Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-02-19
Notes from The LeCturing Field,

On Wednesday and Friday evening of last
week, i lcctured in Wolsville, the terminus Of
the Cleveland aud Pittsburgh railway where
every thing may have fourished, but freedom.
Lying as it does on the bank of the Ohio, sep.
Grated only by that stream from " Tho Mother
of Presidents aud breeder of Slaves Virgin
ia. She has partaken largely of the Southern
influence. The minsma of tho great moral
desert has penetrated deeply into the moral,
political, and religious nature Of the people,
The result has been the prostitution of the
moral sentmcnt-thc deadening of lic's best
/ instincts.
How true il is that "evil communications
corrupt good manners" l. seems impossible
that men can live long in the vicinity Of vice
and crime. unless they openly protest againt it,
without becoming influenced themselves.
l: seems almost a law of our being that the
farther from wrong we are, the more plainly we
IL, while familiarity makes it tolerablc, if not
absolutely desirable.
Still think such places as wcllsvillc need
only the truth fairly presented to awaken in it
interest, and secure its cooperation.
l was welcomed by Mcssrs McCurdy, Wolf,
and other Free Soil brcthcn. who arc in my
opinion the saving influence of the place.
Ispoke the first evening in the Disciple church,
and the second in the Union" church Both
arc respectable, commodious houses, and were
very comfortable.
The audiences were not large, but what was
better, attentive, serious, and enquiring The
truths uttered were received By tho people
with apparent candor. Not the least dis, osi.
ton to noise or disturbance of any kind was
manifested. think our border towns and vii
lagos have been too much neglected. 'Ts there
where the slave must first set his foot on our
Free Soil'-must get his first impressions of
free meI aud free institutions. Could We so
far aboltionizc the border, as to make the slave
feel, in his first approach, his manhood, it
would be great good.
As sat at the Hotel window, looking at tho
mighty river as it proudly rolled onward TO-
wards the Father of waters, bearing on its bo-
som large masses of ice, l thought of the terri.
ble achievement of Eliza, in Uncle Toms Cabin,
when she, to procure her freedom, and tho
freedom Of her darling boy, leapcd from flake
to flake, until exhausted, she gained the shore
of freedom. And as l thought of tho system
that compelled women to run such risks, l
prayed that by some means, cared not how, it
might be destroyed for ever.
Ispent Sunday in Pittsburgh. In the after
noon attended the colorcd church; beautiful
and commodious building The congregation
ir every respect, should think, would vic with
its white nciehbors. There was good choir.
Tho people were WELL some of them elegantly
dressed. The preacher, man of considerable
ability, as a preacher. We orthodox would
call him sound But thought il was pity
ths' the people should from Sabba'h TO Sabbath
sit TO hear that, that could have no elevating
tendency, specially such men as Delnny,
Woodson, Peck, aud hers whom | saw pres
ent.
by the way. Delany aud Woodson hel a
discussion on Friday evening last, on the ques.
ton, whether the importation of Africans into
this country has been good or an evil. The
discussion was highly spoken of by the city pa.
pers Tor its historical facts, especially. l wish /
could have heard il. Few ablcr men men live
in that city, than the gentlemen named.
May they soon 10 recognized as among the
men whom "God has created equal. with in.
aiieneole rights. Yours, w.