Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-14
NOTES FROM THE LECTURING FIELD.

TOLEDO, Jan. Ith, 1858.
DrAR MARlus: ] left you at Salem, at / o'clock,
A. NJ, for my Michigan field of labor and arrived
the same night at Adrian, at half past ten. Max
ing the whole distance in less than twelve hours.
Thanks to steam for enabling us to compass hun
drcds of miles in so short time. | found the
friends well and in good spirits, looking for glori-
Gus harvest the result of this winters labor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster are as they are wont to do,
making their mark in every place they visit. So
great has been the demand for labor, and so prof.
table does labor appear every where to be- that in
recent letter to me, Mr.. Foster says, they shall
continue in Michigan some months longer. have
had serious doubts about my own ability to serve
the cause in the Lccturing Field this winter. The
sickness of my daughter and oher causes have so
derangcd my nervous system, rs to cause an almost
constant headache, which is increased by every
excitement added to this every day since saw you
have been crushed by a severe cold AT the
meeting of the Executive Committee last Sunday ]
asked to be released from my engagement; espc-
cially another field of usefulness presented ITSELF
requiring much less physical and mental labor. !
have however resolved to enter the field, hopcing
that change for the better will take place
held two meetings last Sunday in Adrian, at
both Of which Samuel Moore from Ypsilanti was
present and spoke Samuel is an "Orhodox
Fricnd," and has been attending the Quarterly
Meeting Of his Society in the vicinity of Adrian.
The matter Of opening Friends Meeting Houses
for Anti-Slayery Meetings, came before them, when
after warm discussion il was ordered that all such
honscs be closed against Anti-Savery Lecturers
So much for progress in that direction. regret
that such course has been taken, just too at the
time when the Friends of England have placed the
largest meeting house in the Kingdom at the dis
posal of the Anti-Slavcry cause.
How deep and wide spread has the spirit Of sla-
very become. Still the light of truth is such that
oven n whole meeting of Friends can obscure it
but for very short time. Quakcrism at the best
as embodied in such meetings, is but miserable
carricaturc of what it once was.
attended by invitation, in this place, a Lcvee,
given by the coored ladies' for benevolent purposes
1t was held in Union Hall, and although the night
was very unpropitious, goodly number, both of
white and colored were in attendance. j. W.
LANGsToN of Elyria, was the orator on the occa-
sion and well did he acquit himself. Ills subject
was american Slavery" lie showed what slave
ry was not, and what it was. Then the effects of
slavery upon the slave, the free coored people the
poor whites at the South. The Freeman of the
North and the STAKEHOLDER himself The senti-
mcnts he uttered were radical in the first degree
and spoken with such an earncstness Of manner
and beauty of style, that his audience were COM
pletely enchained, applNuding with great warmth
many of the sentiments.
His scathing rebukc of the politics and religion
of the country cannot soon be forgotten His eu-
logy of Mr.. Garrison and Phillips of Mr.. and Mrs.
Foster was touching and impressive, while his clos
ing remarks equalled anything ever listened to in
the way of true cloqucnce.
Mr. Langston is a very light mulatto and would
pass any where almost for white man. lie is a
law student in the Office Of Judge Bliss, believe,
but identifies himself most fully with his suffering
country men.
lie deeply dcplores the rccrcancy of Mr.. Dou.
glass; and looks upon him as II fallen star Hop
ing to be able to report progress before long,
am yours. W.
P.S shall make Adrian head quarters to which
letters and papers should be sent.