Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-10-18
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
LrvoN1A, Mich, Oct, 18th, 1856.

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LIvoNIA, Mich, Oct, 18th, 1856.
DEAR READERS OF THE Enthusiastically eve
ming was closed the sessions Of the Michigan So
ciety's Annual Meeting. 1t has been a most pleas
ant, and under the circumstances, an effective meet
ing. The house was crowded on the last day with
n deeply interested audience. The claims OF the
Slave were urged with earnestnes s-the cruel
wickedness of his enemies and the false issues Of
HE deluded friends were duly and faithfully re-
bukcd and exposed. Andrew T.. Foss, Henry G.
Wright and your Humble Servant were the speak.
ers who principally occupied the time Of the meet
ing aided however on Sunday Ivy Mrs. Lucy Cole
man of New York, an earnest friend of the Slave.
and also by Sojourner Truth, who made one of
her choice short speeches full of rich thoughts
and marked by her confding faith in truth and her
earnest love Of humanity. If there was no other
Count in the indictment against Slavery than this,
that il had doomed such II soul as hers to the life
long robberies and sorrows of Slavery it were
enough to earn for il the execrations of the uni
verse, and enough to doom the policy ofany church
or party, which for the sake of any success, should
consent to be complicated with such an outrage
upon such a human soul. What shall we then say
and how shall wo act in opposition to asystcm
which dooms such by the thousand to this hard
fatea Shall we concede, shall we com promise with
the monstrous system, shall we hold in religious
fellowship and political union the moral monsters
who perpetrate such crimes by wholesaler
In my way out l fell in company with a dis.
unionist of the most jealous and "fanatical" sort.
And 7 confess did no. much wonder at this
excess of his fanaticism considering the very shah
-. .l.,l 10 lnI Iaop troofoA hu thr
Union, both in Virginia and Ohio. For instance,
he informed me that some twenty years ago he had
a wife, cherished as u loving wife could not fail tc
be. When n Democratic fellow citizen-a pray
ing Presbyterian, by authority of the Common
wealth and the sanction of the Union proclaimed
and enforced a divorce, and for q consideration in
dollars, committed the wife to the possession and
custody of another man. Poor woman! Finding
the church, the Commonwealth and the Union
against her in hopeless despair from her blighted
love, and in prospect of her hOrlid doOm-another
Lucretia she sought freedom in death. beneath the
waters of the Kenawha. When all was passed.
the bereaved husband sought the coveted boon OF
freedom in fight from his native Commonwealth
ana came a refugee TO our boasted free Ohio. AZ
ter a years residence in the State, fifty dollars OF
the money ina nuu ttu II HIlCc " NC "'iS .
person, suficed 10 hire a villain in Newark to be-
tray, seize and in the name and by authority OF
tho Union consign him as a chattel to the hands OF
his fellow democrat of Virginia. He appealed to
the Constitution. but in vain. 1t was the Consti-
tuition of the master and not of the enslaved. lie
went back in chains; and for twenty long years he
toiled unrequited, Borrowing nnforgetful OF his
early loved and lost, resolved that never, while
under the mower of the Union which had cursed
his life and Knocked his happiness, would he again
call any woman wife. nor should any child of his be
Knocked as a slave, Oh i was joyful, standing in the
light of the bright October's sun, to see this poor
fellow, this glorious specimen of crushed manhood
after he had Won the boon of freedom, step upon
the ferry boat at the foot of Woodward Avenue,
Detroit, shake off the dust of his feet against the
hypocritical Union which had ~despoiled him Of life,
liberty and happiness, and then to, witness the
beaming JOY of his countenanco, as he looked to
the opposite shore where freedom and protection
awaited him. Prosperity attend this noble Dis
union abolitionist. lie has strengthened my pur'
pose to more heartily oppose this Union, so long
II. it holds the bondman in his chains.
| shall have more to tell you Of Michigan here
after. AT present | can only say there are some
true loving friends Of freedom, who stand man
fully erect on principle defiant of the tornado OF
political compromise which is sweeping over the
land. Yours faithfully,