Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-02-19
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the late annual meeting Of the Massachusetts
society.
"Resolved, That we rejoice in the abund-
ant evidence, which every day affords us, Of
the successful and triumphant progress of the
friends Of the American Society at the West,
glad that so extensive and important a post is
gdrrisoned by so watchful and faithful a band:
we are cheered by this frightening of the
bonds which bind the anti-sldvery host to-
gether, and by the proof, that though poIiti-
cal power is leaving the East, though the
sceptre is departing from Judah, we may rest
satisfied that hearts, equally faithful, are
watching the ark Of the slaves safety, and
will see to it that his cause receives no harm
in the valley of the Mississippi.
"Resolved, That we pledge, for New
England, to Ohio. not only our hearty SYM
| PATTY, but our most efficient aid and support,
in covering with anti-slavery machinery the
vast field she has in charge.
"Resolved, That the unparalleled success
of the .Bugle' gives us fresh confidence in
the anti.slavery zeal Of our Western friends,
and proves them keenly alive, not only to the
general interests of the cause, but to the spe-
cifc measures which can alone insure its
continued progress and final triumph"
The sympathy OF our friends and the friends
of the slave in the East, is indeed grateful to
US, and the promise of aid truly encouraging.
Th4 field of labor here is extensive. the soil
good, and even now the ripened ear and well
filled grain give promise Of an abundant har-
vest. But who shall enter in and reap 3
work 10 be done is immense. We believe
there is no other part of the anti-slavery field
which will so well repay the toll of the hus-
bandmen, and so well fill the store-house of
the Lord of the harvest, as the great West.
The classiications of society here, have not
yet become pelrifed by the lapse of years as
at the East; the people have less aristocracy
in their feelings, more simplicity of charac-
ter, and manifest . greater readiness to re-
ceive the truth. The more frequent the in
tercourse between the anti-slavery friends of
the East and the West, the more highly will
they appreciate each other, and the more eff
f%ective will their Iabors be against the rom
mon foe. "No union with slaveholders'' is
the true motto, but union among consistent
abolitionists is both desirable and necessary,
The aid and support of our eastern friends,
and their presence m ng US, will, most as.
suredly, bind the lahorers of the East and the
West more closely together, and greatly ad.
vance the cause of humanity.
DEsTITUTIoN IN IRELAND.-On our fourth
page will he found "A letter from Richard AL.
len of Dublin, giving some account of the
terrible destitution of the people of Ireland.
Shall the appeal which those starving, dying
ones are making to America for aid, 90 un.
needed Shall the mute eloquence of the
gaunt, skeleton forms of thousands who are
perishing for lack of bread, meet with but a
faint response from the fruitful plains and
fertile vallies Of this nation! Oh, how ter
rible it is to feel hunger constantly knawing
at your %vitals, to see the flesh wasting away
from the forms of those you love, and to have
your children crying for bread when you have
none to give them Such is the condition OF
hundreds and thousands in Ireland, and a
bushel or more of wheat or corn from each Of
the well filled granaries of the West would
save many a poor wretch from death by star
walton. Let us not give occasion to have it
said to us 81 was an hungered, and We gave
me no meat"