Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-31
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HARTronD, July 16, 1859.

llARTFonD, July 16, 1852.
DEAR, KIND aW." A stray Bugle has tc
day brought me your crtique on my article
in the Standard. Thanks to you for YOU
structures, for they will help call attention to
what is yet to he the greatest question among
nboliionisis and the most important point
10 be discussed IN the Anii.Slavcry papers
uamcly-Is il right T. denounce siavcholders
ar slavc.owners That question Ins got to
be settled, aud the Anii-Slavery cause eau
never peacefully triumph, until, not only
theoretically, but practically, j, is settled.-
No. have few things to add to what you
say, in order to make the whole story per-
icctly true.
l. You say il is strange how extremes meet,
referring to my taking the position always
occupied by SHAREHOLDERS, with regard to the
spirit of our eni,rprise) Yes, but it is a
great deal more beautiful than s,runge, aud
you aud ought to be glad to have it so.-
The human race is one, aud uIl-Norlh and
Souih--slnveholder slave owners, and nl,o-
ilionisis, shall stand or fall together Thank
God, wa shall stand, but it can only bc by the
combined wisdom of dH-slavcholdrrs have
got TO take some of our wisdom, and we
hive To go tn them, us well as they come to
Us.
q You ask whether it is To be the sin that
is to bc eXccrated, or the ninn who commits
il. AT this, stnri with horror, dear " w, )"
the moment ilon hast cxecrntcd man, that
moment thou hast cursed thy God
B. You say it is impossible to separate
sin from the sinner. So il is, and | do not
try TO. But distinguish between them, aud
hate, blame, and denounce the one, while ]
pity, love, and try to snve the other. This
is the key which unlocks the whole difficulty
distinction, hut not scparation--,lcnounc
ing the act, not the man, but yet denOuncing
the act 10 the Inan-culling IL hard Names
(because right names), and rrhuking il with
all the terrible severity Of truth, but treating
him us a brother, aud kindly, gently, with n
fathers conpassion, and Il mothers tender
ness.
4. You say ] propose an entire change
n complete revolulion-in our system of eff
fort. So do, AS to spirit aud manner, not to
methods aud measures. In Church, in State,
aud to the utmost extreme of Tddicdlism-
hold on to Comeoutersm-nay push it =
But Our enterprise will have to undergo n
change ms to the spirit with which il is car
rioI nnI cn will all tl,n tI,ar Poi Cnr,no
of the day, not excepting even Non-Resist-
ance, We have all got TO back square out
s. re,ieraie my assertion, that " love never
yet denounced any man." though it must
always, denounce his crimes. Aboltionis:s
may hive denounced the aCis of Shareholders
in love, and as n matter of fact they have
often done so, with breaking hearts, but
they have never denounced the shareholders
themselves, in love. Love never denoInces
men, but for that very reason, it must de-
nounce their sins, because these sins are
against the men, and love yearns TO save men
from Their. If the Nazerene Jesus ever de
nounced men, that is, if he ever spoke un-
gently to them, he did wrong, and was
himself n relormer who needed reforming.
6. close with full statement, in these
two propositions, which will yet he accepted
by the wise and the good in all these Re
forms I'll is never right to denounce a ln-
man being, however bad his conduct--and,
the right way to reform a mans conduct, is
TO denounce IL, and not him-denounce it 10
him
write short, hut much in it. Think it
out! Thine, dear w." foreverl
JOSEPH TREAT.
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