Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-08
From our Philadelphia Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 10th, 1s49.

MY DEAR FRIEND You must award me
a full and free pardon for neglecting you so
long. Owing to the presence of the cholera,
pretty much all our leisure time for the last
two months has been devoted to a discussion
of the question Of diet. As far as | could
learn the argument has turned on whether a
man should eat what he found 10 agree with
himself, or only what agreed with somebody
else the latter opinion prevailing pretty gen.
orally in practice. We have also watched
the papers closely to see how our friends at a
distance were getting on, and from time to
time tested the most celebrated nostrums in
anticipation of evil. The panic has at last
abated, and most heartily do ! wish that this
severe visitation might lead us TO look into
what is the exciting cause OF the disease
what Greedy would call "the profanity of
poverty" perhaps, in its various phases Of
filth, unwholesome food, hopelessness.
SO you see Mr.. Mathew (no longer "Fd-
her,") has proved recreant TO humanity. 1t
was scarcely 10 be expected of a priest in any
sect that he should be wholly free and brave
true TO man, while representing a party
but from the course Mr.. NJ. pursued in Ire
land many were led to believe that he would
not shrink from the more difficult duty Of
bearing his testimony on the spot where the
crime was committed. But those who thus
hoped could have been but little acquainted
with the policy of the Catholic priesthood in
this country. The Church found herself
powerless in her noble efforts TO prohibit Sla-
very among the rapacious and indolent first
settlers in Mexico and the West Indies, and
since then things have remained in staiu quo.
Have you ever heard of a Catholic priest in
New Orleans, Baltimore, or st. Louis, rais-
ing his voice against this popular sin! ]
trow not, and yet these places are the strong
holds Of Catholicism, and The Church profess
SEES TO represent the present morality as well
as the highest intellectual life at every Stage
Of The worlds progress; asserts that through
her sacraments alone can man be placed in
communication with the Divine, while her
practice places her on a level with all the
other sects. She is as watchiul to avoid sus-
picion of faint, as anxious 10 disprove, in the
cant phraseology Of the day, "all desire 10
interfere with the established institutions of
the country" Some few years ago, the then
Pope issued an Apostolic Letter, calling up
on all true Christians all over the world TO
use their influence against the heathenish
practice Of buying and holding slaves. This
document created some uneasiness in the
minds of our liberty,loving republicans,
which so reacted on the Catholics, that at
least one Of their journals (the ST. Louis Adj
vocate, published under the sanction Of the
Bishop,) felt called On 10 come out with a
disclaimer, which. so far as il sought 10
shake hands with a low public sentiment,
would have done credit TO Benefits Herald.
By this disclaimer the Shareholders and their
abettors were ASSUMED that this epistle Of the
Pope's was not a Bull (Which would be
equivalent to a command but merely a let
ter of advice, ard had in fact no reference to
the state Of things in this country, where the
" institution" was under The protection OF
the aw, and was therefore in no wise TO be
assaulted. lie CdtnOllc ShuIch Is 10 USE
and no better than The other churches. 1t be-
lieves most emphalically in popularity, and
Mr.. Mathew is but one Of its servants; hence
it would be vastly i~mpolitic in that BODY t(
permit him 10 identify himself in any way
with such a d~espised minority as are the alb
olilionists at the very moment, too, wher
Mayors, corporations, and the responsibility
those who are hand in glove with III,
slav~eocracy-were p~arading in procession t.
. do him honor. When | think Of such fact
as these in connection with the grievou
i wrongs of Ina, large body in the South VIII
are the unpaid producers of all the wealth i
the South :; when ! think, too, of the shame
full disabilities of the colored population @
the North consequent on Slavery elsewhere
instead Of blaming the severity of Garriso
and Foster, | feel that others are justly cha
y place themselves precisely in the slaves steaC
and so use more moderate language in col
demning the oPpressOr.
Some few weeks ago, one of those ever
DAY incidents occurred which make one rea
9, ize so forcibly the mockery of the boas
g this is a free county," | was at m
If friends, the P-s. You remember the
H. beautiful farm, with its level fields of graf
the pretty lawn, the green pines in front
u. the house, and The huge bu,tonwood tree wi
n. its three giant arms 10 the left The emit
scene telling of peace, prosperity, security
But see how tyranny, branching out from ii
n. miserable cotton fields OF the South, dispe