Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-18


CoMPLINENrARY RrPoRr.-"I knew Mr.. Lincoln
in early life he commenced bis life as n grocer
Senator Dopgius.
The only difference between Judge Douglas
and myself on the grocery question is, that WINE
! have stood on one side Of tho counter. he has
been equally attentive on the other."-Ltdco
SLAVE SiANrEnE.-Four slave men. two belong
Ing to Joseph c. Pancake. Esq, and two to Mr.
Michael Miller, says the Stanton (Na) Pindicd'
tor, escaped from the South Branch, in namp..
shire County, Va, on Saturday night, the I'd
inst, taking with them four horses, the property
of Mr.. Pancake. Parties are in pursuit OF them.
The horses we're found in n field near Cresap-
town, Nd.
The colored population Of Providence, X. l.,
have commenced a suit against Mr.. Olading, pIlh'
cipai Of one of the grammer schools OF that city
for refusing the son Of q colored man the PRIV
lege Of entering the school as a pupil. The father
of the colored boy is a tax payer, and he ana ms
friends are determined to test the question whether
colored children can enter white schools.
SPuRGEoN.--Mr Raymond, the editor of the ~
Y. Times, in a recent letter to his own journal, thus
speaks Of the great pulpit orator Of modern Lon
don
81 went to hear another English celebrity-Mr.
Sturgeon, who continues to preach to enormous
congregations, and with undimini, hed popularity,
which is not easy to explain OF understand. lie Is
excessively common, place in both matter and man
ner. lie has n clear voice, very great huency IN
the construction and utterance of sentences, ana a
certain directness in his style of thought and ex'
preston, But he is excessively shallow, and ire
quently sophistical to a deg,ee absolutely insulting
to the understanding of his hearers. There are Mt
least half a dozen clcrgymen in New York who
are not only far ADLER preachers, but who would
seem to have the elements of popularity in a far
greater degree"
The ANTrCKINoLINE CRusADE.-The tesolu'
tons of the Miami Conference Of the Church Of
the United Brethren, declaring the wearing OF
crinoline incompatible with o true Christian pro-
ression, seem to be rigidly enforced by the au-
thorities of that denomination. AT a camp'meet'
ing Of the U. B. Church, recently held near West
Baltimore, Montgomery county, u, Bishop Rus.
sell forbid any one with hoops on to partake OF
the acrament affirming that they would not be
welcome at the table of the Lord. The warning
was needed, and rings, breast pins, a%rtiticials ana
hoops came of-some Of the latter being used to
kindle fires.
ess~ There are many good anti-slavery men who,
strange to say, arc in alliance and fellowship with
pro-slavery Churches. Their best efforts for the
Save are thwarted by their ecclesiastical connivance
with the oppressOr. They know this, and yet. as
if by some delusive spell, they keep up their self
qualification. Some of them will admit shat the
Church is corrupt, confess that IL gives christiah
character and responsibility to the terrible crime
Of slayehOlding, allow thst it has more quarrel
with dancing than with man SCALING, concede that
Albert Barnes .old IA great truth wien he alleged
that ''the American Church is the buiTark OF
American Slavery" and yet they say they are CO.
ing to stay in it to purify it! But is there not
more sectarianism than honesty is this pretension?
Would a Presbyterian advise a Baptist to that
course? Would a Methodist think a Congregations
alist had better remain in his Congregational
Church to clean it of its completely with oppres-
sionP We suspect not. He would rather quote
Scripture to him, saying Come out from among
them, and be ye separate have no fello yship with
the unfruitful works of darknessl'- True american.
The Wauback Bank of Nebraska has gone up
among the assets, or rather the only asset was a
solitary coon skin.