Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-29

Alvin JOINER, WHO VIC were sorry 10 nnu uuaDie W
leave his room from severe attack of bilious
fever Feeling somewhat overcome by the exces-
sve heat which, until to-day, think has equaled,
at least anything have ever experienced, glad
ly accepted permission of my two fellow-laborers,
who certainly could not stand in need of my as
sistance in storming any pro-slavery Sevastopol,
unless in case of very heightened seige, when
might do some little service by throwing few
shots while they should take time to breathe--to
keep the company of friend Joiner, at home, while
Mrs j., together with Mrs c. Smalley and daugh-
ter, whose acquaintance was happy to make, as
among the true friends of reform, accompanied
them to meeting. II beg the readers pardon for
strngng out the above sentence to such an anjus-
ti6able length-not having time to explain, at
length, how / came to do it.) Concerning the
meeting at GAINESVILLE l can only report at sec
ond hand, which is to the effect that it was not
over large in point of numbers, and that, though
the slave has some few earnest and true friends in
that vicinity. the state of feeling, as represented
by the generality of the audience is not what it
4 should be.
Spirtuaism, there, as in other places, is ma
king considerable progress. "My private opinion
like that of Judge Spaulding, in reference to the
Abby Keleymen, is in favor of the facts, and also
of the philosophy, to great extent of Modern
Spiritualism. But in so far as its tendency shall
be to withdraw public attention from the wrong Of
upholding the terrible system of slavery, or render
or ledre the public mind Indifferent to the pressing
claims of my poor, bleeding brother in bonds, it
shall receive the contempt and the condemnation
of my opinion, public well as private.
On Saturday, the Sth, we proceeded as far as
Parkman, where, in view of the number of speak.
ers expected to attend meeting here it was
thought best for me to remain and hold meetings
Saturday evening at least and if desirable during
Sunday-receiving the assurance that / should be
conveyed to this place either Sunday or Monday,
in time to go on with my associates to our next
appointment My meeting Saturday evening was
small, but it was thought goodly number would
turn out on Sunday. Sunday morning but few
were present, and after speaking near two hours,
| was kept answering questions, &C., until near
three o'clock. No way being provided for me to
get to Mesopotamia that day. consented to speak
again in the evening" and after vain effort to Sc
cure some mode of conveyance to this place. I
started on foot on Monday morning, with but little
hope of being able to arrive in time to so on with
my company. l raised however, at Parkman, 12l
cents in the shape of collection, to console me
for being on foot and behind time After travel
ing about three miles, smart shower of rain en-
livened my way for near two miles further, when
| gave up trying to reach this place in season.
By the Kindness of Mr.. Glen, Of Bundysburgh, l
was conveyed to this place in a buggy, arriving
some two hours more after our friends had left.
And here ! am to day-having somewhat overdone
Sunday, taking little cold on Monday l have
not felt able as yet to push on and make up for
my i'll luck, by getting up meetings elsewhere.
have, however, proposed to myself, to 60 on
this afternoon, somewhers, the Lord knows where;
for can learn nothing encouraging in regard to
adjoining towns Shall endeavor to bring up at
New Lyme by the time our appointment comes
due there.
Two years ago this fall lectured in parkman to
a large and intelligent audience, and at the close
of the meeting, received congratulations and God
speeds on every hand. Last Sunday evening ]
lectured there for the last time, unless amply pro-
vided with means of conveyance to my next APP
pointment. When there before, think, could
have been carried to the next county in the night,
only on the suppositon that miserable, timesery-
ing Repubicanism, has eaten up the generous An
tSlavery feeling that then pervaded in the eommu-
nifty. Justice requires me to say, that Mr. Wm.
l l.. Phillips, the man by whose advice remained,
and at whose house I was made welcomed, was
suffering from the ague, and that Mr.. L. G. Tod
another friend of the slave, living in thattown at
tended the meetings held in Messopotamia.
h l feel much indebted to the kindness of the
Messrs. F. and w. Lyman, of this town, and also
Mr. Y. o. Newcomb at whose Hotel now am.-
learn, however, that the meetings here came
far short of answering the expectations of our
friends from abroad, or the hopes Of the few
friends residing here.
f great work remains to be done here on the
Reserve. A few friends, converted to radical A
|, S. principles by Mr.. and Mrs. Foster ten years
ago, remain firm and true to the vital principle Of
: this great reform. But the multitude of even the
professed friends of freedom have yielded only tC
the impulse of selfpreservation, still shutting
from their hearts the great life-prnciple of equa
love of liberty for all. j. W. p.
! P. 8. should have mentioned that our meetings
at Rayenna we're enlivened by tho singing of tn,
piothOio hhu oiotot uDONc 10. IHey arr
said to be very popular singers and nobly dev OF,
their musical talent to the cause of the slave
when opportunity offers.
Our ADvEnsARiEs IN MorloN-Not long since
al secret conclave of the satellites of Atcbisol
and Stringicllow, resolution was adopted whcl
should cause every Northern man to grid up hi
loins for the coming contest. The exac
words of the resolution we have not received bu
its import is this-that fund be raised for tn
purpose of assisting and promoting the emigration
, of INDECENT pro-slavery men, from Missouri an'
other Southern States, to Kansas Territory, in OF
9 der TO make it Slave State Such is one part o
| the grand scheme Of Slavery and Locofocoism
California is to be divided, so as to make tn
southern half slave State; another partition 0
Mexico is to be made SO as to create three or fou
more slave States Texas is to be divided making
s two additional slave States; and emgrants are :
be sent into Kansas so as to make it slave State
And Northern men gre called g fanatical AbolI
tionists' for crying out agnipst those things ant