Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-22
BART. Peuusylv

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DsAR MARI Us: Here in the vicinity OF boil
Edsp (the adjoining township) and Paradise Z
near villsge) there is much to interest me.
Here am I in q picturesque region in daily In
tercourse with the remaining three who claim reia
,tionship to our common mother /; and remember
ing them most Distinctly in that boy and girlhoo'
.hey we're in when I left the paternsl home, cal
,esrcely realize that I am with brothers and q sis
ter whose ages range from fhy.four to sixty,siI
wears. I feel 30 young myself when l shut ny
ewes. I can scarce believe that I an in the midst
of old folk. 1t is nevertheless the fact. and w
shall soon vacsse our places for q joyous laughing
generation which calls me uncle. We do not in
dulge in regrets that such is destiny.
To one born and bred west Of the Ohio river
.he scenery here must be delightful The wooded
land open and clear Of decayed timber, and under
growth the fields in q high state OF cultivation;
scarceiy q stump 70 be seen, and the soil farmed
up to the fences; the surface varying from level
20 rolling thenee to billy. a~pproximating noun
famous, and the whole threaded with abundant
limpia streams.
On the homestead farm where our parents lived
and died, is q curiosity resembling, the crater
of a volcano ; an inverted cone of Fifty feet in
depth and twenty yards in diameter. Although
there is q descent TO il Of one.eighth mile. and
notwithstanding it is but a few yards across at
the bottom, in the memory Of living man.. water
has not been seen 10 it. 1t is . sink produced
probably by the long continued action of running
water through crevices and assures in the lime.
stone, of which there is an underlie at various
depths, and in strata separated by layers Of earth
y ...Iu AVA, nnr ana, NJ q rlaca of reanrf
for Young people and % 'Sabbaths it was not un-
common to see near q score assembled at the Ell
din hole" The ~"fIelo" remains as then except
shat its wooded furnishings have been mutlIated
by the present proprietor, bus !ts visitors are gone
from sipb,: most of them 10 spirit land. l might
say with the song maker. None are left but you
and l." if l could think OF any one living. OF that
once hilarious company 10 address. In those rem
iniscnces there is but one regret it is that amuse'
ment WAS the end for which we assembled; IL may
be dou bted il tho thought Of improvement ever
disturbed our pursui, Of that which made the
presen, hour pass of lightly, without any thing
70 mar, or clog the festivities Of the next.
We are here near the settle of the Gorsuch ira
eedy. A thrifty village. Christiana, is near which
is known the land over. not for its magnitude, nor
OeCAuHG IL was Tue eCcho ~ sbos ooh6uAhS ohi"J
flor Gorsuch brea,hed his last miles from i) but
because there the kidnappers had their rallying
,place. with an unprincipled grog seller. But for
,this the place would not now lie known a few miles
of, except to railroad conductors and baggage
masters. at which they must whistle and make n
short halt. Five years since all Was commotion
and CONSERVATION among this population. Their
respectable and respected neighbors with near
q half hundred decen, eolored men in prison, char
sed with high treason and murder; the highways
crowded aud the homes beleaSered by numerous
eape.gallox VS. acting biped blood hounds under
ere,ence Of legal authority. This state of things
eessed when the respectable Marshal of the State,
Arrhony Roberts. now a representative in Congress
iH.ersered and stopped the lawless outrages.
The neighborhoud had long been infested with
being s whose avocation il WAS to prey upon hu-
marty. Since then they have ceased their opera
tieos. or have sought less dangerous localities. 1t
seems a high price to pay for peace, how can the
case be urged in justification of the position that
cvi, rnay be done to procure good. Good may be
educed from evil, but is must be by giving a differ
ens direction. and reaching another issue than
was designed by the evil done.
ask my friends to remember
AMOS GILBERT.