Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-26
SALEM, Ohio, Q Dec, 1850.

DALEM, OnlO, Dcc,, 1891.
GEoRoE THOMSON, NJ. P.
Dear Fricnd-It is no less my pleasure than
my duty to forward you the enclosed resolu-
tions, which were adopted yesterday by the Ex-
ccutivo Committee Of the Western Anu-Sav
ry Society. believe may say without hcsita-
ton that they express the unanimous sentiment
and feeling Of Abolitionsts in this part of tho
country. Few of us have ever seen you, but
we are not unacquainted with your history nor
insensiblc of the benefits which tho cause of
Freedom has derived from your cloqucn; and
devoted advocacy. We blushed for our Coun-
try when, fifteen years ago, you were ungrate-
fully prosecuted and driven from the home of
the Pilgrims by mob violence; and we blushed
again when tho voice Of welcome which lately
greeted you from thousands of free hearts in
the Cradle of Liberty was drowned in the dis
cordant and insulting shouts of the tools of the
Slave Power. But the contrast afforded by
comparison of the recent outbreak of the pro-
slavery spirit of Boston with the murdcrous ma
lignity which prevailed there fifteen years ago,
is an evidence that the Anti-Slavery movement
of our country is rapidly approaching the hour
of its final triumph, when the already impotent
shouts of dcludcd rabblc will give place to
that sublime chorus which shall fill all Garth
and heaven with its enchanting harmonies,
thrilling alike the heart of God and the souls of
all who delight to do his will Deeply, there
fore, as we lament the recent mobocratic dis
turbancc in Boston-and it certainly has been
to US a source of sincere mortihcaton--wc see
in it no cause for Encouragement in the work in
which We are engaged, but only an incentive to
purer zeal. holer spirit of self conservation,
and frmcr reliance upon that Divine Being in
whom is our strength and hope.
In the name of the Abolitionists of the West,
so far at least as they orc represented by the
Western Anti-Slavcry Society, bid you well
como to our country, and would express the
hope that your visit may contribute as much to
your own personal qualification as we doubt not
it will to the fnrthorance of our holy cause
We trust that, before you return to your native
land, you will afford us the opportunity to cx-
press to you in person the feelings OF gratitude
and admiration which your fidelity to truth un-
der manifold temptations has inspired in our
bosoms. Come, we pray you, to Northern
Ohio, the vestibule of that magnificent WEST
which stretches hence to the golden treasures of
the Pacific, and whose tecn.ing millions We are
struggling to redeem from their guilty alliance
with the stakeholder. We promise you
-"a greeting kind
And welcome, not OF hollow, forged smiles,
And ooremonious compliment of phrase,
But OF the HEART SINCERE"
We think, too, that we may safely assure you
that here your voice will not be stihed by the
discordant outcrics Of mob.
have somewhere seen it announced that
you would visit Buffalo. We trust you will
not, in that case, turn your face Eastward with
out giving us the pleasure of grasping your hand
and listening to tho sound of your voice.
In behalf of tho Executive Committee of the
Western Anti-Slavery Society, and with senti-
ments of esteem and love, am
Your friend and fcllow-laborer,
OLIVER JOHNSON, Cor. See.