Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-05-14

Phillips must know better. For example
had visited all the schools in Boston when.
ever visited the colored school, il wonld
have taken me, at the rate of four day
about a month OF school time. How was u
possible for me TO do what he snys did 'oi
courseP lie knows meant special attention.
And if he says, bestowed special attention
'of course then how can he renflirm that
never gave them 'one word Sc?
have now closed the eight specifications
disproviug all his defences, as | did the
original charge. But this Is not all. lie has
the hardihood to affirm that the facts SCI
forth in these disprOofs 'only deepen my
guilt And he says, further, that even If
had opposed the separate education of col
ored children, in articles published with the
full responsibility of his lmy) name though
he might not have used the precise phrase
he did yet he should still assert exactly the
same in substance, namely, that lie never
gave us any substantial or public assistnnco! !
Certainly, never should have charged upon
him SO wicked a thing, as he has here de-
clared he would do but he must know him
self best. Were not my Common School
Journal and my Reports public?
Mr.. Phillips's first argument is this, that l
said nothing aud did nothing, because he did
mol know Il. His second argument is that !
said nothing and did nothing, because did
not accompany him TO the house tops aud
the corners OF the streets, TO be seen Of men,
but wrought in not less sincere and more
effective way. And his third argument is,
that when he besieged the Legislature, IOds
not there; aud when he denounced the law
before school committees, | 'tras not there,
| sc.
But let mo here ask why I have not ns
| good right to crirninate aud malign him, be-
cause, when Ind n cause on my hands as
great and sacred MS his; and performed more
labor for il each year Than he ever performed
in his life, he did mol help me. Let me. for
moment adopt his language, and see how il
sounds. When held meetings, under every
| conceivable discouragement, in behalf Of all.
| the children in the State, black aud white,
u Chdrge that .Hr. Phillips icds not Here.'-
When, at Teachers, Institutes, taught oil
day, lectured every evening, performed all
diudgeries, aud even went with my broom in
the morning TO sweep the school-room, TO
shame the people for their sloveniness, II
charge that Mr.. Phillips ,cdS not there &c, &c.
But, no; this is not according to his phi
losoply. Wherever Mr.. Phillips happens 10
be there is Jerusalem g. the Temple. II Kos
suih pleads for Hungary, or Father Mathew
| for Temperance, or the friends of educatiou.
for their cause, without first going TO beg h,s
bencdictian, they get his nld!ediction. His
| 'oufer darkness ID large enough for all white
men, except the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery
Society.
Before leaving this topic, wish to cor
rect one error INTO which know many we'll
| meaning persons hnve been led by MIR. Phil
| lips aud others. They have been made to
believe that the Common Schools Of Massa-
chnsctts were not open to colored children,
at all, But ever since had any official con-
nextion with them, in all the towns and ci-
ties Of the State, except four, the colorcd
children went TO the Common Schools or
High Schools promiscuously with the whites.
Aud, in the excepted cases, they had sepa-
rate Grammar Schools, TO which they had
free admission, just as the white children had
| to theirs. In Boston, the teacher of the col
orcd School had the same salary ($l500) with
the teachers of the other Grammar Schools.
The hardship consisted in their being treat
ed as separate class in being obliged TO 90
by white Schools, often TO inconyenient dis
tances aud, in very few cases, Il think in
| two towns only,) in their being excluded from
the High Schools. These were facts TO be
regretted and resisted, but not So bad as
many have supposed.
have examined, so much at length Mr..
Phillips's mauncr of argument, his ability TO
make facts or unnihke them, aud 10 nutllae
his opponents language, that, on the resi-
due Of bis letter shall study breviry.
He suys Henry Clay, Oryile Dewey, Mo-
SEES Stuart aud others, (beside mel have spo-
ken Of his 'denunciary, unspuring aud unds-
crimnating course Yes, and so far they
were right. 1t was the only sound part of all
their wretched arguments, s,-tle only thing
that held their taliacies together. Pro-snve-
ry men have won more converts and silenced
more opponents by perpetually dining this
world-kuown fact into peoples ears, than by
oil else they ever said. 1t was their grand
resource, when every other argument tailed.
But not only the Clays and the Stuarts did
this; but such men as DR.. ELLERY CLAIMING,
aud hundreds of others, including many Of
the colored people themselves, did the same,
as have heard from their own lips.
Speaking of bis recent speech, Mr. Phil
! lips says, III my clnim is (sol ludIcrously ex-
aggernted, it will only make inc laughing
stock, and SO no harm he done Not So
! i,TiS2arable harm is done to every good
cause, aud especially to all reforms, when
their advocates aud champions brlng con-
tempt upon themselves by their infinite con-
ceit, and awaken disgust towards their object
by universal abuse. Especially in new
cause, the decorOusness Of the advocate at
tracts, before his argument conyinces.--
COnceit, rabiduess aud what tho law calls
'malice against oil mankind throw the
minds of men into a repellant state. such
unheard OF arrogance, therefore, as signalIzed
MIR. Phiilips's late speech, does vast harm,
not only to the cause, but TO oil co-workers
] never heard Of but two cases which equal
led his late housings. When was lI'ls-
tee Of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital, was
asked for the news by patient who was ny
periodically mOnomsniac in the organ oi
seli-esteem. I told him Of a storm that had
rsged along the Atlantic coast, strewlng II
with wrecks and dead men. '.4h, yes,' said