Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-03-13
Letter from Parker PillSbury,
LrrcnrlrLp, Con-, March lst, IS

LIrcnFiELD Con-, March lst, 1862.
Dean MAnIus My letters arc some ways
apart but The Buglc suffers but very little in
Consequence. l might write often, but of late
all my bodily and mental energies have to be
husbandcd for my Lecturing Agency on account
1 seldom write now, to my most intimate friends.
The Maine Liquor Law is the absorbing
topic at present. Even Kossuth has been post
poncd for it-and the people arc glad of any
change; for tho worship Of 50 dcformcd an idol,
had become work of too much self obascmcnt.
But the prospects of the Law arc not very en-
coumging. Rhode Island has rejected it, even
while rcpenling utterly the Law for Capital
Punishment. The Coalition Legislature of
Massachusetts, could enact the law, if it
would, and would, if it did not fear the effect
on the party prospects. New York, to which
with our friend Garrison, have just paid a fly.
ing visit, is deeply agtatcd on the subject, and
tho Legislature is flooded with potitions for the
Law. No state moro needs check to intcm-
pcranec. did not expect tLcrc was any Nor.
Htsya State, where tho evil 50 abounded. Tenn
poranco Hotels arc cmong the consuma,ions to
be wished. Tic Dclayan House at Albany is
onci but it is frs: class house only in its
charges,
For myself, it is not yet so certain that the
5lainc Law is to be desired, us an auxiliary in
the Temperance Reform. The heart the char
actcr of the people cannot be improved by it.
1t is not never was one of Gods remedies to
rcgcneratc tho world. God never tics up mcr's
wills, or Limbs, and throws them into the chari-
OF of salvation, as a butcher would calves into
wagon. The Temperance Reform to me, is
wholly moral and rcl.gious-aud no political
action or Legislation enters into it. There is
! so much of depravity in the community. And
it viii be manifested. If you smother it at one
point, it will break forth at another. The evil
spirit is to be cast owt,-not chained. Even the
"O.d Serpent" in the visions of Patmos, was
only bound by tic angel for time. Then he
goes forth to deceive and dovour, worse than
ever. THO angel ought to have killed him. il
he did anything
The moral and religious Influences, are the
AlAAt lbNNi ~ ONNlNhlllt AlC tNll-Allu llNSt
will be laid aside by most people, in proportion
as they succeed in cnncting laws against it,
For ono, shall stand by tho enterprise; not
docmng my labor less, or less demanded, be-
cause Of any law on tho subject. And when
human wisdom has exhausted itself in Legisla-
tive schemes and devices to remove Slavery, In
temperance, and other Moral Evils, it will then
have to oroturn 20 the only divincly by appointed
insrumcntality, tho prcaeAing Of tic gospel oj
truth. It is only lack Of faith in God and hi.
gospel, that sends men to Legislative bodies
(always tho corruptcst part of crcation,) for tho
means to bring wicked men to repentance.
The Executive Committee Of the American
Society, have not yet determined on the place
for the Anniversary. From all 1 can Learn
however; think it will bc somewhere in New
York. Farther west than that, you need hard
ly expect twill Co. 1t is very difficult for som,
of the speakers, on whom every thing almos
depends, to leave their homes for SO long a tim,
as would be required to go to Ohio.
Yours as ever,
DADlETD nTT cnTrnU