Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-03
Yours and your readers,
PARKER PILLSBURY.
CORRESPONDENCE FROM MICHIGAN.

ANN ARDoR, Nov. 90, 1853
Ny DEAR FRIEND: have, for some weeks past
been trying to find time to say few words through
the Bugle, of the state of anti-slayery affairs in
Michigan.
We little dreamed when we came here of the
things which have belallen us. OF course, we
never calculate, before hand, what form and shape
the opposition may assume that would be vain.
We well know, however, that opposition in some
shape must come.
We knew that there was one Free Soil paper in
the State and as the papers Of that stamp, in New
England, the Middle States, and in the West, so
far us we were acquainted with them, were either
friendly in the main, or disposed to be silent in
regard to the American AntSavery Society, we
looked for the Detroit Free Democrat to act the part
of civlity, at least, towards us. However, ar
irving here and learning that Alanson st. Clair, of
"New Organization memory, was ecturng for
the Free Soiers of Michigan, and hearing from the
lips of one of the most active and devoted of the
party, that their paper had frequently and meanly
slandered the friends and agents of our Society
that he had decided not to aid it any further though
he had, on its starting, obtained some hundred
subscribers for it, say, in learning these facts,
we had no reason to anticipate any word Of well
come or courtesy even.
Your readers have seen the reception it gave Mr..
Foster and myself but they have not known of its
subsequent course, presume. The daily has con-
tanned several most bitter and malignant attacks
Mr.. Garrison since he was there, one of which has
appeared in the weekly. will send you u weekly
containing two articles on Garrison and his co-ad
tutors. The comments on the resolutions Of the
coored people Of Detroit, are said by those who
ought to know, to be from the pen of st. Clair
You will perceive by the weekly, that although il
copies the lying comments on the resolutions which
were copied in the daily yet in its true spirit it re
fuses to publish the resolutions | do not under
stand why those resolutions have not been published
in the Bugle Or rather why tie resolutions passed
by a meeting of the colored people of Detroit il
defense of Mr. Garrison and ourselves against the
attacks of the Free Democrat, have not been pub
lished in the Bugle as the meeting voted theil
publication in your paper, Have you not received
them? The Democrat published a set of garbled
resolutions in its accustomed spirit, stating that
they were the resolutions of the meeting alluded tc
above. 1t is worthy of note that the people com
posing the meeting were mainly if not wholly
Free Soers, or the friends of that party, and yet
their paper refuses to publish their resolutions en-
tire, although purporting to do so.
We learn, too, that lady of Detroit who knows
Mr. Garrison, and felt it her duty to defend hin
against the slanderous attacks of the Democrat
sent an article to that paper which was refused ad
mission but which was afterwards admitted to thu
columns of the Detroit Tribune. And this is thu
Free Democrat. Stealthily it binds its victims
then stabs them, and when their friends attempt
defense, they arc astonished to find themselves
, bound also Free aye free!! The freedom &C
corded ny the two clerical editors who are assisted