Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-05-28

hl nfncUrnDle aiih snppoShble uses are ma,
-banefu or sinful, or both together,-aud
again say, would any but devil or a lnnd-
man ask for such power! Would Mr..
Phillips pray to God TO give the race new
ficuliy which could he used only TO sin with Z
just ms well ms to ask government to confer
tie legal right of voting aud office holding
aud Ontlitaking on women under circunl-
stances where every exercise OF the legal
right is necessarily, on his hypothesis. nat
nral or moral evil. Suppose MIR. Phillips,
instead of peliIiOning the Massachusetts
Convention to create a new set of voters
and Office holders, should pray his divinity
to crente n new set of devils, but declare, at
the end of his prayer, as ho las declared,
since lac got up his petitions, that he knew
The employ ments of devils were dreadlully
wicked, ,-aImost or quite ms bad us voting
or going TO Congress,-yet as soon MS they
should he created, lie means TO catch aud
hanl-strng as many of them ms he can, to
prevent their going up and down the earth,
seeking whom they may devour,-iust ms he
means TO argue immediately us soon us
women get the right to vote, that they
ought not to exercise it,; though all the
Time he Knows that many of the devils will
have II their own way, Just MS many wo-
lips were to do all this, is there god ia all
The pantheon of hea,hen idols who would
not spurn him from his altar?
But it he petitions that women should
have the legal right to do thing so morally
wrong as voting necessarily and inirinsicnlly
is, under our 'cOvennnt with Death aud
agreement with HE'LL why don't lie petition
that they should haze n right 10 hold siares ?
fii f,Ian an al -
complete. Both nrc forbidden by the Cons.
tilu,iun of Massachusetts. In tie one case,
as in the other, just as soon MS the right
should be conferred, he could Immediately
argue that they ought not to crtrciS5 IT, TO
be sure, many OF them would buy aud hold
slnveS, ms 'mnny of them would vote.' But
even then, they would only hnvc the oppor-
iunty, Nhich he represents Martin Luther
aud Roger Williams aud Algcrnon Sydney
as SO anxious to coiiler upon men,-the le-
gal right to do a thing, under all existing
circumstances, inherently wrong!
So much for Mr.. Philips's general nrgu-
ment. Let me now quote special passage
from him, that We may see nt single
glnncc his ihirncss ia argument, his logic
aud his moral sense. | had said that the
right to speak, to lecture, to defend ones
country, &C.. were rights TO do right lhings.'
lie replies:
Mr. Mann thinks my analogies Of Web
sier aud Dewey defending slavery, coloroti
men getting enrolled into the army, aud
each ninn's choosing his own creed, ure no
true nnuloeies; because all these are rights
10 90 right things; whereas regard wonnn's
voting under this government n wrong thing.
Indeed! | cannot agree with him. can
not think that Dewey's legal right to defend
the Fugitive Slave Law, aud the duty of
sending ones moilier into slavery, is right
TO do right thing"
Observe now: spoke generally of the
right TO speak, lecture &c, as rights 10 10
right things Indeed!' suys Mr.. Phillips,
: ] cnnnot think that Dewcy's right to defend
the Fugitive Slave Law &C., is a right to
do right thing f; thus answering my uilir-
nation concerning the general right to lee
ture,' &C., by denying MIR. Dcwey's moral
right TO lecture in behalf of catching slaves,
and sending his mother into bOndage.--
Now, it MIR. Phillips denies that the right TO
lecture is right to do right thing why
does he lecture himself? II he admits il TO
be u right 10 do a right hing why does he
compare 1t with the right TO vote, which, on
his theory, is always wrong? Can there he
my greater iallacics ihnn TO couiUuud the
proper use of right with the abuse OF it;
or legal rights with moral wrongs?
But, lest ] should be carried away too far
by my Indignation against such ungody
doctrines, upheld by such shameless sophis-
tries, will leave this topic.
Mr. Phillips thinks me inconsistent, he
cause expressed desire in my lust letter
10 have the cooperation oil tie present non
voters at the polls, after having once spoken
of the iewness OF their numbers. Why so !?
Within the last few years, have we not twice
had Governor of tho State chosen by
single vote' Is il not common thing TO
have Senators, Representatives aud Members
of Congress chosen by the smallest majori-
ties? BY refusing To vote, the non-voters
allow their worst enemies to succeed.
'My reputation ior caution in making
charges, aud ability to prove those make,
is one of the best weapons | have TO WELD
in the slaves behalf Who, does the reader
suppose, snys this? Mr.. Wendell Phillips,
aud at the close of u controversy, too, where
he has made ut least three generations Of )diSe
charges, and at last has iet himself Obliged
to steal away, because he was unable To
sustain single one of all the lineage, pa
rent or progeny. May Heaven have mercy
OH the slave, if such us these are the best
weapons welded in his behalf!
lie says that full knowledge of my con-
stitutiOnal views was "a necessary prelmi-
nary to any profitable discussion between
u.s. Flom the beginning, have always
been ready TO give him my constitutional
views and have three several timeS offered to
do so; but saw The object OF my anlago-
mist too well, TO be decOyed by him inlo n
discussion of the Constitution of the United
States, while all that he was after waS, 10
make lunges at--my constitution. Ceaslng
from his personalities for single letter, or
even promising to do so, would have brought
out my views al once.
Flight says the law, is one Of the
proofs of guilt What is MIR. Phillips's
clandestine eyanescence from this conlro-
versy, but flight'2 Though he has left me