Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-21
Communications.
LETTER FROM L. A. HINE.

IAlNEsNlLLE, Jan. lEtn, loOt.
Mr.. EDlroR: have been lecturing most of the
time for two months past-haying worked away
solitary and alone in making house comfortable
for winter from the first of June till the last Of
November have also done something in getting
out some fruit
/ am lecturing on Land Reform, Education,
Lyceum Schools Womans Rights, truer system
of Moral Philosophy Language Reform, before
Literary Societies, &c. find a steady and even
rapid improvement in the public sentiment, and
have abundant reason for hope and encouragement.
Indeed the harvest is ripe but the aborers are few
Young men Of talent, learning and moral excellence,
with proper democratic feelings and manners, could
find abundant support in the locturing fcld If they
have moro love Of truth than money and what is
miscallod case and gcntility. There is no place in
which so large a freedom can be cnoycd-nonc Sc
j favorable to mental growh--none so satisfactory
to high manhood and sclfrespect, as the field oi
universal reform. In the evangelical ministry q
young man or woman is "cribbed, cabined and
confined !" but in the gospel of radical truth he can
think, write and speak what he pcases, and still
find troops Of friends, besides enough Of the "ma-
tcrial aid" 1t is not expected that he can make
'prcachcr's or a schoolmaster's salary but he can
live, and with proper economy will incur risk Of
starving either himself family. Tho only diff
Guilty with married man is from those who have
tho first claim on his attention.
The greatest obstacle encounter in getting up
meetings is the malice ofthc church-espocially the
Mcthodsts. They have been warned against me
by the Christian Advocate, of Cincinnati and it is
/ folly to even hint to any of the deacons that a
Methodist church is desired for lecture on common
school education. Their principle seems to be to
cooperate with outspoEen hereto in any enter
prise for human improvement | have no doubt,
however, that if of them could get good horse
trade cut Of me, he would very complacently profit
/ by my dullness Or if one of them had barn to
raise, he would be glad of my muscle in lifting the
beams But in all enterprises requiring mental
labor, in which his pocket is not interested his Ian
guagc is pfocR, proc,d, iste prcf;ui,
/ But in this they are the greatest losers For
example. Only last Friday the Literary Society Of
Monrocyille was kicked out of Methodist church
which they had engaged because | was to give the
lecture Notice had been given to meet in the
church, but deacon declared war and triumphed.
The Society then obtained hall, and large audi
cncc asscmbled-probaby more than would have
gone to the church. The Methodist preacher heard
the lecture, and was ashamed of his deacon. The
eject Of all such intolerance is to bring the church
into odium, and multiply infdels among the young
Such exhibitions of bigotry do more for extending
heresy than all the preaching ! could do with all
the people to hear.
Some might question my policy in even touching
the subject Of religion, and say, let tho idols Of
heathendom alone. But am in existence for the
purpose of being true to that existence, physically
and mentally. | must work with both body and
mind. Whatsoever the mind is pleased to think il
must think, and can't avoid it. And what the head
thinks the tongue must speak, or it will be false to
the head. prefer to live as Il free man in the
/ fullest sense Of that term. Far more agreeable is
/ it to
! "--liyc a kingy soul that oathes
To cloak his breathing Thought In his dead fathers clothes
find all forms Of radical'philosophy increasing
everywhere. In this place Joel Tiffany is a regular
Sunday preacher. 1t is not often that | have much
to do with theological subjects in lccturing through
the country. Land Reform, Education, and the
absurditcs of our moral system as taught in our
pulpits and schools, engross the principal portion
Of my time.
] shall be in Salem on the 9th inst, and should
be happy to lecture in Salem on Friday evening,
in Columbiana on Saturday evening, in Salem
again on Sunday Subject, morals) and on Monday
evening in New Lisbon.