Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-20
FIELD NOTES.

WELLINGTON, March 9th, 1858.
DEAR NJ. On Saturday, the 9th OF January
We went to North Fairfield, where we would doubt
less have ba6 some good meetings had it not been
revival season among the sectarians of that place.
The Congregational meeting house was open te
u. aud the hospitality Of our friends there, gave
as q cordial welcome to their fire. sides. But the
people were all engrossed in some other matter,
than works of practical righteousn ess. Two pro
sraesed meetings were in progress. The Baptist'
and Disciples were striving to Guido each 9th.
sr, in what they called the saving Of souls. and al
most the entire interest of the moral and intellectual
part Of community was absorbed by these move
ments. Thinking it unwise under such circum
stances to attempt meetings there, we prayed to
lie excused until IL more favorable season.
PROSPECTING AT GREENWICH.
In Huron county, we felt worry much like stran,
sers in a strange land. We had the names OF
scarcely any reliable persons, and you know how
difficult it is to get up meetings when you aave nc
local cooperation aud no sympathy in the place.
Having learned that there was u strong infusion
Of the Quaker element in Greenwich, Mr.. Rowland
and myself visited that town-at least that part
which lieth on the raiiroad-t see what could lie
done there. The village was not so large as we ex'
psctsd. and having. moreover, no place in which a
meeting could be held save a small unseated room
In the tavern, we concluded to postpone operations
there, until the Town Hall, which the people talk
Of erecting, is completed.
NEW LONDON.
On Wednesday evening Mrs. Jones and myself
held . meeting at New London, a small town upon
AZ r.;lrn,d nJara tho prosoaota vyo,o $40 ro.,
good, and the realization no better. County Court
was to ommenc the next day, and rrosecu-
tions had been instituted against some ten or twelve
New London rumsellers for a violation of State
laws.and they and their friends, and some who were
not their friends had gone to the county seat to at
tend to the matter. Add to the absence of SO man
citizens Of the place, the presence Of a not inconsid.
cradle snow-storm. and you have the result figured
cut in our small meeting in the Baptist Church.
MR.. ROWLAND AT ROCHESTER.
On Wednesday and Thursday evenings Mr..
Rowland held meetings in Misunderstanding at
she Depot one evening, and the next at the Center.
AZ neither of the places are very great. numerical
y considered, and as Mr.. II does not appear to
have found for a co-laborer, either at the Center or
at the Depot. the one who can chase a thousand,
still less the two who can put ten thousand to
Digit. l fear me his labors did not yield very great
immediate returns.
WELLINGTON.
An appointment. was left for Mrs. Jones and
mysels at Wellington. on Thursday evening, at
which time We repaired to the Town Hall at that
place. and had the room pretty well filed. The
people there. like those of some other places. are
many Of them terribly afraid of our Disunion doc.
trinss-not because they knoO what they are. but
because tn icy don't know. They regard them as
eonstitutinga kind of moral cholera, or spiritual
plague. and DONE venture to listen to what we have
TO say until they are properly provided with disiu.
fecting agents. When circumstances are thus uu-
favorable, it is bard to bring conviction so the soal
and we not unfrequensly find in our experience
chat
"A man, convinced against h. viii.
I'd fbs ~ns opinou SSH"