Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-08-01
"Liberty Eeral8.n

We do not like 10 engage in unnecessary c~oEtroyer.
sy, but when Misrepresentation are made which are
calculated to injlriousIy affect he cause we advocate,
we feel called upon 20 notice them. OF such a char.
ncter was the Hernld's editorial notice Of our an,ici.
poted meetings at Warren, in which the agents of the
Am. Society were held up to the public as the repre-
sontatives of the no government party in he East
Atthe first meeting which they held there. they deni.
ed the charge, and stated that The editor, in what he
said, manifested either a lack of honesty, or of intelli.
gence. The history Of the controversy between New
and Old Organization was open to him, and If he
could draw from that, or any other source. evidence
to sustain his charge, why did he not produce it when
deuooded?
We would rather attribute his misrepresentation to,
ignorance, than to dishonesty; and had he promptly
made the relraction when he found himself unable to
prove his charge, no suspicion of dishonesty would
have attached to HIM. The next Ne. Of the Herald
contained no ol.usion whatever 20 The matter; not a
shadow of evidence to sustain his charge, not a word
Of explanation. The Editor doubtless thought The
better way was TO preserve a d~igniiied siIeace, but
unfortunately Tor himself, there were some who were
not content with that mode of procedure, and one of
hose whom he had SO grossly mIsrepresentod, seLt
him the following note:-
Nix TART have Just seen the Herald of Julv
9Th, and was mucn surprised to find that it contained
no correction of the mIsstatement which was IN your
editorial of the previous number. You know the
a,ement 10 which | refer:-it was in substance that
myself and associates were the agents or representa-.
Df tho m uorarnpNopt porIU ,f ahpliiOnicIS
You may remember that we stated al our meeting in
Warren, that the Editor who made The charge was
either not sufficiently intelligent to conduct a paper,
n else was dishonest; and ws called upon you either
to retract, aud make the retraction as public as your
or else bring forward the proof upon which
il was based, for the truth of the change we utterly
and unqualifedly denied. You have done neither:
and on behalf of myself and associates, we ask Of
YOU as an act Of justice 10 ourselves and The society
we representative Am. A. S. Society-io give this
,ommunlcalion a CONSPICUOUS insertion; TO record our
Ienial of the charge, and our demand Of proof or a
prompt and explicit retraCiion. If YOU Go not pre-
the one, or make The other, The inference we draw
rom your ronduct will be far from favorable, either
o yourself personally or The cause your represent.
BENZ. S. JONES.
Instead of having the manliness and fairness 10
it as requested, he wrote an editorial on SAB.
~ Kelley" Ia his first article he charged them with
being opposed TO Liberty party, with advocating n
dissolution of The Union, and in favor OF no.govern.
nentlsm. The first Two charges their lectures fully
and the last %diSproved. 1t was the last
and that alone, which in Warren they told
lin was false, and whose falsehood they re,ssserted
D the above letter. What folly then for hin 10 talk
bout the first two, and by showing that the agents Of
he Am, Society were opposed to Liberty party, aud
n favor Of Dissolution, try and win a character for