Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-12-21
VOL. 6.
Letter from !. p. Sslby.

DEAn FRIEND JoHNsoN:-For several reasons
have long delayed writing to you concerning
the visit of friends Pilsbury and Wright to this
place, the goth and 3Oth of September last
have waited until might be ablcto estimate
more accurately, tho effect which their teach
ings would have upon the mass of mind they
addressed. l AM now prepared tc report very
favorably for their labors with us. While tho
cry Of 'I,,fdcr has been raised by the soctarian
bigot, the friends of truth and righteousness
have been abundantly strengthened and invigo-
rated in the good work and many who were
previously aspiring to be nothing higher than
IPhi1s, or Democrats, Free Soiieys, have, in .
great measure, lost their sympathy with those
partics-and they sec that there is bolier COW
enant into which they enter, than that Of poll
tics, even that Of Truh-of moral honesty and
they can now breathe from the soul that godly
sentiment, No Union ioih Slarehokisrs." l
do not know how many conversion might
report as the result of this 'rorieaI;' but one
thing feel Of, and that is, that in spite Of
the rawlings of tho Priests, and their blinded
followers, the truth has triumphcd gioriotsiy.
/ Allow me here to say, that as general thing,
the people in this vicinity would do about right,
were it not for the corruptng influence of the
Priests. Is this the fact in other parts Of tho
country So far as / am acquainted, it is. And
conclude that while the people arc under the
influence of such teachers as they are under
hero, there is no salvation for them and in
deed, the people here arc better now than their
teachers. In the first place, the Priests arc gen.
orally the most ignorant part of community,
having generally neither natural or acquired
mental ability; they are so heare,ly minded, and
80 busily engaged fitting up future Heaven
for the people, that they seem to have no tmo
to notice what is going on in this world. So
anxious are they to save souiJ that tho three
millions who have fallen among thieves claim
none of their attention. In the second place,
the Priests arc morally degraded. Do you want
an advocate for slavery You must 60 to tho
ministry. Do you wish a defence for throat
cutting and neck breaking. Call upon tho
Clergy. DO you wish il-will to abound in .
communityi Send Priest among them. Do
you want lie told to injure the character Of
Reformeri Call on the preacher. Do you wish
the Union of these States, based, as it is, upon
the blood and tears of the poorl Send for
free soil Priest. And whilc tho people ale un-
der the influence Of such men, is it likely that
they will be elevated and saved. The Priests
are also degraded in their social being. As .
general thing all that is humane, or kind and
6rOther!y is confined to those within their o,c,
scctarian pens. There is but little Of that that
is truly social extending from the Methodist TO
the Presbyterian, or from the Presbyterian to
the Baptist, or from the Baptist to the Wesley
an, or from the Wesleyan to the Comeoutsr-
These statements arc living facts "known sAd
read of all men,
The Priests are physically unsaved. Many
Of them, from want of proper exercise, (being
too lazy to work, } and from intcmpcrance in the
use of strong diet, are thus 'porids,tialiy, az
flicted with dyspepsia and other diseases. 9th
ers of them beich forth tho horrid flames Of Gre
and birthstone so earnestly, that they destroy
that important part of the systematic lungs.
The above being true of the priesthood, we
SEQ that they have adopted systems of religion
which leave themselves unSaved IN all hoir being.
Can VIC expect the people to be saved through
the theology OF such meni THEOLOGY! that's
the ,oord and that's the thing which brings up
) on man his heaviest curses. The theology Of
the priests about this place strikes down at one
, fell blow, the intellectual powers with which
man is cndowcd-it forbids man to reason--snd
} if he is not allowed to reason, to investigate,
how shall he como to correct conclusions--how
shall he be elevated as a moral being; And il
man is degraded both mentally and morally,
how can he be socially elevateds And If man
be mentally, morally and socially degraded,
how will he be physically savedi No wonder
that men who are teaching systems of yslgios
which bring no salvation to man in any depart
ment Of his being can look the slave in all
his dcgradation-sce him crushed and destroyed
in all his being and coolly say, this is matter
with which we have nothing to do Il Certain.
ly such men, in view of their rTstensions, are 10
be regarded as the worst of men--worse than
I Judas who betrayed his Lord worse than Hay
/, nau, the Austrian buteher-much worse IL an
o hicees and pirates-they arc the great barrier
: TO the worlds salvation. have been from
;, homo fifteen days, held fourteen meetings, all
a good; but moro hereafter
g Yours, &C., j. F. SELBY.
: NEW YoRK TRBuNE.-Wc repay in part the
kindness Of the publishers in sending to us the
Ddiky Tribune, by the insertion of the;r pro.