Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-07
From the Libcrator.
LETTER FROM PARKER P~tLL5BURY.
al,sdpw, SEPT, 9TH, 1856

respondent : and, iudccd, were they more numer.
ous. I fear they are not Of a character 10 make
The case much better.
have not travelled a great deal Of late, and so
have not gathered up much in the way Of materi-
al for letters. There is one subject, however, on
thich | feel a painful necessity to speak; and that
is, upon the character of many who come from our
country to Great Britain, in the name Of anti-sla.
very, aud professcdly, upon anti-slavery work.
Aud tue first thing for me to say is, that the anti
slavery cause has no worse foes, none more dan
gerous, than are many Of these, especially when
they come, as most of them do, in the character
of ministers. Here in Scotland, much that pas
ss currcut for anti..lcvery is only hatred Of Gar
risonism, las auti-slavcry is called) and the Civ
ing of contributions to these clerical rrctcudcrs,
to aid ~fugitives in Canada, Niyilauce Committees
in New York, and to tho Chaplin Fund'-if any
body knows Whit that Is at the present timc.-
Now, that the two former Of these objects arc
really worthy, if presented and advocated in good
Faith, no one will deny, But that 80 many men,
c~iergymen, colorcd and white, or that any men
hoed come to this country for funds for these OBJ
iiccts, is not so clear-probably is not true at all.
That the fugitives in Canada may in many cases
NNSNNhNN, S IA Il SOW iiOlO
of poverty and wretchcdness, physical, mental and
moral, in the single city Of Manchester, than can
be found among all the ~fugitives in Canada togeth.
or. And here, too, | saw most excellent women,
working their very fingers of, almost, to aid the
f~ugitives, who yet are refusing to help the anti-sla-
very cause at all, because such men as Pennington
and others Of the pro-slavery American church,
have rep, esented that movement as downright in
fidelity. l have several times had men bring me
the words of this Pennington and others, some
times written down, sometimes printed in books
affirming and declaring this stale SANDER and
giving this as their only reason for aiding Vigi-
lcnce Committees and Canada fugitives, instead of
helping the anti-slavery cause; and it seems to me
time that this state of things should be revealed
and rebuked.
At the very time when DR.. Pennington was in
the Now York Presbytcry, advocating and voting
for Il resolution to stihe discussion on slavery, his
own brother and his brothers two young sons were
being pursued by kidnappers; were seized by them
and, without trial, were dragged off to slavery !!
And he still continues in that body. Why should
he not? Tue body is worthy of him he is worthy
of such a body.
But. he comes to Great Britain as an abolitionist.
lc uSdIS cuTIlSOH lii Tic dnti-SldNeiJ "uo
DETAINED and revilcd, by clergymen and others.
He not only listens in silence, ne not only does not
rebuke the %calumny, but he even joins, l am told,
in the SANDER. lie gives it fresh currency. His
color and clerical connection help him. The POM
pous D. D. at the end of his name adds weight to
his false witness. He prevents 0r perverts the
gifts that would be chcerfully laid on the altar of
humanity, by representing things to be anti-sla-
very which are not, and runs away with the SYM
>,pathies of a generous people, who really wish well
ito the cause of the slave. And he goes home to
sit, not silently but aprovingly, in the bosom and
brotherhood of one of the most thoroughly pro-
slavery bodies this world of wickedness can fur
nish a brother, in full communion with a band
and body that hold kidnapping no crime that
would even kidnap his own brother before his face!
"a body whose Doctors of Divinity not only own
and drive, but actually breed and sell slaves, as do
farmers, colts and calves a body one of whose
p~roudest Doctors of Divinity has just boastingly
declared, ~glorying in his shame, that every Presdy-
terrain t,Jds slaceS tn tie South ,cho is a6ls, and
erery one holds as many as posside or prcfta0e!!-
a body, the members of which are selling the hea-
then they have made at home, by keeping them in
ignorance, by statute law, of the Bible, and every
book, and giving the money to send Bibles and
missionaries to India and Madagascar-thus doing
what the curcifers Of the Son of God did not dare
to do, even in all their desperation of depravity ;
for though they could buy him Of the betraying
Judas for crucifxion, they did not dare put the
price of him, when it was returned by the repent
ing Judas, into the treasury of the Lord, because
il was The price Of blood American Presbyterian
ism has no such scrup.es. Into such q connection
goes DR.. Pennington in his own country, and cool
ly sits, speaks and acts, in all matters Of church
Jurisprudence and prays and breaches, baptizes
and administers sacraments, and does all other
spiritual and notwithstanding requirements, tc
the full and complete satisfaction Of his slave bree
ding, cradle-robbing and kidnapping bretheren o
the Presbyterian faith. And this is a man 10 rep
resent the aatislarery cause Of America IN Joreigl
lands and this the man to brand and blast witt
false and foul charges of In6delity, and even wors
impeachments, the only body of men and womel
in the world who are earnestly and honestly labor
ing, night aud day, through evil, if not good re
port, to overthrow a slave system the most dread
full that ever saw the sun and this, not only t
free the slaves, but to rescue the fair name Q
Christianity from being made the sport and scot
the merriment and mockery of all the vile an
truth-hating, the tyrannical and time servin
minions and emissaries of Satan, throughout tn
earth.
Nor is Pennington alone; others have done sim
liar things and many times l have been pointe
to their testimony, to show that Garrison 10 an ~
.fdeI, and that the american Society is aop reduce
10 a mere handful Of inyfdels and atheists, contemne,
Of lie Sabbath, marriage and the ministry On
of them used to melt his audiences by declarin
that he owed it all to the prayers Of a piou'
praying mother, that he himself had not been mad
a ~complete inadei. by the seductive wilss and ii
Huenees Of the Garrisonian abolitionists, while b
IsbOred among them.
Now not one of these men, so far as ] can learn
ever pretended to be doing anything for the ant
slavery cause, by his mission abroad. II was a.