Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-01-24
For the Bugle.
LETTER FROM M. r HULL.
CHARLESTON, Center, Portage Co., o.
January IA. 1857.

January IA, 1857.
To the Republican: l visited your town of Sa-
lem, made speeches, and have the selfcongratula-
ton that all lovers Of truth were satisfied with my
efforts.
But / am sorry to see that you, o Republican,
whose party 1 vote with, and am travelling to build
up, and strengthen, should be the first on my
route to make an attack upon me, evidently to
hedge up my way and to close the ears of many
against me. And there is not a slavery propa-
gandist in the land who may read your unkind no.
tice, that will not feel gratiied with your unmanly
and unchristian-like attack.
Weak as you are, you understand the prejudices
Of many of your church and party. and like
the religious and political demagogue, you seize
upon the prejudices of community. and arouse
that. which, in the excitement you create, may
cover up the guilty position you occupy as a church
member. If l had justified the wicked and con-
demned the just" and in this way rendered my
self an determination to the Lore" by supporting
your slavery and your man-stealing, you would
doubtless have given me q complimentary notice;
for the man who can deliberately attack the sacri-
fcing friends of the slave, as you have Foster, Alb
by, Pillsbury, Wright and myself, is wicked enough
10 join a church that ~tolerates the enslavement of
its own members,--that sells the grace of God in
market, and sells also his ''only begotten son"
who,
Bowed to death, to set the
Sin-bound prisoner free.
Never raise your guilty pen to denounce truths
advocates, whilst you occupy your present guilty
position, for as often as you do, "you stand in the
way of sinners, and walk in the counsel of the I'M
cody" stakeholder.
Youknsw, when you penned the paragraph re-
fsrred to, that there were many poisoned souls,
who yet hate the early advocates of human free
dom. Hence you are wicked enough to say. 81
had fallen into the error imbibed by the Stephen
Foster class of agitators." am not disposed to
deny that I anu Of that class who speak the truth
fearlessly, as he who said, of such as you aye are
a generation of snakes that cannot escape the
damnation of hell" Outside rye are whited sep
,ulohres, inside full of rottenness and dead mems
bones.r-who said of the luke.warm, who were
neither cold nor hot, shat they were fit only to be
spued out" and cast away. ]. you should be
disposed to charge me with being of the John
Wesley ''clsss of sgitators" l will acknowledge
that also. He said that American Slavery was
"ihe foulest that ever. saw the sum-" II that be
q fact, then it is true that your communion table
is cursed with "the foulest slavery that ever saw
the sum-" He said, too, that "slave holders were
nothing near so innocent as pick-pockets and high
way robbsrs." If this be true, you have brothers
in your church, who are not less innocent than the
s~neaking pick.pockes. and the highway robber,
who plumbers the unoaending traveller of all his
goods. Mr.. Wesley also said that slavery was the
sum of all yiilainy." If that be a fact, then it is
also true. that tho sun of all villainy is in your
Church. That you may the better judge of your
guilty position l will %ana,yze the term. You may
take adultery, fornication. uncleanness, lascivious-
ness. ~idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emu
lations, wrath, strife, solutions, heresies, envy
ings, murders. drunkenness. revellings, and such
like works Of the Aesh," as saith the apostle
and then, shake up Pandora's box, and rake per
ditions damndest pit, and you have nothing more
than that comprahended in the term tho "sum of
all villainJ." ,ns
Now. sir, let me ask, without any wish TO Of
fsnd, is the sum of all villainy in your Methodist
Episcopal Church Norhf Then let me with the
same kind spirit ask, Can the sum Of all yillainy