Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-04
Communication MS .
CORRESPONDENTS FROM THE LECTUR.
ING FIELD.

DEAR MARIUs; Immediately after our meeting
in Sullivan, we started for this State, and after a
pleasant three days journey, arrived at the pleas
ant home OF Thos. and Jane Chandler, and after
one day Of rest, went to Salina, a pleasant village
in Washtenaw County, and held meeting in the
Baptist Church.
Here our philosophy Of anti-slavery action had
not been taught before, and many were grieyod
that we did not commend them and their works,
inasmuch us they were doing all the church had
ever required or taught them. So VIC endcavorcd
to convince them that the slave and the God of the
Universe required more than this and that, il
their righteousness did not exceed the righteous
ness Of the ScriLos and Pharisees Of these days,
they could in no wise enter into the Kingdom o!
Heaven. This criticism OF the leading influences
and Of the church, aroused the priesthood, and one
Baptist and two Methodist ministers expounA.ed
the law of God, as not inhibiting individual, gov
ornamental or political action, even when such nc
ton supported the crimo and curse of American
slavery.
Thus bearing testimony to the truth of a declar-
alton made in a resolution passed at our Anniver-
sary in 1852: That no political profigacv in the
yilcst political party is any bar to the baptisms,
sacraments, and fellowship Of the church." and
one minister bore a pathetic testimony in favor
Of the Christian character of Shareholders, and de-
ciarcd slaveholdinS was not, and he hoped in God
never would be, a test Of membership in his church.
This gave us good opportunity to expose the ny
pocrisy and fendish character of pro.slavery
churches, political parties, and the individuals
composing them, and to urge the Importance of u
higher morality and purer religion than is taught
and practiced by such lying pretenGers to Gospel
grace and godly teaching.
During the last week We have visited Canada,
the city of refuge to which the oppressed in this
country can sometimes fee for safety. In this
visit we were accompanied by Rev. C. C. Foote, OF
Detroit, who is deeply interested in the welfare o.
the fugitiycs, and in connection with n Fugitive
Aid Society,"" is doing much to secure homes,
schools and necessary instruction for those who
are constantly escaping from slavery. We went
several miles into the " Bush" where they have {
settlement, and saw at their homes those escaped
l ones, and heard from their own lips their tales o.
sorrow and songs of triumph. In one house We
found a family all the way from North Carolina
5 whose history portrays in darkest shades the de
a PRAYING influence of the peculiar Institution
=, 49, AN'N' - N'' ''hiii1 "tS " u Sul'tI
Man, who, when well stricken in years, divided
most of his property among the children of hi,
5 white wife, and with her and his "bond-womar
Hagar" and her children, journeycd to a lane
where he might secure to them freed I'm and protec
ton from the avarice and lust of their more favor
> ed white halCbrothers and sisters. On the way h,
, stopped awhile in Kentucky, to which place hi
= was pursuedby his atfectionate children, who, whel
n they were ready to return to their old home, stol,
from the old patriarch, his bond-woman and al
c her children.
d But he sorrowed not for the loss of his concu
bine and his children as those who have no hope
I but commenced a suit at law against his oldc
children, and, after a protracted suit, secured pos
session of his chattel personal children. This sui
# subjected him to great trouble, and to pay lawyer
fees and other incidental expenses, IIagar and on
- of her younger children were sold. With his wifi
n and the four remaining children, he then went t
l. Indiana, where in about a year and a half h
died, and the children fearing another pursui
IS from their Carolina brothers, took their mistres
and travelled to Canada, as their only place of safe
Of ty. Here they arrived last winter, and wer
h found by Mr.. Foote in an old cabin, entirel y dest
tute of the necessaries of life, as they had fe
D. from Indiana, leaving a crop they had raised VI
s. sold, so fearful were they after their master die
that they would be dragged back to slavery.
Mr., Foote provided for their immediate wants
re and procured work for them, and now they al
free, and full Of hope, and joy, and gratitude
During this last summer they have taken land upo
the shares, and have raised a fine crop, and hav
enough to supply all their wants through the con
ing winter, and are Immediately to remove t
land provided for them by the Fugitive Society
e and with their industry and energy will soon be
n come independent and useful citizens. Povcrt
has no terrors for them now, for they know the
), are able to triumph over it, and right cheerfully d
they meet every difficulty that can assail them i
II land of freedom, and it was only when the
spoke Of their mother and sister that were sold il
Kentucky, that sadness came over them or sorrow
seemed to have place in their hearts. Their age,
Mistress lay in a bed in their cabin, choosing il
all their poverty and affection to be with them
rather than risk her wealthy children il
Carolina. She is now more than ninety years 0
age, confined to her bed a helpless cripple, entirel
dependant upon the fugitiyes, who kindly car
for her and by every means in their power ar
smoothing her passage to the grave. In this sci
an Element is another colored woman, who came a
is the way on foot from one of the Carolinas, trave
IT, ing only in the night, and bringing in her arms
IN babe only two years old. She is the mother
other children beside the one she brought, all
whom were sold from her in infancy, and remove
er forever from her sight. By chance she overhear
r. a bargain for the sale of this one, that aroused a
5 the feelings of a mother within her, and made he
at once resolve on liberty or death. That san
: night she took this child in her arms, and wake
to an adjoining plantation, where her husband wa
owned. She carefully approached his bed, an
bending over him, told him the doom that threa
ened this babe, and her determination to fee wit