Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-26
FIELD NOTES.
DEER CREEK, Stark Co. Dec. 10th, 2S

went TO ALLIANcE, where our FIRST appointment
was made for Wednesday the 9th. The nigh
was dark and rainy, and perhaps you are awar
that Alliance is not provided with superior accom-
modations for pedestrians under such circumstan
ces. When we reached the house of our fren,
DR.. Thomas, we learned that he was absent OF
professional business, and his wife thought tn,
weather was so very unfavoIable that the friend
would hardly think it worth while to open tn,
meeting house. Not feeling satisfied, however. t
make an appointment and not meet it, and tb,
Dr.'s daughter volunteering to DO our guide, W,
went out into the mud, and rain, and darkness t
6nd the house, and the people, provided any wer
there. In order to travel moro expeditiously W
took the railroad track, and although it was i'm
possible to see our way, the rails enabled US Il
feel it; and in our journeying we passed, withou
the aid of boats or bridges, numerous niiniatur
lakes, aud slougbs, if not of Despond, yet OF
very unpleasant material. Upon arriving in tn,
vicinity of the meeting house we were unable t.
discover any lights, and thereupon returned
whence we came, exhibiting. when we entered thu
Dr.,s house, upmistakable evidences Of being o
the earth, earthly.
Upon reaching ArwArER, on Thursday. we ms
certainej that our appointment had not arrived
there in time, SO wo were obliged to defer ou'
meeting there until q more convenient season
which will probably be next week.
wonder if you ever chased up an anti-slavery
appointment-hunting hisher and thither over bill
and valley for the place where your audience was
TO gather-meeting disappointment after disap'
poin,ment, and finally settling down upon the
conclusion that you had been chasing the mere
ghost of a meeting. We had such an experience
on Friday last. Having heard when in Alliance
that an appointment had been made for us at
Deer Creek on the evening Of the llth, we accor-
dinghy started from Atwater at o'clock in the at
ternoon, and after a rough ride reached the meet
ing house where we supposed we were to lecture.
No one there had heard Of such an appointment
but after making sundry efforts to obtain some re-
liable information, we learned that q meeting had
been advertised for us in Lima. We retraced our
way to that place with all convenient speed, but
found no lights, no fire, no people, and no APP
pointment-the latter having failed to be given
out because of some uptoward circumstance
At I o'clock we stopped to take breath, and put
ting up for the night at tho house of our friend
Isaac Coates. hope you will give US credit not
only IOT moetluP Ill the appointments nav w.
US, but doing our best to meet some which never
were made.
At MARLBORO on Saturday evening and Sunday
We had three large meetings. At the first two,
when we considered more especially the moral and
religious bearings Of the question, we had some
opposition from Disciples and Methodists. The
opposition was not. however, OF a kind which de-
MED that members Of both those sects held slaves,
but which attempted to show that those OF them
who were anti.slavery in feeling, did not by their
religious connection necessarily endorse the chris
tian character Of slaveholding members. That
position they defended with great zeal, and Joined
forces in order to do it. l was assured that under
ordinary circumstance these sectarians are any
thing but ninsteeath century patterns CT John
nthans and DaVids. but the moment anti-slavery ap-
pears, they forget for a while NIL their former
feuds. and make common cause against what they
regard as n common enemy. And yet if their
own testimony is to be taken they are rery anti
slavery and it is OF course q mystery to some OF
the unsnlightened why such excellent abolitionists
choose to remain in religious and political fellow
rhip with Christian and Democratic men'stealers.
On Sunday evening, when we discussed very
thoroughly the political aspects of the cause, and
anticipated considerable opposition, we were very
much surprised by having none, Whether the 81
lence of our auditors was because Of their ap'
proval of our sentinents-becaus of the convic.
ton that our position was right, or whether it was
owing to soma other cause | cannot say.
o. Monday evening we went to HARRISBURG,
where our audience was less than might be ex.
pected from the nuiaber of houses in the place,
1t was mostly settled by French Catholics. and we
did not anticipate receiving much attention from
that part of the population. We were assured
that about all of the inhabitants who could under
stand English were at our meeting, and as we
could not speak French. suppose there was no
special reason for desiring the presence of the
representative of ia belle France"
The people Of Harrisburg had heard but little,
and knew far less about the principles and meas
urss Of abolitionis.s we therefore thought IL bcs,
to give them the A B C of reform, and present so
plain and simple u view of their duties and re-
eponsibilities MS we trusted would awaken in them
Thought and inquiry. We held but one meeting
in the place. but probably gave them az much
ami slavery truth AS will at present benefit them.
Having heen invited to GREESrowN, We held
meetings there on Tuesday and Wednesday even.
ings, having large audiences in the Town Hall.
This was also new ground to anti-slavery lectur'
ers. and apparently the people heard the truth
gladly, and neither Democrats nor Republicans
folt disposed to question the correctness of doc
trines which declared all political parties acting
under the United States Constitution to be the
allies of the slave power. 1t is seldom
meet with a more attentive auditory, or one
general appearance indicated more sslfre.
spect than that which welcomed US at Greentown.
The village itself, though composed mainly of
quite ordinary houses, had a cleared-up look that
was quite attractive, and made me think by con-
irast Of a village you and I know of, which was
rather hyperoolically Y, it is true by a
friend as "a place where every body threw
everything down, and where nobody picked any
hing up"
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