Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-16
T FL E B U G L E.
Letter from Henry c. Wright.
BosToN. March 3I,,1s53.

BosToN. March 3l,.ls53.
DEAN MARus: have been in Boston one
week TWO things have occurred under my
observation, which your readers might lie
glad to know. Last Sunday heard Theo-
dore Parker discourse on the Woman qnes.
tion. lie has spoken on this subject four
Sundays in succession, to nn audience OF
nbout 5000. Inst Sunday lie dwclt OF her
relations TO public nffairs. Boldly and most
ably. he advocated the right aud expediency
of wonan's performing the functions Of
Lawyer, Doctor, Priest Voter, Legislator,
Judge, aud Executioner. Fle set forth, in
unmsiakabe terms, the necessity aud right
eousuess OF woman's personal presence, and
direct influence nj the Polls, in the Court
in the Legislature, in the Council, in the
Executive chair, in the Pulpit, and in nll
to preserve man from injustice, brutality and
crimes. lie showed that it was not good for
either sex TO bc without the personal pres
ence aud influence of the other, in any of
the public, religious, or political relations of
life. The impression was deep, aud must
he lnsting. The discourse is to be published
at once. When it is you shall have one.
Another event, was n meeting last night
Of tho Legislative Temperance Society in
the Hall Of Representatives, (the Legislature
being now in SESSION. to hear Rep. J. c.
Lovejoy, who is going up and down, to show
the people TINT God, in the Bible, sanctions
the manufacture, sale aud use, ns drink,
of intoxicating liquors. was there, with n
great audience. There is much excitement
in the state-ihe proposition being before
the Legislature, to repeal the law against
the liquor traffic. lie spoke an hour and n
hulG TO show that the Bible considered alco-
hol, as n beverage, blessing; that Jesus
made intoxicating drink, aud gave it to 9th
ers 10 driuk aud that 10 say that the sale
and use of il, us drink, is an immortality,
and moral evil and curse, is to impeach
the veracty, and wisdom, and benevolence
in few words that the history of Alcohol
presented the fact, that as beverage, Alco-
hol wns curse, and not n blessing to man
kind, and That il the Bible wns opposed to that
Gact, aud declared Alcohol so used, blessing
the Bible must 60 down; that the authority
0f fact is above the authority of the Bible,
and that the Rev. Mr.. Lovejoy,in attempting
% make the Bible the ally of drunkenness,
1for il the Bible does pronounce Alcohol as
a drink blessing, il is the ally of drunken
ness, as we'll as of falsehood. is doing more
TO make that book the scorn of mankind,
ihnn all that Voltaire, Volney, Hume, or
Paine ever did.
Rev. J. c. Lovcjoy, brother Of him who
fell at Alton, is priest in good standing in
this state, of the Calvanisiic stamp. He
breaches, bapiizes, and administers sacra-
Gents to the people, and is using all his in-
5iuence, 10 throw the sanction OF the God of
abe Bible around the use of Alcohol as n
drink. He denounces all who reject its use
as sin, as infdels. So it goes; to say that
ihe use Of intoxicating drinks, slavery, war,
and polygamy, are sins, is to reject the Bible
and To be an infidel To deny the plenary
Inspiration of thar book, is counted la greater
sin than war, slavery or drunkenness the
feeling is very general that if the Bible
sanctions war, slavery, poiygamy, or any
Outrage against nature and pature's God, it
must be right to do il. Is any one principle
true or false, or any practice right or wrong,
because it is sanctioned or condemned by
the Bible? When the Bible is made by its
authorized expounders, the bulwark of every
foul and loathsome crime, is it not time for
the people to come together and consider
the question Of its origin authority and in
fluence? Conventions for this purpose, will
soon become common. We are to have one
in Hartford, Conn.,, in June. hope Joseph
Barker will be a: it.
The correspondence between Mann and
Phillips, is creating much sensation. Our
tried friends here arc firm, energetic, and