Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-06
Prove his doctrine orthodox
By apostolic blows aud knocks.

lie stated that it was his intention to visit all
sections Of the Snuth--to see the negroes on the
cotton plantations, the sugar plantations, and the
rice antations-immediatel before going North
that he might be fully posted, and able meet the
Abotionists. and tell them to their faces that they
liars. lie would visit tho negroes in their cab
ins in all these sections and then 90 among the sla
Gery haters fresh from the sciences of woe and mis-.
cry 60 teeliugly pictured by "oid aunt Harriet
Beecher Stowe" and her brood of satellites. lie
would tell them 10 their faces that they were hyp.
ocrites and liars lie would challenge their big
men-their freedom shriekers-to meet him OH
the stump and to discuss the question fully and
fairly lie desired to meet Greeley. Theodore
Parker, Wendell phillips, Henry Ward Beechcl
Garrison, or any other of the big guns OF anti
slavery, whom he would denounce rs infdels, as
slanderers, as hypocrites, as liars and as God
forsaken wretches generally, and would prove tC
all houest right thinking men that they were
such.
Greeley had proposed that when DR.. B. arrived
| in New York he should be met and his argument
refuted by Fred Douglass negro orator. Said
he was prepared to meet Fred's case that he in
tended to take with him negro from Knoxville,
a slave, known as Alf Anderson, who should meet
and discuss the subj cct with Fred Said Alf was
a large fine looking negro and writes well
had some experience as public speakef-being
in the habit Of addressing his cOlored brethren on
the subject Of temperance--a strong, forcible
speaker-rather eloquent than otherwise "a native
! of East Tennessee. lie would meet all their col
ored orators-advocate and illustrate Southern
slavery, and oppose abolitionism, And, in the
meantime, if they could induce Alf to go with
! them upon an underground railroad to Canada
or to remain in their glorious land of freedom, be
would offer no opposition, but let them steal hin
! if they could.
To Greeley's proposition, be said that as
Southern gentleman, he could not meet Fred, be-
cause Of the color Of his skin; still he thought
there was not a free negro north Of Mason and
! DXOn's Line who was not as honorable, and every
way as worthy of confidence, as any Black Repub-
lican editor, politician or preacher in all that un'
godly region.
lie said he had nc confidence in the politician
or the divine at the North who was engaged in
this yilanous agitation of the slavery question.
There were true, reliable men OF the North, and
here in the South who camo from the North, but
they were not among the graceless agtators, nor
did they approve either their doctrines or policy.
Said if he found any Of their yagabond philan-
lthropists in heaven, where he hoped TO go after
death, he should believe they got into that world
of bliss and purity by practising fraud upon the
doorkeeper!
The Doctor was particularly hardsupon the
Northern portion Of the Methodist Church Said
he had been among them, and knew them we'll,
Said the clergy among them would enter .heir
fine pulpits on the Sabbath day, and preach Ieei-
ingiy against the sin of slavery and shed burning
tears over the expressions OF the "servle progeny
of Ham" in the Southern States-thcr member
ship would respond in tears to the harangues Of
their pastors, and on the next day, in business
transaction they would cheat Southern slave out
of the pewter that ornamented the head of his
walking-stick
But We have not space to give even q synopsis
of the address, nor did we take notes to do so.
The speech was iorcible one and exceedingly
appropriate. The speaker proved from the Scrip.
lures that our Saviour recognized slavery, and
that it was an institution which existed and had
been recognized by God from time immemorial.
ilo approved the trafc of slaves, bot opposed a