Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-07-06
OnANGrvILLE, Tumbulf Co., o.,
MAJ Goth, 1919,

in the Good Book that he who shall convert
a sinner from the error of his ways shall save
a soul from death and cover a multitude OF
sins. If ii be admitted that the pursuing Of
a course, the effect Of which Is to occasion to
our fellows the greatest possible amount Of
wretchedness and suffering, making them to
weep tears of blood, and to court death as a
favor, is sinful, then, beyond doubt, you are
the greatest sinner in the land. | am frank
to admit, Sir, that the chances for reform in
your case are anything but fattering; for, if
in yonr younger days, when your heart was
less ca,lous to the wailings of misery, to the
petition Of despair, you could turn a deaf ear,
and mock the misery you were occasioning,
how ialnt is the hope, now that you have
grown old in sin! Still | will write you, for
if ! may drop a word that will save a blow
from the quiyering flesh Of one of Gods chill
dren, 1t | may avert from one of these the
lash, the paddle, or any of the appliances of
Slavery, how amply shall l be rewarded =
Or, il | could contribute a mite only towards
the siupendous result of making you TO see
the sininIness Of opening the hellish c|nginery
of war on your fellows, upon the populous
city, making the parlor, the nursery, to flow
with the blood of mangled innocence (. O.,
could | give you TO see, or but family even to
apprehcnd The incompIehensible amount Of
wretchedness you have occasioned in this
respect; that you have made hell to blush,
and the Prince Of Darkness to acknowledge
himself rivalIed in inlamy could | do this,
how full, how ample my reward!
Zachary Taylor, enclosed is a little book
(Dick Crow%nlngshield, &c. which is to you
a mirror; look in it and see yourself. Do
not get offended and burn it, for you must
yet see and admit the truth of the position
therein taken, or be as miserable in ~futurity
as you have made others here, or there is no
GOD! An eyewitness at the battle of Mon
terey says, your &" face was covered with
blood that you "butchered women and
children like hogs -" it was sickening 10
hear the shrieks of women, and to see them
struggling in the arms of Zachary and his
men QeIIow-fends) begging for death Ill
Yes, vile old lbertine that you are, it shall
be a task for hell 10 purge those foul stains
from your guilty soul Would That You
could fFpent-would that .Christ's blood
could purify,-hut ! fear, for your sins are
more than scarlet-yea, redder than Grim
son!
These you butchered for pay like Dick
Crowningshield, and without cause or prov
ocation, they having never meditated evil lc
you or your people. But you slew them
by thousands, and if Crowningshield was
deserving of death for numbering White, tell
US Of how many deaths are you deserving
But Dick was executed, and you, too, were
elerahJ, not to the gallows as you should
have been, if to do SO were ever UNSUITABLE,
which ! do not believe. And you have taken
a pew in the church, for which you have paid
with the reward of murdered innocence, or of
barlered humanity. | am glad you have gone
to chuFch-it is your most fitting place. The
church is and.in.glove with you in the prac.
lice of these enormilies. Were she a~nyihing
but the lime-serving Babylon that she is, you
would wrlthe under her rebuke; but, as it is,
she will stay up your hands in any viIlany in
which you may wish 10 engage.
o, Sir, did you ever read the new Tesla,
ment? Are you not there enjoined TO for
give your enemies" even TO " seventy times
seven if smittcn on one cheek TO turn
the other also ito ~"rcsist not evil -
" avenge not yourself do good to them
that hate YOU" &C., &c, Will you not look
at this matter, if, indeed, it have not come 10
be a pleasure TO you 10 know that you are &C.
casioning human misery. One word in re-
gard TO your oppression, and shall probably
leave you till the Judgment.
To the natural man-the humqn man, how
delightful the music of Nature. There's ma
sic in the gentle Hephyrs, there's music in
the mighty rolling ocean-music, too, in the
awful rolling thunder, and music, sweetest
music, in the thousand varied notes ofSpring's
winged songsters. Man, too, has produced
sweetest notes to charm the ear but you,
Sir, turn from theSS to feast on the hideous
shrieks of frantic mothers, from whom you
are tearing their dear offspring to sell them
in the market or, perchance, 10 stock your
plantation! And, let Nature be still, and
mans softest minstrelsy be hushed in silence,
when the fearful cat-o'-nine-tails is buried in
the l%acerated flesh of your helpless victim !
| would ask, but | know it will be vain,
that you will make one effort 10 see if yon
can comprehend the idea of doing TO others
as you would that they should do to you, and
if so, that you will observe it in your future
intercourse with your fellows.
With due respect,
T.. F. CURTIS,