Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-24
Anti.Slaycry Agents in Massachusetts.


Alonzo J. Grover, reports for himself nnd
Parker Pilsmfy concerning some of their
recent labors in Massachusetts. We give un
extract:
am fully satisfied tint il is the settled.
organized, aud Systematic policy of the
Church OF Massachusetts,, ns last resort, TO
try to strave nntl-slnvery 10 death. Whether
it will succeed in this change of the mode
of warfare, aud cut off all supplies TO our
Garrison, is not hard question. Time will
prove that the result will he the same, wheth-
er they tive us stones when we ask for
bread, or give us nothing. For auti.slnvery,
Old Organization uuli-slAvcry is hard TO
kill it is bound TO live, TO out-liyc, oulgrow
aud triumph over all li:nt can he nrrayed a.
gainstii aud because it is right! Truth can
not be burned To death, nor stoned to death,
nur starved nor drowned. All these meth.
obs have been tested une after another for
thousands VI years, but have failed. Mun's
course has been STEADILY onward aud up
ward. Truth still lives! The Lord God
Onluip0tcnl rcigneth!
found Asllrnd, ludgiug from what saw
& heard about rs barren OF nnti-slavery feel
iug, us | should expect 10 find its uamcsake
in Kentucky.
Ilolliston is a beautiful town, and found
few noble spirits, iit to live III such place (;
and our meeting was quite n good one, every
thing considered. Our thanks are cSpcrially
due to Mr.. Morse and others for 'heir liberal
aid and sympathy.
As for Shcrburne-God save Shcrhnrne
! if lie can. could learn of but one working
anti slavery family in the town; and the
Orthodox Church, Edward Dowse, Pou,iiex
Maxmns, have nearly destroyed the mind
of Mr.. AnOry Bahcock, the husband aud
! ihlher hy their demoniacal prosecutions
| Mr.. BnbcOck has been n subscriber TO the
LiJerGtor for fifteen years, aud has stood
almost alone for his principles since the
Church backed out ia lSi0 lie possesses
one OF those rare organizations of head and
heart, aud delicately strung nervous sys-
ten, that cannot stand the shock of the
alienation Of friends and that treatment
that lac has received during the last ten yenrs
from his former Orthodox brethren has
driven him, in the vigor of his physical
irOme, beyond second childhood in mental
mbcrllity. Talk about the spirit that per-
secuted the early Proicstnnis! II il were
/ not for the outward pressure of public opin-
| ion, some of our anlislavery Protcstanis
/ HS"H'N lloNNSlhh'lSili w SoiilC oI our DICK
parishes, would stand hut little better chance
now than John Wickliff stood.
Al Nutick, our meeting was small indeed.
Willie stood ia the Depot the next morn
ing, waiting for the cars, dog. collect
ed twice as large nu audience as had, in
five minutes. This suppose, was the result
of dogmGticism. Tonight | am TO hold n
meeting in Needhnm, aud tomorrow night ia
WulIhntu, So uOvs The hlttlp
In Lawrence MIR. Pillsbury took up the
Identity of the interests of the working
classes with the anti-slavcry cause, and
showed, us inr as words have power TO show,
that the lnboring classes of the North cannot
hope for better things until slavery is abol-
isled at the South. He proved that the
Northern capitalist and southern stakeholder
were banded together by the ties of interest
and trade; that the church WIS blessing aud
sanciilying the uuhOly union; and unless
some change came to the relief of the toll
ing millions even of the North, they would,
III the progress of very few years, he at tie
starving poinl,-he literally crushed by this
triple aud renlcss power. Yet his burning
eloduenco and cogent arguments reached
only very few ears The people are being
led 10y tie priests and p0iliciaes like laulbs
10 the slaughter. They assist robbers to rob
| their own pockets, and then pay Tie priest
hood TO reconcile the decd with Divine jus-
/ tice, and themselves To their condition.
Father, forgive them all, for they know not
what they do
All ONZO I CRnTER