Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-08-07
7 II E B U G L E. .
For the Anti-Slavery Buglc.
Letter from llitiy Lane.

DEAR Mn. BuGLE: I've hccrd say you're
alters ready to listen to cvcrybody's com.
plants. It's rather hard to bear ones trials
alone; so III jest open my mind to you. I'd
heerd you was an ulidcl WHEN | first came
To Sainaria, so | wouldn't even look ut your
BHgIe" for long time. Bimc hy, one day,
artcr waslIin, thinks |, I'll see what there is
III this ere infdc paper. So reads on, and
on, about slavery, politics. temperance, the
church, aud what not, tll found your great
crime was beleivin' in higher law, than the
fugitive slave law, and doub,in the miali-
bllity of some of our minister's aud 'godliku'
politicians. Now tho Pm not very larned,
I've read n pretty considerable lot about these
ere things. I'll tell how got time.
You see, when first got married thought
] must have every thing right smart. I'd
hcerd so much from preachers, nnd every
body, about the duties of wives and mothers,
tho never could do nli, nor nobody else il
they'd had the strength, isdon,nnd patience
of all the Sampsous, Solomons, and Jobs
that ever lived on nirh. however done my
best but tho alters fond of reudn, somehow
! could never find time. AT last, thinks |,
what's tie use II kni in so much cdgin, aud
havin so many fixins about all my things !;
hem sichin, inggottin, aud thousand
things that men folks never think on lllai's
one way they git more time Than winin to
improve their minds. If you'd ever doI,e
sicl work, tho tnint likely you ever did,
helms you're man, you'd know how ] found
time to read arter I'd slIirked out Of all these
ere fiddle iadlIes.
Well as Is sayin, I'd read about the higher
law, aud the like, aud didn't see no sin in il
neither; tho think should seen it i'll
there wns any, scein I've read the Bible
clean through from Gnesis to Revelations.
But han't told you about my trials yet
You see | don't like inGdelity to truth and
common sense, any more'n ministers do to
their doctrine. As alters want to keep up
with the times, which is mighty hurryin
work nowadays, ] got rccOncilcd TO your
progressive inflelity rather sudden, arter !
Ohh lON bC'iDNh'l III Al'lll hb'b pAiiAIc
what you'd wish others to do TO you and
that others meant wimn and niggcrs, as well
ns "lrce white males" But here comes the
trial; arter I'd got cone,nost beat out kctchn
up with your opinions, ont comes Brother
Il. l. Taylor in the Pittsburgh Christian Ad |
vocate of July 9Th 1882 and throws all your
infdelty in the shade, by denyin that spirit
,lal aud eternal death was caused by mother
"The strongest ground that can De reason-
ably assumed, as TO the import of the penal
y, lis the mortality of the race" lie continues,
'lor what greater monstrosty.in morals can
infinite goodness posing The final destiny Of
innumerable multtudes of immortal intell-
gences on the result of one single expert
ment in moral government" Then says, sit
appears impossible that its parallel can he
found in. the annals of thought" Now it
seems TO me that these ere sentiments are
rather unfortunate comm jest when the "scen-
tiiic world" as the KNOWN ones call them
Selves, say lllu! uCdlili vi AiiO hlSS'iNAlbi VI
all organic bodies, whether animal or vegita-
BILE, is the result OF the eternal law Of pro-
gressive developement. You ee,onbeevers
will say right off If mans temporal death
is caused by original sin, what crime did the
first brutcs and vegetables commit, that their
posterity suffer the same penalty" Besides,
accordin to the Bible 'twant nat'ral death,
'relse they'd died the very day and stopt the
world in the beginin. Dear me, what's the
world comm to: who'll pay the prosecntin
attornies for all their books and sarmons, if
Bro. Taylor clears mother Eve on two counts,
and the scientiics on tother for you see
nobody ever believed in more'n three deaths.
What most specially interests me is the bear
in it has ON the woman question. La, now!
Aint Bro. Taylor whole regiment on wo-
mans right ?" Who'd thot Ewes darters
would ever git over bein despised for her
sin tho for my sheer, ] could never see how