Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-04-28
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CoNcoRD, Nrw UAMpsnIRr, April, 1860.

CONCORD. New UAMPsnrRE, April, 1860.
To TIE EDITOR: You and l are so far apart
that to give you Netos is impossible SO you must
take the best of my olds.
We closed our New York operations with an
excellent meeting in Albany, to respond to an elo-
quent address which came back to that city from
Ilayti, in acknowledgment of the Hundsed Min.
ute Guns, fred to signalize the hour of the Mar
tyr-Execution Of the Hero of Harper's Ferry. /
refer to the event, merely to celebrate in few
words, the manner in which that demonstration
was carried into effect.
Albany has only about three living, moving
abOlitiOuists, and they are women. And yet /
hesitate not to say that such we'll directed, as we'll
as earnest and holy zeal in the anti-slavery cause,
has rarely if ever been found in either hemis.
pbere like Emerson's 'embattled farmers" at
Concord, in IT'S.
They fired a shot, heard round the world ~
For not in Hayti, alone, but wherever the Eng
lish language lie read, there will the work of these
women be told, for a testimony to their devotion
to the cause of Freedom and Humanity.
Perhaps my New York work should include one
other little event. as a finishing item ; and t at
was. attendance on a Monthly Anti. Slavery prayer
Meeting, at DR.. Cbeever's church. Being in the
city ON my way homeward, our friend Oliver
johnson Of the A%nti-Slavery Standard, proposed
the Otep, which l gladly accepted. After some
religious exercises. such as reading the scriptures,
singing and praying, the President read a speech
from a Glasgow paper, by a Presbyterian
minister of that city, commencing in strong
terms the anti.slavery course of DR.. Chez
yer, and OF course censuring nearly every
other minister in the denomination, for in6delisy
to the cause Of the epslaved. After another pray
er, q gentleman rose and intimnted to the Presi-
dent that l was in the audience, and be hoped ]
would be heaId-"Certainly, !" responded the Pres
ident, I'VE shall be delighted to hear from Mr.,
Pillsbury." And certainly, though l spoke with
great plainness. l really think most Of those pres.
ent, were delighted-at any rate, we continued
the meeting till a very late hour, and at the close,
several persons hoped l would atterd there again
whenever it would suit my convenience. Most
assuredly, said /.
A statement made by Mr.. johnson, led to a
most lively and excellent discussion. 1t related
20 the foreclosure of a mortgage Oh a slave prop.
erty, Of more than so. 900 dollars valuo, by a New
WIN VI O''Hu'y "uO hOW THUS VI tbe
avails of the sale, in New York, while the poor
slaves sweat and toll, unpaid, u%npitied, God only
knows where! A gentleman, in a rather .terren,
tone, demanded Of johnson why he had not given
an account of it in the Standard The answer
was II did but may l ask Why do you not taxi
the Stand ard and learn how far the pulpit and
the church ale implicated in the Elm and gull, Of
Slavery 2" The gentleman objected to the char
acter of the Standard.
Some general enquiry followed, as to the rela
tive value Of the Tribune and Independent for real
Ianti.slavery Intelligence, compared with the Stan
dard. My testimony as to the Independent was
to this effect:
when I was in Great Britain five years ago,
exposed in an address, the wickedness and hypoc.
risy of the American Board of Commissioner.
for Foreign Missions" The address was after.
wards published in a tract by some gentlemen in
Leeds, ard found it's way to America. The indie.
pendent Immediately branded me as a "SlandereI
and Reviler," and warned the people of Great
Britain to beware of me. My friends asked the
favor OF a small space in its columns, for me to
reply and substantiats all | had said against the
Board. The request was most CURLY refused. Aud
t so the Board went on deceiving the British
: churches in the most audacious manner, two o.
the travelling emissaries being then in tina
3 field. t.'''"'
8 A short time ago. Henry Ward Beecher appea,
Q ed 10 a bold defence Of that most corrupt body
0 aud avowed bis determination still to support it
Q This unexpected demonstration. brought belor,
she public a young anti-slavery champion, Mr.
+ Theodore TitOn, a disciple Of Beechers, who a
{ least on this subject had become far wiser thai
his master. In a most powerful address, he ex
g posed the rottenncss Of that "whited sepulchre,
d the American Board: aud tore of all it's Sa,aui
DISCUSSES. lie showed in daylight clearnoss, tina
t though it composed sea aud land to make pros
I %elytes," it was incu!cating a religion that mad
men two-foId more the children Of hell than the,
} were before. Mr.. Tilton's address was forti6e,
Q by many of the same facts that / had used il
J England; being reports Of the Board itself; letter
Q Of instruction to it's missionaries, their letters an,
q statements in reply. and other documentary tes
$ timony Of similar authenticity.
5 And now, 1 said, let this meeting mark the re
J sult, The Independent had branded me 10 mos
b ~fearfully false manner, for exposing tho Board II