Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-16

spicuous here at reform meetings.; shutting the
door OF his own sacred house against us, forbid.
ding any to question or object to him. in bs own
meetings. but taking advantage of the epenness Of
our meetings, he is ready to do to us, what i,
would be criminal iu his view for us to do to him.
We held meetings also OF Wayne Centre, Dorset,
Cherry Valley Centre, and East Corner, Culebrook,
and at various other points in these towns, spend.
ing four weeks in this vicinity. the interest seem.
ing to increase all the while, and meetings grew
on our hands faster than we could attend them, 80
that when | lefs it seemed to be q better field for
another months work than when we first common
ced. The subjects of "disunion" and "comeout-
ISM" were the current topics of conversation
and discussion, in the highways, the shops the
stores and Lyceums, and | can but hope tina, the
good seed sown on so apparently good ground,
may yet spring up and bear fruit a hundred fold,
and although "tho enemy" in the shape of kna-
wish priests with their simple dupes and wicked
tools were diligently engaged in sowing tares, yet
it is to be expected that those husbandmen whom
we lefi on the ground will not sleep and let tie
good grain be choked and destroyed by the crop of
tsrcs that have been 80 plentifully sowed.
or the many kind Offices, generous hospitality,
and hearty cooperation in the furtherance of our
protracted meeting, that came from the friends in
that locality, l cannot speak too highly, and | shall
always look back upon that month as one of the
most pleasant, hopeful and cheering of my expert
cnce in the Anti'Slavery field, and although the
clouds of the sky often lowered and the rain
descended, it was nevertheless a month of sun
shine to US from the kind hearted friends that
shed such a warmth and fragrance around our
morally dark and cherries work, as is not often
enjoyed. Their memory will he ever blessed to me.
JOSEPH A. ROWLAND.
Authors are prone to indulge the luxurious hab.
it Of making scape goats of printers, for their own
imperiections or incompetency. Friend Rowland
must have forgotten the character of the manu-.
script, else he would not essay to make us RESPONSE
Die for the errors Of his recent communication
Our friends chirography is principally if not alto.
gether in fault, many of the words were i~llegible.
The possible identity of others could be ascertained
only by careful study, We called in council a
practised manuscript reader one who can d~ecipher
almost any thing that ha. the semblance of written
English words, but he grew impatient over it,
The type settlers gave it,up in despair. Guessing
was the only alternative; in this art we have little
accomplishment-our nativity not favoring it. But
We all did the best we could with it. Two busy
hours were spent on The proof. 1t was rery per.
picking, the puzzled printers having left out SC
many words as unavailable, 'realms of grace
were the best written words in the whole letter.
We 1.-THE proof reader and type setters,' have voted
that the remarks of brother Rowland in the letter
before us are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS we will
6estow assiduous care in translating his future
communientions-would prefer having them ''prin.
ted" as for his little girl, six years DID," than
written as the one we have so sadly spoiled. We
have also voted that we are not in sympathy with
him in his views concerning legiblo ~writing-tha,
tegi6te Writin9 is at all times and under all circum
stances a result of patient application of mechani'
cal skill, and therefore does not imply stupidity in
any way whatever-that scraxling illegible chiro
graphy may be Byronic, &c., as is often claimed
it also suggests defciency-want of application
inpetuous haste; therefore it is doubtful, if it is
ever indicative Of genius. E.