Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-06
Communications.


For the bugp.
DEAR MARIUs: It is not to be supposed that
more than II fair representation OF true Disunion-
lists resident upon the territory embraced by the
operations of the w sernA ntiaSlavery Society were
assembled at the late Anniversary. Many Of .he
warmest friends OF our cause, both men and wo.
men, we know to have been absent on that occa.
sion. And yet if ench individual of those we met,
only, were at home a %diligent, persevering laborer
to the extent of his or her ability and leisure, what
q powerful impetus it would give to the anti.sla-
very movement The season has now rived
when it is convenient to bold evening meetings,
and a portion also of every Sunday might be spent
in true worship, in the attempt to liberate the cap.
tive, and let the oppressed 90 free. A wider and
deeper impression might be made upon public sen.
timent, than by any other mode, if in each neigh
borhoSd where one or more abolitionist resides. u
determined and persistent effort we're made to
hold meetings for the discussion of all sides of the
subject. We have fallen into a habit, caught per-
haps by contact with our sectarian Deighbors, for
all vices seem to be contagious, of relying upon
the lecturers employed by our Associations, to do
that which only we can perform. 1t is indispensi.
BILE that we have such agents in the field to the ex.
tent of our pecuniary ability to support them, but
If they could be multiplied q thousand fold, it
would not exhonorate each individual from the per-
forrnance of his or her duty as an agitator in the
neighborhood of home.
| am led to bring this matter into notice by OBJ.
serving the influence which has been exer.ed in
this neighborhood during the past few months, by
our devoted and faithful friends, William and John
Holiday AM Reuben Erwin. They, principally,
but aided to some extent by others have held NEE.
tings regularly about every Sunday within a cir
cult of twenty-five miles since last April. A Tor'
ton of the fruits of this la Dor may be seen in the
ten new subscribers which one of the number has
already secured for the Bugle since the Anniversa-
ry. A steadily growing interest in their labors,
and in the cause generally, has been observed in
our community. They are all plain unlettered far
mers, supporting their families by the labor Of
their hands, and unprepared, except by sound un'
derstaDdings and a devoted zeal in behalf of the
down.trodden and oppressed, for public speaking
There are probably hundreds of Disunionists in
profession that are equally capable, if they were
equally self-sacrifcing las we, perhaps wrongly
term it, and devoted, Of producing similar results
in their several localities. o if we could but truly
feel for those in bonds, as bound with them, how
differently we should labor How soon woult
vanish the GOODNESS and apathy of the efforts We
now put forth in their behalf! Others are at worl
in some places know who deserve encouragement
and honorable mention, but the number is by fal
too few. Lot US occupy every hall and schoo
house accessible to US the coming winter, and make
the present darkness, but the gloomy hour which
proceeds the coming day.
A. BROOKE.
MARLBORO. November |, 1858,