Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-19

@N0'uay e'ehihB we nau au appointment IN
Hively's school house, the location of which / can
not undertake to give, save to affirm that it is inCol.
umbiana county. The building is new and com.
modious, and although the travelling was bad, we
had quite a good audience who came TO listen to
truths upon a subject on which they had before
heard but little, if any discussion.
Some of our friends desiring to have a meet.
ing in Unity, an influential member of Che M. E.
Church Of that place was spoken 10 with a view
10 OBTAIN the meeting house for tho purpose. lie
asked 1t the Mrs. Jones who proposed lecturing
was the lady who twelve years ago held a meeting
there in Squire Mellinger's barn, for if she was.
he did not think she could have the house. Upon
being Intercepted as to what Mrs. Jones said. it
appeared in substance to be tbis-She bid the
mothers in Unity look well to their cradles, for
should Bishop Hedding reduce to practice the
doctrines he had promulgated, he might come up
find that some of the truths spoken in Unity
twelve years since are yet r%ememb cred.
Not being able to obtain any other place for Il
meeting, a friend rented a capacious wagon shop,
which on Wednesday evening was crowded. Mem
bers of the NJ. l.. Church who were present were
especially exercised because Of our remarks upon
that denomination and indeed the audience gen.
orally seemed nightly stirred up. Some four or
i've were continually pouring in questions, or
making statements in reply to what we had said.
Among them was the Squire Of the place, who
has borne the magisteri rial sceptre for twenty
years, and whose questions indicated a desire to
show that we sustained q slave.holding govern
men: as much as he did, who had just taken the
oath of Office. Some of the church members came
to the rescue of their Zion, not so much perhaps
to defend, as to apologize for the position of their
church, for though admitting that it was not yet
pure, they felt much aggrieved we should net suf-
fer it to rest in peace, desiring the practical re.
versal Of the philosophical truth of the ,~criptural
doctrine FIRST pure, then peacable."
Those present were warned by our opponents
against the terrible results of Comeouterism, and
individuals were named, who, having left the
church became disbelievers in the Bible and chri>-
tianity. Unfortunately for the force of the warn
ing there was not perfect agreement in the audi
ence in relation to the christian character of at
least one of the persons named, for the assertion
that he rejected the do ;trines Of christianity was
most emphatically denied. l suppose the truth of
the matter was simply this The pc rsons named
rejected a proslavery religion, and the adherents
of that religion calling it christianity, assumed
that the comeouters, had therefore rejected chris
tianity.
AT the close Of the meeting I informed the audi
ence that our friend Levi Hisey, had become re.
sponsible for the rent of the room WI occupied
and that if any of them were disposed to assist
Mr.. II. (who was not a resident of the place. in
paying for it, they were invited to make a contri
button. A collection was then taken up which
: amounted TO just TwENTY-sIx CENTS, which you
, will please state was contributed solely by the cit
liens Of Unity towards paying the rent of tn,
: room, which was $3.50.
8 Before we left the place we were waited on BY
a prominent Methodist who desired to have us re
turn, aud who had full faith that the meeting
d house could be secured for US. We agreed to re
d turn on Saturday evening, provided they would
s open the house AMI send us word of the same
e but no word having been communicated, we o
course inferred that the house could not he OBJ
tanned.
Had it not been for the kindness of on age'
! couple of thei name of HoAstot, I fear we shoul
not have found hospitality enough in Unity t
keep US over night. They were both interestin
persons, and the old man, who though upwards Q
e eighty was not too old to 60 to an anti-slaver
lecture, enjoyed our meeting very much. lie
one of those rare examples of anti-slavery conve,
sion in old age. He was turned of seventy whe
he listened to S, S. Foster at the time of his fir.
visit to Ohio, and since then has been an abol
ZIONIST.
to On Wednesday and Friday evenings we were
Petersburg, Mahoning county. In my efforts t
,e secure a place for our meetings, / waited upo
one Of the trustees of the Methodist house, vii
told me he had no doubt | could procure it, pr,
vided we wished to talk only upon slavery. 1t II
10 quired no great penetration to see that in his est
err nation, to say aught against a government TIL
ce legalized slavery, or n church-especially a NJ.
C~hurch-that sanctioned or tolerated it would
the introduction of extraneous matters in an AM
ge slavery lecture. A very fine and commodio,
nil school house, much more convenient than ii
ed meeting house, was secured, and for two evening
nd we talked 10 the people concerning Democra,
nd and Christianity. We had quite as good an a
IT, tendance as we anticipated, for the people of P
a %tersburg and vicinity, though good honest neig
is. bors, ond excellent farmers, are not particular
lot given to the investigation of moral reform, nor
a they consider intellectual activity a card inal vi
tue. They possess a strong infusion of that phle
m, matte trait of character, which is the delight
N. the Dutchman. Dthey ever become converted
= the right they will stand until eternity is hi
w. gone but that little if promises to bar their pi
ho gress for some time to come. We were warm
nd seconded in our efforts at Petersburg. by o
od friend John Pontius, who, previous to our leavi
ho his house, made a donation to the Western
40. ciety.
lgs On Sunday, tho 9th, we had a second appoi
ment at Cool Spring. You may remember Il
"a our first meeting in the county was at that pla
i've and at a time when the weather was anything |
hit, inviting, so the friends wished US to return, q
las appointed a meeting at the time mentioned.
of suspect, however, they did it without CONSULT
be the almanac, for more unpleasant fxings in
md way of weather and roads could scarcely be inn
ger ined. II there had come a dash of rain. fe