Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-03

For the Bugls.
NEWTON FALLS, Sept. 25th, 1857,

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DEAR FRIESp ROBINSON The present is a.
most suspicious hour to labor for the cause ofI
humanity in your western field. My visit to this
lively little place, though at fret promising rather
uniavorably, has resulted better than could have
been expected. The first evening my audience
WAS small, owing to the County Fair, and one or
two other gatherings, in adjoining towns. lspoke
uC the Evils of slavery, showing that though
they we're terrible on the African race in the
country yet that the reaction on the white popu'
lation. is morally and intellectually. more terrible
still until the North. with a majority in buth houses
of Congress-, a vast preponderance over the South
in the commerce, military strength, educational ad.
vantages and religious development and prores.
sion. submits to all the ~ungoily behests of slavery
as meekly as any whipped victim in the cotton
fields of Mississippi-and until the slaveh lders
declare to our very faces in Congress-, as well as
elsewhere, that we are meaner and more debased
in our nature, than the average of their negro
slavcs,"-and until they can murder our brethren
in Kansas, cane our editors and others in Wash
ington, and even attempt murder. and nearly sue.
coed iu it, in the Senate Chamber of the Uuited
States, upon one Of the very idols of northern
society. All this / think was shown and was seen
and felt too.
The second evening was devoted to the question
how the curse is to be removed. My own op;n-
ion is. and was there expressed, that we have
reached a depth and degree of guilt, where there
can be no remission Of sin, but by the shedding
Of blood. And while with my.prescnt conviction,
I could not now counsel a resort to arms to resist
the tyran:. still l can and do counsel to a familiar.
izing our minds with the Revolutionary sentiment,
give us liberty or give us death"
And | showed that the evident intention is, to
enslave the labor Of the country north as well as
south. And that the threat Of Senator Toombs
ITO call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill" is "A
prophecy every way likely to be fulflled-that
half butchering a senator in Congress, is IA proper
prelude to selling his CO nstituents in the slave
~shamJles; and that sending o large armed force
into Kansas to overawe if not overpowe r the Free
State party there and plant the slave system at
the point of the bayonet, is a measure which ac-
cording to all the past usages and history Of man
kind, has TO immediate, effective prevention but
in a power of the same kind--and in a word,
that before we can search tho southern negro
slave, we have a revolution in our own behalf to
achieve, far more momentous than that of seventy
six, and which may demand the use Of similar
weapons.
| have seldom seen so serious, nay so solemn an
assembly. as on that night. A number declared
to me afterwards, that in their view, the game Of
anti-slavery politics had been played quite too
long, only for the personal agrandizement Of d
few designing men, and to no other purpose.
The dissolution of the Union and a Northern
Republic, seems now the one thing to be desired,
for our own deliverance, both from the criminality
IF Slavery and also ito whitening blight and
curse. While at the same time, on the showing
of the slave holders themselves, it is the surest
and s~peediest mode of uprooting the slave system
itself.
Newton F ais will occupy a higher position on
the subject of Human Freedom than heretofore
More than a dozen new subscribers to the Bugle
all Of them truly earnest and thoughtful persons
cannot but produce a revolution there. A contri
button of between five and six dollars beyond ex
g penses, was a further evidence that the good work
is well begun.
=, l cannot lorbear to mention the names Of DAME
Earle and ii. L. Williams as deserving of grea'
. praise, for the seryicesand attentions they cheerful
ly rendered me in my mission there. Such co-opera
J., ton as theirs, could we always find it, woul'
Tighten materially the too often most dismal wori
= of the anti. slavery missionaries.
PARKER P1LLSBURY.