Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-11-26
LETTER FROM INDIANA.
DrBtIN, Wayne Co., Indiana,
llth month. 9th. 1853.

liNh ihoHti, O'hI icVo'
FRIEND MARIrs: | begin to feel afraid that my
pay for the Buglc is run out, so that am now
reading paper when it is not paid for, which
have thought never would do. have incloscd in
this letter one more dollar. like the arrang
which understand you have lately made that of
stopping the paper when the pay runs out.
slways believed iu it. luyc to read the Buge;
should feel lonesome without it.
IL thee can, spare room in some corner Of it, Just
t. inform its other readers that the old man is yet
xliye in the body, and much alive in spirit for
the doing away of slavery and other evils as ever
lie was. But especially that of slavery. 1t does
seem to me unaccountabe, how any rational being
can ever be willing to have fellow mortal toll for
his benefit without returning just equivalent. 1t
does appear to that there is a very great dcci-
ency Bomcwhere--in something. / am afraid it is
in the popular religion of the day; that the lead
ers cause the people to err, and those who led
by them are destroyed" That the common theology
docs not and is not calculated to change the people
from darkness to light and from the power Of
evil unto good" That the clergy (who lore TO be
called the Reverend and Right Reverend y spend
the rcry breath which they shoUH spend in warning
the people of their real sins, in sounding the alarm
against the Imagined in!idclity of Wm Lloyd Gar
rison, Joseph Barker, Parker Pillsbury aud others.
Now | believe that these men above named are
doing more good or would do more good, if those
"dvines" would get out of the way" than host
Of those B1yntons and others Of the clerical cloth
have done lately, or perhaps ever will do 1t does
seem that those Bible bigots and old sectaran
folks have sgnally failed that instead of taking
hold and helping along the reforms of the day they
doing all they can to prevent; that they would
(if they could "shut up the kingdom of heaven
against men" that they will not enter themselves,
suffer them who would enter to go in," if they
can prevent it.
When our good friends, Pillsbury and the Grif.
fngs were coming to Indiana, the pulpitmen ard
the pressmen sounded the alarm to frighten the
people from going to hear those inGdels" But
they came out and confessed (explaincd) their inf
deity, and there were more of the people able to
bear it" than had expected Some, II for one, J
were much pleased with it. l believe it is the only
wellgroundcd hope for the salvation of our nation
would not give one of those infdels" for score
Of those fright reverend dvines." One of these
scctarians, IA Mcthodst,) came to our meeting
lie said after meeting, if God would forgive him
for attending that meeting he would never attend
such another. One of my sons replied, IL God
would forgive him for giving them money to help
them to build their new meeting house, he would
promise never to do so again till they would do
better. II was proven at that meeting that even
the Methodist Church North were a Brotherhood
Of tbiaSes," Now these guilty Methodists hate us,
for the same reason that one was hated eighteen
hundred years ago; because We tell them the
truth"
] thought ! was done, but it has come into my
mind little more to notice this "nfdelity," about
which there is so much noise and so many conflict
ing opinions. 81 also will show mino opinion"
I bsiieye tits nothing but plain simple pure un-
Adulterated truth, such as God and nature teaches
10 all men, or would if the priests would "get out
Of the way" l remember when the "lIicksite'
belief was said to be getting into the Society of
Friends. about which there was such an outcry
raised, When inquired into it, found it was
Just What had believed ever since could renenl-
ber. A neighbor Of mine, after that asked me
what this hicksite belief was; and when told him,
said he, eff that's it, have been IIicksite ever
since was anything" When A. j. Davis preached
his "inAdel" sermon at Cleveland, he commenced
by asking, "What will the people say?" and ended
by concluding they would say, I" ! always thought
that ways" so, when the good friends whom you
lately sent to us from Ohio, explained their iufdel
ity those Of who were not bcwildered by priest
craft said, I'VE always saw II so." II was good