Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-21
From the National Era.
LETTER
FRoH MISSIONARY OF THE II. E. cnrNcu SOUTH, ~
KANSAS, To DISTINGUISHED POLITICIAN.

DOUGLAS Mission, august, 1854.
Last week-the Lord lie praised for all His mercie
10 Ills unworthy sevrant II arrived
Safe at the Mission, ria Westport; where
tarred overnight to aid in forming
a Vigilance Committee to send back,
In shirts Of tar and feathers, double;s quilted
With forty stripes save one, all Yankee comers,
Cncircumci,ed and gentle, aliens from
Tie Commonwealth of Isreal, who despise
The prize Of the high calling of the saints,
10 plant amidst this heathen wilderness
Pure gospel institutions, sanctfei
Ay patriarchal use. The meeting opened
It'll prayer, rs was most fitting. Half ar hour,
Or thereaway, sroaned and strove and wrestled,
As jacob did at Penuel till the power
Fell On the people, and they cried Amen |"
glory to GJdl " and stamped and capped tbei
hands;
And the rougb-voiced boatman wiped thereyes;
Go it., old hvss they cried, aud doomed the mig
gers
Fulfilling thus the word Of prophecy,
=" Cursed be CAnaan." After prAper, the meeting
Chose Il committe-Sood and E;ous men
Presbyterian elder, Baptist deacon,
~ local preacher, three Or tour class-leaiers,
ANXIOUS lhquirers, and renewed back-sliders,
score IN alto watch the river ferry,
AS tscy Of old did watch the turds ot Jurdan.)
And cutoff all whose Yankee tongues refuse
The ShILbolet ut the Nebraska Bill.
Aud thou, III answer to repeated calls,
give brief account Of what saw
In Washington and truly many hearts
Kei1igeu a knnw tho D,.SiIant and y,u
And General Gushing, regularly hear
Ihe gospel message OF sunday morning,
Drinking with thirsty souls OF the sincere
MIX ot The word Glory! Amen and Sclah
Here, at the Mission, all things have gone WE'LL
The brother VINO, through my absence, acted
As Uvtrseer, assures me that the crups
Never We're better. have lost one negro.
A hrs-rate hand, but obstinaut and sulien;
lie ran away soule time last spring, and hid
In the river timber There my luJian converts
Found him, and freed and shot him. For the rest
The heathens round about begin to feel
rne influence of our plous mnlstrations
Aud works Of love and some Of them already
Have purchased negroes, and are settling down
As suDer Christians! Bless the lord for this
know it will rejoice you You hear
Are ON the eve OF visiting Chicago,
10 sht the wild beasts ut Ephesus,
Long John and Dutch Free-Sollers. May your arm
BE clothed with strength and ON your tongue be
found
The sweet oil persuasion. So desires
Your brother and co-aborer. Amen
P. S. Ais lost! Even while in grief write these
lines,
The Yankee Aboitonists are coming
| poh us like II Il h'ou-srim, stalwart men,
Each face set like Il flint If Plymouth rock
a ssaiust our Misunderstanding out
Iher farm lots On the wooded Wakarusa,
DR. squattng by the melow-bottomed Kansas
The pioneers Of mightier muititudes-
The small rain-patter ere the thunder-shower
browns the dry praircs. Hope from man is not
Oh, for IL quiet berth at Washington
Snug naval chaplaincy or clerkship, where
These rumurs OF tree labor and free suil
Night never meet me more. Better be
Dourkeeper in the White House, than to dwell
Amidst these yankee tents, that whitening show
On the green prairie, like fleet becalmed.
Methnks hear voice come up tie river
From thuse far bayous, where the alligators
Mount guard around the camping fllbusters:
a Shake off the dust of Kansas. Turn 10 Cuba.
There may'St thou, underneath thy vine and e.
tree,
Watch thy increase of sugar cane and negroes
Calm as patriarch in his eastern tent !"
Amen; 81 mote it be So prays your friend.