Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-17
From Burritt's Christian Citizen.
UnChriStian.

Father Mathew was at Woonsocket last
week, and received n most cordial reception
from tic people. The address of welcome,
by the Rev. james NJ. Davis, of that place,
was, Tor the most part, very ciCqsy-ht aid APP
propriate, and as we perused it, fve thought
of giving some of its most brilliJht passages
a place III the Citizen, for the qualification OF
our readers; but when we caine TO the fol-
lowing contemplate fling at aclass of re-
formers, who, however much people may
differ as TO the soundness OF their views, all
must agree are sincere, honest, virtuous men.
our views were so changed that we could moi
do it.
"A Yankee distiller, or liquor dealer, OF
rum drinker, or rum l~icenser, or rum ynIpa
thiZer, amid all the light which has been shed
upon this question, is a moral monstrosity,
which IS enough to brighten and appal even
Father Mathew himself. | can think of no
thing more terrible, except it be Il Garriso-
man abolitionist! That is the only kind of
an animal III human shape that will not bid
you welcome, Sir, TO our shores. lie, Sir,
cursed you before you came, and like the pos
sesscd among the tombs of the .Gergesenes,
VIII foam and rage, and cut himself with
stones,Cbut before you depart, may the Al
mighty give you power TO drive the devil
from him.
What a pity that a minister of the Gospel
could not have selected a more appropriate
occasion to let out the malignity or his heart,
than that in which all parties and sects had
united to do homo to an illustrious stranger,
and that he should have been SO far carried
away by the bitterness of his feelings, as to
exc out his malediction with a falsehood!
In his reply to the Rev. gentleman, it is
due 10 Father Mathew TO say, that he made
no allusion to this part of the address of well
come. He could not have done so but to
condemn it, and he doubtless thought it not
the part of good manners to quarrel with his
host. lie probably remembered, too, thai
those people whom he had heard stigInatized
as more terrible than distillers and liquor
drinkers, had been among his country's trtlest
trends THAT in the mIds of thai dreadful
winter, when gaunt famine entered the mud
novels OF his poverty-stricken country, twas
these men who We're among the first to send
abroad their appeals for help, and advance
liberal contributions from their own pockets.
1t was these women who, like angels of mer-
cy, were going up and down the streets of
our towns and cities, collecting the charities
OF the benevolent, for the relief of Their star
wing sisters far away. The long columns of
The Llberator and Standard, filled with ac-
acknowledgements Of roInittances in cash, grain
and clothing, for the relief Of Ireland, attest
how successfully were all these Appeals and
labors. Why, the whole State OF Colmecti-
cut, famed as 1t is as the 'land of steady ha-
DIS and OF churches, furnished hardly a
lyme OF charities to relieve that direiul sut-
lerlhg, which was collected by those who,
according TO the Rev. minister OF Woonsock-
ct, are very demons upon the earth. 1t seems
to us that, i'll the thirteenth chapter of LIST
Corinthians, he might find some subject mat
Ter ior reflection, which, if carefully read,
might mend both his morals and his man
ners for we hold it to be immoral to say
what is untrue, and unmannerly to make a
social gathering OF all parties and sects an
occasion for the indulgence of sectarian
spleen.
The Inauguration of Gov. Brown, of Ten
nessee, took place at Nashville, on the 10th.