Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-19

FRIEND RoBINsoN: Starting out from Cleveland
first inroads among the people of the Buckeye
State landed first at Willoughby, Lake county
and held n series of meetings in company with Mrs
Coleman the particulars of which she has already
given to your readers, and l need not therefore de-
tail. 1t was here that first met Mrs. G .as a speak
err, and was very favorably impressed with her
earnest eloquence, and unselfsh devotion. gs
Leaving Mrs. @. with DR.. Brooke to hold another
meeting, l went on to Chardon, Geauga county,
held a meeting in the Baptist meeting house, which
was cold and dreary, and the audience small, but
the people seemed to be sufficiently interested to
desire another meeting, and proposing the court
house as the place. l held a second meeting with,
a full house. The Baptist elder, E. Brigham. 1
found to be quite an aboliticnist, under whose in
1uenco the Chardon church and the Geauga associ.
alton Of Baptist with which it is connected. has.
withdrawn all church fellowship from pro-slavery'
churches and religious organizations, thus far do.
ing quite we'll, and if they will but 90 on, and de-
ny the christian name to all who stand in pro-slave.
ry church positions, and who vote under q slave
holding government, they will do a thorough work
and be entitled to the commentator of all lovers
of humanity and God. ..a-l-.#
AT the close of the first meeting, presiding elder
Balm, of the Methodist Episcopal church, stated
that my arguments would be good were it not that
| begged my premises, whereupon / invited him at
the next meeting to show my fallacy. To this he
agreed on condition of having half the time; this
being conceded, he came ON with an arm full Of
documents. out of which he read oopious extracts
from the writings Of Washington. Jefferson, Ham,
ilton and others, to show the sacred character Of
the Union, from which he argued the danger
and wickedness of dissolution. He occupied in
three speeches an hour and \ quarter, and ] had
the same time, in which / endeayored to refute the
few shadows of arguments that he had produced,
and to set forth clearly and distinctly our positions
and the premises upon which they were based. 1
think a favorable impression was made, which it
followed up may produce good fruit. They would
| gladly have turned out TO another meeting, but my
TO wi appointments would not allow delay and l
, was carried on to Martenville, ten miles, by Elder
! Brigham, who told me that he had received new
: light upon the governmental question. and that he
should never take an oath to. Or give a vote under
e our slaveho.ding government. wish that our
8 baptist brother. A. L. Foss, could make it in his
n way TO hold meetings at Chardon and look ater this
Baptist flock. a.ta ls r. .,g. .eg.
AT Martenville 1 had q very mail meeting al
the Wesleyan meeting house, which may have
e been useful. to them, but was not very inspiring to
me. Ee ..H -.a uirI sd! nj
A ride of five miles in the rain, and through a
depth of Ohio mud that eastern Yankees, need to
experience in order to realize the full extent Of ito
d nastiness, brought me TO Huntsburg. There the
rain entirely washed out the two meetings that ]
80 m;obt otharw;sa hava had I found no abolition
lists here, but was shut up one whole afternoon da