Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-02-19
FIELD NOTES.

there was hardly enough down hill to carry OF the
water wherethe roads followed straight lines ;
aud where the people wero Yankee by birth or
descent. This winter our surroundings are alto
gethcr different. We journey up hill and down
hill all the tins the roads we follow are as tortu.
Gus as the path of a politician and our sojourn is
among a people whose place Of nativity-either Of
themselves or their parsnts-is generally to be
found as far south as Pennsylvania, and often vir-
GINA and Maryland.
,a We find everybody in this part of the State has
an idea that their roads ore 80 easily followed,
thet ''the way faring man, though a fool, need
not err therein" In directing us from place to
place they invariably assure us, you can't
possibly miss tho way !" and yet in almost
every instance we hare performed that impossible
ity, and gone astray. A friend with whom we
were staying, was so determined to make certain
ty doubly sure, that he gave us a map of the road
making, however, a bee line of a corkscrew
path-and put down every cross road. grove,
BLACK smith. shop, dwelling, schoolhouse, pig stye
&c. The entire journey was Tor should have BEEN
hut six miles in extent. We followed the written
directions four miles of the way, and then found
ourselves in a village two miles off our mapped
road, when we substituted our instinct for the map,
and performed the rest Of the journey without
mistake.
ANOTHER VISIT TO LEEsvILLE.
On Saturday evening, and on Sunday forenoon
and evening, the Goth and Both, we gave the peo'
pie of Leesville three additional instruments of
anti. slavery doctrine. Our discourses on Sunday
were upon the religious aspects Of the Anti Slave.
ry cause. l was assured it was q refreshing sea-
son to some OF the Wesleyans remaining there,
who declared it to be the kind of preaching they
used to have in the early days of Wesleyan Meth
odism, when their church stood firm, not only in
defense of the True and the Right, but boldly and
successfully aggressive upon the False and the
Wrong.
PROSPECTING AT DEERsvILIA
I mentioned in my last, that when we went to
Deersvills for the purpose of appointing meetings,
we found DR.. Everett lecturing there. 1t seems
he had referred 10 Mr.. Garrison in illustration Of
his ideas of the reformatory spirit of the age.
Seotarian Grimalkins at once smelled an infdel
Rat, and a published lecture, delivered by w. w.
Sim pkins in 1858, then q preacher to the United
Brethren in Mastersville, was speedily produced.
not only in evidence of Garrison's i%nfdelity, bu.
to prove the infde1ity of all Disunion abolitionists.
While The people were all engaged in the discus
sion of Simpkins Us. Garrison, we arrived 10 town,
and appointed a series of meetings there. to com.
mence on Tuesday, the LIST, at which time we prom.
Used to review the pamphlet of Billy Simpkins, as
his former neighbors in baskerville "call him for
short."h ftL ,'ih
In order to give the readers of the Bugle some
idea of the truthfulness and profundity Of the
work referred to, | quote a few passages.
9 BEAUTIES OF BILLY slMPKINs.
~ unhesitatingly say that the Garrison Adolf
t%ionists, at this time, do not operate upon the first
and most prominent principle of the American
Anti.slavery Constitution, but are a confederation
of Infdels, who have for their aim the extinction
Of Christianity and the Bible. y n They have
thrown away Christianity and ~trampled under
foot the Bible, and are carrying on an e~xterminat.
ing war against the political government, and geek
its dissolution--hoping to build one after their
own coming, similar to that of France under the
Reign of Terror. \ \ They say they are nom
resistants But l say there are no non.resistants
but in the Christian organization. n \ They
say that Jesus Christ lie not God-that there is no
resurrection ofthe body-condemn all the ordinan-
ces which he has ordained-and treat the Bible
with utter contempt as a divinely inspired book.
v n They say that there is no Gospel but an anti.
slavery Gospel. Therefore they are ignorant Of
the Gospel of Christ for his gospel embraces
everything that is God-like-Auti. Slavery not ex.
'cspted. \ n Spiritualism in all it's various
ramifcations is one prominent feature in their re.
ligioR this occupies much of their time. 4 y
Andrew Jackson Davis Revelations is their
standard work on what they call theology, or body
of divinity, which is most profound atheism. 4 4
They cannot vote or hold office under the govern
rnent while it exists as it is. What are the great
objections Slavery and Religion n \ | do
not say that every one in the ranks of the CARR.
sonians at this time desires to do as the French
Jacobins did but do say that there are many,
who, if they had the power, would glory in the
same practices. y y AS it regards their views of
the Bible, the Salem (Bible) Convention speaks
plainly. n What is the influence which Gar.
risonians exert in communities where they are liv.
ing All religious preaching and preachers are
laughed at! the idea of Christianity considered
nothing but a h~umbug-Jesus Christ but a mere
man, and the Bible no more than another book.
y n Long before Garrisonism crossed the Allan.
tic to spread its banefuI influence upon our shores,
several of the States Through religious instruc,
tion and political a%ction) loosened the bonds of the
slave. and let the oppressed go free. But near
twenty years have rolled by since this Garrison
flag was unfurled to the breeze, and what has it
effected more than a diffusion of infdelity through.
ont the country, together with the most disagreea-
bic discussions that the nation ever witnessed"
"a Hs MEETING IN DEERsvILLE.
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We held four meetings in Deersville, and went
pretty thoroughly not only into Billy Simpkin's
literary work. but into an exposition of the doc
trines and measures of Disunionists. We were
not able to obtain the meeting house Of any sect,
although there are three in the place. one of them
belonging to the Wesleyan Methodists. But the
Wesleyans at Deersville have most of them became
80 like unto their NJ. E. neighbors. and their Old