Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-24

ANN ARBoR, Oct. 1G, 1857.

For the Bugc.
ANN ARBoR, Oct. 1G, 1857.
DEAR FRrESp ROBINSON The meeting Of
Friends Of Human Progress" in Michigan closed
on Tuesday morning, after ten sessions, crowded
with business and discussions. A more i'm
portant gathering you have seldom seen, whether
the numbers in attendance be considered or the
proceedings and results. On Sunday we occupied
a spacious Tent, which we crowded in every part.
And though the evening session held until near
ly ten o'clock, no word of impotence was HEARD,
on any expression of a disturbing character. On
the other days, we met in q new and capacious
Hall, which we also filed.
Delegates came from several of the States East
as well as West. Judge Boardman of Waukegan"
was elected President. There were also o mum
Der of Vice Presidents, and three Secretaries
Mr.. A. j. Higgins from Chicago, Of the Firm Of
"~lIiggins Brothers," Music Dealers, furnish
ed most excellent music, both vocal and iustru-
mental.
The most prominent speakers were Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew jackson Davis, Miss Charlotte NJ. Be-
bee, c.. c.. Burleigh, S. G. Hewitt, Sojourner Truth
and j. w. Martin a Fugitive Slave.
All sorts of subjects, legitimate to ,uch IN oc-"
casion, came up for consideration Snd action.
Far the largest element in the meeting, numeri-
cally viewed, Was spirituahsm. Some Of the En-
tremists in ,ba. philosophy, were a little too pre-
Stunning, and seemed. to think the meeting wsss
held for their special use and benefit, wiserT
councils however prevailed.
One of the best posal.s Of the meeting probably
was, the drawing Of a distinct line between anti
I slavery and q sert Of Fanatseism Of Sfyrfs1-
ualism, that was, oserlaying sho"whole cause of
III D,oo,oa, 1;La z.lsoro aal uf;T9n- ont So
very breath and litnr. Many of our fovmsc gro
tesSed abolitioDists, nre already carried. away, by
] the strange infa,ration. Nor do they improve in,
their standard @ moral integrity much by the'
change, as their anpaSilasrsaragos to the BugTe
fully attest. l labSsed. in vaiaNet the Battle Creek
meeting, to collect one single dollar. except, from
j one person, of all the satns DUE.
Spiritualism in Michigan is surely no test or
D character. 1t embraeessm men Of all descriptions.
though the meeting "a. Battle Creek was largely,
Q irterspersed with the most fanatical OF The most,
r unprincipled among them. they learned however,
some new lessons in the cause Of Humanity, Re-
form and Progress. Some Of them W see iutroduc.
ing Resolution. very charitably admitting that anti
o slavery and other Reforms. might have q place, a.
corner, in their huge c%on4esp plations. But they
s learned that real Reform, cared nothing for such,
SplTltubIlbul 10 buVlTe, bpu' AnoW notnlng OF mo
t like of them, as its champions. and advocates.
Some of them wereBuchanaa nasn many both mem
}, and women, loathe the cause of woman's ehvatioa
The mad dog of prejudice agains. color" had Bit
ten them TO the second death, aud some. declared,
they would not have come to the meeting q. all
had they supposed anything bat spiri,ualism,
e would be introduced. For the good Of their causs.
it is well to have such arrogance asthsirs rebuked,
The meeting was greatly indebted to Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew jackson Davis for much Of its i'm
teress and success. Without them, l fear we
should not have adopted the noble anti.slavery
o testimony we did, and which. yoa will soon see.
It was up to the boldest point'of Disanioa' and n
s. neO Northern Republic. You may be- sure there
ID was genuine anti-slavery spirit there. and that
= the cause of humanity still lives.in this rising and
OF glorious young state.
s. Mr.. Davis greatly disappointed many Of his
Of former friends and admirers, in. the West. He 10
I'd too practical for them on the one hand, and wholly
IN too liberal and world-embraeing in his views of
re, humanity and progress, on the ether. The Gar
on risonian platform has no more hearty huters and
DIT opponents any where, than are housands'ofisp ir.
de itualists, and when such archosen leader as is M!
7 !; Davis, is found advocating its most distinctive and
on distasteful doctrines, it is more tbanr they can
I'D bear. They seem Inclined to- mako" their ne
ii. faith a dogma, on which to found a new scotland
ay should they succeed. it would 'bethe most iliber'
ole al Of all the sisterhood Of sectsr that now plagna
to and scourge the world.
Miss Bebee, l had not heardi Or seen before
he She is a lady evidently of superior talents, GER
by tainly. of beautiful address. Her addresses wert
ice written wo were told, under the direction Of depart
a ed spirits. They were of a high intellectual
IAN character, and though falling below Mr.. and Mrs
to Davis, in their demands in behalf Of the lowest o
ich the down.trodden, and in bold rebuke of populai
gro oppressors and tyrants, still they we're too out
to spoken and uncompromising for some of her audi
Sc ence, and she too fell under the ban Of their dis
og- pleasure.
h No stranger phenomenon has ever come befor
its my observation, than this attempt to deluge tn,
Anti-Slavery cause in Michigan, in q food of ia
offs naticism. The doctrines of spiritualism are re
ere ceived here in the West, more generally by far
l than in New England. And one might suppos
the arch enemy had seized upon this new fait
to WELD it in the cause of despotisn, as wei
We. as others. What claim Border Rufian Democrat,
lint negro.haters and women oppressors, have to cor
,re- sideration, in a Meeting of Friends of Humai
FER. Progress" except TO be rebuked, it is not easy to see
was t any rate, they got small comfort in the meetin
fa. at Battle Crock. And the Anti-Slaysry caus
be still holds on its gallant way, as does every oths
great question of real reform. The Michiga
off Anti-Slavery Society will hold its Anniversary j
is a few weeks, or months at farthest, and ii ma
for and must be made the most important occasion, TIL
State eper saW. There are here yet, many brav
ate, anu hopie heaf'e' DARKER pIIISRURy
etc. For the Bugle.
May we not look upon the late horrid mass'
and cres in British India as a retribution for III