Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-23

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but to crafty a malicious spirtl We tell
the editor of the Western Citizen, that his
classification is an untruthful one, and that
he is grossly deceiving his readers 'Gdrfi-
son abolitionism is one thing, taking cogni-
z,nce in its official action Of H0thfng 6uf he
of sldpcry. Garrison non-reslst'
is another thing, not hostile 10 the for-
mer, of course, but having reference sOety 10
the treatment # enemies. To say, that because
zoe hold to the doctrine Of hon>reslstance,
would to God that all mankind did, and car
ried it into Practice therefore 1t is Just 10
CHARGE all those who are associated with US
for the overthrow Of slavery with being nom
tesistanls, is as absurd as it is in violation Of
the truth. The Liberator is not, and never
has been, the organ of any society whatever
We represent nobody but ourseli. we are
connected by membership with the Anti-Sia-
very Society, and with the Non. Resistance
Society; but we have never sought TO violate,
nor encouraged the violation, Of the bond
which unites vs. with either Of those Socie-
ties. We challenge any man to say when
and where we have endeavorcd TO get our
nun-resistance views endorsed by any anti
slavery convention or society. II cannot he
done. We have been faithful and true 10 our
anti-slavery pledge, and have not allowed ihe
'Cxtraneous' question of non-7esis,ance to be
mingled with our an,i-slavery action. There
never has been a Society in the world, that
has more steadily and consistently pursued
its one great object, or more carefully avoid
ed the blending of questions with 1t, than the
American Anti -Slavery Society. its Com
stituiion and It's test of membership have re-
NAMED the same from the beginning. Who
ever believes that slavery is, under all cir
cumstaHces, a sin against God, and ought 10
be Immediately abolished, can, al any time,
become a member Of it; and the same thing
is true of all its auxiliarics. Yet, from the
repre sentation of the editor Of the Citizen, a
person ignorant of these facts (Which he is
noi) would naturally conclude, that the Anne
rican A.. S. Society is a Non-llesistance So
cicty, and that none but non-resistants are
allowed to become members Of it !!--While,
on the other hand, another Liberty party wrl-
ter civilian Goodell) is rebuking that So
ciety for the laxity of its test, and represent.
ing it as welcoming TO its embrace, pro-sla-
very partisans and sectarlans to any exient!!
Both Of these accusers bearing false witness
against it,.
But of what avail will be this refutation Of
ours, so far as the people of Michigan are
concerned We doubt whether the editor Of
the Citizen will have the fairness to lay it
before his readers, in our own words. Yet
we have copied his defamatory article into
our columns, without mutilation or abridge-
ment. We shall be agreeablv disappointed,
if he admits this rejoindcr into his paper. If
he is an honest man, he will do SO.
His account of the division in the a~nti-sla-
very ranks is equally at variance with the
truth. He speaks Of certain laborers in the
cause who 'took the glory to themselves,
when God should have been glorifed , 4; hut
who those impious persons were, he does
not specify. 1t is much easier to deal in
cant of this kind, to stab by inuendo, than to
substantiate false accusations by an array of
evidence. Garrison was tho god of the an.
ti-slavery host This sentence reveals the
eleven foot. Our crime was in SO having
won the love and confidence of the host al
luded to, (not a very numerous one,) By our
fidelity to principle, and underwriting regard
for the cause, that green-eyed jealousy and
priestly cunning essayed in vain to effect our
Punishment, by protesting against lnan-wop-
ship and representing that the cause ought
10 be entrusted 10 the care Of better hands,
those of bigots and sectarists! Division
followed as the consequence Let US see.
This division took place at the anniversary in
May, 1910. Up to that time, (and let this
fact never be forgotten.) the management Of
the American Anti-Slavery Society had beer
committed to the men who subsequently lift
ed their heels against 1.-THE Tappans, Bir-
ney, Leavitt, Wright, Stanton, &c, &C.
For its executive action, they were response
Bile. Why then did they secede Certain
ly not for any thing that the Society had done,
t for it had been entirely under their control,
| What private 5riefs they had, we will not
=, stop to inquire /; but let no false issue be
made-let us keep to the record. The Pre-.
, lsilapt IF the SOpiptv mr. 1snl-E MIS-
JACKSON of Boston nominated ABBY KEEL.
s LEY as a member of one of the committees
To meet a simple and inofTensive case like
this, the Orthodox clergy, with their tools,
came up from various parts of the land II
formidable array and his was made by then
IS a test question. They were o%utvotcd, anC
II instantly seeded in great wrath, and formed
a hostile organization. Yes, the American
- and Foreign Anii-Sllvery Society was or
o ganized for the sole reason, (lt least no othe
N issue was made,) that .4bdy Kelley uoos place.
y uD0n a commiHee-she whose character wat
IS s%potless, a member Of The Society Of Friends
N one Of the most selEdenying and eficien
T, friends of the slave whom God has raised NJ
m in all Christendom She was A WOMAN
N that constituted her crime, ard made he
Ie election just cause for seeking the utter over
throw of the American Anti-Slavery Society
VIII the editor OF the Cfhzn lay THIS stale
ment, (Which no man can invalidate,) befor
his readers, that they may understand, tina
ifa dislike of 'MAH-worship' had any thin
to do with the division of the anti-slaver
St host Prieslly contempt for WOMAN had quit
as much!
y He compliments the seceders as havin
taken the consistent, straightforward cours
II of enlightened reformers,' O and says {
those who continued to adhere TO the oil
i Parent Society, that they fell into an eS
'e treme ultra, fanatical POSITION and exhibite
le AN cratic, self-wilied and ungovernabl
er manifestation of the reformatory spirit; tn
devil attempting to guide and urge on to de
re s~truction the reform which he could nc
e. check Now, it Is not difficult 10 make rep
reservations Of this kind and as they are pu
fy forth, unsustalned by a particle Of evidence
l. we shall here simply declare them to b
Id wholly devoid of truth-leaving the editor {
es the Citizen 10 choose his own time when h