Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-11-07
For tie BugLe.
Mr.. Editor ~

piled 10 ! gu Tor the privilege OF ans NerinT
Mr. Trescotts communication You said Your
paper was open for free discussion a. gave
my answer an insersion so far You acted the
gentlemen but when You STEPPED aside from
the rules which govern the editorial faculty
a. intruded Yourself into that discussion You
showed that You was grossly ignorau of the
station which you have undertakn to occupy
or You had no regard for the rules which
should govern an editor (2) You not only
got our of Your place in this matter but You
made false statements as usual You said that
Mr. Prescott had handed you another commits
nicatin wherein be corrected me in some
statements "that in relation to the citizens
meeting being a packed meeting on the part
OF the friends of freedom now Mr. Jones this
is a glaring falsehood between You and Mr.
Prescott as every person will see by referance
to my communication | never said nor init
mated that the friends of freedom or free dis
discussion had any thing to do with a pack
ed meeting on the contrdy they had not, it
was left for those that wanted bu; on side
OF the questions discussed at issu, be-
tween the Garrisonians a. thir opponents to
have a company packed from the other meet
ing In order to carry out their ncfariOuS
schemes, now | cannot believe Mr. Prescott
ever represented to You as You have it repre-
scented in y our remarks but if You or Mr.
Prescott or any other person underAki to de-
ny any position which | nave tlkel in my
former communicative come out like men and
put Your finger on the place g. if Lea mot sus-
tain that position l viii abandonit bu. | th;nk
no one will be so rash as to undertake tie
task a. if they should | think You would be
as friendly to them as you WIS to our friend
TreSeot& diSsuade them from saying any more
about it. (3) You say there are doubtless
some who would believe the Rev Mabocfit
in preference to those of any other person.
| think You have mistaken Your man as nGi-
ther the title of Rev nor Mobocrat belong to
me the former 1 respect e. tho latter ! detest,
If you meant any other person than myself
You was out of Y our fk1ce again in dragging
any others into the remarks that You were
applying to me, l) ! also want to corr ct
some of Your statement which You md,
an respect to the temperance meeting Iuu
are wrong in sitting that the society he'd its
regular meeting in the NJ. L. Church TIA.
evening, that was a called meeting of some
of the citizen indepenlant of any meeting Of
the temperance society | circulated the news
OF Mr.. Williams arrival in Town AID that he
would give us a lecture & got permission for
the house for that purpose and no other, there
fore 1t was improper to give any other Oh trac-
ter to the meeting than what it was cahei
for, IL 1t was ouesof order 10 brhng any res
%olutions whatever before its meeting that
evening, had it been a business meeting then
it would been in order and ! think the mass
would have received the resolution. But |
suppose You wanted something to make a
fuss about & kick up a rou and You took
that method to bring it abont (s) Your great
aim seems to be to disturb and rcnd asunder
if possible every society and orginiss, ton
whatsoever this was announced by one Of
Your COadjutSrS when Iisey first came to ti ;
state and We have seen it clearly developed
In the transactions whjcl have since followed.
Mr.. Foster has shown how lightly he regards
1ntemperanee in declaring at 4 eetiia mace
(Which ! can name if called upon) that he
had rather see a grOgshop or distillery 90
up than a Church! this doctrine | think from
what i have seen of You, You can Il lopt as
Your W bat / think You pssved r.crean
to the rights of the grogsellers Il this place
In dissenting Yourself FROM them when they
Were brought up before the court BY this ruff
Ian band for a breach Cd law w.S'h You Ic.
lleye to foe oppressive ard wrong they need
ed Your aid very much g. as the old adage
is a friend in need is a friend indeed You
should have been ON hand & protested against
fe'5 s"N iuN III lOICC u hOlSt Q Ou WIFI Dp
at Your post hereafter & see that the right of
the rumseller are not trampled upon (G)
ii. w. MURRAY.
Q) Did not Ii. w. Murray know that
this paper has two editors, and who those
editors are, there would be nothing remarka-
BILE about the way in which he begins his
letter. he commences with a s'Mr. Editor,
Sir" and Throughout the whole ccmmunica-
ton awards him the entire conduct of the pa
per. Perchance he considers a woman in
capable of understanding the important topics
upon which he endeayors to enlighten the
readers Of the Bugle. 1t m1y BE a sovTee of
qualification to him to know, thlt the note
appended to his former letter. and the edito-
rial on the Citizens meeting, were botI writ
ten by Elizabeth Hitchcock; IA fact, which
had he known, he very likely woAl not have
deigned 4 reply, as a 1Mr. Editor, Sir" ap-
pears alone worthy of his notice.
(2) Indeed, and in what sckoOI did II.
W. Murray learn the rules Of editorial gov
ernWentl We claim the right to express our
opinions upon any subject VII rtever, although
he docs forbid ii. Thc Buglc is a free anti
slavery paper and his desire to gag its con-
ductors, is in perfect keeping with what NC
have before seen of his character. Were he
a subscriber to the paper, had he Contributed
the hrst copper toward paying the printer for
setting his ideas in type, we should have at.
iriOuted this Language to his ignorance, in
stead of his insolenee as We now do.