Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-07-30
VOL. 8
IOWA.

mission to publish extracts from II. Thanks to
him and the writer, for the facts. We should
be pleased often to hear from him directly
His letter to day will be read with interest.
BrRL1YoroN, June 10, '53.
MY Dean SIN: You ask for
Anti-slavery intelligence from Iowa. Alas,
what shall say. Can that which is wanting
be numbereds Among farmers and working
men, out of the little towns, we have some
political anti. slavery men. Men who denounce
and perhaps hate slavery in the abstract-consid-
er it sin. per Sc, but glory, honor and immor-
tai lie in the Constitution and the thrice blessed
Union.
As to our churches, those straw-like trifes
on life's common stream, which servo principally
to show which way the current is drifting, shall
tell you what they are, or refer you to the
utterances of Pillsbury, Foster, and all that
cloud Of witnesses more truthful and moro
emphatic than 1 could givei Our Congrega-
tionalists arc to a man, Free Sellers, or adhere
to other and moro healthy organizations. Our
anti slavery Methodisis were few years ago,
"True Wesleyans," now Protestant Episcopals.
Our Presbyterians are either of the Old or New
School: they will be likely to remember the
decisions of the Hieraches in MeQueen's case
and about marrying nieces, and act accordingly,
when it suits them but will they go down
into the house of bondage and there undo the
the heavy burthensi
Our Daptists what shall say OF our Bap-
tist brethren An individual here, we'll known
to you, and l hope considered quito a decent
man, procured letter from the First Baptist
Church, in Albany n. L., to the Church in
Burlington, then in the chrysalis state, and
offered it to the pastor, that was to be. 1t was
declined on account, avowedly, of the anti
slavery rroclivities of the individual.
The butterfly is now abroad in the balmy air
of June, and one bright plume on its glittering
wing, is the rising college on the monument
hill, now above the water table. To this
college our friend w. b. Ewing, who you know
is principal godfather both to it and the church,
says "No student holding anti slarcry sentiments
shall, ieith his consent, ersr be admitted" Doubt
less Brother Fales Commissioner of the U. s.,
under the fugitive slave law of 1850, another
Trustee, and the rest ngrce with him. lie: 10
be told in Ohio, lest some of their infected
youths wander hitherward, and to the Prairiss
and Hills of the South, TINT they may send on
their contributions. Such will be needed. Our
friends in the South can certainly well afford to
be liberal to us. Neither Andovcr nor Prince
ton shall be more abject, or dive deeper into
the mud, than we will do. Though young, and
small, and poor, we are full of promise. Wit
ness this indignant vindicaton of our elder
sister Ohio, from the reproach and shame Of
sympathizing with negroes, which appeared in
our last Saturdays Telegraph, over the namo Of
one deeply and directly interested in female ed
ucation in Burlington. lie blushingly admts
that negroes havo been educated at Oberlin, and
more might be. But he is very thankful that
every few" &c."
| Is Obcrlin duly thankful for such champion
l have glanced hastily at the condition of eccle-
stastical and educational influences here in tho
matter of slavery. Sad picture ooh that
mine head were waters, and mnc eyes a foun-
tain of tears, that might weep day and night
for the slain of the daughter of my people,
Moral carcascs putrescent and tainting all the
atmosphere around Were they dry bones,
merely, they might live but dissolution must
como-has come. Let us turn To the brighter
future. In the Inauguration of the new hen-
vcns and the new earth wherein shall dwell
righteousness and peace, it was to be expected
that woman should bear a conspicuous and
glorious part Long training in subordination
and bondage makes men savage and brutal; it
has not so conquered the gentler tendencies of
womuns nature. In the getting up of the new
order of things, woman will manifcstly bear a
conspicuous part, and her influence VIII gon-
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