Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-19
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CONCORD, N. ii. Dec. II

CONCORD, N. II. Dec. 10th. 1857.
DEAR FRIEND ROBINSON: BY letters received
from Michigan, l conclude that the anniversary of
the State Anti-slavery Society, which was propos.
ed to be held at Adrian, the present month, will
be postponed. This is greatly to be regretted.
There is all the more need of it, since the post
%ponement of the disunion convention at Cleve-
land.
But apart from every other consideration it
seems to me such q meeting as that anniversary
would be, should be held there at this time, to
show who are the real friends of the cause and
who are not to distinguish between such as are
willing to be offered a sacrifice to anti.slavery,
and those who are disposed to offer anti. slavery as
a sacrifice on the altar Of their own selfshness.
AT the late Battle Creek meeting which / at.
tended, there were many who seemed honestly de-
voted to the cause of humanity, in it's broadcast
sense but who evidently we're wholly innocent Of
any true knowledge Of the anti. slavery movement,
as sustained by the American and the Western
anti-slavery societies.
Then there were others, and some quite active,
who were real spiritualists, perhaps but that
and nothing else-'having spiritualism." las An
drew jackson Davis often says,) real 6a9"-
spiritualists, with as little spirituality, as any per
suns we ever sec. Others again were politicians.
Of all the different parties but seemed quite al
home, and even assumed to manage, in a meeting
of Friends OF Human Progress" True, We
passed strong disunion resolutions there-But
these persons were of course, very strongly op
posed to them.
Prejudice against color too, was there, and was
mt suihoioptlv rpiukel We had NOT lima fn,
everything. The need Of our utmost testimony OF
that subject becomes every day more and more
apparent. What q confirmation Of the bred Sco,
decision we have, in the action Of Kansas, Iowa
Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York and Connection
On the question OF culored suffrage ! Their actor
being all very recent and they all being at tn
very nour, Republican States and Territories
There is no State OF which l should have NOR
hope than Michigan but | fear a deeper worl
r may be required than has been dune by tn
Friends oi Human Progress )" or than can be
# their word aud act must he modified SO us t
harmonic such conflicting elements as are nov
ranged under their banner. For their sake the
as well US for other reasons, the anniversary of tn
State Anti-slavery society should be held
possible, and strongly sustained. That oil
ganization will be doubly effective, il the oil
, pioneer movement goes before it, bearing eve
3 onward and upward, the standard of absolute an
eternal truth.
My last letter referred to the new monthly tn
Atlantic-the second number has now come, an
though q vast improvement OF the first, is still ia
enough from meeting the actual wants Of til
times. Its best and indeed it's only important a
ticle, is copied, or the most of it, iuto the Liber'
tor and Standard, 1t has no word in it that ht
= not been many times, Us well or better said, /
It Phillips, Garrison and many others but it ma
reach audiences, not yet accessible to them, u
; then it is not tainted nor fouled by loathesome al
. obscene offerings to "ouR GLORIOUS UNION y nor
e it a long, dismal oratorio to the praise Of son
oft defeated political party. AS a whole howeye
this number like the other, seems made to sell.
When, think you, shall We have priests oil
d prophets like the old Hebrew Malachis? Or re
like that when Nero's torch lights were the bur
IS ing, blazing bodies of Christiansl Will the &c
}. pels according to Harper, and Putnam, and Phi
lips & Sampson, in your opinion, usher in Z
time?
Yours still in patient waiting.
nADUED nIJI CDITDV