Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-04-27
Gbe Antt- Slavery BuoIe.
From the Sunday Mercury.
WHY l LOVE FANATICS.
BY WILLIAM PORTER RAY.


l love fanatics They the salt Of society /,
pepper in the chowder of politics vinegar on the
boiled cabbage of literature; and mustard on the
corned-beef of religion, Without them the intel
lectual food of life would be savorless and un-
palatable.
have the greatest regard for Southern fire.
eaters and Northern aboliJOnists for free-overs
and Spirtualists for skeptics and infdels for
paradoxical disputants COR enthusiastic dream
ers; and for Quixotic and eccentric persons of
every kind. Toombs, Greedy, Wigfal Lovejoy
Rhet. Sumner, l admire Cheever, Beecher
Garrison, Phillips, are particularly dear to me ;
and Mrs. Rose, Higginson, Andrew jackson
Davis, Parker Pillsbury delight to honor.
became acquainted, in Philadelphia, few
years ago, with ameteur astronomer, who con-
siderod Sir Isaac Newton numskull, and his
theory Of gravitation an unmitgated humbug
lie published, enthusiastically, little paper to
advocate his views, which always purchased,
and read with great delight. What sublime, in
tellectual independence was displayed in that
little segen-by-nine quarto sheet FIinging
gumentativc brickbats at ITerschel Leverrer, Ad-
ans, Pierce, Schumacher, and other respectable
old fogy star-gazers, aud deriding their antiquated
notions respecting tho lava of matter.
II, John Mullen" it said, editor Of the Side
real Messenger, pronounce you pack Of gumps
Get !"
I.liked that-liked it immensely.
"But how can you have any sort of respect for
this class of persons ?"
Don't like originality, honesty, earnestness,
and eloquencc? And don't like to see man
h ~ IL ~ ko n. -.
talks or writes, no matter about what? Those
characteristics the fanatic always has. and these
things he always does whenever he takes up his
pen opens his lips.
"Slaveholding," says Lovejoy, "has been just
ly called the sum of all villaiDy. Put every crime
perpetratea among men into moral crucible, and
dissolve and combine them all, and the resultant
ama!gam is slave holding. 1t has the violence Of
robbery, the blood and cruelty of piracy it has
the offensive and brutal lusts OF polygamy, ali
combined and concentrated in itself, with aggra-
yations tina. neither one of these crimes ever
knew or dreamed Of Sir, am speaking in dead
earnest before God, Gods own truth 7" /
Tear" says Wendell Phillips, "the Constitu-
tion in pieces. Tear it in pieces in honor Of
Washington"
"What dastar1s," says Beecher, OF New York
Union-Saying Bankers and Wholesale Merchants,
what contemplate things, wearing the form Of
men, mus they be, who out-vising Judas, make
haste TO sell their principles and their master
But it is comforting to think that there is some
use in the worst Of thngsl When things have
become corrupted, they are, at any rate, good for
manurc. know these men. have read their
names have treasured then, up. They are
not merely towards, but peyured cowards-every
one Of them !" A"
Now not to multiply examples, exceedingly
like this way Of talking-this vehem ent eloquence
this earnest passionate speech of the fanatic.
How tame, how dull, how stupid how meaning
less appear the words Of one "sound on the
goose" when cOntrasted with such half inspired
oratory '"
But do you agree with such outrageous senti-
ments as these?"
Reader, by asking me that question you &C.
knowledge yourself one Of that numerous class of
blockheads who suppose that to admire or praise
book or speech is equivalent to concurring with
the writer or speaker in the opinions he advancec
What matter is il to me whether what man says
be true or false SO long as what he says be WeU
SAID This is what concerns me tho doctrine
advocated care nothing about. As God is angry
with the wicked every day, so am daily enraged
at bearing these two things, between which
gull OF distinction wide as that between Hades
and Paradise is fixed, confounded. II call Sew.
ard great statesmsn-'why, didn'tkuoy be-