Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-13
'OnC Idea RefOrmerS.

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Mr.. Garrison has admirably exposed, in tho
the follwing extract from one of his Letters
to Fath,r Mathew, the hollow-heartcdncs of
those who ~eulogize the latter for confirming
his labors erclusirely to the cause of Temper
ance, and yet affect to dcspise the former as
a man of one idca,' though he has never yet
shrunk from avowing his hearty interest III
any radical reform, however unpopular.
To shield you from consure, your defend
ers declare that you have a specific object Ill
view-the promotion of temperance, espe-
cially among your own countrymen-flom
which it is quite outrageous to ask you to be
diverted, even for a moment, to aid the no.
blest cause that ever enlisted the syInpathies
of the human soul. You are complimented,
on all sides, for resolving to know nothing,
say nothing, do nothing, except on the sub
Ject of temperance, which, it is declared, is
enough to exhaust your strength and fully TO
absorb your time. The acme of impudence
is reached by your e~ulogists in ~denounclng
me, in the same breath, for seeing but one
object, having but one idea, and making the
liberation of the slave the one great object of
my life! So that what in you eXcites their
highest approval and admiration, in me fills
them with extreme disgust and righteous dis
pleasurei How just, impartial, magnanl-
nous is such a spirit! Says the Boston Pr
lot Father Mathew sagaciously and prop
erly refused, saying that his own slavcry-ab-
olitionism was enough for his powers Says
the same Journal Why does Mr.. Garrison
suppose that the slavery of the American
blacks is the only great evil, or devil, to be
cast out of modern civilization? Why do
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Says the Catholic characterization Ma
thew sees before him a good work to be done,
for the individual and the race, and he will
not swerve from the path thus marked out
for him. Says the same iournal-M Gar
rison's brain can contain but one idea and
to realize that idea, he would not hesitate to
overthrow everything that exists for him the
abolition of slavery is the only good to be
done on earth Says the Chronotype, while
complimenting you for having but one idea
Garrison is stone blind on the inside and
he is so far-sighted on the outside, that he
can hardly see any thing this side of the slave
States.' Said the Boston Herald-Fathe
Mathew replied in the following excellent
words: 81 have as much as | can do to save
men from the slavery of intemperance, with
out attempting the overthrow of any other
kind of slavery."' SAYS the same filthy sheet
= Garrison knows nothing but abolitionlsm
thinks, speaks, dreams OF nothing else
And so on TO the end of the list. All this is
highly consistent-is it not? Whit renders
it particularly ludicrous n audacious is the
fact, that you allow your mine 10 scope as TO
other reforms, while have never hesitated
to countenance and aid a great variety, COM
pretending the rights and interests of the
whole human family. / have not hesitated
to grapple with any system of iniquity, how
ever gigantic Or hoary, whether pertaining to
the Church or the State. | am constantly
stigmatized as an 'anti-church and ministry,
anti-sabbath, woman's rights, non-resistonce,
no-government man. aside from the odium
that is heaped upon me as an ~abolitlonist.-
This implies something of a discursive spirit
of reform!