Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-06-26
Mr, sahnn's Letter

Thing OF this singular and cowardly produce
..on, which had to travel to Glasgow, to find
u,tctancc, We gave last week the resolutions
Of the New England Convention in regard to
At, and VIC now give the letter Itself With all
1andd men who arc acquainted with the his
.,sy of the American Society, We might safely
..uss the letter, as bearing with it its own anti
Sotc.
1t was a very digniAcd and worthy employ
ment for the Ex President of Obcrln, and the
Losd Of the Cleveland University, to cdily tho
E5sngolioal churches OF Great Britain, with
t...s dog gossip. a story that has been denied
Uy several newspapers at the East, among them
the Free Soil Paper of Salem Mass, tho place
where the blasphcmy is said to have occurred,
on the authority of individuals who heard the
illustration, from which the falschood was fab
Iicatcd. An illustration most forciLly exhibit
ing the bIutalizng cEormitics of Slavery, and the
wicked completely OF the church, in their cx.
istencc. And not in fact on design. ds appears
from the statements Of those who heard il,
either dispsrugng christianity, or Will! ing what
arc deemed by the churches, its ordinances. -
Mr.. Pillsbury several times, imprcssivcly re-
peatcd the illustration to Ohio audiences. Yet
the Obcrlin Evangelist, and the political papers
in this region, which repeated the falschood,
took good care to locate the allcdged transac.
tiun in Massachusetts, and not in their own vi
entity, where it was repeated, with all is first
cnormity. One thing VIC may add, and leave
the inference TO our readers. Ilc political u
pers in Ohio, to which VIC refer, satisfied them
selves with q single statement Of the allair.--
They were indeed too unprineplod to give The
evidence they saw against its truth, but they
lad not the rccklcSsncss Of Mr.. Mchan and the
Oborlin Evangelist to repeat the fllsoLood
ucw-yampcd BY their own genius as "hypotA...
,ea4'
Mr.. Mahan charges upon the American An
u-slaycry Society, that its object is spyimayay
,hc establishment Of inGJelity, and not the
overthrow Of Slavery. Ills proof is, his assor.
ton thGt the Idberaior, "is main scwor
through which the most grossly irGlel scnii
iucne, arc being conveyed into the public
miud' and that the agents of tho society en-
terrain and promulgate iuaiel sentiments.
Without entering into any particular de-
fence o: tho Society from these charges We will
refer to a fact or two. II Is true that tho Idbc-
Iator j. open Tor the discussion ol all impor-
tant topics, aud opinions, lot excluding some
which the church and clergy have pronounced
too'sacred for any other than a one sided dis
eussion. i is true, that its Eltor cntcrtaius
opinions with which Mr. Mahon. and members OF
the Society would not agree. Il Is true, that as
man, faithful aud free, he utteTs those opinions
in tha Idbsrator and elsewhere. Il is also true
that the Lbcrator and the Society are agreed in
their anti-slayery principles. But the Libora-
tor is not the exponent Of the Society on eny
ether opinions, nor Hs o!GeidRy authorised ezpo-
nent, eroa Of these. The Ant;-Slavery Standard,
is the organ OF the Society Ofthat, Mr.. Mghua
even, in his sweeping denuncatons, makes no
complaint, and Offers none Of It's uttcrances as
evidence OF the truth of his charges. Iut he
goes to paper published on individual RESPONSE
biity, and because its Editor is devoted to the
interests of the Socioty,-makcs the Society rc-
spolfsiblc for whatever opinions may be advocat-
cd lftle paper. Nr. Garrison, dcsilous of utter
ing hfs opinions in the Liberator without COM
promising the Society, has refused to permit Nj,
paper to become the organ Of tho Society,"
Years ago he did for time consent to such I
connection with an anti.slavery Society. but af
ter nc brief experience. the relation was dissoly
cd al his request, and il VIC rightly rememb,I
his reasons for so doing, were, that he desired
to utter his sentiments on other topics, thar
those Of slavery.
So Mr.. Wright, whose views of War and
Government and perhaps other things were i,
conflict with those Of a majority OF tho mem
bers OF the Society, refused to be its agent. IIt
Nishedto advocate those views on suitable oc-
rasions, and that neither the Society or ITS mem
teEs might DO compromised thereby or in tht
least feel themselves implicated in their sup
port, he has declined all agencies OF the Societ,
and all pecuniary aid theyelrom as has also Mr.
Garrison.
With regard to Messrs. Pillsbury and Foster
sdmitting that they are as inGdcl as Mr. Mahai
could desire-or believes them to be, still w
plm they have been Gar more careful not TO in
trude their obnoxious opinions upon the anti
slavery platform, than have those who entertain
opposite views. How often have We hearC
Agents and friends of the Society upon tina
platform refer to the Bible as a book of inspi
ration and how often have they introduced up
on tho platform the forms of their worship
while devoted friends Of the Society neither be
hcved the one or approved the other, and ye
they quietly tolerated this infraction of neu
trality, rather than mar tho co operation Of or
thodox friends of the cause,
Tho fnIlnuin0 IL Gro.., a. i,
discussion on the resolutions touching tbi
subject adopted ut the New England Con
tfplion, We copy from the Liberator.