Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-01
communications.
LETTER FROM MRS. GRIFFING.

DEAR MARIUs; We have just visited the neigh
borhood Of Putnam, Granville and Green Plain
the seat of early Abolitionsm and the home Of
far-famed friends of the slave, The advocates of
Freedom would expect to find hers the altars still
standing-thc fires unquenched-the IIeralds upon
the watch-tower, and the God of battles in their
midst. And as they pursue their drcary and thank
less journey among strangers and enemies-who
give them neither houses, bones nor hearts-ofer-
ing oft the prayer of an ancient but noble martyr
eff this cup may not pass away, Thy will be DONE"
Their bitterness is turned to joy and rejoicing in
the delightful anticipation of welcome greeting of
healthy sentiment, sentimental hearts, and hearty
homes, among the mob-drivtn, fire-scarrtd, dhd
dre-proof lovers of Liberty in Putnum, Granville,
and Green Plain Such has been our experience,
and such the hopes that Knocked our strong desires
and expectation for the slave, and him who bore
his bonds, upon coming into this community.
4 Wcwerc invited to Putnam by our worthy friends,
William and Margaret Lukens-uncompromisin
friends of right, at whose house we received most
kind and generous hosptaties, and from whose
hearts and hands gathered fresh courage and
renewed strength But no house could be found in
Putnam or Granville, in which to hold an Anti
.
and an audience to the number of Jury, could not
be secured, $50 you see how the public sentiment
of this place ranges A leading Free Soiler, by
invitations spent the evening with us, and made the
best apology he could for the facts above named
admitting that the Church and Free Soil party were
rcIy remiss in duty, but he hoped that we would
be charitable, there was no such thing as perfec
tion here. We told him that was the very thing we
wanted to prove to them, and to impress upon their
minds the necessity of going on, and ont of pro-
slavery church and party, that were leagued with
the Government to suppress agitation"
Finally, he told us very kindly he thought our
In6delity had shut us out of their churches for he
had heard that wo disbelieved the fundamental
elementof Christianity Attonement We ask
ed him if he applied the same test to Free Soilers
and Temperance Lecturers well-well-no-
Jm,-and exhibiting long capacity of mantle, that
hides multitude Of sins, he drew his watch, and
excused himself by asking pardon for too long in
q truding upon rest and retired. We are asked
to attribute good motires to such men, and we are
far from attributing any other to friend but can
they in justice ask any other than the character of
their church and party exhibit and demonstrate
can any motive above this, influence them to remain
I where their sentiment is not expressed. can see
I no consistency or morality in this.
At Granville, notwithstanding the genial; healthy
influence of our good friend DR.. Bancrofts we'll
q ordered and hOurishing, Water-Cure Institution
than which none more dcservedly praised we found
the people we'll dosed with Political and Religious
narcotics, to which their whole nature, social in
tellectual and moral, had yielded most admirably"
supplying and stultifying their moral sense be-
yond rallying point and rendering them a fit
illustration of a people "twice dead and pluckcd
up by the roots" Only one man, beyond the Dr.,
: gave signs of somnambulsm. lie commenced talk
ing in his sleep, and when he found no one listened
u to him, he became wroth and waxed more positive,
and gave stronger evidence of returning to nor
NAL state. Not the slightest impression could be
made upon the humanity of the people, with the
exception of the water-cure, a kind of natural
touch-stone, restorer and developer of moral senses
with DIR. b. and family. and Mrs. Ellis their noble
y matron, whose very face is sunlight and in whose
presence there is freshness, if not fullness of Joy
at its head, these expressed wish to hear once
; more, AntSlavery in its purity. But as no encour
agcment could be had for an Anti-Slavery meeting
Mr.. Jones, the Mayor, with a few others, kindly
invited Mr.. Pillsbury to deliver his LyceGh Lecture
Q on the French Revolution, in the session room OF
" the Presbyterian Church, which they thought could
- be procured. But before the time of the meeting
arrived, the church took the matter into consdera
ton, and upon the testimony Of Hudson Theolo
', gical student, that Mr.. p. an Infdel deemed
it unsafe to stand before the light of such man
= such Lecture, and consequently shut the doors
= " and many people came and went with the impress
y ainh that nO MATING xyos IN no hald Rtf EttI,
u more consideration the part of the society, re
- veaed to them better policy and at the very tim,
u for the meeting to commence, the house was open
" ed, and those who had not left, went in, and tn,
~ room was filed with earnest, attentive listeners
The Lecture, which in its own mastery character
needs not the praise of man, fvOrably received
- by the mass, and much admired by the few whc
y could appreciate it. The people of Granville ar,
. by no means inferior in intellect and refinement
and only need to be shown the undefnab1e anC
$ sandy character of their religion, which not onl,
y cannot stand the test Of wind and food but which
"' withers and dies before the sunlight of an Anti
Slavery meeting, together with the neffciency ant
unapproprateness of Politics to cure moral evil
as directly opposed TO Christianity and they woul,
~ be most reliable in the cause Of Humanity. Their
" is need of labor in Granville. Missionaries shoul
IN be sent here who would set side by side the impo
tent and poweress religion of this age with that
an ancient and unknown race, whose gods, in th
r form of Algators and Serpents are yet to be see
II on the top of artificial mounds in this vicinity
CT On the evening of our arrival here, our frien
or and brother H. c. Wright, also arrived from Ne,
n York, bringing us fresh and extended report @
the rotous but prophetic proccedingso of the World
Of Male Temperance Convention, in which the clerg
and common rioters Of New York, invaded wit