Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-14
CoLvnpIAsA, March 10. 1857.
FROM IOWA.
BIC Grove, Iowa, Fob. Is, 81,

BIC Grove, Iowa, Fob. Is, 80.
Ep,,ox or rnE BuoLE-Dear Friend-1 think n
l;,,ls Anti.Slavcry seed would terminate and
Grow here, as tho soil is not barren, or very rocky,
and all that is required lie n good hand to scatter
i,b. seed. Barclay Gilbert once said. in appealing
10 the pockets of anti-slavcry folks, that men
didn't give,.ccording to their means, but accord
ing I o other liborality. That may be true in part
though I,don't think wholly go for o person may
be 10 situated that no cannot see how he can do
next to nothing pecuniarily, yet the love OF the
cause be uppermost in his mind. | pity the person
who wants to see the spread of anti-slavery more
than I do, aud has not the where.with to aid in
the accomplishment Of that wish. l often think
tie struggles the poorer classes have to go through
i. making both ends meet, often beget in them q
misery disposition, which entirely shuts their
purses for the relief of suffering humanity, come
in what shape it may. But / pray God, that such
NAV never be my lot. Would that / had the
means at hand to pay the way of some OF your
takers to our State, and stir up a little excitement;
for the people since the election have quietly set
tied down thinking they have done their whole
duty for the next four years. o that Stephen or
ABBY Foster, Parker Pillsbury, Henry C. Wright,
or some one, capable Of letting thcm know there
is ne res. for tho wicked, could come here; they
could do a great good. Iowa like Ohio, is dis
gracod by that worse than hcathenism-its Black
Laws. II our pale faced rulers had II written
permit from God Almighty, they could not dictate
with greater arrogance, where some OF his
creatures may live. Truely.it is mans inhuman-
ity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
From whence comes our right to say t our brother
where he shall soiourn but from the dark ana dam
nable recesses of our 5~enighted mind. o, say
the people here, we don't 60 in for slavery. but
We don't want the niggers to go where they please
That is freedom-loving with a vengeance. That
il doing as they would DO done by. How would
oar pious pale faced christians (it's n misnomer to
call them SUCH like to be dictated where they
Should .ivei Do they act as though they believed
that God made of one blood all nations of the
earth1 / trow not.
I had n conversation the other day with 4 very
seslous Methodist, about the antislavery of their
Church, and in order to defend it successfully. he
had to branch OF with a TRADE of abusive lies
against Stephen and Abby Foster. But | hope be
rspented ere be got through trying to prove his
Wholesale columnies. / suppose he thought he
was away cut here where nobody would dare cal
in question his assertions. hope he went away
under the conviction that their Society was not
quite Abolitionized yet. lie admitted the Church
acted q little more on the subject than formerly
but not from a conviction that Slavery was any
more of n sin, but because the public mind was
better prepared FOR it. Who created that public
mind-not the Church? Is it not n shining light
conscious of the awful sin of Slavery, years aud
years ago, but dare not speak out for fear tht
public wore unprepared. Why Marius, even l as
Attic as I am, possess some notoriety here, ever
from the pulpit. Only to think, says one minister
thu, almost within the sound Of my voice lives NJ
Infdcl, SC .ttering his nefnr;ous and hellish doc
trines broad cast. Shun him shun him, as "
value your Souls Salvation. l. not that a feuheI
in my cap7 NJ. BRANiN'