Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-29
EDITORIALS BY THE wAYsIDE.
DETROIT, Oct. 90.

Our visit to Detroit has been unsuccessful so far
rs addressing the people is concerned. Not church
or a hall could be had in the whole city of $1,000
inhabitants. This was notbecause the people would
not have heard Mr. Garrison, gladly. We had cv-
idence that they would so have listened to him.
But the chief priests, rulers and editors conspircd
to prevent the people from hearing. On Sunday it
was rumored that Mr. Garrison was in the city, and
the people assembled in considerable numbers
around the closed doors of the City Hall. and n
delegation came to Mr.. Garrison's room, desiring
him to come and address them. | went out among
them, and informed them that if no other place
could be had, Mr.. Garrison would speak in the
evening in ofthe churches ofthe colored people
lie did speak there twice the house crowded and,
the people all attention. The coorcd pcople-thc
noble cntcrprsing directors and conductors at this
important terminus of the Underground Railroad,
gave their house joyfully.
On Monday evening, the following placard was
posted about the streets:
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
DENIED IN THE
CITY or DETRO OFT!
IN Me public and pirate halls consccrdted and
pieiged 10 Sidrery!
VIM. Lloyd Garrison will speak in the Colored
Methodist Church tonight Come one, come all.
Detroit, Oct 18th.
The ministers and the press are especially re-
sponsiblc for this denial. The daily press of the
city has been most outragcousy scurrous and
mcndacious in its assaults upon the Fosters. no
ticcd in previous paragraph, the course Of one
of the Democratic papers, in regard to them and
their positions and efforts. Other city papers have
Joined in the chorus of slandcr. But utterly dis
tancing them all in mean misrepresentation and
contemplate falschood, is the Detroit Daily Demo-
crat. At its editorial head stands the following
array of names editorial, viz rs. A. BAKER JAnEz
Fox, Editors, and T.. S. IIAMIN Corresponding Ed
itor." In looking the City Directory, find $.
A. Baker set down Rec, and Pastor IF lie Hes
leyan Church in Detroit, and Jabez Fox as Pastor
of the Swedenborgian Church.
Reader, don't suppose that these Revcrcnds are
editors of an old line, bunker Democratic paper.
Nothing of the kind. 1t is the Michigan State Free
Soil paper! We have not much to say about the
article. We hope our pro tenn will publish it, and
our readers judge of its character rs well as of
the developments of its Reverend editors. When
the party of progress" the "Anti-Savery party"
takes such,ground and dcsccnds so low in meanncss,
what can we hope Of men who make no pretcnsions?
The Free Democrat is for union and numbers. 1t
is seeking popularity To secure and maintain that,
it must abuse and misropresent the principles and
rdculc the efforts of faithful abolitionists II has
its reward and we know now how to judge of it,
That is something. Can we never trust ministers
aud politicians? We doubt it, when they are COM
bined in the same persons.
The Democrats want to protect the residence of
General Cass from all taint of anti-saycry. The
Wings sympathze with them most heartily, for
they too, centre their hopes upon the Shareholders
Notwithstanding the shabby treatment they have
received at their hands, These reverend Free Soil
editors, knowing that the people have a right from
their professions, to expect them to appear and
operate in the most radical ant-slayery measures,
and wishing Mt the same time to save themselves
from the odium attached to faithful anti-slavcry,
have to disclaim louder and falsify and misreprc-
sent more meanly than any others, in order to
maintain their respectability. They have done it,
as our readers may judge from the article They
do not assault or cricise the positions taken but
their extreme fastidiousness will not permit them
to receive anti-slavesy truth from an uninterest-
ngly plain" woman, or man with heavy eyebrows.
This article is a specimen of the influence which
shut Mr.. Garrison out from hearing in Detroit
This paper is chief in the work.
After the close of Mr.. Garrison's remarks on
Monday evening, DIR. STEnmSs, IA gentleman who
was afterwards vouched for by one of the most
eminent Free Sellers of the city, as one of their
most respectable physicians and an eminent friend
of the colored man, and who, as l was informed,
is also very pious member of the Presbyterian
Church. arose and said that all the good in Detroit
was to be found in the churches and pulpits of the
city. that Mr.. Garrison was an "accuser of the
brethren" and for his part he rcjoiccd that all the
halls of the city had been closed against him. Mr..
Garrison replied with very few words of merted
and truthful severity which were received with a
warm expression of approval by the audience, in
lhe midst of which tho DIR, made his exit from the
house.
| have delayed sending this article, as the friends
of Mr.. Baker the Senior Editor, assured me he
would disclaim it. lie was absent from home at
the time of its publication. lie has not as have
been able to learn-and therefore it is right to
hold him as responsible as the Rev. Fox, who is
said to have written it. The honest political anti
slavery men of Michigan, will mark this course
with deserved reprObation. hear from them at
Ypsiant Ann Arbor, and Adrian, but one united
expression of indignation against it.
Our friend Henry Bibb has met with most
serious interruption in the publication of his paper
in consequence of the fire which entirely demol-
ished his Office press and type. We are happy to
learn that he was insured lie has issued a small
sheet, and will hope, soon be again under way,
with new prosperity and success. lie and his ac-
complished and excellent wfc, took deep interest
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