Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-07-14
JOHN B. ESTLIN.

A distinguished British philanthropist, and Il
devoted friend Of freedom, has recently died III
England. The Liberator pays the following tri.
butte to his memory
1--WE are called upon to chronicle an event which
we have been apprehenjing for some months past,
aware of the precarious state of his health-the
death Of John b. Estlin, Esq, Of England, an EN-
inent oculist and surgeon, a distinguished philan-
thropist, and one Of the most clear-sighted, un
compromising and efficient friends Of the American
Anti Slavery Society on either side ofthe Atlantic.
No man in the kingdom was more respected than
himself. lie abounded in all those qualities which
ale essential to the perfection of character-the
modesty Of Oberlin, the gentlencss of Melanctho I,
the frmness of Luther, the benevolencc Of WILDER
force, the onscientiousness of Fox. A more per.
feet gentleman, in manners and spirit, W. never
saw; nor one who had more of the grace of Chris
tian humility, with the most absolute selErespect
His taste and refinement were exquisite; his per
ceptions of men and things remarkably clear and
accurate; his judgment comprehensive and solid;
his circumspection at all times admirable; his
learning varied and exact; his professional skill
pre-eminent. Technically q Unitarian in his re-
ligious faith, he was world embracing in his Chris
tian charity, and allowed no place in his generous
nature for sectarian narrowness-iudging men by
their fruits, not by their professions, and making
little of d~ogmatic theology in comparison with a
true life.
While never weary with doing good to the poor
and wretched at his own dor, and seeking to en-
Tighten the working classes throughout the king
dom, giving with all liberality and righteousness,
and at the same time so as not to let the left hand
know what the right hand had performed,-he
took a deep and vital interest in the cause of the
enslavod millions in America, and gave to it not
only the influence of his position and the weight of
his character, but time, money, labor, in season
and out of season. carrying on an extensive cor
respondence at home and abroad, watching and
exposing every effort in England, whether on the
part oe American tourists or his own countrymen
to lower the tone OF religious feeling and senti-
ment in regard to the inherent wickedncss of
slaveholding, and using his pen effectively in the
preparation and publication of anti-slavery tracts
for the enlightenment of the public mind on that
subject. In all his labors, he was zealously aided
by his beloved daughter, Miss Mary b. Estlin, to
whom, as we'll as to her father, the anti-slavery
cause is immensely indebted. 1t was at his house
that our estimable coad utor, Parker Pillsbury, in
the extremity of his illness, was so long nursed
and watched over, unquestionably to the preserva-
ton of his valuable life. Under the sa m roof
has been sheltered many an American fugitive
slave, as we'll as his advocate,
The particulars of DR.. Estlin's death are not yet
in our possession. We only learn that the closing
scene was marked on his part with more than phil
osophic composure-by absolute Christian serenity
We indulge in no strain of lamentation at his re-
moval, though feeling that q great bereavement
has taken place.
CINCINNATI, July 9th, 1855.
DEAR MARIus: Here am | at DR.. w. Prices, the
only home 1 have found in the Queen City. lie
and his daughters make me feel as comfortable as
t | deserve to be. / might have been in the city
two hours sooner but for my ignorance of railroad
lines, and some ignorance or design, on the part of
the ticket-seller at Crestline. He choose to send
me along the base and perpendicular of a tri-
angle instead of the hypothenuse. Thereby got
to see a score, or more of new places with names
clumsy, and classical. Bucyrus first, and then the
Forest city. The latter is appropriately named if
the city part were omitted. There may be a half
dozen shanties within three or four hundred yards
of the station house, all standing on piles, tstumrs
L ousItCt'J liCy VIII HHNt u Cleur Oh II STcll
amount Of underground There is but little of the
upper and fill up at least two feet deep before
they can have q team-standing out of water. |
don't wonder that the population is sparse through
that region it is a dead level for miles togetl-
err and lightly timbcred.
AS you leave Urbana it is different, and the fur
thor South the better. The contrast between the
yellow s~pindling corn, not six inches long, which
you SEQ until after midday, and that rich dark
green article, seven feet long, which you pass in
the evening is truly great. One cannot seem to
realize so much growth in a few hours. The coun.
try from Urbana to Cincinnati looks like a con-
tinued horticultural farm, or it may be better, an
agricultural garden. 1t seems the people have
been disposed to make themselves amends for last
seasons failure of crops. An occasional field
left for the scythe, and a little prairie left for pas
turing small herds of cattle, and all the remainder
is in with wheat, oats and corn. You ride for miles
between corn fields. More than half the wheat is
in shock, and, judging from their apparent size, l
should not pronounce it more that a good yield
but the iron horse hurries us on with such veloc-
ity that everything appears diminutive but his
speed. Why, horses seem colts, cows seem to be
calves, and for houses, you see only small tene-
ments.
But the best. is untold. | did not choose 20 ride
with the crowd on the 4th, so spent the day in
Alliance. As every body talked of Ravenna, it
was thought their celebration would be a small,
affair, with none to perform the d~rudgery of orator
' | was invited to the grove, and if nothing better
offered, throw in my mite How agreeably l was
disappointed quite a crowd, which, there is
rao 10 haliavn hnl in ~ n 1orpa epripGIinn "A
the right sort. There was real good speaking
not that thread bare, fulsom laudation of Sages
J. and Heroes long dead, and pretty much forgotten,
except on Anniversary day and other occasion:
when they arc named fcr~'political effect-not that