Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-25
FROM INDIANA.
ORLASD, Stuben Co, IpdY NOV. oh, lsjl.
,DIToR or THE BUGLE ..

EDITOR or TUE BUGLE :, ..... a..t .,.d
Dear N~,iend-Thinking that YOU, and perhaps 4
majority of your readers, would be interested in
hearing how Anti-Slavery is fourisling in this
portion of northern Indiana. / send you a few
lines Of information concerning our own particular
village. . fNt .H
During the past week it was visited by our
friends Charles and Josephine GriHing, in conpa-
ny with Andrew I. Foss, from New Hampshire,
formerly a Baptist minister, but now engaged in
preaching the gospel of liberty for the oppressed
and bleeding slave. Charles and Josephine you
all know, either personally or through the Bugle;
and it would be useless for me to attempt eulO-
giving them for no word of mine, could possibly
elevate them in the estimation of those who know
them to have been so long the true and tried friends
of the slavc-thc noble and eloquent p~leaders for
his redemption. No doubt many,- or all, of the
Bugle readers, have heard, or read of our friend
Foss but as lie has only been lecturing in the
West since the Anniversary held at Adrian Michi.
gan but very few of the Ohio friends have yet
heard him speak. | would gladly have them all
enjoy the privilege aud hope that ere long, many
of them, may. have neither time nor room to
speak of him US he deserves to be spoken of, but
think him one among TAO greatest and the best of
men, nobly standing in advocacy for the rights Of
all.
| understand that Some Of the citizens Of Or
land, say, they like him much better than any
Garrisonian Anti-Slavery lecturer that has yet
visited this place; and whether Tor not it is because
the Reverend was attached to his name, ! am IN
able to say but think it not unlikely, as many Of
them are rather suspicious of anything that is ut
tered from another source for fear there is infdeli-
ty at the bottom. However l think they were not
badly scared this time, FOR Mr.. Foss strovc, and |
think successfully toconyincc them thatthe charge
of i~nfdelity, against the Garrisonians as q whole
was utterly false and unfounded and throughout
their meetings, the speakers uttered such beautiful
Christian truths, that not one dared to hurl the
hateful charge at them. Their;neetings were held
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings
of last week, and both churches of the place were
freely opened. They spoke twice in the Baptist
and once in the Presbyterian anG Methoiists house
each time to quite large and very attentive
audiences with no interruption until near the close
Of the last meeting, when Charles got into a spirit
ed and good naturcd discussion with some Of our
free soil citizens in regard to voting under the con.
stitution.
There is quite an amount of genuine Anti-Sla.
very feeling in this community but they cannot
think of Withdrawing from all pro slavery con
ncxions, and accepting for their motto mo unior
with Shareholders in church or State.
The Baptist Church is highly Anti-Slavery ii
sentiment, and congregational in its government
having repudiated all association or communion
with the women-whippirg, slavery-loving churches
of this land Indignantly refusing both their infiu
ence and and money, either in the missionary OF
any other cause. Thus far it has taken q noble
f stand-one far in advance of the great majority oil
Baptist Churches, but even here VIC find inconsis
tcncy and trucking to the slave power. They re-
fuse the shareholders money to aid in tsending the
Bible to the heather; they refuse to commune
with him, and dcnounce him as n criminal, and
t the perpetrator of the sum of all villauies; yet 60
to the ballot box, and deposit a vote all dripping
with the blood of the slave, forgetting FOR the while
what they all acknowledge to be true) that the
= Constitution guarantees the right TO the slavehcld-
err, to pursue his painting victim anywhere within
the limits of the United States. and drag Linn
back to chairs and slavery. They forget too, that
they in voting they solemnly swear, ~notonly, not to
hinder this southern bloodhound from securing his
prey, but also to give up persons to those to whom
service or labor may lie due" Some of the mem
bers of this church, deal largely in stock Of the
Underground R. r.. They give aid and comfort
to the flying fugitive, and at the return Of each
election repledge themselves to return him to his
master. 1t has been said before that hey refuse
to associate in a church capacity or commune with
any one supporting the slave power; yet they
have in their midst and in good standing "A man
who votes the old bunker Democratic ticket, but
enough Of this at present.
f AS our village is a depot of no small importance
on the Underground Railroad, | wish to inform
S you of the number of passengers gone through
f within the last three weeks in two separate gangs.
In the first there were seventeen, men. women, and
I children, in the last there were five, three men
t and two boys. | must stop.
Yours in the wish for liberty fo- all,
ELIZA MORGAN McGOWEN.