Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-09-22

mppnity. we DENY that the proceedings of the ultra
, abolitionists, las the American Anti-slavery Society
is sometimes called) have been eithor incorporated
or unwise. Those who justly estimate the nature
and extent Of their enterprise, and the difficulties
they have had TO encounter, will we believe admit
/ that no other body Of reformers has ever persevered
so long in the pursuit of n great and unseltish
] Object with such answering adherence to principle,
such complete abstinence from physical violence,
and so much fortitudo, scll-dcnial and moral
} hsroism. We do not find that any one OF these
British travellers who repeat tho cockoo cry against
tho abolitionists, has ever taken the trouble to seek
them out, and to learn from themselves their OBJ
p iects, principles and modes of action. Their COL
duet has been more like that Of an American trav-
eller who should portray the dissenting ministers
of England from information communicated by the
' Bishop of Exeter, or describe the Established
r Church in Ireland by the aid Of one Of the profess
sors OF Maynootli College.
81 In tho same article we have already quoted, we
G find Mr.. William Chambers rejoicing over the edu-
cational system of the United States, with its in
l culcation of Sound religious views Ho quotes
0 the remarks of that young and promising legisla-
g. tor" Mr.. Baxter, as to 1.-THE result OF his inquiries
T amongst all the leading evangelical Churches lie
tells us from himself, that Sabbath Schools are
J. usually the means of ~atiording special doctrinal in
t struttion." Now we have lately been reading q
d book called Lnfdetity; lis aspects, Causes and
!. Agencies." by the Rev. Thomas Pearson, of which
d the forty-ninth thousand has Just been pudllshediby
the Religious Tract Society. While reviewing the
d influence OF the press, the author complains tnhJ III
t Chambers publications Eve miss the evangelical
s. element-that decidedly Christian tome and we
= suspect that Mr.. W. Chambers has felt the lntu-
cnce of this 'bencfcent whip, and that he evinces
it by his unwonted readiness to patronizo 'sounu
y religious views" in this paper in which he stigma
d ties the British hatred to chattel slavery as q
y vulgar prejudice" and a silly tendency ito meas
ure every American custom and institution slavery
- cxclusive) 10y old-country notions"
Perhaps no class of writer's exhibits more mis-
- .,, -nn,oroo Ikap tha tnurictS UhO RIM over
y to the United States, and, after q brief and hurried
" scamper through that vast country, return to tell
: us that all the lessons of morality we have ever
= learned and all our ideas of right and wrong are
=? mistakes, --that chattel slavery is not such a very
bad thing after all,-that the United States are
" prospecting with it,-and that the most rash, fool
y ish, and fanatical portion of the American people
10 is that handful of men and women who are labor
ing to overthrow that 'sum of all vlllainles.
!" From the manner in which Mr.ChamDers speaks
10 of the abolitionists, one might infer that their
course had been marked by personal violence, by
J mobs, outrage, and Lynch-law,-while the very
-, reverse is the fact. Their weapons are all peace
:" ful. Newspapers, public meetings, lectures, tracts
!; the force of argument, the power OF truth,-theso
are their means and instrumcntalities They hold
70 up to view the rapacity and injustice of the slave
~ holder, tho sinful acquiescence of the merchant and
20 manufacturer, and the base subserviency OF tho
- church both North and South. With such unp0-
10 pular work as this upon their hands, and the most
degraded and downtrodden of human beings for
their clients, it is no wonder that their task is
~ thankless and ungracious; no wonder that they are
2" denounced by the politician as traitors, Ivy the
y church as inRdels. by the cowardly and selfish re-
10 spectables us reckless disorganizers. a truly PHI
~ losophic observer in the United States would soon
IL see where the merits Of the case lay, and would
~ know how to decide between the aboltionists and
their delamers. liz would not need the bloody
:, cruelties and tho barbarous statutes OF the South tt
he convince him that slaveholding must be suicidal
en- policy for n free country that republican institu
a lions. freedom of the press, and pure Christianity
ne cannot co.exist with chattei-slavery and that the
best friends of the United States are those wht
nd nrce fine immed; ate abolition of a system SO barba
lis rous and inconsistent.
40 IL is the honorable peculiarity of the abolition
,at lists. and one of which their pioneer, Mr.. Garrison
an was the first to set the example-that in their news
as napers devoted to the cause of human freedom w,
nd ind the strongest arguments of their opponents
in the grossest caricatures and libels of themselve
ce. and their efforts. So cop;ous are tho extracts giyel
in from Southern newspapers, and from the pro-sla
ON very norton of the Northern Press (professin
ana %profane) that a dilident study of these article
on and of the arguments, speeches, aud correspond
he cnce of the abolitionists themselves supplies a muc
ne more impartial and complete fund Of inlormatio
ms to the honest enquirer, than he could possibly oil
of tain by casual conversation with pro-slayory Am,
DOR ricans in England, or by a few weeks trip i
the United States without previous acquaintanc
with the preiudices of those he was likely
meet. We think it probable that Mr.. Willal
Chambers mas never cohVerseu WIN an Ahierlc"
naner.
vo f does not increase our respect for English lit
nd rateurs or ENGLISH travellers. to mark how readil
for they are hoodwinked by pro-slavery mis-statemen
NJ TINT the bost wav to mt down Slavery is to let
on. alone, and that the abolitionists are its chief ms,
M gators and sunnorters slavery norrows in the
binds to n ouestion of bread and butter and mr.
g., yided the slave be fat and sleek, they sec not ii
on stuuendous rulf tbat lies between his condi,ion n,
ing hat of tho British neosont How comnlacent
= ~ they propose plans for gradual enamel patton, he
= nr respectfully they.present them for the considerable
pts. VI the SHAREHOLDER ignorant That the haugh
ned. Southerners curse their insoient interference al
tent despise them more heartily than u they were u
compromising northern alohtionists' IL,
most we wish Mr.. Wulian Chambers would READ l
oost present number OF this paper, and then expla