Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-11-26
chr Anti- Slavery Buolr
salem, ohio, November aO, 1859.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS IN CHICAGO.

fREDEHlCh UOUGLhSS In OdlVhuO.
Under this head Mr.. Douglass in his last paper
quotes the paragraph from the Voice Of the Fugi-
tive, which We copied last week with a passing
comment, aud adds the following:
1--WE find the above, for the first timc in the
" Voice IF tie EHgifire," followed by lengthy
editorial commencing Mr. Garrison. Mr.. BiBD
will bo good as to say tu his readers, upon our
authority that in his addresses in Chicago, Fred.
Douglass" did not repudiatc "Garrisouianism, ex-
cept in the matter Of voting We do not go abroad
to repudiatc this or that mans religious creed,
however erroneous VIC may deem it, but simply to
enlist sympathy for the slave, and to arouse peo-
pie to action for his delyerance."
We arc glad that Mr.. Douglass "rcpudiatos"
this charge Of reputation. We confess that very
slowly and reluctantly we had come to the couclu-
sion, that Mr.. Douglass had taken some pains to
rcpudiate the religious creed of certain unpopular
abcliticnists, and ly so doing he had made some
capital for himself for orthodoxy and anti-ianati.
cism. We were compelled so to think for two
reasons. First because Mr.. Douglass had in our
Judgment given occasion for everybody to think so
by repeated publications in his paper during the
last six months, Secondly when it was so under.
stood by the prosla,ery press, especially the rcg
ious portion Of it, so published by this press, with
a dcmoniac howl Of cxultaiion, Mr.. Douglass never
attempted to "rcpudiatc' '.discaim or explain thi,
Wow Of his course. The above paragraph being
50 far as we have seen, the first effort of tho kind
/ Lc has ever made.
! We should have come to no such conclusion from
any reports Of speeches in soctaran or politica
papers, for we know the moral impossibility o.
their telling the truth Of anybody who will tel
the truth " them or their churches or parties
But as VIC had it, as we supposed in his own cdi
torals, we were compelled to think these pro-slav
cry boastings not without cause.
by the way, what varied interpretations may bt
put upon mans speech is well illustrated by tn,
various impressions produced by the recent la
bors Of Mr.. Douglass in Chicago. One writer W,
have seen commcnds his views ON the churches, a
every way excellent fortified 10y unanswerabl
Arguments and overwhelming facts. Dr. Elder
who was present, thought them unwarrantaLl,
severe and in some respects unjust Anothc
writer, thinks they gave the most triumphant cyi
dcncc Of Mr.. Douglass theological orthodoxy
The Congregational Herald, considered them
decided Reputation of Garrisonan lnidelity, Will
the pious \. W. Advocate, regards the preaching
of the boldest, rankest, Abncr Knceand nldelity
not half as pegnicous to the cause of truth, as til
dissemination of such sentiments" as Mr.. Douglas
ladyanccd at Chicago. Now we, as we have said
did not condemn Mr.. Douglass on any such test
mOny as above referred TO. Nor do we ask Of hir
the imnossibilty Of being correctly represented b.
these men, or Of pleasing them. Many can on
be pleased by falschood and pro-slavery co-opero
ton. That Mr.. ID. stirred up so much Of a "misS
anon them, is an evidence that ON this occasion h
told brave truth, braycly But we do think tina
when people Of all classes understand him to assa
anti-slaycry men, in pro-slavery form, and wit
T popular pro-slavery Augmentation the inycterat
enemies Of the cause, use this fact oxultingly an
triumphantly against abolitionsts, and to dcprcc
ate their efforts then he is bound in fidelity to tn
cause, to set himself right on these points, if h
has been misunderstood and misrcprcscnted
We have taken no part in the recent controycrs
with Mr. Douglass on this matter, though thrc
months ago, Mr. d. implicated us in it and charge
us with being party to 4 conspiracy = break dow
his paper, and this basclcss and absurd charge ha
been copied again and again, and even circulate
beyond the Atlantic. and yet We have never take
the trouble even t. deny it. We will only adj
that in whatever Mr.. Douglass, or any one els
does to enlist sympathy for the slave, and t
arouse people to action for his delivcrance," h,
aud they shall have our hearty sympathy-and
possible our earnest cooperation.
One word more. for we want to be distinct
understood. We don't ask anybody to agree wit
us on topics of theology, in regard to the const
tuition, TO secure this cooperation. We ask II
immunity from the freest and sevcrcst criticism
our ant-slaycry opinions and conduct Concedin
this right to others for the slaves sake, we clair
it for ourself, and say that we think by the publ
cations in his paper referred to, he has done
= serious injury to the slave, to say nothing of il
justice to individuals, and has given just occasio
for the exuting opinions published in the Congrt
c gational Herald, and in multitude of other pf
pers, which are laboring with their might, to defca
b the moral labors of abolitionists. We haste
therefore with pleasure, to give currency to thi
= first effort of Mr.. Douglass, to correct this eyi
Q and We trust he will perfect the work thus beguI
= and make himself, so far as possible, thorough
i understood by those pro-slavery editors and the
coad utors Their readers he cannot hope to reacl
= for these papers will never publish disclaimers
, this sort
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