Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-31
Yours with respect
VIM. CORWIN.
New Lima, Ashtabula Co., o.
September 25th, 1915.
HARvEYsBuRGH, Warren county, Ohio, }
10th mantb oh I9IS (

lOtn month l2lh, 1915.
ESTEEMED FRIEND ]. L. H.-Abby deliy.
cred thy message. We will try to comply
with thy request. She and Stephen have
just concluded the fourth convention in this
part of the State. The soil in the anti-slaye-
ry field had become sterile from bad farm
ing here, but they are breaking it up afresh.
They put the plough in beam deep, and oc-
casionally turn the ''C2dy" up to view. They
are industrious laborers; while one is guiding
the great moral plough and making the long
strait, deep furTows, the other is all the time
on the kSstt 10 see whether any ''big clods'
are TUNED up that want MASKING, and they
aim to strike all that come to view with a
stroke that shall pulverize them in short Or
der. They are successful agitators; they will
get up an interest in every place before they
leave it, no matter how cold and indifferent the
people may pretend to feel on their arrival. |
think | never witnessed a greater contrast be-
tween the beginning and the end of a CON
%vention than i saw at Xenia last week.
Aenia is a neat thrifty looking country VIII
lage, containing between two and three thou-
sand inhabitants. 1t has seven or eight Or
ganized sectS in it, each one claiming to be a
church of Christ Green county, (of which
Xenia is the county seat) was the first, or a.
mong the first. TO organize an "Anti-Slavery
Society," in this part of the State. The
screen Co. ~Anti-Slavery Society," has held
its annual meetings in Xenia generally eve
ry year since its organization. There is an
abundance OF church going, of Sabbath keep
ing, and OF fulfilling the -'Divers washings
and carnal ordinances imposed upon them'
&c--lt has been but a few weeks since one
OF their protessedly Anti-slavery anniversary
was held there, at which meeting a man call.
ed Rererend whose name is Thomas L. Tho
mas, ''operated" on the minds of the people.
holding up the scare crow of ''lnfidelity"
and shaking it most Thomasly before their
faces. 1t is evident that there had been a
good deal of ''mustering'' and ''drilling'' of
the people by their hired ''Captains' and
"Generais" from that time up TO the very
hour of the meeting advertised for friends
Foster and Kelley. This fact is plain from
evidence which brevity forbids me
TO mention. One fact will be sufficient as |
proof. An elderly and most worthy man, an
active church member, and an active Liberty |
party man, yet one whose heart of humanity |
is so large and warm that the church can't
entirely freeze it, neither can party crush il,
had made an urgent request for Abby to come
to Xenia, assuring us that she should have
their large church, and a crowded audience.
&c. Yet after the meeting had been adver-
tised at Nenia, and clerical influence had op-
on the people, this same good friend
wrote a letter to Oakland, inwhich was man
Tested much doubt as to The propriety of
the meeting, stating that it was re-
ported about Xenia that Stephen and Abby
the Bible. and opposed Christianity,
md that whether this was true or not, the eli
would be the same fer the time being, as
t was generally believed.
The appointed day for the convention came,
nd with it our friends. They stopped at a
avern nearest to the Court House where the
was to be held-all seemed cold as
ce, not a friend in the place dared to meet
hem with a friendly greeting. We soon
lad a fire in the Court House, and the huge
ell was set to tolling, but it was doubtless
by the Xenia people to say +" IN
A
ew people gathered into the house. but not
female dared disobey so much as to venture
D. and the men threw up their staring eyes