Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-05-31
Letter from Joseph Treat.
CAzrNovlA, Madison Co., \. Y,

GEluay evening, may ioi lool'
Ny DEAR MAmus; Ny last concluded with
an account of the close Of our Anniversary meet
ings Garrison and Thompson, accompanied
by George w Putnam of Lynn, Mass, who
goes with them as a reporter, held meetings in
Pennington, Ontario Co. on Saturday afternoon
and evening. The meetings were to have been
held in the IIicksitc Friends meeting house,
the largest Quaker edificc ever saw, but some-
body went that morning before daylight and
out of spite, broke Off the two front doors, and
carried them away, and 1 suppose no man
"knoweth where they arc unto this day." So
tho good Quakcrs went to meeting in the fore
noon and worshippcd, sitting in ahouse without
any doors, though fortunately tho weather was
warm. Well the afternoon came, and when the
friends of liberty discovered what had bofallcn
the doors, they Immediately took counsel, and
left the house, and went their way unto the
Orthodox synagogue, (only few rods,) and
there they held their feast. Now 10, it was
curious place to which they had come, for it was
ancient and it was built like barn inside, with
high walls of partition, to keep the men and
women from hurting each other, and circular
galleries. that rose toward the roof as they went
back, and looking for all tho world like place
to throw hay down from on the cattle below
And beside, the whole building was very small,
so that the hundreds who Aocked to hear, had
to stand in all parts, and block the passages, and
throng the windows till not q breath could en-
ter. never heard Thompson speak so, before
nor since. Ii was thunder and lightning, and
lighting and thunder, till it seemed as if slavery
and all who upheld it, particularly Daniel Web
ster, the clergy and the churches, were COM
plotely annihilatcd. And Garrison spoke we'll
and nobly, producing profound impression.-
At Waterloo saw Henry b. Stanton, once
foremost in the ranks of the immediate aboli-
tionists, but now degraded and sunk into
mere compromising politician, having descend
cd from Liberty Party man to a Free Soilcr,
thence to a Barnburning Democrat, till finally,
he has come to coalcsco with even Old Hunk
ers themselves Tuesday, we were at Seneca
Falls, where they held but one meeting. Gar
rison had someway taken sudden cold, so that
he could hardly be heard; he however made a
good speech, as Thompson of course did.
Wednesday we were at Port Byron. Garri-
son had lost his voice entirely, so that he could
only speak in a whisper, and was unable, there
fore, to say single word But Thompson
made it all up, not only speaking two hours in
the afternoon, but again in the evening. His
speech in the evening was the greatest thing of
its kind ever heard. 0fas kind, 1 say, for it
was not better than the one on Sunday after
noon, for it was not like it. That was powerful
and terrific, this was beautiful. 1t made me
think ofthe words of Gorrit Smith at Syracuse,
when, in his speech of welcome, addressing him
self to the abolitionists of Central New York,
and speaking of Thompson, he said, eve are
glad to be brought once more under the fascna-
ton of his cloqucnce y never heard anything
so much like fascination before.
Thursday at Concstota had two good meet
ings. Parker Pillsbury and ]. w. Walker arc
lccturing in this region. l ought to have said
that Soiourner Truth will spend the summer in
Ohio.
To-day come to this place and met our friend
Mathews. At the request of Mr.. Thompson he
gave an account of the outrage perpctrated on
him in Ky. In the evening Brother Mathews
and myself held meeting, it was good one.
We were aided by the excellent music of the
Luca Family colored from N. Haven.
Yours in the good cause,
JOSEPH TREAT.