Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-24
FIELD NOTES.
Mrsopor,NtA. Oct. 10Th 1857,

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been our attendants for most of the week, Satur-
was as beautiful a day for "clarin up" in
cloud-iand, as ever aunt Dinah was blessed with
in her kitchen operations. And then for the
cold, frosty weather we anticipated, the sky was
rs soft, the air rs mild, and The sun was as
warm and loving as though all of earth's children
could appreciate, and deserved the beautiful smiles
gladdened the face of nature.
Owing to a lack Of defniteness in the notices Of
the time o: converting, some came in the forenoon
instead Of the evening, expecting us to be on tho
To say that we had good Meetings.
convention that was satisfactory, is merely to state
a literal truth. Our audiences were generally
large, and the great mass of those present appear
to be interested in our discussions. Nearly SIT
in cash was paid for the advancement of the cause
of freedom, and over $40 pledged to the Western
Society. There was one interesting fact in con-
nection with the pledges made, which Mrs. Foster
stated to the meeting she said that with one ex-
%ception, young women in the audience had made
as largo pledges as any others, and much larger
than those made by grey haired men and she
thanked God that such were beginning to feel
that it il was a privilege, as well as q duty to labor
for the slaves deliverance.
After holding a meeting in Bundysburg on Mon
day evening, | went to Pennington Corners to fill
an appointment for Tuesday night. Perhaps you
know there is a sectarian school at Pennington, a
seminary where Methodist tutors train up the
young in the way they have been so long accus-
toned to have the youth walk in. When we SO.
lected it as q place for a meeting, it was with the
hope-no, not the hope, the Uish only-that the
students in attendance upon the seminary, would
also be hearers of the anti.slavery word. That
they we're not so, was no marvel and perhaps it
was wise for their preceptors to keep from eyes
that had been weakened by seclusion from light,
too great q glare Of r%eformatory truth. In the
course of the remarks | made there, l introduced
the following declaration from the Methodist Quar-.
terly Review
Strange that welhave no business to discuss sla.
very, when every square foot of these states is a
legal hunting ground for the slave chaser, and
every man Of us is by law an er,o6Gcio slave.catch.
er! Up to the boundary of our free states, the negro
hunter chases his painting and bleeding human
victim with dog and gun; but when he crosses the
boundary, he absndons his four legged hounds for
human hounds of two. By law of Congress, singl.
ed by President Fillmore, we are his hounds
the ex-President himself included. Our only bus.
mess, fOrsooth, is to be good and faithful negro
catchers, and to shut our mouths. Should a gen
eral Southern rebellion take place, the North il
bound to send her armies to reduce the bonds
men to subsection. 1t is Northern power in fac
that holds the slave in awe. and the system in ex
i%stence. We are, in reality, the slave holders
while they are the slsve-owners."*
Altbo,yb tla Ianpnopai - barob ood do
mandatory that some Of US are wont to use, | as
sured the audience we fully endorsed the doctrinu
and asked of them, that if they believed in tn
premises here laid down by Methodist officials
that they should also endorse the legitimate con
! ciuSion that we Disunionists had drawn- tina
We are all bound to refuse to be 'er-oficio slave
cstchers," human hounds of two legs" "goo
r and faithful negro c~atchers," Tin reality the slave
, holders" and that we forever repudiate a govern
D ment which demands such services at our hand,
On Wednesday the DR.. and myself attende
a Republican Meeting at Pennington Center
. The audience was not very large, and did nj
make up in enthusiasm what it lacked in number
a Nearly an hour was occupied by Mr.. Hutohins {
l. Warren, in discoursing upon state finances, an
e explaining the cause of a bolt in the Republico
c party of Trumbull. Mr.. futile of the same pluc
r spent abou. as much time in commenting upc
Kansas affairs, and in dissection of the bred SEQ
decision. In the course of his remarks he mat
n a statement which | felt called upon to deny
whereupon he asked me to show that his positiC
was incorrect, which | consented to do. if he wou
d allow me a few minutes after he had conclude
10 This he agreed to, and thinking lie had a stri
r Inap,oorotb aGnra hin, bo avpa,dod no;n,, pa;JaroI
amount of indignation upon my poor head
which inAiction l meekly submitted.
After he had concluded, he invited me to &
platform, which invitation was.hsartily seconded
the audience. Instead of giving them the defen
Of Democracy which they expected, unfolded
doctrine which is somewhat rare in Replblic
meetings. | stated the position ! intended
,e prove to be this that the doctrine upon Viii
the bred Scott decision is based-that the neg
to has no ights which the white man is bound
re respect-has always had The practical endor,
be ment of the American people, that it is alike recc
nizcd in the organizations of State and Churc
and that it was quite as appropriate to have
,g endorsement form one of the planks in the Repr
I'd lican, as the Democratic platform. The pro-
We which l adduced in support of this position we
listened to with very respectful attention., and
I'D was never more CO urteously treated than in II
of Republican meeting.
as At Bristol the Doctor and occupied two e
'rs nings, having a pretty good audience of men,
CHI not one woman. Why our meetings there p
sented SO singular a feature, l cannot say. p
of haps the women had been taught that slavery v
nd a political question, and had only become so
rs. miliarized with the doctrine that nothing could
m done for its removal except by voting, they had re
he ly come to believe it, and thus cut themselves
'ur from the exercise of that moral power which
declared-upon good authority-to be mighty
the pulling down of the strong holds Of oppressi
of The truths we uttered will doubtless germins
but politicians feel rather unwilling TO nour
Isl, the seed until after the second Tuesday in o.
in Der.
on, The other members of our company, S. S.