Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-22
Communications.


An Anti. Slavery Meeting convened in = school
house two miles S'uth Of Marlborough at l O'Clock.
P. NJ. on Sunday, May 10th, aud organised BY
appointing Joel P. Heacock Chairman, and A.
Brooke, Secretary. The speaking principally was
by II ormon Bealer q fugitive slave, and William
Holiday. who is identified BY birth and color with
the degraded Glars. interspersed with remarks BY
Mahlon Wileman, George Clapsaddle. Reuben
Erwin and Jeremiah Freeman. The Inject of the
speakers appeared mainly to be to demonstrate
the guilty completely OF those whom they address,
ed in the sin and crime of slave holding. in which
they so far succeeded that no one present ventured
to offer any defence of either the church or the
state. This was one of q series Of meetings held
weekly for the past two months by the persons
above named, with the assistance of Jshu Holiday
and certain Others who have enlisted FOR the sboli-
ton of slavery by the overthrow Of the government
and countsnanced and encouraged bv such radical
abolitionists ss James d. johnson and Solomon
Wing, who aim At the same thing by the different
mode of putting an anti.slavery construction upon
the Constitution of the United States.
To these meetings the people throng With in
cressing interest. The speakers being unsduca-
ted men, the mere critic might perceive frequent
occasion to smile or to sDeer at the inappropriate
use OF language and the caviller to find fault with
occasional inaccurscy in the statsmen Of fact.
But by all those WIN can appreciate the eloQuencs
: which hows unstudied from deep feeling. and can
comprehend the logic which is taught in the school
Of q bitter experience, the secret Of their power
to attract and interest the people will DO readily
understood. 1t is the common people only, howe.
YER, who thus congregate for investigation and in.
struction. Leading individuals in the churches or
the political parties, however loud their professions
of Anti. Slavery zeal are seldom or never to b
seen. numbered among the participants or audi.
T, tors. Proiesscdly snsislavery church members
and politicians are as wise in their generation -
t were the confesscdly pro slavery persons out Of
whose ranks they have originated. They have
tho same instuitivs %aversi,n to those Asssmblsgss
l. where their professions ard their practice are CON,
trasted under tho light cast by the mighty lens 81
' free discussion. The church member who 10 CON
troled in however small degree by christianity
r and no, wholly by creed, when he has heard Iisr.
mon Bea!er describe the iniquitous and hypocrisi.
II cal dealings Of Southern church members with
{ the slaves Of their own church, and then shout in
" his s,ensorian tones, II hate tho churches Of the
. South. and | hate the churches Of the North. and
never but once in twelve years have entered one.
IA for ! see you all hang together;" leaves such Q
e meeting i'll at ease, and if his religion overbslsn.
ces his righteousness. most likely never returns.
Instead of repenting Of the sin which has been
shown him to exist in q pro.slsvery ecclesiastical
connection. he viii, probably satisfy himself
with misreprescnting the positions Of the speakers
and denounce them as in6dels. using his influence
to keep others also from s;ending.
And when the politician hears William Holiday
. demonstrate that in spite Of and all the worss for
le his ansi'siavery professions. every participant In
this government whether Radical. Republican, OF
National Democrat. stands with ono foot upon the
shroa, Of the gasping slave. the other upon che
body Of the free person Of color and though . bind