Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-10
Communications.
FIELD NOTES.

from the commencement, and at our last meeting
the house was crowded.
=. Previous to our arrival there was considerable
E effort made to prejudice tho public mind and
1 church member and inflel laborcd in loving fell
lowship to effect this purpose. At the meeting on
Saturday evening while S. S. Foster was speaking
on the eminently christian character of the anti.
slavery enterprise, enforcing the necessity of urg-
ing upon community their duty of oleying the
, great law Of Jcsus-love to God and love to man
and insisting that they practically acknowledge
the doctrine of moral accountability, he was inter-
e uptcd by one of the audience declaring. "Then
you condemn Garrison and Pillsbury, who are in
- fdels in the Corst sense Of the word"
/ | supposed, at first, it was some church member
y who had been moved thus to speak, but learned
afterward TO my surprise, he was one who was
considered the high priest of Mogadore ~infdelity.
G | should not wonder if the remarks applied to a
f witness in another matter woro descriptive of the
d case referred to:-'Thcm there allegations is false,
. and that there alligator knows it," lie was chal.
e lenged to produce his proof, which he promised to
do, and on Sunday forenoon it was Forthcoming,
a so tar as Mr.. Garrison was concerned. he declining
to say anything more about Mr.. Pillsbury, so the
verdict will most certainly be in the case of the
latter "not prored." His testimony to convict the
r former was Webster's definition of infdelity, and
: a series of resolutions offered at a Convention in
b Hartford, denying the plenary inspiration of the
l. Bible. S. S. Foster showed that in regard to plen.
y airy inspiration, Mr.. Garrison stood where stand.
some Of the most prominent and intelligent church.
men, but declaring that more than any other man
d he knew, was Mr.. Garrison imbucd with the spir.
d it of the prophet Isaiah that he had become SC
assimilated in character both with Jesus and Isni
ah that he spoke, as it were, in the prophetic
. tone, and in the language Of the latter, and had
the mild and benevolent expression of counte
ir nance that Jesus must have worn. He showed
that Observation-Disclosures to principlo-wa:
=; the very opposite Of the anti slavery move
1. ment, and that while some who protested to be
infdel, were truly christian, very many who claim
as the name Of christians, were practical infdels.
81 While we were engaged in discussing the posi-
n ton Of the Republican party, some ono in the au
dience said that he had heard a prominent either
n, of Mogadoro who belonged to that party, advo
H. cate the right Of lying under certain circumstan
ces upon this q Republican sprang to his fee
and explained, J the individual, by the way wal
he not the ole referred toy lie stated bis position
to be this: he did not think, and had never sale
al that lying was right. but if the lives Of his wifi
OF and children were in danger, it would be RICH
u. to lie to save them-it was an attribute of mature
ee to lie under such circumstances, and the man VIII
err did not would be false to God.
-" The gentleman | was informed was q Justic
70 of the Peace, an officer of the law who swears al
ne witnesses who appear before him to "tell tn
To- whole truth, and nothing but the truth" unde
is the pains and penalties Of perjury
h no And if he aftarward discovers that any one haSlie
WIS no matter under what circumstances even thong
it be in the extreme case in which he toache,
on it is right to lie, he shuts him up in prison to ava
' w. his trial as the violator of the laws of both Go
i've and man. The squire's justification of lying wa
used as a text for more than ono sermon, an
when we left the place, every body was stirred u
to enquire, SIS uright to lie P"
zee Many attended our convention who had rarel.
Ide if ever before been seen at an anti-slavery meetin
Ia and the seed scattered will not fall wholly upc
stony ground. Enquiry will be awakened, ar
ed. those who would be faithful to truth will see the
can no longer support slavery, the GREAT L
of this nation, which can only hope to live /
ia o. making men false to themselves, and to the ensla
the ed. The Mogadore singers were present at OF
meetings and did, as usual, a good work. We o
tanned seven subscribers for the Bugle, and CO
gn lected in donations $3.50,
ems n. n.oau :; IN n ~
went to Hudson, which some twenty years sin
ov used to be called "au abolition hole" When Il
Of DR.. was there the previous week the only intere
re- manifested in the proposed meeting was the C
Nv preston of a determination to ride me out
nj. town On a rail. This SO far as it went, looked hol
on full. But alas for human expectations, no rail
he rail carriers appeared to greet my coming, W
y learned that the bills notifying the meeting wei
torn down soon after they were posted. I'll
re weather was stormy about the hour appointed
le' and the sum total of the audience was one ma
IL who came to light the hall, and one Democri
Or who dropped in to~.inquire what was going on, b,
who left in great trepidation when informed "
re. wero going to dissolve the Union.
of We were credibly informed that in the old Cor
.ne gregational church at Hudson, no prayer had bee
offered for the slave for the last eight years, G,
cept occasionally by strangers VINO oficiated.
on, We think our southern brethren may rest Statistic
Ior that Hudson is reasonably 'sound on the goose
~ Mr.. Ellsworth generously granted us the use
o his hall without ch arge, SO that our effort to o
tain a hearing in Hudson. involved no other e
'ith penditure than that of a loss of time.
" At Darrah Street we had a pretty good ga,he
ing so far as numbers was concerned. but sprir
ing, ualism appears to have SO operated upon the pc
pie there, tina. their interest in sublunary, matte
nch, is exceedingly small, or else their action VIII
met they do acts SO inconsistent and peryerse,
a. misguided by s~ophistry as to be no credit to
ned true democrat or christian.
IT. a The storm prevented our having any meeting
tive S,o,anan;IIo ,rh;,b = oo,so fr rooro, a..
~ ~ 49, ,
lese lar as VIC couiu Judge inc people 'hefe are VI "a J
9th. eral, inquiring mind.