Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-05-28

walls. Captain Brown, Jr, a son Of old Captain
Brown of Kansas, was urged to attend the meet
ing mo-" said he, an not go to hear Buncom5e
But when the jai, is to be torn down,
I'm there"
AT tho opening Of the afternoon session q list
of officers was reported, and the ticket elected
Joshua II. Giddings being chosen President. lie
was not then p esent to take his seat--though he
came soon afterwsrd-and except Judge Spaul-
ding, who had spoken in the forenoon, there APP
peared to be no one to address the people. AT
last the Judge announced, that although he had
not been able to find a Republican speaker, he had
found a Republican singer. Every abolitionist of
ten years standing. knows that tho Republicans
have stolen our thunder they, however,m mix with
it a very considerable portion of theatrical thun-
der, which, though not a bit like the genuine
article, answers their purpose, This appropri-
alton, however, doesn't matter, for they are per
fectiy welcome to arguments we used ten and
twenty years ago, seeing that w have substituted
others FOR them, more pointed, more trenchant,
and in every way better adapted to the moral and
spiritual condition Of the people. We %confese,
however, to be taken somewhat by surprise, when
in the person of their Republican singer,we recog-
nized our old Disunion friend leighton. lie step
ped forward and gave n song which was loudly
applauded by the audience, and their applause
reminded us Of q sailor we once read Of, who, on
a certain occasion attended an exhibition of fire
works. During the performance, some powder,
incautiously became ignited, and Jack was blown
up. He descended unhurt, but a good deal as
tonished. Thinking it q part of the regular per-
Torrance, he took it in good part, but audibly ex-
pressed his establishment by saying, 81 wonder
what in thunder they'll do next" leighton,
in the concluding part of his song called upon the
people to tr ample under foot their blood-stained
compact, to cease to reverence the Union, and no
longer sustain the CORY Constitution. As no
had been announced as a Republican singer, the
audience thought of course his song was a part of
the regular performance, and therefore applauded
his Disunion doctrines. Two or three copies of
the stars and stripes were upon tie speakers
platform, and one waved from the Jail containing
the prisoners-a significant fact, for the govern
ment which the Republican party swears to up
hold is the government which incarceratesB ushnell
and his companions.
AT the Jail we found q light board ~feuce-appa-
rently a temporary afair-enclosing a space
in front of the building, and there were
confined the convicted as we'll as the untried
r%escuers. Crowds thronged around there the en-
tire day. Men and women pressed forward to take
the resouers by the band, and cheer after cheer
greeted them as they presented themselves one af-
ter the other. We have visited many prisons in
our land, but never before beheld SO respectable
a set Of felons, never before saw criminals wear
ing such an aspect of true nobility upon their
countenances, such unmistakable assurances of
being at peace with themselves through the con-
seriousness Of having done unto others as they
would that others should do unto them.
The mass meeting, we should think, was large
enough and enthusiastic enough to satisfy those
who called IL. If ii should ia any way tend to ed,
ucate and prepare the people to take 30 high .
stand in dsfsnes of freedom a. to resist tyranny
simply because it outrages humanity, to advocat.
liberty simply because it is the right of man, it,
ultimate results will be shown in actions more in
accordance with our views of o righteous expedi
ency, than is tho policy of any existing political
organization.
The several speakers at the gathering were
Judge Spaulding, Joshua R. Giddirgs, Judge
Tilden, Governor Chase, President Mahan, Judge
Hitchcock, John Langston brother to the prison
cry Brown, Delano, Carter-who we believe al
have titles Of some kind-and perhaps one or two
others, for we did not hear oil, having left before
the meeting concluded.