Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-05
EN- an anxiety to hear more upon

willingness, and even an anxiety to hear more upon
the subject.
After leaving WAYNE, DR.. Brooke accompanied
me. to jamestown, and left me in charge os the
Brockways, There are seven brothers of them,
four of whom are fully committed to abolitionism.
The younger ones, | think, are on the road, and
VIII probably reach the same goal. or the hospi-
sality rendered to MS by these good friends Ineed on
y say u was ample. aid given not grudgingly On
my arrival in Jamestown learned that an appoint
ment had been made for Mr.. Rowland that(Friday)
evening. but by some mistake, in the arranging Of
the meetin IS it was impossible that Mr.. III. would
be in attendance. ! consented to go and fll his
place as best l might, and 80 accompanied by
Joseph Brockway, | made my appearance at the
time specified. A goodly number were gathered
together, but one feature Of the meeting was novel
indeed. Not n woman was present to listen to the
speaker. have spoken often where very few Of
my own sex were present, but never before have
spoken to an audience composed wholly of men.
1t is due to that audience to say that they listened
to a woman two hours. with the utmost patience
and with profound respect. / appointed a meeting
for the Sunday following, at which l was joined BY
MIR. Brown, and Mr.. Rowland.
A ludicrous scene was enacted on Sunday eve
eing, by enc of our audience who:passes as a law
yer. The same man whom Mr.. Jones describes,a s
bearing very distant relationship to the far famed
philadelphia lawyers. This gentleman. Nivvi-
son by name, circulated a report in jamestown,
that we we're Representatives of tie Disunion Con
vention, and that that Convention. had passed reso-
lutions, in favor of Spiritualism. Freeloveism, anti
marriage, &C., and that we were there for the pur.
pose of clandestinely introducing to the very NOR
al people of that village, these wicked principles"
lie also stated that he could prove all his state
ments by one of our own papers, which fortunately
he had obtained for that purpose. These things
were reported to US in the morning meeting, and
we were asked il we could vindicete ourselves
from the charge. l happened TO have with me a pa.
per containing the resolutions passed at the Cleve.
land meeting, and | read them, and challenged any
enc to find a different reading in any of our papers.
Well in the evening g, our liHle lawyer came in with
the documents ready to prove US not only Free-lov,
ers, but liars. We called upon him to read the
resolutions passed at the Disunion Convention at
Cleveland. He rose, and with great pomposity
said. Most luckily I have obtained a copy of the
Anti.Slavery Bugle. which has reported the resolu-
tons. l suppose the ,roman will take that paper
as good authority. Of course we assented, and
again requested him to read them, instead of des-
cribing them which he was determined to do. Mr..
Nivvisson perhaps | should say Esq. Nivvisson}
then commenced reading, what? why he said the
resolutions passed at the Gle iceland Convention
Mr.. Rowland asked him to read the heading of the
piece, that he might know what was the meeting,
and where it was held at which these resolutions
were passed. lie commenced and read one line
in which he found the phrase, Progressive
Friends and the word Battle Creek. Mr.. Howl
and then disposed of the wonderfully learned law
yer in a way that seemed to give almost universal
satisfaction. Poor man l could we'll afford "a,
bear all the vile ~epithets, and miserable insinuations
which he found ir pleasant to his excited feelings
to hurl at me-any thing that should turn the at>
%tention of the people away from him was surely
allowable. jamestown is surely in a deplorabls
condition; such q lawyers and ministers that defend
slavery by the Bible, a people that would not have
"~niggers" let loose upon them for all the ,eorldI for
as one woman earnestly said to me, Whose family
would be safe " But l think a good work has
been wrought by the lectures given in the place
and in the surrounding towns, that will eventually
show itself. Some persons have been reused to
thought, and when thinking is well introduced into
a society, action is sure to follow.
Yours, for the cause,
LUCY N. COLEMAN.