Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-13
Letter from Il. c. Wright.
RvnAn, ulerman. Co, Aug. %, 1851

DEAR MAmus; i am in the family Of your
old friend Augustus Wattlcs. In the days Of
your hearts young zeal for the slave, he was
with you in Lane Seminary; and when you
were driven from that School Of the pvophets,
that Seminary Of piety and theology, in the
West, because your hearts would feel for
those in bonds as bound with them" and be-
cause out Of the abundance Of your hearts,
your mouths would speak for the dumb, he
with yourself and others, as Apostles Of old,
went forth to preach the Gospel of Ant-slave-
ry to Ohio and other lands. Dear Friend
those were days of firery zeal, and of frery fur
naccs--into one Of which you were cost--array-
cd in royal robe Of tar and feathers. Tho
cause was worth the cost. But you came forth
to be clothed descrvedly, in garments of
praise for your fidelity to tho soul-stricken
bondman.
There are two little settlements here, ono call
ed Utopia, the other Rural two miles apart
close on the banks of the Ohio. Utopia is call
ed an Infdel, otherwise reformatory, progress
sivo community. Rural, two miles down the
river is called Christian, /. o. 'as the word is
now understood conservative, stationary set
tlement, afraid to change, whose great object
is TO keep the peace of Zion and the Union
The connecting link between the two, is large
Tobacco House. whcro that most disgusting of
all filthy and most poisonous of all poisonous
weeds, is worked up and prepared for market.
In that tobacco mill, or shop, the two parties
sometimes meet to compare notes, and ascertain
each others bearings and progress. The Mctho-
dist party held meeting there some months
since, with the expressed intention to roast in
fidelity out of this region. The smell of Tobac-
co and Sectarianism was so strong upon them,
that their praying, singing and preaching pro-
duced no conversions, and left things as they
were only, a little more so. Itwas concluded
that an Anti-Slavcry, And-War. Inadelity, is
far preferable to Oslavcholding and war making
religion.
held two meetings in the Tobacco House, a
grim looking place, but otherwise quite convc-
nicnt. Both ENDS met there and we had very
good meetings; only one man battlcd, mutter-
ing curses, when bore down on the question
of DISSOLUTION or ABOLITION. Like
Daniel the prince of topers, and 5a5iers, he reel
cd off, and as he recled, shouted for "the Union
the whole Union and nothing but the Union"
This seemed-to be the purport of his inutterings
as near as could gather. Then, when he got
out, two or three boys got around him. and to
comfort him, and to save the Union, raised tho
cry of fire. But mono coming to their support
they skuikea away--as the tipping, rceling
Daniels about to do. One man in the meet
ings at Herveysburgh, the other day, seemed to
think it moro honorable, and moro congenial to
his nature to follow after Daniel drunk, thar
any other man sober. a
I Ihavo held three meetings here. Augustus
and Susan Wattles are toiling to create an earth
ly homo in this pleasant place for themselves
and children. The location is most beautiful
and healthy; forty miles above the city, and
the soil RICH and productive beyond comparison.
Butte short distance from where now am, in
plain view, stood the house, which in Decem-
Der, lS47, was prostrated by a flood in the river,
that arose 60 feet above low water mark, and
crushed to death seventeen human beings and
window at which am. About one half the
houses in the little village of Rural were swept
away. But all is thriving now, as if tho be-
som of obstruction had never passed over it,
What recuperative power is in the people and
soil of Ohio ! May their energies be sacred to
freedom,
Tomorrow commences your Anniversary
My spirit will bo with you there. 1 shall min.
gle in your joys. Tomorrow Sunday hold
meetings in Richmond 20 miles below, and to.
morrow week in Richmond, Indiana.
| HENRY G. WRIGHT.