Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-02
Extracts from a Letter from England

We are indebted to an esteemed friend for
the following interesting extracts from a let
ter OF a correspondent in England
Our hearts and heads have been very full
this week, and there is no one to whom | more
desire to pour out a few of my thoughts and
feelings than to you-for no one will more
sympatl,lze in them than you and Mrs. Chap
man., to whom, | beg you to communicate
such portions of this letter as may interest
her. We have seen Garrison and Douglass!
These with whom we have so ardently sym
pathiZed, and whom we have 80 greatly de-
sired TO see face 10 face and now we hire
seen them, we honor and love them even more
than before, and if possible feel a more ardent
desire to aid them in the great cause. Mrs.
Chapman truly described Mr.. Garrison as
the sternest iconoclast, yet the ge~ntlest of
human beings.' | did not Imagine it, but
now | understand it. The likeness in the lii
berry Bell does him great injustice, for though
like in feature, it is without a beautiful be-
n%evolent smile, and a calm quietness which
usually lightens his countenance. And we
all feel to understand so much better his course
OF action than before-in short, we know each
other as we could not have done without IA
personal Interview. | shall esteem it a great
privilege to have seen as much of him as the
kindness of my friend has enabled me to do.
rs for r. Douglass, he seems to win all
hearts, gains golden opinions, and excites
deep sympathy in himself and his cause eve
ry where. He is a wonderful mani
Though | am not fond of speaking of inter
positions of Providence, considering, as | do,
every event as equally directed by ~unerring
wisdom and love, yet the appearance of such
a man, so wonderfully preserved, SO uniting
in himself varied powers and talents, which
have given him strength to sIrmount, knowl-
edge to comprehend, and talent to unfold all
the complicated and dreadful evils of Amcri-
can Slavery, must excite peculiar gratitude
in those who ardently desire the extinction of
it. No one but one of the oppressed race
can speak with such effect on The minds of
the hearers of the horrors lie has witnessed
and felt. Mr.. Garrison was at Mr.. Estlln's
house, +. ID. at Mr.. Ell. Thomas's; as IRE
have now no gentleman in our family we
could not put in our claim for the honor and
pleasure of having them as our inmates, but
through the kindness Of our friends we saw a
good deal of them they were in great re-
quest, and it was esteemed qaite a favor to
be invited TO meet them. They held a morn
ing meeting at Clifton, for the elite, at
which the Mayor presided, and OF this you
will have a faithful account in the paper
which Mr.. Estlin is sending 10 Mrs. Chap
man. Mr.. G's. speech was very valuable 10
US, making rs understand better the political
relations of Slavery. The evening meeting
was in the large room in the centre of the
city, and was attended by a large body oil
mechanics and shop-keepers, besides many
of the higher classes. Your heart would
have been reioiced, had you been present, t.
t have Witnessed the deep interest, the warm
; indignation, and the enthusiasm which were
alternately expressed and poor Douglas:
seemed sometimes Utmost overcome with the
r feeling that he had here free utlerance TO un
! veil the wrongs of his brethren, and that the
5 voice which would not be heard when he
Y spoke In his native country, would be re-ech
( oed from our shores TO his oppressors il
: tones of thunder. The audience wen. witt
him very cordially until he touched on tn,
o topic of Church-fellowship and shareholders
d the Chairman, a Quaker, had borne it yer,
patiently when he stated the GOODNESS Of III.
e Friends, but when he alluded to the Yves
c leyans here holding fellowship with tn
slaveholding body in America, there was
e general disturbance which was quelled Wit
y some difficulty this however only arose from
y shame at having anything TO do with 1t, an
e manifested the. desire Of the Wesleyans her
II to have no communion with those who /
d any way countenance the horrible system.
l. This visit of our two friends, for so al
&C now proud to call them, has not made us dc
test Slavery more than we did before that
think would be impossible, nor feel moi
70 windy the wrangs Of our colorod brethren
pr but il has made us feel the sin of the Aorf'
Crn States, in being accompiiccs and access
l. rie5 to the crime by their support of III
II slave States in commercial relations, and III
) large proportion of taxes, and in not Proles
ing as one man against the shameful peFve