Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-28

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heard individuals object to its use of the hal.
lot-boS which does lead to a use of the sword.
According TO friend Heaton's belief, ex-
pressed to us, not in this letter, but in con-
versation, Christianity is powerless for tho
overthrow of slavery. He says 1t can be
abolished only by the repeal of pro-slavery
laws, and this must be done by ballot-box
influence. Christianity manifests itself up-
on the human soul by making it christian.
and we have more than once heard him de-
clare, TINT no christian could roe under The
government Of This country. Therefore when
we say, that according to his belief. the
christian work of emancipation must be done
by anti-christians acting as christians are
forbidden to act, we give a legitimate deduc-
ton from his premises.
Surely, if preaching deliverance to the cap
tive, and the opening of the prison doors is a
christian work, then may christians labor for
emancipation, and by the blessings Of God
their labors will be crowned with success, if
they avoid giving countenance to that gov
eminent, under understanding to Jacob
Heaton, and according to true morality-no
christian can vote.
C) Here is an evident confounding of two
very different ideas. 1t is one thing to be a
part Of this government, and quite another
thing 10 lire in this country. The Russian
Ambassador lives in this country, butts by no
means a part of this government. The Dis
u%nionists are as truly separate from the gov
eminent as is the Russian Ambassador, in
fact more so, for the latter is a part of anoth-
er government which holds international fell
lowship with this.
(5) Very good; but go a little farther, and
refuse to vote under a constitution which
strengthens the rod of the oppressor.
(6) TO suppose that God will hold the
Disunionist accountable for any such thing,
we think Is placing a very low estimate up
on his wisdom. Can men be reduced to
slavery by any other than a bad instrument
taIity} According to friend Heaton's logic
and practice, he must be redeemed by the
same instrumentality. This may be consis-
tent argument for a political abolitionist, but
not for a strict moralist.
(O o, thou of little faith, who easiest
aside the excellence and power of christiani-
ty, and turnest TO politics as the true preach
er of the captive's deliverance.
(S) Witness the opposition of Liberty par
ty to Joshua r. Giddings, VIM. Bebb, Gov
ernor Slade, ex-governor Seward, Horace
Greedy, Cassius NJ. Clay and a host of other
Wing abolitionists whose power and anti
slavery character it attempts to destroy, mere
~ "because they cannot see eye to eye with
the Liberty party) as to the best mode of do
ing the work"
(9) Thou that sayest a man shouldst not
SANDER and misrepresent, dost thou slam
der and misrepresent! Jacob Heaton had
Plllsbury's letters by him when he wrote
this, and unless his moral blindness be a ius-
tliication, he is inexcusable in endeavorinr to
convey a false impression of what that letter
contained. In private, his quotation of this
portion of it was even more glaringly incor-
rect than what he has given here. WHY
does he not give its language word for word,
instead of the inference he draws from it,
Here is the extract, and we have italicised
that part which indicates the class against
which the charge was made.
"POH1ical aspirqnts swarm around it Glib
erty party,) with souls as devoid of humani-
ty as the veriest overseer who ever manrl-
ed the backs of women with the cowskin.'
What does Jacob Heaton mean by eastern
arrogance! Is it not pretty much the same
article as Westcrn arrogance! 1t seems to us
rather small business to try to deepen sec
tional feelings by an appeal to local preiu-
dlces-we have no sympathy with it. Call
it arrogance if you will, but don't sneer at it
as eastern, as though that changed its charac-
ter for the worse. Such an appeal is alto
gether beneath a man of Jacob Heaton's pre-
tensions, and would not have been resorted to
had he not been filled with that bitter and I'M
charitable spirit which his letter SO strongly
condemns in others.
(lO) We leave Parker Pillsbury to speak,
if he chooses, in his W defense. We in
vited Jacob Heaton to come to our house to
meet him, assuring him that if Pillsbury had
done Liberty party injustice, he would glad
iy retract as soon as he was convinced of the
fact, and suggested that a personal interview
might change the views of one or both in re-
gard to certain statements which the latter
had made. The invitation was not accepted,
but Jacob Heaton continued TO misrepresent
portions of the letter referred to, as we have
been assured by those who were present
when he was expatiating upon them.
(ll) We must be permitted to doubt
whether our friend Heaton reads ''all the pa
pers in the country" Why then should he
re-echo and endorse this stereotyped de-
c~laration which has passed current for some
time on,onr tho a1n,;r,re - IN. Dill ,n.