Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-25

considerable extent, been visited by the
agents, and we ourselves expended nearly
two months Of hard labor, and if our expert
ence corresponds with that Of others, we
don't wonder the COMMITTEES regard it as a
portion Of the field less favorable 10 cultiva-
ton than som others.
(3) Our correspondent INDUCES in an error
which would be speedily removed by a visit
to the Reserve. The Reserve has not vet
been converted 10 Disunion, and therefore the
work has neither been perfectly or imperfect
y accomplished, nor are the memories of the
people there OF that character that they for
get what they never heard. There are pla-
ces upon the Reserve as destitute Of a knowl-
edge Of Disunion doctrines, as Old Virginia's
county Of Accomac can possibly be. In re-
gard TO the courage Of the agents, we should
think the mobs they had faced, and the out
RACES they had met in the Southern parts of
the State, is good evidence upon that point.
But our correspondent appears unable t.
comprehend why the cause Of Anti Slavery
If it be a good cause-needs " line upon
line, and precept upon precept; here a little
and there a %little.' If it is well planted, he
thinks it will grow spontaneously. What
does he mean by well planted "! Is il not
well planted in St. Clairsville, so far as it
has been planted at all lie will probably
admit this, but will say it has not been en-
t~ensively planted there. Very good! And
this is true Of every other place. Although
there are six meeting houses in Salem, but
one of them can bear to have a Disunionist
within its walls and a deep and bitter pref
udice exists here against those who advocate
secession from pro-slavery churches and gov
ernments. A great deal of labor is needed
here to make the place what it ought to be.
Should our correspondent sow with wheat a
small portion Of a large field, and as it was
well planted, leave it ever after to grow as it
could, it would take a great many years for
the wheat to root out the weeds and spread
over the entire feld-how many, we leave
for him to say, as according to our philoso-
ply, wheat and principle require the same
kind of culture. We do not believe that all
who have labored 10 cultivate Christianity
since its doctrines were well planted by Je-
sus, were engaged in a useless undertaking
that the seed would have grown without
any particular watching.
() This is an ungenerous insinuation-
a stab from a professed friend. And had J..
w. Newport taken the trouble to inform
himself before he came TO such a conclusion,
he would not have made the remark. We
will very briefly inform him that it is the
Committee who decide where the lecturers
had better go, and that the compensation
they receive for their services is in nowise
determined by the collections they may make
for the Society, the subscribers they obtain
for the Bugle, or the number Of people who
come out to hear them. Il considerable part
Of last winter they were on new ground,
where the collections they made for the So
ciety were small, and the number Of subscGi-
bers they obtained for the " Bugle" but lit
tie exceeded the mobGings and mishaps they
? met with. Yet the Committee would have
been ashamed to let the amount Of their com
pensation be graduated in inverse proportion
, to the amount Of hardships they endured
5 Should they go to ST, Clairsville and obtain
; five subscribers for the " Bugle "a thin
which has never yet been done-and collect
enough to pay their travelling expenses
which would be doubtful-they would re.
I ceive no more compensation for their labors,
and no less, than if they had collected thou.
J sands of dollars, and obtained hundreds o.
/ subscribers. Does our correspondent now
I understand why we think his "bread and
butter insinuation unworthy a friend Of the
cause.
% What lecturers? Walker and Cur
. lis are the only ones the Society has had il
, its employ for some time, and we do no
i think either of them lecture upon subject:
), foreign TO Disunion while in the employ o
the Society. At other times, we think i
/ likely one occasionally advocates Non-Re
II s~istance, and the other opposes it. The "au
y rhority" referred to, probably had C. C. Bur
, leigh and II. c. Wright before them-botl
Of whom lecture on various subjects and de
:, rive support from no society.
!. Co 1t is certainly desirable to keep tn
Anti-Slayery movement from being conf md
ed with any other, and we are exceedingl
careful 10 do so and would even rather nc
70 say whether we believe human government
i. indispensable or dispensable as society is a
:. present constituted, lest some might infe
IA that such opinion was a part of the Anli-Sla
very faith.
IL An Ancient RefOrmer.