Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-13
Letter from Il, c. Wright.
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October 2, lS4g. {

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FRIEND Johnson Our meeting in this place
ended this afternoon, enid pouring rain and
deep mud. We held meetings ia Randolph,
Akron, Richfield, Brunswick, Huxley, and
Medina, and yesterday and 10 day in this
place. The storm commenced during our
meetings at Richfeld, and has continued 10
this moment; till the roads have become
very bad. Previous TO the beginning of the
rain, our meetings in Randolph, Akron and
Richfield, were well attended and of deep
interest. The political and religious relations
of the North to slavery, and the responsible
ty of roters, have been the great topics of our
discourse. Especially nave we dwelt on the
fact, that each voter, whether in the minority
or the majority, is personally responsible for
all the wrongs inflicted on the slave. The
following propositions have been constantly
laid down and established beyond c%ontradic-
ton:
That the voters alone constitute the sover-
eign or governing power; that the rights of
the majority to rule is the basis of the govern
ment; that every voter assents to and pledges
himself to obey and help execute the govern
ment in the hands of the majority that slave
holders are a part of this confederacy, and
entitled to all its privileges, and have a right
to get the control of the government, if they
can, by gaining the majority; that every vo-
ter, Free Sellers and all, is sworn to help exc
cute the government, if shareholders get con-
troll of it; that every voter is bound by his
official oath to defend the oppressor against
the oppressed, and the sovereign against his
victim.
Our conclusion has beer that no man can
be an honest, just man, and be a member of
this confederacy. Free Sellers have rallied
TO the rescue of their man-stealing position,
in every place. They recoil from the thefts,
robberies, rapes and murders which we prove
upon them; but they cannot escape the
charge.
Al Akron an advocate of slavery appeared
from Georgia, in the shape of a Baptist Min
lister; a WIN. PARKER, by NAME. A more
advocate of robbery and concubin-
age never appeared in behalf of slavehold-
ers. But not one heart in the audience
seemed to 90 with him. How differently
would the Reverend tool of tyrants have been
heard in that town Is years ago! He father
ed slavery and the Mexican butchery all on
God. We proclaimed ourselves atheists to
his God and to the God at whose shrine slave
holders and their apologists worship. He
would set aside all the selfevident truths of
our nature, by the authority of an immediate
revelation. He would sacrifice fact to fiction !;
the substance to the shadow.
At Richfield our meetings were in the
Baptist house. From 9 to 10 1-2 Sunday NOR
ming we spake. Then the Baptist minister
preached from 10 1-2 to IL, and gave us what
his Baptist brethren called a 'sore f~ogging.'
His object was to show that the church is the
author of all the good in society and should
be Judged by its fruits. In the afternoon we
took his own text, showed what had been the
fruits of the church; that she brought forth
the inquisition, burnt and hung heretics and
witches, annihilated the C%anaanites destroy
ed the Indians; enslaved the Africans. We
proved the church to be the mother of slave
ry and war. Many of our meetings have
been deeply interesting. We go hence on
Tuesday to Twinsburgh.
Thine in haste, for Liberty and Fraternity,
HENRY G. WRIGHT.