Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-26

times subjected us. The speeches were all good
and profitable Tor roproof Of wickoduess and iu
~struetion in knowledge. The Jotthdt Of Gem
merce, one Of the chiclest Of tho pro-slavory Jol
itico-commercio religious papers above alluded to,
through that singular passion which seems to love
a lie for its own sake, has seen cit to represent our
sessions as always haunted by at least one rank
%lunatic,' who insists upon incessant interruption,
which is submitted to as a matter Of course. We
think that even the editor Of The Journal Of Com
meyce. if present ia the 1osh, would have found it
difficult to pathis finger upon any such flea Of
Conventions at our last assembling of ourselves
together.
The statements Of the same y~eraoious print rs
to the persons who took part in our discussions
were marked by the same symptoms Of chronic
mendacity, which seem to indicate its case to be
one hopeless Of recovery. 1t says that the speak
ers were the same that had done the talking for
the last dozen years. Though it would have been
entirely immaterial il this had been the case, it
vas so for from the truth that none of the gentle
men Or ladies, taking part in the meeting, could
be said to be habitual speakers at our New York
meetings, with the exception Of Messrs. Garrison
and Phillips, though one or two of them have spo-
ken occasionally at them. The voices were frcsh
ones, almost all Of them, that were up'iled on the
slaves behalf at this his assembly. AS the pro-
~ceedings and speeches will be found in full in our
columns, we shall spare the space necessary to
any detailed remarks upon the speakers, or what
was spoken. But we should do injustice to our
own feelings, and to tue just expectations of our
readers, if we omitted to record the pleasure with
which the appearance of DIR. Cheever upon our
platform was hailed by all upon and before it,
The cheering which the emphatic cOrdiality with
which he grasped the hand of the President, as
he came forward to speak, called forth, was a loud
and sufficient witness Of the spirit with which he
was welcomed among us. l; was a simple, yet a
significant, expression of the fraternity which
can join men Of the most diverse opinions in a
common unity of purpose and action for q great
practical reformation.
They whose memory in the cause could run
backward for twenty years, could not fail to re-
member that it is that precise period which sepa-
rated this Meeting from that of 1870, when the
Secession took place, Of which the pretonco was
the recognition of the rights of the female men,
bors Of the Society to act and vote in its meeting,
while the real reasons was the wish to save the
American Church from the blows to which her
pro.slavery yiilanies justly and inevitably exposed
her, in the necessary course of the conflict with
the demon which she was sheltering il her pull
pits and behind her communion-tatles That, in
deed, looked like a day of small things. The
great mass of the men most prominent in the
Movement at that time left it, carrying with them
the organ and the property Of the Society. Affairs
had a most gloomy look, as we held our session in
Thomas Yah Rensselaer's cellar, to devise ways
and means and look out for men to use them.
But as we did not take counsel Of flesh and blood
to avoid the split, we only strove to discover the
pointings Of duty and were guided into the ways
Of wisdom. We established this paper, which has
survived all that have been set up, or kept up, in
opposition, and have seen .be American Society
well served aud well maintained, while it's enc
mics have vanished, and the places that once knew
them know them no more. Now we see clergy
meu of the first professional eminence, as we'll as
of the most unfinching fidelity to principle, find
ing that the Anti-Slavcry platform is one where
they can stand, and the Abolitionists men with
whom they can work, without any just impeach-
ment of their theologies or their functions, for the
conquest and destruction of the one great enemy
of Religion and Liberty in the nation.
While we rejoice in the eminent success which
has attended the Anti-Slavery Meetings of the
last week-ftly rounded by the immense gather
ing with which the City Society caused even the
vast Cooper Institute to overaow--itis rather as a
Sign than as a Success that we accept it, We see
tue effects Of the Anti-Slayery Movement every
where, in the State and in the Church. 1t has riv.
en- asunder the Democratic party at Charleston
The Irrepressible Conflict which it inaugurated
entered even that Pandemonium, and the evil spir-
its could no longer DO Of one accord. 1t compelled
the longburied men Of the Wing patty to rise from
their political graves and bold a Sabbath at Balti-
more, in tho hope that their chickering's might help
slavery to the peace it signs for in vain. And the
Republican party. which it has called into being.
is even now deciding with how little of the Anti
Slavery life we have breathed into it, it can have
a name to live so as to reach the paradise of power
and pelG. And We have been not less happy in
fhe wholesome disturbance Of the Sects in their
worship of Slavery instead Of God, 10 the breach
es which we have made in the walls of their pro.
slavery lions, and in the blows we have been en-.
abled to give to the great Babylons of Missionary
and Tract Societies. in which they have hoped to
hide their pro-slavery wiekedness. We have
made slavery the one absorbing topic of thought
and discourse In the country, in high places aud
in low. This was the work We undertook to do,
and We have done it, God helping us, with our
might. 1t is only by this faithful antagonism to
slavery that the liberties of tho country can be
saved from the tolls of despotism which are fast
encompassing us. The animating scenes and words
of the last week, the daily history of the country
everywhere, show tho Abulitionists of the country
what they have done. But they show yet more em.
phaticaily what remains to be done. TO the future
We now address ourselVes.--Aa Slarery Stand.
ard.
THE AMERICAN A. S. SOCIETY.