Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-03-19
NO. 26.
Correspondence from New England.

thto bioic OonNentlon III your ivy hnu my
purpose has been strengthened by the various
semments and structures which have been made
upon It by it's opponents.
OF the character Of the Convention itself
can say nothing. l was not there, nor has any
extended notice of it been published. Some of
its opponents present, know; and am glad,
while retaining their present character for pu-
rity and morality, that they are Of the opposi-
tien. hope no cause in which 1 am engaged
will ever be cursed by such CO. operation as
theirs.
OF the right to hold such meeting, nothing
ssed be said. II there be any book or insttu-
zion in the country, too sacred to be examined.
questioned and cross question cd, the country
should be rid Of it Immediately. If there be
men who hold and teach such delusionS, they
are the dangerous men. Their influence so far
90 they have any, should be at once destroyed
by the incubation OF truer sentiment, and by
exposing their weakness or wickcdness. We
used to hear much Of the dangers of "Secret
Societies" especially Free Masonry. There is
no Free Masonry, or Secrecy so deadly as that
Of Priestcraft. And the eloven foot Of Priest.
srsft Is never more apparent, than when huring
shunders at those who dare break through and
lset within the veil at the mysteries and sor-
series enscting there.
When the Church or her Ministry bring me
any thing under the name Of Holy, and espe-
sisliy too holy to bc criticised and examined,
let her beware. l shall peel it Of it wrap.
ping, in the first place. Then shall disscct it
Of the very last shred of muscle. Its every
hber and iament, nerve and tendon, should be
sembed out as minutely as the carded hemp
would disjoint every socket, unmsrrow every
tsps. I would analyze every drop of its blood;
split and divide every particular hair. Aud If
shs have ought that will not stand this test, let
her hide II from the lightning gaEcs of this
pid-nocn Of the nineteenth cencury.
hut there s one point on which more might
Be said, than has been said. In spite of all
that hes been spoken, written and published
against such falshood, there arc those who per-
sist in attempting to iastcn all that an abolition
lat says, believes or does, upon any subject
upon the Anti. Slavery enterprise. 1t seems
70 me proper to believe one of two things about
such persons. Either they are too dull of ap-
Vtshsnson to be reasoned with or else too
hypocritcnl and too dishonest to be convinced
Or enlightened by any amount Of argument or
Instruction. Whoever belongs to tho first of
thsss classes, could be of little service to any
Gauss; and as to the latter, men can hardly
disagree in tho estimate which should be placed
Il not riando NJ he
Of your correspondent, Mr.. Selby, in relation
10 the Convention. And the reply of our
friend w. WAS an admirable vinlication of our
Enterprise from such arrogant charges.
1t 10 true that among the first to examine
new suhjects,or to question the authority OF old
ones. stand the radical ubolitionists 1t is like
ly ever TO remain true. This trait in their char
sctert, first led them TO examine the authority
Of the tlaveholders. This made them sbnli-
iusnists. And the unwillingness of the slave
holders to admit the examination, only made
us the more scrutiniEng and severe. So will
Il be upon the Bible and its authority.
1t is not in moral science as it is in physical,
that different men or minds will make the diff
ferent discoveries. Newton discovered new
Continents and their laws in the heavens, Col
umbus on the earth. Hcrshel may invent or
improve the means of surveying the one, while
Watt and Fulton begct the breed of iron horses
to bound over the other. Franklin caught and
tanned the lightning-But Professor Morse
taught il 70 be our "Carricr Dove" and swift
~ thought itself, il flies with our message from
ocean to ocean.
But the Law of the Moral Universe is ono.-
Whoever discovers its application in one dree-
tion, will be likely. with greater or less clear
ness and accuracy, to zee it in sD. These are
the mechanics ana machinists, the astronomers
and philosophers of tho Moral World, each
according to his measure. And the moral dis
eoveries and inventions in all time, can be trac-
ed to them. They arc the only true churh.
In our country, these are abolitionists.--
Generally they are as averse to War, to lntem-
perance, to Seduction and Licentiousness, as TO
Slavery. No man is worthy of the name OF
abolitionist, who is not the unbending foe of all
unrighteousness. And he who is, will be ever
on the watch against all oppression, all ialshood
And when deceivers and designing men seek ia
gloss institutions, there will be found those
who with telescope and microscope. will reveal
4he most remote and mighty, and the most MI
mute and near of all false systems, and expose
ahem in. due time, to the scorn of an insulted
world.
And If base men or blind men are disturbed
that we have eyes to see more than one star in
all the spangled armament of truth, so it mus'
be. We can never consent to pluck our eye'
out, for no greater offence than that.
Yours for voyage of eternal discovery,
PARKER PILLSBURY.