Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-02
Letter from II. c. Wright.

New RICHMOND, Jan. IS. 1850.
DEAR FRIESD l am in the family of our
friend, Thomas Donaldson, and have been here
a week. Were you ever hero No" is the
answer of Thomas, who sits near me. Well,
you know not what a paradise Pemnaen
(thc Welsh name of his homc,) is. l sit here
in the parlor and look down upon the Ohio
What a river For beauty and variety of Sec
merry, between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, new
or saw it clualcd. There is scarce a spot in the
800 miles where you can look three miles ahead,
it winds so beautifully among the hills that line
its borders. But the mud-Oh, the mud
down here Nearly a foot of snow fell last
Saturday, and now it is all gone. Precious
times we have We can just make out to keep
our noses sticking up out OF the mud, as wo ride
on horseback along the streets.
arrived here just week ago this (Friday)
night. Did We not have time coming down
the river The saloon of Western steamboat
above all places oil Garth, if you would study
the science of man. There l sat two days and
nights, by a table, reading and writing. Near
me were three tables surrounded by card play
ers. smokers and whiskcy- drinkers. On one
side were lots of children, laughing, romping
kicking and screaming; and their mothers and
nurses talking, petting and managing. In the
distance was man with fiddle, ever scraping,
and singing, and acting comic songs. Among
the luggage enc man had fine large pup in a
basket, out of which he (the pup) could put his
head, and he yclpcd IN chorus TO the fiddle, the
card-playcrs, the singing, and the children
This kept up two days and nights Such ju-
bilcc of noises
Amid it all the question of Slavery came up.
Who can pass down the Ohio and not think OF
SlavcryI There lies the hdcous monster
stretched along in all his dclomity on the left
bank of this beautiful river, tainting the air by
his pestiferous breath, and blighting the earth
by his deadly slime. How utterly cherries and
desolato is the slavcrycurscd side of this river
Fifty years ago scarce one white mans cabin
stood on the banks of the Ohio. Now what a
change Two noblo cities, with their hundreds
of thousands of inhabitants, Pittsburgh and Gin
cinnati. 500 miles apart, and innumerablc villa
ges between, but all. with two exceptions, Mays
Nlllc anu w uecllhB, ot lledIly III, OH lnc Ilbn'
bank--thc frce-labor bank-of the river
/ Then Runaway slaves-that was up over and
over again. "Who would not help slaves to
freedom ," asked Some said no most said
yes. The desolations of tho slavery side of tho
river were attributed to abolitionists who had
run off the slaves Good; go it, the under
ground railway. Put Oh the steam, say l.
Empty Kentucky of her laborers on the soil
then see what she will do. But this shout over
tho Hungarian Fugitives this letter of tho
President to that Hungarian Ex- Governor, tell
! ing him this land is tho "natural home of Tho
oppressed OF all lands -; (what a Wrapper !!
and this proposition of Cass to censure AustriI
in the Senate Rich that, any how Ameri
can shareholders censuring Austria!
viii there be no end to the lying and hypoc
risy of this Republic Oliver blow away a
that Buglc, and God bless and strengthen you
lungs for long, loud and telling blast, to shak'
the old Heaven and Earth and call into being
now Heaven and new Earth. Surely moth,
| ing can be made of tho old slavery ones. Better
roll them up and cast them aside.
! HENRY G. WRIGHT.