Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-24
saIem, Ohio, November IA, Is4o.
Tour in Eastern Indiana.
Editorial Correspondence of The Buglc
SpRrNeBoRoUeH, Warren Co,
Is November, 1S49.

nv last letter informed YOU of my conclu-
sion to make a flying trip into the borders of
Indiana before turning my face homewards.
In forming this conclusion i yielded, not
without much hesitation, TO the earnest en-
treaties of friends whose judgment comman
ded nv confidence, and who assured me
that / could thereby render essential service
to The Bugle and TO the cause of Reform
generally. At the risk of ~prolonging my alb
sence beyond the limits originally assigned,
and at the still more serious risk of injury to
my health, (which for some months past has
been rather precarious,) l consented to en-
counter the fatigue of a ten days campaign
over roads such as l had never conceived of
before, being encouraged by the hope that
my too partial friends were not wholly mis-
taken in their estimate of the good likely to
be effected by the excursion.
My companions on the journey were my
wife, and my friends JOSEPH and Ruth Due
DALE. We left Green Plain, Clark County,
on Friday, the Cd inst, and after two days of
very pleasant travel, arrived at Richmond,
Wayne County, Indiana. On Sunday NOR
ming we started for Newport, where our first
appointment had been made. Passing thro'
Goshen, we attended the regular meeting of
Friends in that place. This meeting though
officially laid down. by the bigots who con-
troll the affairs of Quakerism in Richmond
and neighborhood, would not stay down at
H. l.1l.- IL "a x...I.-.. sl-,,l g.,
in number, have not forsaken the custom of
assembling themselves together for mutual
Improvement and edification. 1t was in this
vicinity that that staunch and far-sighted Re-
former, ISRAEL FRENcH, lived and labored
for so many years. He is now gone to his
rest, but fresh as yesterday is the remem-
berance of his virtues among those who
know and loved him. A short period only
before his death he received a testimonial of
his fidelity to truth and righteousness in the
shape of a 'disownmentH from the corrupt
body which, in spite of its practical hostility
to the principles of Fox and Penn, still dares
TO assume the name of Friends As / pas
sed by the place of his former residence, my
heart was touched by the recollection of
kindness received from him and his int best
ing family eight years ago. ahenI v Aited,
this region, as a stranger, in the service of
the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Our meeting at Newport was held in the
Wesleyan Westinghouse, the house of the
Anti-Slavery Orthodoxy Friends having been
refused by a few leading men, in opposition,
we were assured, to the feelings of many, if
not a majority, of the members of the meet
ing. From all that l could learn, there is
too much reason to fear that the same tenaci-
ty for theology and discipline which has so
long been the curse of other Quaker bodies,
is impairing the usefulness and efficiency of
the Orthodox Anti-Slavery Friends. Not a
few of the members are greatly tried by the
narrow sectarianism that controls the body,
and stand ready to withdraw from it and to
enter into the Congregational movement at
the first favorable opportunity. Our audi
ence was large and attentive. Thu position
of the various sects in relation to reforms,
especially that of Anti-Slavery, was promi-
hNit oiilOliS tIC iCliiSS VA " biSNOtISts
Our next meeting was in the village of
Washington. The road from Newport thith-
er was horrible, but we received a cordial
welcome on our arrival from the venerable
JESSE BoND, one of the oldest as well as
one of the most intelligent ministers of the
Society of Friends Hicksites) at the West.
The proscriptiyc course of the Indiana Year
ly Meeting has well-nigh driven this gener-
Gus and warm-hearted old man from the
Society. lie attended our meeting, which
was held in the house of the United Breth-
rem, THAT of the Friends, though at our SER
vice, being too SMALL and joined his testimo-
ny to ours in favor of practical Christianity.
Mr.. Kendrick, the minister of the United
Brethren, also expressed a cordial unity with
our communications, and avowed himself a
friend of radical reform. We found here
several warm and intelligent friends, who
gave us their hearty God-speed and manifes-
ted a deep interest in our reformatory labors.
At Greensboro our meeting was large
1t was held III the room used by the Ortho-
dox Anti-Slavery Friends, and MANY of that
body were present. Our views of practical
religion appeared to meet a hearty response,
and not'a few were found ready to abandon
the sects in which creeds and forms have
usurped the place of vital goodness. We
enjoyed at this place the warm inequalities
OF SETH HENsHAw, a leading member of the
Orthodox Anti-Slavery body, whose name |
am glad to enrol among the subscribers to
The Bugle.
In the neighborhood of Flat Rock, lnear
Newcastle, the capital of Henry County we
held a meeting in a new Wesleyan house,
which, though not yet entirely comnleted.