Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-01
LETTER FROM A. BROOKE.

Since I last left your hosritalle home | have
trayerscd the county Of jefferson its full length
without Gudiug IL place In which T. hold e injecting
and With but li.ie apparent sympathy any where
for our enslayed countrymcn. ! have an appoint
ment for this evening in hcAfrican meeting house
in Mt. Pleasant, made upon an uncertainty iorthe
trustees were absent and the wife Of ono of them
thought it doubtful if the house would Jc granted,
as in her opinion, the only way to free the slaves
was to pray for their dcliycrancc. thought bet.
ter to venture the risk Of inviting an audience
which might possibly be denied a place in which
to assemble, in the belief that in such an event
tho demonstration would be complete to every
thinking mind that the religion Of the people Of
the place is mainly if not entirely u sham, and the
profession Of it either gricvous self deiusion or
gross hypocrisy. The anti-slavery sentiment which
undoubtedly exists in a large measure in some
noighbo,hoods is misdirected and SO interviewer
with prcjudices engondercd by their ecclesiastical!
and political connection $ that it seems to close the
door more ci1ectually against the operations Of our
society, than even the pro.slaycry feeling in places
where little or no agitation Of the slavery question
has penetrated. Tho institutions of church and
State are both erected upon the PROSTATE colored
i"NN N'H = ~ NV w VIM NhilSS az "!l"' =
fact, and lift q helping hand towards their reno
val.
The first meeting I held since was with you,
was near Lynchburgh, in Columbiana county on
Sunday evening the 18th; there was a good atten-
dance Of young persons mostly, who seemed to
need only that they should rightly come to under
stand their true relations to slavery.
From there | went to Augusta, Carroll county,
at which place no house could be obtained, although
many were anxious for a meeting. A schoolhouse
for which applied was refused upon the plea that
it could only be used for purposes of education,
and yet by the same director, was granted q few
hours later u give Il concert in. The large admix-
ture Of foreign population in that vicinity, gives
tone to public sentiment, and the terrors of know
nothingism has driven them into unusually yehe-
ment defence of the Constitution and Union.
AT Salinerille the meeting was small and com
posed principally of working men, with only one
woman present. My labors since leaving that
place have been in private families, and in the cir
%culation of the Kane petitions. Much GOODNESS
and distrust towards that kind of anti.slavery
work when advocated by Disunion abolitionists is
evident even among loudly protesting Republicans.
An intelligent female friend told me that there
was far more prejudice felt against Disunion abo-
litionists in this region, than against the most pro
slavery men or opinions, and with my scanty
means of observation | should conclude she is en-
tircly correct. hope the friends of the slave to
whom the Buglc carries it, will do their utmost in
the circulation Of that petition, as it appears to me
to be one Of our most important nstrumentalitie
at present. have met with many Republicans
who have taken hold of the work with zeal and
activity and l presume q good word in its favor,
from men in whom they have confidence would in
duce all to sign it. Yours, &C.,
a.