Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-31
Communications.
FIELD NOTES.
Dorset, Oct. 18th. 1857,

a. y hOklS NO hhi hbbtnti
disappointment, or rather the people had, having
assembled on the forenoon Of Saturday to hear
speakers whose appointments did not bring them
on the ground until evening. The Convention
was quite as good as I anticipated, though in some
respects it fell short of others we have held, and
was described BY one as "a mixed up Affair."
A former President Of the Western Society
Lyman Peck-was there to give US battle, insist.
ing that we could do nothing to abolish slavery
unless we attacked the revealed religion of the
land, hoping perchance, we would thereby be di.
yerted from pointing out the guilty con nection Of
himself and others with slavery through the Uni.
ted States government. Az obolitionists we had
no warfare to make upon any revealed religion,
unless 1t revealed the cloyen hoof of slavery, and
therefore did not feel especially called upon to
advocate the resolution offered by Mr.. Peck, who
probably stood in q unanimous minority of one
upon the question. seeing that his resolution was
not even seconded.
During the discussions of Sunday forenoon, and
while S. S. Foster was speaking, the wife of the
Chairman -Marsena Miller-took the floor under
what p%urported to be spiritual influence, and gave
n speech sound in argument, unexeeptional in
grammatical construction, beautiful in language,
and eloquently delivered. never before heard q
speech purporting to come from a dwoller IN the
spirit'land that would compare favorably with the
one Mrs Miller gave. After its conclusion | was
surprised to hear that it was j. w. Walker who
spoke through the medium. Though others
thought they perceived in it a strong resemblance
to the speeches Of our departed friend who laid
down to sleep with his auti.slavery armor on, l
saw nothing in it to call up to my remembrance
his efforts in the bondman's cause.
A. the close of our last session we had some
rather boisterous demonstrations in the back part
Of the house from boys and young men, who,
having no Se!frespect, were of course utterly in
capable Of respecting the rights Of others. When
r~owdyism aud mobocracy beat up for recruits.
they will find some half-fedged ones at New
Lyme.
The friends of the anti. slavery cause gave US
in collections some 81, and pledged to pay to the
Treasurer of the Society SIC, $50 of which was
contributed by one who has been o subscriber
to the Liberator for more than twenty years, and
whom we would therefore expect to be well ground
ed in the faith-l refer to that anti-slavery veteran,
Rumsey Reeves. The abolitionists of New Lyme
have had to pass through many trials, and much
credit is due to the few faithful among the faith
less found The perils that have threatened
them. the discouragcments that have awaited
them have not emanated alone from the open and
Hvowed enemies Of the unti.slavery cause, but
have also come from the false brethren in their
midst. All honor to those who have dared to be
trus to themselves, aud to the slave |!
On Monday, the DR.. and self went to Wayne,
a very sectaIian place, but whore the continuous
teachings Of our physically bliud, but spiritually
ciear-sighted friend, VIM. Hoisington, is beginning
to produce a good effect. lie is employed there
as a preacher, not of sectarianism, but of truth,
and the people are learning to think foy them
selves. Although we had q dark and rainy night
for our meeting. yet quite a respectable number
were in attendance, who received with attention
the doctrines We had to offer. AT the conclusion Of
the meeting we were invited to the home of Cap
tain Brown son of the Captain Brown of Kan
sas notoriety, and who, with his broth
ers stood and fought by their fathers side
during the disturbances there, leaving one o.
their number to sleep in the soldiers grave, &
bloody sacrifice to the slave power.
We were much interested in the narration Of
facts connected with the Kansas struggle, which
the Captain gave us. 1t brought closer to us the
suferings of the emigrants, and the outvages Of
DOiNCi thhhhoi yuot &c nv we " Al iuS'
tive slave brings nearer to our vision the terrible
system under which he had lived. Though my
sympathies were excited. and my pulses quicken,
ed with Indignation, yeti could not help saying
shat the effort to make Kansas a free state was a
movement based upon a selfish principle, whether
as developed ia the efforts OF the free state mer
there, or the Republican party here, "Iknow it,
said be, "and it don't deseJre to succeed. l wa:
most painfully convinced when in Kansas, tha
a large majority of the free state men cared moth
ing about the condition of the sla ve-they were
fighting for their ora liberty, and that was ALL
lie then related an occurrence, which was some
what in this wise. At the time Lawrence was frs
threatened, he called out his company to march
to its relief, and was joined by two other compa
MES, comprising in all an hundred and fifty men
Having ~encamrcd over night, be, with a small
party took that opportunity to visit a Missourian
who was obnoxious to the free state party, and bad
been operating in an underhanded way against it
Having found the man he succeeded in persuadine
him to be "coloniztd with his own consent" n.
the American Colonization Society persuades the
negroes, only with a rather more summary, and
much "more SO" demonstration, and so the man
was sent back to "his native country of Platte
County. Upon his premises were two slaves, a
man and a woman. As the object of Captain
Brown was to make freedom not only national,
but unicersal. he told ths slaves they were free,
and they returned with him to camp. Upon his
arrival, there, it soon became known that these
persons we're the former slaves Of the Missourian
and Captain Brown soon found to his utter sur
prise and intense modification, that a large major,
ity of his companions were determined to return
the slaves to Missouri and to bondage. and had
appointed a committee to carry out their determi
nation. He was pOwerless to resist, and he saw
the slaves he had released sent back to slavery by
the free state men Of Kansas, even as Anthony
Burns had been restored TO the South by the citi.
Gems of Massachusetts