Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-22
LETTER FROM INDIANA.
THREE RIVERS, Dec. 10th, 1860.

THREE RIVERS, Dec. 10Th, 1861.
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l have been visiting the schooi-districts in St.
Joseph County, holding meetings nearly every
evening for the past two weeks. There is no bet
ter, and l doubt if a more important way of dis
seminating Anti-Slavery truth among the people
than this. Men, women aud children, and more
especially the Lads and Leases" go to the school
houses, supposing somebody has something to say,
concerning what they ought to know, and if they
are not disappointed, you will be sure to find all
tho interest and the aid you SO much need, but
which in the busy towns and villages you are not
always sure to find. All school-houses can be fl
led to overAowing,a and the seed own here has the
advantage of the quickest and most vigorous soil.
| have, among other things, presented the subject
of Petitioning for q repeal of the Fugitive Slave
Law, q live subject for the people, and one for
which they are determined to answer, in unmista-
kable language. The people have no sympathy
with the present %numbness Of the Party leaders,
they see no reason why the agitation on the Slave
ry question should all at once come to an end,
since not a chain is loosed by the election of a
president. They do not understand that in the
party they have invested all their manhood for
better or for worse, and must now deny their faith
in the grand forces which have shook mems souls,
and are shaking now the world. They understand
why all this is demanded Of them, and have, as
they tell me, less and less sympathy, with the pal
aced pauperism which the present political system
imposes upon them.
From Sturgess where 1 held meetings and found
some thorough Anti-Slavery Republicans, I came
out on the road Westward to White Pigeon, where
after spending several hours calling upon Presby-
terrain and Baptist ministers, and several of the
most active Republicans in the place owning the
Halle, all protesting to be Anti-Slavery, and all
thinking likely somebody would open q house for
me. The only house l could get, that l could
afford to speak in, was the very fine Hall of q
Bell-Eyerett Man, quite lately from New Jersey,
proprietor and owner Of the Hotel and Eating
House between Toledo and Chicago; where you
will find most desirable entertainment. He very
kindly referred me to sources where l might expect
aid, and when he found these had failed, out of
pure disgust of such ingratitude end funkeyism,
as he said, though he had no sympathy with my
subject, offered me his Hall and entertainers
free of charge.
AT South Bend, the nome Of Mr.. Colifax, l
found Republicans sitting at their ease, counting
the profits of the Union, and as thorough deaf and
olind, as we'll as dumb, peculiarly impervious to
demonstrations, a gastric weakness, not depending
on the senses, but perhaps n want of sense, in this
class of the party. These men, seem quite as I'm.
conscious of a South to-day, as an Egyptian Os
tricb, of a storm, when his head is buried in the
sand. Mention that the South are greatly agita.
ted and Secession probable, they sage, They
must be ~fearfully convulsed, with fear of Insur
rection on the one hand, and starvation on thu
other. They'll be quiet soon, al Ways were excl
table," But they demand consideration; We mus
restore tae Missouri Compromise line, repeal Per
sonal Liberty Bills, grant them the right of repri
sal to indemnify their loss of Fugitives, recognize
the bred Scott decision, and remove all obstacle
in our Laws that interfere with Slavery. VIVA
shall we say? leave it Tor the new admiuistra
ton; let MS hare quiet we have done our work.
= These men have lost all belief in tornados an
earthquakes, mass meetings and torch-lights an
are now looking over the broad praire of Politics
summer and Forgerme-nots, and thinking, tO-mOl
row shall! be as yesterday, "and much more abur
Q dant. ,
But l am forgetting that l must say as little q
II, possible, since my truth may have an mir of falls
- hood, to some of your readers, and put up at au,
ton, I confess would look very bad, and perhay
4 secure no bid-and that, speaks well for our hi
manity.
shall remain a few weeks longer in the Coul
ties North Of the Southern Michigan Road, wheI
l should be glad to circulate the Bugle; but polit
cal papers, like political speeches, have thrown tt
h people into such a nightmare of content, that G
briefs trumpet l fear alone will waken them
n consciousness.
YouIs truly,
JOSEPHINE S. GRIFFING.