Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-05
Communications.
LETTER FROM C. S. S. GRIFFINs.
CoScoRp, Belmont Co., July II, 1854

CoNcoRD, Belmont Co., July II, 1854.
DEAR MARiUs; Our meeting Saturday and Sun
day was in this neighborhood near the Orthodox
Friends Meeting House, where many years ago,
you lccturcd on Anti-Slavery, the effect of which
is visible to the present day. The old Abolition
lists here have a vivid recollection of your meetings,
and attribute their own zeal and activity in this
cause, in u great measure to your efforts at that
time. Somc however who iran we'll for a season"
have turned back to pro-slavery sectarianism, and
give little favor to practical Anti-Slavery, but are
satisfying themselves with the Testimonies" of
the church and the votes Of political parties. 1t
is but q short time since, in this neighborhood, a
colored child applied for common school education
al privileges, and was refused by those protesting
to be christians, and as much opposed to Slavery
as anybody. But Joshua Cope, in decided opposi-
ton to others in authority, succeeded in securing
to him these privileges. But there is progression
here. The young ladies in this vicinity have Or
gonizcd a Literary Society, and freely admitted to
equal privileges with themselves a colored girl re-
siding in this ncighborhood. Such liberality gives
evidence of the existence of true hearts in the
bosoms Of these young ladies, touched with Gods
own attributes.
'NN hSA 10 "hpNhNl iiiiuOhN tiut hiuJ W VI
raycd against them for having subscribed for the
Anti-Slavery Bugle. 1t is the Post Office, the pre-.
siding officer of which is q "weighty member" of
the society of Friends. l believe John Bunyan
in his Pilgrims Progress describes a Giant Maule,
who had great enmity to any Christians whom he
might discover on their journey to the CelestialCity,
and if he could get them in his Office, would maui
them with a great club he kept by him for that
purpose, and if they did not come within his reach
would rail and grin at them as he saw them pass
ing by. Giant Maule does not live in this vicinity,
but one Joshua Noad, VINO is sufficiently like, to be
a family relative of his, is the Post Master, and
) feels a concern" to taunt any person who may
) take the Bugle or any other reformatory paper
6 | do not know in what official capacity, whether AZ
4 an officer of the government or church, he acts
2 thus, or whether it may not be a hereditary family
feeling with him, but as long as he will deliver tt
them their papers, | hope our friends will beal
. all his opposition patiently, though like Burns
" Rumble john:
"IIe should mount his steps wi a groan,
Cry, the papers wi heresy cramm'd;
/ Then lug out his ladle, deal birthstone like addle,
And roar every note of the damn'd."
Ouf WcetlHSS NCIc Hclu III u HiSc unHHlehe'
:, school house, and it would infuse hope into tn,
d heart of the despairing slave, to see so many ear
nest men and women as were there assembled il
: sympathy for his sufferings. Anti-Slavery is no
generally popular yet, but there are many grea
v spirits at work in various ways to further humal
freedom, and every human heart that we find thu
engaged increases our hope, for every blow tina
- is struck against slavery counts, though feebly an
timidly given. Truth will triumph at last,
And all the aid we now receive,
i Makes the dcspairing heart believe.
To-day we are at the pleasant home of Natha
and Elizabeth Newport, who never in the enjoy
il ment of life's richest blessings, with which the
y are surrounded, forget those suffering ones tha
% toll to enrich others, and endure the curse of sli
"a very because the American Church and Govern
&c ment is united with the tyrants that rob and Ell
e slave them. Having achieved for themselves FREE
id dom from the tyranny of sectarianism, they al
of now prepared in true freedom to labor to max
others free from mental as well as physical {
chattel slavery, and ever welcome to their hear
tn and home those who are engaged in the SAN
D glorious warfare.
c.. S. S. GRIFFING.