Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-08
From the Pennsylvania Freeman.
Letters Received of The Annual Meeting.
Letter from .ur. Garrison.

! My DEAR FRIgND "A sudden cold, attend.
cd with considerable inflammation of the lungs,
aside from other considcrations.) must deprive
me OF the pleasure Of attending the Annual
Meeting Of the Pcnnsyl yana Anti. Slavery So
cicty, at West Chester, next week. Whatever
may be the disappointment felt at my absence,
it cannot be greater than the regret / feel at
the intcrposing Of any obstacle to prevent my
being with those whom / have known, loved,
and honorcd, for so many years, as among the
earliest, most reliable, most devoted friends of
a sorcly afflicted and horribly outraged race.
Your Anniversary is TO bc held at time of
intense excitement, under circumstances pccu-
lia'ly trying, in location not very remote
from the Inrlstana tragedy. 1t cannot fail,
therefore, to be an occasion of thrilling interest
and deep solcmni,y. Wha;ovcr may transpirc,
am confident that you will all possess your
souls in patience, nor think it "strongc concern.
ing the fiery trial which is to try you, as though
some strange thing happened unto you; but re-
joicc, iuosmuch as yc arc partakcrs of Christ's
suiictngs committing the keeping of your
souls to God in well doing, os unto faithful
Creator" "For yet a little while and the wick
cd shall not be; but the meek shall inherit the
earth The wicked plottcth against the just,
and gnashcth upon linn with his teeth. The
Lord shall laugh at him; for he seeth that his
day is coming. The wicked have drawn out
tho sword, and have bent their bow, to cast
down tho poor aud needy, and to slay such as
be of upright conversation. Their sword shall
cntcr into their own heart and their bow shall
&c broken" "God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in troublc; therefore will
not we fear, though the earth he removed, and
though the mountains bc carried into the midst
OF the sea-"
Truly, "1'his is nation that ohcycth not
the voice of the Lord their God, nor rcccivoth
correction; t,uth is pcrisLcd, and is cut off
from their mouth. Were they asham-
cd when they had committed abomination
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither cod
they blush. From the least of them
even unto the greatest of them, every ono is
given to covctousness; and from the prophc;
oven unto the priest, every ono dcalcth false
ly. . . They make man an offender for
word, and lay snare for him that rcproveth
in the gate, and turn aside tho just for thing
of naught. Their feet run to do
evil, and they may haste to she'd innocent
blood wasting and destruction arc in their
paths. E. They all lie in wait for
blood they hunt every man his brother with
a net. That they may do evil with 10th
hands earnestly, tho prince askcth and tho
judge askoth for a reward and the great man
he uttcrcth his mischievous desire SO they
wrap it up. And he that de-
pMtcth from evil makcth himself prey"
Nevertheless, "Suengthcn yc the weak
hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say un-
to them that are of fearful ncarr, Be strong
fear rot. IIcarken unto me, saith
the Lord, eye that know righteousness, the
people in whose heart is my fear; fear ye not
the rcproach Of men, neither be yc afraid of
their revilings; for the moth shall cat them up
like garment, and the worm shall cat them
like wool /, even l, am he that comfor.eth
you. Who art thou, that thou should'st be
afraid Of man that shall die, and the son of
1
test the Lord thy Maker, that hath stretched
forth Tic heavens, and laid tho foundations OF
the Garth and hast feared continually every
day because of the fury OF the oprrcssor, as il
he were ready to destroy and where is the
fury of the opprcssor; The captive exile
hastencth that he may be looscd and that he
shall not die in the pit nor that his bread sho' d
fail. :. For the oppression of the
poor, for the sighing Of the needy, now will
arise saith the Lord | will set him in safety
from him that puifcth at him.
Say ye not, A confcderacy, to all them tC
whom this people shall say, A confcderacy
neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid.
Sanctify the Lord Of hosts himself and let him
be your fear, and let him be your dread"
My dear friend, can find no language so ap.
positc, so reliable, so descriptive, so consoline
in the present time, as that which have quo.
ted from o volume, professedy held by this op.
pressiye nation in the highest veneration as tho
inspired word of God, which yet disregards, il
the most daring manner, all its admonitions
warnings, expostulations, examples, threaten
ings and judgments.
More than three millions of our fellow-erea
lures are continually crying for a dclivcranc'
from q seryitude, zone hour of which" in th'
truthful language of Thomas Jefferson, "i
fraught with moro misery than ages of tha
, which We rose in rebellion to oppose" Thei