Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-09-06
The .Garrlsoniaus sketchCd by an Opponent.

remarkable for that condition of both head
and heart which enables charitable men TO
excuse either, by atirihutng its vices aud
faults to a melancholy defect in tie other
recently spent an extra quantity OF lndlgna-
ton upon the Free Soil Party, for some opln-
ion expressed by Parker Pillsbury, holding
them responsible for his sentiments. The
Commonwealth having exposed the dlshon-
esty of the stupid fraud, the Transcripts de-
fends itselfby coniessing IFS ignorance OF
the man il had assalled, and his moral ana
political views. The Commonwealth thus
enlighicns his Ignorance, aud rebukes his
carelessncss of truth, and his eager haste 10
accuse all who will not bow to the slave oil
garchy.-Pd. Freeman.
Mr.. Pilsbury, "Mr. Garrison and others"
to whom the Transcript refers with tins pro-
frsson OF contemptuous ignorance, Hre tie
ultra abolitionists, the meuibeis OF .he Alne'
rican Anti-Slayery Society, as they icfih
themselves, but for whom more inlellIgiDle
and precise appellati0n would be that OF
Garrisonians, as Mr. Garrison is " the very
head and front of the offending" and his pa
per, the LiJerdlor, their political organ.-
Their most prominent leaders in New Eng
land. besides Mr.. Garrison, are Messrs. Wen
deli Phillips, Edmund Quincy, Theodore
Parker, Francis Jackson, $. :. Foster, aud
Parker Pillsbury. These are all men of
marked ability, some OF them umoug the irst
in the country for eloqucuce, wit, learning
and general intellectual powers. They are
also men Of distinguished excellence oi char
actcr, and of stainless purity OF life, theIr
most bitter enemies never having dared 10
bring tangible charge against their morals
or their private conduct For the sake oi
what they deem the truth, and the true inter
est OF the country, they have sacrificed all
ambitious aspirations, all hopes OF Office ana
of public honor, and have resOlutcly encoun-
tered storm OF unpopularity, abuse, nnd
personal outrage, for which it would he hard
to find parallel in modern times, either for
its violence, or for the courage ana cohs'ancy
with which it has been met.
Our good opinion of the personal ehnrac-
ter OF the Garrisouiaus, which we believe Is
the opinion of all who are well informed
about them, does not extend TO their doc
trines. We mean, Of course, their political
doctrines, for, though they are often Nllhted
as hiidels by their enemies, they have no
distinctive religious opinions but are, some
of them, Calyinsts, others Unitarians, Uui-
versaiss, Sc. Though they nssail the
| Church with yehemence, it is not because u
is mol Christian, so fur as Slavery is concern
ed, and does not, with regard TO it, practice
ITS own doctrines.
The political doctrines of the Garrisonians
are wholly erroneous in our view, aud re-
! ceive our strongest ds0pprobaton. They
are in substance, that the Union should be
dissolved, that the Constitution IS ga cove
nant with death aud an agreement with
HELL" and that to hold office, or even TO vote
under it, is II sin. They consequently do not
vote, do not nominate candidates for Office,
| but confine themselves to holding conyen-
tons all over the country and dcuouncng
! right and LEFT in their speeches aud in Their
! papers, all who do not agree with them. Of
the three political parties, they especially as
! sail the Free Soil Party, because it upholds
! tie Union and the Constitution, and because,
as they imagine, it prevents mullitudcs OF
anli-sluvery men from taking what they, the
Garrlsoniais, conceive to be the only true
posiion-a disluon one. No Garrisonan
ever speaks from a Free Soil platform, or
takes any part in a Free Soil meeting, except
ms an opponent or disturber.
For long willie past the Garrisonians
have regularly held every year, two or three
Conventions III Boston, which have been ad-
vertlsed aud reported in nearly all the papers
aud certainly, 10 some extent, in the Tran
script. Mr.. Pilsbury is generally one Of the
| speakers ut these meetings, and as such, hns
been reported in the Transcript as well as in
the other daily papers, and if by this time,
the editor of The Transcript is not sufficient
ly acquainted with Mr. Pillsbnry's political
sentiments, to be aware that he is disun-
ionist, and consequently no friend TO the Free
| Soiers, why we can only cundilly say that
we think his ignorance is "deplorable," and
that in this as well as in several other cases,
he had better obtain sufficient knowledge
of persons whom he is in the habit of reyll-
ing, to enable him ut least TO conceal his ig-
| norance.
The Transcript, has for some time past
been foremost in denouncing both the Gar
risonians and the Free Soilers. II has pol
luted its columns with mnumerable articles
from frantic blackguard, who has poured
out upon hlessrs. Garrison, Phillips, Quincy,
Parker, Dana and other gentlemen of high
character and reputation, torrent of abuse
and misrepresentation grosser and more ma
| lignant than anything we ever saw, in any
journal whatever, whether of good or inta-
nous reputation. Among other calumnies,
it has persisted in asserting, time after time
that Mr. Wendell Phillips publickly urged
the mob to forcibly resist the laws, TO tear up
railroads aud burn steamboats,; and this in
the face Of Mr.. Phillips prompt and explicit
denial in a subsequent public speech in this
city, and in the columns Of the Liberator, and
in the face oftlle total incompatibility of such
advice with his well known clarOter and
principles. The slander against Mr.. Pillsbu-
ry was also, MS it knows, or should know, pub
licly contradicted at the Garrisonian Con-
venlion at Worcester, on the LIST of August,
and also in the Liberator
The character, the principles, and the con-
duct of these gentlemen and their associates,
are very easily known TO those who choose
to become acquainted with them; and they
are very well known TO all those who are
decently familiar with the history of this
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