Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-12

feeling in the neighborhood, and the United Breth'
rem are quite popular. This is q sect which
claims to be Anti. Slavery, because it has a Disci'
pliue which prohibits Shareholders from joining
its membership. Having done this much, Its mem
hers rest from their labors, and leave the work OF
abolishing slavery to God, and to those VINO are
outside of their organization. Strange, that any
sect of protesting christians can content them
selyes with such a negative position, such a slug
s;sh indifference to the great question OF the day /!
Strange that they so little comprehend the ag-
ore,sive character of christianity, as to delude
themselves with the belief that in a world which
Hath in wickedness, and especially in q land
which adds to its other crimes the practice oil THE
ann of all yillianies," christians have no active
.dutv to perform, are under no obligation to labor
for the deliverance of the fouT millions of Christ's
representatives who have fallen among Democrat
10 and Religious thieves
We went to
NEW MARKET
on the 18th, TUESDAY, and held meetings there
an that, and the succeeding evening. We had
.sood audiences 30 far as numbers and behavior
were concerned, and most of those present, 1
think had eyes TO see, and ears to hear. IL any
had not we are not responsible for their blindness
and deafness. The cause must be traced to some
other source than the preaching OF truth, and can
n,obablv be found in the teaching of those who
iusist upou On unquestioning obedience to human
authority. and an undoub:ing reception OF sectarl-
an doctrines under the pains and penalties of De.
inc ,enselessly denounced as iu6dele. God speed
Abe day when community will have intelligence
enough to Judge the tree by its fruits, for they
will then see tina. a slaveholding religion is prac
teal ipfdslity, and that loving your neighbor as
yourself is practical christianity, the ltoma'
Catholic Church, and Protestant sects both evan
.eelical and heretioal to the contrary notwi'hstand'
ing.
W. held two meetings at the above mentioned
splace on Thursday and Friday evenings, in the
Wesleyan Meeting House. There has been a
,orea, deal said in Leesville from time to time upon
slavery and it's remedy, aud at one time the YES
.leysns had q strong organization there. In the
early days Of that sect its members gladly admit
tad into their house any advocate OF the slaves
emancipation but in process of time they became
more sectarian, and were only willing to have II
certain kind of anti.slavery preached. There is
.now but a small remnant of the sect left, the most
.of whom are Disunion Abelitionists but one or
two of the remnant an sorry to learn-seem
as much, if not more opposed to our principles
and measures. than they are to slaveholding.
4 The United Brethren had been holding a revival
,meeting there not long before we came, ana we do
mot find revival meetings to be exactly a John the
Baptist preparation for the mission OF Ant'Slave'
~. Among the hymns most popular at the revival
sreferred to. was one which runs somewhat thus :
Oh you shall wear the lilly.whlse rose,
oh you shall wear the lilly white rose,
Walk up and down the golden streets,
Walk up and down the golden streets,
White robes are ready now.
By thus dwelling upon the lilly whitc rose, and
the Golden streets of their Inheritance, many were
% wholly absorbed as to forget the c~lanktng letters
Of millions in their own land, and the plantation
toll endured by SO many of their outraged aud de-
graded fellow countrymen. We, however, had
GOOD meetings, circulated our books and tracts,
aud obtained signatures to the petition asking for
the manufacture of free soil in Ohio.
JOURNEY TO URIcHsvILLE.
When we left Leesvills on Saturday, the wind
was cold and piercing, although the crust which
was beginning to be formed on the mud was not
stiff enough to bear a horse, and in many places
was insufficient to support a man. Our progress
was necessarily slow and toilsome, and the snow
gusts, which came sweeping over US, greatly in
creased the discomforts of travelling. At one
place where we enquired the road. our Informant
guessed that we nigh; be able to ford the creek.
Il comprised the detachment OF horse whom we
reached the banks of the Saltwater, and when |
SAW a broad, muddy stream. with quite a strong
current, l remembered the old saying "Suli water
runs Deep" and although there were plenty of
swell.defned wagon tracks leading out Wit as we'll
a. iuto it, l declined going further than the near
est shore. Mr.. Rowland, having more pluck, or
less discretion. took my place on Pet, and tried
, the depth of the stream. One footl two feet
three feet! four feet! then q plunge, and Pet was
swimming, and that too, without having gone far
from the bank. Her rider wisely concluded to
swim her to the nearest shore, and accordingly
.ssms out Of the creek about where he went in.
none the worse for the experiment except a pref
~ thorough wetting Of his lower extremities,
which became speedily eneased with ice, and were
not thawed until a walk of three miies brought us
10 our place Of destination.
,- On Sunday afternoon and evening, the 23rd, we
held meetings in Prices Hall, Uriehsville. Our
audiences we're respectable in size, and manifested
'closs attention to the discourses we gave. Wheth-
or many of our hearers possessed that deep consci-
business of moral responsibility which it is neces-
ssry TO have to do the work Of the true reformer,
II is not perhaps, for me to Judge, but l heard
from more than one source, that the people of
UriGhsyille generally put dancing first, aud bu'
manity aud eyerything else af,erwari,