Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-06-15

tl1auon and decision. he arranged
Ius before a tribunal which had no iur.
isdiction in the case, and he Pronoune'
ed judgment without evidence, with.
out investigation, without our being
heard, and contrary to the highes,
judicial authorities in similar cases.
The governing principle in such cases
is, that a trust can never be diverted
from its original object-and hence a
Icompromise or division Of such trusts
is totally inadmissable.
| But he IS not more correct in point
Of fact than he IS in principle. The
stocks, lands and tenements are not
held in common. l speak ofthe pro-
perry belonging to the school concern,
for the Bill related to no other. This
has never been held in common, but is,
and always has been in our own hands.
As to real estate, there is no other than
the tract Of land purchased last year
as site for the school. say last
year. for the deed was executed then,
though the bargain was probably made
near the close Of the year 1881. But
though the land was thus recently
purchased, and the funds principally
raised within the last two years, yet it
appears that Hicksite advocate claims
for his party an equal interest in these
funds, according to numbers! 1t
would have been kind in him if he had
communicated a little more siniorma-
ton not generally known, and told
whether they ever intend to permit
US to raise funds from our own re-
sources, without setting up a claim to
an equal interest to tn m ia proportion
to numbers; and if opportunity offer,
lay violent hands Oh any part OF the
whole, according to circumstances.
He then proceeds to pass very high
encomium Oh the Hicksites for their
overtures of compromise. Though
the principle of compromise in the case
alluded to, IS totally III compatible with
the nature of trust aud o! course with
the terms by which the property Of
the society is helI, and we have NO
right whatever to enter into any ar
engagements Of that kind for its DISPOSE
ton yet il may be proper to make a
few remarks on the subject in differ
ent point ofview, and say something Of
the iiicksltes generosity and honesty
SO much aPplauded by kreider.
And first it may be asked, what are
the admirable offers they have made /?
l really do not know; but probably 1
sria'' "v ,oIu ,i'at tney have proposed a
division Of the property according to
numbers. But a previous and very
important question ARISES, whetherI
they have ANY right whatever to the
property or not! This question they
have never, that know OF, proposed
to submit to arbitration. Let US then
suppose a case. Take for example
that some strong armed individual
should take forcible possession of our
orator kreide,'s house IF he has one)
and turn him and his family Gf he has
one) out Of door. And that he should
then gravely propose that they should
amicably settle the difference, by divi-
ding the property, according to theI
numbers Of their respective families.
Would he think the intruder ''mani-
tested the most honest, just, and chris
tian like dispositione' Suppose furth-
er, that he should apply to the civil
Of his country to relnstate
him, and protect him in his rights
and after this, should to the legisla-
lature for an to make road, form a
library, or establish school. And
some of6cious member should get up,l
and charge him with being a dishonest
man, unworthy the name of a citizeni
Of fraud and deception and,
practising high handed OPPRESSION
ard wanting only the strong arm Of the
lasc, applied seriously and NTH sreightI
and pozcer-merely because he did not
accede to the offer Of the intruder on
his property-wouid he think the in
dividual who was capable If such abuse,
in such a place, had any correct sense
of common civility or common justice?
This, to be sure, is a supposed case,
but it may have a tendency to throw
some eight on the case before us. And
Kreider may derive instruction from it
If ne can.
But to return to the Hicksite iber-
ality. The great question, on which
all others in controversy between US
must turn, is the validity of the Hick-
site claim to the character Of the So
ciety Of Friends. Full Of compromise
as they have never suggested the idea
that know Of that thew we're will, no |