Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . ly triumph. Bythe standards of their time they were narrow-mindedand fanatical, but they saw in straight and propheticlines and the visionary and impractical reforms thatthey advocated in their day became the triumphantrealities of a succeeding generation. The anti-slavery speakers whose itineraries radiatedfrom Salem, very frequently had difficulty in findingrooms in which to conduct their meetings. Public build-ings and churches were usually closed against the Quakers who freely bore testimony againstslavery sometimes hesitated to open
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . ly triumph. Bythe standards of their time they were narrow-mindedand fanatical, but they saw in straight and propheticlines and the visionary and impractical reforms thatthey advocated in their day became the triumphantrealities of a succeeding generation. The anti-slavery speakers whose itineraries radiatedfrom Salem, very frequently had difficulty in findingrooms in which to conduct their meetings. Public build-ings and churches were usually closed against the Quakers who freely bore testimony againstslavery sometimes hesitated to open their meetinghouses to the anti-slavery agents. Oliver Johnson, theneditor of the Anti-Slavery Bugle, in the issue of thatpaper June 22, 1850, gives an accoimt of a meeting thathe addressed in Columbiana on the Sunday preceding,which is here reproduced in part: , The afternoon meeting was appointed at our request, madeat the close of the regular meeting held in the morning — no oneobjecting. On going to the meeting at three P. M., however,. 15Otn is o pi
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