Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-28
A LETTER FROM MRS. GRIPPING.
DETROIT, Oct. 9th, 1854.
DEAR FRIEND:

DEAR FRIEND:
An account Of some Of our gatherings in Ohio
have been furnished you by secretaries Of your
meetings while many others equally important
have not been noticed. Our call for meetings have
with one exception been heartily and earnestly re-
spondcJ to, and we have had the generous and
faithful cooperation of all the old and true friends
of me slave, together with the accession Of new and
sarm hearts who have been won to the cause, not
50 much by the glory Of our trophies as by the
grandeur Of our endurance.
For in spite of the vaccinations Of political
parties to divert to its own use, and absorb in it's
wileS the sentiment already created the steady,
unfinching aim Of the abolitionist, by the glory of
labor aud sorrow, by the holiness of hatred as well
Is Of love, is attracting irresistably, the homage If
Ill the earnest, thinking minds of the west.
In Fowler, Solon, Twinsburg, Brocksvilic. ITinck.
ley and Sullivan, we held meetings pursuant to
our appointments presenting to the people without
fear of successful contest, the only alternative of
supporting a pro slavery church in any of its
leading branches or this slavehuldiug government
in any Of its constitutional political parties, or of
~clevating themselves to the exalted position of no
politica! or eccleastical union with Shareholders or
their abettors. In short to dissolve the union Of
States and the union Of the. church or submit to
become II voluntary partaker in their iniquty. But
this doctrine is to the church Il stumbling block"
and to the Political parties "foolishness." For the
church will not turn aside from her true mis-
sion" of %edifying herself and saving souls, though
her members should lie turned into that place
prepared for the Devil and his angels" Because
(N,rist in tho parcnn ,f tho Auor;.op Zlavo - nv.
hungered and athirst and naked and sick and in
prisons and she neither visits him nor administers
to his necessities but cannibal like, lives upon the
blood and spirit Of her own brethren in the Lord,
and fattcns herself upon the love and virtue Of her
own children, baptizing The deed into her own name
and sOnctifyingit by the neicies OF God. Mayit not
be truly said of them by their sorceries are all
nations deceived"
At our meeting in Sullivan Odd and 23d of Sept.
a ministerof the Disciple church whom we were
told was invited there to defend the ermin of Reli-
giun as practiced by them, against the covert
Infdelity and "side thrusts at Christianity" of
such men as Charles Burleigh, and against the
"Tom Payneism" and "bolder Infdelity" of per-
sons 'known by their associates. Foster, Pillsbury
and Lucretia Mott, the Jczebell of the ago and to
prepare the way, ly destroying MS far rs possible
all Anti-Slavery influence. for n protracted meeting
which was in prospect, where no such tests of char
actcr would be required but Il belief in Jesus
Christ as the son of God, as every Christian slave.
holder in the land believes him, together with the
Shareholders baptism, will entitle men to n rcspec-
table positions in Society and a scat in Heaven.
This man in his zeal and fanaticism for the church
so far COMPROMISED his dignity rs a mjnister and n
man his own sense of honor and truth, if by stretch
of metaphor he may be supposed to have even
professed such sentiments, that it will require n
powerful reaction we think to bring him within
sounding distance of tho impeniteut in that region,
whom he SO much desiros to save from 'Infdel
A5olitionism," and a belief in any other doctrine
than that taught by Alexander Campbell.
The Political parties in Ohio are about contract
ing new hymenial alliances on the principle Of
elective afinities. The Free Soiler has at last dis
covered, what has seemed TO US quito apparent be-
fore, his spontaneous attraction to the Wing and
Democratic doctrine of the old pro slavery "com-
promises" Of the constitution, and cannot longer
re- his inclinations to a union of action, when
thcre is already q union Of heart. This is alto
gether natural and as it should De, allowing those
Compromises" to be inviolable and Just; Mr.. Gid
dings says Eve" Congress, ''can prohibit Northern
men from preventing you from the capture Of your
slaves and that far | am willing to 60. Rather,
would say, there is no constitutional objections
to that. That is my doctrine. We have no Con.
stitutional objection to fixing a penalty upon any
man, who shall interfere to prevent the South
erner form, returning bis Fugitive Slaves. Let me