Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-02
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE, SALEM, o.


Nazarene, with his 'scourge of small cords
to walk the earth once more! For is it not
written my house shall be called a house Of
prayer9 But ye have made it a den Of
Interest
Tuesday morning mailed a letter to the
Bugle, with the names of three subscribers,
and the money. Then left for Palmyra,
where l spoke that night. After | had done,
two men present said it was the first aboli.
ton lecture they had ever heard. They
seemed 10 like it, and to be in the main con-
verted TO my positions. The next day about
noon I reached the house Of Harvey Case, in
the corner of Edinburgh, near the Rootstown
school.house where | had spoken twice be-
fore. was going on to the school-house to
give out word that | would speak there again
that night, but friend Case wished to have
ME stay and address their Anti-Slavery Sew
ing Circle, which met at his house that.after-
noon, as its members would give out notice
Of the evening meeting when they went home.
So | remained. The Anti-Slavery women Of
that neighborhood deserve all praise for their
efforts in their Sewing Circle. Last year
they contributed to the Western Society about
$4,000 in money-the profits of goods sold
besides the articles they furnished for the
Fair at Salem; and this year they mean to
do still better. Thanks 10 them for their dis
interested e~xertions in behalf of their south
ern sisters! Nay they do better, but may
every other Sewing Circle in the State beat
them That afternoon only twelve women
were present, not so many as usual, owing TO
a funeral. But some Of the men came to
bring them, and among others, Joseph Heigb-
ton. He is one Of the family Of Anti-Slave-
ry songsters, who discoursed such eloquent
music at the Anniversary. All who were al
Salem will remember the Heightons, So the
men talked, and the women worked, and the
children played, and Joseph sang his songs,
ring. But there was not time for an address,
and so | took occasion TO make a few remarks
10 them in the evening at the school-house.
That house goes by the name of the League
school-house. A little over q year ago, the
abolitionists in that northumberland the
Comeouters - formed themselves into a
League, meeting weekly, to investigate their
relations TO slavery, particularly in the church.
This brought down upon their heads a storm
Of pro-slavery wrath from the Methodists, Ito
whom most Of them belonged,) who sent
clear 10 Ravenna for priests TO battle them.
And so they met there in the school.house,
and had it with the Imported ministers, till
TO defend themselves, they were compelled
to subscribe for the Bugle in order to learn
the facts. The result was, they worsted
their opponents, became Comeouters, and
kept up their weekly meetings, and a more
devoted band there is not to be found in the
State. They have the Heightons 10 sing for
them, and frequently friends Sledman and
Case, from Randolph, to speak TO them
And they give the money, too, as they will
prove by the LIST Of May, in answer 10 the re-
cent Appeal Of the Western Society. 80 rise
some other such!' That night we had a good
meeting. The songs were thrilling. Our
hearts were all melted together as the heart
OF one man, and we mutually pledged our
selves TO each other, TO the slave, and 10 God
to make the night Of the 18th of January,
1919, an era in our lives. From that hour,
, we would try 10 be JaiLbfu! to The Stare, They
gave me almost two dollars; one kind broth.
er alone giving a dollar bill. Thanks to them
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worthy of it! Thence ! came the next day
to Randolph, and on to this place. OF mat
tiers here, an account soon.
JOSEPH TREAT.