Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-23

which they were composed were borrowed from
the Artist Of the pit. She appealed with rare pa.
thos, and argument, and with forcible effect to the
hearts of those who we're open to sympathy with a
race, which though degraded by law and public
opinion, gave evidence by their actions Of q hero
ism and moral greatness. which she challenged
any other people TO surpass, or pei haps even equal
Gone. gone, sold and gonc," was then sung.
Vim. Lloyd Garrison said that the speaker who
had so eloquently addressed us, was one Of that de.
spised race whose very humanity was denied by
some. lie advocated the treating Of the slave eth
er as a man or as a brute, for he was the enc OF
the other-nOt in part, but in whole. II II man,
then should all recognise his claim to every right
which belongs to man but IL a brute, then let him
be treated as a brute, and in this, slavery is horri
bly, consistent from beginning to end. lie admired
the honest diabolism, the open yillany Of mem
Der Of the Lecomptou convention, who though he
advocated a trade in niggers, vas opposed to a
trade in human flesh, for il he believed niggcrs
were human, possessing the thoughts, feelings and
destiny of men, he would be an abolitionist at once.
Mr.. Garrison then depicted the condition Of The
slave, and demanded to know what the perpetra
tors of such wrong should be callcd-what would
we call them il the wrong were perpetrated upon
us? lie showed that the fanaticism of which abo.
litiouists were guilty, was the fana,icism Of true
philosophy, the fanaticism Of a faith in moral prin.
CT. lie. II they were fanatics, they were such FL.
natics as the fathers, such fanatics as this nation
had taught them to be Sy its commentator of the
patriots of Bunker Hill and Lexington. The diff
ference between the nation and ourselves was this:
the nation didn't believe what it said, and was
n II -
principles in practice.
He thought that if slaves might be held in the
! South for their own good, then should benevolent
I men in the North be also permitted to hold them
I here for the slaves good. But the North forbidS
it. and calls it man stealing to do so and if the
moral ground of it opposition to the practice is
correct, then is every stakeholder a man stealer.
"Be bold, be strong" was sung. when the mee'
r ting, on motion, adjourned to 7 o'clock this eve,
ming.
EVENING SEssIoN.-'Oh children of the glorious
West" was sung by Joseph leighton, as the com.
mencement Of the exercises.
The reading of resolutions, series No, l was
called for, which, when heard, were on motion
. unanimously adopted.
CeTlcS NUS. = uuu D NeTe tueu taken up U Gun
= sideratiOn.
u VIM. Lloyd Garrison showed that American re-
liglon could not. from its very nature, abolish the
slavery of this land. The church now numbers
four millions of members, and our land holds -four
" millions of chattel slaves. Church members and
chattel slaves had increased in the same proper
: tions, and when we have eight millirns of church
members, we shall have eight millions of slaves
unless We indoctrina,e the people with a purer re
ligion than they now have. This day three hun
dred babes had been born into American slavery
. and what has the church said about it, or cared
~ abou: it? He cared for nothing about a belief in
the Trinity or the Unity, nothing about a belief il
:, Calvinism or Mcthodism. nothing about a belle
in the Bible simply as belief. The public worship
of this land was a snare to the people, for it laugh
them to substitute forms and dogmas for works o
practical righteousness. The South is irtensel,
evangelical. 1t boasts it has no Unitarianism, N
- Universalism, no Spiritualism, and no Abolition
ism. 1t has but one ism. and that is Diabol,sm
and Evangel cal Diabolism. Northern rsligionist
strike hands across the line with their Southern
brethren, and what better are they than thei
brethren of the South ? Those who take the Bibl
to prove that slaveholding was right under Abra
ham, and was right under Jesus, are regarded a
very excellent christians while those who use i.
terrible denunciations against slavery, who go I
it TO vindicate the character of God and his SO,
from the aspersions cast upon them. are infdelc
forsooth
AS for the State, it has no Constitution. Ba
as was the original document it was put asid
when Texas was annexed to the Union, accordin
to the testimony Of your own Giddings, John OUR
cy Adams, and other prominent members of Cor
gress at that time. From that day to the preser
.. we have been living under a usurpation. The ide
of a constitutional election, IS an election in cor
:. formity with the choice of the people. At the tim
- of she last Presidential campaign the vilest slave
holders spoke without molestation in the NORTH
,os and Democrats as well as others, voted withor
hindrance at the polls. But there was no sue
freedom in the South. Had Hale, or Wilson, c
Giddings, or Seward gone South to advocate tn
election of Fremont, it would have been at the pc
| of their lives. Border Rufians took possesio
of the polls, and declared they would lynch, {
drive from the State every Fremont man. No r.
:. publican electoral tickets were permitted to |
printed or circulated there, except, perhaps, in
=. very small portion of one or two States. Thel
- having been no freedom of choice in the South, WI
a. Buchant n constitutionally elected to the chair p
-, No man ought to recognise such a government
legitimate.
Men of common sense should not NEEDLE wi
full the mere results of slavery. and suffer the eau
which produced these results to remain untoucht
they should strike at the cause. The North, ii
IN mighty North can do this. But the North HI
been such a fool as to submit to every demand
Lao the South when a dissolution of the Union is threa
ened as the penalty for non compliance. The sa,
inn power is as weak as it is wicked, and we can
with it what we will. Why not unitedly refuse
'es. Sustain slavery any iongerf
gs, The speaker showed the impossibility Of havir
en-. a union between slavery and freedom, and ga
some of his reasons for advocating the doctrine