Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-16
B. S.. j.
AKRON, Summit Co., Jan, 10, 1856

AKRON, Summit Co., Jan. 10, 1857.
DEAR MARIUs: l hope that the readers Of the
Bugle have "gumption" enough to know that
where your types made me say realms of grace"
| meant to say "medns of grace" and to suppo,e
that in the various passage, of nonsense that ap.
pear in my letters in the Bugle, the most sensible
and brilliant ideas would have appeared had your
type settlers given a correct translation to my hero.
glyphic manuscript. / shall no, attempt here TO
point out all the mistakes that you have made in
tho changing of words and punctuation, as that /
fear would require a longer series of letters than
the original ones, from which the mistakes were
made; but | do hope that the friends in various
places whose names l have given will not charge
me with using them in vain, when your types have
"rested the spelling into such form that the proper
owners could not know them, as for instance the
HerriohS of Hermitage, whom you make in one
place Herricotc and in another Hermit.
What does it mean7 | certainly am not so illit-
crate as you make me to appear, though 1 must
confess that in my haste l make ofttimes IN iUiterdtc
manuscript. But in this l have heretofore found
my safety, for my manuscript being a little blind,
required moro care and study on the part of the
typeuettor, and consequently had fewer mistakes
III IL piOO', tudu pam as print manuscripts,
that could be read running, requiring nc care or
study, and SO producing proof full of errors. But
now this security has failed me, for though l write
running, it seems che who runs can't read" GER
tainly those who stand OF your cases, or st at your
proofs don't read, whether they can or not; | wish
they could. What shall l do2 Must l learn to
write a plain round hand like Benz. S., and spend
all my time in shaping letters instead of ideas,
!, and 80 become a mere master of writing, knowing
nothing else us IS usually the case with good wri
tiers. always excepting B. S. j. and some others,
who are after all but exceptions to the general
p rule. l might think that your compositors couldn't
read anything but print, were it not that l have
q been favored with a sight of your own uiUianous
n chirogrnphy, (pardon my truthfulness,) in the
4 letters l have received at various times over your
= only beautiful and ornamental. but plain, for Ger.
, tainly l can read il, while l cannot read yours.
Before | despair entirely, l will make one more
. attempt and if this fails, l will write you no more
|. letters, but will print them a. l do the letters to
n my little girl OF six years old.
y AT the close of my discussion at Hartford, my
r opponent invited me home with him, and | enjoy.
q ed his hospitality for the night, and oldhim a copy
Of the extracts from the Madison Papers, &c.
and | think he is better informed on the matter
than he was before, and | hope benefited by my
visit. On the morrow he kindly forwarded me tt
Burg Hill with my baggage, and thus by his hos
4 pitality helped the cause along, if not by his
arguments.
a At the house of B. F. Curtiss at Burg Hill l me
for the first time beneath the same roof, in the foul
--I 49, 49, l-l l.-, o..: A.. Il --
;" together, with Mrs. Coleman and w. w. Brown
e and that we had a pleasant time together compar
$ ing notes, relating adventures, with their varied
n accidents and incidents, (you know in Philosophy
!, that the angle of accidence is always equal to tina
$ Of incidence,) | need not tell you, who have wan
9 dered in the field alone, and know how pleasant i
o was to meet at times with a friend and co-laborer
n On the morrow Brown departed Southwark, ant
we have seen his face no moro. While Mrs. Cole
man and myself went to Oraugeville and helc
G those meetings, that she has already told you Of.
y Another days stay under the hospitable roof o
t friend Curtiss while the Lord reigned," trained
S without, terminated our visit to Trumbull County
and we departed in Mr.. Curtiss' chariot with tw,
n horses, for a campaign in Ashtabula County. Ar
irving safely at the King brothers, they are truly
n royal family; they set about arranging meeting
for us at once and we were soon at work. l hel,
three meetings well attended, at the Cabinet Shol
II Of the Kings, a place more sacred to humanity thai
many steepled houses that have been dedicated t
God, and so become too holy to be used for man
10 redemption, while Mrs. G. went to Wayne anC
e held meetings. Saturday evening we togethe
held d very pleasant meeting at the Slater Schoo
House, three miles North Of the Kings, and OIL
ts Sunday essayed meetings at the ULiversalis
d Church at Andover Centre, which is owned in par
by some of our friends, in such form that they cal
&c can use it at pleasure, SO that this house of God
r not shut against man, But the rain descende
and the floods came, and our afternoon meetin
il was light, while the evening meeting was washe
is out entirely. On Monday | walked five miles t
Sc Williamsfeld, and held a fair meeting in the Cor
t. gregational Meeting House, where questions wer
asked fairly, and so much interest evinced that
It. appointed another meeting on my first unoccu
Sc pied evening, but on account of rain it was no
IL held; and l was sorry not to visit there again ant
Or follow up the hold | had apparently gained by thi
OF meeting. A walk of six miles over or through
= one of the muddiest roads that Ohio can be guilt,
a Of, brought me to that home of rest for wear,
Anti. Slavery souls, the Deans of S. Wayne,
a should not dare to tell you all l think of that fami
ly, lest you should think me extravigant, so | won
ly tell ysu anything. Here | held a good meeting
the schOol.house being full and the interest intense
the effect being marred only by the CALCULATIONS o
a drunken democrat, and the q~uibblins catches o
d a besotted priest, who always makes himself con