Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-12-11
Letter from Michigan.
WArERroRD, Wayne Co., Mich, !
Nov. 27th, 1852. !
Davis.

hAAEhIohni W hhlUc W., MICH, I
Nov. 27Ih, 1852.
FnIEND RoBrNsoN: wrote YOU last from
Tccumsch, just on the point Of starting north
ward. At noon took stage for Ypsilant, in
company with some four scngcrs-wcll look
ing men and women-wcll behaved as the world
gocs-tobaeco-juico and brandy among the
masculincs notwithstanding. From few care
less remarks about slavery and colored people,
found them true A0'ericans, ono and all pos.
scsscd with the idea that slaves are race of
rather i'll used, and quite ill-dcserying miners,
in distant section of our glorious republic,
with whose condition We have nothing to do !;
and all human beings with black skins, niggers
a"yhor, to be kept in their place. However,
VIC all rode on through mud holcs-ovcr cordu-
roys, (not bceches but rail roads), and rolled
over good plank road at dashing pace, the
last ten miles, from Saline TO our stopping place.
The next morning, found my way to thc house
of Saml ID. Aloorc-a ficnd some six miles
south OF the town-ono who is seeking to act
up to the Quaker of oldcn timc-a resident
formerly of Pennsylvania, and reader of the
Pcan. Freeman. Do you know, or do any OF
your readers, (ovory "itinerunt" lecturer docs
how pleasant and cheering it is to find lice
mdni If so, you will know how | felt, on
meeting Sam'l Moore, and by his ready aid,
attending four good meetings in School houses
and Friends meeting house in three days time
The people in his ncighborhood arc plain work.
crs,iiving in retired way, and have never come
much under the sway of Union. loving pa,ri.
ots to be told how negroes must be caught to
save the counry-ncver been enlightened by
the priesthood as to the "Inlidcl tendencies"
OF asking that all mon shall be free and equal.
So ofcoursc you know my task was ar easy ono
comparatively speaking--fewcr prejudices 10
"conquor than would have been had these
simple folks been more instructed in the duties
they owe to Church and State, by our chief
priests and rulers
Monday ard Tuesday evenings, spoke in Yp-
silnti in hall it is beautiful town of some
three thousand inhabitants--the State Normal
School and a Seminary of some three hundred
scholars, giving good educational advantages.
Antl.Savcry seems hardly looked on as respect
a5lc yet, and the pcoplo-jcalous Of the charav-
ter Of their goody town-dv not like 10 engage
in anything out Of character. Such as talking
about negroes as men, and kindred fanaticsms.
The first evening some fifty persons met in a
room large enough for four hundred, sitting
scattered about at convenient distances from
each other, to give the best facilities for air
locomotion, and copious oxpcctoration.
| commenced breaking ice and pcrsovcrci
with diligence which you must commend for
two hours-most, givirg respectable attention,
Some passing in and out with most republican
freedom. The next evening hundred or moro
came togcthcr-an audience of better quality
too-morolly and intellectually spcaking-and
gave excellent attention for over two hours
They seemed to be somewhat surprised to learn
that Anti Slavery had deeper significance than
a mere question of political cxpcdiency-that
our cause might be, not only respectable, but
noble, important, true. At tho close, a few
friends came forward with an earnest request
for more Lectures and have promised to return
Had meeting in Plymouth-three miles dis.
tnnt-Wcdnesday and last night, discussion
with clergyman who took tho ground that
tho President of the u S. would be justified
morally, in putting down by force, slave in
surrcction when it reached indiscrminate blood
shed for Freedoms sake An argument that
would justify Joseph of Austria, Car Nicholas,
George the Ill, and the whole race of tyrants
and ahettors of tyranny from the governors and
soldiers of Roman province sworn to suppress
instructions against Nero or Caligula, to the
President elect, in this land, sworn to hold
millions in the bloody grasp of our Christian
Ncros, and Wing and Democratic Caligulas of
the Slave-land. The disputant was a Free
Soiler and said he should justify John p. Hale
in heading an army to stop servile war as he
would be bound to do by his official oath-after
all eonSistsnt Free Soilcr, only defending the
duties his candidate would, il need be, perform
il elected