Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-01
BARLEY and BCbb.

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We publish in another column a commu-
%nication over the signature Of "P charging
us with a want of honor, dignity, &C., on ac-
count of some remarks made last week upon
the messages.
The writer is informed that we did not
doubt but that the wings, most of them, would
think what Gov. Barley say upon the Black
Laws favorable enough to the colored people.
His declaration that laws, consistent with
humanity and justice, can be made, if neces-
sary, that will prevent colored people from
settling in the State, may give evidence Of
much regard for the welfare of that oppress-
ed class, in the estimation Of those miserable
slaves of prejudice and party, who cannot or
dare not regard the black man as a human
being, possessed Of the same inalienablo
rights with themselves but to the Abolition
ist-who regards all men as equals-it pre-
sents a very different appearance.
AS respects Bebb's Inaugural, we think it,
upon the whole, one Of the best things of the
kind that has ever come from any Governor.
With the exception of its disgusting eulocy
Of Gen. Taylor and his army, it seems to us
to take as high ground against slavery and the
black laws, as could be expected, OF asked, Of
one who is pledged to support a manstealing
government.
With regard to what we said about the
difference of opinion between Barley and
Bebb, concerning the cause of our p%rosperi-
ty, we will say for the benefit of "P,"-
what nobody else will need to be told-that
we did not design it as a very grque charge
against Mr.. Bebb. He certainly does, how
ever-contrary to the established custom
among rulers-state in he first paragraph
of his Address, that the victory of General
Wayne and the consequent treaty Of Green
vile, gave assurance and safety TO the peo-
pie of the West and he moreover docs men,
tlon-however much our correspondents ven
Grafton may be shocked-as the most promi-
nent cause Of our prosperity, the Ordinance
of'97. We regard this departure from estab-
lished custom as rather in Mr.. Bebb's favor
than otherwise. 1t is blasphemy, to say the
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would bestow any special favors on a State
so sunk in %iniquily as Ohio, or a government
so STEPPED in infamy as that of the United
States.
As to the former course of the Bugle, its
readers can decide for themselves how far
"P's" remarks are just. J.
o. To make the following letter ~intelli-
gible to some of the readers of the Bugle. an
explanation is necessary.
Mr.. Taggart, who is spoken of in the let
ter. was prescribed because he felt it to be
his duty TO speak against Slavery; and if we
have arrived at a right understanding of the
subject, this was the objection also to Cor
don.
The writer Of the letter is an Old School
Presbyterian Minister. He is an orator and
an accomplished scholar; and was formerly
the President of Franklin College.
But a short time since, he regarded as in
appropriate and ill-timed such severity of Ian
guage as he has employed in reference to the
conduct of the st. Clairsville Presbytery.-
Since that day, however, he stated to us in a
letter, when speaking in refer.nc 10 the pub
LEGATION of the Shareholders Religion, that he
was inclined to believe that the religion of
the STAKEHOLDER, or rather the apologist Of
slaveholding, was essentially opposed to the
religion developed in the life and teachings of
Jesus Christ. Now he says that some of
these, "hireHng time-Serring hypocriical
Priests" though they be professed christian
ministers and teachers, would serve God per-
,haps as well by numbering men as in what
they are now doing; and in saying this he
knows of whom he speaks. S.