ITEM #17358
March 23, 1849
THE NORTH STAR
Rochester, New York
J.B. GOUGH, the eloquent temperance lecturer, delivered three
powerful lectures to large congregations in Minerva Hall, this
week. Hundreds went away unable to gain admission. - Frederick
Douglas
ITEM #24022
March 20, 1851
THE NATIONAL ERA
Washington, D.C.
Vol. V. No. 220 p. 47
The following is an excerpt from a letter written in CINCINNATI,
March 12, 1851 to the Editor of The National Era:
Since my last letter, John B. Gough has been doing a great and good work in our city. A week ago, 2,600 persons had signed the pledge, and the interests keeps up without flagging. I cannot attempt a description of Mr. Gough's style or manner of speaking language would fail to portray the effects he produces on his hearers, and any analysis of his lectures or the outbursts of natural, heart-stirring enthusiastic oratory, by which he enchains the feelings and convinces the minds of his auditors, would do him injustice. Many of your Eastern readers have doubtless heard him, and will be gratified to hear of the deep impression he has made, and the wide fields of usefulness opening to him in the West. He was at Springfield, Clarke county, last week, where the whole population turned out en masse to hear him, and the larger part signed the pledge. He is now at Columbus, but will return to this city next week, when he is to address all the pupils of the Public Schools. There is room enough for his labors, as the increase of "coffee houses," (as they are called,) and drunkenness, and vice of every kind, more than keeps peace with the advances of population.
Yours, P.