O. to Frederick Douglass, June 27, 1856
For Frederick Douglass' Paper.
BUCHANAN AND THE RECENT REVIVAL.—ACTION OF THE "NEW CONVERTS!"
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ESQ.:—The following communication was handed to the editor of the for insertion, but refused. Will you please publish it in your columns, and oblige
Yours, for Liberty,
O.
"A subscription paper has been left in the Arcade favorable to Buchanan and Slavery. 'Our old fogy cotemporary behind the Arcade,' and the 'Old Museum man' have put down their names. There are two or three recruits from the Silver Grays and one or two from the Know Nothings. All bad for Fillmore!"
FRIEND ALLEN:—In reading the foregoing in your paper, I thought perhaps you might as well, in your notice of recruits, &c., have noticed another set, which I saw on the said subscription paper. Aye! recruits from our churches; those who have professed recently to have been converted, and some who have been prominent in their testimony of love to the Lord Jesus Christ, who talked, prayed, and in public presented individuals for special objects of prayer, that they might be converted to the service of Jesus Christ. Shall I say it? They have not themselves "followed on to righteousness of life." But they have joined hands in the unrighteousness of Pierce, Douglas, Brooks, Herbert, Atchison, Stringfellow & Co.; all of whom are—what shall I call them? Pirates, sir! (no other name can express their enormities.) Pirates upon free Government and all religious and social life, and upon human rights. Pirates, in fact, inasmuch as they have committed, and are committing, murders, robberies, or thefts; hunting and capturing men and women; murdering the one and violating the other; attacking the defenceless towns, and infant settlements of our Western border; burning, robbing and destroying with weapons of war, towns and cities, and driving defenceless inhabitants, Christian men, women and children out of their dwellings, to domicile as they can in the open fields. Bands of maurauders, stealing horses, cattle, implements of husbandry, provisions, money, notes, drafts, merchandize, committing almost every excess and atrocity, that the brutality of slavery can devise.
These , I say, Sir, sign their names for a call, to ratify a nomination for President, a man who received his nomination from the persons who have kept these pirates in their excesses against Freeman and Freedom. What right, I would ask, can these men have to "Call Him Lord and Master and do not the things which He says."
"Oh! my soul; come thou not into their secrets! Mine honor be not thou united."
O.
