Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-04-14
We Autt- 9lausrp BupIe.
A TALE OF HEROIsM.

tory as Republic than that embraced between
the years 1880 and l840 The agitation Of the
question of Slavery, beginning at tho former date,
aWoke guilty nation to consciousness of its
guilt, and to the most strenuous efforts to keep il
out of sight, by the suppression aud discussion of
free thought and speech. This is the period of tho
triumph of mob law in America OF the attempt.
on the part Of Congress, to abolish the sacred
right Of petition of the public Offering Of rewards
by the Legislatures of the Southern States for the
assassination of Northern A5olitionists of the
intenses prejudice against the free people of color
of the violation of the privacy of the mails under
the sanction of the Postmaster General and, in
short, of unrestraned violence to life, liberty and
property, not only without the disapprobation but
even with the conniVance nnd applause Of the
government, the clergy, and the people of these
United States.
In 1892, there had been established, at a short
distance from Cincinnati, Presbyterian theolog
ical institute, known as Lane Seminary, which
began with handsome number of students and
gavO promise Of doing great things for the West
The now venerable DR.. Lyman Beecher had en-
barked his whole soul in the enterprise and had
been chosen President of the Seminary All went
on smoothly till The beginning of the term, June
1888, when the two great questions of Coloniza-
tion and Immediate Emancipation, which were
warning with each other in the world without, be-
gan to be talked of (very naturally within the
Institution Aourishing CoonizatIonSociety had
existed almost from the start and at this time
there were perhaps, but two Abolitioniss so call.
ed, in the Seminary.
On tie 1st Of February, 1884, the students re.
solved to debate publicly the following questions,
each by itself; lst-Ought the people of the
Saveholding States to abolish slavery immediate
1yl I'd. Are the doctrines, tendencies and meas.
hres of the American Colonization Society, and the
influence of its principal supporters, such as reu-
der it worthy Of the patronage of the Christian
public The faculty, alarmed at the bare thought
of such discussion, advised, as strongly as they
could Without commanding that it should be in
definitely postponed. req resenting that they did
not wish the Seminary to take either ote side or
tho other, as by so doing it might offend tho pub
lie mind which was particularly sensitive on the
subject of slavery, Gnd might ALLEVIATE the support
of many Of its patrons.
Bub the students were in earnest, and on the
fourth of February, the debate on the first oues-
tion began. 1t lasted nine evenings, of two and a
half hours each, and was most emphatically dis.
cussion of facts. Of the disputants eleven were
born and bred in Slave States, ono was the son
Of former STAKEHOLDER and one--a native of AZ
rica-had been slave, but had purchased his
freedom with great sum-" and had earned
enough besides to carry hin through the Semina-
ry. For documents they had complete set Of the
African Repository, then, as now, the organ of
the American Colonization Society, Colonization
fha nd & a. LII;
ists, &c., &c. The debate was conducted in an
orderly and becoming manner, without ill-feeling
or bitter personalities. Tbe question was unan-
mously answered in the affirmative, with the ex
ceptOti of four or five, "who hadn't made up their
minds" and who therefore did not vote at all
The second Question having been also debated for
nine evenings was decided in the negative only
ono man dissenting, but four or five as before de-
clining to vote.
The Immediate effects of these debates were as
follows On the 10th of March 1884, an Ant-SIa-
very Society was formed, having for it's President
the son of stakeholder, and an heir to slaves ;
for its VicePresident, MNrius r. Robinson then
Of Tennessee, but now of Ohio, and lately editor of
The Afti- Stace'y Bug!s; and for its managers
among others, Theodore D. Weld, and Henry b.
Stanton, OF New YOrk-names too we'll known to
require anything beyond their mention here The
object of the Society thus stated.
7'Our object 10 the Immediate emancipation of
the whole cOIored race, within the United Statos
the emancipation of the slave from the oppression
of tho master, the emancipation of the free color
cd man from the oppression of public sentiment,
and the elevation of both to an intellectual, moral
and political equality with the whites"
T.. r IL 4
ton, a friend to Colonization became converted to
the other side got dismissed from the Institution,
and established q school for the colored people of
Cincinnati Stimulated by his example, and des-
pite the odium which such proceeding was sure
to bring upon them, his fellow-students formed a
large and efficient organization" for the same pur-
pose established a Lyceum among them, and
lIectured three or four evenings week, on gram
mar, geography, arithmetic natural philosophy"
3e.j and instituted an evening free school, to
teach reading, which was in operation every week
day evening. To this be added circulating lib
rary and reading room, and three largo Sabbath
schools and Bible classes
a So extraordinary an exhibition of high moral
convictions and actions could not fail to excite the
attention and draw down the imAdVersion of
sservilO press and literature but the students
we've not slow nor unable to defend their course,
whenever it was needfu. The government of the
Seminary however, soon began to feel the outside
pressure, and, on tho 20ih of August, 1884, re-
port was presented to the Executive Committee APP
Pointed 10 consider the proceedings among the
students on the subject Of slavery whioh deemed
tNs discdssion Of slavery in the Seminary to be
Dangerous, and closed With the following resoIu
hpn. g.la
lts,cgnductpd by students Of Harvard uuiycr