Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-24
mirror, Wayne co. Indianl, J
June 2lst, 1876. !
ESTEEMED FRIENDs -

ESTEEMED FRIENDs:- -
| learn with some surprise that my article
on human government " is hardly suitable for
the Bugle." Am sorry for that bat as ! Gm
comparatively ignorant of the character and
object of the Bugle, | shall most cheerfllIy
acqulesce in your better Judgment.
Would ask as a favor, however, that you
return at my expense, such of my articles as
are not suitable for publication, without COM
menting upon their defects. | had supposed
that those who bring the charge Of perjury
against us, would not be very particular about
the - form in which the charges of false
hood were thrown back upon themselves.
Perhaps they would not be, if the proof were
absent; but the proof being there, it is con-
sidered : hardly suitable for the Bugle."
The brother who first recommended the
Bugle to me, assured mo that its columns
would always be free for Liberty party men
to justify, if possible, their position, and throw
off the charges brought against them by Dis
unionists. But in this | IN sorry to find he
was mistaken. You will pardon me, there
fore, if | ask a discontinuanc of the paper.
Do not suppose dear friends. that this Is done
10 threaten or bride you into a coiupliouce
with my wishes. You would be unworthy
friends of freedom in any sense, could you
be thus swerved from your purpose. This
is only saying that | was misinformei as to
what that purpose was, and am too poor to
patroni2e a less free paper than | had suppos-
ed the BugIe to be. wish you great success
in doing what your hands find to do against
slavery, meanwhile | should be greatly pleas
ed if the Bugle would bear a little message
of love to my Anti-Slavery friends in Ohio.
It is Sunday, and all creation is doing good
but man. The industrious little bees are
keeping the Sabbath holy as they gather
sweetness from the bending flowers; whilst
men are loungiag about in holy idleness be-
cause a being Of Infinite power got tired and
rested.
The soft breeze, from the Western p%raifies
have freighled themselves with sweetness
and blown the last case Of sickness from our
lovely village whilst men of science are Of
fering the services of bleeding, bli5tering and
calomel!
The little birds that have been away Of
TO Heaven to learn new tunes, are singing
their sweetest notes Of love as they pass
along; whilst Pro-glavery christians are sing
ing "Oid Hundred'' to a being of Divine
wrath!
The queen Of SPRING has thrown her
green mantle upon the woodlands and spread
a carpet Of flowers upon the world but the
Lords Of Creation have plowed them up to
give place to tobacco patches, distiilcries and
slaughter-housos! The little streams Of pure
cold water, as they tumble from the distant
hills, meet together in the valleys, Sake pas,
sage in the shining river, and move eli to the
Ocean, shouting freedom as they 90; willis
the slaye-holding children Of the Lord" up
on their banks are disPuting as to the best
method Of "washiag away sim" And yet
,hose clamorinE advocates Of sprinkling, pour
ing and dousing, accuse the friends of freedom
with disturbing ihcir peace! But a better
day is dswnins. Bea1iy shell ye, triumph
over doigrmiiy-fre,deta oyer ~s.eyey-right
over wrong. Tie srgG q pgHiy will rolI