Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-28
a LETTER FROM PENNSYLVANIA.

BAaT, August 0, 1858.
DEAR MARIUs / believe it would be vain fol
me to 'ry to forget the anti'slavery friends west, OF
thei- Bugte, so l will waste no strength in tho eff
fort. My thoughts have been with you to-day in
rather an especial manner. 1t may be attributable
in some degree to the circumstance of VIM. Well,
Brown being with us. lie was sent for to be at q
substitute for the First Of August anniversary
The meeting was held, largely attended, and high
ly approved, at Christiana tho rcputed scene Of the
G9rsuch tragedy. 1t is now q thriving village,
such as it might not iavo been in this century had
uorsueh been willing to let his children provide
for themselves. None of the rulians Of that day
are about. or if they are, are still as death.
Non-resistants maintain that brain cleaving,only
works OWL ultimately. that question must DO LEFT
for them and the fugitives to discuss. Ono fact
stands out in this connection, that no blood hound
of the quadruped or biped species has been heard
to yelp on the track since, and yet it is not thai
the game is destroyed, or has left the hunting
ground.
Yester'afternoon Brown had a pretty tbrongcd
audience ut Bart meeting house, where he loctur,
ed efficiently. his principal object being to show,
that in fact, slavery degraded the owner equally
with the slave, this was done no less truly than
ungenerously by stating that some su perannuated
aunt Chloe had the charge Of the children from the
time they could walk until they were large enough
to run to the quarter after night to hear the balic
and listen to ghost and witch stories far more ex.
citing than spirited discussions on politics and
stupid ones on theology, which were tho leading
topics at the Great House,. i suspect there was
a good deal that was new to some of his hearers.
After night he read his tragedy, and to-day, DR..
Adams's Journey to the Sonth for the Benefit OF
his Health, is claiming a large amount of sympa'
thy of that funny type which would scarcely be
gratifying to his reverence. The DR.. will be re-
membered here abouts after to-day.
l doubt not the published proceedin IS Of the
Longwood meeting has reached Salem before now,
and if SO | can add nothing of interest regarding
it. ! will venture to say that the leaders (for il
had its leaders, evinced caution approximating to
~shyness, when the question came up Who are
members and what constitutes membership2"-
Could the atheist, the stern advocate of slavery
the apologist of intcmperance, or the opponent Of
that and other liberal conventions be a member
free to express his thoughts and cast q vote. TC
ADMIT all these as members OF the body would by
some, be thought derogatorv to its moral character
while to deny them membership, would seem to be
adopting a kind of creed, after their profession of
platform long and broad enough for MAN to stand
on. There is more than one Sylla and Charibdi'
to steer between, especially with religious reform
ers. They have the popular orthodoxy Of the time
and the growing dislike of that orthodoxy and in
fidelity, both, to encounter or oScillate betwee,
them.
1t is not to be disguised, that, unless with thu
extremely pure in heart, numerical respectability
is, and must be a desideratum, in q new organiza
ton in On especial manner.
OF the great multitude that assembled at Long
wood, we may suppose that more than half ha,
other motives than those protested by the callers o
the meeting; but a hope was entertained tina
many Of these would take home q thought, or NOR,
to ponder in a leisure hour.
Whatever else the meeting was, it had q decid
edly aDti-slavery character, All along for man,
miles around they are mostly refOrmers. Many o
the good influences that operate to make then
what they are, came from Quakerism without it
sectism.
AMOS GILBERT.