Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-09-03
COMMUNICATIONS.
Slave Labor PrOductS---NO 4.
FRIENDS EDIroRs -

'SoSShO oiiShuJ DIithy btdtSu1 q SOhT
siderable portion Of my previous numbers
have been directed to a review Of an editorial
In the Liberator, not, as you suppose, to the
"annihilation" of the editor, unless his er-
istenee depends upon the triumph Of his anti
free labor views, in which case 1t would per-
haps be fortunate for the cause Of humanity,
that your idea should prove correct. think
l do not underrate the many good properties
of friend Garrison, ard as to any feelings Of
i'll will or malignity, | entertain zone what
ever towards him or any other man but those
who can see nothing but perfect consistency
in all his ways, and conceive their pens best
employed in lauding his excellencies, may
do it; ! consider it doing him and the cause
OF truth greater kindness, to endeavor to cor
rect his errors. In doing this, my remarks
have necessarily gone 10 the establishment
of abstinence views" 1t should be under
stood, that 10 refute the objections to a ques-
ton is no unusual, nor is il an unreasonable,
method of establishing its truth and the
continuance of the review Of the said edito-
rial, up to the near approach Of Garrison's
visit to Ohio, as the reader will have per-
ceived, was not a matter Of choice with me.
would much prefer the reader would draw
his conclusions of the purport and character
of my articles on this subject, and also on
the collateral question at issue between us,
from my communication themselves, than
to take your extraordinary uersion of them as
contained in your last. What has already
been written is sufficient to a correct under
standing of the latter, if our very %unfortu-
nate use of language" and of idea, do not
mislead the reader.
The importance Of giving especial atten-
ton TO such arguments, even as those of s.
S. Foster, or his "reckless assertions" as
Henry Grew calls them, will appear obvious
when we read in the editorial columns of the
Anti Slavery Bugle of Wendell Phillips at
the late anniversary at New York, ".CuAy
endorsing The antifree produce sentiments
Which hare made the former [Foster] SO obi
GUS in The estimation Of some Of the friends Of
The Stare"
And what are the sentiments which have
rendered Foster or his doctrines 90 80 odious,"
and which are thus " fully endorsed ~
They are the declarations that the anti-slave-
~ laborer "has the consent Of the slave" to
purchase of the master the fruits Of his rob-
berries upon the former that those who are
| MT aho1itio,ioto hat nurohaso tboroof ,yo
"thieucs and ,obbers"!-but that such pur-
chasers 90 do not aid the Shareholder !-that
those who advocate the free labor question
are "not a5ohtiontsis," and should ~"leave
the Society, the sooner the BETTER" and some
others equally "odious"!!
Notwithstanding the Declaration of Senti-
ment, the acknowledged exponent of the prin-
ciples Of the A. S. Society, clearly and express
Ly recognizes the Free Labor question as a
legitimate measure, yet it seems to be the
opinion of some, that the uttering of such
sentiments as the above, by leading aboli-
iionists, and their sanction and endorsement,
in whole or in part, by nti-Slavery papers,
as real orthodox abolitionism, afford no justi-
fcation for public criticism, but that those
who still adhere TO the A. S. Declaration OF
Sentiments and to the discarded axiom once
laid down by w. l.. Garrison, that "no
transfer Of stolen property can confer just
possession" &c, may be denied a hearing
through some of the A. S. papers and spurn.
; ed from the Anti-Slavery platform, as l have
already shown to have been the case.
None of these things, however, will dete
5 those who, under a sense of duty, have, 70
: fifteen to fifty years past, been labering il
: this cause against ignorance, interestedness
. and sophistry. They need not despair-th,
II grounds occupied by the National A. S
. Standard, to give a preference" TO free la
Tor goods, and otherwise assist the cause
the well known position of the Pennsylvani
Freeman, the Non-Slaveholder and the Ere
u Labor Advocate, &c.,-the establishment {
/ a wholesale free labor store in Cincinnati
and the increasing interest manifested upo
e this subject in all parts of the country, al
II cheering evidences of its ultimate success.
n 1t is confidently believed that if the attel
ton Of the Anti-Slavery people general,
was turned to this branch of the enterpris
70 that, in a very short time, the manufacture
to the free, would be made TO compete full
is with that of slave labor goods, and from til
- moment the slave system must begin 10 wan
a believe many abOlitiOnists are, by the
efforts in behalf of the slave, through til
u means alone, doing their full share towar
,e the abolition Of slavery in the United State
it and that if each person would do as muc
n slavery would be starved out, and in a We
{, few years be supplanted by system of fr
m labor.