Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-06-02
To THE EDrroas OF THE WIG.

From the estimate have made of your Justice and
beraty feel no hesitation In asking pcrnisson thro
the medium of your paper, make few remarks on
an article, which it seems, first appeared p tho hig
of the l3th and has since been extensively crcu acd
IN the form Of hand bills. You will idly perceive.
that auoe to th" communication of one OF your
respondents who thought proper make very singu
lar and virulcnt attack onthe Society of Friends con
cealing his real character under the SIGNATURE of
''dn Enemy 10 uniting Religious and Girl Garerameut
The production of this article in the first place it's
public ,tion in the Whig and extensive circulation in
hand bills will be regarded with surprze by integent
and impartial men, Whether you aware of the fact
not this unwarran able and unprovoked attack upon
highly respectable, and peaceabe body of people can
he distinctly traced to the schism which has recently
taken place in the Society of Friends and it carries on
the face of it, conclusive evidence of the bitterness of
the feelings of the writer while he was totally destitute
of any rational grounds, which to his ACCUSE.
TONS
J.. appears from the hand bills before me- that the
Friends of New England Yearly .eting in the wear
1923 obtained act of incorporation the Itself
explains to enable that body receive ain lepaces
which had been conceded to it. for benevolent
and at the time, by Legislative provisions cffect
ally to secure that sin every case IN which anv dona
ton of any kind has been made the said Yearly Nee
ting of Friends for New England, in trust or for any
3iiGtfdr object purpose the (intent) of the donor
shall be forever regarded and the donation shall be fore
used employed, and appropriated to the full and
faithful execution of the trusts and the object and
pose of the donation according the true intent and
meaning of the donor thereof" [ quote the Ino,ooe
of the Act itself given in the hand bill before me- The
most important of these requests for the flthfu appI
intentions Io Gp-
nors this Act appear to have been obtained, leg
acy, amounting to 100000, left By the late Obadiah
Brown, of Providence for the support of a BOARDING
School to be under the direction that Yearly Meeting
1t necessary, in the forms of law that the name of
some prominent member of that Yearly Meeting should
appear i'll the section of the Act, defining the body to
be invested with corporate powers, and that individual
Moses Brown, the father of obadiah Brown decd
and now upwards of 80 years of age. His long and
active life has been marked, in striking manner nv
uprghtness and acts of christian bcnevoence uninfu
enc,d by secaTian feelings. The important trust con-
templaed and secured by the Act If ncorpor alton ha
ccssfui operations and at this day. by means of the funds
IN question, and the disinteresed exerons of Friends
Is oiuFing the benefits of guarded religious educ
ton, to numbers of children whose indpent circum
stances IN life would otherwise have deprived them of
such advantages.
such IS the simple unvarnishsd nature Of the case
~hch your correspondent has selected to illustrate the
oePrdVly OF the Society OF. Friends! Without benp
able to point out single abuse of the trust condcd to
the Yearly Meeting of New England without shown o.
Single inconvenience which has grown out Of it, he
mas heio up the character of those Friends exhbi,
ing great degeneracy from the pure, highly LIBERAL
and sound republican principles maintained by Fox
fenn and host Of others, for u hundred and forty
years. and as forming Of 'the most dangerous in
Sutohs 10 the happiness and prosperity Of mankind
Oh al oIhcTs existing iii country whose government
IS rounded upon equal Misunderstanding them wiz,
'much ingenious dupCity," and with 'yvshing to be
IoLuF OF the heritage, and 'o keep in darkness those
whose honesty would have rcvoltod att the conseuuen
ces OF the designs of those on whom he is pleased to
Destow the odous epithot of the "knowing ones" II
""o seem however that in the absence Of all real OBJ
jooiH' ne ias ezcTted his ingenuity, to make out sup
PO9ed case OF difficulty, which might arise under this
Act OF incorporation. He has snDposed that a mem
oe OF tnat early Meeting, should violate its testimony
ana uiScPHhc against bearing arms and shoud BE- dis
owned--dnd then nc has srpposed further that such
elsowned pc son, should sue the Yearly Meeting for
being hus disfranchised" and deprived of rs,rticpn
non III inc Dement'S Of the beqUcst of OBADIAH Brown