Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-12-03


comes through the medium of
THE mildes. hammered man
That ever scuttled ship or cut q throat
or speaks through the pen Of the most boorsb ran.
ter that ever robbed cradle. make this expla-
nation, that the public may understand why your
barbarous epithets cannot be regarded by me as
ground Of personal ofense.
You begin your letter by reference to our old
debate and quote what you declare to have been
my reply to your charge Of aiding slaves to escape.
You will find my definite reply to that taunt on
page 2S7 Of our debate, as follows:
My opponent asks me tauntingly whether !
have not stock IN the Underground ralroadf'-
whether would assist fugitive slave in making
his escape2 | answer, without hesitation. that II
a poor negro, fleeing from Southern oppression
should come to my door at night, asking for shell
ter and bed, would give him the best bed in
my humble house; and should any kidnapper come
in pursuit Of him, happen (thcugh not n man Of
war) to have in my possession an old rifle, which
would dc good service in defending him.
have nothing to add on this head, except that
, my armament has been somewhat increased since
that time, and trust that discipline and expert
rience has added to my precision in the use of e,-
pons; and am not only disposed to defend sa es,
whe they may be my guests, but to seek by gil
meads to facilitate their escape whether singly or
by thousands. This, instead of being slave-stea.-
ing, 10 only restoring the slave to selfpossesson
and plucking him out Of the hands of the pratt
cal masters who stoe him from his mothers bosom;
!, and since commenced this letter, | have taken
fine looking young mulatto man. aged co. from my
house to the next station the Underground Rail-
road.
g You charge me with having aided John Brown
and his sons to arm themselves against the rufan
: hordes of barbArians who invaded Kansas. Truth
compels me to say, with regret that did so little
in that good work, that you d. me TOO much honor
in calling public attention to the matter. Among
+ the privileges which have been denied me because
$ of being poor none have been foregone with more
8 keen regret, than that Of putting the siuews Of
0 war in the hands Of just such men the Browns
e to aid in their Kansas work Had the means
q been at my command, would have given arms
. mot only to Brown and his sons, but to hundreds o
. Others during the Kansae war.
8 You ultimate that if l had, 'as o Preacher OF
9 Righteousness exhorted Brown. he might have
. become religious aud been saved from He'll. II
= by becoming religious you mean accepting the
9 sfheasbenism which you preach thank God that
never conspired against the old Christian hero.
q SOUL by seeking to damn him with such religion
n 1t is because he was too humane, TOT honest and
II too just to be corrupted by your oradlerobbpg
e religion, that his martyr soul will ascend from the
hands of his fendish executioners to the bosom Of
n God who hates oppression and the oppressor'r
}, cant. You do not seem to know tha. John Brown
IS man Of prayer. and that, like Gideon, he wel
ded the sword of the Lurd, as we'll as the sword
J. Of George Washington which he plucked from the
d hands of his unworthy descendants, who have
n speculated in the very bones of the father oil
d American liberty. Glorious old man! lie moi
only revives in his person, the heroic religion
J. of Samuel, Elisha, and Elijah, showing the same
hatred of tyrants and oppressoIs, the same high
q trust in God, and the same sublime contempt for
| danger and death which made their lives sublime;
but Providence puts into his hand The type Uf our
r own country's heroic age, in the sword of George
= Washington. can but regard it as wonderful
o coincidence that this sword should fall into the
u only hand which America has yet produced worthy
:. to grasp its consecrated hil Before you talk flip
PANTY Of teaching John Brown religion, 60 to him
= and learn how to live life of obedience to God
anu love iOr man. ana now 10 Clc IN lditn winch
,, no tyrants can shake, no dangers appai Look
u upon that serene, undaunted soul, as it trans6g
10 ures that shattered body, covered with wounds
racked with pain, and surrounded by mocking
fends tbirstng for his blood and stand awe struck
A and abashed 10 the presence Of heroic and sub
lime type of Christian faith, hich you can never
4, appreciate.
le Your next point is threat that Gov. Wise shal
" call out the whole military force Of Virginia. anC
,e march into New York after Gerrit Smith. In thi
Is paragraph you true to your long established
ID reputation. You are joker Of bad jokes, gen
D. orator of vile attempts at wit which you general
g. ly mistake for sense and argument. You are nov
an old man, and it is fitting climax to life spen
in burrowing among The refuse of the curren
newspaper literature of your times, after odorife
rous morsels of bastard humor, that your lates
production in that line should be proposition t.
send the Bombastes Furicso, who now govern
Virginia, at the head of his hysterica militia, t.
N capture q citizen of New York. Nothing coul,
ID be more broadly humorous than proposition t.
y send the military power of State just frightened
r. into spasams of cowardice by John Brown ant
r. his tweuty followers, who surrounded and took
e. Virginia town of 1000 people, holding them prs
it ones for two days. in defiance Of all the fighting
Ii material that Virginia could muster, compelling
her to shrek franticay for United States marines
Of to capture an Engine House. held by six white
IN men and three negroes. You have out-done your
Ii self in perpretrasing this cream of jokes. Onl.
d add the threat to come Yourself as chaplain anC
70 the champion FOOLS cap Of the world shall be yours
Of Come along, and we will do our best to have you
n- and the Virginia military force, accompanied b.
a. half dozen junior members Of the New Yorl
e. police. to prevent the little boys and girls from
Of frightening you back from too eager curiosity I
Of see the show.
fy Your next paragraph is an effort to prove that
at was at .Harper's Ferry in person. Your argu
,e ment on this point is quite ingenious and imprs'
W. siye. Tho grouping together Of sandy hair an