Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-06-19
From the Glasgow Examiner.
Letter from President llahan,

Rev. WV. ScoTT:
DEAR BRoTHER--From communication
| which received some months since, ] per-
ceive that difference OF opinion has arisen
among the friends of the slave and advocates
ofhuman rights, in Glasgow, in regnrd to the
character and influence of the American
| Anti-Slavery Society. In these commune
| catiOns my own name is referred to, and dit.
ierent and opposite constructions are put by
yourself and others upon statements which
made when in your city some two years
since. To Yourself and others | made the
statement, that while that society speaks
one word for the slave, II speaks two against
the church. You understood me to mean
10y the term church, n pro.slavery church
others understood me to use the term with
out any such intended qualification. In this
they were right, and you wholly misunder-
stood my meaning used no such qualify
ing term, MS you will no doubt rccollect nor
| did suppose myself TO convey the meaning
which its use would imply. As the subject
is mp, and in accordance with the advice
and solicitation Of Christian friends, | will
present you with u full aud frank statement of
my opinion Of the American A. Slavery Socie-
ty the society ofwhich w. l.. Garrison is the
prominent leader aud representative. will
h'op clhNN Sblllt lNHFOUS lOI lll1l Olllll-
ion. | believe, then, give not only my own
but the almost, if not quite, undivided opin-
ion of Christian men of this country when
say that this society, in its fundamental ten
denotes aud aims, is not, properly speaking.nn
Anli.Slavcry Society, but an iniidel, no-hu-
nan government movement, using the anti
slVcry sentiment as a club with which 10
strike down the church and the state, and
nluIIlV Ihn iortppr | lo ii,
Christian anii-slavery men, object to the So
cicty because infdels are members, and are
employed MS lecturers 10y l.. | mn willing to
join with infdels, Nlnhomedans, and llindoos
in vlndcating the rights of crushed human.
lty. But am not willing TO lend my coun-
tenonce for moment to n society, which,
masking itself rs an nnti-slnvcry society, is
IN fact aiming to PROSTATE Christianity itself
know you too well TO entertain doubt in
respect to the fact of n periec; harmony of
views with regard TO the sentiment above
expressed. But whit is the character of the
American Anti Slavery Society? Look in
the first place, ut the Lberator, the exponent
of the principles of the president OF that
society. do not say that it never contains
articles advocating the claims of Christian-
~ ns of divine origin, bnt have never heard
of such M article contained in il. On the
other hand, this paper is one of the princi-
pie mediums through which formal assaults
nre mnde upon the claims of the Bible aud
our religion TO such an origin, main sewer
through which the most grossly infiAel scnti-
mcnis are being conveyed into the public
mind. The vantage ground which it occu-
pies as an advocate OF human rights is thus
used to open batteries upon Chritiani.y it,
self As far as my observation and iniorma-
ton extend, the progress of this society is in
fact an enlargement of the dead sea of inf
deity. Protesting Christians even, who are
drawn into fellowship with it, are almost, If
not quite universally, drawn into opposition
not merely to a pro-slavery church, but to
the church MS such, with all its ordinances,
aud to Christianity itself.
We may also form some estimate of the
character aud tendencies of this society from
the known character of its agents and lec-
turers. | know of but three gentlemen
whose entire time is, and for many years
has been, wholly devoted to the interests of
the society MS public agents and lecturers, to
wit, II. c. Wright, Parker Pillsbury, and $.
;. Foster. All these are open aposiates from
Christianity, having all o! them once been
preachers or candidates for the ministry
Like all apostalcs, they hate with hatred
unmingled aud most bitter the faith they
have rejected. What should we expect
would be the influence of society, repre-
scntcd by and reaching the public through
such men? What should we suppose would
he the ultimate and chief aims of such men,
hating, us they do, Christianity aud the
church far more than they do slavery? 1t is
to my mind tenriully ominous in respect to
the tendency and aims of society, whose
file leaders are such men. But what is the
character Of the teachings and influence OF
these men as matter OF fact? Everywhere
| they appear as the most bitter denuncintors
of the church as the pillar of slavery and tho
mother of denominations, and these denuncia-
tlons are poured out without any careful and
just discrimination. To them the church
has but one neck, aud they aim Mt least to
cnt off its head at single blow. 'We arc
coming into Ohio said one of them in a
letter TO friend of mino, for the purpose oi
putting down the church and the govern
ment-will you Join usP 'Will your mis-
sion end said this same friend to another OF
them, with slavery abolished, and all things
put right in respect to itF NO., was tie
reply, 'our mission does not end ill we have
put down the church, To show how utter
ly indiscriminating they are in denouncing
churches, take single example :-Seven
teen years ago or more, the church at Ober-
lin Withdrew from all connection with pro,
slavery organizations, openly withheld com
munion aud fellowship with shareholders
repudiated the negro pew, and all otheI
known pro-slavery principles and usages.-
Ii would seem that such position woulC
save this church from even the sweeping
denunciations of these men, yet there prob
ably is no church in the land that receives
their unqualified denunciaton more frequent
ly, or so bitterly, as this very church. On'
of them told me that, in his Judgment, ther'
wus no church in the United States that wa