Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-17

the other matters mentioned in this com
munication. At any rate, the requests made,
and if they or you feel disposed to comply
with il, it will crafty many.
am respectfully yours,
LUTHER SlMONS.
Editors Of the Bugle' and to
REPLY.
~ As the engagements Of our friends
Foster are such that they cannot reply to this
communication, We will endeavor 10 satisfy
the writer's mind as to the points queried af-
ter, so far as we can in the little space to
which we must necessarily confne ourselves.
(2) For this purpose the Bugle was es-
tablished. Not alone TO expose the corrup-
ton of political parties, but also to invesii-
gate the character of the Church and the
State, and to show the people that both these
institutions are pro-slavery, and that despite
their high professions, they are in reality the
bitter foes of both God and man and that
no matter how antI-slavery in feeling the sup
porters of either may be, so long as they
maintain their present political and ecclesi-
astical connection they are necessarily pro-
slavery by position.
(3) Had our querist continued to peruse
the writings of VIM. Lloyd Garrison after the
secession of the New Organizers as he did
| kafora he mould MT baya rarnaipaJ eo uoon-
lightened as he appears to be. We know
nothing of him except what we learn from
his communication, but suppose he was one
of those who became dissatisfied with the
American Society, because it refused to make
invidious distinctions between its members,
but recognized every woman who belonged
to it as entitled to all the rights of member
ship; and because it also refused to declare
it the duty of those 10 go to the polls whose
conscientious scruples forbade it. Though
not Yankee born, we will venture a guess
that his sympathies were with those who se-
ceded from the old Society, built narrower
| platform, and to save themselves from the en-
tire failure which was threatened by the
shocking mismanagement of the "confound-
ed woman question" as Elizur Wright call
ed it, organized Liberty party.
(4) Inasmuch as Garrison is opposed to
the doctrines of Liberty party which these
papers advocate, they would of course speak
unfavorably Of his sentiments, and so far as
our observation extends, we know they mis-
represent either wilfully or unintentionally
the views of old organizationists. If our
querist is anxious to learn what are Garrison's
views, instead of needing the misrcpresenta.
tons of his opponents, or depending upon the
opinion Of his friends, he had better subscribe
for and read the pioneer sheet, the Liberator.
Its flag staff is as firmly planted now as il
ever was, the eye of him who nobly bears il
is as keen to perceive the truth as in the ear
liest days Of our enterprise, and he grasps a.
strongly, and Yields as effectively the battle
axe of truth as when he first put on the anti
slavery armor.
(5) We not only advocate a peaceable dis
solution Of the Union as an efficient mean
for the abolition of slavery, but as a measur,
imperiously demanded at eur hands as an ev
idence Of anti-slavery consistency.
>. (6) The editors of the Bugle have neve
used its columns through which to expires
their views upon the character of the Sabbath
for as the paper was designed TO be strict,
!, an anti-slavery paper, they chose not to in
troduce discussions of an irrelevant character
which they knew such an expression woulC
be the means Of doing. The Llberator i
t Garrison's private property, and he choose
to discuss in it various other subjects beside
!, American Slavery, though that is the promi
r nent topic. Although he believes that ma
should keep mot one in seven, but all day
holy" yet that is not a part of his anii-slave
T ry faith. 1t has no more connection with hi
f vie VS. on slavery, than has the color of tn
coat he wears, or the metal of which his spec
tacles are made.
r ~ This has no connection whatever wit
: enti-slavery. When Garrison asks the pee
: pie to embrace his anti-slavery views, he doe
, not include with them his Ron-resistanc
: principles. The American A. =. Society ha
among its members, resistants and non-re
, s%istants, Baptists and Methodists, Quaker
, and Catholics. Some of its agents receiv
the bible as the word of God, and believe al
) it contains, while others reject what seem
to them false and retain the true-some ar
mora oTthodoY and anna loss CO. hnt n