Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-02

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LETTER FROM NEW BRIGHTON.
FRIENDS EDIToRs:
''The notorious" Abby Kelley has
been here. After the description so often Civ
en- of her by our "Watchmen of Zion,'' we
might have expected 10 see attached to her a
pair of horns, and a cloven foot. The people
have looked, heard, examined; the scare crow
has vanished like a phantom al the approach
Of mornings dawn. The churches here have
been bolted and barred, hearers cautioned,
threatened, exhorted; all has been done to pre-
vent investigation that a band of inquisitors
could do, while debarred of their old argu-
ments, halter, fire, and fagot. Devil, infdel,
hereto, have been used so often that some
new name must be invented to produce the
desired effect. Short sighted mortals, to sup
pose the mind can thus be fettered.
"Can you lull the winged winds to sleep
Arrest the rolling world, or chain The deep!'
/ pity the poor clergy here the chains they
have fastened around the limbs of the bond
man are evidently CALLING their own necks.
They are afraid of each other, of their own
hearers, and Of the abolitionists. | only know
of one remedy for them, which is 10 throw a.
side their Instability, seek truth, and like men
conform to IFS teachings; this would make
them free indeed. Those who have built the
churches here have been debarred the use of
them: the upper story Of a factory was the
best place in a village containing FIVE church.
es, where suffering Freedom might be defend.
ed! My countrymen, what strange delu
sion has stripped that sacred name of all its
charms! Once the very mention of the name
OF liberty would brighten the eye and quick.
en- the pulse Of Americans; to secure it.
blessings they could wade through seas O
blood, and scenes of danger. Must this ap.
athy last forever? Is the sun of our liberty
already on the decline, soon to be extinguish,
ed, in the %stirless night of slavery? FORBID
It Heaven, forbid it man!
Our country can and must be free. The
love Of liberty, though crushed, has not been
extinguished; long buried under piles of Sec
tartan rubbish, the agitations Of mind, like the
heavings of an earthquake, has again thrown
it upon the surface, the breath of free discus
sion may yet fan it into flame.
Let i, once be established that freedom of
speech is as dangerous to Northern as South
ern oppression, and the efforts of our profess
sional gentlemen to suppress it will forever
be in vain. Convince the people that those
who can construe an old law into authority
paramount and superior to the rights of man
are ever ready as occasion offers to WELD il
against black or white, that a pale face anC
straight hair would not avert the blow; show
them that such can defend the monopoly o
aristocrats, as readily as the traffic in hu
man flesh and the divine rights of ~slavehold
7rs; convince them of these things and they
"ill declare themselves at once Independent.
such unworthy teachers. The profession.
"a. gentlemen here almost to a man, have Cd.
posed free discussion, the priest, the lawyer,
md the physician, mysterious and indiyisi.
ole as the Trinity, have been leagued against
It. No wonder. They all fatten Oh the miser-
les Of mankind, to alleviate those miseries is
to destroy them, like Demetrius they feel their
craft is in danger" Oh people think for
ourselves, trust not your inestimable rights
n the hands Of your political and spiritual
aides, they will lead you into the quagmires
religious and political superstition which
ave already engulphed so many nations:
ey will tie you up with old laws, creeds,
sd constitutions, until like a fly in The spi-
4 IS web you can't move a limb; you may
len demand liberty as the people of England
We demanded the repeal of the corn laws, a
le parchment and ink will form a barrier
y.p can't surmount. Protect mental freedom
s-t like Simpsons cords your letters will
L.cp from you, with scarce an effort: extend
ne blessings Of freedom to tho bleeding