Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-12-11

ica. After graduating with honor at Bow
doin College, Maine, and taking his theolopi.
cal degree at Andover, he had been appointed
Professor at Dartmouth College, New lamp
shire, whence he had been called to Lane
Seminary. Mrs. Stoves married life has
been of that equablc md sober happiness So
common in the families Yankee clergymcn.
IL has been blessed with numerous Off
spring, of whom five are still living. Mrs.
Stowe has known the iatigues Of watching
over the sick bed, and her heart has felt that
grief which eclpscs all others-thnt of Il
bereayed mother. Much of her time has
been devoted to the education of her children,
while tho ordinary household cares have de-
volved on friend or distant relative, who
has always resided with her. She employed
her leisure in contributing occasional pieces.
tales, and novelties 10 the magazines aud
newspapers. Her writings were of high
moral tone, aud deservedly popular. Only
small portion of them are comprised in the
volume" The Maynowcr" already men.
toned This part of Mrs Slows life, spent
IN literary pleasures family Joys aud cares,
and the society of the pious aud intelligent,
would have been of ms unnlloycd happiness
as mortals can expect, had it not been dark
ened at every instant by the balcful shallow
Of slavery.
The "pccuiar institution" was destined to
thwart the grand project in the life of Mrs
Stoves father aud husband: When they
relinquished their excellent position in the
East, in order to build up the great Prcsby.
terrain Seminary for the Ohio aud Mississippi
valley, they did so with every prospect of
success. Never did literary Institution
start under finer auspices. The number aud
rnf fnNt s.I
geilIer several hundred student from all
parts of the United States; not sickly cellar
plants of boys sent by wealthy parents, bat
hardy intelligent young men, most of whom,
fired 10y the ambition OF converting the world
TO Christ, were winning their way, through
prvalions aud toll, to education and min
iserial orders. They were the stuff out
of which foreign missionaries and revival
preachers are made. Some of them were
known to the public as lectures: Theodore
ID. Weld was an oralorical celebrity For
year all went well. Lane Seminary was the
pride aud hope of the church. Alas for the
hopes of Messrs. Beecher and Stowe this
prosperity was of short duration.
The French Revolution of 1880, the ngita-
lion in England for reform, aud against
colonial slavery, the fine aud Imprisonment
of American courts of Justice, of citizens
who dared TO attack the slave trade carried
on under the federal flag, bad began to diretc
the attention of few American plilanthro-
pists TO the evils of slavery. Some years
before, a society had been formed for the
colonizing free blacks on the coast of Africa.
1t had been patronised by intelligent slave
holders,wl feared the contact of free blacks
with their human chatlcs; aud by feeble or
ignorant persons in the north, whose cun-
sciences impelled them TO accept the plan
favored by shareholders. However useful
TO Africa the emigulution to its shores of
intelligent, and enterprising blacks may he,
il is now universally admitted that cooniza-
ton, ns means of eXtinguishing slavery,
is n dwelling absurdity. These were the
views Of the Abolition Convention, which
met at Philadelphia in 1888, and set OH foot
the agitation which has since convulsed the
Union.
The President of that Convention, Mr.
Arthur Tnppnn, was one of the most liberal
donors of Lane Seminary. lie forwarded its
address to the students; aud few weeks
afterwards the whole sullc cct was up for dis
cussion amongst them. Al first there wos
little interest. But soon the fire began 10
burn. Many of the students had travelled
or taught school in the slave States; II good
ly number were sons of Shareholders, aud
some were owners of slaves. They had
seen slavery, aud had facts to relate, many of
which made the blood run chill with horror.
Those spread out on the pages of Uncle
Toms Cabin" reader, and which your swell
ling heart aud overlooking eyes would not
let you read aloud, are cold in comparison.
The discussion was soon ended, for all were
of one accord; but the meetings for the re-
n Iupfa anntiutta.I ti,,I.t ,H.
night and week after week. What was nj
first sensibilty grew into enthusiasm; the
feeble flame had become conhagraion.-
The slave owners among the students
gave liberty TO their slaves the iden of go
ing on foreign missions was secuted at, be-
culIse there were heatlIens NJ home some
left their studies aud collected the colored
population of Cincinnati into churches, aud
preachd TO them; others gathered the young
men into evening schools, and the children
into day Schools and devoted themselves to
teaching them; others organized benevolent
societies, for aiding them, and orphan asy-
lums for the destitute aud abandoned clll- !
dren; and others, again, left all to aid iugilives
on their way 10 CaIIuda, or To lecture on the
evils of slavery. The ianaticlsm was sub.
lime every student felt himself Peter the
Hermit, and acted as IL tine abolition of sla-
very depended oil his indiN idual exerlions.
AT first the discussion lnd been encour-
aged by the President aud Professors; but
when they saw it swallowing up everything
like regular study, they thought it high time
to stop. IL was too late; the current was
too strong to be arrested, The commercial
interests of Cincinnati took nlarm-inanu-
lacturers feared the loss of their Southern
trade. Public sentiment eXacted the sup !
preston of the discussion aud excitement. /
Shareholders came over from Kentucky aud
urged the mob on TO violence. For several
weeks there was imminent danger that Lane
Seminary, and the houses OF DIR. Beecher
and Professor Stowe, would he burnt or
pulled down by drunken rabhle. These
must have been weeks Of mortal anxiety
for Harriet Beecher. The Board of Trus-
tees now interiered, and nlayed the excite
menl of the mob by forbidding the further