Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-11-19
MR.. GARRISON.


We are sorry to learn that Mr.. Garrison, was
unable to speak as he was advertised to do Mt JEFF
ferson, week before last. His visit there seems
not to have been however entirely in vain, if we
may judge from the following account of an in
terview with him by the Editor of the Ashtabula
Sentinel Like the Editor Of the Sentinel, may of
friends Of the west recently found Mr. Garrison
the actual and yeriable, altogether different from
Garrison the imaginary-the infdel monster as de-
picted by the proslavery press and priest hood OF
this country The Editcr says:
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRIsoS.--This we'll known An
ti-Sayery Lecturer was advertised to speak in this
place on Friday last. lie arrived here on Thursday
but owing to severe hoarseness from cold, with
much irritation Of the lungs, II was tLorght best
not to fill the appointment. This will explain to
those who came here on Friday why they did not
hear him.
This was the first time we had met with Mr..
Garrison; and curiosity we had long indulged
was much gratifed-particularly as private con-
vcrsation gave us an opportunity Of understanding
him, on some questions where he differs with the
great mass of those engaged with him in the phil.
anthropic enterprises oftho day.
Mr.. q. refuses to vote, because ho thinks the U
s. Constitution sustains slavery, yet he ardently
desires the political regeneration of this nation.--
We think his ardor carries him beyond the practi
cal point, in this matter, yet no one who sees his
earnestness can rcbuke him. His love Of liberty
seems to make him eject all that Is not perfectly
free
lie has been charged with inGdelit-; and bis
views Of the Bible and Christianity are far from
what we hold yctwe have rarely met with man
in whom the religious sentiment appeared stronger
than in him. No one can hear him speak of those
things we call religious and call him infdcl IL the
term iniidel is to mean rejection Of the principle;
III .uN als..s.s. NsNl
in its grand complex, and neglect the intermediate
details called doctrines He speaks of God as the
Universal Father and looks from him to all men as
His children, the weakest and least, especially so
lie seems to regard the Divine, living goodness
and truth, and our relation to the Divine, called
Religion, consisting wholly of the love Of those
principles in the abstract and practically exercis
ing them in our love for mankind as our brethren
lie SAID he glored in the cross of Christ; because
that was borne in defending the weak, the helpless
and the suffering, and rcbuking the powerful and
the wrong, with trust in truth and righteousness
as to the result. His mind appears to glance at
these Divine principles that the whole world calls
Religion and thence to their application in redeem
ing and oovating mankind, while he is impatient
Of the restraint that docrinals creeds and systems
interpose between, love proceeding from its Divine
fountain, and its triumph the evils that pre-
vent us from being loving, just and true. All au-
thorty that excuses wrong or Juslltics oppression
OF injustice ne utterly feJccts' anu thut h'no VI
Christianity that will excuse great wrong because
popular, he absolutely despses. His hostility to
the Church is to its errors and its eyils-not the
truth it holds nor the good it does.
lti thus Mr.. c. appears to us-not as infdcl,
not as rreligious-but as living in the strongest
faith, in what is good, and impaticntly rushing
from the abstract TO tho practical while he rejects
whatever is not Immediately applicable to the end
in yiew lie evidently loves God and good; and
such man howsocyer he may think in different
channels from what we do, we dare not call inf
del.