Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-10
NJ. r. HULL.

An able advocate Of the slaves emancipation; visit
ed Salem last week and delivered three lectures OF
the subject in tho Town Hall. Mr.. Hull is a Re
publican, but deeply impressed with the impor
lance Of e~levating .he Republican Standard to thu
level of alolitioniem and for this seems to be ear
nestly ~laboring. Whatever may be the result Of
such an effort, Mr.. Hull should have the earnest
sympathy and jealous cooperation of oil friends
Of freedom in the party and out Of it. He certain
ly has ours.
It was not our good fortune to listen to his ad'
dresses, as we were absent attending meetings
In Columbiana. A correspondent, who is very en-
thusiastic in his admiration sends US the following
notice of his addresses.
"Steel pen" once said, in the Garfield Sentinel
very dogerelly, "Salem you are some" If his
appreciation Of truth bears any decent proportion
to his funny proclivi,ios, he would say of three
lectures delivered by NJ. r. Hull, had he heard
them, they were "some," and the audience 'some,'
10 other than q sarcastic sense. He would have
heard the speaker utttering naked truth, earnestly
and stentoriously, in such connection that every
listener would be compelled to appreciate
such parts as were applicable to his own condi
ton.
Cuwslcome truth is not unfrequently, perceived
to have special adaptation TO others, and hence is
divided am ong them without reservingeven q pit
tance for the generous donor. Not so in the re-
cont course of lectures, here adverted to. The ut
terances we're so conceived and sc directed that he
showed denunciation of sin equally as applicable to
ehristendom as to the house of Israel, aud better
still for US, he suspended them to two sides of the
Salem Hall. The pictures were SO truthlully ant
ar,istically drawn. that less than an amateur c0ulo
not fail to see the likeness, and like some portraits
flor take whatever stand point of observntion,) they
always look the observer straight in the face, anc
say as plainly, as a picture can say, 81 mean you
Yes, thou art the man."
The lecturer is no abstractionist; great as is his
fund Of ammunition, he is too much of an econo
mist to waste it on vacuity or nonentity.
1t will be conceded by some who felt hit, there
seldom is so much important truth brought to light
IL ihres addresses.
The miseries of Intemperance; the destruction,
che bcreavements and the criminality Of War; the
unspeskable injustice, cruelty and entire demonia-
cal character Of slavery, we had often heard, but
never before were their magnitude SO accurately
placed before us, or the portraiturss drawn with
such life like coloring.
The discourses we're so c%ontIivcd as 10 make
those feel, who nave hearts to feel and leisure to
attend to their palpitations, that we are the supine,
~taciturn sustainers Of the evils, the responsibility
for which VIC are prone to shift to other shoulders.
If the evils complained of did not exist and tie
question were up ''shall they be introduced ?" then
might men take sides, and discussion would be
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wrong W the mental and moral vision rs clearly
and sclf-evidently as the physical organ Of vision
secs the light of the sun; hence the quiet, inactive
locker on, is not merely negative;-he is the posi-
tire sustainor and u~pholder Of every wrong which
he does not oppose. This is not an ease giving
view of the subject, but it is the one the lecturer
kept pretty constantly before W, as the only one
which can urge us to Go for others what we should
wish to have done fer ourselves under a change of
circumstances
Bone one may say, "IIull talks too fast: he 70.
cifcratos and gcsticulates painfully, if not to him
self, to the audience" be it SO; but bear in mind
critic. that each workman does hest with his own
tools. Tholawyer could not plead successfully with
ort his pack mead; and how could the yankee
think without his stick to white?
But examine carefully, fast;iious one, and ascer-
tain whether it is not the matter rather than the
manner that ohends. Bear in mind there will come
q day after to-day, and have Il care that on that
day the memory Of inertness and apathy, does not,
rs in the case Of Randolph Of Ronnoak. require
that "Eemorse' be pencilled on both sides Of your
card. A..
Our neighbor Of the REPUBLICAN is not Sc
we'll pleased with Mr.. IIull's lAbors. Wo copy
his notice Of the addresses.