Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-16
LETTER FROM L. A. HINE.

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Mn. EDIroR !: ! have within a few days returned
from q two months tour, Eve weeks oil which were
spent in my native county Of Erie o., in which ]
gave some thirty five lectures, generally to crowd
ed houses. Some old school.mates Of my native
township attended about fifteen lectures, going
several times from four to six miles aud back, often
meeting in those coolest nights when the mercury
was twenty degrees below zero. This will Be con.
sidercd no marvellous daring, when it is stated that
the young people Of that township, in which there
is scarcely what is called by the yankees a village,
stain a literary society the year round, a free
hall for free speech, and let the churches pass for
what they are worth. The Literary Society cole
brates its anniversary on the first of January, and
being present at the last one, | can say that
the original essays, destinations md oratiuns on
that occasion would do credit 10 any collegiate in.
%stitution.
My lectures were chiefly upon Land Reform.
Education in its yarioas phases, Woman's Rights
and Physical Degencracy. In Milan, where / lee
tured ten times, the working citizens called a meet
ing to organize a Land Reform Association, and
get up petitions to the Legislature for Land Limi-
taiion, and to Congress for the Freedom of the
public lands in limited quantities to actual settlers
only. The meeting was large and it is hoped the
"fosies" and oristocrots will not succeed in dc.
~stroying it's influence.
| find it difficult to enlist those who have a pros
pect Of becoming n land mono po!ists in this cause.
1t seems so thoroughly against their sel6slness.
And sometimes | meet landless and poor men who
think there is something Of meanness in a homeless
man advocating LandIefyrm. That is, the monopo.
lists will do nothing except against it, and as the
other class should DC ashamed to do anything
in establishing this natural right to the earth, of
course nothing can Ge done. | heard n strong
Free Soiler take this position. On the same prin-
Iciple, the slaves should be ashamed to speak for
their freedom, an attempt to obtain it should be
left entirely to the Shareholders. The same Free
Soiler said that an Industrious ard economical man
could get rich, and hence it it is ak nonsense to ad.
yocate Land Reform. On the same principle,
there should be no auti-slayery agitation because
Frederick Douglass got his liberty in spite of the
combined power Of the South and the Nation, and
besides that, learned to read under the prohibition
of his master and mistress and has become one of
the leading orators of the land. If he did so much
under such difficulties. others tnn, and Abolition
ism - nonsense! Strange that thinking men
should trample their fayorite truth under foot in
attempting to put down the discussion Or prevent
the success Of another truth.
The poor arc TO furnish all the future slaveholt-
ers and land monopolists, and should DO heroic in
relieving the future Of tiese giant evils. For il,
tho resan el,r,bol1;,- on ,,,,o,ol;.;,~ Goo;
lies could be forced to rely on ti.oir own yigor Of
constitution for the perpetuity Of their own class,
every slave would be freed and every acre liberated
within three generations or q hundred years. The
aristocrats, both North and South arc running out,
their families are becoming extinct, and were
it not for the energy that rises from the lap of in
.dustry and poverty there would be no Shareholders
or monopolists alive in the neat hundred years
after Gods law WAS left free to operate for the de.
struction of oppressors. The slaves are growing
gradually stronger and the masters weaker and
if left TO themselves the slaves wo1ld soon DC
sufficiently strengthened and the masters sufficient
ly weakened to induce the slaves to look Down With
upon their puny masters and eseeate
Divine vengeance upon all their threats some
night VIXEN no tocsin shall sound an alarm. But
tte "'sCHlcl II, that III Nprtu Is constantly sehG'
ing energy to the South to take the place of the
shareholders, and thus is the institution
beyond It's Divine limit. In this WAY is
the Nort, sustaining Slavery.
While making my last trip conceived tia good
idea to take the ages OF all the deao in the various
Sraye-yards, hat had been buried with tcml-stonos
in order to show the healthfulness of various local
tiles, and lead to inquiry into the causes of pre-.
mature decay among our population. I took the
facts in seven yards of Erie and Huron counties,
and wherever go hereafter, / expect to look after
the dead and make 4 digest Of the facts. l give as
far as have prOceeded: