Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-01-08
PROSPECTING roR MEETINGS..

PROSPECTING FOR MEETINGS.
When we arrived upon this lecturing ground,
we understand that word had been sent to the
lilsey neighborhood, that we would be oh hand
Tor meetings. Not hearing Anything from there, ]
set out on a voyage OF discovery, and learned, I'm.
fortunately for our calculations, that no word Of
our coming had been received.
left appointments for Hum's Meeting House,
and then directed my course to Churchill. in the
Whitacre neighborhood, a place where Miss Wat
kins lectured not long since. But l found that
American religion had been revived at Churchill
since she was there, converts had been made to
Churchianity, and the doors Of the Meeting House
we're barred and bolted against the friends of the
slave.
Several persons at New Lisbon being DESTROYS Of
our holding meetings there, / accordingly visited
the town to see what could be done toward obtain.
ing a suitable place in which to gather an audi
ence. The Methodists were about to commence a
protracted meeting, and this, with some other
reasons will prevent our going there at present.
NEW LISBON.
If ruin7 wero antiquities, New Lisbon would be
a city of American antiquities. 1t is a saddening
sight to behold the many deserted and dilapidated
buildings which are in the town, or its immediate
vicinity. Some that were once vocal with the
sounds Of manufacturing industry, are now as 81
lent as the grave, and homes, once rudy with the
light of the hearth.fre, are now dark, and cheer
less, and forsaken.
New Lisbon is beautifully, and advantageously
situated-those who selected its site. were persons
of taste and judgement. The hills which sur.
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single furnace is in blast its water power could
be made to- produce tens of thousands of dollars
annually, and yet is almost wholly idle. TIE
busy hum of factories, and the bright glow of the
furnace belong of right to Lisbon, and she will
have them too, when the few capitalists, whose
narrow and mistaken policy have measurably Grip.
pied her energies, shall have passed away. and
given place to those who possess the will and the
wisdom to. develope her mineral wealth and demon
strate her manufacturing resources,
AT RLKToN.
At this place, where the Disunion pillow first
broke ground las: year, we found, in spite of rain
and mud, quite a number who assembled to hear
us on Sunday afternoon, the 10Th. They received
what. was saidlin apparently a very kind spirit until
the Methodist church was arraigned as one of the
allies of slavery. Then n buzz was heard, and the
Methodist class leader, Discipline in hand, came
to the rescue. He read from the Discipline, which,
of course, was anything but evidence of the anti.
slavery character of the church, and denied with
very broad and unsupported assertions the COM
plicity of the sect with slavery. And these asser
tions Of their leader, l have no doubt weighed far
more with his followers than the testimony we pre-.
scented Of Long, uosmer, and others who have
made themselves acquainted with all the facts in
%reliticn to the slaveholding Of border Methodism,
more than the accumulated evidence to be found
in tho column of the Northern Independent, q paper
which they never saw, and perhaps never before
heard Of. AT the close of the afternoon session,
the class leader gave notice of a prayer meeting in
the evening, which slightly diminished the num-
Der of our auditors at the evening session. Our
audience, however, was more orderly and attentive
than in the afternoon, even the boys, from some
cause or other, behaving much better than they
did when Metho!ism stood upon its defence
When the prayer meeting was over, some of the
more enquiring of the brethren came in to hear
further what we had to say 0nd when we closed,
two Or three manifested some desire to make &C.
quaintauce with the Northern Independent.
We were invited to visit Elkton again when the
weather was more favorable. and were told by
some that if they saw moro of Disunion lectures,
they would like them better, and they even seem.
ed to think that the lectures we had given were
less harsh than those of a year since.
On the following Monday and Tuesday evenings
we were at
HUM MEETING HOUSE,
which was built by the Wesleyan Methodists, but
with the general understanding that it was to be q
house. Considering the unfavorable weather,
and the terrible condition of the roads, we had
larger audiences than we anticipated. There
were those there who were anxious to hear about
slavery from the lips of the living speaker, who
took the tracts we had to distribute, pur-
chased of anti.slaveiy books, and were ready to
ask the Ohio legislature virtually to declare, that
law or no law, Constitution or no Constitution, fu-
gitive slaves should not be taken from the soil o:
Ohio, Judge fancy and President Buchanan to the
notwithstanding. B. S. j..
Cool SPRING, Dec. 22nd, 1858,
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