Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-03

DEAN MARius am half way back TO Ohio
again, in body--in spirit, am all tho way,
quito often, and cast my eye in your direction,
many times in day. Sojourner Truth used
to tell us last Autumn, in our meetings on the
Reserve, that when she was a slave, her brother
was sold of to Alabama. After he was gone,
her mother she sad would go out with her in
the evening" and they would look upon the
moon, and find mournful kind of comfort in
rejecting, that the same moon shonc on the
lost ono. and perhaps he was looking also at it,
and thinking that it 81 ono on the loved ones he
had left behind. 1t was sad comfort. 1t was
a slaves comfort-and when had a slave any but
sad comfort, or none at all,
Still confess, that many times, when think
ing Of places and persons in Ohio, also look at
the moon, and thinl, she shines on them as well
as on nc and that possibly, some Of my loved
ones there, are looking at the same object, with
emotions similar to yown
How beautiful is friendship! Who would
or could live, without its heavenly influence /;
And yet, many think, or seem to think, that
we abolitionists arc entirely unsusccptble to its
sanctifying power. We arc regarded as a clan
Of Ishmalitcs, quauclling with every body, our
hand against every man, as indeed every mans
hand is against us.
How little is known Of us, and how impcr-
fcctly arc VIC understood | suppose it was the
terrible separation of families and friends which
slavery ever causes, that made half of as aboI:-
tionists ut ALL To this ono feature of the Gear
full system. | owe full half the hatred ] bear it
myself A few friends arc all there is, or can
be, of joy and comfort to the slave. Torn from
these, and the world is ever after, waste howl
ing wilderness indeed and Judging of his at
tachments to his friends By my own, and then
remembering that have still thousand sour
COS OF happiness, which he has not, and that his
loves are all,arc every thing there is left to him.
need no other induccmcnt to impcl me on
ward inmy work or to keep burning the fire
of my hatred to the system, of which he is the
victim. And in proportion as l love my friends,
just in that proportion DO l loath and abhor
slavery, which makes such havoc Of tho divine
sentiment of friendship. We are not all of us,
surely, the barbarians wc are considered by the
world.
Thee is nothing tsanspiring here at present
of sufficient interest to bc made known any.
where else My excellent friend Lewis Ford
and myself, are performing a mission here
among people, more like those of the Western
| Reserve in most respects, than any have seen.
There is one important difference however and
| that respects the women. There have been but
nothing approaching Revolution. Consc.
qucntly, the curse still remains, so long ago pro-
nounccd cd-"thy desire shall be to thy husband
and he shall rule orcr thee
At a good many of our meetings. not n Wo-
man appears. This, however, results partly
from the fact, that Anti Slavery, in this region,
has been made almost wholly political affair.
! And all that was wanted of woman on the Buff
! falo platform, was, to s,recpH. And to be mere
scarehgors to a cause, is a submission to which
the women will not yield, however crude as yet
may be their ideas OF woman's rights.
! There is much Ana-Slavcry here, but as vet
| it is almost wholly under the dominion of sect
and party. The rescue at Syracuse, was pro-
badly achieved by men, majority Of whom,
swear with the STAKEHOLDER to support the ma
tional government and the National religion
Never mind tits better to commit perjury in
words, than to du deeds, such as do those who
keep the OATH and send back the slave, but
the standard OF morality is low, when Perjury
thus becomes virtue.
Yours ever and forever,
PARKER PILLSBURY,
lIERRnER, Y, ", Dee. 18Th, 1851.