Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-10-16
To TIE Hon. WILLIAM BIGLrR, L. $. Scndfr. .

utterly UnlldOrSed string 0t cdhlmhleS al"i W'S-
representations, entitled " Infdclity and Abo!-
q" itonSm An Open letter to the Friends Oh
" Religion, Morality and the American tnlon,
his been gratu tousiy fcoltd ov'r the country.
| have been repeatedly asked to put my foot
on if, but declined 10 do SO, as do not deem
oronymnus slandcrS worthy of SO much con
sidcration Bnt respected clergyman of yonr
State sends me one Of the three copies of this
dcltctabIr concern which he has just received
under your frank, indicating that 20" are ell
cagcd in n general distrii ution of this tissue
Of lies throughout your State, or at least among
her clcrgymrn. pay, therefore. to yon, the
responsible ndorScr, respect oi winch the
naked and skulking libel was and is utterly I'M
worthy. and proceed to expose some OF the
more iIagrant of It's falschoods:
/ "We assert and dcFr contradiction that every
ganization buaSng inde doctrines ia now an organzs
ton in fayor of Fremont and a1scrt also that all
thtsc dcsring dissolution of the Union are openly CO.
operating with these organization
This is grossly false Mr.. Bigler and you
know it, 1t is false that even the handful OF
Northern Disunionists support Fremont, as
shall soon show but all these are insignificant
in numbers and power when compared with the
Southern Nullifers and SecesSonistS, every one
hostile to Fremont. and nearly all supporting
Buchanan. In South Carolina, those who de
sire and expect a speedy dissolution OF the
Union are very large if lot the larger par
ty they hold high stations and edit intluen-
tial journals one member of the Cabinet
(Jclf. Davis) ran for Governor on the ticket
Of the State Rights anti-COmpromises-ot
1850 party and throughout the South there
is a powerful interest in favor of diSsolying the
Union whenever they can no longer rutc it
You know how Bully Brooks boasted in the
House that he could have caused a civil war
hv merely raising his hand you have read his
grave proposition that the South should march
upon " ashington and seize the Federal trea-
sary and archives in case Fremont should be
elected. before he can be inaugurated and
vuu know that keitt, Wise, and other eminent
Southern supporters Of Buchanan, are habitu-
ally iRlu!ring in similar buster. You are
stndcring very large portion Of your fellow
citizens, Mr. BigIer and utterly falSifyng the
record in asserting that all the Disunionists-
or any considerable portion Of them-are found
in the Fremont ranks.
2 Following in the same track, your libel
proceeds to copy from The Ner- York STANDARD
of April 18th last, representing it as :" Ere.
mcnt Abolition organ" and speaking oft again
ns this advocate of Fremont, TIE Standard
That, Sir, is a deliberate lie No one can
have copied from IHr Standard without know
ing that it is Of the GarriSOnian non-vOting
school of Abolitionists, bitterly hostile to Col
Fremont and to the Republican party. 1T is
rs utterly averse to frcmont's election as you
are, or as gour Sccessionists allies at the South
can well b.
5 Your pamphlet proceeds to quote from
Loston LitcrGtOr, Garrison's paper-G Pape'
tlct supports John G. Fremont"
This, Sir, is another black, blistering false
hood. The Liber0tOr supports no candidate
for Federal Office, being hostile to voting to
the Union, and the Constitution, but especial
" hostile to Fremont and the Republican par
ty Columns to this effect might be quoted
from it, but the fact is notorious among intel
Ggcnt men. The Liberdtor will not even sup
port Gerritt Smith, and it never supported any
Republican or Anti-Nebraska ticket. YET
the lie is repeated and reiterated, as if its au
thor found real pleasure in tue simple act o.
lying
4. Passing by several insignificant or irrele-
want lies-among others that involved in call
ing Wendell Phillips Boston Intidel," when
ing that he is a supporter of Fremont, when
he is his nfeXiblc opponent proceed to the
following
" Tue NEw.IoEK THIrrNR is the chief party organ o
hcsc nidel di>unonstS That journal has been the
crvor for years of all the cvities antreligous, ant
revolutionary doctrines of European ultait and dcoruC
t,Tcs. is controlled by corps, among whom are no
t"nns iudcS 1t has opened it, columns to the revolt
INK doctrines of Free Love, to Foureri4m, aud tn,
scarcely less dangerous dogma of Spirtualism. Al
the Wild montrous and absurd theories of hc day in
Gliding the political equality and the certain and conse
qrcnt social equality of blacks and whites have found IA
in its sight 1t is this dangerous paper. whose cdito
Horace Greeley has assisted at public meetings of black
and whites in the City of New York, where both Go
and the Constitution have been revled it is he who ha
ocratcd with the advocates Of Womans Rights in tn
city where unscxed females have delighted in ad
dressing mobs OF men in strains OF vulgar violence"
, These Sir, are lies-gross, wllful, pal
pahlc, malignant licS-and you are their re
sponslble propagator. The TRBUNE is tht
organ of no "intidel disunioniSts." 1t ha
never been the reservoir Of ant-rcligious
doctrines, as its readers well know. 1t ha
never been controlled by notorious iniidelS.
1t never opened its columns to the revolving
doctrines Of Free Love- except to expose
deuounce, and reprdbate them. All the ''Wllt
monstrous and absurd theories which it ha
ever Countenanced are based directly on that
immortal assertion of jefferson in the pream
ble to the Declaration of Independence tha
"All men are created equal and endowed b.
" their Creator with certain inalenabc right
that among these are life, liberty, and thu
pursuit Of happiness" Its Editor has " as
" sisted at no public meetings of Blacks ant
Whites were both God and the Constitution
" have been reviled," nor anything like this
md your closing assertion about unscxed fc
males addressing mobs of men q in straiGs Q
vulgar Yiolense " is only more sweepinriy ca
umnous, more basely false, than theras5. n
such meetings ever occurred and certainly IL
Editor sf THE TRIBUNE ever cs-Operated
with my such.
That You OF your scribe who is said t
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