Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-08-27
Communications.
FIRST OF FAUGUsT--AREpENTANT SLAVE
HOLDER,
snrRSA, Harrison Co., Aug. l, 'j3.


DkAR MAHius; ] never so fully realized the Po-
etic idea of being launched on the bilocs of life,
as within the few last days while we have been
winding and whirling up and down till we could
hardly catch our breath) the hills Of Harrison and
Belmont counties: and if we are not sca-sck we are
at heart, hilsick far as travelling is concerned
But early home in New England has well
Htcd us to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the creek
valley and rdgc-roads over which we passed. and
to inhac with delight the clear and nyigorating
atmosphere Of hill and dale-miniaturo brcczes of
our childhood, such as never greet us on the long
levels of the Reserve. There is little of Romance
hcrc-no tagging rocks or jutting precipicos--no
darting brooks or foaming cataracts, such as New
England boasts. But the round clustering hills
gracefully leaning up and against each other with
dark green foliage, or just shorn of grass or grain
seem like the orange and pineapple, thrown in the
most tempting, yariegated form that genius could
invent-so beautiful in contrast and hue.
"Thc cattle on n thousand hills arc hcrc. and
AS | have seen them in Indian file. marching care
fully their summit, at set, as if to the tune
Of good night" | have wondered if these were
the "hgh ways" that we read of-for they seem
"quitc on the verge of Heaven" And when few
days ago we attempted to ascend one Of them, to
find the houscof Joseph Cope Friend well known
TO the IIumaniary world,wc found it impossible for
Ovr beasts to go up thereon" and we tied them
In the valley below, and with much difficulty aud
pleasure, found place, every way worthy the name,
-" Sought Out'-a home "not forsakcn."
We find in such families Ms these, few of which
were scattered up and down the country, evidences
Of the reform and progress that were contemplated
In the early movement Of Friends and which have
boon secured to the few by individual investigations
scli-sacrhcc and undertaking fidelity to principle.
The men, race of giants, physically and mem
tally, have learned that might was not right. and
have faithfully adhered to tho higher principle of
lovc-admitting their women and children to equal
rights-that has resulted in the equal happiness
usefulness and elevation of alfor as the duties and
responsibilities growing out of rights possessed
strengthen the Iossessor; the bCncactur, if this
bc the term, is relieved from care and labor which
he could not well perform, and from duties aud
responsibilities which did not belong to him. And
we look almost in vain for practical dcmonstra-
tions Of this principle these seem the more orciblc
and worthy Of notice.
Their women physically and mentally strong
er than the around there, and their opinion
IL more valuable and more ralued, than are the
opinions of the mass of men. The children of
such parents come to years Of understanding cartier
from Legitimate causes, and commence to bear their
share Of the burden of duties and to feel alike the
intelligent HaIrinHss consequent upon obedience to
hIcd laws. Theyas mtcli direct in the government
and management Of the household, according to
their ability, as the parents, all acting on the same
principle of lovc-drcctcdbya an enlightened Judge
ment. and aided 10y the counsel of each and ALL
In such families you will find peace, kindness,
Intelligence, the principle of right-or the harmony
Of Physical affection, Intellectual and Spiritual,
the result Of such education and dcyclopcmcnt.
We held meeting Saturday afternoon in Friends
Westinghouse Joseph Copc's and two on
Sunday, in the Methodist house at GcorgctOwn.-
This place. we are told, has been quite notorou,
for its Anti-Slaycry character but between Ortho-
dox Quakcrsm and Politics, its abolitionism pro-
per, has been nearly starved out. There remains
however, an honest anti-slavcry sentiment in the
form of Free Soil that is set to do its utmost to
dcnatiBndlizc Slavery and then there drS some who
as men, are abolitionists--as Free Sellers, only
anti-slavcry men.
We dncd at the house Of Mr. IL, who had
been Virginia Slavchollcr,-had some years ago
sold his slaves and moved into Ohio, and was act
ing upon the principle that whatever he had re-
eeiyed from the sale of slaves, should be faithfully
returned, for their benefit, TO the Anti-Slaycry
cause. lie said he was an old man noir and his
deepest regret was, that he lived so long without
reflection. The first MoUgh, he said, upon the
character of Slavery, changed his whole course of
action, and from that time 10 this, his life had
been one of reflection and change. lie said his
ant-slayery often the source of great grief to
him, and our meeting had wrung from him the
would-be-forgotten acts Of craclty that he had so
often witnessed toward the poor slave. Itrcquircd
he said no stretch of crcdulity in him or any other
man who had lived in Slavery, with any moral Wis
sion, to believe Mrs. Stoves Uncle Tom, while the
precedent of such facts as the following among
many others exist.
lie told us he was one day standing among a
company Of slaves, when the master observed that
n pair Of bars were down, leading, perhaps, into
some grain.-Tom, said he, how came those bars
down! Ned left them down. that's the how're
piled Tom For that insOlencc he was tied. to Il
tree near by and in presence of our friend, whip
ped till the blood ran down his naked, quiyering
flesh some distance from his feet.
lie said he recognized most fully the character
Of Legree, in the person of Rev, Joseph Glass,
Of Frederic County, Virginia, who, among most
inhuman catalogue of crimes, shut up and whipt II
woman, (for purposes he did not name, so brutally,
that in few hours afterward she was found dead
in the cellar where he had left her. few days
imprisonment and a partial examination, satisfied
tie Church dud the Stockholders of his inno-
ccncc, and he continued to preach. Some time
after, virulent Fever attacked and brought him
near to DEATH After partial recovery, he wished
10 ride out and see how things going onion his
plantation and finding, as he thought an occasion
for the exercise of his cherished passion he dis