Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-10
! am your sincere friend,
MICAJAII II. JOHNSON
SHoRT CREEK, Ohio,
18th 9th mo-, 1916.

18th 9th mo-, 1916.
0F The following communication from
the Liberator, contains a letter from the elo-
quent and devoted Thompson, a man, whom
eleven years since the Americans hunted
from their shores as they would drive a wild
beast from their fields, and all because he so
loved freedom, that like Lafayette, he left the
land of his nativity that he might labor more
eGlectua!ly for the redemption of the oppressed
American, using not carnal weapons but mo-
raj means. 1t will be read with interest by
all who love the slaves cause.
LETTER FROM HENRY c. WRIGHT.
EDINBURGH, May l6, 1916.
DEAR GARRIsoN George Thompson is
now in London. lie is to be with us again
in a few days, to hold a series of meetings in
this town, during the meetings of the Free
Church General Assembly. The following
is a copy of letter received from him a few
days since. What a picture! But it is
truth to life
LONDON, May :, 1916.
Ny DEAR lEENRY Yours of Tuesday
from Edinburgh, is before me-the pamphlet
also. The latter leaves the question where
it finds it. As far as it touches that, it is but
a repetition of the stale libels cast upon our
holy and blessed Christianity, by those who
90 to the Old and New Testaments for their
warrant to invade, sacrilegiously, Gods IA
mily and to run away with part of his of.
spring. o, what a God must the God of
those be-, who represent him, virtually. rs
saying, You must not e|nslave my whiie chill
I.., G. bn,,, r,n1n tI.na f.,, a-l ...-I 4.
but | have some poor, black, curIy-headed
ones, ami as | don't care much about them,
you my help yourselves, and do as you
please with them. True, | have embraced
them in the covenant of my grace anil mercy.
and they shall be mine, if they believe the
gospel, in the day when | make up my jew
els. This Is cnongh-eternily is theirs, they
are yours till TIME shall be no longer
My word, preached by prophets, apostles and
patriarchs, is for y'n. and for the Chinese,
the Ilindoos, the Musselmans-for all the
skrdighi-hqirea races but as for these, having
searched the scriptures for yourselves, you
may deny to them the power of looking into
the will of their Heavenly Father, and tell
them no more than suits your convenience =.
IHey mar read u WHEN THEY GET TO TEA-
VEN You may point them TO mansions on
high-you may tell them that they shall walk
with their Saviour, Sin Whic,'-you may
promise them a crown Of life, and lift their
hopes to a world of glory, where they shall
he kings and priests and tread the city of
the saved, in robes of light; but here you
may make and keep them sLAvEs. Their
names are written in the Lamb's book but
you need not strike them out of your ledger.
Their LOiies are 'the temples Of the Holy
Ghost; but the temple if not the tenant,
is yours, to do with as you please. Il stand
at the door and knock {; , and if any one opens,
| enter and dwell there; but never mind me
the house is yours; you have a life lease;
though the guest is the Son of God! Tell
them they may lay up treasures in heaven
but all they have and are. are yours on earth.
Tell them thai Christ hath said, IF any do
the will of his Father in heaven, the same are
his Greihren, and his sisters, and his mother !;
but tint Christ hls no objections to his
mother, his sister, or his Gr0iher, being a
SLAVE. Tell them, that in their origin, their
destiny, and their faculties, TO be hereafter
unfolded,) they are but a little lower than
the angels; but that, for the present, you