Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-01


What use the society had for either after its ad
jourDment, you have failed to tell us. l will there
fore take a Yankees privilege, and guess, not any
But do you really, in sober earnest, claim that the
tent is the ~Society's property. For the first foul
or five years after it's purchase from the Oberlin
folks, seldom attended a meeting held under it,
and | rarely missed one at which | was not called
upon for money to help pay for it. But then il
was being bought 10 hold anti-s!avery meetings in
not as The property Of your society. All classes oil
Anti Slavery men were called upon, and all classe.
contributed towards its purchase. And now, after
helping to pay for is with that understanding, We
arc denounced as mobocrats for the countenupce
given a colored man who talks anti-slavory in it.
but refuses to pronounce your Shibboleth. If
thought you well understood this matter, | could
easily get up a feeling of indignation at tie man.
ner IN which you have spoken Of it.
About one third of the canvass was torn down
on Sunday night" and Langston and his friend,
are responsible for that too, because be set at naugh,
parliamentary rules, and wholly ingn ored the
Society's rights to the tent, and they sustain him
in it a mobocratic spirit was the CONSCIENCE, and
now we find it developing itself in a little differ
ent manner.
AS l was not there to see; l have made some en-
quiries about the injury done. As the result l
am satisfied that spirit was the propelling power,
though not tie mobocratic spirit of Langston and
his friends. The man who did it was probably
none the more or less drunk, for anything that was
said at the meeting from beginning to end. Drunk
en- men seldom come within hearing distance of an
anti-slavery meeting. The poor inebriate was
probably not aware that Langston had usurped the
Chair, %trampled all rules of order under foot
first seized the platform, and then the tent, and sus-
tanned by his Republican friends, would expect him
to tear down one third of the canvass, on Sunday
night by way OF finishing up the unfinished work
ct the afternoon. Rowdyism is so prevalent that
religious societies out on a campaign find il neces
sary to employ a strong police force to protect their
tents anti-sluyery trusts hers without, and it is
injured.
"Mainly to the restless and excited feeling on the
afternoon, the committee on finance were able to
do but little". As Langston and his friend, were
the cause of the excited feeling, they are to blame
for a lack Of funds, and in so far as the Society,"
usefulness is crippled from that cause, they are in
fault a logical conclusion, if the premises were
true,
The Finance Commute was appointed on Satur-
day forenoon ; the distu rbance occurred just before
the close Of the meeting on Sunday. Where was
this Finance m during all this time p
Were they in waiting to make one mighty effort,
just as every body was getting ready to start for
home, with horses to hitch, baskets and buckets
and children to hunt, and everything in confusion.
They had too much sense for that, and did not
wait until then. Some lawyers have a fashion of
getting al! the charges they possibly can in an in
%dictment, convic: ,he accused on all if they can, if
not of q part, and the conviction on a part is some
times secured, because the list of charges is 50
lengthy, the jury can scarcely be made believe
that a party charged with SO much crime, can be
entirely innocent.
In conclusion, you will have to make your plat
form exclusive, as do tho Priests and politicians,
avoid gross personalities, or take the consequences
of occasionally waking up n Langston.
Readers Of the Bugle, the case is now before
you, judge for yourselves.
B.. G. GILBERT.
ATwATER, Portage Co., Sept. 10.