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

Democrat, and Daily Tribune, Of Detroit; Aliened
American Of Cleveland, Ohio; Douglass Paper
Rochester, N. Y.;liberator, Boston, ana the voice
of tho Fugitive, Windsor g. w.
On notion a Committee of three consisting OF
Messrs. Lambert, Finsbloom and Bibb, were APP
poned TO draft a. constitution and laws, to govern
the proposed Association, and to call meeting ana
report when ready;
On motion, adjourned. ~
GEO d. BAPTIST, Chm.
wmuN tlhBERr, Sec'y.
The Detroit Tribune published part of these
resolutions, suppressing those which "assailed the
editor of the Democrat" (the Free Soirpaper) ''and
other professed friends of the negro race, and de-
nouncing, with indiscrminate severity, all Chris
,ian churches" Such is.its. language Those who
read the resolutions above, will that the state
ment is most palpably false. But this is WhigI
fairness when defendingl the Democrats misrepre-
sentations and injustice. We publish the whole
article from the Tribune, that readers may see
Just in what kind of company the Free Democratic
organ of Michigan has placed itself Who are its
defenders.
TIE FOSTERS AND GARRISON
We publish to-dsy so much Of the proceedings
Of meeting of the colored citizens Of this city
held to express theirj opinions in regard to Abby
Kelly aud her husband, and William Lloyd Garri-
son. as seems to us to be necessary to accomplish
that object having omitted that part of them which
assails the motives Of the Editors of the Democrat
and other profcsscd friends of the negro race, de-
nouncing with ndiscriminato severity, all Chris
tim Churches. We have taken this responsibility,
in the first place. because we consider one oil the
articles in the Democrat at least as richly deserved
We refer to its criticism OF the Fosters, and we IN
tended to have said as much when we published the
communication few days since rejecting upon
that article. IL is quite probable that the Fosters
are honest in their nnti-slaycry sentiments But 1t
seems to us that they have selected II MS hobby
upon which to ride into notoricty and by the means
Of which the better to disseminate doctrines much
more objectionable than the widest abOlitUnien,-
doctrines indeed, which strike Mt the root Of all
civil society and that aim a deadly blow ut giOn
itself In running off after these wild and selfish
fanatics and infdcs, and in being influenced by
them to assai with bitter nycctvcs those who have
stuck By them through veal and through woe,
though not with quite so noisy professions, we
think they are doing themselves far greater injury
than those they denounce so bitterly. Ihey have
always found enough in Detroit to sympathizc with
and aid them in all their laudablc objects. And
especially have they found the people of this city
ever ready to assist the painting fugitive to recover
his freedom. And far we know, too, 1t is not
true that the church anywhere at the north, as a
body has lent its influence to pcrpcuac the evils oil
slavery. There may be now and then clergyman
north, who defends the fugitive slave law But
they are few and far between. Entertaining these
views, we are not willing to lend our columns to
indiscriminatc attacks upon churches and ndivid-
uals.
This editor must be extremely ignorant, not to
know that the church, body has lent its inilu-
ence to perpctuatc slavery We advise him to in
yestigate the subject, aud to commence with the
church Of Detroit, "as a body" What means the
boiling and barring of churches against assaults
upon slavery? What mean the apologies for the
systcm--what the Christian fellowship with slave
holders, slaye-tradcrs, and sayecatchcrs?
{" There may be now and then a clergyman north,
who defends the fugitive slave law Indeed! To
SAY nothing of any other fact. Docs the editor
mean to say, that it was only snow and then
clergyman at the north" who voted with HIM on
the Baltimore platform last fall? Only now ana
then one who voted with his brother Of the Free
Press ON that other twin platform, the main charac
ter and prop of both of which is that they support
and pledge the execution of that law! The great
mass of the ministers voted for the execution OF
that law And among the thousands how many
have lifted up word of rcmonsrnncc against the
execution of the law by Pierce and Mclean, and
other kidnappcrs in high places and in low? How
many have dono it as individuals? How many
from their pulpits? How many in their ccclesias-
aical bodies? They are few indeed, compared with
the mass of ministers in the land Ono would
think from reading this article that ministers and
churches had all left the Wing and Democratic
parties. That they were without the gospel and
without churches and ministers. ThatHcya and moi
the Garrisonians, were the infdel party.
In regard to the sympathy of the people of De
troit, for the colored people, have doubt they
& - M,.l, G Eni
they are human beings, and cant well rid them
selves of it. And by the way, it is no espccia
credit to them that they do feel sympathy and OK
tend aid to as smart industrious and worthy citizens
as those of the colored people of Detroit whom w
saw, seemed to be. But then if they have an,
sympathy with these worthy people, it is not to b'
set down to the credit of their prosavery churche
or pro-slavery politics 1t is to the credit of thei
humanity, which lives and will be heard in spit
of all efforts to "crush it out" either by Wings
Democrats Judges, Presidents, Cabinets, Churches
Ministers, Editors, or what not 1t lives in spite
all these and defiant to them all, and not by thei
aid.
We append the following article from the Voice
of the Fugitive, noticing these facts, and adding
some others. From the paragraph with which MIR
Bibb commences his article it will be seen, tina
Frederick Douglass name and position goes also t.
swell the tide of opposition against the abolitoniss
and to give aid and comfort to the proslayery com
munity. For weeks past this has been done, anC
he enters no protest
FRED. DOUGLASS IN CHICAGO.
The Congregational Herald of that city, in speak
ing of the character of Mr.. Douglass lectures il
that city says; ave were much pleased with th'
spirit which he (Mr. d. manifested and the genla
good humor with which he enlivened his argument
He repudiates entirely the infdel and anti-churcl
views of Garrison and his coadjutors, as well al
their disunion doctrines He frankly acknowledg
es that his opinions have changed on the latte
topic, having been convinced that he was wront