Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-12

MARLBORO, Juno 9Th, 1858.

ment to the chair OF BENJAMIN Lancaster. and
Reuben Erwin MS Secretary. The audience was
large, and the interest ia the proceedings very
As my previous reports of our meet.
ings were introduced, not with any at,cmpt to
retute their statements, but merely to record them
there is encouragement to p~crseverc in ahording
them. l offered a few remarks in the
ment to the effect that here, and now, VIC are
nearly all agreed that slavery is q crime agains,
Humanity aud sin against God. That therefore
our. appropriate duty is to unite in ascertaininr the
power by which it is upheld, and in the over.
throw of that power. ssSThat, tracing i. to its orig.
inal source some of us perceived that it possessed
great influence through the existence of pro.sla.
very ecclesiastical organizations, but thatl tho d.
rect means, or active machinery by which the
end is accomplished, is the government of the
United States. The proposition was laid down as
demonstrable beyond the possibility of successful
contradiction, that whilst the government con;
tinues in its present power, and a majority of the
people remain loyal to tho constitution, in the
spirit and intent of the parties to the contract from
the day of its formation to the present, that long
chattel sIavory'is invincible to assault by human
means. A second proposition was, that the gov
eminent in part was there assembled before us.
and ouryduty as abolitionists consisted in convert.
ing the audience, and in bringing them from q pro.
slavery position to its opposite. A third was
that no member Of the privileged class in the GOV.
eminent, would consent to its continuance one
hour, if it could he brought to operate upon his
interests, and those Of his possority as it does
upon the slave ; from which the inference is una.
%yoidable, that no person whosis willing to do unto
others as he would wish to be done by, could con-
tinuc to support it.
TO these propositions and the arguments by
which they were enforced, no reply was attempted.
Lyman Fields next addressed the meeting in q few
pertinent remarks, and was followed by Jehu
Holiday in an effective. and powerful speech
B. G. Gilbert next took the stand in defence Of
Republicanism. lie first took exception to the
suggestion in the last Bugle that the Republican
party has no anti.slavery principle for its basis
There was no effort to show what its principles
are, and how they are anti.slavery in their opera.
ton. lie claimed that the Fremont platform was
opposed to the extension CT slavery, but did not
attempt to rebut the testimony offered to show
that the party now make no other issue than that
the people of n Territory should be left free to
choose whether they will have free state, or slave
state constitutions. His chief show Of argument
that the Republican party is anti'slavery, in effect
was, that the South esteemed it to be so. When
asked by Lewis Morgan if the slaves are not held
in bondage by the operation of the constitution
he evaded reply by remarking that the catechist,
and his party, were willing to use the government
to secure their lands to themselves, q great mis-.
take by the by,.ns to their using the United States
Government for that purpose. His chief drift up
peared to be, however, to amuse by the display Of
humorous remarks and lead off the minds of thu
audience from the contemplation OF their owl
pro-slavery influence in the patty. Another cham
pion of RepublicaRism appeared in the person O
Mr.. Blackford, who fell into the too common er
ror of installing Disunionism for Non-resistance.
There are many who seem incapable of percieyini
that to advocate o change in the form of tho gov
eminent is an entirely different idea from that o
opposition to all penal legislation.
To B. c. Gilbert with his venerated father l an
moro indebted than to any other persons save on
perhaps, for my own conversion from an activ,
pro'slavery position. Afterwards we labore'
I shoulder to shoulder in the overthrow Of the oil
3 Wing party which in its day was as %anti.sla
NCiJ III " uhu 'N' no &c Nv ANPupA'Nu'
). party now. A more efficient laborcr than he, wa
not to be found, if one half so much go, in tn
e region where we then resided. Now he cccupie
politically a position identical with the one h
: then SO ably battled against. The debt of graf
e tude l owe to him, coincident with my duty to tn
c slave demands of me the utmost faithfulness
= rebuke of his pro.slavery position at the presen
v In administering it with him as with others l d
e not fail to discriminate between the man and tn
i partisan. With those of many Of his coadjutor
| honor his anti. slavery intentions, his benevoler
impulses. But as these give to him and to theI
n the power through a mistaken policy to pro,
more detrimental, individually, to the interests
the anti slavery cause than it is possible for an
= fifty profeesedly proslavery men to be, so does
become the more needful to labor to show him an
;, them their true position.
| wish to misrepresent no man and no party
When / say that the Republican party by its ant
slavery professions is enabled to garner up the al
tislavery feelings and intentions of the people an
use them through tho government in the dire
and irresistible support of slavery and thereb
proves to be the greatest obstacle to our success
| only express what | firmly believe, and mu
continue to think till evidence to the contrary
produced. And some of the leading men of IL
party on the floor of the Senate have assured Il
, South of the same thing. And ! do not dou'
that intelligent men at the South so understand
But while they can keep such a party in existen'
striving for issues, which, result as they may, thu
know cannot vitality effect the perpetuity Of 81
& very, they feel safe, and can afford to pretend to
afraid Of one Of the strongest elements Of the
power.
TIC some it may appear ash personal allusio
such as the above contains, may be out of pla
in the Buglc. They would be so were it not tn
individuals are often types Of classes of men, al
in criticising the position of one, you reach equ'
Ily that Of many.
The meeting adjourned to meet in the SAL
place at 2 p. NJ. on Sunday juno 10Th.
A. BROOKE.
The MORMON WARTS not yet ended. Govern
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