Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-16
AnIl.Slavrry an InfldeI Movement.

vontion, that the impression was made upon the
picty OF Great Britain, that tho Anti-slavery
movement among us was mainly an "blfdel
Morement." This statement unoluivocally con-
victs the Church of practical indifference to
slavery. 1t also. .conyicts the piety OF Great Bri-
tain Of infdelity to humanity and truth. The
picty abroad, like that at home, prcfcring the
companionship Of men .stcalors who had rcputa-
ton ior church membership and orthodoxy--to
association with inhdcls who were engaged in
preaching gospel of "deliyerance to the cap
tivcs and the opening of the prison-doors, to
those who are bound" Forms and opinions
arc more to them than tho spirit and practice
which Jesus inoulcatcd. A truth which aboli-
tionists have been laying to their charge these
many years. And though the confession is
now made, we arc not prepared to sec from the
mass of them, any change position.
It might be pertinent inquiry to Mcssrs.
Finncy and Mahnn--how tho idea Of inidclity
became insepcrable from Tho viows of abolition
ists in America; The investigation Of this in-
qgiry will show that the prejudice was created,
representations of ministers from this country,
men who profess abhorcnde of slavery, but
have far greater adherence of aboltionists.--
We know that such has been the origin and
history Of this prejudice at home. They have
waged war which was unrelenting, and was
designed to be exterminating against abolition
lists, and when the latter have maintained tho
superiority of apostolic religion, pure and un-
deliled' above forms, opinions and organizations,
they have been branded as inlidels and anarch-
lists, and their character and influence in every
possible way assailed.
The above was written for our paper Of last
week, but with multitude of other things, was
crowded out. Since writing it we have rcceiv-
London Morning Advertiser, most ably vindica-
ting the motives and labors of American abol-
tionists and paying worthy tribute to tho
moral character Of Mr.. Garrison and others
The following extract will fully confirm the
statements made at the Convention, in regard
to the alienation of British religion from Amcri-
can Abolition, and its entirc sympathy with
American piety. Few of the ministers and
churches OF this country have had the magnani-
nifty to Icnounec their false impressions, even
when tho evidence Of their error was forced
upon their attention. They may learn lesson
from this London Editor:
Ii is an important fact that in the consid-
Grafton OF the hcroisn which Mrs Chapman,
Mr.. Garrison, aud others of the chosen band
of Aboliliouists displayed in their cuniictJ
with tlie SHAREHOLDERS and the uploldcrs OF
slavery, that they had not only to run mos.
imminent personal risks, aud submit n pri-
vations aud sclI.sacrliccs of Which We in
this country can form 10 adequate concep-
ton, but that they had TO encounter the pub
lie scOrn in lis most intense and concenira-
ted forms. II is comparatively easy to sub
nit TO sacrifices, and even to death itself, in
the promotion OF II cause which engages the
sympathy aud admiration of the world but
TO do this under the. circumstances which
characterized the early conflicts which tic
AbOitionisls carried Oh with slavery IN tho
United States, required nobility of soul
which ii is given but few to possess.
Such are The men, such tho women, from
whom the Antl-Slaycry Society in this colin-
try have not only kept sludiously aloof, but
whose moral influence, both here aud in the
United States, they have sedulously sought
10 impair, IN every possible way. II the fact
did lot stare us IN the face, it would scarcely
be credited. But the point is one on which
we shall have something more to say, Oh an
early occasion.
With regard TO Mr. Garrison, it il right
we should make one or Two remarks Of an
explanatory Kind. We know OF no mnn
who has been more tierccly assailed, or more
cruelty vllilled III this country, and that, TOO,
10y those very persons who have urrogaied to
themselves lho title, par erceiicRce, Of the
friends OF pnll-slayery. Not only did the
leading men connected with the British md
Foreign AnIi-Slavery Society keep uloof from
him when he visited this country few years
ago, but certain parties circulated all manner
ol sinister reports respecting his private char
acler, with zeal aud industry which il
would have been refreshing to witness in a
better cause.
We know not that we could give better
proof OF the success with which these per-
SONS labored in their vocation, thun by can
dldly conlessing that we ourselves were i'm
pressed with the conviction, that Mr.. Gar
riSon was man whose private character
would not bear examination. We believed
that so lar was he from being, in the private
relations of life, all which could be desired.
that his habits were so dissolute, that il be.
came legitimate question whether even the
most Jealous Abolitionist, who respected
moral rectllude, would DO justified in usso-
ciating with him.
We now find, after the most careful inoui-
ry-made, be it observed, not of his person-
al friends, but of those who are rather his
personal ioes-that Mr.. Garrison is man of
lrreproachable character in all the relations
OF life, and that he is not only man of IN
bounded benevolence and surprising meek
ness OF disposition, but of the purest morals.
80 uhbemishcd, indeed, is his character,
that even his btterest enemies, whatever
some OF them may have insinuated. have
never, in one solitary instance, been able TO
point to an act OF his life which is moi in