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and I trust, if he wiil continue to indulge hi! curiosiy a few more times, he will become one of tiie first class of abolitionists. Then he will learn, that to become an abolitionist of this stamp, insures to a man at least one blessing, viz, “Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and shall persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsly “4 c.Returning, we came by the way of Westfield, Hamilton County, where we found a welcome home with our friend Asa Bales. I addressed the citizens of Noblesville, on the causes of the existing pecuniary derangements and embarrassments in our country; to which they listened with marked attention for three hours; a door is fully open there, for the introduction of sound principles on the subject of slavery and abolition. In Westfield we had a meeting in Asa Bales’s barn, where those who were disposed to listen to the cry of the poor slave, assembled and gave an attentive car. A report was industriously’ circulated for the purpose of preventing the people fronS’fttldhfdihg, that I received a large salary for lecturing, and therefore thoS^if ftdTiad a testimony against a hireling ministry, should not give me theiT feliintetiance. If the fact had been true as reported, ! would endeavour tp show, that a testimony against a hireling ministry, has no more application to the salary of a person laboring to abolish the political institution ofslavery, than it has to the payment of a Doctor, a Lawyer, ora schoolmaster. But in the present case, the objection surely cannot apply because it is totally fake. I have never received any salary as a lecturer or agent in Indiana. So far from it, that I find myself subjected to the most rigid economy in order to live, and the excursion of which I am now giving a sketch, cost me more money than 1 can afford in future; which induces me here to say, for the information of the friends of the cause, that I am sufficiently at leisure to spend a week at a time,in brief excursions,commencing on the first and sixteenth of every month, provided, that in all cases tliose who invite me, pay my travelling expcnces, including horse hire. For my own time, and wear of clothes and body, Hook to a higher source for my reward. Having plead the cause of the millions of my suffering fellow pilgrims in bondage, before five public meetings in Hamiltou County, and having been encouraged by the cheering evidence manifested by the people, that the Lord Almighty is opening their hearts with feelings of sympathy for the perishing bondman, I returned to my post at New-Gar-den; but, not without being detained several days on the road, by the er„. tire prostration of my strength, occasioned by the extreme heat of the weather, and excessive labor and fatigue. A few days of rest will I hope restore me to my usual state of health.
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New Garden Protectionist
New Garden, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 07, 1841
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