Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-26
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court. Hence great care should he ~xerciscd
TO ascertain The character Of the illness. n,
court Of justice will permit a man under a fc.
iitious name TO send by letter a statement, OIL
what he may call facts. and rely upon this
statement as evidence, his name and place Of
residence not being known.
In the Anti-Slavery Bngle Of Jan. 18th,
find an article in relation to what some would
call a discussion between j. w. Walker and
myself. /, is thought by many who heard
the discussion and have seen the article, that
observer" must have been a very careless
observer, as his article evidently lacks the most
important Ingredient, that is truth! do not
mean 10 be understood that he has told no
truth, or that he intentionally asserted false
hoods, but that lie was incompetent or UNI
willing to give a true history of the case -
We shall briefly notice a few things contain
ed in the article, allow ing the rest to remain
for correction at some future period, and per-
haps at the judgment day.
The first thing that ! shall notice is, that
~ "y " f"n''E Nv WV VI ts W
against the attack of ADti-slavpry men, I an
nounced that if ] did not satisfy The people
that The church was anii-slavery. | would then
debate the question with any competent per-
son and the people not being i~tisfied, | was
replied to by ]. W. Walker, who showed
that what had been said by me was contra
dicled by facts. There is one truth in all
.
this; that is, that ] delivered a lecture, The
design of " hich was to show that the church
was not prn.slavery. With regard to The rest,
the people unacquainled with the matter
would undoubtedly be misled by such a state. l
ment. The facts are these: "a member If
our church had asked for a letter Of dismissal Q
in consequence of the reported pro-slavery t
character Of the church, but ed to wait four '
weeks if | would agree to lecture upon that S
subject at that time. AT the request OF sever b
al members | agreed to do so with The under I
standing that if he was not satisfied, lie should l.
then have leave peaceabIy 10 retire. | did a
not agree to Try to satisfy any other person. h
The lecture was delivered and although more ,
than six weeks have passed, aud he has had
frequent opportunities to do so, he has made
no such request. With regard To ny prnpo-
sal to debate the question with any competent
person if the people were not satisfied, and
their not being satisfied. aud The intimaiion
thai MIR. WIS lecture was a reply in conse-
quence Of dissatisfaction with my discourse,
] would say, | lad been solicited frequently
to say | would debate the question, q" Is the
NJ. E. Church pro-slaver, - and my uniform
reply was. that question will be readily an
swered when the man who himself wished
TO debate i, will ask it.
Before ] delivered my lecture ii was pub.
liciy announced that Mr. w. Of Cleveland
would lecture On that subject. But wherel
In that place! No. In the same tow nshipl
No. nor within several miles Of the place.
Was MIR. w. present at The time Of my l,c-
ture? No. Did he reply tn my discourse,
and show that what | had said was contra
dicted by factsl Nothing is firiher from
truth Al present ! shall say nothing in re-
laiion TO The merit of Mr.. Walkers discourse,
this may be considered al some other time.
What Mr.. w. said and proved by The Disci-
pline and the action of The Conferences, yon
may learn from The most careless Observer
il you are willing 10 take the testimony Of a
man who dare not let us know who aud " here
he ID. In regard to my having :. edited The
audience until the last possible particle of pa
thence had expired, and many had left the
house," would say, that though leciured
three hours, il was not generally known, nor
do | think il known TO any hut this careless
observer" that any person left the house
nn,il ! had closed, and Mr.. w. rose 10 reply. !
II is quite possible, however, that Mr.. oh
Serper" left thu house (if Indeed he was ever
in it) before | had occupied Is minutes. As
70 patience, | have no doubt but Dir. Walk
er's and that of his friends failed before had
proceeded far. Indeed there would have been
no cause Of rejoicing or glorying in il il he
had taken it patiently when il evidently was
a brffeting for his f. ults.
With reference to what is said about de-
molishing S. S. Foster, { ,mbaring o. Scott,
and spending a long time in reading a reply
from my pen 10 l.. Lee, &C.. ! have only to
say that if my opponent steps into the track
Of any other person, ] shall not on that ac-
count spare him or his predecessor. noli-
fed the audience that il SIR. w. read or re-
peate6 arguments contained in the words of
the men referred to, be need not expect by
that means to escape my notice, thai il | was
in pursuit Of a fox and he should try to es-
cape by getting into a VOLTS track, and the
wolf by getting into a bears track, while they
continued together and l pursued the one |
also pursued The others, and if ] could catch
them all, so much The better. As to The ani-