Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-31

too late TO think of a fire, and SO ] hurried a.
way, sick and supperless, TO my room.
Tho north front room was assigned 10 me.
The doors were all loose, the windows rat
! tied, and their scanty white curtains waved
in the wind. A huge chimney shot away
towards the sky, through which whole yards
of the miik way might be seen, and which,
had il been set with appropriate lenses,
would have riyalled Herschel's telescope
Ia that room, on that night, II certainly was
not needed tor purposes Of ventilation.
The he'd was harder than a mattress, tho
it was not Il mattress. The empowering was
OF copper-plate, that shono IN the moonbeams
like a pond of ice and TO dive under u, was
to the, almost as great a suicide as 1t II had
been one. The house afforded but one can
die, and so my excellent friend waited until
| was disposed into bed, and then took it a.
way wishing me a good nIght-to which
responded, aiuen-although | thou ut he
must have prayed with far more %fervour than
faith.
Sleeping, ,sickning, and shivering, at length
brought me to the morning. | dressed, and
went into the kitchen to wash. The water
was in a milk-pan that stood OIL a rough
wood box, aud the towel indicated the close
of the week. The sorry fact was, the mis-
tress Of the mansion was most unfortunately
organized. The children were numerous,
but unwashed and u%ncombed, lnwardly and
outwardly. The cooking was sadly deiec-
tive. Perhaps fasting one day more might
have led me to judge more charitably; but
as il was, ! was in little danger Of eating ~
repleiion. Some Kind OF meat was fried IN
a spider on the Goals and ashes. When it
WIS cooked, and the table was spfead, the
spider was removed to it, and occupied the
rl,cn ,f n pIattor aUl Attl, tho adbitinn nf "A
rusty iron spoon, OF gravy tureen to boot
Nor was tho table-linen SO white as to suffer
the least inconvenience from so close contact
with The feet Of its sooty neighbor. Indeed
: it would have been difficult to decide, which
was the best entitled to be afflicted with that
fashionable disease prejudice against col
, orr
/, | need add nothing relative 10 the breakfast
= accompa niments. FASTENED away, sad at
the condition Of my kiHd-hedIted friend and
his family. lie was an excellent man, and u
true AboiItionist; happy and patient under
circumstances at which | almost wept. Two
years aliefward lie sickened and died, and
his family removed to n distant State.
Such is but Il specimen Of much Of the ex.
!. p~erience Oi those Anti-Slnvery agents who
were early in the field. Tney have endured
trials known only 10 themselves. SelCcru-
ciiNlon, ntGlecl, anu pONcity, dttehueu lhcHt
al every step.
One word more about my meeting. IL
was the beginning OF good days in that town.
| have often been there since, and been well
coined to the generous Inequalities CT this
best families in the village. County conven-
; tons have been held there since, attended
and addressed by the most distinguished adj
voca,es-boih editors and orators-in tho
cause. But they little knew what it cost to
lay the foundation Of the Anti-SlAvery struc-
ture they 50 nobly builded.
? PARKER PILLSBURT.
d CoNcORp, n. II.