Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-01
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Letter from Il. {. Wright.
AB)lr, Allen Co., Indiana,
Sept. 10, 1851.

<hBJllt -AtlCll Wa lIllillui
Sept. 10, 1851.
DEAn MApius: am here in Cabin, in the
woods, half mile from any other cabin, and 10
miles South West OF Fort Wayne, in tho family
OF Owen and Mary L. Thomas. They own sew
EN- acres OF land about an acre aud Il half of it
cleared. around their snug cabin. It is night
aud to lit here and listen to the sighing Of air
through the tree tops, that almost oyerhang the
cabin; the scrcaching and hootins Of owls, tho
wransling ofsluirrcs, the muttcrings OF coons,
opossums and mirks, the shrill chctp of cricktts,
the hoarsc, grating call of tho catadd-and the
many other sounds issuing from the throa,s of
ten thousand namclcss insects, is, to my mind
incxprcssobly soothing, ms they minglo in ono
grand chorus, that rises from the Forest depths.
! / love the Forests Of this great West, aud the
themselves and children in them. Oiall carth's
monuments of human power, revolution, and
hcroism, none can compare in true grandeur, to
a wilderness, as Ohio, INDIAN, Illinois and Mi
chigan, were fifty years ago, now converted into
harvest fields, and homes for men. To make
I SllGll NliuCIHCNS, hllu SUCH NGpp, NCltst, uulh
solitudCs bud and blossom as the rose, is work
OF daring heroism, and dauntlcss resolution,
which will he honorcd when the fame of the
warrior, the politician and tho priest has fallen
into contempt. All this in the good timc.com-
/ ing. There is but ono thought to mar the plea
sure feel in passing through these forests, and
associating with those whose cabins oflogs ;hcy
ovcrshadow, it is THE INDIAN. Where is
| he; The white man--tho CnnIsTIAN came
and blottcd the red man from the Record of
Humanity, to seize his home and appropriate it
to himself.
There is another thought, too, -hjch gives
pain. Their grand Forests, specimens u Ma
tures mightiest works, with all their most Sc
crct hiding places, and all the cabins, towns.
cities, churches palaces, halls o. justice and leg
islation. that man has created amid them, are
consccratcd to slacery. There is no cavern 50
deep, no swamp so imponctrablc, no hollow los
so dark, no tree top so high, no cabin so rude,
or hiddcn, but slavery has found it out; and
there lies hid, watching for its victim Onc can
but weep TO sec these forest so deep, SD grand
so tyoe, and this soil, pure rich and incxhaus-
table in all that can add to human wciarc-con'
sccratcd in their virgin state to the embraces
of a demon, so polluted, SO loathsomc. In al
this vast domain of Nature, there is not ono spo
where a slave can set his foot and say | am
free. And Indiana, in her madness, has rushct
eagerly into the foul embrace. She has said tt
slavery, 81 love thee take mc | am who'll,
thine; swallow me all down.
Mary +. and Owen Thomas, you know. The,
arc here, as have said, in their cabin, in tn,
deep solitude of the Forest. lie is physician
and il daily called from his cabin home to tn
, sick beds OF his ncighbors for miles around.-
Mary, with her three children, passes her life il
training her daughters, in planning for the benef
) of her fellow beings in slavery, and in silent
r spirit communion, with loved ones far away
i She and Owen are true to the slave. The thrc
4 millions of slaves, in this christian land, hav
warm friends in Benjamin and Ruth Davis
v whose home is in this region, and where the FL
n gitve may find a welcome. There are other
# in this region, whose hearts are warm with syn
G pathy for the bondman. l am to hold thr,
s meetings in this vicinity.
: As came here through Huntington Count
g l held meeting near Mt. Etna. asserted tn
s all who sustained the fugitive law, and voted
h exclude eolored people from the State, we
n worse then heioes. robbers, or mwaersrs.