Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-12
LETTER FROM M. v. MILLER.

New LYME. February Goth, 1859.
MARIUs r. RoBINsoN--Respected friend l re-
member an old adge, which reads in this wise,
open rebuke is better than secret love-" | pro,
pose changing this maxim, and have it read thus
"Open rebuke is better than secret contempt"
And for this reason, l thank you for the notice you
have paid me in the Bugle. And now let me say.
if you had done justice by me in the remarks you
have made concerning those letters which ! wrote,
| should not have troubled you farther. But for
the purpose of setting myself right before your
readers. | ask q farther hearing.
In the Bugle of the 9Th, you say "a certain
correspondent demands the publication Of his let
tiers because he is q member of the society &c.
l very well know to whom you referred. And
what did | say? demanded the publication Of
The letters or the reason why they were not pub
lisbed. If my letters are not fit for publication.
sag so, and do not give extracts from them which
do not do justi Sc to the views which l entertain,
or to tine letters which | have written. You say,
lie and those who think with him shall have a
hearing" That is right give us an impartial
hearing, and if we are not in the right, / for one
will get in as soon as possible.
But to the letter. You make me say in the first
extract, that my opinion is, that the time will
come, If it has not already arrived, when the auti.
slavery movement as a separate movement must
be abandoned and here you leave that matter.
But | said farther, If the anti slavery movement
can be carried on successfully, and agents kept in
the field to cultivate new grounds, and the Bugle
be made to support itself without being q tax upon
the abolitionists, then l an ia favor of it: but
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to the welfare of man, and by SO doing we should
glorify God. Why, sir, / have no more idea tina,
the anti slavery agitation is going to stop, (than
have that the Sun in the heavens is going to cease
shining until every fetter shall be broken, and
every tear dried up, and every slave shall stand
before the world a free man and q brother. AnG
then | expect the anti-slavery movement will be
star in the moral armament, which l shall gazt
upon as a token of my deliverance from q darkness
which is intolerable to look back upon. And ye
you say, that you 'think friend Miller has got pre-
which he opposes" l pity the man that is 81
morally blind that he cannot see the difference be
tween my position, and that of the church. B,
the way, who are the Ministers and churches o
this country, are they anti'slavery 7 is it their in
tention to abolish slavery? Perhaps you hav,
some light upon that subject which would be o
use to me if so, for heavens cake. and for m,
sake don't withhold it. You say they want th,
divine authority of the Bible established, it is al
ready established in the minds of tho church ant
ministry 4; and what of it? Why O certain pro
portion of them claim the Bible supports slavery
and ! believe it, and it seems to me that ever;
reasonable man must believe the same upon
thorough investigation of the subject.
How do we propose to abolish slavery by
changing the religious or moral sentiment of the
country how are we going to change the relig
ious sentiment unless we show that the presen,
sentiment is false and erroneous, and that if the
Bible sustains slavery il is the work Of men and
not of God. l have told you what l think Of the
Bible sustaining slavery and my course is plain.