Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-13
From the Pennsylvania Frcemans
Circulation Of Anti.ylayery Tracts & Papers,

circulation OF Anil.SlaVCry Tracts Il Papers,
Among the many instrumentalities for tho
promotion of the anti-slavery cause, the cir@
culation of anti-slavery publications holds at
important place. However insignificant MAY
seem its influence, it is really one of the most
effective and potent measures of spreading
anti-slavery truth, and awakening new inter-
est in our cause. Comparatively few niefi,
and still fewer women, are public speakers
But here and there one, even of really intel~
ligent people, will employ the pen in public.
advocacy of our cause. Not every person of
sound mind is gifted with good conversations
al powers, while many who do possess such
talents in the circle of intimate friends, are
mute or embarrassed in the larger circle, or
in the presence of strangers. Most of our
other agencies are restricted to q small pro-
portion of the abolitionists; but this is uni.
versal. Every age, every degree and firm Of
talent, or Intelligence, can participate in tins.
Ii is a weapon fitted alike to man or woman,
to the trembling haud of age, and the lttl6
fingers of childhood, to the learned and the
i~lliterate, 10 the bold or the 'modest, the self
possessed or the ditiideht. Every heart that
loves the cause of the slave, and pants to
work for it, or is willing to aid il, ca1 do SER
vice here. Why do aboliticnists so ofteu@
(may we not say so generally ?Eneglect it?
lNOhuCis " Injury opportunities u lOh
let slip, when you might have given away All
anti-slatery Iiaper, tract, or pamphlet? Do
you think of this when a n eighbor or stran-
ger calls at your house, when you meet them
in business, in the public gathering, or in tho
street, when you travel III stages, steamboats,,
or railroad cars,-when you pass little chill
dren or laborers by the way-side,-or visit
places of public resort? Who is there among
, you that cannot procure one or more of these
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it may carry neutrality-suspicious. convic-
a tion-with u kind request that it shall be-
read? The act would deepen your own in
n terest in the cause you love, it would mseal
e many a fountain of latent humanity, and
draw out unspoken sympathy for our cause /;
it would often lead to profitable and instruc-
S tive conversation with men uniformed upon
/ the question, or mconnected with our move
+ ment; it would light the fame of reform in
n many a dark spot, which would burn "bright-
/ er and brighter unto the perfect day" OF
; Truth.
J. We may learn zeal, watchfulness and per-
II severance in this MEASURE from the sectarians
and religious professors in our land. There
is probably no society or religious movement
so influential in the spread of $50 called(
: evangelical" sentiments in religion as the
| American Tract Society. 1t is dumb toward
, the sin of slavery, and the woes of its victims,
but its "still small voice " is heard from pole
to pole in all lands and every tongue, in the
, palace 5. > 9 rich and the cottage ofthe poor,
in the mart of trade and the political assem-
bly-almost as universal as the voice of con-
science-teaching its peculiar theories ofthe-
ology, religion and morals, and warning men
against acts which it brands as sinful.
While it has passed by the bleeding slave
and left him to perish, its example is to us.
who would deliver him and hind mn his
| wounds, a wise lesson of means for our work.
Let us not leave 10 an inhuman pro-slavery
religion, the mlghtiest of reform agencies,
2 but seize upon 1t with the ardor or the Corn
5 law repealers of England! Our society
=, ought TO have its means of publication III
L creased tenfold; but with what means we
: have, with what publications we do issue,
much more might be done in their %circula-
h ton than is done, if every abolitionist would
do his part. In confirmation of our remarks,
and for the encouragement of our friends, We
quote the following extract from a letter by
II Rev. John c.. Fee, of Kentucky, to the Ma
Is tional Era:
d A few days since, a citizen of our county,
II a member of the bar, and a member of one
IN of the best families in our State, said to u
ca neiglbor: "Not long since | got hold of d
to pamphlet or book, published by a citizen OF
r. our county, showing the wrongs of slavery
TX and, before ! had read it half through, ! was
d. convinced that slavery is sinful. Aud" sale
ne he, the people may say what they will, tn
slaves will be free, and that, too, right here.
srs Another, who is a native of Virginia, AM
Ell came to one of otr neighboring towns wit
SIS great prejHdices against Emancipation, as h
sh- says, "as strong as any mans" A shol
tile time since I placed in the hands of his en-
ployer, Debates in Congress" on the slave
ny question, and other doctiments. TIL
-. young man picked up the Debates, for FRIEND
'"' and foes are eager TO read on this questlo
some will curse a man, and yet, on til
subject, eagerly read his productions ant
bm reading OH to the place where Mr.. Foote,
Mississippi, proposed to hang up John j
the Hale, of New Hampshire, for boldly, faithful
ST. ly and molly speaking his sentiments in re
ave gard to the evils of slavery, he said he paui
Use ed and inquired, Is not this the spirit {
Po- slavery Is not this spirit of prescription an
are tyranny its legitimate fiuit?" From thu
moment, he says, he began TO think and rea
Upon the subject of slavery. And now
IRE said he, to one of our strong anti-slaver
,rk' friends, al am convinced that it is sinful, an
hat / am as strongly anti-slavery as you are."-
md He now speaks boldly and every where.
M GUARDED PREACHING.-A celebrated e,
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