Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-15
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tions) TO make Hth men the most Jealous Of
their dignity, and the most suspicious of
personal disrespect. Were | you, | should
advise your little friend not to put its finger
in its eye whenever naughty men call il
names that it does not like, but to initiate the
example Of its more robust companions, who
make small account of being called ..Loeo-
Focos" aud 'Coons," and other names in
their own nature offensive and insulting,
which "Ihird party'' is not.
Your structures upon my frame Of mind.
and style OF writing. also call for a word Of
remark. lou think that the one is ''proud
and disdainful," and the other ''superlativply
arrogant and dogmaiic." | am Of an sex
IRENE and turkry-cook tension of pride -
my conduct. and that of those with whom I
act, is marked by ''selc-complacency, - soon
tempt and brutality" ''supercilioasuess, and
arrogance - and Mr.. Wendell Phillips. in
particular, was on one occasion, at least,
moved by ''iury," a 'swoIlcn spirit aud
''foaming wrath! "These be very bitter
Words" as Dame Quickly says but / make
no objection whatever to your applyin ing them
to me, or to my friends. if you think we de-
serve them. IL, however, these structures,
as far as | an concerned, were caused by
Anything contained in my letter to you, |
NS' '"'Nf hIoh a It-ICIuSdl,
| have been unable TO detect the occasion.
You had written a letter to Mr.. Stephen
G.. Phillips, in which you took him to task
tor his inconsistency in condemning the Bos-
ton kidnappers, after he had voted for Mr..
Clay. lou put him in the same category
with the Infamous Pearson and Hannum,
and you characterized his action and speech
in that matter as n ''farce,' ''ludicrous be-
yond all parallel" The object of my letter
to you was to show, las | did, TO my own
satisfaction, at least,) that there was no Just
distinction to be made between you and Mr..
Phillips, as long as you both sustained the
existing Constitution of the United States,
that you were both in one condemnation.
Had | not a right to deal out to you the same
measure, if | thought you deserved it, that
you had meted out to him Has Mr..
Smith any exemption from criticism that
Mr.. Phillips does not enjoy!
If they were meant to apply to nv gener-
al language respecting your party and its
measures, | can only, in the absence of dis
tlnct specifications, put in a general plea of
"not guilty" You complain that ], in COM
mon with 'the gentlemen of my school,
speak OF your party as a pack of office seek
ers, hyPocrites, aud scoundrels." This |
have never done, and ! have never known of
us being Gone by any one of my friends.-
That you-are 'ofhee-seekeFs,n am afraid
[ cannot be denied, as the very essence of a
political party is the seeking for office.
never spoke of you as 4 "set OF hypocrites
and scoundrels - though | might not in truth
deny that you have some of the choicest
!, specimens of both, in your high places. ]
have always done justice to the sincerity of
the masses of your party, mistaken as |
thought them. Indeed, | fancy that my toll
=, Grafton and indulgence are more liberal than
your own for while | have always granted
the sincerity Of the thousands Of Abolition
lists in your party, ! have always been as
!, willing to admit the equal sincerity of the
, tens of thousands of equally honest Adolf
~tioniSts in the Wing and Democratic parties.
. | always maintained he anti-slavery princi-
: pies Of those Aboliiionists to be as good as
those OF your party, and their method not
worse.
You think that were | n reader of the pa
pers of your party, 81 should not feel myself
authorized 10 take it for granted, that to hold
, an office under the Constitution is TO be gull.
~ of swearing to support Slavery" | can.
not think that such reading, however eXten-
slve, would alter my opinion on so plain a
, point as this. If you mean that | should
-, thus learn that many "wise and worthy Alb.
: olitionists" think that they can swear to sup.
: port the Constitution, without compromising
u their auti-slavery character, | certainly dc
: not need such a course of study for my infor.
: nation. For | know too well the opinions
! and the practices of honest Abclirionists in
\ your party, and of equally honest. and no
{ more inconsistent, Abolitionists in The othe,
. two. But the character of the Constitution
is a matter of fact, and not Of opiujou. and M
5 array of numbers, and no amount Of homes
error. could chanrc nv view oC so verv Mai,
S a fact. f
a Won dopbt vbe,bor bovo ovor hard .
the name of Messrs William Goodau an
5 Lvsander Snooner, have beard Of hn,
: hose gentlemen ,Lorrh I hova mo-, ,ba bo,
e or Of a nersonal acnoain,ance Win e;,S,
of Them. and am Cnh.iI;ar m;,h ,ha;r ar"'
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