Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-08-24
9eiections.
From the North Star.
Our Western Anti-SlaVery Tour.

UuI NNotNlu lOuis
In accordance with our promise recorded
In the last number of the STAR" we pro-
ceed to give a brief sketch ofrour recent an-
ti-slavery tour We should gladly have done
this by letters written at each point of our
progress, when all was fresh and lively but
the rapdity of our movements, and the con-
slant demand on our time and attention, both
for public addresses and social interviews,
rendered this impossible. Our readers must
therefore put up with whatever of dullness
may mar our present narration.
We were absent from home precisely
four weeks. During this period, we travel
led fourteen hundred miles-held twenty
six meetings-inade many new friends-en-
joyed pleasant interviews with many old
ones; and although we encountered some
very rough treatment, we regard our western
tour as having been blest with gratifying
SUCCESS.
Our first meeting was held in Buffalo, in
the Baptist Church on Michigan street. A
der-storm-occurring exactly at the
time appointed for convening the meeting
had the effect las we learn) of keeping some
away who intended TO be present. The
audience, however, was respectable in num-
bers, and so eager TO hear, that it afforded
pleasure to the speaker to speak, since there
was every appearance that the good seed
was falling on good ground.
The hospitable doors of our esteemed
friends, Francis and Weir, were, as usual,
thrown open to receive us; and the tima,
spent in Buffalo, we trust, was not Ill spent
for our cause.
We enjoyed very pleasant interview
with the colored poet of America j. Nj.
Whitfield. We were however mortified and
deeply grieved to find this sable son OF &C.
MUS occupying basement story room, as
barber's shop. That talents so command
ing, gifts so rare, poetic powers so dstin-
guished, should be tied TO the handle OF
razor and buried in the precincts of bar
ber's shop, and that he who possesses them
should be consigned, by the malignant ar
rangements of society, TO occupy position
SO menial, is painfully disheartening. AS
we looked upon his broad brow, with his
fine eve beamng with intelligence, and saw
him linked to his unfortunate avocation, we
felt strong desire for pecuniary ability to
extricate him. Such a man as Whitfield,
placed in favorable circumstances, might
become the most brilliant instrument in de-
liyering our people from their thraldom, and
from the odious and debasing estimation in
which they are held. We hope still that
Whitfield will himself by arousing his dor
mant energies, place himself In position
more favorable to the development of his
genius, and the display of his talents, than
the one he now occupies. His fine poetic
mind may yet pour forth the music to whose
orderly measure and charming sound, the
advancing hosts of freedom shall time their
high Footsteps. Come out of that cellar,
Whitfield and let you bugle blasts of liber-
~ career over our Northern hills. You are
implored to do SO by your enslayed and
slandered people. Come! vindicate us at
the bar of public opinion from the oft-re-
peate6 assertion that genius may not flour
ish under sable brow.
il is not the least among the good offices
of the North Star, that it searches out and
brings to the light of day those of our des-
pissed people whose manly characters serve
TO reflect credit upon themselves and all
with whom they arc identified. We have
already called attention TO the condition OF
some of the colored people of Cincinnati,
but our reference was mainly TO their indus
try and prosperity. On this point many
other facts might have been stated, for the
field is wide and illustrations are numerous.
Highly gratifying as appeared the physical
circumstances of our people in that city, we
were still more gratified with the many in
stances of superior intelligence with which
we were brought in contact
On arriving at Cincinnati, we were very
respectfully met at the station by a large
Committee OF gentlemen, under whose es-
cort we were conducted to the Dumas Hotel,
where crowd of spectators had assembled
at whose solicitation, although nearly bro
ken down with our journey,) we made a
short address from the balcony of the house.
In the afternoon of the 4th July, 1.-THE day
on which we arrived) we had the pleasure
Of meeting large circle at The Colored
Orphans House" and of participating in O
festive entertainment for the benefit of that
institution. The general appearance of the
house reflects much praise upon the worthy
lady under whose superintendence the insti.
tuition is placed. In the evening, we attend
ed Fair, held by the members of Bethe
Church, the object of which was, to raise
money with which to pay for a large house
of worship, now in process Of erection
The Fair appeared to be well palronized
and presented gay scene. We were fire
guently called upon TO address the assembly
but the fhiigue Of our journey, and tho over