Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27
LETTER FROM JOSEPH BARKER.
To tile Editor Of the Bugle:

To tie Editor Of the Buyle:
DEAR SIR: / nm glad you acknowledge. a. last
that Mr.. Foster charged the Republican party. for
rs you ought to have said, PollicR 45oklio,isks
with being the creates obstacle to the Anti.Sla.
very cause. am glad too that you express your
dissent from him on this point. Perbans bv
'n'S uule Mr. Foster, is ready to retract tbs
c""'se, IL So the controversy may come TO an
o"'' vi one thing l al certain, Mr.. Foster will
never be able to S"dstantiate his charge, much less
WIFI he ever be able to prove that every political
a'o!iti"hlSt is destitute Of honor, of honesty. of
cohscientl"nsness,-is a r%uiian, a knaye. a villain.
Il siavshoider,a kidnapper, a thief and a uurderer
ana that OF the guiltiest and most inexcusabIe
KIND. And what is the use of making such
charges, when he knows he cannot prove them
II MS wish were to bring abolitionism into con
tempt or to make people regard him as n m.niac.
ne could not take a lkelier course, but if he wishes.
10 ala the cause OF freedom, and to secure for.
hihiseif and his employers the respect and conf.
dehce OF the friends of freedom, tn sooner be.
changes his course the better.
l am sorry you still persist in misreprs,entipo
me on several points as l have no hope of inducing,
you to do me perfect justice, l will after once more.
stating the case correctly, leave the matter with
your readers.
lie debate between me and Mr.. Foster ~origina-.
leu US loilows. Mr.Foster announced in the NEE,
nv u the FRIENDS OF human Progress that on Sun.
day evening he should lecture in the Town Hall.
when he would prove that political abolitionists
were the greatest obstacle to the Anti-Slayerv
cause" l said | would hear him, that if he did,
not convince me would reply to him. / did hear
MN lie did not convert me-. ! accordingly REPLIED
to him. l endeavored to show, that so far from
proving political abolitionists the greatest obsta-
cie' he had not proved them to be any obstacle, to
the Anti Slavery cause. Nay more, that he had
not even proved that they were not great helms.
And, with the exception Of such remarks AZ
maze IN answer to an impertinent question asked
by Mr.. Foster, with a manifest design to embar.
rass me- and divert me from the ques ton. every
thing l said bore directly on this point. / under
took no defence of the Republican partv, but only
OF political abOlitionists. And l undertook no d.
fence OF political abolitionists, except against the
one monstrous charge, that they were the greatest
obstacle to the Anti, Slavery cause. What do 7
know of the Republican party, that I sbould at
tempt wholesale justification of it? What do
l know OF political aoolitionists, except as politi-
cal aboiltionists? To say that l expressed NV
entire confidence that Mr.. Chase and the Republi.
IAN party would do their duty in the premises,
s an unmixed and an unfounded falsehood. I
have no such confidence in any party, and / never
had and could not therefore express any such
and ia is mean and wicked, as well as
foolish, to charge mt with doing SO.
Bat perhaps the proper course to pursue is, for
'ir. Foster to state his charges against political
and myself in the Bugle If be still
believes them truO. and for me to reply to them.
Your readers will then sec for tAemsetess what