Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-29

MILLBRooK, Pa, Oct IL, 1858.
DEAR FEIENp RoBINsoN: Personally, we arc
strangers But we are engaged in common
cause. In purpose and in spirit, so f,r at least
the rights and interests of our common humanity
are concerned trust are one and in that sense
the most mportant-acquainted !, therefore,
without an attempt ut introduction apology ven
turc to prepare for the Bug'e, brief report from
the lccturing field, which you may publish if you
think it worthy place in its columns.
BY advice from Head Quarters, | left my homo
in York State, to take the lecture field in company
with Mr.. J. F. Selby, of this State. met Mr.. $.
by appointment at Jirard near Eric, Pa. tho
LIST inst. This was my first entrance into this State
Two weeks observation and experience cannot give
me much of an idea of the inhabitants Thus far,
however, | am much pleased with them. The
masses not the reformers) seem to be more liberal,
hospitable, and willing to hear for themselves,
than the classes in New York. They are not
much under the influence of religious creeds,
Our civilization and religion have not so far per-
fected their work upon them-have not far
succeeded in making them bigoted, cold-heartcd,
forbidding, selhsh-haye not, in short, far sue
ceedcd in working upon them that extra hand-fnish
that vital external polish, which guards the heart
against all truthful and generous influences, as
successfully as the steel armour of the warrior
guards his body against the pointed arrow aimed
ut his vitals. So, at least, it seems to me. may
have a different story to tell before leaving the
State.
We commenced series of meetings, on the
morning of the second inst, within few miles Of
Jirard, in what is termed the Francis ncghborhood
which continued through the day and evening.
Since then we have held % meetings on our way to-
this place. With one or two exceptions, our meet
ings have been well attended-sometimes crowded,
with very attentive, and, to appearance, deeply in
teresed listners. How far short soever the people
to whom We have proclaimed the radical doctrines
of Anti-Slavery, may come of acting up 10 all tho
requirements of the principle, they have with few
exceptions given the best of evidence that they
felt and acknowledged the force of its truth. We
have endeayored to temper the wind to the lambs,
feed milk to the babes, and strong meat to those
who could bear it; at least We have placed variety
before them and allowed them to choose for them
selves. If, then, some have swallowed what hay
heavy on their stomachs, was it our faultf This
has been, in a few instances, the case AS the hot
shot from the cannon Of TRUTH (which, by the way.
never takes effect but upon the consciously guity)
has gone whistling and whixzing and raking among
the ranks of the audience, it has sometimes caused
Ia little squirming and futtering, (people have
right to Autter when they are hit, oven If they
know they ought to be ht,) and now and then
little show of fight. The opposition, however,
has been altogether indefinite and uncomeatable,
The fire has always come from the covert, and what
Is loss honorable, at least, from somebody's else
covert; and what is more foolish, if not more dis
honorable, it has always been aimed at nothing in
existence but phantom, and that is, suppose as
near nothing can be. These two facts, viz, that