Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-27

FROM AN EARLY AB0LITIONIsT.
EDEN. MAY p. O.. july 20. 1856

nave aided In the pact, or may aid il in the future.
| like to be considered one of the family, and to
BIO called by its name. Secondly don't like to be
slandered if l don't afix my signature, frequent
ly, to an article, they report me dead, which
brings premature (,hough it be slight sadness to
my friends and shorilived relief to tenacious ad-
herents to the opinions Of long ago. But there is
still another reason. Quite recently spent sew
eral weeks in scenes once familiar to the Bugle
editor, and though unknown to many of his read
ers, they could not fail to be interesting were they
described by one competent. Those who were
born and have always lived in localities in the in
terior, when fifty years ago the red man and the red
deer, with a chance buffalo held undisputed pos
session, could not avoid observing the contrast,
could they alight in old Chester County, Penusyl-
vania, where PENIS settlers sought for, and made
themselves homes iu the days of our great, great
grandfathers. Here are unmis.akable evidences of
their preference of utility before beauty. The
massive stone walls which a rich cement and time
have rendered well nigh as impenetrable as the
mountain rock. Many Of these edifces are entire
ly new modelled inside. Some have the exterior
a few have the same aspect they bore when they
lelt tue HuUu OI the Dullubr. GACept tuese leStlu-
srs of the taste, or the necessities of primitive
times, almost all the dwellings, barns and out
houses are clothed in the purest white. All the
puliug and much of the fencing is dressed in the
same manner. Best Ct all lie sheir large old trees
about their improvements-forest trees which have
borne the schorchings of two hundred summers, and
braved the storms of as many winters still they
stand fact rooted in the spots where were developed
the germs Of tho chestnut and acorn. Culture has
done its part Pomology has been studied with
effect; fruit and ornamental trees abound, and
shrubbery 'too tedious to mention. The farms
probably average seventy-fve acres of soil natural
ly of a second or third rate quality, but in a high
state of cultivation. The cost of guano and other
fertilizers is such, that the farmer does not accum
ulate here as readily as in localities where the sol
does not require such frequent renewing.
What is better than anything yet told, the people
are social and comparatively intelligent. They dc
not forget that the diffusion of useful knowledge
has been spoken of as q desideratum, hence Com
mon schools and Lyceum, claim their attention.
If the branches taught, and the manner Of
teaching ae not the best possible. in this progress
i've age, improvement may be anticipated.
But Reform, what of it? Would that a better
report could be made. Though a well watered
country, that liquid is not the only beverage
When the Westinghouse were in full blast,
Temperance prospered. When law was resorted
to in aid Of the cause, a counter sympathy was
.uAnifs5ted and tempersacs men cannot congratu-
EtdsstdSassssss on ths edinso Isaaa hzAsAK-
Pc Antt6iavsry nphsass sAsi bssomsii household
words.a"N o,e~s trSesudG 10 .iDdibsp. u: lalliats
chattelism, and every body assents to the hardest
words that are uttered against the vile system
but this never will abolish it. There Is work to be
dc~ne-someshing besides discussing the merits and
dement's of Disunion and Political action. 1t il
not unfrequent that in the zeal to have things
done in our tcdy there is moro of partizanism thar
hearty solicitude for the slaves redemption. Tht
head work seems doubtful if even this is more
than seemingly to be done. but the heart work is no,
so apparent. If we would realize the relation
in which we stand to the subject should we not ask
what can l DOR We are not individually suf
fciently in earnest,; we do not put our souls 10 the
slaves SOULS stead. 1t was not thus always
Ask the abolitionists Of Salem and vicinity if they
feel the same interest they did twenty years age
when there came to your post Office of the. Emanci
patOE, LlDeTdtOT q IDllaHtNTOp lSt bA COplto tdCu
and one hundred and forty of Human Rights p
Are the martyr days of aRti-slavery indeed past
Cannot a righteous cause prosper after persecution
ceases? Are odium and progress insepara5le p
Then welcome odium better be hated, than apa
thetic: but will say no more. for l sicken at tbt
thought Of our Indifference. l once hoped tina
ere now, those in whom life is fresh, impatient un
der tardiness Of their seniors. would have takeT
the matter into their own hands and moved forward
needless Of the admonitions to be tolerant, mod
crate and prudent.
Have you become I~sraelites in Salem 2 l reaC
in q stray copy of the Republican" that you hav,
recently had q meeting to urge the obligations o
the Jewish Sabbath. Pity you do not exercise
your talents and employ your time on matters o.
less doubtful utility. A glance at tie Authority
for the Institution will show that at first it wa.
simply the announcement Of a fact that creative
power operated during six days on the seventh
took a hallowed rest; nothing mere. twenty-five
hundred years after, a Sabbath was appointed on thu
miracle of mama. In the Decalogue the Rest is re,
ferred to as the reason Of the appointment, but or
the revision of The law,i Deuteronomy it was to be
observed on account of their deiiverance from Egyp,
tian bon Mage. First and last, II was addressed ia
the people led by Moses and them only. The Ian
guage is, Hear, oh Israel" &c. There has been
progress in this matter under the Christian dispen.
sation. The Seventh was the day set apart in the
Jewish law, and Death the penalty for infraction.
The i'm proyement consists in substituting the Sew
enth with the First day and a fine of a few dollars
instead Of a deadly stoning; and Horses not being,
strictly, bovine, or assine. and besides. church 90.
ing being a work of christian necessity, they may
te ridden or driven one, or a score of miles, and
tied up to be fy-bitten, while their owners are wor-
Shipping. f -
Best wishes to the readers of the Bugle.
ref o. AMOS GILBERT.
FIRST OF AUGUST CELEBRATION.
NEw GARDEN, INDIANA, Aug. Sd, 1859
The Anniversary of the emancipation in thew est