Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-10-23

FRIEND HINCujtAN

FRIEND HINCHJtAN:
Ny attention has been directed by n friend
to an editorial article in the ~Anti-Slaverv Blu.
gle, Of the 25th ult.. headed, Friends Of
Mental Liberty and Free Inquiry. "-whicf
we feel our duty 10 notice. as we believe the
Bugle has done the Shalersville Convention.
and Parker Pillsbury, ''great Injustice" in
the editorial alluded to. They say we have
used Mr.. Pillsbury's name ''without Free In
quiry, or any other inquiry which is not
the case, for we have inquired, and | think
we know him to be an honest. firm and in
dependent Free Inquirer, and a friend TO
Mental Liberty, and not the poor ~servilc,
cowardly, cringing slave to the popular re-
ligion of the day, like some Of the Abolition
lists Of Salem, ready to how down before their
enemies, the priests. ifby so doing they may
obtain a few copper5 10 aid them in support
of their party. The editors Of the Bugle as
sert that if we kAew Parker Pilsbury, We
knew him not to be one Of rs, as we could
not induce him to attend and speak At one of
our meetings, while he was in Ohio. AMI not
Gar distant from our place of meeting. Mr..
PiIlsbury, it is true. was invited to attend
our Convention, and would have done so had
it been in his power. So At least ne express
ed himself to me;-and he also expressed
himself favorable to the movement.
! wish our friends Of the Anti-Slavery Blu
gle had it in their power to become more the
''Friends Of Mental Liberty and Free Inqli-
ry,' than what they are at present, and not
have to be under the necessity OF STOPPING to
the u~nmanly attack that they have made on
those persons who composed the ShaIrrSyille
Convention.
We should like to kn,w who made the ed
;,.r- e tho, D,rl, H., l,,,,re e NJ Dbl
bury's conscience, whether he did it himself,
or whether they did it without free inquiry,
or any other inquiry to signify" Why not
leave Mr.. Plllsbury to defend himself, 1t any
Injustice has been done him. / cannot con-
ceive the motive which induced the Dugle
to make such an unwarranled attack on the
friends Of Mental Liberty, unless it he to
make a little capital for themselves, and to
take from off their W shoulders the name
of ''inGjeL,' and place it on a more honest
body Of men. If this course will be any BEN
eft to the Bugle or It's editors, they are at
perfect liberty to follow it up but we are of
a different opinion, for we know that the
best men in their party are not afraid Of the
mad dog cry of ''inhdelity," but are deter
mined 10 make that name as respectable, at
least, as the name, ''disunionist."
We further remark, for the benefit Of the
friends of the Buglo, and others, that the
meeting of the Friends of Mental Liberty,
was free for all to advocate such sentiments
as they thought most useful to society. Now
if this course is repugnant to The refined feel
ings Of the editors of the Bugle, and not in
accordance with the doctrines Of Mr.. Pills
bury, he does not mean what he has repeat.
eddy said.
One word more in conclusion,--I would
remark that if the Friends of Mental Liberty
have mistook Parker P~illsbury's sentiments,
aud done him injustice, no persons would
more regret it, or bs more ready to make
amends for what they have done, than the
ShalsrSvsl'e Convention M, believing hin