Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-06
R M. BURLEIGH.

C1huS III. BUhLElGH.
DEAR MARIrs: The following is an extract from
a letter l have just received from Cyrus BURLEIcH.
Though not intended for publication, Think his
friends in the West will thank me for giving it to
the Bugle; in which case the writer ought not to.
object to such disposition of it, and l think will
not. B.. S. j.
Salem, Dec. 28th, 1854.
l have often thought of you, and of my othor
friends in Salem, since ! was with you, and have
wished for the good fortune of again being one in
your pleasant anti-slavcry gatherings at the West,
that | could spend months more in traversing lite
broad plains, and ~ming!ing with its cordial and
warm hearted people. Circumstances then pre-
vented, but in the future they may be more favor
able. Meanwhile l send many a friendly thought
to those who made that journey so pleasant in eX-
pcrience, and so dear a memory to my life. 1
have been glad to hear from some of them occa-
sionally through other friends, who had visited or
correspondent with them, or through the Bugle,
but this has not satisfied me: and had | not already
more correspondence on my hands than l do JUS
tice to. | should endeavor to get q more direct
communication with some of them.
l have been a deeplyinterested spectator of every
movement in the West touching human rights, or
in resistance to the aggression and ambition of the
slave power. If the North is ever to be saved
from utter subjugAtion to that dcspotism, it is to
be done by the vigor and manliness of the West,
Young, fresh, and comparatively unfettered, its
arm must smite down the crushing power that has
50 long welded its dominion over us. The East
EN- States are too much sect-bound. and party
bound too hasely the slaves of mamon to assert
their manhood. / am ashamed of Massachusetts:
to think of her abandoning the great conflict be-
tween slavery and freedom, to raise the paltry and
miserable banner of sectism and selfshness, in
Il war upon man for the place of his birth, or his
religious faith. l think this "Know-Nothing cru
SADIE is directly 6tted-whether designed or not
to divert attention from the one true and real issue
of the times thus saving slavery, for q while.
from its coming doom. How disgraceful is it, that
anti-slavery voters should he gulled into a support
Of the he lrtless sham
! have been spending about two months at the
Worcester Water Cure Institution, and / think
with good results to my health. l improved until
the weather became too rough and cold for me,
aggravating my cough, and otherwise warning mo
to seek a milder climate. therefore returned to
Philadelphia, where l hope may be able to re-
main through the winter. l am still engaged in
the somewhat desultory but pressing business of
doing nothing, though l cannot say l am especial
" interested in my vocation. What prospect there
is that | shall be able to return to the anti-Slavery
field as a worker, | cannot say. Ills hard to stand
a mere spectator of this grandest movement of tho
age, and to know that the labor is so vast. and the
workmen so few. But there are times when ''they
also serve, who only stand and wait" n y n
Remember me to all my good friends in Salem.
Right gladly would I again take them by the hand
and speak wiuA them face to face. Give them all
the McMillans, Barnabys, Robinsons, Heatons,
and others whom l need not name-give them all
my earnest love and esteem, and best wishes for
their welfare.
How IT STRIKES A TRAvELER.-The Editor Of
the Tribune has lately made a tour through Ohio.
He don't like the manner offarming the corn lands
of our state. He says:
"a carriage-ride down the Scioto Valley. from
Columbus to Chilicothe. did not impress me with q
good opinion of the corn-growing which is there
almost universal. 1t is of course less exhausting
where the corn is fed out to fatten bullocks on the
ground than where the grain is exported or sold to
the distilleries; but crop after crop of corn, with
shallow blowing and a heavy growth of weeds go
ing to seed in autumn, will gradually destroy any
soil. Then the great farms, often one thousand
acres or more each, crowd out the school houses,
and render the social aspects generally uninviting
half a dozen good houses in a township, with a
t hundred or two cabins but little better than negro
huts. Not would take me some time to like the
great corn growing regions of Ohio as at present
managed"
Our ARIsrocRAcY.-More than one hundred
thousand more votes were cast in New York at tho
late election, than there are Shareholders in this
Union and vets small proportion of this small
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