, (the speaker here related
an Incident of his own experience in the govern
mont of u school, showing the power of love to con-
troll the most v%irulent and bitter temper.)
/ am impressed with the idea that is not pLysi-
cal power, but the power of the principles of Truth
on which we should depend.
A.. I. Foss en- behalf of the business commit
tee reported resolutions, No. G to 0. ia. Dugdale,
reported resolutions, marked, No. l and 2.
II. c. Wright, then presented resolutions, No.
10 to II, accompanied with q few remarks illustra-
tive of their practicability.
Geo. Sumter, then read q very able address set
ting forth his views of general reform and the sub
joct of slavery in particular.
The committee on nominations, reported for
committee of correspondence, Justin p. Averill,
of Battle Creek, Euphemia Cochrane. of Detroit,
Frances Titus, of Battle Creek, and Geo. Sumter,
Hamilton, Canada West; For Finance Committee,
Richard Glazier, Jr., and Phebe II. Merritt.
Which report was acceptedby the meeting: Mr..
Sumter wished to have his nnme taken off the Com
mittee of Correspondence, when by suggestion Of
j. A, Dugdale; the report was amended by omit
ting Mr.. Sunters name and adding Jacob Walton
and Richard A. Merritt in his stead.
Sojourner Truth then sung one of her inimita-
BILE songs, after which she addressed the meeting in
a most effective speech as follows:
As you were spoakin this mornin of little chill.
dren, l was lookin round and thiukin it was most
beautiful. But l have had children and yet never
owned one, no never owned one; aud of such theirs
miliioDs-whO goes to teach dem? who goes to
teach dem? You have teachers for your children.
but who will teach de poor slave children?
I want to know what has become of the love l
ought to have for my children? did have love for
them but what has become it. l cannot tell you.
| have had two husbands yet l mover possessed
one of my own. | have had five children and new
er could take any one of dem up and say "my
child" or my children" unless it was when no
one could sec me.
l believes in Jesus, and I was forty years a slave,
but | did not know how dear to me was my posteri-
ty, was so beclOuded and crushed. But how good
and wise is God, for if the slaves knowed what thar
true condition was, it would be more than de mine
could bear. While de rae e is sold of all dere
rights-what is dare on Gods ~footstool to bring
dem up? Has not God given to all his creatures
all the same rights! How could | trablc and live
and speak? If La'nt got something to bear me
up, when Use been robbed Of all my affection for
my husband and for my children.
Some years ago there appeared to me q form
there the speaker gave a very graphic description
of a vision she had) den l learned dat | was a hu-
man bein. We had been taught dat we was a
speshe monkey, baboon, or rarg-o-tang, and we
believed it-we'd never seen any of desc animals.
But believes in lie next world. When we yets
up yonder We shall have all dem rights stored to
ue again-all dat love what Use lost-all eoin TO
to be stored to me gain. Oh! how good God is.
My mother said when we were sold, we must
ask God to make our masters good, and | asked
who he was. She told me lie sit up in the 81 v.
When ] was sold | had II severe, hard master. and
| was tied up in de barn and whipped, Oh! till
de blood run down on de floor; and | asked God.
why do MT you come md leave me-if | was YOU,
and you'se tied up so, I'd do it for you.
(The speaker continued her remarks for some
time, in a very simple and unsophisticated style,
and at the close, by suggestion of II. Willis, a
collection was taken up for her benefit, which re-
suited in a liberal contribution, and was very
greatlully received by her.