Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-25
BArrLr Cnrrk, Nov. s, 1854.

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our last letter in the Buglc, that We, in company
with A. I. Foss, our efficient co.worker, have been
travelling and featuring in Northern Indiana, n
portion of country peculiarly adapted to %anti-sla-
very labor, from the fact that the people are gene
rally intelligent, and not so much yassalized by pro-
slavery churches, as that portion of our country
which considers itself most enlightened,
Angola, the county seat of Steuben county, is a
finely located, enterprising and wealthy village, of
about fifteen hundred inhabitants, with good
schools, thrifty farmers and mechanics, honest
merchants and lawyers, with few exceptions, but.
no church, The Methodists, Presbyterians and
Disciples have small societies here, who meet in
the court or school house for religious meetings.
Their influence is, however, nationally small occu-
plying a pro-slavery position rs these all do, TO q
greater or less extent. They are negatively at
least, subscrvicnt to the growing sentiment, the
outgushing Divi ,ity OF the true and upright man,
Leave the individ al unfettered by theology, and
disrobed of ecelcsi stical gewgaws, and humanity
appeals to him never without a response. The
throbbits pulses of his heart beat freely and car
nestly to the cry of the bondman--and he COM
menees a work which, like a " Sysaphis Stone, he
will roll up forever.
Compared with other localities where we have
laborcd in Ohio and Michigan, this forms almost
an exception, in the character Of its people and the
amount of labor necessary to deyelope the true
spirit Of abolition. The comparatively slight ten
ure by which the political parties are held here, is
undoubtedly attributable to to the blessing Of Il
scarcity of pro-slavery churches.
When the force of their parties, and the inhu-
ence of a pro-slavery church are removed, the peo-
pie can be, to use a Western phrase, nothing
else" but abolitionists, and we are warranted in
the inference that both Church and State believe,
that when the principles of humanity increase,
they must decrease.
How far this oasis extends, or what is the moral
condition of the desert which surrounds it, we are
not able to say-but Judging from the great dearth
of school houses, and the unsurpassably bad roads,
between it and Battle Creek, Mich, q distance of
near sixty miles north, on which we travelled be-
tween the time of sunrise and the small hours of
midnight, we think the prospect not very inviting,
And SO thought our friend Mr.. Foss, who had never
before enjoyed the painful novelty of a ride over
our Western log-ways, and gradually losing his
hope Of ever seeing the slave free, if that must de-
pend upon his life or labor, he passionately cx-
tended his hand to the driver, exclaiming, Fare
well! meet me in the New Jerusalem ="
We attended, last year, in company with Parker
Pillsbury, several of the annual meetings of the
religious bodies of the State of Indiana, and were
not surprised to find the leading powers of these
in harmony with the infamous legislation under
the new Constitution of the State, which puts to
blush every other State in the Union, North or
South. There is, Notwithstanding, some proof of
vitality yet, since the people have aroused and
played one game of 'scorn," through the ballot
box. What may we not expect, when the people
shall become thoroughly awake?
Steubcn county has a large amount of wealth
in its stock in the Underground Railroad. Just
before we were at Orland, an inn ortant village,
twenty miles from Angola, a company of sixteen
heroic men and women from Kentucky, grown des-
perate with the oppression of many and bitter
years of slavery, rebclled against the American
Government and religion, a Id in imitation of our
proud ancestors, threw off their more calling yoke
and asserted their independence, by Il flight thro'
q land of enemies more formidable and 'fero-
cious" than British soldiers at Bunker Hill or
Brandywine. VAS resistance to tyrants' in our
fathers, obedience to God'-thcn are these the
most obedient of Gods children, and till the mem
DRY of our illustrious conqucrors is erased and for
gotten, the names of these, together with the long
list of Jerrys and Simmses and Burnses and the'Pnt
riots of .Christiana, should be indellibly chiselled
upon our heart of hearts, and the soil mapped out by
their torn and bloody feet, given to our posterity-
a memento of our inhumanity to man, as well as
of our partial love of liberty.
A few days since, a gentleman calling himself
DR.. Bradford, with his two servants, passed through
Michigan, on a tour from the South for the Dr.'s
health, and calling at Detroit, received at one Of
their principal hotels the peculiar attentions al
ways due Southern gentlemen of standing and
profession. lie is now with his two friends about
locating himself in Canada, where, without doubt,
the whole tone of his system will undergo a radi-
cal change. His disease was paralysis, which had
so affected his right side as wholly to disable that
arm, which he carried in n sling. This rendering
D him quite dependant upon his servants for his nu-
merous personal wants, all of which were readily
anticipated, and, as it should be, delightfully."- graf
flied. 1t will give the Dr., as we learn, great plea
: sure to excuse his ''domestics' from further atten-
tions and obligations, as he is already conscious of
returning circulation, and hopes soon to he restored
to all his God given faculties.
At our meeting at Angola, a lawyer, one of the
exceptions" | am disposed to think, said, in the
course of his remarks, "The fact that the negro
can be enslaved is proof his inferiority." Wonder
if he would accept the testimony of the t~hirty-fve
thousand in Canada, who will not be enslayed, as
proof to the contrary?
Before closing this, | wish to say, that very much
of the anti-slavery sentiment of this, Northern In
diana, developed 50 fully in a few faithful friends,
;, such. as the Morrises of Angola, the IIopkinses Of
81 Brookville, and Foxes of Orland, together with other
equally brilliant lights in other places, which we
paye not time to name, is without doubt attribut-
able, to great extent, to the late visit of our de-
voted and self'sacrifcing friends, Stephen and
Abby Foster.
Election is snow over, and before you receive this
you will see that another great State has uttered