Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-26
ANTIsLAvERY MEETINGS.

ANTI SLAVERY MEETINGS.
Our Friends in the Lecturing Geld have been
busy, and their meetings, so far as we can learn,
eminenily successful since our last. Mrs. Coleman's
letter which we publish spoke encouragingly of
the labor borrowed south west of here. The
Remonds, Parker Pillsbury, and Mrs. A. X. Foster
held our meetings at New Brighton, Pa, which
we're numerously attended. The few friends there,
were hearty in their cooperation and liberal in
their contributions, and the meetings thoroughly
awakened The people to inquiry and discussion on
the subject. New Brighton is a strongly conserva-
tive place and we hope the agitation commenced
by our friends will prove Of wholesome moral in
nuence. AS an indication that it is so working, we
notice that the people there have since made an ar
rangement for a lecture on a kindred topic of Re-
form-Woman's Rights, and tina, on Monday Even
ing next, Mrs.J. Elizabeth Jones, lectures there by
request on that subject. None can do il justice
better than she.
The meetings at ColumLiana on Saturday and
Sunday, were also well attended and of en-.
couraging character. Our friends the Remonds
we're there alone, and acquitted themselves well
and much to the advantage of the cause, These
friends by their ability fidelity and zeal are doing
excellent service in Ohio.
Of the labors of our friends in Portage and Sum.
nit counties we are not 20 well posted. We hope
they will report to us in season for our next paper.
Of the Discussion at Ravenna between Messrs.
Foster and Pryne we have had nothing except the
following from Mr.. Prync himself in his last Re-.
former:
Our debate with Stephen S. Foster closed at q
late hour on Wednesday night. We regret that
Mr. Foster did not take issue with our views of the
anti slavery character of the Constitution, for to
our views of course, if tho Constitution is anti.
slavery, there is no need to destroy the Union in
order to abolish slavery. But MIR. +. conceded
our views of the Constitution, and still argued the
necessity of breaking up the Union. The debate
was listened to by a large audience, most of the
time for two days, and we think it will result in
great good.
OF course it is needless for us to say that Mr..
Foster is a man Of great talent, and has long stud.
led the subject The discussion closed, and the
parties separated in mutual kindness and friend
ship.
Leverett Norton, ESQ, of our village presided
with courteous dignity, snd to the entire satisfac-
ton of all concerned.
OF the meeting on Saturday and Sunday last, in
Ravenna. attended by MIR. and Mrs. Foster and
Benjamin S. Jones, tho Portage Democrat says: SIN
their discourses, they presented their peculiar dis.
union views, and bore heavily upon tho Republic;
an party, and were particularly severe upon the
negro-stealing democracy" 1t also adds:
"If these earnest laborers in tho Anti-Slavery
cause can WELD any il luence to convert pro-slavery
men to anti slaveryism, we bid them Gud-speed-
the agitation OF the slavery question i'll its various
J aspects is calculated to do gond-the more light
that is shed on the subject, the more ~palpably will
be revealed to observation the hideOus deformities
of the sum of all villanies" The concentrated
action Of the whole world must be brought to bear
not only upon the STAKEHOLDER, but upon his Grim.
inal, dough-faced abettOr."
The Democratic Garfield Sentinel reports to its
readers, Of the meetings in Garfield, as follows:
DIsUNIoN MEETINGs.-Canfeld has been visited
} by some of the monster toads of the "open and
above board" disunion abolition party, during thu
n last few days. Stephen L. Foster and james
-, Barnaby addressed a slim audience on Thursday
evening, the 10Th, at the Congregational church
and Parker PIllsbury and the notorious Abbey
Kelley, in person, made speeches in the court house
O on Tuesday evening. The courthouse cougrega
:, ton was respectfully large! Tho change in theii
sophistry and doctrines is not ma terial. They
4 however, discard more Of their infdeiity thar
, formerly. They are beginning to pull a diferen
string for the benefit of those who abhor their abus,
of religious denominations We have heard of n,
y converts.
Garfield IL not q Ilace where the National
Disunicnists have hitherto been in the habit of get
ting congregations respectfully large. Blu. nov
y it seems infected with the general spirit of inquir,
!, which pervades this part of the state, and our lee
turers have larger audiences with much less of evi
and opposition than they have had to encounter i
= our previous campaigns for several years past.
a more opportune time could not have been Sc
= lected by the American Anit-Slavery Society t
send among US the able and devoted men and VIC
men who are now co'operatingwitA us in Ohio 70
i the advancement of radical anti-slavsy principle,
Ordinarily at the period 50 near the State electio
as the present, our influence has been counteracte
|, and our efforts paralised by demagogues and polit
y cal ex excitement. But thus far this year, we met
but slight difficulty from this source. There is n
, political enthusiasm among the people this fall
" The only persons who seem as yet to think til
election of Importance are the partisan editors an
d the Office seekers. Thus the people are found read
to listen to the suggestion that there is a more el
cellent way.