Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-09

of priv lite property can be abolished-the OBJ
legation of marriage no totally disregarded-
government destroyed-and our domestic ar
engagements entirely broken up. To destroy
the Church and plunge the country into rev.
olution and civil war, are the preiiminaries to
all the horrors of the French Revolution, and
even worse, if worse he possible.
The Garrison party Of Abolitionists. to use
the beautiful figure Of DR.. Bailey, are the
''pionecrs" in this contemplated Revolution.
They 90 before the ultra lnlidels, and cut the
way for them through the masses of Society.
Their chief reliance for the destruction of the
Government and the overthrow of the Chris
tian Churches, appears to be in drawing car
features of the Church and the Government,
and in making the most offensive charges on
religious bodies and on individuals, without
regard to truth or decency. And it is said,
with what truth ! cannot tell, for | have not
heard any of them, that some of the female
travelling agents, are pre-eminently qualified
for this sort of work; while the chiUGhy of the
land is enlisted in their defence
How far other aJ0Litionists are following in
the track of Garrison and his party, in the
abuse of the Churches, may be worth an &C.
c~asional reflection. But ] give to him and
his contemporary pioneers, the credit of con-
slstency, so far as to have intended, in the
beginning Of the present movements, to effect
the very same objects which they now open
ly avow; and to have adopted in effect, the
very same means which they now employ,
however the tendency of those means might
not have been perceived by some.
The editors Of the 'Bugle' b. S. Jones aud
J. Elizabeth Hitchcock, with a feminine del
icacy peculiar to the party, say: 81 He asserts
that William LLOYD Garrison and those who
stand with him, are teaching the doctrines of
tho EraDnb Ray,lutioO which Arp1rbfd III
rope with blood and filled her with crime -
A more foul-mouthed SANDER never tell from
the lips o man, and the ungodly priest at the
time he uttered it was a member of a sect
which endorses the Christian character, and
receives into church fellowship men who are
guilty Of crimes which the most sanguinary
Of the French revolutionists would have had
too much manliness to perpetrate deliberately
as the Methodist Episcopal Church has dome
As for the abusive epithets contained in the
quotation, and in the rest of the three columns
i from which it is extracted we oXpectthem from
, the Editors of the Bugle. They may please
+; a few persons of like principles and tempers
| with themselves. But the respectable par
of community will place a proper estimate On
5 such productions.
, The charge which they made against me
l Of uttering a ''foul-mouthed SANDER" upor
Garrison, is drawn from differences. In my
discourse at ~Springboro, | made an ~allusion
to the letter which William Lloyd Garrison
q published in his Liberltor of Oct. 18th 1914
4 in which the writer informed him of the re.
/, turn of Robert Owen to this country, to carry
c out his new system Of society here-and ur
ged him TO induce John A. Collins 10 become
/ Owens John the Baptist in this country.
! o this proposition Garrison made no OBJ
lection, but gave it his sanction by publish
ing the letter in his paper, when, as he says
: himself, it was not intended for publication
That the principles which Owen and Col
: Inns have publicly advocated, are worse than
those of the French Revolution, is clearly
it proven by comparison. They are equally a
Meistical and equally revolutionary in thei
- character.
c And they go further than the French athe
lists did. in respect to the destruction of gov
II eminent, the abolition of the right of private
J. property, the dissolution of marriage, and til,
abandonment of single family arrangements
d and all the relations connected with them.
IS William Lloyd Garrison could not be ig
norant of these facts when he published the
5: letter alluded TO-. And in the editorial, ac
companying that letter, he not only makes NJ
st objection to any of these principles, but h
Of passes encomiums upon Owen, recommend
a him to the American public, and offers an in
T. suit, in advance, to those who may be dispo
g sed to find fault with his atheism. He call
j. them Scribes and phariSeeS-rehgiOuS hypc
he critics and Journalists, who would shrink tUit
1t holy horror from his presence!!
tn 1t surely can be no Islander to state thes
n facts, on the authority Of Garrison's own pa
ne per. And if the inference is fairly to b
drawn from them, that Garrison is guilty {
ch teaching the doctrines of the French Revolu
ton, the Editors Of the Bugle ought not t
complain.
Sc But this is not all. For whether Garriso
1T, himself is an atheist or not, both he and tn
its society OF which he is the founder, have opeI
.e- ly engaged in endeavoring TO destroy II
To- christian church. They do not profess to il
ms tend to reform but to destroy it. In this the
tn are practical atheists. For none but lnide
We of the most reckless character, would engag
in such an enterprise. Even the worst
Ii the French Revolutionists, lamented that
es, their attempts to explode superstition, the
had destroyed religion-and confessed tn
i've this was not the way to reform mankind
ct But the American Anti-Slavery Society h;
The announced its determination to dissolve Il
the Union, and to overthrow the organization
lso called the Christian Churches.
IAN Now we ask, if the country is TO be plu
of ged into civil war, the church destroyed, ar
ian its moral influence entirely ohliterated, VIII
do would then be in the masses of Society,
loose from the restraints of law and religio
ing 10 prevent their going into all the excess
ed. of the French Revolution Would it cal